What: Corporate Rock Off
When: 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.10
Where: Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St.
Cost: $10, $5 with college ID. 21 and over.
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Six bands featuring co-workers from Indianapolis companies and organizations will compete on Oct. 10 to see who has the most mojo in Corporate Rock Off, a fundraising event for Second Story, a local nonprofit organization offering free writing workshops and tutoring for inner-city kids.
The bands in the event presented by Well Done Marketing include Vibe Dial, sponsored by rippleFX; The Raidiators sponsored by Raidious Digital Content Services; Rusty Sluts sponsored by Bradley and Montgomery; Sea Krowns, sponsored by Big Car; Accordions, sponsored by Nogginwerk; and Indianapolis Monthly's team, Misprintz, winners of this year's local battle of the media bands.
Each band will play a 20-minute set in a one-round battle. Winners will be chosen through a combination of audience vote and selections by expert judges. The winning team will be announced that night and will conclude the event with an encore set. Teams or their sponsors chipped in $500 as a donation to Second Story, and 75 percent of ticket sales also go to the organization. As a prize, 25 percent of those proceeds go to the winning team's charity of choice in the name of their company. The winning band also gets an opening slot at this year's Tonic Ball.
This fall, Second Story, now in its second year as a nonprofit, is running after-school writing programs at the Wheeler Arts Community in Fountain Square and at Martin Luther King Center; and an in-school program at IPS School No. 2, Center for Inquiry in partnership with Butler University and the Indianapolis-Marion County Library.
More curious events coming soon
Indianapolis Central Library
Clowes Auditorium
40 E. Saint Clair St.
Oct. 28, 7 p.m. at Central Library, free: Big Car Collective assembles an unusual orchestra of experimental musicians to create a spooky and spontaneous soundtrack to the 1920 silent version of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde -- just in time for Halloween. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel about the dark side of human nature comes to life with silent-era heartthrob John Barrymore as upright Dr. Jekyll and demonic Mr. Hyde. A dinner conversation on the topic of human duality at a dinner party prompts Jekyll to concoct a potion to divide the human psyche's two sides: good and evil. Soon, the dark side takes over to deadly results. All will be accompanied by a live soundtrack featuring a Tonos Triad, Shiny Black Shirt and others.
Nov. 5, 7 p.m. at Central Library, free: UFO expert Stanton Friedman presents a talk. Friedman became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 has lectured about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He has published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 2007 and twice in 2008, and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored "Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident." "TOP SECRET/MAJIC," his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through six printings.
Other October events:
Monday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. poets Micah Ling, Andrew Scott, and Nathan Graziano will read with Mitchell Douglas at 7:30 p.m. at Big Car.
Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 5:30 p.m.: Art21 preview screening and discussion, at Herron in partnership with Big Car and iMOCA. Download a guide to the Transformation episode we're screening here
Sunday, Oct. 18: Music show featuring touring bands Gasoline Heart and Adam & Dave's Bloodline, and locals My Hidden Track at 8 p.m. $5
Friday, Oct. 30: Dead Zone Boys group art show and Jookabox CD release show, opening at 6 p.m., music at 8 p.m. $5 with Normanoak and more. Featuring beer for sale from Upland.
Asthmatic Kitty Records recording artist Jookabox has teamed up with Big Car Gallery and 11 artists from Indianapolis and Bloomington to create an art show that renders each one of the songs on his new album, Dead Zone Boys, as a work of art. Dead Zone Boys, the third album from Jookabox (Indianapolis-born David "Moose" Adamson and Co.), is love story meets psychedelic zombie-musical. The zombie part came easy: Moose grew up on the east side of Indianapolis in the 90s, an area plagued by constant recession, pandemic homicide, and racial tension. A few strong tribes chose to stay in the area despite constant warnings from fleeing acquaintances. It was this frantic energy and violence that infused itself into the Jookabox experience. Since then, the area struggles to revitalize and Adamson’s musical interests and excursions have crystallized into a startlingly singular and eclectic songwriting strategy. One thing is certain here: if vacant strip malls occupied only by shitdragged liquor stores and fluorescent check cashing joints are foreign to you, then Dead Zone Boys will be your guidebook, Jookabox your tour guide. This is more evident now than ever on what is sure to become a cult classic.
Artists in the show: Jessica Sowls, Jim Walker, Ben Tousley, Liz Janes, John Clark, Erin Drew, DM STITH, Ryan Irvin, Craig McCormick, Casey Roberts and Tom Streit. Dead Zone Boys stays open as Big Car's First Friday show on Nov. 6, 6-11 p.m. and throughout November.
Video from Big Car