Il Corral was a venue located in

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, California. that provided performance space for underground artists. It was founded by Bob Bellerue and Stane Hubert in January 2005. Bellerue ceased involvement in September 2006; Hubert and Christie Scott continued the venture until December 2007. Il Corral provided for music and film festivals: The Turn the Screws Fest, Noisepollination, Harsh Noise v. Metal, Druid Underground Film Festival, Aloud Fest, Salient Lock-Up, The Curse of El Topo, Bent, Hollywood Nihilist Comedy Spectacular and Thee Dung Mummy; benefit shows for the Los Angeles Eco-Village, Kill-Radio and Tarantula Hill; and workshops for circuit bending and puppetry. It was a centre for L.A. director

Sean Carnage Sean Carnage, born Sean Carney, is an American director and producer living in Los Angeles. He is also a concert promoter, hosting "Sean Carnage Monday Nights" at Pehrspace in Echo Park, Carnage has also hosted his "Monday nights" in the past at Lo ...

's weekly Monday night event. Carnage's "Monday nights" were documented in the movie

40 Bands 80 Minutes! ''40 Bands 80 Minutes!'' is a 2006 American rockumentary about the Los Angeles underground music scene in 2006 directed by Sean Carnage. In the style of ''Urgh! A Music War'', ''40 Bands 80 Minutes!'' is a series of punk and experimental musical p ...

, filmed entirely inside the Il Corral; in March 2007, after approximately 50 shows,

moved his Monday night events to

Pehrspace Pehrspace was an Indie music venue and art gallery situated in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. It was founded in 2006 by Adam Hervey and Darren King, and was later owned and operated by Pauline Lay. History Founded in 2006 by Adam Hervey and ...

. In addition to live recordings for CD and DVD, Il Corral hosted studio recordings for ''Amplified Piano Duets'' by Bob Bellerue & Jarrett Silberman, ''Snow White In Hell'' by KILT, ''Scavenger's Feast'' by Hive Mind, and also ''Corral Comp 05'' for artists who had performed in the venue during 2005. Il Corral provided 215 live shows from January, 2006 until its closure in December 2007. It also served as a Bookshop and Record Store, selling cheap books on eclecticism, and music movies from the venue’s performers. Scott and Hubert opened a similar venue, Zero-Point, south of downtown L.A.; Bellerue left Los Angeles for Brooklyn curating numerous shows around NYC and most notably the Ende Tymes Fest since 2011. In October 2009, Il Corral was featured in ''Paper Cuts'', a web site magazine produced by music label papercutsrecords.com.

Bands that played at Il Corral

* Bastard Noise * Bipolar Bear *

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* Captain Ahab *

Foot Village Foot Village is a tribal noise rock band based in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of members Brian Miller, Grace Lee, Gregory Witscher, and Josh Taylor. The band has been described as a "drum-n-shout assembly". In a review of their 200 ...

The Haters The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based musician, artist, w ...

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* High Places *

Jessica Rylan Jessica Rylan (born 1974) is a sound artist, electronic musician and engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. Most of Rylan's work is based on the design and construction of DIY modular synthesizers, which she then uses to create a variety of sounds ...

* John Wiese *

Kraig Grady Kraig Grady (born 1952) is a US-Australian composer/sound artist. He has composed and performed with an ensemble of microtonal instruments of his own design and also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker, world music radio DJ ...

* Metalux * Nels Cline *

Raven Chacon Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné-American composer, musician and artist. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his '' Voiceless Mass'' in 2022. ...

The Tuna Helpers The Tuna Helpers (often, but not always, spelled TheTunaHelpers on albums and promotional materials) was an all-female American indie gothic psychedelic art folk rock band based in Austin, Texas from 2000–2007, noted for their elaborate puppet ...

* Thomas Dimuzio *

Wolf Eyes __NOTOC__ Wolf Eyes is an American experimental music group from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1996 by Nate Young. Currently a duo, Wolf Eyes are a prominent act within contemporary noise music. They have collaborated with a variety of artists from ...

References

External links

Il Corral's website

Zero-Point's website
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