June 29, 2012 - APART, Heavy Breath, Native Wildlife, Neighbors, WAYBYID
http://www.facebook.com/events/235074529925587/
$10 at the door, 6:30 PM
At the Heirloom Arts Theatre, 155 Main St, Danbury, CT
updates about nothing (5/18/12)
Writing is going really well. we have lots and lots of different ideas and several completed songs. talking about some next level shit here. really looking forward to hitting the studio in August to record.
We’re debuting a new song at our next show, Wednesday May 23rd at BAR in New Haven. We’re playing with Reservoir and Aficionado who are both on tour. The show is FREE and 21+ and starts at 9 PM. so go, drink some beer, eat some pizza, and if you’re too young have your dad (or someone else’s dad, or your mom, etc) bring you.
June 22nd to 24th we’re doing a weekend with our friends in Matahari from Mass. Check out their music on bandcamp - http://matahari.bandcamp.com They dropped an excellent 7” on Get Young Records last summer.
Still working on our July midwest tour with Reservoir. booking is a bitch. when we have the shows we will announce them.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled Friday entertainment.
Live as Fuck at The Space
Check out our set from Monday’s show with Old Man Gloom at The Space on our soundcloud! tell yr friends.
note: this is the dirtiest we have ever sounded.
Updates
we have a few shows coming up in May that we are really stoked about, playing with some of our good friends and some legendary artists!
5/5 - Defeater, Code Orange Kids, Mountain Man, Manners @ Heirloom Arts Theatre, Danbury, CT
5/7 - Old Man Gloom, MGR @ The Space, Hamden, CT
5/23 - Aficionado, Reservoir @ BAR, New Haven, CT (free show!)
Thanks to everyone who came out to our Record Store Day matinee last weekend to party with us, Dagwood, Drug Church and Trollllort. It was a lot of fun and we hope to hang in the Guillotine again in the near future.
In the meantime, we are hard at work on a new record to be finished sometime in the near future. Who knows when, where and how it’ll be released? keep guessing, and we’ll keep writing.
Old Man Gloom
Old Man Gloom is a sludge band, with many ambient and soundscape elements. They originally formed in 1999 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but are now based in Massachusetts. The group, formed by Aaron Turner of Isis and Santos Montano have now expanded to become a sort of supergroup in the Boston hardcore and metalcore scene. The group is less a band than it is a recording project for a variety of local talent. By the release of their first album (Meditations in B), Old Man Gloom expanded to include two new members, creating the following lineup:
Aaron Turner (also of Isis): lead vocals, guitar
Nate Newton (also of Converge, Doomriders): guitar, vocals
Caleb Scofield (also of Cave In, Zozobra): bass guitar, vocals
Santos Montano (also of Zozobra): drums
In 2001, a year after the release of Meditations in B, the band released two albums simultaneously: Seminar II and Seminar III. For these records, Luke Scarola joined to use electronics. On Seminar II, Steven Brodsky of Cave In wrote the lyrics for one song, and Agnostic Blunt (aka Jay Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed) contributed on electronics. On August 24, 2004, their most recent album, Christmas, was released.
Hydra Head
Mp3s: http://oldmangloom.bandcamp.com/
MGR
Mustard Gas and Roses (MGR) is an ambient solo project from Los Angeles created by Mike Gallagher around 2005, - the guitarist for post-metal band Isis, having previously been a member of Cast Iron Hike.
Gallagher incorporated more structure, more distortion, more dark foreboding into his almost-all-guitar aesthetic. “For me, these songs evoke more of a feeling than a concept-making this record was kind of a journey into and out of things making sense. I would always have some core idea to start with and then just keep adding layers onto it until I was finally happy with the outcome. However, often during this process the songs would start to make absolutely no sense to me and I would end up just chasing my own tail until I found a way to bring it all together. I do feel that the music and the titles of the CD and songs are extensions of this feeling, but I don’t know if someone would walk away from listening to it with that in mind.”
For the first time in Gallagher’s solo work, echoes of Isis occasionally ring across the stereo field-which makes sense when you think about it, if only because he wrote Wavering while Isis were working on last year’s critically acclaimed In The Absence of Truth. “I’ve been in that band for almost ten years, if they haven’t influenced me, no one has,” he points out. “In the past, I made a pretty conscious effort to not have obvious elements of Isis in the music I make outside the band, but with this album I wasn’t so uptight about it, and I let some rather Isis-esque moments slip in.”
Mp3s: www.myspace.com/mgrsounds
Heavy Breath
Heavy Breath is the sound of five (or six) friends making music together. Since early 2010, Heavy Breath has discarded formula and tradition in favor of making up the rules as they go along, creating a sound that has drawn comparisons to 108, Refused, Converge and others. They also like long walks on the beach and cuddling. And in the summer of 2012, they’ll be touring the midwest with Reservoir and working on a new record.
Mp3s: http://heavybreath.bandcamp.com/
$12 / All Ages / 7 PM
Tickets on sale NOW! http://manicproductions.org/tickets
