Chef Menteur’s DOUBLE ALBUM release party with Microshards and Lonely Lonely Knights. At Siberia, March 31.

(note: Geisterfahrer will not be playing.)

See the Facebook event for more details.

As part of our campaign to raise awareness for our Kickstarter project (only 2 weeks left!), we’ll be playing one final gig at another really cool and unique location.

The show is next Friday, July 15th, at the Eiffel Society, the glass and iron building that rises above St. Charles Avenue like a steampunk UFO, and was apparently built from parts of the Eiffel Tower restaurant, relocated from Paris.

We’ll be playing in front of the epic film “Blade Runner,” which is based on the novel “Why Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick — a futuristic writer that’s been no small influence on our music.

Opening will be our friends in The Beams — a fun and lively power-punk band with echoes of the Pixies, Pavement, and Velvet Underground. We’d like to thank them for setting up this show with us!

This is an early show (8pm)… and it’s free. Thanks to everyone who’s supported our Kickstarter project to release the new album, and in advance to those of you who are about to. We’re getting down to the wire, please share the link with your friends!

This is the last gig to raise awareness for our Kickstarter campaign. Don’t forget to check it out, pledge, and tell your friends!

Chef Menteur will be opening for Cloudland Canyon and White Hills on Thursday, April 28.

Also playing will be Pontiak. All four bands specialize in different flavors of contemporary heavy psychedelic music; although Chef Menteur and Cloudland Canyon come from more electronic beginnings.

Siberia is the venue. If you haven’t been there yet it’s at 2227 St. Claude Ave., near the Hi-Ho.

White Hills and Pontiak are on Thrill Jockey and Cloudland Canyon were formerly on Kranky and are now on Holy Mountain. All three of these bands will be playing the Austin Psych Fest on Saturday April 30.

Shout out to Nick  for putting this together.

More info available at backporchrevolution.com

Archipelago is Backporch Revolution’s improvisational folk/drone large ensemble that features many experimental New Orleans musicians.

Sir Richard Bishop is known best for his work with Sun City Girls, but has also had a remarkable solo career as a guitar stylist/virtuoso and world traveler. This will be the first tour he’s played with a full band.

Also playing will be Oakland noise outfit Oaxacan.

The show starts at 10pm, at the All Ways Lounge in New Orleans. See Backporch Revolution for address and more details.

A Living Soundtrack (New Orleans) could be one of the best live electronic bands in the country and a must-see for anyone who thinks they know what the New Orleans music scene is all about. “There’s a new sound bubbling out of New Orleans and it doesn’t sound funky. Will the Big Easy be the birthplace of the next decade of rock?” – Jambase.com alivingsoundtrack.com Douglas Ferguson (Austin, Texas) is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter. Douglas improvises and scores with a combination of homemade electronics, fx pedals, synthesizers, and acoustic instruments to create sound installations, textural soundscapes, and soundtracks. Douglas has performed solo as well as in the following bands: Necessity, O.U.C.H., Study Partners, the Austin Theremonic Orchestra, EList of Likes, Lunar Death, Tetrahedon, Ejouto Dynamato, Buckle, Book of Shadows, ST37, Primordial Undermind, Rest Area, Venison Whirled, and Laundry Room Squenchers. http://www.douglasferguson.us Chef Menteur (New Orleans) has been confounding people’s expectations since they put a monkey in the oval office. Ot-of-phasey psychedelic drifters recently nominated for best local electronic rock act. “Sounds like an instrumental version of Kashmir as performed by Gary Numan” –Aural Innovations. The live lineup of Alec Vance, Dan Haugh, and Brian Abbott with Mike Mayfield may surprise those who last saw the band play live a year ago. http://www.chefmenteur.org Rat Bastard (Miami): Multi-beer drinking, producer and hoo-ha guitarist by way of Laundry Room Squelchers, To Live and Shave in LA and Scraping Teeth —”Worst Band in America”. spnlss a.k.a Jon Cohrs (Brooklyn) is a visual/sound artist who recently migrated from Portland (where he worked at Jackpot!), runs a recording business named after his missing spleen, and works for Laurie Anderson.For more info: http://www.backporchrevolution.com/shows.php