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 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 Echo Park, Carnage has also hosted his "Monday nights" in the past at Los Angeles venues The Smell and the

il Corral Il Corral was a venue located in Los Angeles, 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 S ...

. His feature-length video

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 ...

was released in 2006, and re-released in 2020.

Early life and career

Sean Carney was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He dropped out of

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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

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and the Jesus Lizard. He'd played in bands, written about music, and booked shows at the funky DIY venue Speak in Tongues. He helmed local monthly music magazine U.S. Rocker for a year before it folded in late 1998. 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."

As a producer

Carney produced Queer Edge with

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and

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at Queer Television. In 2006 Carney, as Sean Carnage produced

a rockumentary about the Los Angeles underground music scene. Carney was also the director of the film. The sequel to 40 Bands 80 Minutes! was filmed in 2007 but never been released.

As concert promoter

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. Carnage also promoted shows at Il Corral. The first show was Haircut Mountain Transit, FM Bats, Buko, Ugly Shyla, Szandora… and Jell-O shots.

Awards

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

References

External links

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The Official 40 Bands 80 Minutes! webpage

Director Sean Carnage's blog

July 2009 Interview
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