At the Knitting Factory, showtime at 8 PM:

Chris Cochrane

Since moving to New York City, Chris has performed regularly in bands and improvised with hundreds of players. He is considered to be one of the most brilliant, daring, singular guitarists and songwriters out there. In addition to his rare solo recordings and work with a number of bands, including the legendary, groundbreaking experimental prog unit NO SAFETY, which he co-founded with harpist Zeena Parkins, he has played live and/or recorded with an astounding array of similarly great musicians (John Zorn, Bongwater, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori, …) visual artists, and choreographers. Filling out the trio are Hanna Fox (drums and vocals) and Tim Thomas (bass and vocal) of Babe the Blue Ox fame.

Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog with guest Eszter Balint

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of downtown New York City mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Lounge Lizards, Elvis Costello) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Secret Chiefs 3), with West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music, including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, 80s No-Wave, avant-garde and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith’s indie / electronica experimentation, into the power-packed Party Intellectuals.