Explosions In The Sky
Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mars Volta, Devendra Banhart, Múm, Deerhoof, Battles, Tortoise, The Breeders, Mudhoney, Melvins, Six Organs Of Admittance, Lightning Bolt, Dirty Three, F*ck Buttons, Sunn O))), Shellac, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Edan, OM, Polvo, Bardo Pond, Papa M, The Drones, Growing, The For Carnation, Apse, Afrirampo, J Mascis and the Fog, Sleepy Sun, Alexander Tucker, Beak, Tall Firs, Porn, The Magic Band, and Youm
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- Apse »
- Afrirampo »
- J Mascis and the Fog »
- Sleepy Sun »
- Alexander Tucker »
- Beak »
- Tall Firs »
- Porn »
- The Magic Band »
- Edan »
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks »
- Shellac »
- Modest Mouse »
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs »
- The Mars Volta »
- Devendra Banhart »
- Múm »
- Deerhoof »
- Battles »
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- Mudhoney »
- Melvins »
- Six Organs Of Admittance »
- Lightning Bolt »
- Dirty Three »
- F*ck Buttons »
- Sunn O))) »
- Youm »
About the venue
About the artists
Explosions In The Sky
Chris Hrasky - drums
Michael James - bass
Munaf Rayani - guitar
Mark Smith - guitar
Born on the 4th July 1999 in Austin, Texas, EITS deal in immense instrumental guitar avalanches and have released four albums - How Strange, Innocence (2000), Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (2001), The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place (2003) and All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone (2007).»
Modest Mouse
Formerly signed to Matador and fronted by eccentric singer Issac Brock, Modest Mouse finally broke into the American mainstream in spring 2004 with the hit album Good News For People Who Love Bad News, and massive airplay single (plus featuring on a car advert can't have damaged it too much) 'Float On'.
Albums to date:
This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
The Fruit That Ate Itself(1997)
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Sad Sappy Sucker (2001)
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
Photograph by Autumn de Wilde from the band's MySpace page, here.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are...
- Karen O - vocals
- Nick Zinner - guitar
- Brian Chase - drums
Photo by Sonia Melot»
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta is (2007):
Omar Rodríguez-López
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens
Juan Alderete
Thomas Pridgen
Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
Adrián Terrazas-González
Paul Hinojos
Official website: here
MySpace: here
The Mars Volta grew from the band De Facto, which featured Cedric and Omar during, and after, their time with acclaimed punk act At The Drive-In. Moving from Texas to Long Beach, California, the band's sound evolved and their first release, the Tremulant EP, was released via GSL in 2002.
Studio LPs:
De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
Frances The Mute (2005)
Amputechture (2006)
The Bedlam in Goliath (2008)
Devendra Banhart
New York singer/songwriter. Debut album, 'Oh Me Oh My The Way the Day Goes By The Sun is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit' was well-liked by those in 'the know', where ever that actually is. Probably somewhere south of Brooklyn. Michael Gira of Young God Records says: "When I first heard the voice of this completely unknown, precociously talented 21-year-old songwriter, I could not believe it. His occasionally warbling falsetto is alternately bizarre, comical, and often a little frightening. Coupled with his advanced finger-picking guitar style - which itself often veers schizophrenically from gentle grooves into jolting, non-rhythmic stabs and weird harmonic flights of chaos - and the wildly surreal nature of his truly exceptional lyrics - each of the songs contain their own special drama and immediately memorable melodies - no mean feat when your instrumentation is acoustic guitar and voice, with only the occasional hand clap or whistle thrown in as "orchestration." It's ridiculously compelling, low-tech, utterly personal, and hand-made, devoid of any self-consciousness or artifice. Just utterly personal and idiosyncratic, magically twisted and imaginative"»
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.»
The Breeders
- Kelley Deal - vocals, guitar
- Kim Deal - vocals, guitar
- Richard Presley - guitar
- Mando Lopez - bass
- Jose Medeles - drums
- Tanya Donelly - vocals, guitar (left 1992)
- Josephine Wiggs - bass (left 1995)
- Shannon Doughty - drums (left 1991)
- Jim MacPherson - drums (left 1997)
Six Organs Of Admittance
Ben Chasny, currently of Comets on Fire, steps out in an easier-on-the-ear folk-ish style.»
Lightning Bolt
Double-fast experimental noise duo comprising of drummer Brian Chippendale and bassist Brian Gibson...info@laserbeast.com
Their live show is beyond belief. What with Chippendale drumming faster han most men can do anything, let alone drum; and the fact that they play in the middle of the floor and not on the stage means that the crowd pulsates continuously while constantly treatening to collapse onto the drums or Gibson's bass. Security hate it, punk rock mate...yeeeah.»
F*ck Buttons
Euphoric, expansive, inspired melodic-noise brilliance. THE UNIVERSE IS SCREAMING.
Note: Due to people's work filters we've had to censored their band name. »
Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond are...
- Isobel Sollenberger - vocals, woodwind
- John Gibbons - guitar
- Michael Gibbons - guitar
- Clint Takeda - bass
- Ed Farnsworth - drums
- Joe Culver - drums
Papa M
Band member:
David Pajo - Guitarist, songwriter, Engineer
Influences:
Blind Willie Johnson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Nick Drake, Washington Philips, The Mekons
Favourite Albums:
'Music For 18 Musicians' - Steve Reich
I hear something new in it every time
'It's Alive' - Ramones
This record got me through high school, alive
Anything else you would like to add?
I've never lost faith in love, just in certain people.»
The Drones
Drone by name, not quite drone by nature: The Drones are primal punkers likely to pop your eardrums proper.»
Growing
Grwing evolved out of two bands: Joe Denardo joined from Black Man White Man Dead man, and Kevin Doria from 1000 AD. They expanded to a trio when Eryn Ross joined the fold. Musically, think doom metal, slow... no, slower... slower still, with more drone, and no vocals, and loud as hell. Mojo say: "How does it rock? Slow, real slow."»
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