Har Mar & Marijuana Deathsquads announce NYC residency

Those ever-present fixtures of the local music scene Har Mar Superstar and the Ryan Olson-fronted experimental rock collective Marijuana Deathsquads just announced a month-long NYC residency at the Bowery Electric in October, with special guests TBA each week.



Via Har Mar Superstar on Facebook
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GAYNGS to play Sunday brunch practice session at Nick & Eddie on Sunday

We nearly spit out our iced white chocolate mocha when we spotted Nick and Eddie owner Doug Anderson's Facebook update a few minutes ago:

[GAYNGS painting by Michael Gaughan]

Hmm, let's think about this for a minute: Megafaun and Rosebuds (whose members are in the supergroup) are all in North Carolina right now, though Justin Vernon is technically on a break from touring with Bon Iver. Har Mar Superstar just went back to L.A. and P.O.S. is in Austin. So basically, that leaves Ryan Olson, Channey Moon Casselle, Adam Hurlburt and Zach Coulter from Solid Gold, and Mike Lewis, and Jake Luck of Leisure Birds, and just maybe Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce if we're lucky. Could this be GAYNGS 2.0?

UPDATE: Ryan Olson confirms the posting to us via email, saying "We are doing a 3pm gayngs sunday brunch practice at nick n eddie. Also Habenero (sic)." We're so in.

Via Doug Anderson on Facebook
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Andy Dick, Flea party with GAYNGS

So as GAYNGS wrapped up their West Coast tour with a DJ set from GAYNGS' Ryan Olson at School Night at the Bardot Hollywood on Monday night, they somehow hooked up with the notorious Andy Dick for what must have been a night of mayhem. And substances.

Here are some pix he uploaded of Ryan Olson:



And here is some video (filmed sideways) via Andy Dick's Twitter account:

yfrog Video : http://yfrog.com/n9graz - Uploaded by RuwanthiAnne

Meanwhile tonight, Ryan Olson and Har Mar Superstar apparently hung out and jammed with Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers (?!):

Marijuana Deathsquads, Har Mar, P.O.S. play at L.A. strip club

For their gig last night in L.A., local acts Marijuana Deathsquads, Har Mar Superstar, Mike Mictlan, P.O.S., Spyder Baybie Rawdog and Slapping Purses took over strip club Crazy Girls. And the resulting Tweets and TwitPics were LOL/OMG-worthy.

Via @spyderbaybie

Har Mar Superstar. Via @spyderbaybie

Marijuana Deathsquads' Ryan Olson & P.O.S. Via @spyderbaybie

Marijuana Deathsquad's Ryan Olson looks on. Via @kristoffer_k

And just cuz it's funny, here's a fan drawing for the Har Mar/Deathsquads residency via Har Mar Superstar's tumblr. If you're in the L.A. area tonight, don't miss the culmination of the Har Mar/Deathsquads weekly residency at The Satellite.

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Marijuana Deathsquads + Har Mar to do L.A. residency

This just in via the Modern Radio message board: Marijuana Deathsquads have joined forces with Har Mar Superstar for a monthlong residency at L.A.'s Club Spaceland. It's no big shocker, being that Marijuana Deathsquads collaborator P.O.S. has been recording in L.A. over the past month, Har Mar calls L.A. home these days, and Har Mar and GAYNGS are regular collaborators. They will play every Friday in February.


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GAYNGS' Ryan Olson + Justin Vernon share year-end lists with Pitchfork

Justin Vernon (Bon Iver, GAYNGS) and Ryan Olson (GAYNGS and Marijuana Deathsquads) were included in Pitchfork's massive year-end Guest List. Olson name drops some locals: Nick and Eddie Wednesday nights (where Marijuana Deathsquads had a regular residency for a good part of the year) and Albert Elmore, a local IDM artist/noise experimentalist, while Vernon lists GAYNGS cohorts and Eau Claire band Megafaun.

Photo: Ryan Olson by Graham Tolbert

Here's a link to an mp3 of Elmore's track "Lannistumaton," which Olson calls his pick for Song of the Year.

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