Dirty Three

The Flaming Lips, Iron and Wine, Animal Collective, Deerhoof, Caribou, Panda Bear, Deerhunter, Melvins, Akron/Family, El-P, No Age, Suicide, Boredoms, Autolux, The Jesus Lizard, Black Dice, Atlas Sound, Dead Meadow, The Feelies, Antipop Consortium, David Cross, The Drones, Boss Hog, Sleepy Sun, and Bridezilla

Date: 11/09/2009

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About the artists

The Flaming Lips

From skronky leftfield guitar music to out there psychedelic pop, The Flaming Lips are one of the most consistently innovative bands around today.

The Flaming Lips are...

Wayne Coyne - vocals, guitar
Michael Ivins - bass
Steve Drozd - drums
Jonathan Donahue - guitar (left 1992)
Roland Jones - guitar (left 1998)
Jonathan Ponemann - guitar (left 1998)
Richard English - drums (left 1989)
Nathan Roberts - drums (left 1993)

Iron and Wine is singer-songwriter Sam Beam, a man who makes deafeningly quiet country-folk, replete with strummed acoustics, twanged banjos and lazy slide guitars,influenced by Nick Drake, Elliott Smith and Will Oldham amongst others.

His debut album, the lo-fi The Creek Drank The Cradle, was released on the newly-eclectic Sub Pop back in 2002 to much critical slavering, followed by the similar-sounding 'Sea & Rhythm' EP.

Two more (professionally recorded) albums followed, Our Endless Numbered Days (2004) and The Shepherd's Dog (2007), the releases of which were split by more EPs; the Woman King EP (2005), the In The Reins EP (2005, a split with Calexico), and the Such Great Heights EP (2006), featuring a cover of the Postal Service song of the same name which proved highly popular via the medium of TV advertising.

Animal Collective

A free-form psych-folk band made up of four members - Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deacon and Geologist.

PAW TRACKS.

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.»

Caribou

Formerly known as Manitoba, Caribou have a new album, The Milk Of Human Kindness, out now on Leaf Records.
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Panda Bear

AKA Noah Lennox, full time member of Animal Collective.

Albums to date:

Person Pitch (2007)

Photograph by Ryan Pfluger, from Noah's MySpace page, here.

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.

Melvins

Akron/Family

Brilliant NYC based band on Michael Gira's Young God label. Their extended songs consist of washes of ambient sound melting over gently strummed chords and mesmerising instrumental post-rock... each song feels like three songs' worth of ideas crammed into one composition, without ever feeling crowded or rushed... their debut album Akron/Family CD is out now, and their first UK gig is May 26th at ULU.

El-P

Born in 1975, El-P (aka El Producto, or even Jaime Meline) is a rapper and co-founder/CEO of the Def Jux label.

Expelled from a variety of schools in his youth, Meline developed a love for jazz music via his father, Harry Keys, a jazz pianist. He formed the hip-hop group Company Flow in 1992 following a chance encounter with Mr Len. Highly acclaimed, Company Flow split in 2001 following much praise for their 1997 LP Funcrusher Plus.

El-P's debut solo album, Fantastic Damage, was released in 2002. A follow-up proper, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, emerged in 2007.

From Wikipedia:

As a rapper, El-P's style can be characterized by his dense, aggressive, and verbose attacks, which include notable use of metaphor, science fiction and fantasy themes and references, and associative word play. Regardless of this sophistication, he does not eschew traditional hip hop subject matter, a description which would fit equally well with several of his colleagues. His impact as a producer owes to his innovative mix of bleak futurism and low fidelity sounds. This sound is influenced by Public Enemy's production team, The Bomb Squad. El-P is a great fan of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and many of Dick's themes—paranoia, the nature of reality—feature in El-P's work.

El-P's MySpace page is HERE.

No Age

From the band's MySpace:

NO AGE is two people right now. RANDY RANDALL and DEAN SPUNT. They were both in the band WIVES. first show was 1/22/06 at NEW IMAGE ART show / reception for RICH JACOBS, ROB LEECOCK and RICK FROBERG. They only told thier girlfriends about it.

Their MySpace page is here. It now has songs on it. Fo'real.

Suicide

Boredoms

Autolux

Autolux Says: We are Carla, Greg and, Eugene.

Autolux Says: We use Drums, Guitars, Bass & Voice-overs.

Autolux Says: We like to make a lot of noise.

Autolux Says: We're hungry.
Autolux Says: We have gifts for you if you're nice.

Autolux Says: We want to be liked.

Autolux Says: We live in the United States (90027-90039).
Autolux Says: We are pop music.

Autolux Says: We want to avoid the bad people.

Autolux Says: We don't care if we're not liked.
Autolux Says: We know a lot about the future.»

The Jesus Lizard

Black Dice

Black Dice formed in Brooklyn, New York, back in 1997. After spending time on the DFA label, the trio are currently signed to Paw Tracks.

Beginning as a purposefully noisy, thrash-fuelled outfit, Black Dive have begun to shift towards a more melodic direction of late. That said, it must be stressed that the most commercial-sounding Black Dice material is still pretty far out there.

Members:
Bjorn Copeland
Eric Copeland
Aaron Warren

Album discography:

Untitled (Troubleman Unlimited, 2000)
Cold Hands (Troubleman Unlimited/Catsup Plate, 2001)
Beaches & Canyons (DFA, FatCat Records 2002)
Lost Valley (Catsup Plate, 2003)
Cone Toaster (DFA, 2003)
Creature Comforts (DFA/FatCat Records, 2004)
Broken Ear Record (DFA/EMI, 2005) Load Blown (Paw Tracks, 2007)