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Liars

Liars are...

• Angus Andrew - vocals
• Aaron Hemphill - guitar
• Julian Gross - drums

Former members include:

Deerhoof

Deerhoof was formed in San Francisco by Greg Saunier (drums and vocals) and Rob Fisk (bass and vocals) on April 5, 1994. After seeing them play at the 1995 Yoyo-A-Gogo festival in Olympia, Kill Rock Stars founder Slim Moon decided to release their first single, Return of the Wood M'lady. Within a week of arriving from Japan to the U.S. in April 1996, Satomi Matsuzaki heard the single. With no prior musical experience, she joined the band as vocalist and went on tour with Deerhoof two weeks later. Rob moved away from San Francisco in 1997, leaving Satomi and Greg to complete Deerhoof's first CD, The Man, the King, the Girl, which was co-released in 1997 by Kill Rock Stars and Moon's new label 5 Rue Christine. By 1998, Satomi had begun playing bass, and Rob returned and rejoined (playing guitar), along with Kelly Goode (keyboard). After recording 1999's Holdypaws, again for KRS/5RC, Rob and Kelly moved away, and were replaced by John Dieterich (formerly of Colossamite) on guitar, who had just moved to the Bay Area from Minneapolis. After recording a concert with this new lineup in 2000, Deerhoof released Koalamagic (on the Australian label Dual Plover), which also included other live recordings from past years. Halfbird, an album of music begun with Rob four years earlier, was completed and released (on Menlo Park) in 2001. During 2000 and 2001, Satomi, John and Greg also recorded new music for this lineup's first studio album, Reveille, released on KRS/5RC in 2002. That same year, after Deerhoof became friends with another local band, The Curtains, Curtains guitarist Chris Cohen joined Deerhoof. Late in 2002 they recorded Apple O', released on KRS/5RC in March 2003.

Chris and Greg currently play together in The Curtains, along with Andrew Maxwell. John and Chris play in Natural Dreamers with Jay Pellicci. John plays with former Colossamite members Ed Rodriguez and Chad Popple in Gorge Trio. Greg plays with Zach Hill and Joanna Newsom in Nervous Cop. Rob and Kelly currently play in 7 Year Rabbit Cycle.

Deerhoof is considered by many to be one of the most original bands currently playing. Points of comparison may or may not include garage, bubblegum, punk, noise, top 40, Japanimation theme songs, The Swingle Singers, Beethoven, Jane Birkin, Hella, The Danielson Famile, or Argentinian-German composer Mauricio Kagel.»

Black Lips

Retro-blues lo-fi outfit made up of Cole, Jared, Ian and Joe... and King Khan(?). They call it 'flower punk' (or rather they've been called 'flower punk'). It's fairly swell whatever the hook you hang it on. For fans of The Germs, The Hunches, The Stooges, et cetera.

Black Lips formed when, as teenagers, after-school friends Cole Alexander (guitar / vocals) and Jared Swilley (bass / vocals) signed up their friends Joe Bradley (drums / vocals) and Ben Eberbaugh (guitar). They swiftly becoming one of the Atlanta underground's most talked about bands, they were banned from numerous venues for their wild live shows and released albums and seven-inches on different underground garage labels like Bomp and In The Red. Tragically, Eberbaugh was killed in a freak traffic accident but the band carried on with New Orleans-born Ian St Pe. These events would go on to influence the song 'How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died', a standout track on album four, Good Bad, Not Evil.

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F*ck Buttons

Euphoric, expansive, inspired melodic-noise brilliance. THE UNIVERSE IS SCREAMING.

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Deerhunter

• Bradford Cox
• Moses Archuleta
• Josh Fauver
• Colin Mee (left briefly in 2007)
• Lockett Pundt

Deerhunter began in 2001 as the brainchild of Bradford Cox and Moses Archuleta, with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock. Due to shifting line up changes and uncertainty about what musical direction to undertake, Deerhunter shows during this time period were very interesting. One never knew quite what to expect with each show being completely different from the previous show. After definitively adding Josh Fauver and Colin Mee, Deerhunter recorded their self-titled first album, often known as Turn it up, Faggot (2005, Stickfigure) after what had been yelled at them at numerous gigs.

Cryptograms is their second full-length, and their first for Kranky. The album took almost two years to finish and was the product of emotional, physical, and financial strain on the group. The first half of the album was recorded first unsuccessfully and the band considered giving up. The idea arose to give it one last shot and they returned to the small studio where they recorded their first studio and plugged in. The session resulted in the first half of the record which was recorded in one day. The second half of the record was also recorded in one day, in November 2005.