KK rampage...... my friend's band. They just played with the coughs on archer ave. and were the ones throwing bags of sugar and getting naked.

form of a rocket is another Jesus lizard/shellac/slint influenced band.

part chimp. definitely part chimp.

Jon wrote:part chimp. definitely part chimp.

Definitely! I saw this band a year or two back on the understanding that the singer/guitarist used to hit drums for Penthouse and was blown away.
It's been a bit quiet on the Chimp front of late... Shame.

Rimbaud III wrote:
Definately! .

I trust your spelling of definitely is either a jape at me or you are writing it the way you say it.

If not then you have spelled it wrong.

What are you talking about Rysie?! WTF? I mean W the F?! Erm, chiggidy-check yo-self! Pffft! My spalling was jsut fine!

Neither do the people who go to the shows. If anyone with zero music experience wants to have an instant career in a band (that will get press & an indy record deal) just form a noise rock band with a interesting name and GO! Jump right in and go directly to the top and claim the title! The audience's don't descriminate at all and will appreciate ANYTHING you do as long as it looks like you really into it!

I am not kidding in any way.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:disclosure:
i don't know shit about noise rock.

Marlowe wrote:Neither do the people who go to the shows. If anyone with zero music experience wants to have an instant career in a band (that will get press & an indy record deal) just form a noise rock band with a interesting name and GO! Jump right in and go directly to the top and claim the title! The audience's don't descriminate at all and will appreciate ANYTHING you do as long as it looks like you really into it!

Trust me, this doesn't work. We've been trying that angle for 5 years!

Or wait, are you talking about noise? Because you may have a point with pure noise artists. I've seen some brilliant noise artists and a whole crap-ton of boring ones, and very often i've seen noise audiences have a hard time separating the proverbial wheat from the chaff.

But there's a difference between noise and noise-rock, methinks. Noise i almost put in more of a performance art context--Cock ESP, Masona, Maldoror, Wolf Eyes, etc. Not much in the way of musical structure, but interesting in how the noises are produced, and how the performance is staged.

Noise-ROCK, however, to use well-known examples, could include stuff like Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Melt-Banana...a large number of bands that fit under a large umbrella of bands who like to incorporate loud, dissonant, abrasively jarring noise to construct what can be otherwise consumed as "rock songs."

Maybe this is obvious to a lot of you, and if so, my apologies, but Marlowe's post seemed to be confusing the two, and i thought i'd stick up for my noise-rock-obsessed peeps.

DrAwkward wrote:

Marlowe wrote:Noise-ROCK, however, to use well-known examples, could include stuff like Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Melt-Banana...a large number of bands that fit under a large umbrella of bands who like to incorporate loud, dissonant, abrasively jarring noise to construct what can be otherwise consumed as "rock songs."

Yes, please, and more of it! I was looking for new bands exploring that aesthetic. I didn't want to roll off a list of bands which is why I opted to post labels instead: AmRep, Touch & Go, Skin Graft, etc., etc.

Tar Baby wrote:I'm not familiar with Holy Molar. Are they loud and obnoxious?

holy molar is essentially the Locust with Mark McCoy (the singer of charles bronson) "singing" - they sound like a more circusy Locust, nothing special.

and yes nick, i remember that show. it was like, two shows merged together and when we played people were so drunk [since the show took so long] they were throwing bottles at us.

god bless the fireside bowl and shitty shows.

andyk

I really like:

the Coughs from Chicago,saw them this past wknd and they whipped up an excellent bit of Contortions-style fury

Ari Ari from Muncie, IN are great, w/ an impressive frontwoman who transcends the "screamy-singer" role w/ an brilliant near old-school hardcore style. The band itself also busts the "screamo" mold, thanks to solid playing on all fronts (full-disclosure, they are good friends and are currently on tour the whole summer, go see them)

Falcon Crest from the Deuce Cities, Mn, also friends, w/ a punishing, noisy take on the Hot Snakes/Wipers model, the rhythm section is brutal

Conformists from St. Louis, buzzsaw from this board's band, great, fragmented noise/rock, full of stop/starts plus derranged frontman, great

Blind Shake also from the Mn, awesome, tense, rock a la early Vaz or the much loved Freedom Fighters, great live band, they mean it man, I really love this band

you should be able to find stuff on all these bands w/ minimal digging, get in on the ground floor