Thurs. April 2nd - Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati OH w/ TBA
Fri. April 3rd - UFO Factory, Detroit MI w/ Metal Dungeon, Graveyards
Sat. April 4th - Now That's Class, Cleveland OH w/ Robert Turman, Bbob Drake / JGuy Laughlin Duo
Sun. April 5th - Skylab, Columbus OH w/ Eagle Nebula, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan
Mon. April 6th - Woodchuck's, Toledo OH w/ Darger
Tues. April 7th - Cactus Club, Milwaukee WI, w/ Peter J. Woods, Jon Mueller
Wed. April 8th - Big V's, St. Paul, MN, w/ Paul Metzger, Visions of Christ
Thurs. April 9th - Basement of 204 North Gilbert, Iowa City IA w/ LWA, Abelar Scout
Fri. April 10th - The Mopery, Chicago IL, w/ Tiger Hatchery, Shiny Around The Edges, Anthony Levin-Decanini
Sat. April 11th - Apop, St. Louis MO w/ Joe Raglani
Sun. April 12th - The Fact House, Lexington KY w/ TBA
Burning Star Core is the primary project of Cincinnati OH-based artist C. Spencer Yeh. Not quite a pseudonym or a collective, BxC involves Yeh and often a central group of collaborators; the work is constantly evolving, developing works within the concerns of minimalism, maximalism, and personal mythology. The results have been steadily spread across years of vinyl, CD, cassette, lathe-cut records, and video. Live presentations of BxC have been presented in a variety of contexts on both coasts and the midwest and south of the USA, and in Europe and the UK. For this tour, Yeh will be joined by longtime collaborator Robert Beatty from Lexington, KY, known for his project Three Legged Race and the band Hair Police.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/arts/music/11play.html
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4592
http://tinymixtapes.com/Burning-Star-Core,6367
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/147290-burning-star-core-challenger
http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/burning-star-core/challenger
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2008/05/new-york---burn.html (interview)
http://www.loop.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=490&Itemid=26 (interview)
http://www.loop.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=460&Itemid=27
http://www.medicineagency.com/blog/archives/2230
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1627
http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/75/
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/recordsoftheweek.html (gotta scroll down a bunch)
http://tnjn.com/2009/feb/09/burning-star-core-heats-up-kno/
"A Brighter Summer Day" LP (Thin Wrist) 2002
"Let's Play Wild Like Wildcats Do" CD (Hospital Productions) 2005
"The Very Heart of the World" LP/CD (Thinwrist) 2005
"Mes Soldats Stupides '96 - '04" 2CD (Cenotaph) 2006
"The Everyday World of Bodies" LP (Ultra Eczema) 2006
"Three Sisters Who Share an Eye" LP (No Fun Productions) 2006
"West Coast Spring 2004" LP (What The..? Records) 2006
"Operator Dead... Post Abandoned" CD (No Quarter) 2007
"Blood Lightning 2007" CD (No Fun Productions) 2007
"Amelia" 10" (NO-FI) 2007
"WSBC/SSS" 10" (NO-FI) 2007
"Body Blues" 7" (Hospital Productions) 2007
"Challenger" LP/CD (Plastic Records/Hospital Productions) 2008
Comets on Fire + Burning Star Core LP (Yik Yak) 2005
Hototogisu + Burning Star Core CD (Dronedisco) 2006
Yellow Swans + Burning Star Core LP (Blossoming Noise) 2007
Hototogisu + Burning Star Core LP (Yik Yak) 2008
Prurient + Burning Star Core "Ghosts of Niagara" 10xC10 (Hospital Productions) 2008
Photo 1 | Photo 2 (credit to Nikkisneakers)
Others forthcoming
Wasteland Jazz Unit is the duo of John Rich and Jon Lorenz, on amplified reeds. For many traveling artists and musicians, the two are known as the curators and keepers of the Art Damage Lodge space in Cincinnati OH, as well as members of the Art Damage nonprofit organization and community radio program. However, WJU are no mere 'house band' -- from their first live performance, they have established themselves as a rising entity in Midwestern underground sound action. The Wasteland marries a physical punk fury with third-ear vertically-explosive frequency combat -- a tenacious yet open spirit which has drawn other area artists keen to bathe in this energy, including C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), and Ryan Jewell (Pink Reason, Psychedelic Horseshit). A meeting of all four players had been captured and released on CD-R by Valerio Cosi's Dreamsheep label as "Ohio Ghastly Soil." At the turn of the 08 - 09, they are finally paying their dues on proper vinyl formats, including a split 12" with Talibam! on the "ecstatic jazz" series of the Thor's Rubber Hammer label, and a split 12" with Cardboard Sax (Wolf Eyes' John Olson + Michigan weirdos Uneven Universe) on Community College Records.
Thor's Rubber Hammer description: "Wasteland Jazz Unit gurgles shrapnel on two rippers for amplified saxophone (Jon Lorenz) and
clarinet (John Rich). Cincinnati's premier Art Damage skater-jazz crew... deliver an aural abuse that just ruins your day."
http://www.myspace.com/wastelandjazzunit
Photo 1 | Photo 2 (credit to Nebulagirl)
