GUERILLA TOSS/DREEBS/TROPICAL TRASH @ ASTRO BLACK RECORDS JAN 8TH 10PM

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"The human being runs at the side of a river. When he is young, he runs faster than the river; in mid-life he runs at the same speed of the river; and at last he falls down and the river keeps going." - Nelson Gastaldi

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RAW THUG, MU, LOIN SEEPAGE, 2012.

TWO NEW CASSETTE RELEASES FROM LOIN SEEPAGE COMING IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS:

MU + PEELING WALLPAPER - "MANGLED GUTS" 

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PICTURES AND INFO FORTHCOMING...

Liverpool Biennal

Insanely fucking psyched to be playing in Rhys Chatham's 100 strong guitar orchestra performing A Crimson Grail as part of Liverpool's Biennial of Contemporary Art!  September 14th at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral - this is gonna be totally insane.

BlackVelvetFuckere, Cropped Out, & The Other Side of Life Present:

Thursday, July 26th 2012 at The Cathouse (747 S. Preston)

Sapat (on Siltbreeze//from Louisville, KY)
... http://www.siltbreeze.com/sapat.htm

Blues Control (on Drag City//on tour from Coopersburg, PA)
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/blues-control

Parlour (on Temporary Residence//from Louisville, KY)
http://www.parlour.net/

Wet (cool high school weirdos//from Louisville, KY)
http://thewet.bandcamp.com/

All ages
Doors at 8 PM
Music at 9 PM sharp
5 dollars

TROPICAL TRASH/CROSS/MILK MUSIC JULY 27 @ LISA'S

Tropical Review Slurry + Astro Innerviews Media Blitz 2012

from American Gloam:
"Tropical Trash made me cut myself today.  I was listening to their new seven-inch "Fear of Suffering" while shaving. One of the sides ended unexpectedly on my record player. I jumped to run and grab the record before the needle spilled and scratched into the label hole. That jump cut my face with the razor, straight into the cheek. Blood, pain, fear of suffering." ...[more @ American Gloam]

from Never Nervous:
There are quite a few triumphs that residents of Louisville have to be excited about this Summer. For instance, we have a new record store on the brick-and-mortar horizon called Astro Black Records, and we also are looking forward to the much anticipated debut seven inch record from post-rockers Tropical Trash. My friend Jim Marlowe is behind both of these happenings and was nice enough to sit down and answer a few questions about his new shop, the upcoming Tropical Trash record, and so on and so forth...[more @ Never Nervous]

from Blogstitude:
On top of the pile we've got a brand new 7-inch EP by Tropical Trash, a Louisville, Kentucky band with members that have or do put in time with Blastitude favorite Sapat, and like that band, they play a strange cool take on underground rock. The EP is called Fear of Suffering, and it's got five tunes in all, one on the A and four quicker ones on the B. Press blurb mentions MX-80 Sound and that is indeed a good starting point. Weird, proggy, noise/experimental undertones, and, most importantly, heavy without resorting to mere distorto-bludgeon. I look forward to more material, and I'm excited that I'm not quite sure what to expect from it. I'm not even sure what to expect the next time I play this 7-inch. Editon of 200 on white from the Sophomore Lounge label.


from Gumshue Grove:
"there’s a titter of restraint keeping things classy"... [more @ the GROVE]

from S-Records:
"Some members of the great Louisville band Sapat get together and do a band that sounds like the bastard grandchildren of MX-80 Sound. These guys definitely ingested a lot of "Crowd Control" and "Out of the Tunnel" along with some Mission of Burma, while woodshedding to make this record." 

Makeshift Swahili played the entire B-side of our 7"!  Dig it.

@ the wonderful WFMU:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45199
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45206


Here we are misleading those from Aquarius Records:

We first heard from Tropical Trash on a split cassette with No Copper (we have a few copies left if you want one!), their track was definitely cool, but also listening to this 7" now a bit misleading, but it seems that perhaps that track was intended for the split, as it was super heavy and noisy and abstract, fusing jazzy avant noise with tripped out experimental abstraction. Which is definitely a bit different that what's to be found here, although not completely removed. TT seem to traffic in a sort of chugging churning noise rock, at least on the A side, thick angular riffs, tribal drumming, weird mathy arrangements, strange sing songy vocals, buzzing distorted melodies that mirror the vox, rife with some surprising poppiness, a distinctly indie rock vibe going on for sure. Loose and ramshackle, with the song occasionally devolving into a seemingly random free noise splatter before lurching right back into action.
The B side offers up a handful of shorter songs and finds TT cranking up the volume a bit, definitely heavier and punkier, sounding in places like a supercharged Polvo or Pitchblende, weird chords, still more mathiness, but still plenty of melody and catchiness as well as the occasional punky blow out and some cool tripped out droniness. Features members of Siltbreeze outfit Sapat.
LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Pressed on white vinyl! In handscreened covers with photo copied inserts. 

from Natalie @ thirteen13.org:
"Jim Marlowe of Tropical Trash is opening a new record store in June called Astro Black Records. It is exciting to see another great local music store emerging in Louisville." [more @ Thirteen13.org]

from Yellow Green Red:
Tropical Trash Fear Of Suffering 7″ (Sophomore Lounge)
Wonderfully strange debut 7″ from Louisville’s Tropical Trash here. Wasn’t sure what to expect, I mean this could’ve been anything, but Tropical Trash do this sort of weird deconstructed rock thing that couldn’t have really come from anywhere but itself. A-side “Baltimore” sounds like later-period Landed attempting a Dinosaur Jr. cover, at least for the moments between mosh-core breakdowns – see what I’m saying? The b-side pulls in even stranger directions, recalling atmospheric black-metal (kinda), Dischord-ish post-hardcore (sorta), and noisy artsy-fartsy-ness (maybe). Maybe I just really like the band name (I do), but this weird melange of styles somehow makes sense when taken as a whole – I bet this’d be a fun live band to see. You can’t sound like Tropical Trash and not have at least one crazy-looking guy in the band. 



LAST BUT NOT LEAST -

 

OPENING MID JUNE 2012 @ 930 BAXTER AVE INSIDE OF QUILLS COFFEE

A new and used record store specializing in Avant-Rock, Jazz, Free/Improv, Modern Composition, Experimental, Small/Private Press/DIY music (and generally anything considered left-of-center) with a serious focus on vinyl LP’s. The goal of the shop is to provide a physical space/locus in this city for music that is (generally speaking) not found in brick and mortar record stores: the marginal and the ‘weird’. We’re always looking to buy single copies or collections of records that fall within the scope of the shop.

ASTROBLACKRECORDS@GMAIL.COM

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HARLEY'S MAY 6TH

Liquid Life of Bhob Dylanh

GARDEN - M.E.S.
 
The first god had in his garden
From the back looked like a household pet
When it twirled round was revealed to be
A three-legged black-grey hog

See what flows from his mushy pen
Garden
Garden

That person is films on TV five years back at least
He's the young generation dancing troupe
Try'na perform Country And Western
Do a dance here

Never since birth not eaten in a day
Never since courtship stayed up some nights
He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book
He was contrite like that

See what flows from his slushy pen
Garden
Garden

Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption
Crooked traitor past revealed at last

Godzone
Godzone (Jacob's Ladder)
Godzone
Godzone

... can be erased. This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears. When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from a book. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Varney

The same thing [?] could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [?]. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last.

Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun

The best firms advertise the least

The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose

He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
He's on the second floor
Up the brown baize lift shaft
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear

Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
He's here
I saw him
I swear
Up the brown baize lift shaft
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike

THANKS: LIKE...FOR REAL

TO RYAN, MIKIE, SABRINA AND SAL OF STATE CHAMPION FOR BEING OUR TOUR BUDDIES AND HUSTLE MENTORS, HELPING US IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE AND BEING ENTHUSIASTIC AND SUPPORTIVE OF US - EVAN JEREMY AND NICK IN YOUNG WIDOWS - SABRINA'S MOM FOR LETTING US STAY AT HER HOUSE AND FIXING US FOOD - JOHN HANSON, ZACHARY AND MARLEE IN GRAND RAPIDS FOR SHARING THEIR HOUSE WITH US - MARCIE BOLEN AND ZACH IN DETROIT FOR GRACIOUSLY LETTING US KEEP THEM UP UNTIL 4 AM - JOEY OF MEDIUMSHIP - JOHN OF MAGNETIC SOUTH - JACOB FROM CHURCH OF THE INFINITE SPACE RITUAL - CHRISTINE FOR LETTING ME SLEEP ON THE ROOF OF HER APARTMENT AND PROBABLY LIKE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO I AM FORGETTING.  A BRIEF FUCK YOU TO JEREMY THE SOUNDSHIT IN MILWAUKEE FOR TRYING TO SCREW US.  OTHER THAN THAT, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE SHOWS

TROPICAL TRASH - FEAR OF SUFFERING 7" - BUY IT

5 TUNES - 5 BONES
LIMITED RUN OF 200
YR GONNA LOOK LIKE AN ASSHOLE WHEN THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE TAKES A LOOK AT YOUR RECORD "COLLECTION" AND FINDS IT WANTING - MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE LEFT BEHIND AT THE END - THERE'S NO FUCKIN WAY PATER YAHWEH IS GONNA LET YOU IN THE KINGDOM ANYWAY - YOU STILL HAVE STUDENT LOANS TO PAY! LOOK GOOD IN THE PIT - LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE FEAR OF SUFFERING IS STILL SUFFERING!

TROPICAL TRASH SPRING TOUR 2012

More of a jaunt really...

4/12 - Lexington KY @ Al's Bar w/State Champion
4/13 - Indianapolis IN @ Mediumship w/State Champion,Bad Magick, Psychic Feel (TBA)
4/14 - Milwaukee WI w/State Champion (TBA)
4/15 - Holding a lotus
4/16 - Holding a snake
4/17 - Grand Rapids MI @The Pyramid Scheme w/Young Widows, Reverend, Jowls
4/18 - Detroit MI @ Smalls w/Young Widows, Golden Torso, Boherald
4/19 - Bloomington IN @ Magnetic South w/Church of the Infinite Space Ritual, Learner Dancer, Crys
4/20 - Louisville KY @ Chestnut House w/Anwar Sadat, Murals

We're going to have our 7" and Split w/No Copper as well as a bunch of other goodies!

COMING SOON: FEAR OF SUFFERING

7" EP ON SOPHOMORE LOUNGE THIS SPRING
ART BY RYAN DAVIS
SHORTO TOURO TBA

Chikamorachi (Chris Corsano, Darin Gray) w/ Steve Good and Tim Barnes @ Nachbar

CLINIC

here's one that took a while to grow on me - the new(ish) Clinic record Bubblegum - I never know what to make of these guys - it freaked me out how obsessively samey so much of their catalogue sounds, but then I made peace with the idea of mining a particular vein and I'm suddenly OK again. This last record is a bit of a departure from their numerous other albums (quieter, more acoustically centered [which generally gives me a rash] but these dudes are so CLINIC that it's alright).

Out of the older albums, Funf is one of my fav Clinic outings (I think it's b-sides or scraps or something) - it's beautiful (Majestic, Christmas)and it fucking rips (Nicht, The Scythe). There's really no bad Clinic record, they're all pretty goddamn consistent.

"Nicht" from Funf

Aquarius Records (SF) SEZ:

"Latest releases from blackened soundscaper Thaniel Ion Lee, who we first heard in his guise as Blood Escutcheon, who split a tape with black metal weirdos Cloak Of Displacement, and then released a cd-r (both sadly out of print). He then released a cool boxed cd-r called White (which we just got back in and you'll find listed elsewhere on this week's list), and is back again, now in a duo called No Copper, whose sounds is less droned out and blackened than Blood Escutcheon or his solo record, and more abstract, ritualistic soundscaping, inhabiting a soundworld more along the lines of say No Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand Of The Man or Avarus, long buzzing tones, pounding abstract drums, scrapes and creaks, lush layered drones, raw and lo-fi, minimal, but gorgeously thick and washed out, caustic in places, noisy in others, but all blurred and smeared into a dark landscape of echo drenched reverberations, melodic fragments, rhythmic experiments and black ambient shimmer, all flecked with bits of folky flutter and strange abstract sonic filigree. Fans of Lee's other projects will definitely dig.
The flipside is occupied by an outfit called Tropical Trash, who may or may not also be called the Coconut Crimewave Big Band, but who prove themselves worthy foils for No Copper, with a sound that pushed even further into avant rock territory, a sort of free jazz / avant noise, heavy rhythmic, twisted electronic freakout heavy rock crush (!), the group fusing pounding drums to clouds of swirling glitched out swoops and swirls, before launching into some seriously blown out heaviness, thick churning riffage, pounding drums, all peppered with some bleeping electronics, and a sheen of hazy buzzy soft focus noise, a killer slab of classic electronic flecked noise rock, that definitely has us wanting to hear more! The band soon return to scrabbling and abstract skitter, the rock crush ditched in favor of some experimental abstraction, which is bombarded over the course of the rest of their side with some seriously fierce drum damage,
LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. Housed in cool hand screened origami style cardstock boxes, each one hand numbered, with a printed insert."

Tropical Trash / No Copper Split Cassette Unveiled In This Most Final Of Years

IT'S HERE FREAKS! THE FIRST OFFICIAL NON-CDR RELEASE FROM TROPICAL TRASH - "CLIMAX CATHEDRAL/CLIMAX CONTROL" - OUR SEXIEST COLLECTION OF TUNES YET - NONSTOP CRYSTAL PRISONS OF YOUR OWN DEVISING - CRUSHED ONTO TAPE AND HEATED TO WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU WANT. DOUBLE TRIO + 1 FEATURING GINGER GOSS, WARREN GRAY, NEAL ARGABRIGHT, KIRK, JORDAN, JIM, AND JEFF KOMARA - YR GONNA BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND A NASTIER GOD SHAPED HOLE IN YR LIFE.

and on the flip side... NO COPPER COMPRISED OF LOCAL ALCHEMISTS THANIEL ION LEE AND DOUGLAS LUCAS - PRESENTING "BIRDS" - WUT - AN ICED WITCH KNOWING - ORDERS BOTH RUBY AND CRYSTAL - PLASTIC BONES AND REPLACEMENTS FOR ALL SPEEDS - FREAQ NASTY FOR THE SWAMP SET RECORDED ALL OVER KENTUCKIANA

LET ME FINISH WITH A NIETZSCHE QUOTE:
"What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' " - [§341]







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