We love seeing our bands on Henry Rollins’ KCRW playlists! This week loving on Tera Melos & Boris. Seeing our bands alongside the bands he chooses each week makes us happy. Seeing him tweet about them is so kind. Thanks Henry. Who knows maybe Tera Melos & Boris should tour together soon…..
If you Missed the original Broadcast #120 stream it ONLINE HERE
In honor of your support Nathan from Tera Melos will continue to wear this shirt everyday.
See more posts like this on Tumblr
#henry rollins #tera melos #boris #kcrw #la weekly
TERA MELOS LIVE
Oct 22 - Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop #
Oct 23 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt #
Oct 24 - London, ON @ APK Live
Oct 25 - Toronto, ON @ Wrong Bar #
Oct 26 - Montreal, QU @ Il Motore #
Oct 27 - Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bears #
Oct 28 - Hamden, CT @ The Space #
Oct 29 - New York, NY @ Santos Party House #
Oct 30 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
Nov 02 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Nov 03 - Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge
Nov 04 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box
Nov 05 - Austin, TX @ FFF Fest Nites at Red 7 w/ Russian Circles, Boris
Nov 06 - San Antonio, TX @ Studio 13
Nov 07 - Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
Nov 09 - Tuscon, AZ @ Solar Culture Gallery
Nov 10 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse *
Nov 11 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
Nov 12 - Los Angeles, CA @ EL Rey *
* w/ Boris
# w/ Melt Banana
Marnie Stern, Tera Melos, Power Axeat The Echo - Fri., February 18, 7:00pm
Tera Melos is a wondrously strange trio from Sacramento whose complex math-rock rambles are distinguished by unusual sonic juxtapositions and flurries of wacked-out guitar squiggles on their third album, Patagonian Rats. Bassist Nathan Latona and drummer John Clardy shift tempos from free-jazz noise to psychedelic dreaminess, as guitarist-programmer-vocalist Nick Reinhart unreels elaborate, intricate whorls of notes. Early songs like the eight-minute epic “40 Rods to the Hog’s Head” alternate between dense prog-rock tangles and more open-ended passages that float away into space. Tera Melos is well matched with Co-headliner Marnie Stern, who, like Reinhart, also employs finger-tapping trickery to conjure febrile riffs from her ax. Far more than just a flashy guitarist, the New York singer combines art-rock melodies and banshee wailing with bizarre, cryptic lyrics on her recent self-titled album on Kill Rock Stars. Producer Zach Hill (who also drums with Hella) anchors frantically busy tracks like “For Ash” and “Female Guitar Players Are the New Black” with a heavy sound that still finds room for shards of Stern’s subversive wit and playfulness. And check out her crazy version of the theme from Hawaii Five-0, which is the weirdest remake of that TV jingle since Radio Birdman recast the melody as “Aloha Steve & Danno” back in the late 1970s. - By Falling James
Maps & Atlases with Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos / Photo: Maria Colòn
Tera Melos hasn’t exactly been on hiatus this summer. They’ve headlined a mini West Coast tour with label mates Adebisi Shank and Le Butcherettes, and there have been surprise appearances by Nick Reinhart – most recently performing a rousing encore with Maps & Atlases at Ace of Spades in Sacramento (see image).
But they return to the road this Fall supporting new label mates Boris for much of their North American tour, as well as a separate leg of shows supporting Melt Banana. DATES HERE
Additionally, Daytrotter has posted a session with the band, featuring 3 songs dramatically revised. Stream/download HERE.
In case you didn’t already know, Tera Melos’ most recent album Patagonian Rats landed on many Best of 2010 lists, as well as receiving raves from Wired.com, Exclaim!, ALARM Press, Impose and Exploding In Sound.
Henry Rollins has repeatedly championed the album on his KCRW radio show and Marnie Stern also named it her favorite album of the year in SPIN. Not sure what it signifies that Rollins digs your album but we’re sure it’s something good.
A very intoxicated man ranted to me about how seeing Boris is as awesome as our parents going to Steely Dan or Led Zeppelin, which I found funny at first but it actually made some sense after a couple songs. Boris gave off a rock star aura as they walked on stage, enhanced by the volume and enthusiasm of the audience’s cheers. Atsuo wore a headset mic, playing drums made of clear acrylic in the tradition of John Bonham, raised high on the stage to compete with the height of the towering full stack guitar amps and cabinets. Takeshi had a double-necked guitar that was split between a bass and a standard guitar, which I heard someone refer to as a “Swiss Army-tar.” They covered a ridiculously wide range of rock sub-genres, including stoner metal, indie rock, hair metal, classic rock, and pop punk while maintaining an overall ambient and sludgy tone.
Head here to view all the pictures from all three bands and Boris’ setlist.
The bilingual punk band Le Butcherettes and their record “Sin Sin Sin”: “It’s a great record, but live, forget about it. [Frontwoman] Teri Gender Bender is a full-on rock star … in a good way. I saw her open for Iggy the other night and she just owned it up there. It’s great to have such raw talent happening right here in L.A. So I try to amplify anything like that.”
Japan’s Boris and “New Album”: “Boris is one of my favorite bands but they make it really difficult to collect them. It’s fun but it’s expensive. They’ll do like three versions of all of their albums. They did a version of the two albums mixed together called ‘The New Album’ and I think it had a few songs from ‘Heavy Rocks’ and a few from ‘Attention Please.’ Remixed and reinvented, it’s completely amazing and completely worth it.”
Japanese band Boris have been touring across America with a rotating cast of notable openers including Coliseum and Tera Melos (who they played with in Chicago), and Asobi Seksu and Liturgy who supported them in NYC at Irving Plaza on Thursday night (10/27).
More pictures from the NYC show, including a shot of Boris’s setlist click HERE
Photos by: Chris La Putt
TTNG, Tera Melos at The Echo - May 23
Echo Park based label Sargent House is set to take over the Echo and Echoplex this Thursday and Friday. Japanese post-noise trio, Boris, will be headlining both nights at the Echoplex playing a wide array of classics and never before heard tunes. San Francisco-based black metal quintet, Deafheaven, will be joining them both nights at the Echoplex, with Marriages opening the show on Thursday 5/23 (SOLD OUT) and Ides of Gemini (not on SH) on Friday night. Some hardcore math rock from Sargent House will be taking over the Echo on Thursday 5/23 (SOLD OUT) with NorCal band, Tera Melos headlining, and Oxford based This Town Needs Guns aka TTNG lending support. Marriages, features two members of SH’s Red Sparowes, and are the newest band to join the family, and are based here in Los Angeles. Having recently released their debut EP, Kitsune, they have announced a national tour in support of Sargent House Management’s band Deafheaven this summer. Alluringly sensual dramatic rock with shades of doom and psych, the 6 song EP from Marriages is streaming below. - Jacqueline Caruso
SEE ALL SARGENT HOUSE BANDS ON TOUR DATES
HEAR ALL SARGENT HOUSE BANDS ALBUMS
Continuing our Rad Releases feature is a band who have not only made our year here at Circuit Sweet but also been a regularly featured band throughout the past 12 months. We have the honor in speaking to Tera Melos to find out their top releases.
Photos of Tera Melos and Maps & Atlases live from their tour - thanks Craigowaffles for the photos I borrowed from your flickr
