Keratoid

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Silver Dollar show Feb 9 2017 w Jerkoff Diary, Peace Be Still, Cygnus

photo by Talk Show Chris

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Silver Dollar show Feb 9 2017 w Jerkoff Diary, Peace Be Still, Cygnus

photo by Talk Show Chris

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Silver Dollar show Feb 9 2017 w Jerkoff Diary, Peace Be Still, Cygnus

photo by Talk Show Chris

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first verse of a new one. recorded it in our practice space on my dslr. annoying hum up in the 2k-4k so i rolled off 6dB. come hear the real thing at our show w Jerkoff Diary at the Silver Dollar Feb 9

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this was my old band L.I.P.P. at the Hard Luck Bar Aug 30 2013

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Seriously, Liv Tyler was in fatigues at some kind of show at a theatre. Then she turned into Katee Sackhoff who was breaking up with me, trying to kick me out of this cottage by throwing dishes at me. When I got outside it was a beautiful day and I hitched a ride with a guy in a pick up truck to go back to Toronto but we kept stopping to pick up more people and finally at a gas station I wasn’t sure if we’d make it home.

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new song “Smoke & Alcohol” recorded on a DLSR in our practice space teaser because it’s just a demonstration

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we’re performing at the In The Soil Arts Festival on Saturday at the Merchant Ale House in St. Catharines. We’re on at 10:30 or so.

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Keratoid | In the Soil Arts Festival | 29 April – 1 May 2016 | Downtown St. Catharines

Venue: The Merchant Ale House Time: Saturday 10:30pm Category: Music City of Origin: Toronto, ON Price: $10 or Festival Pass Website: http://keratoidscars.tumblr.com/ Snapshot: A shoecore trio from Toronto, with variously sludgy or melodic leanings, who like to play songs about politics, broader justice issues, and love. About: There once was a band called LIPP Who liked …

This is on!  We’re playing Saturday the 30th at The Merchant Ale House with Windfall Found,  Broken Puppy, Pindles, Fox Trail, The Honeyrunners, Niagra String Band,  Heavy on the Willie, Electric Wildlife, Sean Benton, and starting off with Taylor Wallace  at 1:30 in the afternoon (we’re on at 10:30 after Pindles).

In The Soil Festival: - Facebook page - Twitter: @inthesoilfest - Instagram: @inthesoilfest - Hashtag: #inthesoilfest

See also Jake’s other band, Ohmno, playing the night before (Friday the 29th), also at The Merch (9:30). … also apparently there’s a ferris wheel.

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Correction above in bold.  Sorry I am a dumbass and mixed up me dates.

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Spin picdisk, spin Hypnotise me with rotating sky And musical din.

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Just picked up the freshly pressed Keratoid EP from Monotype Audio at sonicboomtoronto.  Hand made lathe cut (Monotype says ‘embossed not cut’ not sure what the diff is; I’ve seen the lathe they make these on) single sided 10″ picture disk.  Unlike most lathe cuts or flexi disks this won’t wear out with repeated plays.

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Keratoid | In the Soil Arts Festival | 29 April – 1 May 2016 | Downtown St. Catharines

Venue: The Merchant Ale House Time: Saturday 10:30pm Category: Music City of Origin: Toronto, ON Price: $10 or Festival Pass Website: http://keratoidscars.tumblr.com/ Snapshot: A shoecore trio from Toronto, with variously sludgy or melodic leanings, who like to play songs about politics, broader justice issues, and love. About: There once was a band called LIPP Who liked …

This is on!  We’re playing Saturday the 30th at The Merchant Ale House with Windfall Found,  Broken Puppy, Pindles, Fox Trail, The Honeyrunners, Niagra String Band,  Heavy on the Willie, Electric Wildlife, Sean Benton, and starting off with Taylor Wallace  at 1:30 in the afternoon (we’re on at 10:30 after Pindles).

In The Soil Festival: - Facebook page - Twitter: @inthesoilfest - Instagram: @inthesoilfest - Hashtag: #inthesoilfest

See also Jake's other band, Ohmno, playing the night before (Friday the 29th), also at The Merch (9:30). ... also apparently there’s a ferris wheel.

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influences

Lots of bands get asked this question, by fledgling interviewers and veterans alike; in long and rambling campus/community radio pieces, and short big television spots alike. 

“Who are your influences?”

We like to put it in our album notes, our websites, our advertising content. We ask auditioning band members what their influences are, as if that is still some sort of shorthand that actually helps. We talk about our heroes and heroines at parties, in the hopes of getting a free drink or a hit off that joint or to go home with that hot young thing who’s been getting more and more shiny-eyed every time we open our mouths. We chat about it with the headliner at the show, after sound check, because it’s some safe small talk that isn’t about gear or alcohol or the people we know in common. It is fun and good and productive and also a complete waste of time.

Andrew’s influences, in no particular order, for lyrics and arrangements and production values and politics:

The Constantines; Phleg Camp; Venus Cures All; The Police; Bruce Springsteen; John Coltrane; U2; Jack Layton; This Bridge Called My Back; Octavia Butler; James Tiptree, Jr.; James Baldwin; Ursula Rucker; Saul Williams; Chuck D.; Skinny Puppy; Phil Ochs; Henri Faberge & The Adorables; More Or Les; Nas; A Tribe Called Quest; Trust (Hal Hartley film); Neil Young; Autechre; Carl Craig; Goldie; Peter S. Beagle; Frank Herbert; Ursula Vernon; Enter The Babylon System; Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch film); Diamanda Galas; Alice Coltrane; The Pixies; Neck/Christiana; Swans; Codeine; Cub; Low; Sara Bareilles; Republic of Safety; Massive Attack; Lynton Kwesi Johnson; Lillian Allen; The Streets; The Phonemes; Whitehorse (the band not the city); Magnetic Fields; Madonna; Shotmaker; Champion Lover; De La Soul; Samuel R. Delaney; The Ex; The Creeping Nobodies; Land of Talk; Chang-A-Lang; Rockets Red Glare; King Cobb Steelie; Beastie Boys; Eternia; Sunny D (the rapper not the drink); Agents of Repression; Noam Chomsky; Denise Benson; KPMB Architects; Olivia Chow; Gord Perks; Cheri DiNovo; Sarah Nicole Prickett; Sly & Robbie; King Tubby; Mad Professor; Nuyorican Soul; Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop; The Sheep Look Up; James S.A. Corey; Ann Leckie; DJ Shadow; Ry Cooder; Godspeed You Black Emperor; Coldcut; The Damned; Brian Reitzell; The Clash; Okara; Masters At Work; Josh Wink; Public Transit Recordings; Buck 65; Pip Skid; mcenroe; DJ Krush; The Darcys; Radiohead; Palace Brothers; Bjork; Clara Engel; Amelia Curran; Eric’s Trip; Lin-Manuel Miranda; George Gershwin; Chip Zdarsky; Sarah Treem & Hagai Levi; Inland Empire; Damon Lindelof; Nina Simone; Slayer; Richie Hawtin; The Cure; Kathleen Edwards; Linda Ronstadt; The KLF; The SalSoul Orchestra; Front 242; The Weakerthans; Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; Ohbijou; Bruce LaBruce; Stoya; The Kids In The Hall; Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet; Nitin Sawhney; Annie Sprinkle; Stephe Perry; Anousheh Showleh; Saira Chhibber; Battlestar Galactica; A-ha; Sheryl Garratt; Matt Galloway; Adrienne Shelley; Ursula LeGuin; Andre Norton; Billy Bragg; Bill; Ted; Madeleine

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Ohmno “Lover’s Lane”, Smiling Buddha, 3.23.2016

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Thanks for the vid bud!

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GG Audio plays drums in Ohmno, bass in Keratoid

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Inside the Pop Music Factory

In modern music, the same small group of producers and writers are creating songs for the biggest pop names, making the industry seem homogeneous and repetit...

It’s a good discussion, although I have some criticism:

- These people are not comfortable with each other are they - Too short - I’d like to hear more from Maylee Todd, because of her great relationship with pop music writing and performing* - Alan Cross is so smooth, but it would be nice to hear a little less from him - I’m not really into Dragonette but i really enjoyed Martina Sorbara on this panel

I was disappointed by Steve Paiken’s moderation (he is a great moderator, usually), as not knowing contemporary pop music very well he didn’t get the panel to unpack authenticity earlier. Because Cross asks, “where does authenticity come into pop music these days?” Seabrook replies that it is in hip hop (”it comes from the streets...”), and follows that up by discounting it as vulgar and misogynist. I think his point about the cutting edge, which values authenticity and is therefore authentic, kind of betrays a rockist critique. But then I don’t know him from adam so who knows. It goes on for a bit before authenticity kind of gets laid to rest. Which includes Sorbara taking Cross to pieces about Celine Dion, Seabrook talking about Meek Mill and Drake, and Paiken making a vague Trump reference.

* her work in Henri Faberge & The Adorables is interesting, and cool; and her transition to doing less conventional music and performances after her stint there, really does lend weight to the discussion in the panel around the difference between forgettable artists and artists that are talked about generations later