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Pop With Brains Music & Art Series

poppin' brains one at a time

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POP WITH BRAINS 17
Friday September 26 @ The Rivoli
MUSIC
9:40-10:10 Idle Tigers
10:20-10:50 Alphabot
11:00-11:30 Boxes & Bags
11:40-12:10 Golden Girls
12:20-END Candy Coated Killahz
ART
MikeyMike Studios – fashion & photography
Devil Made Me Do It Clothing
Louise Ferguson - illustration
Asen - photography
Carl Heindl - photography
HOSTS
Bain & Bernard - comedy
POP WITH BRAINS 16
Friday July 25 @ The Rivoli
MUSIC

9:40-10:10 La Casa Muerte
10:20-10:50 Monsters of The Deep
11:00-11:30 Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah w/ Sloan's Patrick Pentland
11:40-12:10 Bird Week
12:20-END The Vestaloynes
ART
Smitten Kitten
ehmeglass
Louise Ferguson
Jimmy Chiale
POP WITH BRAINS 15
Friday May 23 @ The Rivoli
MUSIC
9:40-10:10 the schomberg fair
10:20-10:50 pink dead whale
11:00-11:30 the miles
11:40-12:10 invasions
12:20-END fox jaws
ART
sweetie pie press (crafts)
misanthrope speciality co. (unflattering portraits)
louise ferguson (live illustration)
willow dawson (printed ephemera)
safari couture (jewellery)
POP WITH BRAINS 14 @ The Rivoli
Friday March 21, 2008
MUSIC
9:40-10:40 idlers (newfoundland)
10:50 - 11:20 eden ants
11:30 - 12:00 opopo
12:10-END foxfire
ART
blindfive clothing
louise ferguson (live illustration)
kali clothing
shaun's staples (jewelery)
POP WITH BRAINS Vol.13
Friday January 25, 2008 @ The Rivoli
MUSIC
9:30-10:00 Sweethearts of the Revolution
10:10-10:40 The Black Rainbows
10:50-11:20 Eden Ants
11:30-12:00 The Craft Economy
12:10 - END Spookey Ruben
ART
louise ferguson (live illustration)
gillian rode accessories (jewelery)
eLLIPTIC clothing company
tara krebs (painting) www.tarakrebs.com
MUSIC of 2007:
neighborhood noise, black hat brigade, eden ants, five blank pages, zuku, trophy, stirling, the outfit, the pariahs, modernboys moderngirls, my shaky jane, germans, the dunes, shortwave, the amber room, danielle duval, fjord rowboat, stop die resuscitate, spiral beach, comic book fever, action makes, gryffen, sidharta.
ART of 2007:
kali clothing, louise ferguson (live illustration), sarah dupont (painting), 2mile jewelry, fraser young, susie love (jewelry), hayley by design (jewelry), soap scum (dirty soap art), marissa tamari (painting), marissa neave (photography), kill2birds (clothing & photobooth), jason deline (comedy), nikki mills (photography), chris locke (comedy), egr art, rock/paper/pixel.
POP WITH BRAINS Vol.12
Friday November 23
@ The Rivoli
MUSIC
9:40-10:10 neighborhood noise
10:20-10:50 black hat brigade
11:00-11:30 eden ants
11:40-12:10 five blank pages
12:20-END zuku
ART
kali clothing
louise ferguson (illustration)
sarah dupont (painting)
2mile jewelry
HOST
fraser young (comedian)

POP WITH BRAINS 11
Thursday Sept 20, 2007
@ The Rivoli (334 queen st.w.)

MUSIC:
9:30-10:00 trophy
10:10-10:40 stirling
10:50-11:20 eden ants
11:30-12:00 the outfit
12:10-(end) the pariahs
ART:
louise ferguson (live illustration)
susie love (jewelry)
hayley by design (jewelry)
soap scum (dirty soap art)
HOST:
levi macdougall (comedy)
..
POP WITH BRAINS 10
Friday July 20, 2007
@ The Rivoli (334 queen st.w.)
MUSIC
9:50-10:20 modernboys moderngirls
10:30-11:00 oh! the pretty things
11:10-11:40 eden ants
11:50-12:20 germans
12:30-(end) the dunes
ART
marissa tamari (painting)
marissa neave (photography)
kill2birds (clothing & photobooth)
louise ferguson (live illustration)
HOST
Jason Deline (comedy)
POP WITH BRAINS is a bi-monthly event @ The Rivoli (334 Queen St.W) celebrating Toronto's best indie bands and D.I.Y. artists. Proceeds raised at POP WITH BRAINS are donated to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - www.camh.net.
In its first 2 years, POP WITH BRAINS has already showcased hot local & national acts like born ruffians (XL records), stop die resuscitate, the dunes (curve music), spiral beach, comic book fever, the yoko casionos (universal), five blank pages, the outfit, zuku, debaser, germans (arena rock), the carps (urbnet), cities in dust (paperbag records), stirling, october guard, modernboys moderngirls, now yr taken, my shaky jane, tin bangs, the disraelis, crystal castles, eden ants & many more (see below) while raising some decent charity scratch for CAMH. POP WITH BRAINS is now accepting international acts.
POP WITH BRAINS 9
Friday May 18, 2007
@ The Rivoli (334 queen st.w.)

MUSIC
10:00-10:30 shortwave
10:40-11:10 eden ants
11:20-11:50 the amber room
12:00-12:30 danielle duval (montreal)
ART
louise ferguson (illustration)
kill2birds (clothing)
shawn mckenzie (painting)
susie love (jewellery)
POP WITH BRAINS 8
Friday March 23, 2007
@ The Rivoli (334 queen st.w.)

MUSIC
9:40-10:20 fjord rowboat
10:30-11:10 eden ants *ep release*
11:20 - 12:00 stop die resuscitate
12:10-12:50 spiral beach
ART
louise ferguson (illustration)
nikki mills (photography)
sarah dupont (painting)
HOST
chris locke (comedy)
MUSIC of 2006: the 6ixty 8ights, debaser, eden ants, leviride, the hundreds and thousands, the disraelis, the yoko casionos, born ruffians, stirling, lipstick machine, cold dead hands, the greenbelt collective, the outfit, cities in dust, the carps, october guard, crystal castles, now yr taken, the monument works, tin bangs, dirty originals, track dirtyaz, clydesdale, graphisme, & comic book fever!
ART of 2006: aviation blonde jewellery, drunk girl comics, louise ferguson (illustration), kill 2 birds clothing, nicole kai (photography), david dineen-porter (host), carla bertin (photography), robin luoma (painting & tv installation), jared sales (comedian), doc pickles (host), we kill you (live installation), sonya surbek (photography), maria waye (illustration), rachel ann lindsay (illustration), sarah dupont (painting), my missing pet (clothing), paddy jane (photography), & sean ward (host).
FUTURE EVENTS:
POP WITH BRAINS 18 - Fri Nov 21 2008
POP WITH BRAINS 19 - Fri Jan 23 2009
POP WITH BRAINS 20 - Fri Mar 20 2009
POP WITH BRAINS 21 - Fri May 22 2009
POP WITH BRAINS 22 - Fri July 24 2009
POP WITH BRAINS 23 - Fri Sept 25 2009
POP WITH BRAINS 24 - Fri Nov 20 2009
POP WITH BRAINS is Adymm Ender & Vee Bloom.

My Interests

Stickin' it to the "S.R.G. Society" (you know who you are) + subversiveness + kicking the doors down + ART United.

I'd like to meet:


If you are a band, musician, singer/songwriter, experimental composer, painter, dj, film-maker, mc, comedian, magician, poet, craftisan, or an "intelligent" artist of any sort & wanna be part of POP WITH BRAINS, just send us a shout.

Heroes:

David Bowie + Jarvis Cocker + Kurt Vonnegut + Leonard Cohen + Lou Reed + Mom + ancient Egyptians + WW veterans + Les Paul + The Suffragettes + Jim Morrison + Robert Johnson + Ludwig Van Beethoven + Dave Chapelle + "The Rockness Monster" McKay + Marlene Dietrich + Jonathan Richman + Dave Gahan + birds that sing in the early morning + Pablo Picasso + Philip K. Dick + Angela Carter + Prometheus + James Hetfield + ee cummings + Steve McCaffery + Tristan Tzara + Andre Breton + Steven Tyler + Bob Marley + Special Olympians + Conan O'Brien + Bob Dylan + Edith Piaf + Dave Mustaine + Richard Hell + claustrophobic astronauts + Salvador Dali + Martin Luther King + Guy Debord + Mick Ronson + Howard Carter + Mark Plati + The Nine Muses + Joe Strummer + Judy Garland + Spiderman + Don Wright + Wolves + Lancelot + Bacchus god of wine and song.

My Blog

POP WITH BRAINS 10 Press

Hey All.Press from POP WITH BRAINS 10 - our best party yet:blogTO with oh! the pretty thingshttp://www.blogto.com/music/2007/07/call_response_oh_t he_pretty_things/ blogTO with the duneshttp://www.blo...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:28:00 PST

blogTO @ PWB 9

Brains, the Secret Ingredientby Kevin - www.blogTO.com"It's dark and buzzing at the Rivoli back room. Things have heated up enough that the ceiling fans look like they could tear off. Danielle Duval i...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:17:00 PST

POP WITH BRAINS #8

Hey All.Just wanted to send out a very late THANK YOU to all the people that came to POP WITH BRAINS #8 and made us reach capacity! Wow. Eden Ants cd release ruled, as did sets from Fjord Rowboat, Sto...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:12:00 PST

Yoko Casionos on PWB 5

From The Yoko Casionos' tour diary (on national tour with Sloan): "Well I'll ellaborate a bit on the Rivoli show which was the venue we got re -routed to as the Kool Haus show was cancelled. Th...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:10:00 PST

Pop With Brains Vol.2 Report

Hey Pop With Brainers.Whoa what a ride last night was. After getting all the amazing artwork up on the walls and checking all the bands, I played the waiting game. Last night, like every night in Toro...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:56:00 PST

UKULA Recommends: Pop With Brains Vol 2

The nice folks at UKULA had this to say: "The gents in Eden Ants are very able promoters, and they're following up the success of their first Pop With Brains showcase with Volume 2 this Thursday nigh...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:20:00 PST

Pop with Brains Vol.1 a SMASH!

Hey Pop with Brainers. Wow! What a smash! The premiere Pop with Brains had a massive turnout of 200+, amazing bands, great vibes, and top quality art on display! I had high expectations but they were...
Posted by Pop With Brains Music & Art Series on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:57:00 PST