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Sean Carnage is a director and producer living in [[Los Angeles]].
{{Short description|American director and producer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sean Carnage
| image = File:Director Sean Carnage presents his film March 1, 2020 at Zebulon Cafe in Los Angeles, California.png
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| birth_name = Sean Carney
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| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], U.S
| known_for = Director<br>Producer<br>Concert promoter<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXxjCwAAQBAJ&q=Sean+Carnage&pg=PT49|title = Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's|isbn = 9781621061366|last1 = Biel|first1 = Joe|date = 15 March 2016}}</ref>
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| education = [[Case Western Reserve University]]<br>[[National Endowment for the Humanities]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gatCP2rDCWoC&q=sean+carney+national+endowment+for+the+humanities&pg=PA63|title = National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report|year = 1991}}</ref>
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| website = {{url|https://www.seancarnage.com}}
}}'''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, Los Angeles|Echo Park]], Carnage has also hosted his "Monday nights" in the past at Los Angeles venues [[The Smell]] and the [[il Corral]].<ref>{{cite interview |last= Carnage |first= Sean |url= http://larecord.com/interviews/2009/07/05/sean-carnage-noisy-and-gay-right-from-the-start |interviewer= Drew Denny|title= SEAN CARNAGE: NOISY AND GAY RIGHT FROM THE START |location=Los Angeles |date= July 5, 2009 |work= L.A. Record |accessdate=26 February 2012}}</ref>


His feature-length video [[40 Bands 80 Minutes!]] was released in 2006,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://laist.com/2006/12/22/sean_carnages_angelenos_who_inspire_him_to_be_bad.php|title=Sean Carnage's Angelenos Who Inspire Him To Be Bad|last=Pierce|first=Tony|date=22 December 2006|work=[[Gothamist]]|accessdate=23 August 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109012155/http://laist.com/2006/12/22/sean_carnages_angelenos_who_inspire_him_to_be_bad.php|archivedate=9 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=117A079D537264C0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Critics' Choice|date=March 2, 2007|work=[[Detroit News]]|accessdate=23 August 2011}}</ref> and re-released in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/pehrspace-in-trouble-sean-carnage-to-move-monday-nights-temporarily/|title=Pehrspace in Trouble, Sean Carnage to Move Monday Nights Temporarily?|date=June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-screening-40-bands-80-minutes-remastered-tickets-91722445303|title = Free screening: 40 BANDS / 80 MINUTES! Remastered}}</ref>
His feature-length video [[40 Bands 80 Minutes!]] was released in [[2006]].


==Early life and career==
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==External links/References==
Sean Carney was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/lust-all-access/Content?oid=1534759|title=Lust: All Access}}</ref> He dropped out of [[Case Western Reserve University]] where he was a [[National Endowment for the Humanities|National Endowment for the Humanities of Art History]] to hang out at the Euclid Tavern and listen to underground rock groups like [[Craw (band)|Craw]] and the [[The Jesus Lizard|Jesus Lizard]]. He'd played in bands, written about music, and booked shows at the funky DIY venue Speak in Tongues.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pP13CAAAQBAJ&q=Sean+Carnage&pg=PA3|title=Beyond the Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, and Values|isbn=9781621065340|last1=Biel|first1=Joe|date=28 November 2014}}</ref> He helmed local monthly music magazine U.S. Rocker for a year before it folded in late 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/lust-all-access/Content?oid=1534759|title=Lust: All Access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.drewtewksbury.com/new-blog/los-angeles-experimental-music-the-smell-history|title=Abusing the Threshold: Turning the Screws of los Angeles' Experimental Noise Scene}}</ref>
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In October 2002, he headed west to Los Angeles, hoping to find work in publishing and break into TV and video. Shortly after landing in L.A., Carney responded to a newspaper ad seeking an assistant to the editorial director of a "top men's magazine."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.drewtewksbury.com/new-blog/los-angeles-experimental-music-the-smell-history|title=Abusing the Threshold: Turning the Screws of los Angeles' Experimental Noise Scene}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/pdextra/2007/02/maverick_exclevelander_finds_h.html|title = Maverick ex-Clevelander finds his music muse with rockumentary|date = 23 February 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&q=Sean+Carnage&pg=PA380|title = Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore|isbn = 9781458779885|last1 = Escoffier|first1 = Jeffrey|date = 19 October 2010}}</ref>
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* [http://www.40bands80minutes.com The Official 40 Bands 80 Minutes! webpage]

==As a producer==
Carney produced Queer Edge with [[Jack E. Jett]] and [[Sandra Bernhard]] at [[Q Television Network|Queer Television]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/lust-all-access/Content?oid=1534759|title=Lust: All Access}}</ref>
In 2006 Carney, as Sean Carnage produced [[40 Bands 80 Minutes!]] a [[rockumentary]] about the Los Angeles underground music scene.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.drewtewksbury.com/new-blog/los-angeles-experimental-music-the-smell-history|title=Abusing the Threshold: Turning the Screws of los Angeles' Experimental Noise Scene}}</ref> Carney was also the director of the film. The sequel to 40 Bands 80 Minutes! was filmed in 2007 but never been released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/various-artists-40-bands-80-minutes-dvd-2495776431.html|title = Various Artists: 40 Bands 80 Minutes &#91;DVD&#93;, PopMatters|date = 16 January 2007}}</ref>

==As concert promoter==
[[File:Sean Carnage performs with Cockwind at Pehrspace in Los Angeles, California, in January 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Carnage performs with his band Hawkwind cover band Cockwind at Pehrspace in Los Angeles, California, in January 2010]]

Carnage is notable for his weekly shows Sean Carnage Monday Nights which ran for over 500 consecutive weekly shows from 2005-2014. From 2007-2014 the shows took place at Pehrspace in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles. The shows known for wildly eclectic line-ups, mixing electro-punk, hardcore, noise, and acoustic sounds with Kyle Mabson's often dance-pop heavy DJ sets. Past shows have featured [[Abe Vigoda (band)|Abe Vigoda]], Anavan, [[Health (band)|Health]], and [[Captain Ahab (band)|Captain Ahab]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/live-in-l-a-sean-carnage-celebrates-three-years-of-monday-nights/|title=Live in L.A.: Sean Carnage Celebrates Three Years of Monday Nights|date=5 August 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/pehrspace-in-trouble-sean-carnage-to-move-monday-nights-temporarily/|title=Pehrspace in Trouble, Sean Carnage to Move Monday Nights Temporarily?|date=June 2009}}</ref>
Carnage also promoted shows at Il Corral. The first show was Haircut Mountain Transit, FM Bats, Buko, Ugly Shyla, Szandora… and Jell-O shots.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-01-wk-cover1-story.html|title=ID? No way|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=February 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://larecord.com/interviews/2009/07/05/sean-carnage-noisy-and-gay-right-from-the-start|title = Sean Carnage: Noisy and Gay Right from the Start}}</ref>

==Awards==
Carnage is a [[Cannes]] Gold Lion award-winning digital producer of Stance x Star Wars “Shop with the Force” mobile app.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelaegotist.com/news/shop-for-socks-using-the-force-stance-socks-and-la-based-creative-agency-zambezi-team-to-pay-homage-to-star-wars/|title=Shop for Socks Using "The Force" - Stance Socks and LA-based Creative Agency Zambezi Team to Pay Homage to Star Wars}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lebook.com/creative/stance-socks-starwars-collection-advertising-2015|title = Stance Socks &#124; Starwars Collection &#124; le Book}}</ref> In 2010, L.A. Weekly named Carnage “Best Experimental-Music Promoter.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/best-experimental-music-promoter/|title = Best Experimental-Music Promoter|date = October 2009}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070225043721/http://www.40bands80minutes.com/ The Official 40 Bands 80 Minutes! webpage]
* [http://www.seancarnage.com Director Sean Carnage's blog]
* [http://www.seancarnage.com Director Sean Carnage's blog]
* [http://larecord.com/interviews/2009/07/05/sean-carnage-noisy-and-gay-right-from-the-start/#more-32551 July 2009 Interview] with [[L.A. Record]]

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Latest revision as of 19:06, 27 November 2024

Sean Carnage
Born
Sean Carney

Los Angeles, U.S
EducationCase Western Reserve University
National Endowment for the Humanities[1]
Known forDirector
Producer
Concert promoter[2]
Websitewww.seancarnage.com

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 Los Angeles venues The Smell and the il Corral.[3]

His feature-length video 40 Bands 80 Minutes! was released in 2006,[4][5] and re-released in 2020.[6][7]

Early life and career

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Sean Carney was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.[8] He dropped out of Case Western Reserve University where he was a National Endowment for the Humanities of Art History to hang out at the Euclid Tavern and listen to underground rock groups like Craw and the Jesus Lizard. He'd played in bands, written about music, and booked shows at the funky DIY venue Speak in Tongues.[9] He helmed local monthly music magazine U.S. Rocker for a year before it folded in late 1998.[10][11] In October 2002, he headed west to Los Angeles, hoping to find work in publishing and break into TV and video. Shortly after landing in L.A., Carney responded to a newspaper ad seeking an assistant to the editorial director of a "top men's magazine."[12][13][14]

As a producer

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Carney produced Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett and Sandra Bernhard at Queer Television.[15] In 2006 Carney, as Sean Carnage produced 40 Bands 80 Minutes! a rockumentary about the Los Angeles underground music scene.[16] Carney was also the director of the film. The sequel to 40 Bands 80 Minutes! was filmed in 2007 but never been released.[17]

As concert promoter

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Carnage performs with his band Hawkwind cover band Cockwind at Pehrspace in Los Angeles, California, in January 2010

Carnage is notable for his weekly shows Sean Carnage Monday Nights which ran for over 500 consecutive weekly shows from 2005-2014. From 2007-2014 the shows took place at Pehrspace in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles. The shows known for wildly eclectic line-ups, mixing electro-punk, hardcore, noise, and acoustic sounds with Kyle Mabson's often dance-pop heavy DJ sets. Past shows have featured Abe Vigoda, Anavan, Health, and Captain Ahab.[18][19] Carnage also promoted shows at Il Corral. The first show was Haircut Mountain Transit, FM Bats, Buko, Ugly Shyla, Szandora… and Jell-O shots.[20][21]

Awards

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Carnage is a Cannes Gold Lion award-winning digital producer of Stance x Star Wars “Shop with the Force” mobile app.[22][23] In 2010, L.A. Weekly named Carnage “Best Experimental-Music Promoter.”[24]

References

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  1. ^ "National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report". 1991.
  2. ^ Biel, Joe (15 March 2016). Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's. ISBN 9781621061366.
  3. ^ Carnage, Sean (July 5, 2009). "SEAN CARNAGE: NOISY AND GAY RIGHT FROM THE START". L.A. Record (Interview). Interviewed by Drew Denny. Los Angeles. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  4. ^ Pierce, Tony (22 December 2006). "Sean Carnage's Angelenos Who Inspire Him To Be Bad". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 9 January 2009. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Critics' Choice". Detroit News. March 2, 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  6. ^ "Pehrspace in Trouble, Sean Carnage to Move Monday Nights Temporarily?". June 2009.
  7. ^ "Free screening: 40 BANDS / 80 MINUTES! Remastered".
  8. ^ "Lust: All Access".
  9. ^ Biel, Joe (28 November 2014). Beyond the Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, and Values. ISBN 9781621065340.
  10. ^ "Lust: All Access".
  11. ^ "Abusing the Threshold: Turning the Screws of los Angeles' Experimental Noise Scene".
  12. ^ "Abusing the Threshold: Turning the Screws of los Angeles' Experimental Noise Scene".
  13. ^ "Maverick ex-Clevelander finds his music muse with rockumentary". 23 February 2007.
  14. ^ Escoffier, Jeffrey (19 October 2010). Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore. ISBN 9781458779885.
  15. ^ "Lust: All Access".
  16. ^ "Abusing the Threshold: Turning the Screws of los Angeles' Experimental Noise Scene".
  17. ^ "Various Artists: 40 Bands 80 Minutes [DVD], PopMatters". 16 January 2007.
  18. ^ "Live in L.A.: Sean Carnage Celebrates Three Years of Monday Nights". 5 August 2008.
  19. ^ "Pehrspace in Trouble, Sean Carnage to Move Monday Nights Temporarily?". June 2009.
  20. ^ "ID? No way". Los Angeles Times. February 2007.
  21. ^ "Sean Carnage: Noisy and Gay Right from the Start".
  22. ^ "Shop for Socks Using "The Force" - Stance Socks and LA-based Creative Agency Zambezi Team to Pay Homage to Star Wars".
  23. ^ "Stance Socks | Starwars Collection | le Book".
  24. ^ "Best Experimental-Music Promoter". October 2009.
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