CutTime

October 19th 2011

CutTime - Opening Montage (1 of 11)

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This opening montage from the rockumentary CutTime is a fun look at a New York City that no longer exists.

I met producer Sarah Bleakley at an Indian restaurant on 6th Street in Manhattan.  She was friends with my University of Michigan classmates Ellen Kappus and Tracey Weaver.  When she learned I was an online/linear video editor, she got very excited, “You’re a good person to know!”  She was looking for an editor and told me all about her big project to gather a bunch of underground New York City bands in one venue and shoot the performance element of a documentary in one night.

So I got recruited and we made CutTime together.  In addition to editing, I contributed the color Super 8 footage - outtakes from my video of “Song on Fire” by Naked Sun, Max Vanderwolf’s old band.  Sarah and I went on to make The Eyes of St. Anthony together.

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October 28th 2011

CutTime - Kirk Kelly, "Hooray We Won the War" (2 of 11)

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This first song from CutTime features Kirk Kelly performing "Hooray We Won the War."



Keep an look out for more episodes of the CutTime webseries, and relive a time in East Village history when bands were playing everywhere, all the time.

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November 6th 2011

CutTime - King Missle, "Life" (3 of 11)

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King Missile perform their song "Life" as part of the movie CutTime. Their leader John S. Hall, is a poet as well.  While he is not a big fan of slam poetry, he has performed alongside slam poets on television programs such as PBS's The United States of Poetry, MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged, and HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. King Missile has an underground hit called, Detachable Penis.
 
Produced by Sarah Bleakley and edited by Paul Devlin, CutTime is a survey of the independent, music scene in the East Village of New York City in 1990.
 
 
Keep an eye out for episode 3, coming next week!

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November 27th 2011

CutTime - Carry Nation, "Prayer For The Bells" (5 of 11)

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Carry Nation perform their song "Prayer for the Bells" as part of the movie CutTime.

Check out this fun little song!  As Carry Nation says, "Music and art should be for the masses!"

Carry Nation's Beth McCormack is a classically trained vocalist and flutist hailing from (most recently) New Orleans, where she learned to sing the blues. Before moving to New Orleans, she fronted New York indie folk-rock band Carry Nation in the late 80s, early 90s. Carry Nation released an album on Rough Trade, garnering lots of college radio play and appearing on MTV's 120 Minutes. The band travelled the country opening for the Smithereens in the early 90s, playing to sold-out crowds in weird venues. Later in New Orleans, she sang and played flute and guitar for Bliss, a folk-rock group, and fronted Syrinx, a heavy-metal spoken word group.

Check out Carry Nation's album! Also available on eBay.

And keep an eye out next week for Woodpecker's "Junk Song"!

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December 12th 2011

CutTime - Woodpecker, "Junk Song"" (6 of 11)

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Woodpecker perform their song "Junk Song" as part of the movie CutTime. "Junk Song" was the first of the two songs we showcased in CutTime, the second being "Hillbilly Song" which will be available next week, so keep an eye out!

Check out Woodpecker's album"Bang the Drum Hardly"!

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December 23rd 2011

CutTime - Woodpecker, "Hillbilly Song"" (7 of 11)

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Woodpecker perform their song "Hillbilly Song" as part of the movie CutTime. "Junk Song" was the first of the two songs we showcased in CutTime.  The other song, "Junk Song", can be found here!

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January 2nd 2012

CutTime - The Reverb Motherfuckers (8 of 11)

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In this next excerpt from CutTime, meet The Reverb Motherfuckers  who came together in 1986, pioneering a ramshackle “sonic fudge” sound that would influence the grunge and alternative rock movements. Lead man Roy Endroso and guitarist 'Big' John founded the band after being forcibly ejected from an AA meeting, a fitting birth to a band plagued by substance abuse its entire career. RM were best known in the New York scum-rock scene for their hard-partying onstage antics - It was not unusual for intoxicated band members to swap instruments or clothing midway through a set, lapse into expletives or (infamously) douse the crowd in BBQ sauce. This reputation would cost the band support from radio stations or record companies. RM struggled to find commercial success despite playing alongside such headlining groups as Unsane, Jesus Lizard and White Zombie.

January 12th 2012

CutTime - The Gamma Rays, "Safe Life" (9 of 11)

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In the latest from CutTime, meet The Gamma Rays!  A girl group, they played around New York City in the early and mid-'90s, but only ever released a couple of singles. "Lovely" was one of them -- girl-group harmonies.  In this video they perform their song "Safe Life" and share their views on rock and roll!

Sari Rubinstein, the singer, is now better known as one of the masterminds behind Rubulad, the greatest floating party spot in New York; she also fronts a very different sort of band called Music From the Mood Expansion Chamber who are well worth seeing. Concetta Kirschner, the bass player is now better known as Princess Superstar.

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January 22nd 2012

CutTime - HypnoLoveWheel, "I Dream Of Jeannie" (10 of 11)

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We are nearing the end of CutTime but we're not done just yet!  Meet the latest band, HypnoLoveWheel, an American Indie rock-band from Long Island. Guitarist Dave Ramirez, who later played with Dump also played occasionally with CutTime's King Missile.

According to allmusic.com, Hypnolovewheel issued several albums in the late '80s and early '90s that offered a distinctive blend of power pop, dreamy psychedelia, noisy '60s-style garage rock, and tense, nervy post-punk. Consisting of guitarists Steve Hunking and Dave Ramirez, bassist Dan Cuddy, and drummer Peter Walsh, Hypnolovewheel debuted in 1988 with Turn! Turn! Burn!, which was released on the small Fabian Aural Products label; the same was true of its 1990 follow-up, Candy Mantra. The group got a bit more exposure after moving to the somewhat higher-profile indie Alias Records, for whom they debuted with 1991's well-received Space Mountain which includes this single, "I Dream of Jeannie".

Current bands featuring members of Hypnolovewheel include The Special Pillow, Dew-Claw, and Electrostim.  Read up more info on the band here!

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