Kingston Bound!

Hydrogen Junkbox (poemusic featuring David Lawton, Eric Alter and I) will be driving on down to Kingston, NY to spread our Pixie Dust on Saturday, September 21st at Kingston/NYC 1st Annual Anti-Folk Festival!

@ Deep Tanks 2.0 / 224 East Strand St. in Kingston, NY

12-10pm

Hydrogen Junkbox goes on at 1pm. What a great line-up of musicians including Phoebe Blue & the Make Baleaves. Open mic too!

Deep Tanks & The Kingston Artist Collective Present:

12pm / PHOEBE BLUE & THE MAKE BALEAVES
https://phoebeblue.bandcamp.com/
1pm / HYDROGEN JUNKBOX
https://www.facebook.com/HydrogenJunkbox/
2pm / BILLY WAKEMAN
https://www.facebook.com/billywakemanmusic/
3pm / GROVE RUNE
https://www.facebook.com/groverune/
4pm / WILD BILL DRUCKER & KID BUSY
http://wildbilldrucker.com/
5pm / YOUTH MOOSE
http://youthmoose.com/
6pm / MATTHEW GAFFNEY & FRIENDS
https://mattgaffney.bandcamp.com/
7pm / DEEP SOUND DIVER
https://deepsounddiver.bandcamp.com/
8pm/ PAUL McMAHON & EVA BUBLICK ++
http://paulmcmahon.tv/
9pm / COMFORT CAT & FRIENDS
https://comfortcat.bandcamp.com/
(OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW)

Zines! Poetry! Music! Staten Island!

Share in the festivities at Staten Island’s zine fest on Sunday, September 15th 

Hydrogen Junkbox will be performing new songs and some favorites too in celebration of this outdoor festival of poetry, small presses, comics, poetry, and an open mic!!!

Sunday, September 15th: SIZL 2019 Staten Island Zine Fest

@ MakerSpace / 450 Front St. in Staten Island

11am-4pm

Poetry, Open mic, Zines, Small Presses, Music!

Open Mic at 12pm hosted by Thomas Fucaloro followed with performances by:
Phoebe Blue
Hydrogen Junkbox
The Heartless Artichokes

Exhibitors: 

Ava Quinn’s
Culturbia
Cut + Paste on Maker Park Radio
Delia Vassar Semanchik
Emily Perina
Erin Violet Taylor
Flawless Hacks
Hyperlink Press
Industrial Workers of the World – General Headquarters
Izzy Kings
Jen Gallo
Jessie & Elle Zines
Julie Romero
Moody Marinaro
NYSAI Press
Old Town Press
Peter Jurado
Reflective Zines
Romeround Photography
SB Kosinski Studio
Wil Wynn’s Chimbarazu Press
Zineralia
Zoë Tirado

Coffee, tea, and snacks by Duzer’s Local Cafe + Market ☕️🍪

Presented by the Staten Island Zine League and NYSAI Press with funding from Staten Island Arts.

In celebration of Matthew Hupert’s new book of poetry!!!!

Hydrogen Junkbox is honored to perform poemsongs to celebrate Matthew Hupert’s new book of poetry, “Secular Pantheism” TONIGHT!!!!

Celebrate “Secular Pantheism” at The Red Room @ KGB located at 85 E. 4th St in NYC from 8:30pm-10:30pm

Also featuring: FRANCOIS WISS w/ DANIEL VILLENEUVE

There will be many copies for sale, so make some room on your bookshelves for a brand new book of poetry by Matthew Hupert!!!

A Celebration of Words! “Everything Grows”

It has been quite a journey, but I am deeply excited to let go of the words I’ve been collecting inside me for ten plus years! Celebrate the release of my novel, “Everything Grows” on Friday, May 10th, at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC at 7pm.

Bluestockings Bookstore is located at 172 Allen St. in NYC

The evening will include a live mini-musical featuring excerpts from the novel and original songs performed by Hydrogen Junkbox (featuring Aimee Herman, Eric Alter, and David Lawton). Copies of EVERYTHING GROWS will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

EVERYTHING GROWS is an LGBTQ+ Young Adult (age 16 and older) coming-of-age novel in which a teenage girl grapples with the suicide of a classmate and her mother’s depression, while discovering her own gender and sexual identity.

The novel has received extensive pre-publication praise, with BN Teen Blog citing it as one of 12 most anticipated historical YA fiction of 2019, and Autostraddle (the world’s most popular lesbian website) named it one of the “LGBT YA Books to Get Excited for in 2019.” Foreword Reviews raves that EVERYTHING GROWS “will win over the hearts of its young adult audiences,” while Booklist praises it as “sensitive and informative.”

Tonight! Hydrogen Junkbox and Friends in Brooklyn!!!!!

Hydrogen Junkbox, your friendly neighborhood purveyors of poemusic, present an evening featuring New York’s most badass poets, music, art and circus burlesque!

Come to Branded Saloon located at 603 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. Show is from 7-9pm. It is FREE, but please support this great venue and purchase drinks and/or delicious food.

 

FEATURING!!!!!!!

Art projections from RACHEL LYNGHOLM

Poet ELIEL LUCERO

Poet AMBER ATIYA

Poet TRAE DURICA

Human Sound Effects Machine ZERO BOY

Poet JANE ORMEROD

Poet THOMAS FUCALORO

HYDROGEN JUNKBOX (Aimee Herman, David Lawton and Zita Zenda) is a performance collective looking to inspire and innovate by stirring music and poetry together into “poemusic”. Beat the cookie drum!

Tonight!! Hydrogen Junkbox and Friends presents music and poetry!

Hydrogen Junkbox presents an evening full of music inspired by poetry and spoken word. Featuring the NYC band o’ poets Hydrogen Junkbox ( David Lawton, Aimee Herman, and Zita Zenda), plus special guests Davey Patterson (music maker) and TIDAL CHANNEL (theatrical spoken word paired with music)

Come to Dixon Place located at 161 Chrystie St in NYC. Doors open at 7pm/ show begins promptly at 7:30pm. This is a free show, but please support this fantastic venue and purchase a drink or some chips!

Hydrogen Junkbox is a collective of poets and music makers in New York City. They have performed at the Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival, LaMama Experimental Theatre, Parkside Lounge, Stonewall Inn, and Dixon Place. Hydrogen Junkbox is David Lawton, Aimee Herman, Zita Zenda, and Starchilde.

Tidal Channel is the noise-poetry alliance of billy cancel (all words + vocals) and Genevieve Fernworthy (all music + instruments). Described by the New York Times as “sonic abrasiveness”, their work incorporates industrial synthpop, psychogeographical field recordings, and time-based performance. Two of their contributions appear on the “BC35: The 35 Year Anniversary of BC Studio” (2018, Bronson Recordings). More info at www.tidalchannel.com

Davey Patterson is a Canadian-born, New York City-based musician and songwriter. His credits are vast and varied, but these days, he lends his talents to TV’s “Late Show With Stephen Colbert”, “Late Night With Seth Meyers”, and musicians like Jon Batiste and Stay Human.

In celebration of MUSIC!

My band, Hydrogen Junkbox, also featuring David Lawton, Zita Zenda, and Starchilde, is now part of the 21st century!

What I mean is…….we have a BLOG!

Please visit. Please send us comments. Please ask us to play our music for you. I am learning that all the band-aids I ever put on my skin meant nothing.

What I mean is, music has become my salve. Also so have these humans who make beautiful music with me.

(click here): HYDROGEN JUNKBOX

Upcoming Performance: Hydrogen Junkbox 5/17/18

I am extremely excited to perform alongside my bandmates as Hydrogen Junkbox at the legendary Stonewall Inn at Muffins in the Window, the longest running monthly variety show in NYC!

WHEN? Thursday, May 17th 

WHAT TIME? Bar opens at 7:30pm / Show begins at 8pm

COST? $5 suggested donation/ 2 drink minimum

WHERE IS THAT AGAIN? Stonewall Inn / 53 Christopher St. in NYC
WHO ELSE IS PERFORMING? Amanda Hunt, Susan Jeremy, The Kloons, JK, Mary Jo Camel Toe, and HYDROGEN JUNKBOX! 

WHO IS THE MARVELOUS, CHARISMATIC HOST? Stephen Michael Rondel

MUFFINS IN THE WINDOW is the longest running monthly variety show in New York City. Audience members return (month after month) to support past, present and brand new performance artist as they try out never before seen material currently LIVE UPSTAIRS on the infamous and legendary Stonewall Inn stage. All are encouraged to perform in this monthly showcase of actors, singers, comedians, dancers, monologuists, film makers, instrumentalists, drag and burlesque entertainers. Join this sensational, tipsy, outrageous, and non judgmental crowd as we laugh, cry and ponder the ever changing artistic endeavours of our New York City family.

This is What a Feminist Looks Like

Let me start by saying that I always wanted to play the drums. But memory tells me that my mom/dad/both said: too loud, choose again. So I/they/none chose the clarinet. Upon reflection, it is a gorgeous instrument, which deserves far more respect than I gave it. But I wanted to play the drums and bash my palms against the rhythm. Gave up clarinet and found myself playing the only instrument I found myself actually good at………the radio.

Made a bunch of mixed tapes, figured out I could record I Love Lucy, A Different World, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time on my tiny, black-and-white television onto a tape.

Cut to two decades later and I am playing an instrument again. Hello, ukelele.

Oh, one more thing. I’ve always wanted to be in a band. Like Green Day. Like Thompson Twins. Like ’til tuesday.

Then, David Lawton. And he said, hey, wanna? and here we are. And so is Zita Zenda. And of course, Starchilde.

We call ourselves……HYDROGEN JUNKBOX

Thank you to Kat Georges, of the marvelous three rooms press for taking this video.

 

Upcoming Performance: February 16th!

HYDROGEN JUNKBOX PRESENTS: THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE

WHEN? Friday, February 16th   Doors open 7pm/ Show promptly starts at 7:30pm        

WHERE? Dixon Place  161 Chrystie St  NYC  

This show is FREE, but please support this excellent venue and purchase a drink or two.

Hydrogen Junkbox is a collective of poets and musicians looking to inspire, experiment and find new ways to rhythmically enhance poetry. They presents a night of NEW music and poetry exploring feminism, consent and the weaponry of words featuring very special guests: fantastic poet Liv Mammone and musician extraordinaire Davey Patterson.

HYDROGEN JUNKBOX IS:

Aimee Herman is a queer performance artist, teacher, poet, singer, ukulele player and cookie drum player.

David Lawton is a poet, actor, singer, ukulele player and cookie drum player. He is also co-editor of NYC small press great weather for MEDIA.

Starchilde plays synth, drums, and anything else you’ve got on hand. He makes magic with beats.

Zita Zenda is a director, poet and guitarist.