Leverage Models

Upcoming 2013 Shows

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:32:59 -0400

May 24th - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY w/ Escort

June 2nd - Cake Shop, Manhattan, NY

June 14th - Northside Festival, Brooklyn Bowl, w/ Sinkane

June 27th - TBA

Aug 16th - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, w/ Medicine

Leverage Models are in the studio recording more work for second...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:23:49 -0500

Leverage Models are in the studio recording more work for second LP. Our first is being mixed. We’re playing a couple times in brooklyn soon, including this thursday at cameo. There is snow and bears. Also there is New Jack Swing and this, above.

Hometapes made this picture. it’s from a video that will...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:37:40 -0500

Hometapes made this picture. it’s from a video that will someday creep out of its cubicle. so i am told. we are playing two shows in the near future, both in Brooklyn:

Jan 31st, at Cameo Gallery, with Rumors and Cascading Slopes.

Feb 11th, at Glasslands, with Octo Octa, Test House, and Certain Creatures.

Two very good bills at two very good venues.

“The [1908] French study of false witness was also an...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:59:20 -0500

“The [1908] French study of false witness was also an attempt to get to the heart of a real past, to know the limits of memory and to define a historical reality by interpreting stories with a practiced skepticism…What the literature on scientific testimony demonstrated both deliberately and unwittingly was that juridical truth depended very much not only upon what was remembered, but upon who spoke and who was believed. The result was a multiplication of divided visions of reality…science against religion, expert against witness, child against adult, male against female, and public against private, each declaring in its own way to speak the truth.”

- “The Memory of the Modern”, Matt K Matsuda

Final mixing for debut LP…in progress this week. Brief break for a show at Muchmore’s in Brooklyn on Sat night. Commune at you later.

Photo

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:47:29 -0500

some people celebrate now, or can't spell, or argue about the fiscal cliff

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:07:00 -0500

Positively drowning in cinnamon candles and eggnog lattes as you may be, I’d like to share this with you:

“17th December, 1684. Early in the morning I went into St. James Park to see three Turkish or Asian horses, newly brought over, and now first shown to his Majesty. There were four, but one of them died at sea, being three weeks coming from Hamburg. They were taken from a Bashaw at the siege of Vienna, at the late famous raising that leaguer.

I never beheld so delicate a creature as one of them was, of somewhat a bright bay, two white feet, a blaze; such a head, eyes, ears, neck, breast, belly, haunches, legs, pasterns, and feet; in all regards, beautiful, and proportioned to admiration; spirited, proud, nimble, making halt, turning with that swiftness, and in so small a compass, as was admirable.

With all this so gentle and tractable as called to mind what I remembered Busbequius speaks of them, to the reproach of our grooms in Europe, who bring up their horses so churlishly, as makes most of them retain their ill habits. They trotted like does, as if they did not feel the ground”.

I have this record to mix but there is too much music in the world.

“Siphoning gas out of the gas tanks in the middle of the...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:39:16 -0500

“Siphoning gas out of the gas tanks in the middle of the night by folks obviously either in need of it or selling it for drugs is occurring…Our immediate neighbors knew we gone; they were all home, and heard and saw nothing in the night. Investigators also said that a second culprit could have been situated on another part of the street and text messaging the one who actually did the siphoning if a car was coming down the street. The technology of cell phones is another tool thieves use to do their work…Money is tight in many households. Home heating bills are climbing, people are out of work, and the kids are asking for anything and everything for Christmas…If people are supporting their drug use, they’ll do anything for money. My wife and I are blessed that gasoline is all that was taken. The dogs were safe and well cared for…Our hope is that whomever took the gas was hard pressed in this economy and needed the gasoline to get to work and not stay home and collect entitlement funds. We pray it was not used to buy addictive drugs.” - Bruce Watson, Turnpike Pennysaver (Richfield Springs, NY)

rhetorically and sensually. like Chief Marketing Officers,...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:18:50 -0500

rhetorically and sensually. like Chief Marketing Officers, sustainable ice cream, Werner Herzog, a coyote downed….

Video

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:05:00 -0500

recorded live in a records store in chicago called Saki. a 5 year old danced a lot. and a dog.

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:25:21 -0400

recorded live in a records store in chicago called Saki. a 5 year old danced a lot. and a dog. :

epitonic:

New today on Epitonic:

Leverage Models - “Tonight When I Burn” (Epitonic saki Session)
Leverage Models - “Playing With Models” (Epitonic saki Session)
Leverage Models - “Idiot Grace” (Epitonic saki Session)
Leverage Models - “Men of Certainty” (Epitonic saki Session)
Leverage Models -…

Video

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:07:46 -0400

High-pitched frequencies ghosting in your ears?

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:28:45 -0400

You are not alone…

“There were laws that regulated the length of swords, the...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:27:43 -0400

“There were laws that regulated the length of swords, the color of buttons, hair length, and materials used to make shoes. The goal was to keep society transparent and social station fixed. Always difficult to enforce, by the late sixteenth century sumptuary laws began to fall out of favor…their disappearance spelled the loss of clear, immediately discernible class and social boundaries, and a fear arose of novel social types: the ‘impostor’, the ‘dissembler’, and the ‘villain’, figures who dressed other than they were, who through disguise misinformed the public about who and what their intentions — and they — really were”.

— Sincerity, R. Jay Magill Jr. [Full title: “Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern are, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we ALL have something to say (no matter how dull)”

Certain Creatures remix Sweep! Insert many superlatives here praising quality of said musical transmutation.

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:18:29 -0400

Certain Creatures remix Sweep! Insert many superlatives here praising quality of said musical transmutation.

it was nice meeting you in june and july.

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:06:19 -0400

it was nice meeting you in june and july.

another song. this is called “Sweep”. I hope it...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:24:57 -0400

another song. this is called “Sweep”. I hope it reaches you where you live and bed down for the night.

Tour Update: lungs collapsed (3X), arms touched awkwardly (X47),...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:20:31 -0400

Tour Update: lungs collapsed (3X), arms touched awkwardly (X47), dancing (happens), spin (spun), reached (you), not (enough), sleep (comes infrequently), love (Xmany).

or go HERE

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:37:51 -0400

or go HERE

here’s a song. a single. first off debut lp. hope i see...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:36:51 -0400

here’s a song. a single. first off debut lp. hope i see you on the road or somewhere. or just that you like this song.

tomorrow brings: fuel expense, news of sick friends, goats, news of convalescing friends, yakking, weather, lypmh, excessive withdrawal,

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:52:55 -0400

and the first new songs from the debut Leverage Models LP.