#itchy kitty

[gehirntoture]

Give this album a listen: Feargasm

[mumblelard]

funafuti, tuvalu or i am going to see a show later this week and my brain is flirting with claustragoraphobia and nervxiety but i just keep reminding myself that i am mostly yayxcited

[loth-caatgirl]

Itchy Kitty for the it/she kitties

[cassowary-rapture]

Pre-Satie palate cleanser

[asailorsdrunkeneulogy]

Itchy Kitty || Razorface

purchase on bandcamp.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Built to Spill, Prism Bitch, & Itchy Kitty Live Show Review: 5/4, Thalia Hall, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Ask Built to Spill fans why they love the band, and you’ll likely get a wide variety of answers, ranging from their dreamy themes to their earnest moods and stories. Ask this Built to Spill fan why he loves to see the band live, and it’s because Doug Martsch is a bona fide guitar hero. Plus, this current incantation of the band--with bopping, limber bassist Melanie Radford and mighty drummer Teresa Esguerra--is arguably the tightest Built to Spill has ever been. Thursday night at Thalia Hall, it was Esguerra’s birthday, and she played double duty, also in openers Prism Bitch. But the celebration was about more than just the calendar year. It was a tribute to Built to Spill’s most recent album When The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop), their finest in years, and the endurance of their back catalog among followers new and old.

Built to Spill always amazes me with how much sound they can get out of three people: with Martsch, Radford, and Esguerra, they delivered shredding intros, extended jams, and even some surf rock choogles. They entered the stage to Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”, and then proceeded to--wait for it--play a couple minutes of the song, instrumental, before traditionally opening with their own trademark epic, “Goin’ Against Your Mind”. I’d like to believe that in an alternate universe, Built to Spill is regarded as musically limber as the Canadian prog rockers, just as much as Martsch is regarded as a quintessential Pacific Northwest storyteller. When covering Heartless Bastards’ “The Mountain”, Radford took lead vocals, a dead ringer for Erika Wennerstrom, which answered the question you never knew you need the answer to, “What if Heartless Bastards had Doug Martsch on lead guitar?” Her sneaky lines on “Center of the Universe” and vocal harmonies on unreleased jangle pop ditty “Fire To Dust” made you wish Martsch would break his rotation and just keep her as a full-time member.

Of course, Esguerra proved to be more than versatile, her time-keeping centering Built to Spill and her mammoth fills propelling Albuquerque's Prism Bitch. Dressed like pilots and flight attendants, the latter started out with vibrant, synth-heavy pop from their most recent record PERLA. The democratically laid out four-piece saw guitarist/keyboard player Lilah Rose taking lead vocals on most songs but with bassist Lauren Poole in harmony, guitarist Tris Walsh slowly adding burning, creepy, sludgy, and psychedelic riffs to the fold on their punkier, older songs like “You Got I Want”. Best, they blasted through the supremely catchy, weeks-old “Woman” with aplomb, their hooks increasingly demanding of larger crowds and stadiums.

The most abrasive was Spokane’s Itchy Kitty, their unique combination of yelped punk and wiry goth-glam priming the audience for a night of genre-hopping rock and roll. The Osees-like squeal affects on guitarist Catman’s licks effectively matched the wails of guitarist/singer Ami Elston and bassist Naomi Eisenbrey on songs like “Coca-Cola Snakes”, “That Was My Dinner” and their irreverent “Psycho Killer” cover. Drummer Michael (Sug) Tschirgi chugged away as the rest, especially Elston, convulsed like feline versions of Ian Curtis. If Built to Spill and Prism Bitch were wound, Itchy Kitty was the ultimate expression of unbridled performance.

[ikkiba]

[deejaybearclaw]

Ursine Waves Episode 031: Smokin' Spokane

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This one goes out from Seattle to fire-ravaged eastern Washington State, featuring artists from Spokane ranging from indie rock to metal to lo-fi beats to shoegaze.

Originally broadcast 9/16/20 on Hollow Earth Radio, KHUH-LP Seattle, 104.9 FM & hollowearthradio.org. Played this week:

- air break - Pit - tin - out of course BaLonely - Staples - Staples Itchy Kitty - Sonic Reducer - Under the Covers Battlesex - Rawfist - The Boys of Rock Wretched Fuck - Familiar Spectrum - D​-​Beats To Freedom, Blast Beats To Hell Mercy Brown - Codependent - Mercy Brown Merlock - Spiral Nemesis - Merlock EP Animation Sequence - Lexicon Decrypted - Meridian Channels - air break -  QM - Just Got Paid - 4 Tracks & S 20's radio.wavs - D​-​Real & Allen Thomas​-​Saturn Rings (prod. Fushou​.​) - radio​.​wavs​/​/​volume​.​4 delt - F00LIN - Singles Vol.5 street lo-fighter - 1978802 - 20t2ape Mechanical Museum - Cliffside Panic! - Panic Panic!! Broken Fingers - Composed of Compressed Dust - BF Juke 18 Dancing Plague - Habitual - The Dancing Plague of 1518 - Habitual Civiliance - Night Drive - Five SOT - Melatonin - Melatonin - air break -  Bizarre Statue - Basra Survivor