grudge match wed Feb 17th

Posted on | February 15, 2010 | No Comments

Comedians and musicians battle it out for your hearts at Grudge Match: Music vs. Comedy!

Each month Joe Yoga and team Music take on John Murdock and team Comedy in a hilarious, engaging, and provocative showcase of the fucked-up and the fucking amazing. At the end the audience votes, the winners get the trophy and the glory and the losers get shamed, and somehow have to face themselves in the morning.

Next show!
Wednesday Feb 17, 2010
8pm-10pm
Marfa Music @ Lucky Cheng’s
24 First Ave @ 2nd St (F to 2nd ave)
FREE SHOW

special post-Valentine’s Day “Love vs. Hate” edition

Music by
Joe Yoga www.goyogago.com
Kill the Band www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rd_YpBZnrY
Beezy Douglas www.bzdug.com

Comedy by
John Murdock (Frigid Festival NY, Time Out NY, Playgirl, FHM)
John Knefel (Huffington Post, TrueSlant, The Onion)
Jen Perney www.youtube.com/user/plath80

Hosted by Mo Diggs

Free Chips and Salsa!

Bookface event, if that’s how you roll http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=299546544124

Kill the band

Posted on | January 17, 2010 | No Comments

Kill the band, motherfuckers! KILL THE BAND @ FRIGID New York with Horse Trade Theater Group this February/March! KILL THE BAND IS THE ORIGINAL, COMEDY ROCK AND ROLL, ANTI-CABARET! We are going to fuck your faces off!

Things are happening fast so we’re going to jump all over this shit. Catch us on our facebook fanpage to keep up with all the joneses! Feel alive baby! Do it!


COINCIDING WITH THE RELEASE OF THEIR FIRST ALBUM, this unpredictable, unforgettable, outrageously funny musical experience is both the band’s breakdown and breakthrough…. Part Lucille Ball on her 3rd bottle of 5 Hour Power, part Meatloaf, sexy with a side of silly… KILL THE BAND takes you on a cleverly comedic trip and performs original songs from various musical genres in this balls-to-the-wall, multi-media, performance art piece. Escape the normal, punch average in the face, burn your self help books on tape and catch the thrill that is KILL THE BAND!

fuck you, Jay Leno

Posted on | January 12, 2010 | No Comments

fuck you, Jay Leno, you suck. you are:

* a dirtbag

* pathetic

* not funny

* a selfish, sore loser

* an asshole

* a whore

Jay Leno, you entitled prick, you gave up the Tonight Show and then whined and schemed and stabbed Conan in the back (just like you stabbed Letterman in the back) to get your way. I hope someone beats you with a stick.

gigs

Posted on | January 11, 2010 | No Comments

WINTER TOUR! for info on any of these gigs email me at joeyoga [at] yahoo d o t c o m

gigs marked with an asterisk (*) are part of the FRIGID FESTIVAL. See www.horsetrade.info for more information!!

1/12: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
1/13: w/Kill The Band at Shea Stadium, Brooklyn 9pm
1/19: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
1/20: Grudge Match: Music vs Comedy @ Marfa Music 8pm
1/23: solo acoustic @ BZ’s party @ the Compound, Brooklyn 9pm
1/25: solo acoustic @ The Quay’s, Astoria (AMA Manic Mondays) 8pm
1/26: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
1/31: w/Kill the Band @ Otto’s Shrunken Head 10pm
2/2: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
2/4: God Tastes Like Chicken @ Under St. Mark’s Theater 10:30pm
2/9: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
2/16: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
2/17: Grudge Match: Music vs Comedy @ Marfa Music 8pm
2/23: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
2/24: Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag @ Under St. Mark’s 7:30 pm (*)
2/24: Kill the Band @ Under St. Mark’s 10:30pm (*)
2/26: Kill the Band @ Under St. Mark’s 10:30pm (*)
2/27: Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag @ Under St. Mark’s 8:30 pm (*)
3/2: Kill the Band @ Under St. Mark’s 7:30 (*)
3/2: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
3/4: Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag @ Under St. Mark’s 6:00 pm (*)
3/4: God Tastes Like Chicken @ Under St. Mark’s 10:30 pm
3/5: Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag @ Under St. Mark’s 10:30pm (*)
3/6: Kill the Band @ Under St. Mark’s 10:00pm (*)
3/7: Kill the Band @ Under St. Mark’s 4:00pm (*)
3/7: Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag @ Under St. Mark’s 7:00pm (*)
3/8: solo acoustic @ Alphabet Soup, Niagara, 9pm
3/9: Penny’s Open Mic @ Under St. Mark’s 9pm
3/17: Grudge Match: Music vs. Comedy @ Marfa Music 8pm

Grudge Match: Music vs. Comedy!

Posted on | January 9, 2010 | No Comments

Wednesday Jan 20, 2009
8pm-10pm
Marfa Music @ Lucky Cheng’s
24 First Ave @ 2nd St (F to 2nd ave)

We’re back!! Come witness the madness as Grudge Match returns to Marfa/Lucky Cheng’s! Comedians and musicians battle it out for your hearts! Winners go home with the trophy and the glory while the losers are taken out back and shamed, and somehow have to face themselves in the morning.

NB special comeback show has sick lineup!!

Music by Joe Yoga, Dustin Edge, Bamboo, Mike Milazzo
Comedy by John Murdock, Paulina Princess of Power, Princess Diandra, Molly Knefel

Hosted by Mo Diggs

**SHOW, AS ALWAYS, IS FREE**

an (a)muse collective production
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Facebook event, if that’s how you roll:
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Life Out east preview track #2: Easy rider

Posted on | January 9, 2010 | No Comments

again, this is a very rough mix. I will be adding harmonies on the chorus and probably an electric guitar solo (*coughmilazzocough*) where it sounds like there should be one.

but! new yoga album! new yoga album! again, comments on the song, mix, etc encouraged.

[right click and SAVE AS to download]

http://goyogago.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/easy-rider-2.mp3

new Joe Yoga album Life Out East coming Spring 2010!

chink floyd live at sidewalk cafe

Posted on | January 5, 2010 | No Comments

OK, so here’s something…

I play in a band called Chink Floyd, “The world’s worst Pink Floyd cover band”. The band features yrs truly, Ariel Bitran, Mike Milazzo (absent from this particular gig), Killer Kelly Dwyer, and Touching You. The band is fronted, of course, by Master Lee. I work with Master Lee in a couple different improv/spoken word projects (The White Devils, The World’s Worst DOORS cover band, etc…) but this is probably my favorite. Here’s a snippet of what we do, from our Dec 19, 2009 gig at Sidewalk Cafe in the East Village.

comments, etc.? We have a myspace page here and you can friend us to keep up with shows, etc. Check us out, we are definitely a singular experience.

new music via thesixtyone.com

Posted on | January 4, 2010 | No Comments

So I’m listening to The Sixty One today at work, as I sometimes do, and this totally cool clarient/drone thing came on. The Sixty One is this Creative Commons driven site where people put their music up and people vote on it, etc. Like last.fm but without keywords. [ed note: i have my music up there at www.thesixtyone.com/joeyoga and you can download it all for free]. The Sixty One also seems to focus more on instrumental/ambient music and Garage Band solo artists, whereas every major label artist has a last.fm site (I’m there too) so for that reason I prefer it when I am looking to dive in to the random. There is a lot of crap there (no names) but there is also cool stuff like untitled demos and sometimes you can find a real gem.

The one song I heard today that I liked enough to bring it up to the internet at large (another one of my “new” “year’s” “resolutions” being to both blog and hunt for new music more often) is by a band called Swimmingpool the Band and it’s called Pslam (Evening) so I guess that’s a music recommendation from me to you. I don’t like saying you SHOULD listen to them and I hate saying “You’ll love it!” even more, especially in a weird public space like the internet, because one, who the hell are you and how do I know you’ll like it, and two… well, ok. Maybe there IS just one reason.

One day I will find my Permanent Autonomous Zone, and it will be bigger than an elevator and you will be able to see me on the other side, working, with the heads of Republican senators on sticks, sharpened at both ends, natch.

Paper Thin Walls

Posted on | December 31, 2009 | No Comments

here is a first mix of a song from my upcoming album Life Out East. Enjoy! Comments on the song, mix, etc encouraged.

[right click and SAVE AS to download]

http://goyogago.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/paper-thin-walls.mp3

Lyrics

I gotta send what I can’t receive home
I’d have it made were it not for these old

paper thin walls

We understand it could all be breached, though
You would not believe
What could pass through these old

paper thin walls

kill the band feat. Birch!

Posted on | December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment

so… one of the new projects I’m in is Kill The Band, which is the brainchild of the awesome Kelly Dwyer. We’re going to be featured at the Frigid Festival this February! But that’s not what this post is about. Every once in a while at Penny’s Open Mic we do “Covers Night”, which is a chance for the performers to pay tribute to each other. It’s always a super fun night. So at the most recent covers night (last week) the great Mike Birch decided to cover Kill the Band’s “Famous Baby”… here is the video!!

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Upcoming Gigs

Thu Feb 4th: God Tastes Like Chicken @ Under St. Mark's Theater 10:30pm
Sat. Feb 6th:: solo acoustic set at the "Save Ray's" benefit at Sidewalk Cafe (6th street and Ave A, NYC) 12 noon - 6pm (I am going on around 4)

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"A sort of psychic warrior... [Joe Yoga is] working on.. a sort of land-where-blues-began attentiveness to the half-broken heartbeat of a sound. In terms of paying the bills, I’d like to see someone like Merge or Drag City pick [him] up - someone’s got to fill Dave Berman’s shoes…" - Nick Courage, A Mutual Respect Books and Music

"Intense... smolders with passion for what he does. As a performer, Joe is anything but ‘safe’. His act constantly varies between impromptu musical numbers, comedy, and strikingly intense and real moments." - Brent Lengel, examiner.com

"[Joe Yoga] slaps wailing, eerie vocals on surreal and evocative lyrics, then mixes with acoustic and electric instrumentation and ambient effects, for a final product that, for all its ingredients, comes off creepily minimalist. The vocals never bellow, but the lyrics and music are nonetheless harshly pregnant with a sad and brave anger... This, then, is post-punk: rock'n'roll after rock'n'roll has faded away; personal stories in an era in which people seem irrelevant." - Jonathan Penton, Unlikely Stories

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Joe Yoga is an artist, facilitator, and incorrigible force of nature based in New York City. He is working these days mainly in black and white, guitar, cassette tape, hand claps, acrylic, and the burdens of rage, love, and exhaustion towards "a sort of land-where-blues-began attentiveness to the half-broken heartbeat of a sound" (Nick Courage, A Mutual Respect Books and Music).

As a musician he appears at venues all over NYC and his first album "The Dreamless Sea" is available for free download at www.goyogago.com, His new album "Life Out East" will be available in Spring 2010.

As a stage performer he was recently featured in Kill the Band (Audience Choice Award Winner, 2010 Frigid Festival) and Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag (Imperial Award / Donor's Choice, 2010 Frigid Festival). He is also half of the house band at Penny's Open Mic, a massively popular Tuesday mic in the East Village (www.pennysopenmic.com), and produces a monthly show "Grudge Match: Music vs. Comedy" on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, featuring the best up and coming musicians and comedians in the city.

"Towering; baby-faced." - The Village Voice

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• Leah Milstein – Amuze Contributor
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• Penny’s Open Mic – the best open mic in NYC
• Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting
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