Recorded on a day off from tour, The Tanks joined Jon and Dennis from Meth and Goats in the studio to record an EP of improvised jams. Mostly done live with minimal overdubs the songs feature everyone moving around on instruments.....
Seasons Greetings from Deep Cuts! Here are two holiday songs from Centaur Noir "Dead for Christmas" will be released as part of the "Rock the Hall" LP and "Running from the Saviour" is a special B-side for you to enjoy. Stream or Download for your listening pleasure.
Yes Future is an improvisational musical project brought to you by Dennis Hockaday (Meth and Goats/Idpyramid) and Johnnie Cluney (Mondo Drag/Jay R). Here is a video from a performance at Mixtapes as well as an excerpt from a song that will be released on cassette tape in the future on Deep Cuts. Enjoy.
Centaur Noir's Boombox Sessions are collections of Lo-fi recordings done on a Panasonic cassette recorder. Vol. One was recorded over a period of time in the summer and fall of 2007 in a dilapidated second floor jam space loft in downtown Moline. For more info on Centaur Noir go Here.
For quite some time in Sioux City the American Legion Hall was the place where all of the punk shows happened. It seemed like every night, if there was a show going on, you could drive down there early to find one man there before all of the rest.
Gary would sit out in front of the legion hall with his tattered notebook of lyrics and his acoustic guitar, waiting in anticipation for the show to start and for that nights performance of Gary's Band.
Gary's Band is a time honored tradition in Sioux City. The band would always play first in order to get things rolling and set the tone for the evening. The music and even the band itself was never the same thing twice. It would be Gary on vocals, with or without his acoustic guitar, singing from his book of music. They were his songs of love and pain.
This particular night was one where Meth and Goats were playing in Sioux City and the nights Gary's Band line-up ended up being Dennis Hockaday on guitar, Jon Burns on bass, Sioux City Pete on drums, and of course Gary on lead vocals.
This live album is a roaring spectacle of punk, blues, and rock 'n' roll with the poetic prose of Gary Norton. Luckily this performance was caught on tape and existsfor future generations to embrace the love of Gary's Band also known as Motleychrist.
-"Creations" is a four song E.P. by Idpyramid. It is one of the first of many Deep Cuts releases that will be featured on this blog as a free digital download. This particular release is a sampling of Idpyramid's intoxicating style of electronic influenced instrumental post rock. Look for more Idpyramid music to be released on Deep Cuts in the future. For more info on Idpyramid go HERE.
-Sound Visionaries is a collection of improvisational jam sessions. Recorded at the Sound and Vision Studio in Moline. Along with an ensemble of rotating musicians the people at Sound and Vision take you on a musical journey with its experimental sounds. Volume 1 recorded at various points over the past year is the first installment in what will eventually be an entire series of Sound Visionaries sessions.
