Heathen Skulls are very proud to present from Los Angeles!
Omar Rodríguez-López Group
(Featuring Mars Volta founding member Omar + Mars Volta's current bassist, and drummer)
Special guests: Le Butchererret
(Mexico / Los Angeles: featuring Omar on Bass)
If you’re unaware of who Omar Rodríguez-López is, which is understandable, then you’ll definitely be familiar with the various artistic projects he’s been involved in, most notable Mars Volta, the Grammy Award winning progressive rock band he founded with fellow At The Drive In member Cedric Bixler Zavala. Over the course of Omar’s illustrious and enduring career as a musician, producer, and film maker, he’s been involved with some of the most critically acclaimed artists of our generation, most notable numerous recorded collaborations with John Frusciante of he Red Hot Chilly Peppers. After countless tours by his previous projects, Omar will finally be touring his own band down under, a power trio that’s modestly entitled the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, which just so happens to feature Mars Volta’s current drummer and bassist.
To accompany Omar on his first ever Australian tour he’ll be bringing the Mexican born, LA based, art punk band Le Butcherrete with him, in which he plays bass, and are signed to his record label.
Omar Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Rodr%C3%ADguez-López
Omar's official web site:
www.rodriguezlopezproductions.com
Live in Kentucky, USA:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYXRG7IsCRI&feature=related
Live in Los Angeles (Troubadour):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhKf7FM7qs
Live in San Francisco, USA:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0XZ2x0bNs
Australia tour - December, 2012
Tickets: $25 + BF, on sale from the usual outlets as of Monday, November 7th, 2012. Please see venues for details.
Supports: To be announced a.s.a.p
Friday 9th: Canberra @ ANU Bar
Saturday 10th: Sydney @ Manning Bar
Sunday 11th: Brisbane @ The ZOO
Monday 12th: Melbourne @ Northcote Social Club
Please note: This is Le Butcherrete only
Tuesday 13th: Melbourne @ The East Brunswick Club
Wednesday 14th: Melbourne @ The East Brunswick Club
Thursday 15th: Adelaide @ Fowlers
Nice one Roberto.
Is it an instrumental band?
Omar occasionally sings, Cedric usually tours with them as Omar's vocalist and the band does a more experimental stripped back version of Mars Volta, but i don't think Cedric will be coming on this tour. It's looking to be a trio.
Heathen Skulls are proud to present Death Grips, they bring to Hip Hop what Black Flag brought to hardcore!
Founded in Sacramento, USA, in 2010, Death Grips exploded onto the scene with their critically acclaimed free downloadable mix tape album EX-MILITARY, from the very first they show started packing rooms and destroying everything in their path! What came next was a sea of live reviews from sold out shows which have ultimately left every note worthy label and festival foaming at the mouth, with check books in hand.
With in a few short months they've gone from nothing to becoming one of the most sought after artists in the underground!
Death Grips are an aggressive power trio that's kicked modern hip-hop into a meat grinder!
What's coming out the other side is the darkest and most uncompromising shit imaginable. A non-stop assault of blackened chaos that pummels everything in it's path!
I can say this with the up most confidence, in the same way that one might speak about Lightning Bolt and Wolf Eyes, and that being, there’s no one doing what they do, no one!
They were the first; they've reinvented something that seems familiar and then deconstructed it again, anyone else doing anything similar is a mere shadow!
Forget about everything that you know and love about Hip Hop, nothing comes close, this is the real deal.
This is avant-garde Hip Hop from street that’s been used and abused. This is Hip Hop that’s born out of aggression and the starvation of small Town America.
This is Hip Hop that’s been hugely influenced by the punk rock attitude of raw power and attitude.
This is Death Grips!
Fronted by the intense figure that is MC Ride, whom I have to say has the meanest tattoos and apparently, the best black metal record collection imaginable; Death Grips vocalist is a violent force of lyrical punk that evokes nothing short of pure energy and dark emotion.
On the drums is a man with a history that needs no introduction, Zac Hill, one half of the Californian noise punks Hella, and one of the many longstanding contributors to the legendary Japanese group The Boredoms.
On electronics is Flatlander, aka Any Morin, a man with no limits, an individual who processes the sonic and abusive frequencies generated from Zac’s junked out drums.
Individually they’re all uncompromising artists, three completely different craftsmen in their own right who single handedly challenge the preconceptions of what music is, and what it should sound like. Collectively, they’re an unstoppable force!
This is Death Grips, they’re free down loadable mix tape album is called Ex-Military, and they’re touring Australia this January, coming to a Town near you!
The Album 'Ex Military' - http://soundcloud.com/deathgrips
Death Grips - Guillotine (It Goes Ya) - VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orlbo9WkZ2E
Death Grips - Beware
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco
Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl3XWUhUOM
Death Grips - Guillotine (LIVE @ Low End Theory)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbSfkWuHuiE
Death Groups Website
http://thirdworlds.net
Death Grips Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/DeathGripz
AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES: January, 2012!
Tickets: $25 + BF, available from the usual outlets as of Friday, November 4th, 2011. Stay tuned for details!
Friday 20th: Hobart @ Mona Foma Festival
Featuring PJ Harvey, see www.mofo.net.au for ticketing details
Saturday 21st: Perth @ The Bakery
Life is Noise presented show, see www.lifeisnoise.com for ticketing details
Sunday 22nd: Melbourne @ East Brunswick Club
For tickets, please see www.cornerhotel.com
Wednesday 25th: Canberra @ ANU Refectory
Pre sale ticket information TBC
Thursday 26th: Brisbane @ TBC
Pre sale ticket information TBC
Friday 27th: Sydney @ Hermanns Bar
For tickets, please see www.oztix.com.au
Saturday 28th: Melbourne @ Northcote Social Club
For tickets, please see www.cornerhotel.com
Sunday 29th: Adelaide @ Fowlers Live
For tickets, please see www.fowlerslive.com.au
The tour's this year though, right? Not 2012.