LA Underground and The Fold present...:
Incan Abraham
Tennis System, Flora & Fauna
Thu, August 11, 2011
Doors: 8:30 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Bootleg Bar
Los Angeles, CA
$7.00
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Incan Abraham - (Set time: 11:00 PM)
Incan Abraham was founded in a garage in Rhinebeck, New York, in June 2009. In the fall of that year, the band relocated to Los Angeles, the hometown of three of its members, and Teddy, the only New Yorker, moved out West for the band. Since then, the band has released two EPs, Adult World (2010) and SUNSCREEN (2011), and maintained a constant stream of live shows in Southern California, as well as more far-flung appearances at CMJ 2010, San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival, and SXSW 2011.
With a sound at once welcoming and exotic, Incan Abraham has received praise from NPR, TIME Magazine, and a number of respected local, national and foreign blogs. Earlier this year, the band launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new series of recordings, and was able to meet and exceed its fundraising goal by a substantial margin. The fruit of that effort, a new short-form album titled Ancient Vacation, was released in October 2011. On the strength of this release, Incan Abraham has been able to take its sound to its largest stages to date, including several official showcases at CMJ 2011, and an appearance at the Wiltern with Beady Eye in December.
With a sound at once welcoming and exotic, Incan Abraham has received praise from NPR, TIME Magazine, and a number of respected local, national and foreign blogs. Earlier this year, the band launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new series of recordings, and was able to meet and exceed its fundraising goal by a substantial margin. The fruit of that effort, a new short-form album titled Ancient Vacation, was released in October 2011. On the strength of this release, Incan Abraham has been able to take its sound to its largest stages to date, including several official showcases at CMJ 2011, and an appearance at the Wiltern with Beady Eye in December.
Tennis System - (Set time: 10:00 PM)
The noisy, earnest legacy of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus and Mary Chain lives on in the expansive, catchy-as-hell pop songs of Washington D.C.’s Tennis System.
Matty Taylor and Misha Bullock are masters of loud and dirty anthems, but rising above the noise that blankets them are Taylor’s beautifully sung, dreamy lyrics inspired by both love and art, from the drawings of Egon Schiele to the writing of Aldous Huxley.
So expansive was their sound -- and so ferocious were the live shows -- that the band has won wide attention from bookers and blogs alike. Though only together since 2008, Tennis System has played bills with the likes of Japandroids, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Wavves, Love is All, Ty Segall and Harlem.
But Taylor and Bullock aren’t content to be mere scenesters. Like Sonic Youth, the pair are about artistic collaboration and the power of live performances, not fads.
The band set about creating its first self-released album, The Future of Our History, in 2009 with Jeff Zeigler of Uniform Recording (Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, the Swirlies) and mastering by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes, Pavement, Sonic Youth, the National). Then, Tennis System embarked on touring that took them to South By Southwest (where more than one of their shows was shut down for raucous noise) and CMJ; band members are also a regular presence in Philadelphia and New York clubs.
Tennis System is Matty Taylor (vocals and guitar) and Misha Bullock (guitar and, on occasion, drums). The band is at work on its best work to date, Teenagers, with Ryan Van Kriedt (of Asteroid No. 4). The album is expected to be released in early 2011. –from facebook
Matty Taylor and Misha Bullock are masters of loud and dirty anthems, but rising above the noise that blankets them are Taylor’s beautifully sung, dreamy lyrics inspired by both love and art, from the drawings of Egon Schiele to the writing of Aldous Huxley.
So expansive was their sound -- and so ferocious were the live shows -- that the band has won wide attention from bookers and blogs alike. Though only together since 2008, Tennis System has played bills with the likes of Japandroids, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Wavves, Love is All, Ty Segall and Harlem.
But Taylor and Bullock aren’t content to be mere scenesters. Like Sonic Youth, the pair are about artistic collaboration and the power of live performances, not fads.
The band set about creating its first self-released album, The Future of Our History, in 2009 with Jeff Zeigler of Uniform Recording (Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, the Swirlies) and mastering by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes, Pavement, Sonic Youth, the National). Then, Tennis System embarked on touring that took them to South By Southwest (where more than one of their shows was shut down for raucous noise) and CMJ; band members are also a regular presence in Philadelphia and New York clubs.
Tennis System is Matty Taylor (vocals and guitar) and Misha Bullock (guitar and, on occasion, drums). The band is at work on its best work to date, Teenagers, with Ryan Van Kriedt (of Asteroid No. 4). The album is expected to be released in early 2011. –from facebook
Flora & Fauna - (Set time: 9:00 PM)
