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Javelin truly are Les Cousins Dangereux. We simply cannot wait for these two cousins to get here and grace us with their infectious patchwork of pop-samples and hip-hop beats. Come on out!

-JAVELIN-

Javelin is the creative endeavor of George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk, cousins from New England.

Javelin began making music in 2005 under the auspice of the Providence, RI art/noise scene. They wielded a mobile boombox soundsystem that used FM transmission to pump out pop-influenced sample collages, and their aesthetic aimed for surrealist block party in-a-box.

In 2008 they performed at MoMA's Poprally event and moved operations to Brooklyn. They quickly made a dent in the extensively musician-populated borough and were featured in Pitchfork's "Rising" section. Pitchfork also named "Vibrationz" Best New Track, and gave honorable mention to the self-released CD-R Jamz n Jemz in their Staff List 50 Best Albums of the Year (2009). Javelin released two 12" EPs on Thrill Jockey that were housed in dollar bin record sleeves and silkscreened with their name, actualizing the thrift store / dollar bin / sampled art aesthetic that had been their hallmark.

In 2010 Javelin signed to Luaka Bop, David Byrne's psychedelic world music label, who released their debut LP No Más. The album artwork and booklet featured spray painted record cover collages by Tom Van Buskirk. Javelin played shows and toured with Yeasayer, Sleigh Bells, Future Islands, Matt & Kim, Warpaint, Major Lazer, performing at Lollapalooza and The Whitney Museum, as well as parties across the US, Europe, and South America. They booked the flights themselves.

In 2011 Javelin joined up with a wagon train and headed West. The Kickstarter funded psychedelic cowboy short film Canyon Candy, directed by Mike Anderson, and the Canyon Candy EP (Luaka Bop), found Javelin exploring a junk store cowboy aesthetic. The project culminated in a multimedia art installation with Mike Anderson at the Clocktower Gallery in New York, which stayed up half the year into 2012.

-HARD NIPS-

Emi, Yoko, Mariko, and The Gooch are four Japanese girls who laugh and yell at each other all the time. About two years ago they harmonized their varied subconscious musical hauntings to form Hard Nips. The riff-heavy, post-punk anthems of Hard Nips coalesce from jabbing, overdriven guitar and bass lines, big straight beats, and Yoko’s prepubescent strainings. The band released their first record last year and have drawn increasing attention via their colorful and kinetic live performances.

-CHANCES WITH WOLVES (DJ SET)-

Our mission is to play the joints. Those songs which are haunting or beautiful or hauntingly beautiful or in someway beautifully haunting. An internety, radio-esque, show-like experience with your hosts Kray (of the Famous Rap group Iller Than Theirs), Visual artist, grand character, and all around junkman Kenan Juska (a/k/a DJ Kool Kear), and the infamous DJ Mikey Palms ( One of the founding fathers of Brooklyn's Southpaw music venue). Most of the songs are going to be mad old. But some of them wont.

Check out Chances With Wolves on East Village Radio Mondays from 4-6pm.