June 18, 2010 – LSR – 8:30PM – HEALTH + QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT + INDIAN JEWELRY + JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD + GOLD PANDA
HEALTH
HEALTH are the new frontier of noise rock. Formed in 2005, HEALTH self-recorded their debut album over the course of 9 months at Los Angeles D.I.Y. venue The Smell, birthing an urgent and extraordinary album which seethed with ghostly, epic pop and spurts of chaotic noise. Their shows grew wilder, kids danced & moshed, blogs freaked out, critics raved, and everyone wondered how in God’s name HEALTH was going to follow it up. While the anticipation continued to build, HEALTH released a critically-acclaimed remix record HEALTH//DISCO, toured with the likes of Crystal Castles, Nine Inch Nails, and Of Montreal and played over 420 shows! In April, HEALTH emerged with their first new single since 2007: “DIE SLOW” received immediate accolades from Pitchfork & NME, with the effects rippling across their DIE SLOW THROUGH EUROPE tour, resulting in a near-riot in Eastern Europe. The song’s infectious fusion of noise and dance was the most fully-formed and undeniably rad piece of music from HEALTH yet. And it only served to rile up their fans more. The new full-length was desperately needed. On September 8th 2009, HEALTH answers the call and release their second album GET COLOR. Recorded in an especially gnarly part of Lincoln Heights, L.A, GET COLOR is an exuberant proclamation of noise, rock and electronic splendor. It’s a celebration of sound; pretty, harsh, soft and basked in a blanket of ethereal vocals. GET COLOR is the manifesto HEALTH have been promising since their inception. HEALTH are the band. GET COLOR is the record. NOW is the time.
http://lpurecords.com/healthpress/
http://www.healthnoise.com/
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
“Mr. QUINTRON is a concert and nightclub organist from New Orleans, Louisianna. He plays a type of music the press has dubbed “Swamp Tech” on a custom Hammond / Rhodes combo organ which has been built up to look like a classic muscle car with actual working headlights. All this organ noise is backed by irresistibly raw drum machine beats (think 8 bit Booty-Bounce chanelled thru the hands of a Troglodyte) and his own patented invention THE DRUM BUDDY – a rotating, light-activated analog synthesizer which is played much in the same way that a DJ spins and scratches records. Celebrity Drum Buddy owners include LAURIE ANDERSON and NELS CLINE of Wilco.
Much of Quintron’s music is driving, hypnotic Sixties dance music a’la the Seeds or Standells. However, don’t mistake Quintron for being totally squaresville retro. He has benefited from 40 extra years of music history to develop his own richer style and borrowed from a number of other genres to become…well, Quintron. But he has faithfully retained that Sixties garage essence, a precarious balance between wholesomeness and worldliness that fell apart after the Summer of Love.
Quintron’s permanent collaborator is none other than master puppeteer, MISS PUSSYCAT who plays maracas and sings, as well as entertaining all age groups with her highly amusing technicolor puppet shows. Hers are complex puppet shows beautifully crafted for success in intimate venues of late night rock and roll drinking and dancing: tactile, idiosyncratic puppet characters, pithy dialogue, electronically pixilated soundtracks, and charming black light effects create a visual and engaging overture/finale to Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s music sets. Quintron aids in puppet manipulation and voicing. Miss Pussycat, in turn, sings lead and back-up with a steady maraca beat during Quintron’s performances.
The Quintron / Miss Pussycat experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, “Swamp-Tech” dance beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. You can see them perform regularly at the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans, Louisiana or on one of their many tours around the world. This act somehow has equal relevance in sleazy nightclubs, pizza restaurants, and university lecture halls.”
http://www.myspace.com/quintronandmisspussycat
http://www.quintronandmisspussycat.com/index.html
INDIAN JEWELRY
Indian Jewelry is a band from Houston Texas formed by Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen in 2002. Since then we have only become more tan.
We’ve been helped by many talented and generous fiends. Tan fiends. Most recently Kim System (electro/bass), Mary Sharpe (drums/percussion), Brandon Davis (o.g./guitar), Rodney Rodriguez (drums), Travis K. (soft hand guitar), and Domokos (projecting gongs/feather guitar).
The group has also included Jimi Hey (ozark percussion), Michael Belfer (guitar), Abi Cohen (pandemonium), Candice Vincent (saxophone), Leslie Keffer (static), Nic Barbeln (vox), Rosalinda Gonzalez (violin), Don Bolles (drums), Margeaux Cigainero (guitar), Andrew Scott (guitar), Donna Huanca (drums), Pete Czechvala (saxophone), Bryce Martin (drums), Anna Bechtol (drums), Ken Consumer (electronics/gongs), Bobby Deeds (electronics), J-Morrison (ghostworm), Squeaky (pizazz), Ralf Armin (starmaker/saxophone), Chad Colehower/Sequential Sheik (sequential circuits).
Currently we are engaged in the following projects. Securing a home for the Girlgang Library. Mexico of the mind. “Swamp Bats” DVD. Continued studies: Tidal Economics. As luck would have it we are also making a new album.
We have also toured and recorded as NTX+ELECTRIC, TURQUOISE DIAMONDS, the CORPSES of WACO, and the PERPETUAL WAR PARTY BAND.
We come from the SWARM of ANGELS.
http://www.myspace.com/indianjewelry
http://www.swarmofangels.com/indianjewelry.html
JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD
JEFF The Brotherhood is Jake and Jamin Orrall, two brothers that play drums and guitar. They grew up in Tennessee making music and trying to have a good time. Since their inception they have been playing anywhere from house parties to rooftops, backyards, bars and art galleries and releasing their own records, tapes, comic books and home made videos.
The Brotherhood has been called “kraut punk”, “psychedelic grunge” and “noise pop” drawing comparisons to bands like Hawkwind, Wipers, and early Sonic Youth.
They have been carrying their heavy damage all over the country since 2006 and have shared bills with Oneida, Battles, Sonic Youth, Ex-Models, Jay Reatard, Black Pus and Dave Cloud. Their “we’ll play anywhere” attitude and frenetic live shows have earned them near legendary status in the clubs and basements of Nashville and beyond. With three guitar strings and a minimal drum kit, they manage to distill rock to its primal essence.
They just released two split seven inches, one with Sisters from Brooklyn and the other with Screaming Females from New Jersey. Their latest full length “HEAVY DAYS” dropped October 13, 2009 on their family run record label Infinity Cat Recordings.
http://www.myspace.com/jakeandjamin
GOLD PANDA
Hailing from Chelmsford in Essex, but a resident of East London for some time now, Gold Panda started writing beats and collaborating a few years ago, working with the likes of Infinite Livez and Shuttle (both Ninja Tune) as well as creating his own material.
Having spent downtime behind the counters of various establishments of ill repute – finding out that record stores and adult stores are no less seedier than each other, he consolidated the rest of his hours creating archives of electronic music; each track different from the other, incorporating multitudes of styles and disparate influences and obscure samples and base material. Having sated the need to create these volumes of material, he poked his head into the world by way of a collection of instantaneously raved-about remixes, that quickly found the interested of various labels, blogs and taste makers, leading to requests for him to re-edit the likes of Little Boots, Telepathe, Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco and even lounge-tronica act Zero 7.
In the meantime, Gold Panda began culling his back-archive of material for a series of low key releases: the first was ‘Miyamae’, a 12” on Various, followed by the ‘Quitters Raga’ 7” on Make Mine, and the third, ‘Before’ was released digitally and on 250 limited CDs via Puregroove. Now having essentially cleared the decks (bar the 100+ tracks that may one day creep into the open as he sees fit), the second half of 2009 will see Gold Panda pushing on and consolidating his quickly burgeoning reputation as one of the brightest names in the electronic scene.
What does it sound like? One writer claimed that: “He intuitively mixes lop sided, chopped up hip hop style beats with a gorgeous refined melodic techno sensibility creating a fresh cross genre sound that’s distinct and accomplished.” Which sounds pretty good, so let’s go with that.
The music on his three recently released EPs this summer (2009) is influenced by a year spent living in Japan, as well as B movies on vhs video, minimal techno and hip hop, and all these influences bleed into his sound. An avowed lover of Japanese culture and it’s lifestyle, Gold Panda spend two years at the renowned School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) learning to read and write Japanese. He plans to return to Japan later this year to continue writing more material, as well as playing out his material as he takes his live show far afield from the flat in Hoxditch where it was created. With new material, live shows and ultimately a defining long-player to come, the next 12 months should be hugely fruitful in the immersive world of Gold Panda.
http://www.iamgoldpanda.com/
http://www.myspace.com/goldpanda
http://www.windishagency.com/artists/gold_panda
