Ghost Ghost

“Make room on your 2010 top ten list”

karl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:12:11 +0000

The new music blog Bandsoup just wrote a stunning review of No Clothes on Ragged Island. Aside from putting us in the context of several classic rock bands too daunting to mention, they wrote “Full of beautiful folk arrangements, haunting vocals, and picturesque poetics, No Clothes on Ragged Island is this year’s best kept secret.” Also, “Make room on your 2010 top ten list, it’s almost frightening what Ghost Ghost has accomplished.” Thanks, Bandsoup, we like you too.

The Rock Shop, 8/21

karl — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:41:23 +0000

Ghost Ghost will be playing this Saturday night, August 21, at The Rock Shop, a brand new Brooklyn music venue in Park Slope. We will be sharing the stage with Apollo Run and Laarks. Come out to enjoy our “killer rhythm section and dark lyrical sensibility” (Lucid Culture), see our “erratic stage antics” (NY Press) and hear our “raw, mellow, dissonant alt-rock sound” (Knocks From Underground). Somehow this started sounding like a Zagat review. Come to the show. We will love you for it. The Rock Shop is located at 249 4th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8:30 PM, 21+, $10. Facebook event here

CMJ Music Marathon 2010

karl — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:35:02 +0000

Ghost Ghost has been selected to showcase in the CMJ Music Marathon in October! It’s a big deal! We will probably bake a cake! Details to come! Thanks!

Make Music New York 2010

karl — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:02:19 +0000

Monday, June 21, 6 PM, at Public Assembly: Make Music New York is a FREE outdoor music festival spread across the entire city on the first day of summer each year. This is our second year playing the festival, and this year we are playing at Public Assembly at 70 North 6th St in Williamsburg. Enjoy the great weather with us, sunny and perfect for enjoying the free music that will be pouring out of every window and sidewalk in New York today. Facebook event here.

Ghost Ghost in NY Press

karl — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:03:45 +0000

New York Press had some great things to say about us in their new profile on Ghost Ghost. The article highlights No Clothes on Ragged Island, calling it “fresh, enthusiastic and a credit to how passionately the band approached the challenge of portraying Millay’s life.”

We can’t help it if the thump of Tim’s bass drum knocks over drinks, and we can’t help it if we start every conversation with a Kurt Vonnegut reference. That’s just the way we do things. But thanks, New York Press, your next drink is on us.

Millay and Ghost Ghost in the news

karl — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:24:03 +0000

Rural Intelligence just ran an article about Millay, mentioning our record No Clothes on Ragged Island. It also mentions that we are set to perform the album at Millay’s home at the Millay Society’s opening gala, though that show is postponed until October.

Land on the Moon Tonight

karl — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:47:11 +0000

Tonight, June 10, 10:30, at Lit Lounge: Tonight we are celebrating 2 years of live shows with our 60th show! (We played our first-ever show on June 7, 2008). There will be $3 drink specials to celebrate this fact. Also, free boxer/pug puppies provided to all who attend and your own commemorative life-size Apollo moon lander, perfect for your lawn or playground. Live experimental video by Tim Bartlett, faster-than-believable live painting by Charlie Kemmerer. Doors open at 8:30 PM, we take the stage at 10:30. Lit Lounge is located on Tranquility Base on the Moon, or at 93 Second Avenue in the East Village. $6, 21+, free puppies. Program for the evening here. Facebook event here.

Review of Time is Gravity

karl — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:17:44 +0000

We recently discovered another glowing review of our first EP from Knocks from the Underground, comparing us to a band of warriors in a Super Nintendo game, saying “These guys are a spectacular combination of artists,” and generally making us feel warm all over. Give it a read. Time is Gravity is available at the Ghost Ghost store, and everywhere else.

Lit Lounge Thursday

karl — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:15:30 +0000

Thursday June 10, 10:30, Lit Lounge: Ghost Ghost, the NYC band and secret shadow government organization, turns 2000 years old this Thursday night. Help us honor ourselves in the traditional way, by attending our fake moon landing re-enactment, secret induction ceremony, end-of-time blow-out bash, and Tupperware party at Lit Lounge with celebrity guests Jean Luc Picard, Jacques Lacan AKA Chaka Khan, Joan of Arc, the word’s largest prairie dog, and special guest of honor renowned sixteenth century astronomer and all-around ladies’ man Tycho Brahe.

Highlights of Thursday night’s program include an all-male, all zombie, revue featuring the recently undead Gary Coleman, and the very nearly undead former CEO of the United States Dick Cheney.

Lit Lounge is located on top of an ancient burial ground at 93 Second Avenue in the East Village. Bring your own sacred shroud, carving implements will be provided for those who wish to record the event on stone tablets. The price for predestined election is $6 at the door. Cult admission will only be awarded to applicants who are 21 years of age and older. Doors will open of their own accord at 8 PM. The apocalypse will start promptly at 9 PM. All paranoiacs will be subject to search — you know we know who you are. Our staff of psychics will RSVP for you. Time traveling attendees must pay in advance and there will be no refunds given to those who vanish from the time-space continuum completely after accidentally preventing their own birth.

With Degreaser, Queen Mab, and Intergalactic Fighters. Facebook event here.

Ghost Ghost not implicated in Shrek recall

karl — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:32:44 +0000

Neither Ghost Ghost nor any affiliated acts (Charlie Kemmerer, Tim Bartlett, Mark Christensen) have been implicated in the recent recall of twelve million “Shrek Forever After” promotional glasses due to unsafe levels of cadmium in the product. Yahoo News reports that cadmium in drinking glasses is dangerous, but this 2009 video of Charlie painting in cadmium red has been cleared by the FDA for safe consumption–at least according to this World News Network article.