Bands
Dead Rider (formerly D. Rider)
For the past year and a half, the band formerly known as D. Rider has been busy recording, playing shows and adding to their lineup. In 2009 they released their darkly psychedelic debut album, Mother Of Curses, while playing shows across the country. The original lineup of Todd Rittmann (vocals, guitar, harmonica, drums), Andrea Faught (synth, vocals, horns), and Noah Tabakin (saxophone, vocals, synth) saw the addition of Theo Katsaounis on drums to complete a live act that would tour the country and gain a reputation as a challenging and entertaining powerhouse…
Merzbannon
What do you get when you cross the prolific talents of Japan’s ‘Godfather of Noise’ with the Midwest’s genre-defying juggernaut Racebannon? Twelve inches of unrefined fury so severe that bandages and gauze pads should be supplied with each record. Merzbow takes Racebannon’s celebrated rock-opera ‘Satan’s Kickin’ Yr Dick In’ and reshapes it into twenty minutes of stunning auditory fierceness. Another delicacy for Merzbow and Racebannon fans alike to savor.
Miracle Condition
Miracle Condition is a trio featuring U.S. Maple guitarist Mark Shippy and drummer Pat Samson, with Matt Carson (Ph.D. in Bioinformatics) on guitar and vocals. The group formed in late 2006 and quickly morphed their more experimental leanings into their own brand of cinematic, illustrative spacegaze. Where U.S. Maple was known for deconstructing rock music, Miracle Condition traffics those images seen in the moments between sleeping and waking, pushing the sonic envelope into the dream world. Layers of guitar, sheets of percussion and fragile, glass-like voices from Shippy and Carson hint at elements of the psychedelic and shoegaze genres. In the live setting Miracle Condition is shatteringly loud – the droning interrupted by Samson’s uniquely expressive drum patterns. With their forthcoming release on the Tizona label on November 24 2009. Miracle Condition will undoubtedly command attention from anyone within earshot.
Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble
There is too much to say about Kelan Phil Cohran, from his work with Sun Ra, his involvement in the foundation of the AACM, his work at the Afro-Arts Theatre, to his memorial for Malcom X.
We believe Kelan Phil Cohran is a shaman. We are not the only ones and you will feel this too if you spend some time with the man and his music.
To learn more about Phil please go to his site, and visit HERE page.
Racebannon
Midway between a deleted scene from River’s Edge and the resurrection of Frankenstein to unleash havoc upon the villagers that put him under, the Racebannon sound is one of many disparate influences that blend seamlessly into one lethal cocktail of hatred and aggression, draped in a terecloth of pure molten rock that is as unforgiving as it is pulse-quickening. Indie rock? No. Metal? No. Hardcore? No. Noise core? No. Racebannon? Yes. It really is that simple. Harsh enough for any mosh pit, yet cerebral enough for the art palate, Racebannon attack with the heave and punch the end times dictate while still keeping things fresh and original. Love or hate, there is no ignoring the 12 gauge barrage of riffs, screams, and drums.
Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell (b. August 3, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African American composer, jazz
instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being
Seawhores
Seawhores have been active since 1996 with 15 albums, some on different labels with various locations around the country, some limited run presses on their own Here Than Anywhere label. They have taken an approach with music that has enabled us to work with many different musicians and subsequently, given us the ability to keep interested in the on going progress of keeping things interesting. Their list of co-conspiraters stands tall with around 35 people in which they�ve had the honor of playing with. Some of those people being very active in there own bands. Some of them being people from the video arts world all the way to enlisting people for plays and guerrilla kidnappings in which we do regularly. Some of those people include: Brian Chippendale (Lightining Bolt), Matt Brinkman (Mystery Brinkman, Forcefield Mind Flayer), Freddy Votel (Skoal Kodiak, Cows), Dale Crover (Melvins, Porn), Jeff Mooridian (Vaz, Hammerhead, Coyote), Brady Lenzen (Skoal Kodiak, Collider). They have been able to tour 23 times and record different pieces in many states and parts of Europe. The Seawhores goals often entail commercial suicide but always offer some interesting perspective into the expectations of a band at a show or on a record. There are three main members at this juncture including: Charles Gehr, Cody Weigel, and Adam Marx. The Seawhores hope to stay the course of musical conceptualism and ongoing sound vomiting and would like to leave off with one of their favorite Slayer lyrics:
Wrekmeister Harmonies
Chicago-based sound artist J.R. Robinson has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US and Europe over the past two years-including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and The Art Center Berlin. Robinson has injected these recordings into collaborations with some like-minded heavy hitters from the noise, post-rock and jazz worlds such as David Yow (Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid), Mark Shippy & Pat Samson (US Maple), Azita Youssefi, John Herndon & Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Keefe Jackson, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Ken Vandermark. The result (dubbed Wrekmeister Harmonies), is a distinctive hybrid of sound art and avant-garde musics, evoking the essences & influences of masterworks like Joe McPhee’s Nation Time, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music and the sound collages of Stockhausen.