Member Since: 21/09/2006
Band Website: http://www.oldgold.org
Band Members: Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Influences: Our roster includes musicians Eric Gaffney, Tamio Shiraishi, Sean Meehan, Eugene Chadbourne, Jad Fair, R. Stevie Moore, DQE/Grace Braun, Yximalloo, Dangerwoman, Tim Foljahn/$2 Guitar, Davey Williams, Gang Wizard, Shaking Ray Levis, Gold Sparkle Band, L. Contra, Flap, Ladonna Smith, Howard Finster, San Agustin, David Daniell, Earzumba, Les Man Avec Les Lunettes, Bad Poet, Forever, Spoons, Anglophobe, Isaac GJ Colbert, Charlie Parker, Morgan Guberman, Audiodelica, Eyeball Hurt and the Medicine, Cheryl Leonard, How to Kick Yourself, 2 Geniuses, Autobody, Untanned Hide of a Young Cow, Buford Highway, More, Tom Heasley, Ken Rosser, Die Spatzen, Witt Mills, Rudy Bust, NDF, Albatross, Adrian Shalom Williams, POT ROAST, Tom Elliott, go action with da-da sound, The Garage People, Drue and Myles Langlois, Alien Hybrid, Jill Burton, Supermarket Son (Sleepbags), Mysterue De Day (Andy Hopkins), Glee, Make It Stop, Mike Wright, Spleenal (Steve Pomberg), Rob Parham, Charles Waters, Jimmy Young, Ouingphat (Ena Balllard), Cradle, Trolling Withdrawal, Log Cabin, Rob Mallard, Wes Daniel, Ben Davis, Troy Piper, William Carlos Williams, Bon Vivants (Ben's band), Zandosis (Marshall's band); additional cover artists and designers include Knickerbocker, Marc Bell, Henry Owings, Adam Keller, Leslie Strain Wilson, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Hollie Dzama, Drue Langlois, Michael Dumontier, Adrian Williams, Shelley Dick, J. Pylpchuk, and the Royal Art Lodge.
Sounds Like: "A washing machine on drugs" ... "dishwasher having a nervous breakdown" ... "a riot at a burning slaughterhouse" ... "a fire drill during an exorcism at the maternity ward of an insane asylum" ... "a terrorist attack on a petting zoo" ... "an earthquake during a seance in an ape house" ... "the horrified sreams of a baseball stadium crowd as a disabled jetliner nosedives into home plate" ... just kidding ! Those are quotes from Gerald Jablonski's wonderful "Empty Skull" comics. (Fantagraphics) Actually this Tokafi review of our 10th anniversary compilation OGX really hits it on the head: “OGX†merely emulates what 90% of listeners are doing already: Mixing it up, breaking it down and shuffling their way through multifold playlists and across all style-barriers. If radio can no longer provide this sense of excitement, this adrenalin-filled moment is what could come next and if record companies have decided to play it safe and “tastefulâ€, then it is up to labels like Old Gold to fill the vacuum. Nothing comes closer to John Peel’s eclectic approach than this and the ambassador of “good music without borders†would certainly have liked quite a few of these tunes. And if you can see the wholeness in fractures, the aesthetics in ugliness, the coherence in incoherence and the pleasure of being shocked and shaken every time a new track begins, then you will too.By Tobias Fischerhttp://www.tokafi.com/newsitems/cd-feature-v-a-ogx/vi
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Record Label: Old Gold
Type of Label: Major