June 9, 2010 – Casa del Popolo – 9PM – AIDS Wolf + Pocahaunted

AIDS WOLF

AIDS Wolf was birthed into the heady days of Montreal’s millennial music scene. Yannick Desranleau (aka Hiroshima Thunder) and Chloe Lum began the band as a 4 piece in 2003. Unlike most of the local units finding fame out in the world beyond Quebec, AIDS Wolf pushed an abrasive, unforgiving and rather unwieldy sound around North America in a battered van. Alexander Moskos (aka the Zone) joined in 2008. Desranleau, Lum, and Moskos work in a novel trio format (drums, guitar through two amps and voice) augmented with (erstwhile forsaken) guitar effects and voice synthesis.
AIDS Wolf has formalized its sound over its years into a tight construction relying on intentional dissonance, polyrhythms and disjunctive compositional forms. The band takes its cues from “classic” New York No Wave, 90’s Midwestern No Wave, vegan cooking, 70’s proto-punk, beefheartian modes, Ville-Marie school of white elephant architecture, Literature, www.crwflags.com , post-war continental modern composition and their unrivaled network of friends and acquaintances the world over.
The band signed early on to the legendary American noise rock label Skin Graft Records who co-released their debut with Brooklyn’s Love Pump United. In addition to their two full-lengths, The Lovvers Lp and Cities of Glass, they have released countless collaborative and split lps, seven inches and cassettes. AIDS Wolf newest, as of yet untitled, lp was recorded in Montreal and will be released in the fall. The band will also release a collection of remixes of their Throbbing Gristle cover “Very Friendly” this summer.

http://www.skingraftrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/aidswolf

POCAHAUNTED

Pocahaunted were self-proclaimed “the Olsen twins of blissed out drone” from Eagle Rock, California, United States – Amanda Brown and Bethany Cosentino. Debuting in 2006 with cassettes Moccasinging and What the Spirit Tells Me, Pocahaunted quickly rose to became one of the most popular Not Not Fun related bands releasing several albums (including critically aclaimed Island Diamonds) on various underground labels. They have been described as a journey through the celestial mind, whatever that means and they play a unique brand of hypnotic droning psychedelic bliss, an earthy sound conjuring unearthly visions. Since spring 2009, Pocahaunted are Amanda Brown, Britt Brown (Robedoor), Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw), Diva Dompe (BlackBlack), Ged Gengras (Antique Brothers). Bethany now records as Best Coast.

“Pocahaunted have metamorphosized into this sexy writhing howling five piece that rescue free folk from it¹s beardy ghetto, and turn it into something actually danceable. And, sexy.” - VICE MAGAZINE

“Predictably, it seems like Sonic Youth are onto them, and the band¹s capacity to make serious noise art with when the need arises a kind of irreverent spirit, is something that that sometimes goes missing in what appears to be a still-expanding new psych underground.” – UNCUT MAGAZINE

“The perfect balance between pop aesthetics, DIY urban groove and ominous, obscure psychedelia.” – AQUARIUS RECORDS
“Dark, spaced-out bass grooves, Middle Eastern-influenced guitar drone and steady, beat-driven psych-pop. We’re hard pressed to think of other bands…who are making such soulful, unrestrained, inventive psychedelic music.” – OTHER MUSIC

“Thudding, nod-out acid rock rhythms with wordless choirs of abandon and power vocals extrapolated from hypnagogic 1980s pop. Something in the achingly elongated guitar lines and orchestras of throat that is just supremely addictive. Pocahaunted are at the absolute peak of their powers right now.” – VOLCANIC TONGUE

http://www.myspace.com/pocahaunted

You Do Voodoo by Pocahaunted

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