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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - US | Independent

https://sleepytimegorillamuseum1.bandcamp.com

Genre: Rock against Rock

FFO: Secret Chiefs 3, Kayo Dot, Extra Life, John Zorn, Gentle Giant, Magma

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (SGM) - the most gloriously unclassifiable American band in existence - is bringing back the apocalypse with a series of Grand Reopening tours, recordings, and related events. In early 2024 after a 13-year hibernation, they re-emerged from the earth like a brood of cicadas with their fourth studio album — of The Last Human Being — and swarmed across the US with a 5-week tour. They are now bringing the swarm to the EU in the summer of 2025.

On any given night, SGM's live set careens from euphoric to eerie to ego-annihilating wall-of-sound. Gleefully dark and joyful noise emanates from a wild array of instruments, many homemade. Crowds are engulfed in circuitous melody, strange bursts of color and light, unknowable time signatures, spasmodic dance. A Sleepytime performance is never just a string of head-bangin' anthems. Each song is an elaborate journey of its own, framing cameos from friends and family in the form of Butoh dance, parades, puppet shows, and the occasional impassioned oration of Italian Futurist poetry. What was an average local rock club just hours before is transformed into a volatile dreamspace where anything can, and does, happen. People speak in hushed tones about the live shows like rites of passage. Flustered reviewers, desperate to pigeonhole the ineffable, have labeled SGM everything from neo-RIO (Rock in Opposition) to avant-prog metal to grindcore funk theatre to, in the words of one particularly rapt concertgoer, "some kinda Satanic Anarchic Viking Shit". None of those descriptors come anywhere close to conveying the band's ethos.

Faun Fables - US | Drag City

http://www.aNGRry.propagande.org/en/FAUNFABLES-en/

https://faunfables.bandcamp.com/

Genre: Experimental Art Folk

FFO: False Lankum, Mount Eeerie, Xiu Xiu

Faun Fables is an American band formed in 1997 in Oakland, CA, as vehicle for Dawn McCarthy. All albums except for the first are collaborations with Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh). The music covers 20th century compositions by other songwriters and traditional folk songs.

The band began when McCarthy left the bands and sideshows of New York City, traveling abroad and singing solo. With an open ticket and two phone numbers in her purse, she set out hoping to find her voice and new inspiration to write from. The songwork from this time period was captured on the first Faun Fables CD EARLY SONG (1999), and captured the attentions of Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), a musician and voice artist whose work she'd admired in a theatrical rock show called 'Idiot Flesh.' They began collaborating in 1998, sharing an instinct to weave theater into music and learning from each other's contrasting approaches to songmaking.