Do yourself a favor. While everyone’s kid sister is out there putting Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest at the top of the year-end list she’s doing for some sort of Disney Channel online sweepstakes to win tickets to a live taping of I’m in the Band, reach for some real “ambient punk” instead.
Chicago noise-rocker quartet Disappears is releasing their sophomore LP, Guider, via Kranky on January 18 (January 17 in the UK), and this time around, they are bringing out the big noise-rock PR guns. And no, I don’t mean that they are playing up that Brian Case played with 90 Day Men and The Ponys, because who cares about those bands??? I mean that after their drummer left the band, they went out and got Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley to fill in for their upcoming live dates. Wow! Steve Shelley! He recorded Nirvana’s In Utero, didn’t he? Anyway, check out a clip of them working on a Guider track in the studio over at
…sigh. Okay, there’s no jump. Whatever.
01.19.11 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
01.20.11 - New York, NY - Cake Shop
01.28.11 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
02.03.11 - Detroit, MI - Lager House
02.04.11 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
• Disappears: http://disappearsdisappears.blogspot.com
• Kranky: http://www.kranky.net
[Photo: Greg Simpson]
