The Pygmalion Festival, known also as PYGMALION , is a multi-day festival named for the Slowdive album of the same name, which takes place in Champaign-Urbana , Illinois , United States every September. Shows run concurrently at multiple venues, in the style of SXSW . Local bands are showcased along with national touring acts such as Of Montreal , Man Man , Yo La Tengo , Andrew Bird , Wavves , Black Mountain , Iron & Wine , Dan Deacon , and Okkervil River . It has expanded in scope each year since its inception, and received coverage on sites such as Pitchfork Media , Daytrotter , and Tiny Mix Tapes .
29-1047: In its inaugural year, Pygmalion Music Festival took place from September 28-October 1 at Canopy Club, Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive, Illini Union Courtyard Cafe, The Iron Post, and Mike N Molly's. Lineup The Like Young , The City on Film , Owen , Mates of State , Ida , Saturday Looks Good to Me , Maserati , Headlights , The M's , Catfish Haven , Chin Up Chin Up , The Appleseed Cast , Mike Ingram, Bailey, Elanors, The Chemicals, The Living Blue , Tractor Kings, Low Skies , The Invisible, Emotional Rec Club, Green Light Go, Unique Chique, fireflies, Al*iteration, MC Harsh, Agent Mos, Ro Knew, Elsinore, The Championship, Triple Whip, Lorenzo Goetz, Pulsar47, Ambitious Pie Party, Angie Heaton, Megan Johns, Lynn O'Brien, Kate Hathaway, Troubled Hubble , Apollo Project, The Winter Blanket, The Beauty Shop , JigGsaw , Mike Downey, Ear Doctor, Thollem McDonas , Jason Finkelman's Nu-Orbit Ensemble The 2006 Pygmalion Music festival ran from September 20–23rd at
58-552: A 7" and CD single, "Monster", which enjoyed considerable airplay on BBC 6 in the UK. A second single, "Rumplestiltskin Lives", was released to UK radio stations in spring 2005. The band then signed to Bryan Morrisson's label, Snapper Records, in summer 2005. The label released two further singles in the UK, Paper Hearts for Josie (August 2005) and A Desperate Cry for Help (October 2005). New drummer Ben Ucherek replaced Sanderson for
87-801: A collection of tracks written and recorded for the Like Young from 2002 to 2006. The release, titled "Fifteen Demos," was released via his Bandcamp page. Of the release, Joe wrote, "I'm saying goodbye to The Like Young. Only this time, I'm doing so with a hug and a smile." Albums EPs The Beauty Shop (band) The Beauty Shop was an Americana rock / alt country band, led by singer-songwriter-guitarist John Hoeffleur, based out of Champaign , Illinois. Formed in 1999, they released two EPs and two full length albums before disbanding in 2008. Hoeffleur described their music as "influenced by old-school punk ( Wire , Minutemen , Misfits ) and old-school country ( Hank , Lefty , Patsy , Johnny ) with
116-562: A dash of singer/songwriter ( Leonard Cohen , Nick Drake )" . The Beauty Shop was formed by John Hoeffleur and drummer Casey Smith in 1999, in Champaign, Illinois. Hoeffleur (b. Arlington Heights, Illinois , November 26, 1977) grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and graduated from the University of Illinois . He had previously played with local band The Blackouts , and on his own playing in local coffee shops. The duo's first release
145-517: Is Me Smiling, Triple Whip, Tunnels, Two Girls, Unwed Sailor , Via Audio, Wax on Radio, Yeasayer The 2008 Pygmalion Music festival ran from September 17–20 at Blues BBQ, Canopy Club, Exile on Main St., Illini Union Courtyard Cafe, Jennifer North, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center , Mike N Molly's, and Red Herring. Lineup (headliners in bold ) Yo La Tengo , Black Mountain , Dan Deacon , High Places , Times New Viking , Asobi Seksu , Thao &
174-758: The Canopy Club, Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive, Illini Union Courtyard Cafe, Krannert Center , Mike N Molly's, and Soma Ultralounge. Lineup (headliners in bold ) Andrew Bird , Okkervil River , Questlove (DJ set), Casiotone for the Painfully Alone , Owen , Catfish Haven , Margot & the Nuclear So and So's , Maserati , Dianogah , Denison Witmer , Headlights , Shapes and Sizes , Sybris , Liz Janes, The Foundry Field Recordings , Angie Heaton, Awesome Car Funmaker, Baby Teeth, Bound Stems, Caleb Engstrom, Canada , Casados, Coco Coca, Cory Chisel and
203-1080: The Canopy Club, Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive, The Iron Post, Krannert Center , and Mike N Molly's. Lineup Elf Power , Murder by Death , Margot & the Nuclear So and So's , Danielson , David Bazan , Man Man , The Life and Times , Of Montreal , Headlights , Owen , Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin , Unwed Sailor , Salaryman , Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons , Geoff Reacher, Mad Science Fair, Dress Code, Shipwreck, Low Skies, Metal Hearts, Scurvine, Triple Whip, Ghost in Light, Exit Clov, Coco Coca, Darrin Drda, Canada , The Living Blue , Watery Domestic, The Beauty Shop , Brighton MA, Caleb Engstrom, New Ruins, Howling Hex, Elsinore, Gentleman Auction House, Darling Disarm, The City on Film , The Reputation, Monte Carlos, fireflies, Bailey, Lorenzo Goetz, Probably Vampires, Weird Weeds, Pulsar47, Tractor Kings, Rusty Pipes, Bellcaster, Elanors, Judah Johnson, Ellestel The 2007 Pygmalion Music festival ran from September 19–22nd at
232-680: The Day Holiday, Arkansas Dogjaw, Butterfly Bones, Common Loon, Community College, Darren Hanlon , Deathtram, Dirty Feathers, DJ Belly, DJ Mertz, Drink Up Buttercup, The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra, Famicom, Elsinore, Grandkids, Jared Bartman, Jimmy Gnecco , Lookbook, New Ruins, Phaded, The Poison Control Center, Pomegranates, Revolt Revolt, Santah , So Long Forgotten, Take Care, Unwed Sailor , The Viper and His Famous Orchestra, Why I Like Robins, Withershins, World's First Flying Machine The 2011 Pygmalion Music Festival ran from September 21–25. Lineup (headliners in bold ) Explosions in
261-945: The Deadbeats, Final Pygmalion Effect, The Forms , The Foundry Field Recordings, Gentleman Auction House, Girls Next Door, Good Night and Good Morning, Hathaways, Jared Bartman, Jonathon Childers, Kid You'll Move Mountains, Krukid, The Living Blue , Loaded, The Lonelyhearts , Lucky Mulholland, Michael Kammin, Mute Era, New Ruins, The Number One Sons, Oceans, Peter Piek, Pontiak, Post-Historic, Robots Counterfeiting Money, Rod & Martha Stewart, The Ruckus, Sangamon, Santa, Snowsera, Sunset Stallion, Tall Tale, Tractor Kings, Treologic, Underpaid Packy, World's First Flying Machine, Wye Oak , Zmick The 2009 Pygmalion Music Festival ran from September 16–19 at Bentley's Pub, Blues BBQ, Canopy Club, Channing-Murray Foundation, Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center , Mike N Molly's, Parasol Records Store , Red Herring, and Sandella's. Two of
290-721: The Friction, Village, World's First Flying Machine, Withershins, You & Yourn, Zach May & the Maps The 2010 Pygmalion Music Festival ran from September 22–25. Lineup (headliners in bold ) of Montreal , Built to Spill , Roky Erickson with Okkervil River , Caribou , Ted Leo and the Pharmacists , Janelle Monáe , Cut Chemist , Cap'n Jazz , Surfer Blood , Plastician , Holy Fuck , +/- , Those Darlins , Fang Island , Cults, Owen , Colour Revolt , David Dondero , Candy Claws , Turbo Fruits , Light Pollution , All
319-584: The Gateway Drugs, Common Loon, The Curses, DeathTram, The Dirty Feathers, Elsinore, Evil Tents, Grandkids, Hank, Jared Bartman, Megan Johns, DJ Mertz, Midstress, My Werewolf Diary, New Ruins, Pamela Machala, DJ Randall Ellison, Santah, Mille Nomi, Sun Stereo, Take Care, That's No Moon, Withershins, Year of the Bobcat The 2013 Pygmalion Music Festival ran from September 26–28. Lineup (headliners in bold ) Major Lazer , The Breeders , The Head and
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#1732782558124348-694: The Get Down Stay Down , Headlights , The Hood Internet , Centaur , Dark Meat, Evangelicals , Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter , Titus Andronicus , Decibully , The M's , Murder by Death , Owen , Oxford Collapse , Pattern Is Movement , Grampall Jookabox, Monotonix , Catfish Haven , PWRFL Power , Agent Mos, Angie Heaton, Animate Objects , Atlatl, Beaujolais, Brian Esmao, The Brother Whys, Butterfly Assassins, Caleb Engstrom, Carl Hauck, Casados, Checkerboard Stalemate, Coco Coca, Common Loon, Dr Manhattan , Elsinore, Eureka Sky, Everthus
377-922: The Heart , Dawes , Kurt Vile and the Violators , Youth Lagoon , Warpaint, Daughter, METZ, Damien Jurado, Kishi Bashi, Psychic Twin, Jenny Hval, Murder By Death, Caveman, K.Flay, Saturday Looks Good To Me , On an On, Nat Baldwin , Common Loon, Détective, The Dirty Feathers, Elsinore, Grandkids, Justin Walter, The Struggle, Barrowe, Sun Stereo, Mille Nomi, Hank. The 2014 Pygmalion Festival ran from September 25–28. Lineup (headliners in bold ) CHVRCHES , American Football , Panda Bear , Real Estate , Tycho , Sun Kil Moon , Deafheaven , Speedy Ortiz , Mutual Benefit, Ex Hex, Wooden Shjips, Common Loon, Elsinore, Twinsmith. The 2015 Pygmalion Festival ran from September 23–27. Lineup (headliners in bold ) Run
406-488: The Jewels , Ride , Purity Ring , Sylvan Esso, Tune-yards, Zola Jesus, Strands of Oaks, Whitey Morgan and the 78's, Ryley Walker, Bully, and many more. The Like Young The Like Young was an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois , composed of Amanda and Joe Ziemba. The couple had been playing music together in various bands since 1997 (most notably Wolfie and Busytoby ). They formed Like Young in
435-488: The Law", and Death March featured a cover of Depeche Mode 's " Personal Jesus ". The band often played at The Great Cover-up, an annual Champaign-Urbana based charity show. Bassist Ariane Peralta left in late 2006 to pursue a PhD at university. She was replaced by Eric Fisher, formerly of the band Lorenzo Goetz. In October 2007, the band released a new EP, Just Some Demos , on their own label. The Beauty Shop disbanded in
464-585: The Mirror, Morgan Orion and the Constellations, My Dear Alan Andrews, Neoga Blacksmith, New Ruins, Now, Now Every Children, The Number One Sons, Oceans, Ohtis, On Again Off Again, Pamela Machala, Peninsula, Phantogram, Porno Galactica, Princeton, Post Historic, Ryan Groff, Santa, Scurvine, So Long Forgotten, Stan McConnell, SteelEater, Sunset Stallion, Tina Sparkle, Take Care, Tracey and Tricia, Tyson &
493-780: The Moon, NewVillager, Grave Babies, Adam Arcuragi, Allen Strong, Ava Luna, Bachelorette, Big Troubles , DJ Britche$ , The Capstan Shafts, Common Loon, D-Roka, Evil Tents, Take Care, Withershins, Death Tram. The 2012 Pygmalion Music Festival ran from September 27–29. Lineup (headliners in bold ) Grizzly Bear , Dirty Projectors , Dinosaur Jr. , Hum , Best Coast , Cloud Nothings , Tennis , Willis Earl Beal , Eternal Summers, Julia Holter , Frankie Rose , Lætitia Sadier , Hundred Waters, Owen , Hospitality, Lord Huron, Night Beds, Craft Spells, Big Freedia , Oh No Oh My, Zeus, My Jerusalem, Psychic Twin, An Evening With Your Mother, Anna Kerina/Anna Karenina, DJ Belly, Broken Light, Cody &
522-560: The Sky , Cut Copy , Braid , MiM0sa , Gang Gang Dance , The Pains of Being Pure at Heart , Washed Out , Toro Y Moi , The Dodos , Deerhoof , Japandroids , Xiu Xiu , The Hood Internet , Starfucker , Viva Voce , Asobi Seksu , Owen , Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin , Jessica Lea Mayfield , Unknown Mortal Orchestra , Bear Hands , Youth Lagoon , Bass Drum of Death , The Luyas , The Parson Red Heads, Midnight Magic, Gardens & Villa, Ivan & Alyosha, Mansions on
551-598: The UK, and Peralta concentrating on school. The Beauty Shop reformed in 2004 to record a second album, Crisis Helpline , with drummer Steve Lamos. In July 2004 they returned to live performance in the United States, with drummer Brett Sanderson, of The Blackouts. Crisis Helpline was released in Europe in September 2004, the record company concentrating on seeking to break the band there first. They also released
580-622: The Wandering Sons, Damien Jurado , Dark Meat, Darling Disarm, Death Ships, Dignan, Early Day Miners , Elsinore, Hypno-Music-Corp, Inspector Owl, Jane Boxall, Jumbling Towers, Hathaways, Kristov's Agenda, Krukid, Larry Gates, Le Loup, Lucky Mullholland, Lynn O'Brien, Marla Hansen, Mit'n, Ms. Led, New Ruins, Noah Harris, Oceans, Odawas, Probably Vampires, Pulsar47, Robots Counterfeiting Money, Roses and Sake, Royal Electric, Ryan Groff, Sangamon, Shipwreck, Skybox, Terminus Victor, The Beauty Shop , The Chemicals, The Living Blue, Tractor Kings, This
609-515: The album had been licensed to Shoeshine Records in Scotland, who released it in the UK. Shoeshine also released a limited-edition 7" single of "Death March", the single from Yr. Money or Yr. Life . The band toured across the UK in July 2002 to promote the album's release, again gaining critical acclaim. However, they then took a second hiatus after Martin left, with Hoeffleur playing solo shows in
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#1732782558124638-502: The band attracted a growing audience at its live performances, boosted when they opened at the last minute for The Violent Femmes in Champaign. According to one reviewer, "the unsettling cover art reflected the bleakness of Hoeffleur's lyrical vision … spinning tales of dysfunctional characters drawn into seemingly terminal decline." In August 2001, Smith left the band, and Hoeffleur played several solo shows before he and Peralta recruited drummer Joe Martin in early 2002. By that time,
667-647: The filming of the video for "A Desperate Cry for Help". In April 2006, they released a hybrid album of the best tracks from their previous releases, Yard Sale . Their song "I Got Issues" was listed in Maxim magazine as "the #4 Song to download if you're missing Johnny Cash " . They often include cover songs as B-sides. Their single release Monster includes a cover of the Misfits ' " Hybrid Moments ", Paper Hearts for Josie included The Pixies ' " Gouge Away ", A Desperate Cry Help contained Judas Priest 's "Breaking
696-1299: The four members of local legends Hum performed (Tim Lash with Alpha Mile and Jeff Dimpsey with Gazelle). Lineup (headliners in bold ) Iron & Wine , Lucero , RJD2 , Ra Ra Riot , Wavves , Low , The Books , Headlights , The Antlers , Autolux , YACHT , Japandroids , Margot & the Nuclear So and So's , Maps & Atlases , Owen , Maserati , The Hood Internet , BLK JKS , My Brightest Diamond , The 1900s, Starfucker, The Life and Times , Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band , Bob Nanna , William Fitzsimmons , Skream , Gazelle , Denison Witmer , Company of Thieves , Joe Pug , Pomegranates , Decibully , Jookabox, Brooke Waggoner , The Horse's Ha, So Many Dynamos , Alpha Mile , DJ Belly, Brighton, MA, Butterfly Assassins, Cameron McGill, Common Loon, DJ CZO, The Curses, The Daredevil Christopher Wright, Deelay Ceelay, Drew Danburry, Duke of Uke, Early Day Miners , Elsinore, Empires , DJ Famicom, Final Pygmalion Effect, Ganglians, Gentleman Auction House, Girls Next Door, Golden Quality, Good Night and Good Morning, Hathaways, The Horns of Happiness, JigGsaw, The Jips, Kilroy, et al., DJ Kosmo, Liesel Booth, Light Pollution, Liz Janes, Lonely Trailer, DJ Lucknow, Lymbyc Systym , Marmoset, Mason Proper, Matt Wagemann, Mazes, DJ Mertz, Mordechai in
725-523: The spring of 2002 and were married in the same year. Amanda played the drums and Joe played the guitar, bass, and occasionally keyboard; both sang, though Joe—who wrote most of the songs—took the lead more often. Later in 2002, they released their first album, a five-track EP entitled " Looked Up" Plus Four , with Kittridge Records. In the spring of 2003, they released their first full-length album, Art Contest , on Parasol Records to generally positive reviews. Their next full-length album, So Serious ,
754-567: The summer of 2008 with the departure of Eric Fisher to Oregon and Ben Ucherek focusing his time on his new band Golden Quality. The band played its final show on June 6, 2008, at the Canopy Club in Urbana, Illinois . In late 2008, after the group disbanded, a new song entitled NuFuture was released on their MySpace page. The band's final demos were given a digital-only release as Just Some More Demos in January 2009. In mid-2009, Hoeffleur formed
783-577: Was The Grief EP , a self-released limited edition recorded in Smith's home, which they sold at local concerts. The EP caught the eye of the Urbana, Illinois -based record label Parasol Records , who signed the band to produce an album. At the same time, the band put out hand-written ads for a bassist, and recruited Ariane Peralta. The band released their first album Yr. Money or Yr. Life in October 2000. The album garnered many positive critical reviews, and
812-531: Was released in 2006 on both CD and vinyl by Polyvinyl Records . On August 27, 2006, the Like Young announced their retirement citing the need to move on and make smart decisions. In the announcement, Joe mentioned that the decision was a happy one. Joe soon returned to music and released Love at 30 in 2008 as Beaujolais ; this record addresses the end of the Ziembas' marriage. Joe relocated to Los Angeles after 2009's Admirations . In June 2011, Joe released
841-424: Was released in the summer of 2004 on Parasol Records. Reviews for So Serious were more positive than for Art Contest , with some reviewers sharply contrasting the two. Tim Sendra of Allmusic wrote that " Art Contest was a slab of formulaic punk-pop bereft of inspiration and hooks... So Serious makes no radical changes but is about 100 percent better and less cute, more real." Their final album, Last Secrets ,
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