05/02/15

Blockhead

Mono/Poly
Ellie Herring

Blockhead

Signal Kitchen 71 Main St Burlington VT 05401 Doors 8:30 pm Show 9:00 pm All Ages

$12 Advance
$15 Door

Tony Simon, a/k/a Blockhead, has been making and releasing utterly distinctive, funky and emotive music for the last two decades. Blockhead grew up in downtown New York City. As the son of an artist, surrounded by visual culture, he early on found that his passion was for music, for the sonic. A fan of a whole range of sounds, especially hip-hop, Blockhead steadily built a tremendous collection of tapes and later CDs from innumerable artists, a quiet accumulation of knowledge and know-how.

Blockhead

After a brief stint as a rapper, he realized his calling was behind the boards and not on the mic – and from there he began to produce beats. Since making that decision, he's kept pretty busy: carving a niche as a sought-after underground beatmaker that people call when they want something special.

Mono/Poly

His debut album, The George Machine (EP) was released in the fall of 2009 on Faces Records, which was followed by his first full-length solo album Paramatma (Tasteful Licks) in the spring of 2010.

Ellie Herring

Lexington, Kentucky-based producer Ellie Herring has been on a steady rise in recent years. July 2013 marked her third release, Kite Day EP, and showed a more experimental side to her music.