In the short space of 16 hours...

various members of the family were dressed as cops beating up Tereu Tereu's Ryan Little during People of the Sun's Run for Cover set:



And early the next afternoon Cephalopods played the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Luce Center (these videos won't embed for some reason) with special guest 'pod Liz Bennett:

Porque Llorax

The Holly & the Ivy

Lady K

In other news, Hume spent much of the summer writing and recording a new album with Hugh kicking off the first 2 weeks of engineering. They're on tour right now and you can get all their info here.

Cephalopods play Everlasting Life with Silo Halo and friends on Aug. 19th. More info soon.

Make it in the shade,
Ruffians

Cephalopods play at Smithsonian Museum of American Art THIS Sunday afternoon July 31st

Hello all,



Cephalopods will be playing an acoustic set at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Luce Center this Sunday, July 31st. The event, part of the Luce Center's Art and Coffee and Luce Unplugged series, begins at 1:30 with a talk on William Alvin Blayney’s Mural No. GU-43752.

The event is free and open to all ages.

We will play at 2. We are really psyched about the art talk as well as a set made up of Cephalopods originals, Sephardic ballads, Hungarian folk songs, and assorted other goodies.

For more info see the museum's page here.

Looking forward to see you there,
Cephalopods

CLITFEST Press Release

Ruffian has always been keenly interested in supporting sexual and gender identity equality and we love the work that H.I.P.S. does. So we are passing along press info about an exciting event happening in July in DC. There are some notices about events that have already happened in it but it's still worth being hip to the event, which I am sorry I'm missing.

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Help Support Safer Sex and Promote Women in the Arts!

Combating Latent Inequality Together Festival is now in its 7^th year, and will take place in Washington, D.C. on the weekend of July 8^th. It will be a three-day event combining music and education to promote women's involvement in the arts. We aim to stimulate conversation between folks of all backgrounds, ages, abilities, ethnicities, and genders. We aim to raise consciousness and to build a community wherein people of all genders are supported and empowered. All proceeds from this year’s fest go towards H.I.P.S..

HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) was founded in 1993 by a coalition of service providers, advocates, and law enforcement officials as an outreach and referral service. HIPS mission is to assist female, male, and transgender individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives. Utilizing a harm reduction model, HIPS’ programs strive to address the impact that HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination, poverty, violence and drug use have on the lives of sex workers. HIPS is a nationally recognized organization that meets the needs of sex workers and assists them in their efforts to eliminate the transmission of HIV, increase sexual health, and reduce violence and harm associated with sex work and drug use. HIPS programs serve an estimated 2,000 sex workers a year on the streets and in the organization’s drop-in center, providing a full spectrum of programs to address basic & immediate needs, long-term goal setting and life skills development.

Budget cuts in public health have forced H.I.P.S.

to downsize significantly. They need your help!

Go to www.hips.org to make a donation.

The C.L.I.T.Fest benefit series will help the fest cover its costs.

Look out for the following events around town:

3/31: Don't Need You screening at Red Emma's in Baltimore
4/3: Pharmacy Bar local business raffle

(with drink specials and items including tattoos, merchandise from Smash & local art!)
4/9: Babes & Brews

(homebrew party featuring beer by A Brewing Problem; space TBD)
4/13: Dischord: An Impression, Don't Need You, and Beyond the Screams screening

at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan, $7

in May/June: keep your eyes out for...
bake sale & tabling with Positive Force in June to support Planned Parenthood
self-defense training
screenings of AfroPunk and Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Other ways to help the cause: volunteer time to the CLITFest card at the Maryland Food Co-op to help feed the presenters and bands! Host a benefit of your own, promote our events, check http://clitfestdc.tumblr.com and "like" us on Facebook. Check out our online store (coming soon!) to see all our wares!

Need more info? Have an idea? Hit us up on Facebook, or at:

clitfest-dc-2011@googlegroups.com

Help support local activism and women in the arts!

Phat Daughter String Quartet Live in Baltimore!

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CORRECTION: Cephalopods Rock it Collectively Saturday NOW AT LA CASA

Correction all,

The house show show on Saturday has been merged with the awesome Radio CPR benefit at La Casa on Saturday. Here are the new details:

The ridiculously awesome Radio CPR benefit show we'd planned for this Saturday, November 13, just rose to a new level of ridiculous awesomeness. We now have five bands to rock your world. They are -- in reverse order -- with notes!

S-PRCSS
(hypnotic post-punk, with a 90s dischord vibe. Reminds me of Lungfish with Wire or Gang of Four for a rhythm section)
Cephalopods
(ex-Black Eyes, Early Humans, Et At It)
The Eye the Ear the Arm
(electro-awesomeness from MA. ex-La Mia Vita Violenta)
America Hearts
(stripped-down indie pop, catchy and sweet. Reminds me of the Breeders, with the grunge scoured off).
Fell Types
(early 90s style indie rock, riffs-a-plenty. Reminds me Dinosaur Jr. without the solos).

I imagine this show will rule. It will also be chock full of human bodies. Come out and listen. Doors at 6:00, sets are short, we'll be over by 11:00 as per usual. $5 cover benefits Radio CPR. La Casa is at 3166 Mt. Pleasant St. NW, WDC. A few blocks from the Columbia Heights metro on the green line. Spread the word.


Just dropping a line about two Ruffian-related shows coming up this week.

First up Hugh McElroy is playing a solo set on Thursday with Tereu Tereu, Conductive Alliance, and Listen Listen. Hugh's set will be mostly solo a capella with odd bits of samples and tape-based effects. Tereu Tereu killed it at the Positive Force Punk Rock Flea Market on Saturday and is sure not to disappoint.

Then, on Saturday, Cephalopods is playing at the MVB with Tidelands, Good Offices, and The Eye, The Ear, The Arm. The Eye, The Ear, The Arm features members of Ruffian band La Mi Vida Violenta fresh off some recording and with a new line-up. Hugh saw Good Offices at their first show in September and was impressed. NOTE: This show was going to be moved up to not conflict with the La Casa show the same night but it couldn't be worked out sadly. Both shows will be awesome, so don't sweat which one you go to.

Details below:


11/11 - Tereu Tereu, Conductive Alliance, Hugh McElroy, Listen Listen
@ Everlasting Life 8:30pm $5
2928 Georgia Ave NW


11/13 - The Ear, The Eye & The Arm, Cephalopods, Good Offices + TBA
@ The MVB 7pm
two nine one eight Sherman Ave NW

Hope to see you there,

Ruffians

Cephalopods on- and off-line

Hello all,

Just a quick update: Cephalopods played a short set on August 14th at the Black Cat with The Plums and it all went fine. Mike over at Dead City DIY filmed some of the set and posted it here.

You'll notice only two of the three 'pods are in it, though. Wells, our drummer, was experiencing severe back pain that week and had to sit the show out. We're still working on music as he recovers from surgery. All's well, he'll be back behind the kit soon, but we'll be using the recovery time to try out some new instrumentation, arrangements, and ideas as well. We'll keep you posted on plans as we make them.

Hugh

Cephalopods at Black Cat this Friday

Cephalopods will be playing this Saturday as part of the Black Cat's Second Saturdays series and we have the honor of playing with The Plums. For those who don't know, Cephalopods is Hugh McElroy, Fiona Griffin, and Wells Bennett. If you saw us at Fort Reno with the Evens last Monday, you get the idea, though we will be playing a very different set for this show. We'd love to see you there.

The show is early, 8pm! So if you want to go dancing upstairs at Mousetrap, downstairs at Nevermind the 90s, or over at the 9:30 clubs back bar for Zack (The New Gay) Rosen's Transformer rock party, you can do those things, or anything else, after.

Cephalopods and the Plums
8pm Black Cat Backstage
All Ages
$8