Music:
Member Since: 2/14/2007
Band Members:
Members of bands in posted tracks
Carbon Sister Union (Wichita, KS, Mid 90s)
Performs the song "Prom Dress"
Drums: Brian Armitage
Bass/Voice: Tom Blank
Guitar/Voice: Matt McCoy
Imps of the Firmament (NJ, 2003)
Performs the song "Blown Decorum"
Drums/Guitar: Victor Marinelli
Bass: Heather McCoy
Guitar/Voice: Matt McCoy
www.myspace.com/impsofthefirmament
Influences:
Music:
Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes, Hammerhead/Vaz, Slint, Shipping News, June of 44/Rodan, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Lungfish, Unsane, Unwound, Shellac, Silkworm, Codeine, ...Trail of Dead, Dinosaur Jr., Melvins, Season to Risk, Barkmarket, Mission of Burma, Husker Du, early Helmet, The Boom, Hoover, Crownhate Ruin, Angel Hair, Lightning Bolt, Mule, Big Black, Television (Marquee Moon has some of the greatest guitar sounds ever), Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, King Crimson, early Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Black Flag, Cro-Mags, Minor Threat, Neurosis, Today is the Day, Godflesh/Jesu, Isis, Coalesce, Converge, Earth, Sunno))), Burning Witch, Khanate, Sleep, Om, Voivod, High on Fire, Mastodon, Orthrelm, ethereal-lofi-primitive-blackmetal, Clutch, Comets on Fire, Kyuss, QOTSA, Masters of Reality, Red Sparowes, Tarentel, Mogwai, Grails, Subarchnoid Space, GYBE, Palace/Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of Light/Swans, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Split Lip Rayfield, Hank Sr. and Hank III, Billy Joe Shaver
Favorite Guitarists: Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo, Robert Fripp, Tom Verlaine, Steve Austin, John Reis/Rick Froberg, Justin Broadrick, Paige Hamilton, John Fahey, Ben Chasny
Film: Werner Herzog, esp. Aguirre The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu. Anything with Klaus Kinski, even his bad films. Kubrick: The Shining, 2001, Clockwork Orange. Apocalypse Now. Alien. David Lynch: esp. Lost Highway, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. Jim Jarmusch: Deadman and Down by Law. Two-lane Blacktop. John Waters, Ed Wood, Vinny Gallo
Writers: Cormac McCarthy, Melville, Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Pound, Bukowski, Burroughs, Ginsberg. R.A. Wilson, Vonnegut, Swift, Hunter S. Thompson, H. friggin' P. Lovecraft.
Politics: "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right..."
Consumables: Coffee, vegetarian food, India pale ales, Yuengling lager, Thai, Indian and Mediterranean food, Wintergreen lifesavers, pierogies with saeurkraut (plentiful in Clevo), dark chocolate, lox, birch beer, Martin's (tm) potato rolls (not plentiful in Clevo).
Architecture: the older the better, or bauhausy boxy stuff.
Life Events: Marriage. Fatherhood.
Favorite People: Heather, Willa
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
