HUMANWINE

Mass Exodus ep Review

2009-06-12T13:49:00.002-04:00

Artist: HUMANWINE
CD: Mass Exodus ep

Label: Nervouse Relatives Records / Self Released

With a previous EP ("Rivolta Silenziosa") the US wandering HUMANWINE introduced us full-on to their narrative world of Vinland. They matched the metaphor-as-politics (and vice versa) stories with a gutter-circus-folk sound style that was a stunning marriage of simplicity and subtlety. It's sepiachord required listening.

On their full-length follow up, "Fighting Naked", the band continued to explore their Vinlandish themes but the music had more of a "rock" feel. The end result was good, but the band seemed a little uncomfortable in their new skin.

The new EP ("Mass Exodus") finds the band returning to a three song format and returning to more pared down arrangements. The results are arresting.

Of the three pieces found on this CD the last, "Our Devolution is Televised", best continues the work that Vinland fans love. It's political (of course) and features an infectious circus bounce. It could easily have been slipped in as the fourth track on "Rivolta Silenziosa" and held its own against the great songs found there.

The opening piece on this new EP is also overtly political: "1st Amendment". Its "be the media" messsage might come across as a nuts-and-bolts politcal screed... were it not so spare and, well, pretty. It builds and flows nicely showing off the performers individual strengths especially Holly Brewer's remarkable voice. Its a perfect appetizer for the middle piece: "Megan Rose".

"Megan Rose" seems to pre-date the existence of HUMANWINE as a band and features Holly alone, just her voice and a piano. When the song starts you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is merely a ballad of friendship to the title character. It *IS* that, but takes stomach-wrenching turns that are all the more powerful because you don't see them coming. This is the key to tragedy: you don't see it coming. "Megan Rose" is a beautiful, seductive PUNCH IN THE GUT that will make you cough up a bit of blood and still make you want to play it over and over... even if, like me, you found yourself on the verge of tears the first time you heard it. This really is one of those songs that descriptions fail for, you have to sit down and listen to it. And you should.

HUMWINE's DIY aesthetic has never been more clear in their sound ~and~ in the EP's visual presentation. Not only does the look and feel of the packaging clearly place the band in the line of descent from seminal grass-roots political rollickers Crass but HUMANWINE does something other bands never seem to do: give credit where it's due!

Lots of politically charged punk bands have aped the art of Crass, but this is the first time I can think of where credit for inspiration is given to the artist responsible for this distinctive look: Gee Vaucher. Kudos.

June Shows coming up

2009-06-01T18:11:00.000-04:00

06-01-09

Avast Comrades!

Tuesday June 9th (Live on air) 9pm-9:45pm 6/9 HUMANWINE on WMBR 88.1 FM Pipeline! ATTN: This show will be available as a podcast. You are encouraged to Listen Live! below is taken directly from pipeline.wmbr.org: Here’s how it works: Starting at 8pm, Jeff plays records and CD’s of bands from all over the New England region. Then, at 9pm (or close to it!), that week’s live band starts playing over the air. That usually wraps up around 9:45pm, leaving time for a quick on-air interview before the next group of degenerates comes in at 10pm. Feel free to poke around, join in on the fun, and drop us a line if you feel like it. Don’t be shy. At the end of each Pipeline! we podcast the live band set. Every week, you can download a live in-studio recording from one of New England’s finest bands! There are two ways to do this: 1) Use iTunes to get the set from the iTunes podcast directory. You can even set it to automatically grab each new episode for you. 2) Use the raw podcast file. Some web browsers will let you download the sets by directly clicking on the link, while others require the use of third party software. There are already 50+ sets for you to download, going back more than a year. Enjoy! What’s Pipeline? Pipeline! is the live local music program of WMBR 88.1 FM. We play music by bands from the Boston metro area, as well as all of New England. In addition to spinning records and CD’s, every week a local band plays live on the air. Hosted by Jeff Breeze, show airs every Tuesday night from 8pm-10pm EST. Multi-Media Ep Release @ The Paradise 6/27! A 2 hour set from HUMANWINE joined by members of A Far Cry
Paradise Rock Club 967 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA doors @ 8pm/ 9pm showtime cost:$12 Adv/$14 Dos This show is age restricted to 18yrs and up Tickets for this once in a lifetime show are here also if you click on the ticket image to the right	and at Paradise Rock Club and Orpheum box offices to avoid insane fees Box Office hours Mon – Sat 12-6 Phone 617-562-8800 Fax 617-562-8804 concert line at 617-562-8800
*We are overwhelmed at the amount of presale tickets already sold, thank YOU for spreading the word. This show is going to be magnificent!
These Seeds Become Trees There will be prizes awarded to folks who come as Characters of Vinland HUMANWINE will be joined by A Far Cry for a full 2 HOUR SET! If you have a camera bring it to this show. Not to say HUMANWINE is wrapping up but once this show is complete we will compile all live material of our new songs and get them ready for release. The New CD will be available before the end of the summer out on Nervous Relatives Records. HUMANWINE just released Mass Exodus the ep through Nervous Relatives Records. Get a copy here. A Far Cry (Boston's proudly unconducted Chamber Orchestra)We are a group of musicians bound together by our desire to share great music and great art with people who are young, people who are mature, those near, and far. The music we play is music we love, and music we don’t want to live without. We have a mission to bring together all the loves of our lives, those that range from film, dance, and visual art, to our love for each person who lives the joy and suffering (and in-betweenness) that inspire the art of life. We are excited to have you join us as we discover how we can communicate our passion with different audiences, with different artists and with each other, to be a part of the cries of need and celebration that make up the world in which we live. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds (AUS) The Boy Who Spoke Clouds might be described by some as indigenous, world, tribal, folk, neo folk, electroacoustic, or some amalgamation of the above. Imagine Sufjan Stevens meets Jesu. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds is an intimate portrait of Adam Casey and his native Australia and emotes something lost in much of today's music; no doubt having a tendency to put down roots wherever he is listened to. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds will be launching their debut album (released on Sun Sea Sky Productions) and touring as a three piece band across the Eastcoast of the USA, and the Southcoast of Canada throughout June/July, 2009. We know some folks who drive from North Carolina, Pennsylvania and far reaching states who are saddened when HUMANWINE plays a 30 minute set, WELL *TONIGHT WILL NOT BE ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS! These Seeds Become Trees! Tell everyone you know, bring everyone you know. Groundkrew: Thank YOU for your e-mails and messages of volunteering! We're printing more flyers as soon as we get back into town. GroundKrew join @ info@HUMANWINE.org "GroundKrew" **If you are already planning to attend the show and would like to be involved in our performance please send HUMANWINE an e-mail @ info@humanwine.org "AKTOR"

Donate Scraps to Recycled Movement
What we still need: + wood stove (under 2 ft wide/under 2 ft long) + plywood (any size/depth) + steel caging (window security)	If you have these materials or can direct us to them... Please write to: donate@HUMANWINE.org

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LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

The muzik of HUMANWINE can be found on the web in a bunch of different places. We run EVERY site that is OFFICIALLY marked. HUMANWINE.org, MySpace, facebook, purevolume, CDBaby, iLike, lastfm and now twitter.

(cc) 2009 Nervous Relatives Records

M4Y NEWZLETTER

2009-04-29T09:39:00.001-04:00

Wednesday May 6th in Portland, OR
7pm
Cost:$3 / ALL AGES

Party Island
5266 NE 15th Ave.
Portland, OR
[map]

with Down River, Lactacious, Deadpan Pariah

flyer dezined by nrd

Thursday May 7th in Portland, OR
7pm
Cost:$3 / ALL AGES

C. Rev
6315 NE Rodney Ave
Portland,OR
97211
[map]

with Deadpan Pariah, Coffin Ship, Crowspeak

flyer dezined by nrd

Friday May 8th in Portland, OR
7pm

Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th avenue (at Oak)
Portland, OR
97214
Cost: $5-10 donation (no one turned away)

with Adelit@s, Dapper Cadavers, Hazel

flyer dezined by nrd

BELOW: Content taken directly from www.twac.wordpress.com

The Trans’ and Womyn’s Action Camp is a gathering of eco-activists, who are also working to bring down patriarchy. This will be a safe(r) space, 6 day training and workshop event in the Cascadia bio-region from June 20th-26th, 2009.

The location will be the same as the (RRR) to enable time and space to explore the layout of the land and gain comfort before the Rendezvous begins.

We are currently looking for folks who would be interested in facilitating a work shop, training, or discussion, please e-mail us at twac(at)riseup.net

Keep checking www.twac.wordpress.com for more info!

Sunday May 10 in Seattle, WA
Early show 3 pm - 10 pm

WAYFARERS OF THE GYPSY MANSION - a musical bazaar of sorts with HUMANWINE, THE BLACKBIRD ORCHESTRA, NATHANIEL JOHNSTONE, TOY BOX TRIO, MEISCE, FINN VON CLARET, and DJ Q.

The Little Red Studio
750 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA
ALL-AGES
Cost:$15 suggested donation

HUMANWINE is very excited to play with MEISCE (Meesh-kuh) who are "Folk as Fuck!"

flyer dezined by Libby Bulloff
www.exoskeletoncabaret.com

BELOW: Content taken directly from exoskeletoncabaret.com

These are the times, my friends. And these are the days. Where the world becomes malleable, palpable. When novelty and genius are within our reach. We are cautioned against being passionate about these things by tales of progress turned to greed and of technology turning on us. And yet, the golden light is just right, the clocks are synchronizing, the stars are in alignment.
- c. lantz

This is what we celebrate tonight. We celebrate these transient times, with these transient artists.

Wearables, craftables, and edibles provided by a plethora of local and regional artisans. We will take a dinner break (with DJ) at 6:30 pm - please bring your own sack meal, a picnic to share, or food can be acquired from two of our vendors. Vegan options available. Adult beverages can be purchased by 21+ individuals.

Willow and I are so excited about bringing HUMANWINE to Seattle. Our friends from Sock Dreams will be arriving from Portland to vend excellent foot/legwear.

Larger poster is here. Leave me (Libby) a comment if you’d like to help out at the event or hang flyers–I have an 11×17 hi-res PDF in the wings for print-yr-own.

Spread the word.
All are welcome.

Thank you.

Saturday June 27th in Boston, MA
9pm

Multi-Media Ep Release @ The Paradise 6/27!
Expect a 2 hour set from HUMANWINE joined by Boston's proudly unconducted Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry

Paradise Rock Club
967 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA

doors @ 8pm
cost:$12 Adv/$14 Dos
This show is age restricted to 18yrs and up
Tickets for this once in a lifetime show are here

and at the Paradise Rock Club and Orpheum box offices
Box Office hours Mon – Sat 12-6
Phone 617-562-8800
Fax 617-562-8804
concert line at 617-562-8800
*We are overwhelmed at the amount of presale tickets already sold, thank YOU for spreading the word. This show is going to be magnificent!

These Seeds Become Trees

We are encouraging you to be the creative beings we know you are by coming to the show in Character. We will have prizes for YOU.
TOOLZ: Aktorz

HUMANWINE will be joined by A Far Cry for a full 2 HOUR SET! If you have a camera bring it to this show. Not to say HUMANWINE is wrapping up but once this show is complete we will compile all live material of our new songs and get them ready for release. The New CD will be available before the end of the summer out on Nervous Relatives Records. HUMANWINE just released Mass Exodus the ep through Nervous Relatives Records. Get a copy here.

A Far Cry (Boston's proudly unconducted Chamber Orchestra)We are a group of musicians bound together by our desire to share great music and great art with people who are young, people who are mature, those near, and far. The music we play is music we love, and music we don’t want to live without. We have a mission to bring together all the loves of our lives, those that range from film, dance, and visual art, to our love for each person who lives the joy and suffering (and in-betweenness) that inspire the art of life. We are excited to have you join us as we discover how we can communicate our passion with different audiences, with different artists and with each other, to be a part of the cries of need and celebration that make up the world in which we live.

The Boy Who Spoke Clouds (AUS) The Boy Who Spoke Clouds might be described by some as indigenous, world, tribal, folk, neo folk, electroacoustic, or some amalgamation of the above. Imagine Sufjan Stevens meets Jesu. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds is an intimate portrait of Adam Casey and his native Australia and emotes something lost in much of today's music; no doubt having a tendency to put down roots wherever he is listened to. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds will be launching their debut album (released on Sun Sea Sky Productions) and touring as a three piece band across the Eastcoast of the USA, and the Southcoast of Canada throughout June/July, 2009.

We know some folks who drive from North Carolina, Pennsylvania and far reaching states who are saddened when HUMANWINE plays a 30 minute set, WELL **TONIGHT WILL NOT BE ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS!

THEME: Community R.I.C.E! (Resist, Inform, Communicate, Enliven!

These Seeds Become Trees! Tell everyone you know, bring everyone you know.

*Groundkrew: Thank YOU for your e-mails and messafes of volunteering! We're printing more flyers as soon as we get back into town.

GroundKrew join @ info@HUMANWINE.org "GroundKrew"

**If you are already planning to attend the show and would like to be involved in our performance please send HUMANWINE an e-mail @ info@humanwine.org "AKTOR"

The muzik of HUMANWINE can be found on the web in a bunch of different places. We run EVERY site that is OFFICIALLY marked.
HUMANWINE.org, MySpace, facebook, purevolume, CDBaby, iLike, lastfm and now twitter.

LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

[cc] 2009 Nervous Relatives Records

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Radio/Shows/Tix for Paradise on sale 2/28!

2009-02-27T22:46:00.006-05:00

March 9th at 8:00pm HUMANWINE will be live on air

For some interviewing, pre-recorded muzik listening and live acoustic in-studio muzik playing.

The show is broadcast in SF and LA on 87.9fm also the show is streamed live from their site.

Feel free to call in while we're there...Studio Line: 415-341-1199

What is Pirate Cat Radio?
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm is an unlicensed low powered community radio station, broadcasting on 87.9 megahertz, to both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles basin.

We believe that Title 47 Section 73.3542 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations currently allows Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm to legally broadcast with out a formal licence from the FCC.

Wednesday March 18th @ Slim's

SF Steampunk Sioree @ Slim's 8:00pm

333 11th St. San Francisco, Ca 94103
(415) 255-0333
[map]
Cost: $20.00
- ALL AGES

10pm - Abney Park
Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.

9pm - HUMANWINE

There are only two bands on the bill, HUMANWINE is direct support for Abney Park. Doors are @ 8pm and the show starts with HUMANWINE @ 9pm.

HUMANWINE is having a multi-media extravaganza @ The Paradise 6/27!

Communication!
Inform! Reform! Empower!
Community!

A Far Cry (Boston's unconducted Chamber Orchestra) is preparing for you a 45 minute set of ancient cover songs from dead composers and some living, maybe undead composers.
HUMANWINE will then be joined by A Far Cry for a full 2 HOUR SET!
We know some folks who drive from North Carolina, Pennsylvania and far reaching states who are saddened when HUMANWINE plays a 30 minute set, WELL TONIGHT WILL NOT BE ON OF THOSE NIGHTS!

So many wonderful surprises are in store for you. Communication! Revolution! Puppets! Machines! YOU! THEHUMANWINEFAMILY.

These Seeds Become Trees! Tell everyone you know, bring everyone you know. Groundkrew get yourselves ready!!!

$12 Adv/$14 Dos 18+
Tickets for this once in a lifetime show go on sale 2/28

For updates join the mail list LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

2009-02-05T21:05:00.003-05:00

Avast Comrade!
Here we are and February is upon us. We hope you've settled into the idea that we have a new President in the U.S.A. and that there is a bunch of work that needs to be done. Keeping a positive attitude is great but we have to step up and make sure we keep the pressure on our City Council, Representatives and Senators, the President and his cabinet starting from the community and working our way up because no matter how hard you yawn at the thought of politics your everyday life is greatly affected by the decisions made there; The Patriot Act for example.
Family is key and family is a BIG word, it is not determined by birth. "Sometimes families change, we have to make our own". Get to know your neighbor, the post office folks, local shop owners, etc. Just saying "Hi", smiling at a random person, letting someone out into traffic on Centre street in J.P. because you know they won't get in otherwise or stepping outside your own boundaries to help someone who's in obvious need. These actions ripple deeply into our fragmented society and increase the chance of unifying us as a people.

Oliver and all lovers of puzzles; This one is for you!
20-8-5-19-5 19-5-5-4-19 2-5-3-15-13-5 20-18-5-5-19

HUMANWINE
on

MAKE: television Episode 3: Steampunk

Go to BlipTV to watch in HD
Download the m4v, or subscribe in iTunes.
MakeTV is a growing branch of Make Magazine, they decided to branch out by documenting their 'findings' in the form of video and PBS picked it up. The show we were part of was about Jake Von Slatt, a HUMANWINE "Mechanical Saint",donated to us, all of our major appliances, a boatload of cable, piping and a distro box. He mentioned to MakeTV that we had made use of a bunch of his donations and thought that they should come and check us out. They all came over for a show @ Awesomeville and an interview about our house,the bus. Jake documented his experience here.
The show aired in January 2009 on PBS.
Click here to go to MakeTv's site.

2 ALL AGES SHOWS COMING UP

Saturday Febraury 7th 8:30pm

The Mad Maggies CD Release Party: Pirates Delight
The Accordion Apocalypse [site]
2626 Jennings St. San Francisco, CA 94124
Cost: $10 fer pirate, $15 for regular human ALL AGES

Pirate’s Delight with: The Mad Maggies, Thee Hobo Gobbelins, Amazing Circus Acts!
HUMANWINE will play a few pirate tunes during the evening.

Tuesday February 24th 8:00pm

Mardis Gras @ The Hazmat Warehouse/Your Hauz

This show is in Oakland, CA
please write to: info@HUMANWINE.org for directions
Cost: $ donation - ALL AGES

Mardis Gras with Thee Hobo Gobbelins, HUMANWINE and a slew of maniacs doing for you what we love to do.
Expect a St.James Infirmary that will tear your pounding heart out of your chest and lift it to the sky!

For updates join the mail list

Mobile site is available!

Just click the link that looks like a little cellphone in the nav bar at HUMANWINE.org

New HUMANWINE store is online!

New New HUMANWINE store designed by M@ McNiss.
A beta version of the HUMANWINE online store is now online.
For now it requires the latest Adobe Flash Player but future versions will be text accessible. Download muzik as well order t-shirts, patches etc.
The are no Mediums or Larges left in any style but we're printing more here in a week. We'll also have khaki, sage, burgundy and more black on black, you seem to really like those.

NEW MUZIK Available at HUMANWINE Store
- Our Devolution IS Televised

Coming soon
- 1st Amendment
- HUMANWINE and A Far Cry Orchestra at a warehouse in Allston, MA 09.28.08

Back by request some drink recipes hand picked by Abrogated Munificents

Boozy drinks
As always the name brands are in there if you all of a sudden have a bunch of loot otherwise just get what's cheap OR go in on it with a bunch of other folks..

Herradura Agave Kiss

2 oz. Herradura Silver Tequila or Tequila
1 oz. Double Cream
1 oz. White Creme de Cacao
1/2 oz. Chambord Raspberry Liqueur

In a shaker with ice, add Herradura tequila, white creme de cacao, double cream and Chambord. Shake for 15 seconds. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass, rimmed with white chocolate, add a spear of fresh raspberries, and serve.
+++
Godiva Peppermint Kiss

1 oz. Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
1 oz. Rumple Minze
1 sprig mint

Add [Godiva] Chocolate Liqueur and Rumple Minze in ice-filled rocks glass and stir
Garnish with mint sprig
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The Black Pearl

1.5 oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
.5 oz Apricot Brandy
.25 oz Pomegranate Sour Syrup
Ginger Ale Floater
Served in a Highball glass over ice, garnished with a cherry.
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Ghoul Juice

1.5 oz Ciroc Vodka
¾ oz Apricot Brandy
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice Slightly Sweetened
Juice from 1 Tangerine

Mix all ingredients in a tall glass and serve on ice. Top with club soda and add Pomegranate juice as garnish.
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Non-boozy drinks
Non alcoholic cocktails are just as beautifully made and equally delicious without the possibility of a hangover the next day, some may say the best of both worlds.

Turkish-Style Mocha
Serves 4
3/4 cup ground dark roast coffee
1 Tbs. ground cardamom
6 cups water
2 cups soy milk (unflavored), whole milk or half-and-half
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup chocolate syrup

1.Combine the coffee and cardamom in a coffee filter. Brew the coffee in a coffeemaker with the water.
2. Meanwhile, heat the milk, sugar and chocolate syrup in a medium-size saucepan over medium heat.
3. Stir the brewed coffee into the saucepan, pour the mixture into four cups and serve immediately.
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Loco Coco
1/2 cup ice
1/2 cup vanilla soy cream or ice cream
1 cup soy milk, rice milk or low-fat milk
1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
1 tablespoon chocolate chips
whipped cream if you want

Place all ingredients except whipped cream in a blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Add more or less ice depending on the consistency you prefer.

Pour into a tall glass. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate chips.

Recycled Movement

Last fall we stepped up our conversion on the bus racing against the inevitable looming New England winter. In November we had an important meeting with Al the Ninja and Father Blake. We decided to put the bus up on blocks in N.H. for the winter so we can reconnect in May and complete the final stages of the conversion with clearer heads and warmer weather.
All the plans remain the same, we will be back in May to finish the last little bits of the bus' elec./heating/plumbing system and to complete the transmission overhaul. We are in the planning stage of a June show at The Paradise so get ready for that one it's going to be a grand event, we'll be armed with a new album of material, we're writing like maniacs out here. We miss you Boston!

Please donate to our Recycled Movement if you can by going to HUMANWINE.org and clicking the "Recycled Movement" button.

Facing foreclosure? Don't leave. Squat!
Amy Goodman - Wednesday, February 4, 2009

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

Zeitgeist , HUMANWINE.org , MySpace , blogger , LJ , the61 , facebook
Fighting Naked and mp3s also available through CD Baby, Napster, iTunes, PayPlay, Tradebit, GroupieTunes, MusicIsHere, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic

[cc] 2009 Nervous Relatives Records

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J4NU4RY NEWZ / SHOWZ

2009-01-09T22:11:00.002-05:00

Avast Ye!
In late September we went into WZBC late one evening recently to record a few tunes and for an interview with Some American Sessions' Sean O'Donnell. We got a chance to record a brand new song regarding the treatment of reporters at the DNC as well as the RNC. This song came in one day and sat down and has found it's way on to our upcoming album. Enjoy a live version of 1st Amendment here.

Voice & Guitar - Holly Brewer
Guitar - M@ McNiss
Upright Bass - Paul Dilley
Trash Kit/ Drums - N8 Greenslit
Recorded, Engineered & Edited by Sean O'Donnell @ WZBC Studios 90.3 FM Newton MA

SHOWZ! SHOWZ! SHOWZ!

Thursday January 15th 9:30p
Bordello - Little Pedro's
901 E. 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
[formerly Little Pedro's. sign still says little pedros]
(213) 687-3766
$5/21+

[map]

Tuesday January 27th 8:30pm
Balazo 18 Art Gallery- Now Sub-Mission Art Space [site]

2183 Mission Street
(between 17th and 18th),
Mission District San Francisco, CA 94110
Cost: $5 - $10 ALL AGES

Cheshire Rock Opera - The Sixth Annual celebration of Lewis Carroll! HUMANWINE will join many great musicians, poets, storytellers, singers, dancers and fellow enjoyeurs on this night to Celebrate the life of Lewis Carroll!

Saturday Febraury 7th 8:30pm
The Mad Maggies CD Release Party: Pirates Delight
The Accordion Apocalypse [site]
2626 Jennings St., San Francisco,, CA 94124
Cost: $10 fer pirate, $15 for regular human ALL AGES

Pirate’s Delight with: The Mad Maggies, The Hobo Gobbelins, Amazing Circus Acts!
HUMANWINE will play a few pirate tunes during the evening.

Tuesday February 24th 8:00pm
Mardis Gras @ The Hazmat Warehouse/Your Hauz
please write to: info@HUMANWINE.org for directions
Cost: $ donation - ALL AGES

Mardis Gras with Hobo Gobbelins and a slew of maniacs doing for you what they love to do.
Expect a St.James Infirmary that will tear your pounding heart out of your chest and lift it to the sky!

nrr store
HUMANWINE Celebrates Buy Nothing Day by closing the doors from Black Friday and Celebrates Buy Nothing Christmas until January 1st every year so we took the opportunity to give the store a facelift. It's 3/4 of the way there, we'll send out a 7R4N5M15510N once it's up again. We'll have new songs, T-Shirts and Patches for you in there once it's launched. We only have a handful of CD's and T- Shirts left right now so if you want one of them, please write to info@HUMANWINE.org and ask for one.

If anyone tells you that they want to make you FAMOUS, just remember that they are really selling you the fear of not being famous, don't buy it. Don't let fear motivate your actions.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

HUMANWINE in Oakland for the Winter: 533D5 M15510N

2008-12-21T17:33:00.001-05:00

HUMANWINE and their mobile workshop, Wire and Bone, are in Oakland for the Winter!

533D5 M15510N; These Seeds Become Trees

HUMANWINE is looking to the OAK/SF Bay Area for folks who play
accordion
cello
oboe
saw
trashkit*
trombone
trumpet
upright bass
violin
washboard
washtub

We are also looking for unique acts**

Please let us know what you do and how to get in contact with you.

If you can provide us with a link to some examples we'd love to see/hear them. Send e-mails to info@HUMANWINE.org.

Rehearsals will be with Holly & m@. We work around your schedule so we can get you well rested and as peaceable as possible. The first time you will likely play with everyone is the day of the show.

* like a trap kit but made of 'trash'

**HUMANWINE is looking for Socio-political, solution oriented material having to do with basic Earth Rights, Animal & Human Rights. Plays, mini-skits, dance, interactive acts, poetry/spoken word, bomb dismantling, etc.

OKTOBER - NEWZLETTER

2008-10-18T19:25:00.002-04:00


Avast Ye! Finally it's here! We announced the MUZIK PLAYER, AM-TV (Abrogated Munificent Television) in the last 7R4N5M15510N. Much to our delight you all have been using it and passing it along to other folks. Thank you for your feedback! Now we unveil the NRR STORE! Buy Mp3s from us instead of going though CD Baby, Napster, iTunes, PayPlay, Tradebit, GroupieTunes, MusicIsHere, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic, etc. M@ designed a programme that allows you to purchase anything we make directly from us all at HUMANWINE.org. Below we have a list of what has just become available and below you can see how it's laid out.
3 new T-Shirts Blood Red w/ Black Gear Black w/ Black Gear Army Green w/ Black Gear	Muzik for download Our Devolution IS Televised (single) 2008 Fighting Naked (full length) 2007 Rivolta Silenziosa (3 song EP) 2006 Coming Soon: 1st Amendment (single) 2008 Mass Ededous (Full Length) 2008
From Nervous Relatives Designs Experience it at HUMANWINE.org

A Message from HUMANWINE:
What have we been up to? With the help of our Mechanical Saints, we are working around the clock, on our bus making it ready for the great beyond. We've pushed our deadline twice and are now 3 weeks behind but we're on track.

When it's too dark or cold to work on the bus we're inside random warehouses working on our computers building programs like, AM-TV, The NRR STORE and the MUZIK PLAYER, editing the various sound/video recordings that will soon be released and writing new songs. We have been accepting renegade studio time with folks we know to finish up recording our next album which we will release before we ship out. We have a recording our our live show with A Far Cry (unconducted string orchestra) @ A Warehouse in Allston, MA that we are editing and making ready for d/l.

RECYCLED MOVEMENT:
Every day we get closer to this being a reality. Please donate to our Recycled Movement if you can by going to HUMANWINE.org and clicking the "Recycled Movement" button.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

DemocracyNow!, 9-11 cover up, Zeitgeist , HUMANWINE.org , MySpace , WebLog , LJ , the61 , YouTube.com

[c] 2008 Nervous Relatives Records

Our Dreams Came True [recording available soon through HUMANWINE.org]

2008-10-15T16:17:00.000-04:00

When we hear our songs in our heads we hear them in a very orchestral way but we have never had a chance to hear see/hear/feel these songs dripping with strings, covered in a fine layer of violins, laid down in a bed of cellos and upright bass and wrapped lovingly with viola.
September 28th, in a warehouse in Allston Massachusetts, with A Far Cry our dream came true.
8 songs were chosen 6 days before the show.
M@ transposed all of the songs within 3 days and e-mailed them off to Courtenay Vandiver (cello) and Ashley Vandiver (violin) who then built parts for all the songs in 2 days.

Day of the show
Sunday
A Far Cry trickled into the space
we went over each song once
The moment we heard the first song
We were seeing the song or real
for the first time
and a few hours later
our dreams came true

Ken from Brighton, MA said,
"I really enjoyed the performance and the backing strings section - it brought back the mystique of one of Pan 9's *you just had to be there to see them* shows to Rugg Road."

Then night began with What Time Is It? Mr.Fox, a welcomed, reoccurring visitor of Vinland, who filled the room with songs from their new album, tales of Joan D'Arc, love and Religious interference performed by Brian King (piano/guitar), Nathan cohen (violin), Courtenay Vandiver (cello) yes she was in all three bands! and Mike Leggio (double bass).

Brian King said,
"I have spent countless hours, driving through snowstorms, hurricanes, to concerts, shows, plays, movies, anything, hoping to be moved, shaken, or transformed. Unfortunately I'm often let down. Something is missing. I'm just not taken over or taken in. Or I just don't believe it. But I still continue to go, knowing that at some point someone is going to reach into my chest and shock me back to life. Sunday was one of those nights.
Everything felt real. No clever aesthetic. Just the raw beauty of true passion and talent transcending ego and creating something alive. I'm beyond thrilled to have been able to be there and part of it. That night I dreamt in strings. "

The center of the evening was filled with the sounds of Boston's Unconducted String Orchestra, A Far Cry who's set included the likes of Bartok & Mozart performed by Andrew Eng, Annie Rabbat, Ashley Vandiver, Courtenay Vandiver, Frank Shaw, Jesse Irons, Loewi Lin, Margaret Dyer, Megumi Stohs, Sarah Darling, Sharon Cohen

Amy Toxic said,
"It was a fantastic night. You sounded brilliant! Like it was meant to be that way.
It can’t get much better than hearing both Bartok and HUMANWINE live on the same night!"

Afterward members of A Far Cry came up to us and said, "I've always wanted to play to a standing audience."
Think about it
you're in an orchestra
the audiences generally are sitting and reserved
they clap at the end of each piece
and remain silent otherwise.

The set up of a Concert Hall lends a hand in creating
the atmosphere of institution unless you look deeper into ART.

It can seem like a "one way energy stream".
If the audience doesn't give back
the energy coming from the stage
hits a sponge.

The CYCLE is broken
it can be draining

whereas
when the energy coming from the stage
is allowed to be a CYCLE
it is so enlivening

you don't even feel like
you're pushing.

For example
2 shows
1 week apart
The artist(s) put 100% into both shows.
NIGHT #1 the audience is like the aforementioned audience (sitting, reserved, docile)
NIGHT #2 the audience is REACTING to you (standing/sitting/crawling on the rafters, laughing, dancing, singing along, standing perfectly still with their jaws open in appreciation), the 2 shows will "feel different" to the artist(s).
The first night will be more of a drain and the second night will leave the artist(s) energized.

It's a symbiotic relationship between the audience and the stage.
As lovers of ART, we are often in an audience
as a part of the audience
you can tell whether an audience
is a CYCLE or a SPONGE

HUMANWINE shows have been filled with positive and open energy for a long time running.
We all feel honored to collaborate with so many wonderful bands
who we love
and to know that there will be the likes of YOU there reciprocating, inspires us all
to do it a while lot more.

A Far Cry [Official Site][MySpace site]

“Homage” Quincy, Massachusetts - October 16, 2008
Tickets $5/$10/$15
7:30pm Eastern Nazarene College Cove Fine Arts Center, 23 East Elm Avenue

Pärt: Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Mozart: Divertimento #2 in B-flat Major, K. 137
Muffat: Concerto Grosso No. 12 in G major “Propitia Sydera”
Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10

Hailed by the Boston Globe as “one of Boston’s most promising classical music groups,” A Far Cry is making waves, experimenting with how music is performed and heard. A tightly-knit group of 16 young professional musicians, A Far Cry formed in early 2007, seeking the freedom and flexibility of a string quartet as well as the power and beauty of an orchestra. Operating with rotating leadership and no conductor, A Far Cry is generating interest not only in the concert hall, but also with its innovative model. All artistic decisions are made by vote as a collective, and the musicians take care of all the behind-the-scenes work, from booking concerts to designing programs. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, A Far Cry is also committed to social change and harmony, donating proceeds from concerts to homeless shelters in the Boston area, and partnering with other non-profits such as the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A Far Cry’s 2008-09 season holds engagements at the Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall Festivals, concerts from Minnesota to Florida, and a growing hometown series in Boston.

What Time Is It ? Mr.Fox [Official Site] [MySpace Site]

10-23-2008
T.T. the Bear’s
10 Brookline St
Cambridge
Massachusetts
02139

with Dorian Wood (L.A.)
Black Fortress of Opium
Garvy J

We are thrilled to bring Dorian Wood to Boston! A monster talent: "The androgynous emotionality of Wood’s singing voice lends itself to the demanding theatricality of [his] lyrics, arrangements and production. The nakedness of a lover’s need and the wide-eyed madness that ensues when that need is not met twine around one another." - LA Weekly ----- "Dorian’s voice is evocative of those persons, places and things in your mind that ring like cultural archetypes (the carnival ring leader who knows everyone’s secrets, the fool lamenting at the moon, the gregarious saloon piano player), but these apparently familiar characters he seems to be depicting yank at the proverbial rug under you and demonstrate his dynamic cultural literacy. Though they draw from different sources, his songs’ emotional roots are firmly planted in his own experience." - Signal Tribune ----- "Wood unleashes gospel-infused wails and testimony that bring the audience…to a frenzy.” – The Advocate ----- "Dorian Wood is an instigator extraordinaire. A shape-shifter. A subtle court jester posing as a harmless house pet. An inspiring addition to the freakish world we now live in...a true artist in the purest sense of the word. Fearless, confident, filled with passion. His songs are beautiful without being pretty, well orchestrated, and creepy almost to the point of being masochistic, all the while continuing to work under the guise of ’folk music’." - Citizen LA Mr. Fox goes on at 9pm sharp Garvy J: 10pm Black Fortress of Opium: 11pm Dorian Wood: 12 midnight

WHO is MR. FOX? a dahl character? bluebeard-like bachelor? a teacher? a friendly furry creature with an intimate knowledge of clocks? any ideas are welcome. Never fit into a scene. never subscribe to a specific genre. just try to be true to the guts of the song. whether it be gospel, carnival, psychedelic blues, folk, country or a collage, we hope the truth of it comes through. Lots of songs about relationships and their many beautiful and demonic manifestations. songs about identity, and trying to make sense of the inner workings of our own clocks. and of course the occasional "i just got dumped," "i'm afraid you're going to dump me," or "you smell" songs. So i write the songs and fantasize about being some sort of male annie lennox. nathan travels abroad like bartok, collects ideas, and basically proves you can play any type of music on a violin. so when we make music we get to be transported to turkey, alabama, ghana, hungary, ireland and sometimes pluto.

Pro-US Propaganda in Iraq

2008-10-10T14:47:00.002-04:00

Avast Ye!

Knowing the every single year the Pentagon receives more money than they ask for deepens this wound even further, now, not only are our tax dollars going to more pork in the already misappropriated military budget but our money is actually going into ad campaigns in other countries to try and convince their populous that WE ARE GOOD, WE ARE GOD, but it's not even US it's the American Dream; they are hoping to run that faded vision of our lady of Liberty standing for freedom, truth, justice, the American way through enough Photoshop that no one will notice that she is dead.

word.
holly

check this out:

Firms Awarded $300M for Pro-US Propaganda in Iraq

The Pentagon has awarded a total of $300 million in new contracts to produce pro-US propaganda for Iraqi audiences.

According to the Washington Post, four American companies have been awarded the deals to generate news stories, entertainment programs and so-called “public service advertisements” to run in the Iraqi media.

The four contractors are

Washington-based Lincoln Group
LA-based Leonie Industries
MPRI and SOSI, both based in Virginia

from Lincoln Group's site:

Lincoln Group’s strength lies in our thorough methodological approach to strategic communications and our proven ability to operate in the challenging and dynamic information environments of remote regions, emerging markets, and hostile and inhospitable environments. Our value lies in our ability to provide our clients with an in-depth understanding of the people they are trying to reach and how to reach them. Our services include:

Strategic Communications

Data Gathering and Analysis

Public Opinion Research

Market Research and Intelligence

Media Analysis

Media Development and Distribution

Effects Assessment

from Leonie Industries' site:

Sunday September 28 [[DIRECTIONS]]

2008-09-23T22:13:00.003-04:00

This Sunday September 28
DIRECTIONS to the Warehouse:

20 Rugg Road Allston ,MA 02134 [link]

GREEN LINE: Harvard Avenue Station
BUS: 66 - Scheduled Arrival Times
5:03p, 5:14p, 5:25p, 5:35p, 5:55p
Weather: Currently raining (If there is good weather, the show will be outside in the lot)
CARPOOL INDEX: [HIGH] - Carpool or use of public transport is advised.

The parking lot is heavily enforced by the neighbors (a.k.a. The Towing Company)
There are many parking spots on the the surrounding streets.

WHERE: The Space - 20 Rugg Road Allston, MA 02134
WHEN: 6pm Sharp! - Early Show
WHAT: ALL AGES WELCOME. This is a large space with hard wood floors and a stage. The idea was born last year when Holly & m@ started to work with Courtenay Vandiver & Ashley Vandiver, two members of A Far Cry. Finally it is here!

WE ARE AUDIO TAPING THIS EVENT.
You can order copies on line about a week after the show, we'll have a link here at HUMANWINE.org.

SCHEDULE:
6pm - 6:30pm - What Time Is It? Mr. Fox.
6:45pm - A Far Cry - Boston's unconducted string orchestra
8:00pm - HUMANWINE with A Far Cry

T-Shirts

We will be printing the shirts once they come in.
3 different color shirts, 2-3 different images, and yes, the gear "wrench in the works" will be available.

Heads Up

HUMANWINE will be playing renegade shows in the Boston area until we leave.
We're spending most of our time making sure the bus is ready to go.
For updates join the
mail list

Values! Who needs 'em?

2008-09-10T13:39:00.000-04:00

In this cesspool of media that we are exposed to ever increasingly here on MySpace, on TV, on billboards, in magazines, in newspapers (now turned rags), on the radio waves and in our workplaces & Schools, remember that there are people who would rather your play online games, buy a bunch of crap you DON'T NEED and continue a monotonous dialog of the latest Hollywood "Celebs" to DISTRACT YOU FROM WHAT IS REAL.

The fact remains that these Corporate Entities don't care what you do as long as you don't get involved in their political maneuvers.

The truth is you only have to eat, drink, get some sleep and maintain a body temperature of about 98 degrees.

The overwhelming Corporate Sponsorship and blatant presence at both the DNC & the RNC was/is appalling.

"It’s like we’re forgetting the public sphere." stated Rep.
Dennis Kucinich

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: One of the enduring problems of our political system, whether it’s about Democrats or Republicans, is the role of corporations in the political process. We have a real problem in America, where corporations have infiltrated our political process so seriously that they’re putting labels on all of us. There’s not one on me, but I can say that when I go to my own Ohio delegation, and I see “Dominion” on everything—and that’s a natural gas company that’s jacking up everybody’s rates, and they need the support of a state administration to do it—don’t think that I don’t understand what that’s about. We’re in the Pepsi Arena. Obama is going to give his acceptance in Invesco Stadium. What’s this about? It’s like we’re forgetting the public sphere.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: So, you know, a lot of us aren’t going to be particularly satisfied, but so what? You know, the voters made their choice in the primaries. You’ve got to respect that choice. And what I’m going to be doing here, tomorrow, at the convention, is to talk about the economy and look at those issues around which we can be united. Be certain that under a Democratic administration, if that administration is showing aggressive tendencies or is putting us on the edge of a war again or not taking us into a direction of peace, I am not going to be quiet. I mean, I’m going to continue to talk about the direction America should go in. But we can’t let those differences that we have right now cause us to fracture at a time that we really have to bring a change to the White House.

Conventions are not private events in a Democracy.

They just are NOT. This is not HUMANWINE's opinion.

This is not a ploy to get you to vote for McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden.

This is not a Political Statement.

This is a Public Service Announcement.

The Press and the public (around 840 people) on several instances were whisked away by rented thugs with no name badges or identification. These were people sending in "troops" with no name badges so they would not be held accountable for what they were about to do and boy did the EVER DO IT.

I Witness Video is an organization that equips people planning on attending marches/demonstrations/protests or other lawful acts backed by our RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE. The cameras are turned on for the duration and turned in at the end of the day. These tapes are carefully scoured armed with time/date to assure exactly the time and day of any particular offense either by and officer or a civilian.

The New York City Police Department has been ordered to pay out 1,000's of dollars already to people grossly mistreated by these cops who think they won't be held accountable but video is very damaging testimony and almost always wins.

I Witness Video's Site reads...
all Freemen ... have a Right publicly to remonstrate the Abuses of Power, in the strongest Terms, to put their Neighbors upon their Guard, against the Craft or open Violence of Men in Authority, and to assert with Courage the Sense they have of the Blessings of Liberty - Andrew Hamilton, from his 1735 defense of John Peter Zenger, in a landmark trial which helped to establish the principle of freedom of the press in America.

THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS THIS:

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS?
Independent Media and You

BUT if you are suffering from overload and become easily distracted by the aforementioned Corporate distractions that only play on your insecurities and force you to make a fool of yourself by not only "following trends" but also explicitly screw yourself by keeping yourself OUT OF A DIALOG ABOUT REAL CURRENT EVENTS.

It IS cool to care.

Please seek alternate media outlets during this coup to destroy the great nation and ultimately the whole Earth with it's Arrogant, short-sighted Corporate Decision Making.

Deforestation was not done BY you but watch what you BUY, you may support it just by what you eat.

Like the nerves in our body so is the whole Earth connected and we're just plain shitting all over it.

We care, so we sing/write/act out about it. We're not alone, thankfully we were inspired to carry on a long tradition of Questioners who have worked their whole lives for the next generation to enjoy a safer, cleaner, more peaceful Earth to inhabit.

The Corporate Sponsors of both conventions paid for that security to keep our words and opinions barred from the convention, a political convention, a public convention.

This is a direct action against the public by the corporate.

The Corporate legs grow every time WE buy their crap, that we don't need, which only enslaves us in the end. Wrapped in a noose that we bought because it was on sale.

word.

HUMANWINE

July 7R4N5M15510N

2008-07-05T16:54:00.000-04:00

07-05-08 Avast Comrades! July 5th, 2007 we decided that we should live in a bus that was converted to run off of people's wasted used veggie oil. one year and $8,043.00 later
paint=$60.00 bus=$1,500.00 insurance=$300.00 brake lines=$40.00 registration=$350.00 6 new tires=$2,328.00 2 state inspections=$110.00 circuit brakers & flare kit=$40.00 brake drums, calipers & pads=$2,995.00 lights, light covers, wipers, mirrors=$320.00	People have donated wood, tools, screws, nails, the conversion kit, barrels, pressure sprayer, parking space, electricity hook up, sinks, stove, fridge, water heater, piping, distro box, cables, screen, blankets, steel, their time, money and use of vehicles/bikes to get us this far.

Our bus needs a tune up before we can move forward. We need your help to see it through. Any donation that you can make is most appreciated. Our goal is to get this done in the next week so we can make it down to Boston for the 18th show. We estimate about $300 of work so it will probably be $400.

Please help us out if you can by donating online

We came up to N.H. to get our bus inspected and it passed with flying colours. We also came up because M@'s bro, Nate is gettin' hitched in the White Mountains Region on the 8th of July! Go Nate!

We're very excited to come back to Boston on July 18th as openers for Squirrel Nut Zippers @ The Paradise; See information below.

07/18/2008
Paradise Rock Club
969 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
617-562-8800

Doors @ 8:30pm
9:00pm - 9:45
Come Early!
$20/18+


8:00pm - doors open check out the tables 9:00pm - HUMANWINE (45 Minute set) 10:00pm - Squirrel Nut Zippers	Recycled Movement www.nervousrelatives.com Our goal has shifted from a "plan" (that perpetuates a system of dependency which would only enslave & hide us) to a PLAN which allows HUMANWINE to speak to as many people as possible in the most independent, clean and self-sustainable way our current technology allows. Please donate to this RECYCLED MOVEMENT if you can.

To the Krew: Gordon Corless, Al The Ninja, Jake Von Slott, David Dowling, Tom Porter, Max Cassidy, Nebraska, Jill, Maus & Josh Diers, Will Weiss, Maaak and many more for donating your time, energy tools & appliances.

Sheri Anderson, Angie Brown, Jennifer Murphy, Ben Parson, Nicole Keane, Charles Hein, Sarala B., John Reimers, Bill Knighton, Uwe Schaefer, Barbara Goldman, Matthew Muise, Sarah Blackmore, Guillermo Briz, reAnimation Studios, Eben Holub, Bobby Masuret, Patrick Fitzgerald, Seth Maleri, Oedipus, Ron Nordin, Jerome Brewer, Chase & Barb McNiss, Sara Poisson, Terra Fredrichs, who have donated loot to Recycled Movement.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

Dr. Todd, 9-11 cover up, Zeitgeist , DemocracyNow!
IMPEACH Bush and Cheney

HUMANWINE.org , MySpace , WebLog , LJ , the61 Fighting Naked and mp3s also available through CD Baby, Napster, iTunes, PayPlay, Tradebit, GroupieTunes, MusicIsHere, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic

6/21 Show/ June 7R4N5M15510N

2008-06-16T19:00:00.002-04:00

06-16-08

Avast Comrades!
The Solstice show this weekend will be our last show in Boston, as residents.
We will be celebrating the arrival of summer! We set sail at the end of June.
Where will we go?
everywhere.
But First we're off to N.H. to get the bus inspected for another year. M@'s bro, Nate is gettin' hitched way up north on the 8th of July and we'll be bouncing around New England playing shows in VT, NH and ME, working to finish the interior and exterior of the bus for our departure from "the nest" in late summer. If by chance we do have another show in Boston after June, it will be as guests.

An open letter to Boston
Boston,
You are everything we hoped you would be. We found gold here, none of the players have been natives but you have been a meeting place. We stayed for 3 years, that's longer than we've stayed anywhere. Though your media has misunderstood us a bit and confused us a bunch as "the next big thing" and filled your columns briefly with fluff stories that served as a distraction from what is real, all and all you've come around. We think you have a good idea of what we are, how we work and why we even make muzik in the first place.
You have figured out that HUMANWINE is not an entertainer and what we make is not manufactured for easy or passive consumption.
You have seen that we use muzik as a soapbox from which we will never shout, "Buy our Crap! Stare at our glamorous photos and feed our vanity! Create a Frenzy for us! Give our lives meaning!" Rather, We are active, conscious members of the human race who also write songs. The cause and the message would be cheapened and would go down simultaneously if were to take an active or passive role in the music machine of today.

We say this because so often we hear the words..."When you make it big" or "I'll say I knew you when". Only time can prove how very much we mean it when we say that we have no intention, ever, at all, of "making it big" and please don't hope to find yourself saying, "I knew them when" let it be that you will still know us because we are all working for the same goals. Exposing the Bush crime family, The Rothschilds and Rockefellers and other coups against humanity for the sake of the wealthy elite, supporting investigations into the 9-11 cover up, celebrating documentaries such as Zeitgeist, seeking out REAL NEWS like DemocracyNow! with REAL JOURNALISTS like Amy Goodman, supporting bills in the House (Kucinich: D- Ohio) to IMPEACH Bush and Cheney which work to TRY THEM AND THEIR CABINET IN A COURT OF LAW FOR WAR CRIMES IN THIS ILLEGAL WAR, supporting the abolition of Human Trafficking, TORTURE and the END of the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Supporting, researching and utilizing renewable resources, reusing AND recycling what we bring into our lives, taking care of ourselves and our friends, making more friends, slowing down, slowing down and thinking clearly about our environment, the new buzz words "Extreme Weather", flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and our impact on our Earth as a result of a greedy, FABULOUS, false, cheap, "just throw it out" after it's not fashionable consumer lifestyle.

The music business doesn't have room in it for thinking clearly, not enough room for us anyhow. We strongly discourage you from spending your money in Sprawl+Mart. We thank you for your constant support and hope that you continue to look closely at what you are eating, drinking, listening to, looking at and supporting because you are taking it all in aren't you, you are a global citizen with everything at your fingertips.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.
We all are.
YOUR STORY is interesting.
YOU matter.
Fight the urge to live through other peoples lives because you think they are more interesting than you, they aren't, they're selling you something.
You don't have buy it.

ARE THEY USING THEIR BAND TO SELL REVOLUTION?
ARE THEY USING REVOLUTION TO SELL THEIR BAND?

Keep your eyes peeled and your ears to the floor, it's a fantastic time to be alive.
Oh and...

Apparently there are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan and Cuba. Not too long ago there were 7 nations on the list...Can you guess which 2 they were?
Afghanistan and Iraq.

Who do you think the U.S. Government will target next?

word.
HUMANWINE

06/21/2008 - Cafe 939
Berklee College
939 Boylston St.
(next to Cactus Club)
Boston, MA 02215

SOLSTICE!
Doors @ 7:30pm
8:00pm - 11:ish
Capacity=200 people
Come Early!
$15 General Public - $10 students

7:00pm - Be there EARLY to ensure a spot!

7:30pm - doors open, check out our tables

8:00pm - Julia Easterlin
singer/songwriter and jazz vocalist

8:45pm - Luminescent Orchestrii
Romanian gypsy melodies, punk frenzy, salty tangos, hard-rocking klezmer, haunting Balkan harmony, hip-hop beats and Appalachian fiddle, all eaten and spit out by two violins, resophonic guitar, bullhorn harmonica and bass.

10:15pm - HUMANWINE
Socio-political lyrics from a band who lives what they sing about. Family. Struggle. Peace.

On the tables:

Recycled Movement
www.nervousrelatives.com
To sum up our goal has shifted from a "plan" (that perpetuates a system of dependency which would only enslave & hide us) to a PLAN which allows HUMANWINE to speak to as many people as possible in the most independent, clean and self-sustainable way our current technology allows. Please donate to this RECYCLED MOVEMENT if you can.

Tunes & Tees: All of the bands will have merchandise at this show.

Donate Scraps to Recycled Movement
What we still need: + Galvanized Steel air duct + Steel Bed frames + 6" and 8" 5/8 - 3/4 bolts + 2 pieces of 5/8 - 3/4 Plywood + 4 screen doors or 8 window screens	If you have these materials or can direct us to them... Please write to: donate@HUMANWINE.org

June 2008 Cover Story
By T. Blake Littwin
Photos By Dave Kimelberg

FREE COPIES
If you live in CT, MA, ME, NH, RT, or VT then email web@performermag.com
for a list of locations where you can pick up a free copy.

There is a celluloid element throughout much of HUMANWINE's music, an audible spinning of dusty movie reels. The stories in their songs unfold in a fictional place called Vinland, a surreal space full of characters good and bad. This strange new world highlights an important artistic truth that perhaps best explains HUMANWINE; creation is control. The authorial power that comes with defining a new world is all encompassing and unlimited in scope and range. Writers place readers into scenes and breathe words in to their characters, while painters grace their subjects with light and weight and let viewers take it all in. Good musicians string together melodies and rhythms, mapping out a specific listening experience full of peaks and troughs. When in that space � in their world � we're subject to their creation. The regular rules no longer apply.

At the core of HUMANWINE are M@ (Matt) McNiss and Holly Brewer. While living in New Hampshire they spun in the same musical circles for half a decade before working together. Once the connection was made, the duo began producing music at a prodigious rate. Eventually moving to Boston in 2005, the accolades soon followed as HUMANWINE won the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll and the "Best New Local Act" at the Boston Music Awards in 2006. The following year, their album Fighting Naked won "Best Album of 2007" by WBZ TV. The band has enjoyed recognition but is still hard to pin down in terms of their overall sound.

"I wouldn't describe us as anything," says M@. "Muzik: that's what we play."

"...If anyone listens to HUMANWINE without a visual representation of what we mean, I feel like they're getting half the story." explains Holly.

In HUMANWINE's visual world, Vinland is a diverse realm. There are YerYer, Enjoyeurs, Hordes, and Abrogated Munificents. There are conflicts, struggles, and men overboard. There are mindless cogs who never question their place in the machine. Vinland may be a well-constructed fantasy but the issues HUMANWINE address through the individuals and institutions contained within are modern and familiar. What should listeners take away from their episodic visits to this world? "If they feel uncomfortable that they're not alone," says Holly. "If they think that it isn't right to have a cubicle and a rat-like job and to be unhappy all the time. It's not normal for humans. If you feel uncomfortable about it, it's fine: you're totally on the right track."

For M@, the idea of acceptance extends beyond the issue of corporate employment. "One of the most major questions ever that we ask is 'What are you consuming'?" he says. "What are you taking in? What are you believing? What are you taking for granted? What are you putting into yourself?" Modern consumption comes in many forms and perhaps one of the most insidious and ubiquitous mainlines goes unnoticed on billboards and buses. "A lot of what we talk about is advertising because you're just bombarded with it," says Holly. "I don't want to become desensitized to it.�

The band draws on personal experiences and observations but tries to avoid the confessional, first-person approach that plagues many acts. "It's not to say we don't sing about ourselves, says M@. "We try to include greater numbers than just ourselves when we're writing a song. We put our own thoughts and emotions into this but we try to make a bigger thing. The world is way bigger than just the two of us."

Although HUMANWINE's music is an amalgamation of genres and styles (there are dirges and waltzes and metal riffing) their lyrics have a decidedly punk edge to them. This designation is a complicated tag though. Holly recounts several instances of people approaching the band after shows saying, "Your music is not punk but your lyrics are punk, but I guess that's really punk!" M@ explains that HUMANWINE, "is not 'punk rock' but punk is a mindset so anything that goes through that filter has that attribute."

Holly continues, "Before punk turned into, 'let's drink beer and throw beer bottles at squirrels in the park,' it was actually kids like us being so rip-shit about the classism in England that they would focus more on class rights and women's rights and they truly felt it was 'cool' to be political. It was cool to give a shit, and it's not like that anymore � especially here. Punk to me has always been synonymous with being a politically active member of your community."

While HUMANWINE has carried on punk's philosophical torch, they have eschewed the more aggressive front that is associated with the movement. The decision to address social and societal woes in a less grating manner is a deliberate one. "Nobody likes that or learns from just being yelled at or forced into something," says M@ of punk rock's confrontational tactics. "People learn much quicker and much better and actually evolve at a greater rate, I think, if you just present them with the pieces and let them put it together. And people do. You have a serious thing to portray to others but it's generally done angry, people are screaming and yelling."

Although listeners are brought fully into the world of HUMANWINE, there is no a soapbox to be seen. They may pass through the looking glass but aren't berated with a manifesto. "We're not yelling at people. We're being creative and singing about it in a way to allow people to enjoy the music. If they want to take that other step and look a little bit deeper they start to see what we're really talking about. It all goes back to allowing the people who listen to our music to be creative with it in their own right because we're not necessarily spelling every single thing out."

Sharing their world is second nature for HUMANWINE. Orbiting the band is an ever-changing lineup of musicians who are pulled in for a show (or a series of shows) and then set loose. Seeing the band perform one night can be an entirely different experience a month down the road. The musicians work with M@ and Holly separately from one another and often meet for the first time on stage. It's all part of the expansive but porous world that the band has created. "We hand pick our top-notch favorite players out of every band in the area," explains Holly. "That violin player, that cello player, that upright bass player. We're not a band wrecker because everyone goes back to their band afterwards. It's serious but it's not monogamous. It's like you're a mistress band" The broad talent pool that HUMANWINE draws on also means that there are very few dates they can't play. "It never stops the show from happening," says Holly. "That's a great benefit."

While M@ and Holly are still the creative force behind the HUMANWINE universe, they appreciate the multitude of benefits that come from playing with other people. "We do write all our own material," says M@. "But at the same time, because we're picking these top-notch people, we feel very safe at having the input of these other musicians. It makes it a whole new thing and it enables us to re-look at the song, to say as we're teaching, 'Hey maybe you play this instrument. Let's make this sort of different, actually, [and] try this thing.'"

The band also attempts to deconstruct the rigid line that often divides the audience and the band. "A huge part of it is getting people...who wouldn't normally do something in public like play an instrument or bang on something or run around with a painting," says M@. "It's a way to evolve what we do."

As unique a system as it is, HUMANWINE wants to expand this idea of a musical collective to embrace a larger body of people. "Our dream," says Holly, "is to collect other bands who are like-minded and have a community with them; a circus-y vibe with actual collaboration. If we could get five to six bands that all have buses, that all have circus acts, that have Bread and Puppet based themes with puppetry and a political message, all the lines blur and you're one monster."

To that end, HUMANWINE has taken careful steps to retain control of the creative world around them. They were signed to a label but now release and promote music through their own label called Nervous Relative Records. They handle their own artwork and graphics. They are also in the process of converting a bus into a mobile home and tour vehicle. "We're control freaks," laughs Holly. "We have to be in control of everything because our names are on it at the end of the day." M@ agrees with that punk ethos but acknowledges that it's not an exclusionary or narrow view. "DIY or die," he says. "A lot of what we do we see it, hear it, smell it, feel it, taste it, so to have somebody else do it would be more work in the end. We need to be involved with absolutely everything but we love working with other people. We love having new energy."

In the same way that HUMANWINE constructed the ethereal Vinland, they have managed to create their own world within the conventional sense of reality and the rules have been written. The traditional ways of addressing issues in songs and playing shows have been supplanted by a new methodology. The old ways have been cast aside in favor of widespread collaboration, stylistic crossbreeding, audience involvement, and an undying commitment to controlling what they put out and let in. Once you cross that threshold and are under the big top, enjoy the show.

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LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

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MAY 23: Climate Confluence Benefit in BOSTON

2008-05-20T12:45:00.001-04:00

MUSIC for LIBERATION!

FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008
6:00pm – 10:00pm
$7-15 sliding scale donation

The "Dojo"
1486 Dorchester Ave, Boston
RIGHT across from the Fields Corner T-Stop on the Red Line

Featuring the music and the message of:

HUMANWINE (socio-political freak folk)
EVAN GREER (of the riot-folk! collective)
THE PAPERDOLLS (acoustic gypsy punk on tour from FL)
AMATUL & NATEBOX (radical spoken word from somerville)
BAMBUU WAZA (local voice of liberation)
ADELAIDE (puppets and ukeleles. at the same time.)

Proceeds will support The Northeast Climate Confluence – a critical social/environmental justice gathering this summer to strengthen relationships within our region and organize to take care of the needs of our community and decrease our dependency on the institutions and systems that are killing the planet. More info: www.climateconfluence.org

We will also be supporting a bail fund for activists who will be protesting the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

2 hour TV Turn Off Show/ Getting on my own nerves

2008-05-13T15:05:00.001-04:00

So HUMANWINE played a 2 and a half hour set on Saturday May 3rd. For all of you who came thank you for helping us fill Great Scott, thank you for being you, Emily, congrats on finding the World's Wisest TinyTV, Thank you for your concern over my well being (holly here) and thank you Courtenay, Ashley, Adam, Nathan & N8 for being so insane and wonderful...

pictures by Dave Green are here
http://www.adoorable.org/temp/HUMANWINE/index.html

We loaded in around 6pm.
I walked through the door and noticed a huge altar to RCN (cable company), which I though ironic considering we rented the room for the night and we did not invite RCN to be a part of the event. We did however have 2 other organizations tabling the event, one is TEN The Emancipation Network which works to abolish modern slavery and RAW! RAW! RAW!, Boston's first radical cheerleading squad (of which I am a proud member, I am also the treasurer). Back to the RCN altar. I dropped off a bunch of my equipment and approached the guy working the table and asked him what 'they' were doing there and he said it was a promotional thing but didn't say much else. I told him we needed the space for our 2 organizations and that he could moved to another section. He started to pack up the key chains, flyers and the blue tarps saying "RCN Cable Network". I left to tell everyone else the scoop. When I started to set up the tables for our guest bands, We Will Eat Rats To Survive and Drake, I noticed that the fellow was now joined by another person, she said that they were from the Phoenix (a local magazine) and that they were sent to the show as part of a promotional thing. All this seemed very strange to me since, it was after all, a Celebration of "TV Turn off week". I mean. did they know, did RCN just see "TV" on our flyers and think, that's the show we want to be at. I don't know but I found it all amusing. The girl and the guy asked me if they should pack up completely. I said,"I'm not a censor, Cable companies DO exist, we just don't have any room for them, so do whatever you want as long as you don't eat into the merch table space. They seemed satisfied and a little surprised once I told them it was a celebration for TV Turn off week.

Meanwhile...
Since April 2nd I have been feeling a very strong pinching feeling in my pelvis (left ovary region), being a veteran of ovarian cysts I figured it was another one.
Having no health Care Insurance I decided to wait it out but it never ever went away.
It only got worse.
So on the say of the show 1 month and 1 day after the pain had started it all came to a climax.
I spent most of the day crying in intense pain.
I decided that I had to play the show but that afterwards I would just check into the ER for council.

When I got to Great Scott I was met by Courtenay (cello ninja) who promptly gave me a whole bouquet of flowers!
I decided that if I should spent time in the hospital that I would already have room decorations.

The Cellist from Drake told me she was a Reiki worker and offered to spend a little time one me.
Once I could rest for a moment during the dead time when the merch tables are set, the place is decorated, the TV had been stashed for the scavenger hunt, we had sound checked and Jill was on food details, I walked over to Monica (Drake's Cellist) and said I was ready. I got up on an unused merch table near the back of the room and laid my ass out. We Will Eat Rats To Survive was sound checking, I closed my eyes with little tears streaming down my face and just zoned out. It felt like she was pressing on me but there was no contact, I could feel "static" coming from my spine into my pelvis. We had a good 25 minute session before we realized the doors had been called and people were coming in. She wrapped up and told me to lay there for a bit, asking me how I felt. I noticed that the pain had moved for the first time, from my pelvis to my lower spine and that I was relieved to feel at least a different pain for once.
She is so wonderful. I really think that gave me the strength to do the night.

We powered through every bit, I felt like fainting about 3 songs from the end but we did it. I was happy.

So we finish the set and I go over to talk with the manager about loot and he hands me loot laughing and talking about the RCN guy.
I told him my story and he laughed even harder. He said, "When you had the Scavenger Hunt for the TV and the girl (Emily) found it, HAHHA The kids with the RCN table looked so..hahaha...everyone at the bar broke into hysterics when you announced the little factoids about spending 7 years of your life watching commercials...hahaha..oh my god so check this out okay...RCN picked HUMANWINE's show to promote apparently they were shooting off Ads on FNX (Phoenix) Radio for 2 weeks saying "RCN sponsors HUMANWINE @ Great Scott" or something like that..hahaha! I guess they dug your band, THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T DIG DEEP ENOUGH!! HAHAHAH!

It was so ironic that I am truly touched. It may have well been Revlon, Nike or Buick but who ended up taking it upon themselves to use a band's local show for more airtime...a cable corporation...during TV Turn Off Week.
Now I know why he was laughing so hard, why they all were. I am too. I think I always will. That's one for the books I said, and here it is, on the books.

We've got some shows coming up, on of which is a Benefit show to pay for upcoming lawyer fees to get folks out of jail who are planning to attend the Republican National Convention (RNC) <---oddly enough. So in preparation for the Nazi tyrants at the Convention, we are playing a Benefit to raise loot to get the good guys out of jail. That's on May 23rd.
Go to HUMANWINE.org for show details.

P.S.
I went to the ER right after we broke down and packed up.
Jill took me.
We stayed there until 8am.
The docs were great.
They took ultrasounds of my insides from the outside AND the inside. yikes!
pain, pain,pain.
No lumps or cysts detected, I was left with the possibility that I was walking around with a pinched nerve that had "A typical radiant pain" coming through my pelvis.
Jill set up an acupuncture appointment for me that following Friday.
I went, it was awesome.
I have magnets taped to me still.
It was sooooooo expensive. $250 for the first visit.
I told her that if there would be a future visit it would have to be a barter.
So I'm making her a website in trade for more care.

Ever since they stick the inside ultrasound wand up me I have felt a tiny bit better.
It's like we scared the thing into submission for a bit.
Doing okay.
Thank you for your care.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
-HUMANWINE

TV Turn off week /Big show May 3rd

2008-04-21T18:48:00.001-04:00

In Honor of TV Turn off week we are having a scavenger hunt at our next show for the world's wisest TinyTV. We will be giving away a few prizes, playing a 2 hour set, sharing with you 2 of our favorite bands, We Will Eat Rats To Survive (Chicago) and Drake (Philly) and we will have 2 awesome organizations with tables at the event, The Emancipation Network and RAW! RAW! RAW! Boston's First Radical Cheerleading Squad (Holly Brewer is a proud member of both). Check out the info below. We called today to find out about tickets sales and they're going fast. We're reserving 2 for a ticket giveaway on WERS. Keep your ears peeled for that...

The "Come Over Here Series" brought to you by HUMANWINE!
We get to bring our favorite bands to Boston!

HUMANWINE will perform for you a full 2 hour set!
We also get to bring two of our favorite bands from Chicago and Philadelphia.
We want you to see these bands live!
Drake
We Will Eat Rats To Survive

***Great Scott holds only 220 people. YOU have the first opportunity to buy tickets***

Special Event:
A Scavenger Hunt for "The Wisest TinyTV in the World" In honor of "T.V. Turn Off Week (April 21-27)

TABLES:
Two very important organizations will have tables at the show on May 3rd.

The Emancipation Network (T.E.N.)helps survivors of human trafficking,
and women and girls and boys at high risk for being trafficked, by offering them
a means for self-sufficiency and an economic alternative to further exploitation.

RAW! RAW! RAW! Radical Cheerleading Squad. Educate your Mind and Exercise your Body!
Come and find out what both of these groups offer and find out how you can be a part!

A funny story

2008-04-09T14:07:00.017-04:00

Narrated by Holly: photos by JohnnyBurma and Johnny Arguedas
Last night m@, Jill and I loaded into Harpers Ferry at 4:30pm and met with the sound engineer , Ben and the monitor engineer, Tex. Everyone HUMANWINE besides Courtenay had filed in by 4:45 and we set up stage for our sound check. We had known we weren't going to have Courtenay for sound check but when you're playing with someone who has been with their instrument since they were 4 yrs. old the fear level is set at a non-existent hum. One really great thing about the Rumble is that all bands get a full hour sound check for their 30 minute sets! That is unheard of in the rock club world. You're lucky to get a sound check at all, usually for an hour long set. The sound check went well and gave us hope for a good sounding set. With that out of the way we all went our separate ways for food and rest and planned to reconvene for the 8:00pm doors. By 9:oo the show was begging to get underway, we got a call from Nathan Cohen (violin) saying, "Hi we're at an apartment in Allston right now and I have the strangest news..." it was really loud in the club and we couldn't quite make out what he was saying but he said that Brian King (piano), Courtenay (cello) and he would be there by 10:00pm, leaving a little down time before our 10:40 slot. Keep in mind that this is the first show Courtenay has ever played with HUMANWINE. So 10:00 rolls around and they meet us in the 'game room'. Courtenay pulls out 2 mechanic style shirts and 2 mechanic style pants. She says, "Well I knew I wanted to wear a mechanic outfit so I stopped by this garage a few hours ago and asked the guys working there if, in trade, I could play them some Bach on cello for their outfits. I played for them and they literally took off their clothes right there and gave them to me!" She now pulls a set of keys out of the pant pocket and says," I think I have the keys to the garage here, either that or the keys to someone's car they were fixing!" So Nathan and Courtenay donned the very used oil stenched clothes while laughing like kids in the back room. I couldn't stop leaning in to smell them, that true oil, anti-freeze, kitty litter, dust smell, for some reason I really like it, it reminds me of my family...
We started to load up onto the stage one after the other, first Brian King and his piano, then myself running to the front of the stage with Nebraska Dontask with the "YouBangies" and the weights that hold them stable on the front of the stage (facing the audience), They are these wooden frames with all sorts of bits and pieces of human life like can lids, can, bent spoons found on the street, paint can lids, hose parts, piping, tubes, bottle caps galore and string. The whole thing is screwed, nailed or woven together giving you a glorious array of pings, tings, tongs, bings, swishes and pops. After I set up my guitar and mic Brian was completely boxed in, then Nate Greenslit came up piece after piece of drums, cans, lids, smashy things and then it was time for Ben to begin placing the mics, while that was going on m@ was making ready his guitar set up, which is very minimal so he had time to tune my janky-ass acoustic, next up was Nathan Cohen who has a minimal effects set up and his violin then while Courtenay got her folding chair (thank you Brian) situated I offered to her that I would hold her cello while she set up. With my heart racing I did it. You have to understand something about me an violins, cellos and upright basses. When they are under my care, my blood pressure seems to change my skin gets cold and clammy all the visions of how this thing is going to smash to bits in my hands come to mind, it's exhilarating sure but it's still no bueno as we say in J.P. Ahh! Alas! Courtenay is all set up and I am relieved of my temporary duty as YerYerOwn Cello-Holder. Paul Dilley has a small amp for his upright bass he's just about finished tuning when the announcer, Robby Roadsteamer asks if we're ready to go and we give the "okay". I wish I could remember what he said but it was something like this, 'I want you to put your hands together for the hardest, heaviest metal band in all of Boston...HUMANWINE!'
(Before we began m@ got the audience to shout,"Fuck Yeah!" on the count of 3 for the band who played before us, The Shills, these kids are solid. We're looking forward to planning a show with them this summer. I was convinced they were going to take the night and was just hoping for a Wild Card* at that point) We opened with a song called "Epoch" it starts on with just me on guitar playing very very very softly and singing all pretty like. So during the first bar or so, in my best cookie monster voice called out a slow,"Mehhhhtahhhl" and we began our set. I don't really remember what happened during our set because I like to tune out the world so I can tune in our songs and really get inside the worlds in them but I do remember that during "Rivolta Silenziosa" our last song of the set, when I handed out drumsticks for the "YouBangies" to the first few rows of people facing the stage. They hopped on immediately smashing and crashing their way through the song. It was perfect. Good Job folks!

Players:
M@McNiss, Courtenay Vandiver, Nathan Greenslit, Paul Dilley, Nathan Cohen, Brian King, me and the first few rows of the audience.

* Each night's winner moves on to the semi-finals the following weekend, with two wildcard bands rounding out the top 8. The two semi-final winners are joined by one wildcard band for the final round the week after that. A special guest, usually a national touring band, headlines the finals while the judges come to their final decision.

packing up
Photo by JohnnyBurma
Harpers Ferry, Boston, M.A.
Click here to see the whole photoset from JohnnyBurma for that night.

Photo by Johnny Arguedas
Harpers Ferry, Boston, M.A.
Click here and also here to see the whole photoset from Johnny Arguedas for that night.

Boston Herald gives a "nod" to HUMANWINE twice today

2008-04-04T14:32:00.002-04:00

Rumble Odds - This is an article by Jed Gottlieb about his opinion on who’s gonna take the tiara at the 30th Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble

WBCN’s Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble is still kicking - This is an article by Jed Gottlieb about the ghost of rumbles past. HUMANWINE is not mentioned in the article but they used our picture so we wanted to tell you about it.

Go to our "Rumble Coverage Site" to check out the dates we’re playing and find out what the hell this Rumble thing is all about and why we’re doing it.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

-HUMANWINE

5PR1NG 7R4N5M15510N

2008-03-25T18:09:00.000-04:00

Translated literally, equinox comes from the Latin language - "equi" meaning "equal", and "nox" meaning "night". Because the sun is positioned above the equator, day and night are about equal in length all over the world during the equinoxes.

Speaking of nights and calendars, we have some nights for you to mark on your calendars.

We were invited to be in the 30th Annual Rock 'n' Roll Rumble, on April 8th @ Harpers Ferry (Allston, MA)

May 3rd is our "Come Over Here Series" show @ Great Scott (Allston, MA)

Our very own Holly Brewer has been nominated by The FNX Best Music Poll for - Local Female Vocalist
Voting ends April 4th! You can vote for Holly here
We also encourage you to "write-in" HUMANWINE for all the other applicable categories.

Now on with the 7R4N5M15510N!

Click the banner above to visit "Rumble Coverage with a HUMANWINE Slant"
NRR's comprehensive User's Guide to the 30th Annual WBCN Rock 'N' Roll Rumble.

Preliminary Round for HUMANWINE is Tuesday April 8th
Dirt Mall 9:00pm - 9:30pm The Shills 9:50pm - 10:20pm HUMANWINE 10:40pm - 11:10 pm The Murder Mile 11:30pm - 12:00am Harpers Ferry 158 Brighton Avenue Allston, MA [617] 254-9743 All shows are 18+ with 8pm doors	Tix for Round I go on sale March 7th @ harpersferryboston.com You can also pick 'em up at Harpers Ferry's Box Office or @ the door. Tix by phone 1-800-594-TIXX Mon. - Thurs.: 9AM - 12AM & Fri.: 9AM - 8PM Round I tix are $10 Round II tix are $12 Round III tix are $15

Click the Flyer to Enlarge

The "Come Over Here" Series
brought to you by HUMANWINE
We get to bring our favorite bands to Boston!
HUMANWINE will perform for you a full 2 hour set including material from "Fighting Naked" and we'll be testing out new songs for our upcoming album. We also get to bring two of our favorite bands from Chicago and Philadelphia.
We want you to see these bands live!
Drake
We Will Eat Rats To Survive

05/03/2008 @ Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave
(Corner of Harvard and Commonwealth)
Allston, Massachusetts 02134
Co$t: $9 Adv. $ Dos. / 21+

***Great Scott holds only 220 people.
YOU have the first opportunity to buy tickets***
Special Event:
A Scavenger Hunt for "The World's Wisest TinyTV"
In honor of "T.V. Turn Off Week (April 21-27)

Holly Brewer has been nominated by the FNX Best Music Poll 2008
for Best Local Female Vocalist!

This is the second time Holly has been nomintaed for anything and it would be really neat-o if she won. You can help her by voting here or by visiting the address below.

www.thephoenix.com/BMP/Boston

-YerYerOwn Dimpled-Chad

The Recycled Movement is coming along:
Working on Bus #13 (a.k.a. The Beast)

Achievements / Goals

Adopt-A-Tire generated $1,545.00 during Jan/Feb. We Bought 4 out of the 6 tires we need.
GOAL #1: To raise $788.00 by the end of April for the remaining 2 tires.

GOAL #2: Prepare the bus to run off of Veggie Oil / Installation of 'clean' and 'dirty' tanks, filters and heating elements

With our trusty Engineer Al we will continue the fuel conversion this coming week.

Visit our Recycled Movement site to help.

Please take a moment to check it out and pass along the info to any of your friends who are interested in our mission. Every day we get closer to making this a success.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

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Fighting Naked and mp3s also available through iTunes, PayPlay, Tradebit,
GroupieTunes, MusicIsHere, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic & Napster as of March 6, 2008!

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Holly Brewer nominated for Local Female Vocalist Vote until 4/4

2008-03-18T15:13:00.004-04:00

Avast Comrades!
I was included in the nominees for this years FNX Best Music Poll with some very talented and wonderful strong female voices from Boston. I’m honored that they thought to include lil me in it. I’ve never won an award as a vocalist in my life I don’t assume this will be the first but it’s fun to try!
Below is a quick message of WHO and HOW. Thanks you for your unending support of HUMANWINE and what it is that we are working to accomplish!

Go to www.bestmusicpoll.com to begin voting. Voting Ends April 4th. While you’re there, check out the other music categories and vote for your local favorites if you don’t see HUMANWINE in there and you think we should be, give up a "Write in" and we’ll be like the green party. ( A good idea just not a popular one)

Below is what you will find @ the site...
Look they even spelled our name right!
(bonus points for FNX)

Vote for your favorite! You have 6 options to choose from. If you don’t like those, show us what’s really good by writing in your own. Once you’ve made a choice, remember to click SUBMIT and then move on to the next category.
Boston’s Best Female Vocalist

* Sarah Borges
* Holly Brewer (HUMANWINE)
* Casey Desmond
* Casey Dienel
* Antje Duvekot
* Marissa Nadler

Change is the only constant for Itchy Fish

2008-02-17T22:59:00.002-05:00

Malleable HUMANWINE embraces fluid lineup

photo by Max Cassidy beat to hell by Abrogated Munificents

The Boston Herald
By Barry Thompson
Saturday, February 16, 2008

To stand out in the ultracompetitive Boston music scene, a band must bring something extraordinary to the table or have a good gimmick. At a glance, HUMANWINE is an act that manages both. But scratch the surface and the gimmick reveals itself as a philosophy that encompasses music, art, politics and life itself.

Soon HUMANWINE won't be a Boston band: Plans call for a summer departure to, well, everywhere.

"Our goal is to keep moving and not stop, like a fish," said vocalist and co-songwriter Holly Brewer, sitting in a Jamaica Plain pub.

"We've been (in Boston) three years," Brewer said. "It wouldn't matter if it was France or Mozambique. I would still be itchy."

Having purchased a school bus, HUMANWINE, which plays tonight at the Middle East, is in the process of converting the engine to run on vegetable grease, the electrical systems to run on solar power and turning the interior into living quarters for two to seven people.

"We end up taking people with us," said Brewer. "If someone's like, 'I'm good at what I do, and I want to go to Oregon,' they tour with us to Oregon. We drop them off, and pick up somebody else. We're like a Greyhound, except you play music."

Naturally, a liquid roster necessitates liquid songs.

"Sometimes you can't get somebody who plays upright bass," said multi-instrumentalist M@ (as in Matt) McNiss. "So we're like, 'We don't have a bass player, so we'll have the piano supplement it.' Then it's, 'Well, that changes the orchestration of what we're doing.' "

HUMANWINE formed in New Hampshire in 2001. The group matches parabolic lyrics set in the metaphorical realm of Vinland with haunting, neo-classical-anarcho-math-punk. Band mates, rightfully, cringe at comparisons to the Dresden Dolls, not that they hold a grudge. Brian Viglione of the Dolls played drums on HUMANWINE's "Fighting Naked." To the band, labeling itself anything would be self-defeating.

"That's what art is, the connection with life in your medium," McNiss said. "If you're guarding it, saying, 'We're a blah blah band,' you're shorting yourself."

Odds are any band dedicated to artistic freedom won't last on a label, which explains why HUMANWINE split from Cordless Recordings last year. Aside from an anti-corporate, self-reliant ethic, HUMANWINE does without boundaries.

"We like the sentence 'Change is the only constant,' " Brewer said. "Vinland changes, too. With the quilt of Vinland, every song is a patch. If you hold it a different way, each song shines differently."

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Pictures from 2/9 @ The Knitting Factory [NYC] by Lauren Goldberg

2008-02-14T15:42:00.006-05:00

Lauren Goldberg captured some great moments at The Knit. You can check them our HERE.

More Pictures of the bus are on their way. We're editing Part I of the Documentary now. It's bringing back the memories of JUST HOW COLD it was working outside all day and into the night in early February. Soon all this will be over and we can chase the sun until our skin falls off.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
-HUMANWINE

Radio interview WZBC 2/15 & 2/16 Show in Cambridge, MA 18+

2008-02-11T15:56:00.000-05:00

2/16 @ The Middle East [Downstairs] in Cambridge, MA
Saturday Night! / 18+!

02.16.08
Middle East Downstairs
472 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge MA 02139

[12a] Beat Circus
[11p] HUMANWINE
[10p] O'Death
[9p] Hallelujah the Hills

Purchase tix in advance by clicking the image below

11x17 flyer , 1/4 sized handbills

1. Print 1 copy
2. Make photocopies
3. Post them around town

More ways to help us promote are posted on our
street team page.

We got a bus!

2007-11-23T23:33:00.000-05:00

Avast Comrades. In late July 2007 we came up with the idea of HUMANWINE staying out on the road for a Perpetual Tour. Now it seems that we have taken the first step of our journey. The remaining steps of converting the engine to run off of waste vegetable oil, outfit it with enough solar panels and batteries to run the band, and fill the interior with home.

If all goes well, the bus will make it's first appearance at
this show.
We are so happy to announce that we will be overhauling the brake lines + tries next week. SAFETY FIRST! Here's is to the future!

LONG LIVE ART RAH! RAH!
holly & m@

HUMANWINE

Mass Exodus ep Review

June Shows coming up

6/9 HUMANWINE on WMBR 88.1 FM Pipeline!

Multi-Media Ep Release @ The Paradise 6/27!

These Seeds Become Trees

M4Y NEWZLETTER

Multi-Media Ep Release @ The Paradise 6/27!Expect a 2 hour set from HUMANWINE joined by Boston's proudly unconducted Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry

These Seeds Become Trees

Radio/Shows/Tix for Paradise on sale 2/28!

March 9th at 8:00pm HUMANWINE will be live on air

Wednesday March 18th @ Slim's

HUMANWINE is having a multi-media extravaganza @ The Paradise 6/27!

Communication!Inform! Reform! Empower!Community!

MAKE: television Episode 3: Steampunk

2 ALL AGES SHOWS COMING UP

Mobile site is available!

New HUMANWINE store is online!

Back by request some drink recipes hand picked by Abrogated Munificents

Recycled Movement

J4NU4RY NEWZ / SHOWZ

SHOWZ! SHOWZ! SHOWZ!

HUMANWINE in Oakland for the Winter: 533D5 M15510N

OKTOBER - NEWZLETTER

From Nervous Relatives Designs

Our Dreams Came True [recording available soon through HUMANWINE.org]

Pro-US Propaganda in Iraq

Avast Ye!

check this out:

Firms Awarded $300M for Pro-US Propaganda in Iraq

Sunday September 28 [[DIRECTIONS]]

This Sunday September 28DIRECTIONS to the Warehouse:

20 Rugg Road Allston ,MA 02134 [link]

T-Shirts

Heads Up

Values! Who needs 'em?

July 7R4N5M15510N

6/21 Show/ June 7R4N5M15510N

MAY 23: Climate Confluence Benefit in BOSTON

2 hour TV Turn Off Show/ Getting on my own nerves

TV Turn off week /Big show May 3rd

A funny story

Boston Herald gives a "nod" to HUMANWINE twice today

5PR1NG 7R4N5M15510N

Holly Brewer nominated for Local Female Vocalist Vote until 4/4

Change is the only constant for Itchy Fish

Malleable HUMANWINE embraces fluid lineup

Pictures from 2/9 @ The Knitting Factory [NYC] by Lauren Goldberg

Radio interview WZBC 2/15 & 2/16 Show in Cambridge, MA 18+

We got a bus!

Multi-Media Ep Release @ The Paradise 6/27!
Expect a 2 hour set from HUMANWINE joined by Boston's proudly unconducted Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry

Communication!
Inform! Reform! Empower!
Community!

This Sunday September 28
DIRECTIONS to the Warehouse: