Non-Profit Organization Seeking Local Families for Hosting High School Exchange Students
ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with your community high school, is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of countries: Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, to name a few.
ASSE students come with an enthusiasm to practice their English and experience American culture - food, sports, shopping and more. They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families welcome these students into their family, not as a guest, but as a family member, giving both the students and families a rich cultural experience.
In addition, ASSE students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, accident and liability insurance. ASSE students are academically selected into the program, and host families can choose their student from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and personal interests.
To become a host family or to find out how to become involved with ASSE in your community, please call us at the ASSE Western Regional Office at 1-800-733-2773 or go to www.host.asse.com to choose your student and begin your host family application.
There are many students to choose from, so begin the process of welcoming your new son or daughter into your family today!
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GATHERERS
Premiere New Album
We Are Alive Beyond Repair
via Bring The Noise
Out June 1st, 2018 via Equal Vision Records
Available for Pre-Order at gatherers.lnk.to/alive
Previously featured on
Billboard, Substream Magazine,
New Noise Magazine & more
May 31, 2018 - New Jersey rock band Gatherers is thrilled to share their brand new album We Are Alive Beyond Repair, streaming in full now via Bring The Noise, here: http://bit.ly/2H7oh0E. We Are Alive Beyond Repair will be released this Friday, June 1st, via Equal Vision Records. For more information or to pre-order the album, please visit: gatherers.lnk.to/alive.
"We wanted this album to be as ugly and as horribly truthful as possible," explains vocalist Rich Weinberger. "It has this very human but flawed connotation to it. It's very pessimistic. I was reading a lot of Sylvia Plath at the time we were writing this record and I just like that the fabric of our existence is very meek and it's dull and, no matter what, nothing will ever get better. That was the angle I wanted to explore with this record. It's the idea of being just being completely unfulfilled, that no matter how much time we put into this band it'll never be self-fulfilling."
Plath's poetry was far from the only source of inspiration for the bleak mindset that possesses every sinew of these songs. Weinberger took, as he always has done, inspiration from visual art, while the band - completed by bassist Matt Popowski, drummer Adam Cichocki, and guitarists Anthony Gesa and Rob Talalai - sought to create a soundtrack to an imagined palette of colors, to create an atmosphere based on abstractions and turn it into something altogether more visceral and real.
The result is an album that flows with the blood of other people, rather than the band itself. "Every Pain In Monochrome", for example, was informed by the story of British author Virginia Woolfe, who took her life by filling her pockets with stones and walking into a river, while "The Floorboards Are Breathing" was sparked by the HBO documentary Every Fucking Day Of My Life (later retitled One Minute To Nine) which tells the tale of a woman who was for years a victim of domestic abuse before snapping and killing her husband with a hammer. Weinberger is swift to point out, however, that these songs aren't about those people or their situations. It's more that they served as a springboard for them.
"I like writing with a giant brush of ambiguity," says Weinberger, "and every song on this record is written from some sort of abstract perspective. I love a lot of bands that write from a first person perspective, but I don't like writing like that. It becomes very tedious to me. So these songs aren't about Virginia Woolfe or the woman who killed her husband. That's all ground zero source material. It's more of a vicarious headspace that I want to get people to explore."
It's an approach that has produced a spine-chilling interpretation of what post-hardcore can be, one which is at once familiar but which pushes the boundaries of the genre to extremes. Recorded during most of the month of April 2017 at VuDu Studios in Long Island with Mike Watts and Frank Mitaritonna - who have worked with Glassjaw, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and The Dear Hunter, among many others - by a band that are as much inspired by Interpol and Radiohead, We Are Alive Beyond Repair can be absolutely vicious but wraps the majority of its songs (and their rage, their angst, their turbulence) in a dense but beautiful shimmer of guitars. That constant wall of sound, built around layers of sumptuous but brooding atmospherics, is both powerful and fragile, simultaneously collapsing while it also holding all the fractured emotions contained within its folds in place. It makes for a complete body of work, a savage but thrilling journey into that dark, never-ending tunnel of nihilism.
Gatherers will release their 3rd studio album, We Are Alive Beyond Repair on June 1st, 2018 via Equal Vision Records. The band will be touring this summer in support of the album with Bent Knee, in addition to having recently performed at this year's BLED FEST in Howell, MI, alongside Joyce Manor, Basement, Foxing, Norma Jean, Rozwell Kid, Slingshot Dakota, and more. For additional information, please visit: www.gatherersband.com
For More Information, please visit:
Website: www.gatherersband.com
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Upcoming Tour Dates:
6/2 - Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall
6/3 - Providence, RI @ Fete Music Hall
6/4 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
6/6 - Asbury Park, NJ @ THE SAINT
6/7 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
6/8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
6/9 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
6/11 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
6/14 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
6/15 - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
6/16 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links
6/17 - Austin, TX @ The Sidewinder
6/19 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad
6/20 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
6/21 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
6/22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater
6/23 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
6/24 - San Jose, CA @ SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
6/28 - Eugene, OR @ HiFi Music Hall
6/29 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
6/30 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
7/3 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
7/5 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
7/6 - Denver, CO @ Lost Lake
7/7 - Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
7/8 - St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
7/10 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
7/11 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
7/12 - Madison, WI @ The Frequency
7/13 - Lansing, MI @ Macs Bar
7/14 - Detroit, MI @ The Loving Touch
7/15 - Bellefontaine, OH @ Holland Theater
7/17 - Cleveland, OH @ The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern
7/18 - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
7/19 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
7/21 - Amityville, NY @ Amityville Music Hall
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