Coming this Wed - July 21: GRUDGE MATCH

Grudge Match: Music vs Comedy to the Death!
July 21 - 8pm
@ Marfa Music
24 1st ave - F train to 2nd ave
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FREE SHOW

Come witness the madness as Grudge Match returns to Marfa/Lucky Cheng's! Comedians and musicians battle it out for your hearts! The Winners go home with the glory and the lovely Grudgeasaurus while the losers are taken out back and shamed.

Music by
Joe Yoga
Charley Crockett
Eve Blackwater

Comedy by
John Murdock
Nobody's Token
Liam McEneaney

Hosted by Tim Warner

FB invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131874830184954

Joe Yoga gigs... Late Feb and beyond...

FEB 20th (Friday)
Yoga live solo @ The Doctor Michelle Party!
@ Lolita Bar / 7:30pm
266 Broome Street, between Allen and Orchard
New York, NY
w/Alabaster Rhumb, Mike Milazzo, Michelle Leona,
David Lowe, The Bitter Poet (I LOVE THIS GUY!!),
Kelly Dwyer and more!!

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FEB 23rd (Monday)
Yoga live solo and w/Gutter and Spine
@ Astoria Music and Arts showcase @ Blackbirds!
Blackbirds 8:00pm - 11:00pm
42nd & 30th ave (N/W to 30th ave)
Astoria, NY

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MAR 3rd (Monday)
Yoga live @ Stained Glass Confessional 3
A Night of Strummers, Stanzas & Strange Stories

Monday, March 2, 2009
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Stain Bar
766 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY

Come join Professional Raconteur James Kass along with:
Musicians Joe Yoga, James Skidmore, Jillian Tully.
and Poets Janice Brabaw, Carrie VanDenburg, and Jee Leong Koh.

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MAR 5th (Thursday)

GOD TASTES LIKE CHICKEN!!
@ Under St Mark's Theater
94 St Mark's Pl (btwn 1st and Ave A)
10:30 pm

Part of the Frigid Festival


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MAR 12th (Thursday)

Yoga Live at Stain Bar
w/Dustin Edge and The Galt Line
7-10pm


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Stained Glass Confessional 3

Stained Glass Confessional 3
A Night of Strummers, Stanzas & Strange Stories

Monday, March 2, 2009
7:00pm - 11:00pm

Stain Bar
766 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY

Come join Professional Raconteur James Kass along with:

Musicians Joe Yoga, James Skidmore, Jillian Tully.
and Poets Janice Brabaw, Carrie VanDenburg, and Jee Leong Koh.

facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=63837170848&ref=nf

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Joe Yoga live @ Stain Bar (setlist) 8.30.2008

Well, I have a new favorite place in the world. It’s called Stain Bar- please visit them @ http://www.stainbar.com/ or just go down to 766 Grand Street in Brooklyn (right off the L train at the Grand St stop). It’s artist owned & run by Caroline and Craig who also play in a cool band called Tin Veil. The wide main bar area has about seven or eight couches, fantastic art all over the wall, notebooks you can write in, and the bar itself has a great selection of (reasonably priced) NY beers and wine. Being Labor Day weekend (and the night of the Sonic Youth show at McCarren Pool) it was a little slow, but the vibe of the place was undeniable. Plus they have a nice-sized outdoor garden with tables and an enormous metal sculpture of a quarter (as in 25 cents) that has to be seen to believed.

I played there this past Saturday (the 30th) and they gave me the whole night. I did two sets (17 songs) and just had a blast, as did everyone who came out. I recorded the thing so live tracks should be up in a few days when I get my act together. I’ve listened to it to extract the setlist (since I never actually have a setlist, just a bunch of songs on a piece of paper that have been working for me lately, then I choose from them) and there are some great versions of these so I’m psyched to get them up here for yous.

By the way, if you haven’t yet, go check out my youtube videos at www.youtube.com/goyogago

1st Set
Fugitive
Think to Knock
Queen Bee
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Johnny Thunders cover)
Tulsa
The I Like You Song
Pretty Eyes (Silver Jews cover)
Dumb Luck

2nd Set
Small Hands
The World Without Us
Big Dumb River
Urban Planning
Panic Attack
Apartment Story (The National cover)
Gone
Dinosaur
Humor

Yoga @ Don Pedro 8/23

AWESOMENESS is the word for Don Pedro. Well, it was OK. There were some technical problems early on, which was fine except for the fact that they all happened during Alabaster's set. His manager cursed out our very stressed-out host Gary, though I don't think he heard, or at least acted like he didn't care.
During all of this I was hanging out with the great Tim Warner over by one end of the stage. He and I were bonding over the fact that we've both quit cigarettes. I was kind of worried about him because the words "Joe Biden" kept leaping out of his mouth. I wasn't sure if it was on purpose or if like me he'd just been watching too much C-Span.
So yeah, I had lots of other things on my mind, such as the BBQ we were heading to afterwards, whether my harmonica rack would betray me again (it did, the bastard!), poverty, a looming McCain presidency and the collapse of social order. Luckily it was my spot soon. I played:

Panic Attack
What Life Feels Life
Urban Planning (god-damn harmonica rack fucked me!)
Humor

Anyway it was an all right gig, lots of people there for themselves, but got a few nods on my way out, even from Mr. Fury himself. Draw sucked but the place is way the fuck out in the middle of nowheres, across from a huge conglomeration of projects. I wonder if places like these have kind of overextended the hipster brand... a few places, like Goodbye Blue Monday, will probably survive. I have my doubts about DP's though.

The night ended @ the Brooklyn Boy's pad for a BBQ - with drunken Bohemian Rhapsody, a fifth of Tequilla, grilled chicken, hot dogs, and burgers, and a ride home. Can't ask for much more than that.

Joe Yoga live @ God Tastes Like Chicken (setlist)

I played last night (8/21/2008) at God Tastes Like Chicken @ Under St. Mark's Theatre, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places of all time. Here was the lineup:

Tim Warner
Ed Murray
God Tastes Like Chicken
Joe Yoga
Jake (New Guy) Jampel
Mike Milazzo
Penny

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Quite the fucking lineup. Props to John Murdock for putting together such a talented group of misanthropes every time he does this show.

Here was my setlist:

Panic Attack
Dumb Luck ---->
Small Hands
Gone

Lovely Marsha filmed it! Keep an eye on this space for video.

Yoga and Rum

just plain awesomeness here. and there is a BBQ party we're all crashing afterwards!