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Water Damage - 'Live At Le Guess Who?' (12XU 171-1) ltd. edition LP coming September 5 Water Damage don’t play songs. They invoke states. It’s not rock and roll, it’s ritual repetition therapy, like if Glenn Branca got stuck in a feedback loop with La Monte Young and they both forgot what year it was—Texas 2025 or Berlin 1972 or maybe just eternity’s parking lot. This isn’t music for driving—unless you’re driving into the sun with your eyes rolled back and the gas pedal held down with a cinderblock of intent.
Captured in Utrecht, Netherlands at the almighty Le Guess Who? Festival, where churches tremble and strobes reflect off every holy surface, Live at Le Guess Who? is a document of sustained sonic immolation. Eight members. Two drummers. Multiple stringed instruments. One saxophone. All hammering away at "Reel 25," captured live here shortly after the recorded version which would end up becoming the lead track on their most recent double LP Instruments. A single idea drilling into the molten center of your skull with the grace of a jackhammer ballet. It’s not a show. It’s a slow-motion landslide with amps.
And for this particular descent into the drone abyss, Water Damage were joined by two very special fellow travelers & honorary members: Ajay Saggar (Bhajan Bhoy, University Challenged) adding six-string sorcery and smolder, and Patrick Shiroishi, the free-reed exorcist himself who is a guest on Instruments and just happened to be at Le Guess Who? as well, channeling ghosts through saxophones like he’s trying to crack the sky. As if Water Damage weren’t already enough of a wall, these two brought the ceiling and the floor.
Water Damage, the Austin psych-drone monolith with the un-Googleable name and the wall-of-amplifiers ethos, doesn’t just flirt with chaos—they drag it behind the van and mic up the gravel. Their motto? “Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation.” Which sounds like the world’s most menacing yoga class or a commandment from some amp-fried cult, and maybe it is.
This ain’t no avant-noise chin-stroke either. It’s hot and dense and loud like a steel mill hallucination, and if you find yourself dissociating mid-set, that just means it’s working. This is music that doesn’t “build”—it grinds. It gnaws.
for this recording and tour, Water Damage was : Greg Piwonka, Thor Harris, Travis Austin, Mari Maurice Rubio, Nate Cross, Johnathan Horne, Ajay Saggar, and special guest Patrick Shirioishi
Recorded by Marc Broer & Vera Kraaijkamp, November r8 2024 at Tivoli, Vrendenburg, Utrecht Netherlands as part of the Le Guess Who? Festival
Mixed by Travis Austin. Mastered by Chris Hardman UK/EU orders : https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/water-damage-live-le-guess-who
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Ed Kuepper & Jim White - "Swing For The Crime"
from the album 'After The Flood' (12XU/Remote Control, 2025) original version found on The Saints' 'Prehistoric Sounds'
Filmed by Denny Ryan, Jude Kuepper, Matteo Grasso and Anna White
Edited by Denny Ryan. Additional editing Jonathan Sequeira
Concept : Tim Pittman
Recorded and mixed by Idge at Sound Park Studios early 2023
Produced by Ed Kuepper and Jim White
Written by Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey (Mushroom music / Saints music)
North America / UK / EU orders : https://edkuepperjimwhite12xu.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-flood?
Australia / NZ orders : https://edkuepper1.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-flood
#ed kuepper#jim white#the saints#laughing clowns#the aints#dirty three#the hard quartet#venom p. stinger#12XU#remote control#Youtube#Bandcamp
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Water Damage,
Hotel Vegas 07/17/25
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Directed by Hank Allen & Max Rooney @fingertrap_fingertrap from the album, 'Hell 2' purchase 2XLP/download via Bandcamp : https://blankhellscape12xu.bandcamp.com/album/hell-2 purchase2XLP via 12XU : http://12xu.bigcartel.com/product/blank-hellscape-hell-2-12xu-147-1 stream at Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/1LkkAodsxPBeEWlEQamU7D?si=UjV5IjN_Tw2Vx9rIcYG_7g stream/download via Apple Music / iTunes : https://music.apple.com/us/album/hell-2/1810967616 Starring @menace_2_photography & @likelikethethethe Featuring @awade_g With help from @grifffff726 , @bleakribbons , @karladelorbe , @div_pro_ & Nate Bryum
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Smashed Plastic, Chicago 5/14/25
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Hotel Vegas, 05/09/25
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Water Damage Austin Psych Fest, 04/26/25 photos by Angela Betancourt
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Dear Friends,
as we reach another Bandcamp Friday, I will not insult your intelligence by claiming 12XU is going to spend the BC 10% on the World’s Biggest Bouncy Castle. No instead, I will appeal to your sense of community and fair play and shall instead remind you there’s a big pile of amazing new or newish titles from Shit and Shine, Blank Hellscape, Chris Brokaw, USA/Mexico, Chimers, Ed Kuepper & Jim White, Voice Imitator, Weak Signal, Mope Grooves and in just two weeks’ time we’ve got new LP's from The Gotobeds and Water Damage (available for preorder). And there’s scads of older stuff, too. SCADS So hurry up and load up. These bouncy castles aren’t gonna buy themselves. art : Angela Betancourt
#12XU#bandcamp friday#chris brokaw#dark blue#unholy two#the golden boys#borzoi#weak signal#lewsberg#water damage#usa/mexico#chimers#ed kueeper#jim white#spray paint#the dead space#voice imitator#john sharkey iii#mope grooves#lupo citta#the gotobeds
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Blank Hellscape's 'Hell 2', as reviewed by Heathen Disco's Doug Mosurock
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Austin Psych Fest, 4/26/25
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Voice Imitator live at The Last Chance Rock and Roll Bar Melbourne, Australia on Friday 21 February 2025. Shot by Solar/Sonar . Audio recorded and Mixed by Max Ducker
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Voice Imitator live at The Last Chance Rock and Roll Bar Melbourne, Australia on Friday 21 February 2025. Shot by Solar/Sonar. Audio recorded and Mixed by Max Ducke
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