Jim Cooper
Karl Doerfer
Jon Steinmeier
Andrew Sole
Ben Miranda
Influences
Talking Heads, Devo, Steve Reich, Jean-Claude Vannier, Jean-Jacques Perry, Frank Black, Vyacheslav Mescherin, Percy Faith, Eurythmics, Baby Teeth, Bobby Conn, the later works of Beef Wellington
Sounds Like
Devo, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Weezer, The Residents, Oingo Boingo, Mr. Bungle, Mike Patton, Ziggy 2000, etc.
Formed at - and later expelled by - a fundamentalist bible school in 1996, Detholz! (pronounced 'Death Holes!') originally formed as a way for its members to vent anger and frustration with their evangelical upbringings and to make sense of their 'double lives,' which to this day straddle a fence between 'Religion' and 'Reality.'
Detholz! draws from a broad range of pop and avant garde music and personal histories defined by arcane religious subculture. The result is something that has consistently defied easy categorization and always produced the strongest of reactions, including accusations and threats of arrest for 'Satanic Worship', prayer circles at shows both for and against the band, and heated (sometimes physical) exchanges pitting fans vs. detractors (and sometimes fans vs. fans).
Laboring happily underground since its inception, Detholz! has toured extensively, with bands such as Wilco, Danielson Familie, Weird War, Radio 4, The French Kicks, Electric Six, The Blacks and Thunderbirds Are Now. Individually, members have written, recorded and toured with artists such as The Staples Singers, Bobby Conn, and Baby Teeth.
Their latest full-length, Cast Out Devils, was released on Halloween, October 31st 2006.
VIDEO FOR "CLUB OSLO" from Cast Out Devils directed by Micah Barber
By the bye, if this is Mister C...your idea of inviting everyone you could think of who came from a Christian home and watching the films of the youth groups of our youth may yet occur here in the Cities.
Also...IPA Believer (the beer that's wrapped up in a pompadour) is still being made regularly. I'm working on an English variant - IPAn Anglican.
Cheers, -Drew and co (known to roller derbyists in MN as Garrison Killer)
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