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otasco

otasco

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Member Since: 8/30/2004
Band Website: otasco.com
Band Members: dag luther gooch... and formerly adam breidenbach, rusty durio, scott larmann, kevin hurstell, darby clarke
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Chunklet Radio Podcast is go! Click here!

From December 15th through the 29th, Chunklet Radio will preview it's first three episodes via podcast on Holland's premier alternative radio station, KINKFM. Join host Rudy Carver as your Radio comes to life and then ATTACKS you with an hour of cutting edge music and comedy. The show is produced by the contributing staff of the world - famous Chunklet Magazine, proving that no media format is above satire or beyond fouling.

Chunklet Radio begins it's official broadcast on the station itself January 1st , but until then, the show will be available on KINKFM's podcast site. The schedule is as follows:

Chunklet Radio Episode 1 - Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Chunklet Radio Episode 2 - Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Chunklet Radio Episode 3 - Thursday, December 29nd, 2005

xtc, the soft boys, the jazz butcher, gbv, the buzzcocks, green on red, the police, the sea and cake, and you will know us by the trail of dead, lambchop, the rock a teens, april march, the stranglers, the smiths, echo and the bunnymen, slobot, neutral milk hotel, belle and sebastian, sebadoh, june of 44, shellac, those bastard souls, the grifters, the bloodthirsty lovers, duran duran, badfinger, devo, crooked fingers, pavement, archers of loaf, man... or astroman?, enon, firehose, dead kennedys, juice newton, barry manilow, chet baker, elton john, judas priest, joe jackson, AC/DC, michael jackson, debbie gibson, tiffany, zack attack, kidd video, starland vocal band...
Sounds Like: so far we've heard:pavement, velvet underground, guided by voices, the fall, the jazz butcher, the violent femmes, the replacements, alex chilton, big star, the who, jonathan richman, the modern lovers, they might be giants, the jam, spoon, weezer (oh fuck), cake (ouch), yo la tengo, the squirrel nut zippers (um), and the beatles (who fucking doesn't).
Record Label: apocalypse the apocalypse
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Vin Diesel vs. Emo Batman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfF7HC5XK6c ...
Posted by otasco on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:51:00 PST

review: the black and white mag

Some records are beyond my comprehension, and This Product Is Extremely Delicious is one such record. Im about as musically open-minded as they come, but I struggle to hear the art in Otasco. Their...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: spinzone

Otasco - "This Product Is Extremely Delicious" I asked for this from the publicist especially even though it has been compared to the Jazz Butcher whom I am not especially fond of. Perhaps it was th...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: copper press

So, this one night, Jonathan Richman and the Violent Femmes piled into a car, headed for a nightclub, got up there and did a jazz set and it went something like thi...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: indieworkshop

Otascos new album, This Product is Extremely Delicious, is a combination of mostly easygoing, garage jazzy tunes, and some of the most smart ass lyrics this side of Ben Folds and Weezer. It makes for...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: mundane sounds

I like a smarmy singer. There's nothing that beats confidence in a lead singer, because that smug attitude can often be the one factor that wins over the world. Nobody thinks that Mick Jagger, Roger D...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: just add noise

Opening for Weezer side project Special Goodness once upon a time was a band called Training Bra, an early ancestor of Otasco. Singer Dag Luther Gooch and his inebriated bandmates came to an untimely ...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: erasing clouds

THE BAND: Dag Luther Gooch (guitar and vocals) THE HISTORY: Dag Luther Gooch is the lead singer and guitar player for the Louisiana based band Otasco. Gooch is also the founder of a fanzine t...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

near review disaster: either/or

A cherry ghost I had written a fairly lengthy commentary on the new and controversial Tonic of Uptown (read about it here), generally in favor of its continued existence, when I popped a CD into th...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

review: 1340 mag

As much as the band may hate this (seriously, visit their Web site), the rampant Pavement comparisons theyve been getting are actually pretty accurate. What we have here is hazy and charmingly lo-fi ...
Posted by otasco on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST