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Big Ups’ Final Show at Bowery Ballroom!

Hey New York! We are playing Bowery Ballroom January 18th for Big Ups final show with Washer and Bethlehem Steel! Tickets available now! https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1781248?utm_medium=ampOfficialEvent&utm_source=fbTfly

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KEXP chooses "Meteorological" for Song of the Day on The Morning Show with John Richards

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New York art rock band Guerilla Toss have been making ambitious experimental music since 2010. This September the prolific quintet released their sixth studio album Twisted Crystal. Our Song of the Day is lead single "Meteorological," a bursting semi-pop number that comes with a fun video featuring frontwoman Kassie Carlson running a hectic newsroom.

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NEW ALBUM FROM GTOSS GUITARIST ARIAN SHAFIEE

Arian Shafiee - A Scarlet Fail | Light In The Attic Records

Awash in color and texture, Arian Shafiee's debut album, A Scarlet Fail, brings to light a guitarist whose sound and mastery are in full bloom. Best known for his work in the East Coast dance/punk group Guerilla Toss, Shafiee has spent years warping the idea of what a guitar can sound like.

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KCRW BROADCAST 503

HENRY ROLLINS LOVES GTOSS

Fanatic! Happy November to you. I hope you’re getting your listening in. I’m doing the best I can. It’s Sunday afternoon and I plan on keeping the music on for as long as I can. I’m waiting for the tubes to warm up. First will be the yellow vinyl edition of Ty Segall’s new collection of covers called Fudge Sandwich, which we rock a track from in our first hour.

Fanatic, have been able to catch J Mascis on his current tour? I saw him in LA last Friday night at the Lodge. SO GREAT! Time passes so quickly when he’s onstage. High points for me was when he switched up guitars and went for that long jam and when he played Alone. The solos were epic. The newly expanded Ear Bleeding Country Dinosaur Jr. / J Mascis retrospective is out, with liner notes by yours truly. J’s new album Elastic Days is a great thing and totally wins on vinyl.

This Ty record is ruling.

The new High On Fire album Electric Messiah is great. Check out that green/black marble variant out of Europe! Looks cool.

The new Orb album the Space Between is excellent. I played that one last night.

I just opened the mailer with the new Guerilla Toss LP Twisted Crystal in it. SO playing that one today.

Fanatic, it’s a great list of tunes we have lined up for you this evening. Next week’s show is all done and ready to go. Hopefully we don’t get canned! As Fats Waller used to say, “One never knows, do one?”

Get your Black Friday list together and STAY FANATIC!!!

–– Henry

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No New Years Eve plans? Come see Guerilla Toss and Mdou Moctar at ONCE Somerville!

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Beautiful Photo by Omari Spears at ONCE Somerville the other night. Great show with Gauche and Bugs and Rats! Thanks Illegally Blind, Boston Hassle, and everyone who came out and danced!!

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Bleep Mix #40 - MADE BY US

Track List Cannabis - Serge Gainsbourg America - La Dusseldorf Die Kunst des Liebens - Gina X Wide Open Space Motion - Klaus Weiss Wuma Te - Francis Bebey Happiness Is Drumming - Diga Rhythm Band Sodom and Gomorrow - The Congos The Gypsy Zurna - Adrian Belew Mind Your Own Business - Delta Five Hollywood - Cluster Mangungu - Zazou, Bikaye & Cy1 Measure Up - Tom Tom Club Placebo Syndrome - Parliament Nightclubbing - Grace Jones Love The One You’re With - Aretha Franklin This Is England - The Clash

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"METEOROLOGICAL" NEW GTOSS MUSIC VIDEO BY GIRAFFE STUDIOS

Last year, Guerilla Toss topped themselves with GT Ultra, which landed on our list of the best albums of 2017. The New York-based psychedelic crew are back at it again with Twisted Crystal, their third new album in as many years. It’ll be out in the fall, and today they’re sharing its lead single, “Meteorological,” alongside a music video from Giraffe Studios. The song continues the band’s trend away from the enigmatic energy of its earliest iterations and more towards the ambitious, pop-minded tunes they’ve been making as of late. “Meteorological” is an especially good one, all disorienting forward momentum and catchy hooks. Kassie Carlson adopts a lackadaisical doomsday cheerleader rhythm in the chorus, a litany of activities to do while waiting for the world to finally start making sense. “I want to be natural/ Meteorological,” she sings. If only everything was as reliably unpredictable as the weather. Last year, Guerilla Toss topped themselves with GT Ultra, which landed on our list of the best albums of 2017. The New York-based psychedelic crew are back at it again with Twisted Crystal, their third new album in as many years. It’ll be out in the fall, and today they’re sharing its lead single, “Meteorological,” alongside a music video from Giraffe Studios. The video for the track takes the form of a chaotic newscast, with Carlson playing all of the roles. - STEREOGUM

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NEW SINGLE BY GUERILLA TOSS

"GREEN APPLE" Guerilla Toss will release Twisted Crystal on September 14 via DFA. The LP finds the NYC-based band continuing to mash up genres and sounds — punk, postpunk, techno, reggae, Big Beat — into their own uniquely danceable, catchy cocktail. We’ve got the premiere of the album’s closing cut, “Green Apple,” which is Guerilla Toss in a nutshell: a krautrock breakbeat groove with guitar lines and keyboards flying in and out of the mix, and a big chorus. Wonderful and wierd, nobody else sounds quite like them and you can listen below. -Bill Pearis, Brooklyn Vegan

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"Eyes Moving"

from the album "Home of Bread"

by Stephe Cooper

Video by Peter Nichols of Great Valley!

Out on Roto-Asterisk Records check it out.....

by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_) Stephe Cooper is best known as guitarist and majestic frontman for Brooklyn's psych rock luminaries Cloud Becomes Your Hand. Now after eight years since their inception, Cooper is set to release Home Of Bread, his solo debut. Capturing a similar psychedelic bliss to his band's output, his solo effort places a firm focus on stripped down songwriting, with Cooper's vocals at the core of each composition. There's still plenty of kaleidoscopic wonder, but the heart rests within Cooper's lyrics and personal approach. Home of Bread is an eclectic record, mining his influences in the form of stunning originals, collaborations, covers, and sound collages, each offering a unique texture to a singular vision. "No Other," the album's first single is a dreamy glimpse into his lo-fi world of solo wanderings. With lyrics written by Zach Phillips (OSR Tapes, Constantine ZP, etc), Cooper offers a soft delivery both whimsical and somewhat despondent. There's a poetic sense to the singularity that the words of "No Other" present, finding company in the shadows and memories. The composition is packed with hazy synths and gentle piano, plodding in time with bells and whistles that ring out atonally together with the occasional warbling guitar accompaniment. The whole thing is drawn into another world, layered perfectly to suspend your sense of reality and climb into a new existence. - Post Trash LINK HERE

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Home of Bread by Stephe Cooper

Times New Roman Home of Bread by Stephe Cooper

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PIONEER SESSIONS WITH ARIAN SHAFIEE

LIVE PERFORMANCE CLICK HERE

"Arian Shafiee is a Brooklyn based guitarist/improviser most known for his playing in the off-kilter dance punk band Guerilla Toss. Inspired by aspects of non-western tuning and extended techniques, he crafts moments of dense, shimmering harmony and aggressive gesture through a unique approach, hinging classical impressionism to no-wave and early minimal music. Growing up with Iranian/Turkish parents, he peripherally absorbed various middle eastern musics, blurring their lyrical and harmonic mainstays into his writing and improvising. His two forthcoming albums, Beauty Tuning (Hausu Mountain) and A Scarlet Fail (VDSQ) deal specifically with this synthesis of eastern inflections and traditional classical harmony. By using fretless, microtonal, and acoustic guitars, Arian aims to process these stylized genres into an organic music, free of idiom and convention. His current trajectory of work focuses on the deconstruction of middle eastern pop music, using technology as a means of producing episodic compositions which verge between synthetic and natural sound worlds."

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ARIAN SHAFIEE

BEAUTY TUNING

Hausu Mountain

"Arian Shafiee = Noah Creshevsky + Yves Tumor + Oneohtrix Point Never

The debut solo release from Guerilla Toss guitarist Arian Shafiee approaches psychedelic music as an untamable, constantly shifting style. Not only is his music more diverse than the genre typically entails, but his conceptual range is equally varied. Though the touchstones of exoticism, vast, open landscapes and plenty of drug use still inform his music, he extends his scope to encompass more digitally relevant material. Beauty Tuning is mind-altering in the way that stepping outside after a getting locked in a YouTube rabbit hole blurs your vision and stuns you back into physicality. Shafiee makes psychedelia for the fragmented self of the internet age, where reality has taken on the surreal disorientation once reserved for fantasy."

LINK TO SLUG REVIEW

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW SONG “SPIDER HEARD”

Spider Heard by Guerilla Toss

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SAMUEL BOAT, SYNTH PLAYER FROM GUERILLA TOSS RELEASES MUSIC VIDEO

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Join The Fucking Drum Circle by Do Pas O

Join The Fucking Drum Circle by Do Pas O

by Max Freedman (@anticlimaxwell) It’s a lie. Do Pas O’s debut album isn’t just an LP-length barrage of percussion, though anyone expecting exactly that from Peter Negroponte, best known as the beastly drummer of Guerilla Toss, can’t be blamed. Instead, Join the Fucking Drum Circle, released via Chicago label Hausu Mountain, is a 40-minute psychedelic squawk from the inner depths of Negroponte’s strange and beautiful mind. It’s a jungle of synthetic excitement, like Jane and Tarzan swinging through trees of hallucinogenic guitars, bass, and of course, drums; most exciting is that Negroponte has created the entire forest from scratch, with the help of no bandmates at all. Guerilla Toss has proven Negroponte’s weight in a band setting; Join the Fucking Drum Circle makes a strong case for him as a standalone talent. In Do Pas O, he plays every role. Even on tracks with titles like “Fucking Drum Circle,” which does indeed begin with an imposing drum circle, he’s the mastermind behind scratchy, wacky guitars and synth lines as clown-car as they are It-style demon-clown. Especially notable is that this song’s transitions between segments and relationships among instruments feel shockingly natural, which may be entirely because no one else is there to tell Negroponte what to do. He can even make his weird, trippy formula compelling over the course of double-digit song lengths. The aptly named “Drums Space”—there are both plenty of drums and plenty of space, here and throughout Join The Fucking Drum Circle—stretches the Do Pas O formula to its outer limits, making limber passages of optimistic but droning synth sound continuous with sections that center on wah-drenched, palm-muted swaths of guitar plucking. It’s the Do Pas O thesis statement, Negroponte’s pet project taken to its logical extreme: reimagine the jam band as a computerized, synthetic mind trip, but instead of a jam band, it’s just one person’s magic. Yet beneath all the complexities of the music and all the off-color sounds, Negroponte actually doesn’t sound that different when he’s away from Guerilla Toss. As the sixteenth-note guitar shake of “Six in the Dark” begins to box out the percussion that pokes into the song’s intro and the synth that marks its path forward, Guerilla Toss very strongly comes to mind. The opening to “The Perfect Sandwich” especially sounds cut from the same cloth as Eraser Stargazer, although with an even stronger percussive focus. The parallels between Negroponte’s solo work and his better known project feel important to point out, since art as spectacularly strange as Do Pas O’s benefits from a connection to something familiar. Both existent fans and newcomers will find ways towards a state between a trance and a dance on Join the Fucking Drum Circle, a striking document that opens both Negroponte’s mind and soul to whoever dares enter them. - Post Trash