New York alternative music duo, Die! Die! My Darling!, will make a special appearance on Jeremy X. Halpern's weekly music show aired on www.Weirdos.TV. Katie MaDonna Lee and Louis Jordan of Die! Die! My Darling! will join composer and producer Jeremy X. Halpern for a jam session at Halpern's Williamsburg studio on Tuesday April 6, 2010.
Weirdos.TV Music Show: Unsuspecting musicians and other talented individuals will be lured into the depths of Williamsburg, to the underground laboratory known as "heddroom", where Jeremy X. has been cooking up his latest mayhem. They'll be induced to improvise with the Head Weirdo, co-mingling their musical ideas and riffing in the universal language of groove. Nonsensical interviews with the participants will result in little information, and lots of fun. The spirit of psychedelia will ooze through the room as the jam is broadcast live to http://www.Weirdos.TV
Viewers watching live on the web will be treated to multiple camera shots of the performance, mutated through the power of the Weirdos.TV video processing. They can even call in to 800-934-7367 to join in the jam!
Jeremy X. Halpern (Founder) is also the sole proprietor of 1-800-Weirdos. He founded Verge as a multimedia performance group in 1987; they performed their first gig at CBGBs in 1988. At 1-800-Weirdos, he performs a LIVE interactive musical reality Internet TV show EVERY NIGHT at MIDNIGHT on http://www.Weirdos.TV. As an actor, he has performed on stage and in films and video including acclaimed Iranian director Amir Naderi's "Sound Barrier". As a theatre director, he has masterminded such bizarre epics as "Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret)" and "Battle of the Dead Celebs". As a composer, he has invented soundtracks for Verge, as well as having scored many short films. As an actor, he has worked with such notables as Anne Bogart, Jerzy Grotowski, and Eugenio Barba. He recently performed the NTUSA's highly acclaimed show, "Chautauqua!" in its return engagement at The Public Theatre for its "Under the Radar" festival.
Die! Die! My Darling! is a duo that reinterprets the work of such artists as Danzig, The Misfits, Sex Pistols, through the KML's improv piano pieces and Louis Jordan's lyrics. Based in New York City, these two traveled from a rust belt city in Indiana to bring you beautiful music and mischief. Expect to hear something new and pretty without hipster pretentiousness. For more info. go to: http://diediemydarling.yolasite.com/
Katie MaDonna Lee, born & raised in South Bend, Indiana, had the unusual childhood experience of growing up with two intense versions of Christianity, while by being raised by secular rock 'n roll parents. She spent her in early years adoring aerobics, E.T. and Evangelical religion. And in the tradition of unsupervised children with scissors, she had the early accomplishment of cutting off her cousin's earlobe. She grew up in a beauty salon that her Mother "Birdie" owned, and traveled with her Dad on road trips from Florida, to Texas. After attending the harsh public schools in South Bend, Indiana, Katie Madonna was accepted into Chicago Academy for the Arts as piano major and then graduated from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Even though she has an fun demeanor, her work addresses complex issues, mostly attempting to describe the rust belt city culture she grew up in. The gap rooted in economic status has shaped her perspective and made her committed to storytelling in an honest and raw form. Katie Madonna spent five years researching "Woman's Prison." At SVA, she won numerous awards including the Alumni Award, and is the recipient of the New York Women in Film & Television Award for her work on "Woman's Prison."
Louis Jordan is a writer, singer and actor who lives in New York City. He was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana around a great deal of factories, corn, books and VHS tapes. He escaped from the midwest to New York to find love and be a cross between John Keats and Sal Mineo. He is currently studying writing at The New School and singing in the band Die! Die! My Darling!.
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