june 25 - july 2 we are having another deal in the catalog page. anyone who buys a cd will get their pick of any other cd for free. just send us an email with the free disc you want and include your paypal order number. enjoy the summer!
june 16, 2008
our last show for the year will be in the afternoon at the mccarren pool on july 27 in new york. after that, we go our separate ways for awhile. seven fields and i will be doing some tobacco shows on our own, and power pill fist has a bunch of late summer dates lined up as well. i'll have an update soon on the tobacco record coming out in october.
february 10, 2008
WE ARE NOT BOOKED TO PLAY THE FOLLOWING SHOWS. PLEASE DO NOT EXPECT US ON THESE DATES:
**INCORRECT DATE**march 10 @ the drunken unicorn atlanta, ga**INCORRECT DATE**
**INCORRECT DATE**march 11 @ the spanish moon baton rouge, la**INCORRECT DATE**
**INCORRECT DATE**march 23 @ knitting factory new york, ny**INCORRECT DATE**
**INCORRECT DATE**march 24 @ in the venue salt lake city, ut**INCORRECT DATE**
**INCORRECT DATE**march 27 @ jackpot music hall lawrence, ks**INCORRECT DATE**
**INCORRECT DATE**march 27 @ picador iowa city, ia**INCORRECT DATE**
we're sorry, but these dates have been popping up, and in some instances, tickets are up for sale. we are not booked for these shows, though, and are not sure where the confusion is coming from.
our real march tour dates will be posted soon.
january 12, 2008
power pill fist's new album, kongmanivong is up for sale at the power pill fist site. it's supposed to come out next month, but he says if you trade him $12 for it, he'll send it now.
we are going on a tour in march. it's the only tour we'll be doing in 2008, because i've gotta work on a new record. we'll have the dates very soon.
we have a new 7" single coming out in the spring as well as some really strange collaboration work later in the year. i've also got a new album coming out under my own birthname, tobacco.
oh yeah, and the dandelion gum double LP will finally be out in march. i took a long time finishing it, but i promise it will look and smell really good. the vinyl is pink and there is an extra song that was left off of the cd version. preorders on the catalog page coming soon!
and lastly, we're nominated for a plug award this year for best avant album. you can vote for dandelion gumhere.
december 8, 2007
we're not very informative these days, so here's what's been happening.
just got home from a 3 month tour with the flaming lips in sept and aesop rock in october/november. we got really lucky to go out with the 2 nicest groups of people in music. anyone we tour with in the future will have super huge shoes to fill.
did anyone get my tobacco dvd? there weren't many pressed, and there are only about 100 copies left. there's a weird manufacturing error that makes some higher scale dvd players chop up the audio. i don't understand it, but it plays fine in cheap players or playstation 2. so buy at your own risk, and buy here.
if everything works out, we'll be touring for 3 weeks around the country in march. that'll be the only touring next year since we'll be working on something new.
i promise to do a better job with this news section in '08.
may 2, 2007
Vote for us on urb.com IF YOU WANT!
they're having some kind of promotion at the urb magazine website where you vote for the "next big band" or something like that. it's out of 1000 bands, and while we won't win, we could always use votes so we don't end up looking so bad in the end.
i think you just click on the stars, but i haven't figured out if that's right yet.
vote here
thanks!!
-tobacco
april 25, 2007
new american apparel t-shirts for sale on the catalog page. we've got brown shirts with pink logo and gold shirts with white logo
We're in the current issue of Rolling Stone! David Fricke put us in his 4 best bands of SXSW article:
"They didn't look psychedelic, just confused. The female drummer wore a toucan mask and her sweat-shirt hood pulled druid-style over her head. A woman playing keyboards had on a fur hat with bobcat ears. The singer sat on the floor, invisible, crooning through a vocoder. But musically, this bucolic-futurist quintet was a firmly directed trip: pillowy synth chords and day-glo songcraft nailed to Earth by insistent backbeats. Formed in 2003, Black Moth have a sizable library of CDs to their name. Renown should follow.
HEAR THEM
The group's latest disc is Dandelion Gum (Graveface)"
Pitchfork also put our song Sun Lips in their forkcast section:
On Repeat: Black Moth Super Rainbow: "Sun Lips" [MP3]
BMSR apparently like a bit of mystery, hiding their members behind names like Tobacco and Father Hummingbird and positing their music as something they stumbled upon in the Western Pennsylvania wilderness. Now based in Pittsburgh, they're on the verge of releasing their third full-length Dandelion Gum next month. "Sun Lips" is a good introduction to their sound, combining a synth that sound like the woozy Mellotron from the opening to "Strawberry Fields Forever" with vocodered vocals that conjure not so much robots as the larynx-shredding effects of inhaled Scotchgard. Indeed, Ween circa the Pod is an apt reference point, but these guys are way less dark and a touch more hippy. There's not much more to the song than these couple ingredients, but the unassuming melody is just right for the sentiment ("I love to be with you/ And the sun will rise, the sun will rise") even as the queasy music works against it. The warm summer feeling fantasy seems real but is also tinged with irony, as the music also sounds dank, interior, and hermetic.
we'll be playing 3 shows in new york this week. and we're with deerhunter, dirty projectors, and awesome color in brooklyn on saturday! come out!!
march 24, 2007
Dandelion Gum is now up for presale on the catalog page!
We're looking for an amazing animator to make a video for a song off of Dandelion Gum. We have no budget, and can only pay in music and tshirts, but we hope that's not too much of a deterrent. If you're interested, hit me up at tobacco [@] blackmothsuperrainbow.com
We had a beautiful time at our first SXSW this year. Here's what some people had to say:
New York Times
Black Moth Super Rainbow, a band from Pennsylvania, makes its music from a nest of analog keyboards and a rhythm section. Its songs are pulsating neo-psychedelia, driving and dizzying, with vamps that keep on building as the keyboard sounds go whizzing, bubbling, zapping and swooping above the beat. Vocals are run through a vocoder for a vintage robotic tone, repeating lines like "I love to be with you, and this time we'll rise" or "We miss you in the summertime." Above the band, a screen showed eye-popping video animations: wildly proliferating plants, cartoon people and food in metamorphosis. The band's albums revolve around stories and concepts--its current one, "Dandelion Gum," is a tale of witches in a forest--but onstage, its music was one glorious buzz.
Chicago Tribune
THE DAY'S BEST BAND: Pittsburgh mind-melters the Black Moth Super Rainbow. The band performed while accompanied by surreal nature cartoons, which suited their trancy, propulsive synth-skronk just fine.
Our show with The Octopus Project at Elysium was really loud and really fun too:
MTV.com
Gil Kaufman: The apocalyptic atmosphere on Sixth Street described above made it feel as if all hell could break loose at any moment, and that's kind of what it sounded like at Elysium during the scorched-earth show from Pennsylvania psychedelic rockers Black Moth Super Rainbow (that's the best band name ever), who performed with Austin's equally trip-tacultar Octopus Project. The instrumental experimentalists created a thundering, paisley explosion of beats and noise that might be the sound of a spaceship taking off — if its engines were made of two sets of drums, a bass, guitar, sitar, two glowing tambourines, a Theremin and four keyboards.
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on our tour of the south and to everyone who made our SXSW shows a success!
february 12, 2007
Dandelion Gum will now be in stores on may 15 via graveface/southern records in north america only. We are excited since we've put alot of hard work into this record over the past 3 years. It wouldn't be right to leave the concept out, so here is an excerpt from the press release:
"Dandelion Gum" (2007) is a loosely based concept record about witches who make candy in the forest. Each of its 16 songs represent a different candy-induced freakout in the gooiest and sweetest ways possible. Songs that are built to stick in your head for hours meet textures that are impossible to scrape off your teeth. You might not even realize that the sunny melody you're humming to yourself all day has so many hidden layers behind it - all hummable as well. It's as accessible of a record as it is abstract, and as bright on the surface as it is moody underneath. "Dandelion Gum" feels as colorful and sticky as its name suggests.
Recorded over the course of 3 years, "Dandelion Gum" is a product of the woods. It is deeply inspired by stories passed down from relatives and ones the band created themselves after long nights in the cabin. The best of those stories, and one that we hope could be true, is of the sisters who refused to leave their shack deep within the forest. The sisters (or witches as they are lovingly referred to in local folklore) were truly scary and it is said they would concoct all kinds of sugary treats for anyone foolish or adventurous enough to wander that deep. Most likely, this is an allegory for drugs and you can come up with whatever seemingly appropriate type of operation those women were running. But the stories of the individuals who made it back home are some of the most fucked up stories around. Some are really bright, some are really sad, and some are designed to make you think about life and rainbows and death. BMSR wants you to feel that when listening to this record. And then they want you to remember it all day, and try it again tomorrow...
We will be touring to SXSW and back, starting March 10 in Nashville. We'll be doing a special one-time performance with The Octopus Project, playing together as one band, at Fanatic's SXSW showcase on March 17 @ Elysium.
Check out the rest of the dates here.
If you live in the Pittsburgh area, come see us play with The Apples In Stereo tonight!
