Black Pus
by With his solo project, Black Pus, Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale continues to pound out muscular, unrelenting, ear-shredding thrash noise. Using pedal-triggered feedback and electronics, harsher vocals, and occasionally a saxophone, the by now iconic Chippendale does not disappoint fans of his earlier work, as the packed crowd at Tarantula Hill in Baltimore proved the other night — even after an hour-long set and an ambulance showing up, people were grinning ear-to-ear, sweaty and panting from crazed dancing.
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These guys practice in the space above my apartment. They’re good. They combine old school, no-wave chaos with blistering, drunken, punk elements, drawing in some influence from the electroacoustic stuff that’s going on in Baltimore right now. Sometimes they remind me a little bit of Lightning Bolt, only a little sloppier on purpose. They like to skateboard around in their space as well, which I particularly love at 2am. It’s all good.
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Jon Rose playing Australian electric fences
I recently caught Australian violinist/sound artist Jon Rose at Red Room in Baltimore. He used a motion-sensitive rig to his bow to manipulate sounds on a laptop while he played along. It was a very intense set. Among many other endeavors, Rose has been working on the ongoing Fence Project where he ‘plays’ the wire fences scattered across his home country.
One of the best bands I got to check out this weekend at Transmodern Festival was Soft Circle, the solo project of one-time Lightning Bolt and Black Dice member Hisham Bharoocha. Using looping effects, a drum kit, a guitar, and a rhythm composer to generate every component of his songs live, Bharoocha pounds out joyous, gorgeously epic, percussive songs that seem like some weird nexus of post-metal and late-era Genesis with occasional African beats. The rest of the bill had been more heady, contemplative, experimental acts, but the NYC-based one-man band had the whole room pushing aside the chairs that had been provided to dance.
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