My good friends HUMANWINE are playing tomorrow, June 27th, 2009 at The Paradise in Boston.  Alas, I will not be able to attend but if you'd like to go for free all you need do is find a hidden Golden Ticket!

There's just over twenty-four hours left to find the hidden tickets for HUMANWINE's show tomorrow. Here are some links to get started...

http://www.humanwine.org/TheGoldenTicketHunt
http://vinland.ning.com/
http://www.humanwine.org/POBox/postcard2.png

Longtime visitors will recall meeting HUMANWINE in Make:TV Episode 103 - just skip ahead to 8:10 to see Holly and Matt and the band, no need to sit through that other guy.

Those masterful mavens of music promotion,
Bulloff and Brugh Present:

WAYFARERS OF THE GYPSY MANSION - a musical bazaar of sorts
with HUMANWINE, THE BLACKBIRD ORCHESTRA, NATHANIEL JOHNSTONE,
TOY BOX TRIO, MEISCE, FINN VON CLARET, and DJ Q.

Sunday, May 10, 2009 3 pm to 10 pm
The Little Red Studio
750 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA
ALL-AGES, $15 donation

Wearables, craftables, and edibles provided by a plethora of local and regional artisans. We will take a dinner break (with DJ) at 6:30 pm - please bring your own sack meal, a picnic to share, or food can be acquired from two of our vendors. Vegan options available. Adult beverages can be purchased by 21+ individuals.

Willow and Libby are justifiably excited about bringing HUMANWINE to Seattle! Friends from Sock Dreams will also be arriving from Portland to vend excellent foot/legwear.

Larger poster is here. Leave a comment here if you’d like to help out at the event or hang flyers–Libby has an 11×17 hi-res PDF in the wings for print-yr-own. Spread the word. All are welcome.

These are the times, my friends. And these are the days. Where the world becomes malleable, palpable. When novelty and genius are within our reach. We are cautioned against being passionate about these things by tales of progress turned to greed and of technology turning on us. And yet, the golden light is just right, the clocks are synchronizing, the stars are in alignment.

This is what we celebrate tonight. We celebrate these transient times, with these transient artists.

- c. lantz

[You may remember HUMANWINE from Make:TV Episode 103 which you can view after the cut - just skip ahead to 7:50, no need to sit through any of that other guy, again. This looks to be an absolutely AMAZING event and I desperately wish I could be there! - Jake]

"Dammit, I'm on the wrong coast" is becoming an almost constant refrain for this Boston based Steampunk!

However, all of my friends in San Francisco and Los Angeles will be on the right coast this March when that crew of drunken pilots and great friends of The Steampunk Workshop comes your town to play a couple of all ages shows!

But no matter where you are, if you've never heard their music before you owe it to yourself to go to The Abney Park Vault and have a listen!

Boston Favorites HUMANWINE are in town and you can hear them play!

• Saturday February 7th 8:30pm - The Mad Maggies CD Release Party: Pirates Delight

The Accordion Apocalypse
2626 Jennings St. San Francisco, CA 94124
Cost: $10 fer pirate, $15 for regular human

ALL AGES

Pirate’s Delight with: The Mad Maggies, Thee Hobo Gobbelins, Amazing Circus Acts! HUMANWINE will play a few pirate tunes during the evening.

• Tuesday February 24th 8:00pm - Mardis Gras @ The Hazmat Warehouse/Your Hauz

This show is in Oakland, CA
please write to: info@HUMANWINE.org for directions

Cost: $ donation -

ALL AGES

Mardis Gras with Thee Hobo Gobbelins, HUMANWINE and a slew of maniacs doing for you what we love to do.
Expect a St.James Infirmary that will tear your pounding heart out of your chest and lift it to the sky!

I met these folks when we taped the Make:TV piece and was absolutely blown away by their music and by the energy and vehemence with which they live their lives.  They are a personal inspiration.

Follow them on LiveJournal here!

I have legions of minions (both cybernetic and meatiform) so if you say 'steampunk' anywhere on the interwebs I'm liable to pop up in UR LJ or UR Flickr within hours.  Such was the case this morning when I discovered this marvellous machine built by banjo player Will Segerman for a musical group aptly named The Clockwork Quartet.

Will's Flickr stream is here (be sure to check out the Blunderbuss and Transparent Armour!) and if I were you I would sign up to the Clockwork Quartet's Facebook page. If these folks musicianship match Will's craftsmanship - they are going to be awesome indeed!

More pics after the cut!

Produced by Chicago Tribal Bellydance Troupe Read my Hips, this show looks like it was a lot of fun! 

I'm really excited that the fashions are not purely neo-Victorian, there is some definite punk in there as well as some middle Eastern influence.

Have a look at pictures from the event here and please note that some are NSFW.  XD

MTV has a piece on Steampunk that's a little different then we've seen before.  There's naturally a greater focus on music and fashion but the intarwebs get a mention too.

My only real criticism is that they didn't pick up on some of the more serious aspects having to do with sustainability and social change, but altogether not too bad even if they did misspell my name.

[Note: there are several videos strung together with commercials in between including vids of Dr. Steel and Abney Park]

On Saturday morning the inestimable Molly Friedrich dropped me a note with a link to an MP3.  I was entirely unprepared for the awesomeness that lay behind that link, Professor Auerbach's Attack of the Steampunks Rap:

Meeting the opposition like a hammer on an anvil
Conquering the culture like a visionary vandal

Buckle up your boots and adjust your brass goggles
Check the meter, pull the level
Activate the power toggles
Hold your head up high
Let your flag unfurl
The steam pressure power punks are taking over the world

The Professor asked me to note that the beats used are Creative Commons samples from Freesound.org and just in case here's an alternate source for Attack.

I'm not sure how to categorize these two - also, I'm not a music critic so I just don't have the language.  Think Squirrel Nut Zippers with some Goth influence.  It's neat stuff, old timey but with a nice edge.

Have a listen here

It is my understanding that they have been bitten hard by the Steampunk bug and that an upcoming release in aught-nine will contain a bit of mad science!

Captain Robert  of the band Abney Park talks to Rebecca Firth about their music and Steampunk in an Interview at YouFINDit.

[For some reason they've chosen to stream the mp3 with the horrible Micro$oft Media Server so if you can't listen from the above page, gank the mp3 from Here ]

Abney Park are true DIYers in every sense of the word and are all great friends of the Steampunk Workshop. We wish we were able to see them tonight at DragonCon!