Trash brat lo-fi fuzzed out noise pop brewings… Consisting of Will Ivy, Liza Thorn and Abe Pedroza, BRIDEZ hail from San Francisco and cite seagulls, the beach, poppies, drugs, teen angst and expensive everything as influences. Hobbies include: recording, writing songs, doing acid and shooting music videos. “Ideally we’ll shoot a music video for every song because they’re all hits,” says Thorn. (Take her word for it.)
"Dark, muscular and intense hick garage blues racket with the relentless gusto of The Bad Seeds fucking Deanna, sharpened by the non-cliched post punk apocalyptic edge one finds in Public Image Ltd" (20 Jazz Funk Greats). Fronted by Loto Ball (ex-Phantom Limbs, Boys Scouts of Annihilation), nothing comes close to this debut full length from the Chicago based members of the Loto Ball Show. With paranoid vocals, squealing horns, and mutated rhythms, Loto Ball Show truly defy categorization.
“The Moon Upstairs have pulled off a difficult feat, bringing together disparate, yet connected, styles and making something cohesive with their own individual stamp on it. If you give this album a bit of a chance, the songs will get under your skin and stay with you – and that’s the best trick of all.” (Dusted Magazine)
“...A real band. Not some sort of theme park dress up act.” (Dream Magazine)
Contrasting the flowery psychedelic rock music of the late-1960s, the New York City-based Silver Apples created an avant-garde sound based on an extensive drum kit (originally played by Dan Taylor) and a little more than a homemade synthesizer/oscillator, dubbed “The Simeon” after group founder and lead singer, Simeon Coxe III. Silver Apples were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom and have influenced countless bands, everyone from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Atari Teenage Riot. After a mysterious hiatus, the forefather of psychedelic electronic experimentation has returned.
“...Women and Children hearken directly back to the dark folds of the Paisley underground’s nethers. June Serwa has a gorgeous voice that, more often than not, possesses the tone, timbre, and haunt of Kendra Smith, though her lyrics focus more on the internal than on the metaphors Smith staked Opal’s mythos around. Her band seems to sprawl in several different corners of dark folk, from mystical funeral march to less ordered affairs, but I keep coming back for Serwa’s voice, fragrantly dripping with stained grace. Gorgeous stuff that is no doubt making some headway to bigger places.” (Dusted Magazine).
Coming in 2008, Luv & Terror from Int'l Shades featuring Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Knoxville Girls, Action Swingers, Bewitched & co-founder of BB Gun Magazine), Mark C (Live Skull, Spoiler), Tim Flojahn (Two Dollar Guitar, Thurston Moore, Townes Van Sandt, Boredoms, Jad Fair & Cat Power) and Alexa Wilding. With psych post-punk elements, swirling guitars and driving drums, Mark C and Bob Bert are in top form creating a hazy fog of beautiful convoluted noise, recalling components of their past bands but from a new perspective. As founders of the music term that would later ironically be called "indie rock," file this release alongside your Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., and Sonic Youth.
Starting in the street, Susan Dietrich’s sounds radiated throughout San Francisco, transcending the paranormal and leaving bystanders wondering what realm they entered. With a Casio before her, Susan Dietrich’s hypnotic rhythms and angelic vocals are otherworldly, which led her faithful fans to deem her “The Space Lady.”
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"Loto Ball Show look and sound business. They make a dark, muscular and intense hick garage blues racket with the relentless gusto of The Bad Seeds fucking Deanna, sharpened by the non-cliched post punk apocalyptic edge one finds in Public Image Ltd. (also exemplified in early-day Liars), sexy horns add an extra bit of epic omph to their clanging and banging onslaught, the outcome sounds awesomely instantaneous in the same excellent way as, for example, the Black Lips or In The Red days Deadly Snakes. Now kids, that is a rare thing."
(20 Jazz Funk Greats)
"Loto is one of the most talented and demented front-creatures in all of underground rock. Phantom Limbs were a punk Gilbert & Sullivan gone drastically wrong- perfect for a San Francisco bordello when the '06 Earthquake hits. Now with Loto Ball Show, the music borders on 'Exotica'- but thankfully without the "Lounge" damage. As a painter and a musician, everything he touches seems to turn into a Lio strip. I will always be fascinated."
(Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys)
"Loto Ball Show takes the pants off The Phantom Limbs dead person and puts The King and Eye in one leg and Hex Enduction Hour in the other."
(Chris D., The Flesh Eaters)
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BRIDEZ, Fake Blood Jacket
OUT: MAY 27 2008
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BRIDEZ - Til You're Dead [off Fake Blood Jacket]
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