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Puerto Muerto

About Me

Puerto MuertoPuerto Muerto began life as Johnny Deformed in Saint Louis four years ago. The pair played minimalist music with the ego of a twelve piece band. The two members share the writing responsibilities.Puerto Muerto (Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer) are based in Chicago and Saint Louis. In Chicago, they live in a huge complex called the Cavebarn, which includes their apartment as well as the studio they record inRecently Puerto Muerto toured the UK and Russia. In England they drank beer and in Russia they drank various hard liquors. They will be back in the UK and Europe in May and will then be found wandering the west and east coasts in August.At this time the duo is working on “Songs of Muerto County”, an original score to the 1973 classic film, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.Puerto Muerto albumsYour Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore! See You In HellEPElenaCompilationsThe Executioner’s Last Songs Vol. 1 Hangman’s Song Chamber Music 36 James Joyce poems set to music feat. Wayne Kramer, Minus 5, Mike Watt and othersMovie Credits Dawn Of The Dead (2004) Hangman’s Song

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/17/2004
Band Website: firerecords.com
Band Members: Tim Kelley Christa Meyer
Influences: The Kinks, The Pogues, Joe and Eddie, Fear, The Clash, Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Weil/Brecht, Jimmy Cliff, King Tubby, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Stiff Little Fingers, Lotte Lenya, Muddy Waters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Jaques Brel, Gypsy music, the third man, Suspense, Prince, feeling very drunk or sad-
Sounds Like: Making love with a soft corduroy couch.
Record Label: Fire Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

30 Music Review

http://30music.com/rev.php?mode=revrec&rev=2451Puerto Muerto"I Was a Swallow" (CD)released in 2008Label: Firehttp://www.myspace.com/puertomuertoPuerto Muerto's new album, I Was a Swallow, is one of di...
Posted by puertomuerto on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:48:00 PST

New Noise review

http://www.new-noise.net/album-reviews/puerto-muerto/i-was-a -swallow/puerto-muerto---i-was-a-swallow_4116.html
Posted by puertomuerto on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:43:00 PST

BBC Review

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/jhqv/ by Gemma Padley 07 April 2008 Husband and wife duo Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer’s 2005 al...
Posted by puertomuerto on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:54:00 PST

Art Roker Review

With a history of album titles such as Your Bloated Corpse and See You in Hell to their name, Puerto Muerto’s latest album presents a significant change of pace. It’s a stripped down, beau...
Posted by puertomuerto on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:22:00 PST

Stool Pidgeon Review

Puerto MuertoI Was A SwallowFirePuerto Muerto are finally over their obsession with writing imaginary ’punk folk’ score for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and not a moment too soon. Those re...
Posted by puertomuerto on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:49:00 PST

OMH review

Sleeping partners Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer have been Puerto Muerto since way back in the early noughties. Is that all? It’s not that it feels like longer, it just feels...older.This St Louis...
Posted by puertomuerto on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:41:00 PST

March 25th

Hello sweet people-We just wanted to write a quick note to let you all know that we'll be playing at Chicago's Schubas Tavern on March 25th. We're opening up for the visionary Mekons at 10PM.We'll ha...
Posted by puertomuerto on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:43:00 PST

London

Puerto Muerto is, (are) playing in London in March-It will be our only show in the UK. We will literally be in the country for less than 48 hours, so get us while we're hot, steaming straight off t...
Posted by puertomuerto on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:04:00 PST

Yippie

I am so excited! Obama won in South Carolina!! I'm about peeing my pants with glee.Volunteer for his campaign, please!!!To celebrate, we'll send off our new cd "I Was A Swallow" (which won't be avai...
Posted by puertomuerto on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:18:00 PST

Pleasuredome

Yes, I am in the Pleasuredome-it is as cold as, um a prairie dog's gonads. The ground is hard and crumbly and my boogers freeze when I go outside for more than ten seconds. Talk about sexy-time! I ...
Posted by puertomuerto on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:38:00 PST