Reno shoegaze trio’s comeback EP, prolific San Antonio
songwriter’s singles series, California cosmic country artist’s second album, all
out now.
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BLUNDERBUSST (L-R): Jen
Scaffidi, Carson Cessna, Carolyn Gates. Photo credit: Chris
Carnel.
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BLUNDERBUSST | Live
* = Jen Scaffidi solo
# = w/ The March Divide
10/10/2019: Reno, NV @
Foxy Olive *
10/11/2019: Sacramento,
CA @ Classy Hippie Tea Co. *
10/12/2019: San Diego, CA
@ City Pub *
10/13/2019: Phoenix AZ @
Yucca Tap Room *
10/14/2019: Albuquerque,
NM @ Red Velvet Underground *
10/15/2019: Amarillo, TX
@ The 806 * #
10/16/2019: Norman, OK @
Red Brick Bar * #
10/17/2019: Wichita, KS @
Kirby's Beer Store * #
10/18/2019: Lawrence, KS
@ Gaslight Gardens * #
10/19/2019: Kansas City,
MO @ KC House * #
10/20/2019: Indianapolis, IN @ Indiana City Brewing Co. *
10/23/2019: Rapid City SD
@ Cave Collective *
10/25/2019: Salt Lake
City UT @ Diabolical Records *
11/23/2019: Minden, NV @
The Annex *
11/29/2019: Pacifica, CA
@ Winter's Tavern *
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BLUNDERBUSST
“Monarch of the Mountain” EP
(Slow Start Records)
Out Now
Streaming Link:
Track Listing:
01. James Alex Chilton
02. Monarch of the Mountain (STREAM
| MP3)
03. Two to Grow Small
04. Wicked (STREAM | MP3)
05. You Get One
06. In Plain Sight
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The March
Divide | Live
* = w/ BLUNDERBUSST (Jen
Scaffidi solo)
# = w/ Ryan Traster
10/15/2019: Amarillo, TX
@ The 806 *
10/16/2019: Norman, OK @
Red Brick Bar *
10/17/2019: Wichita, KS @
Kirby's Beer Store *
10/18/2019: Lawrence, KS
@ Gaslight Gardens *
10/19/2019: Kansas City, MO @
KC House *
10/20/2019: Oklahoma
City, OK @ Sauced on Paseo
11/1/2019: Del Rio, TX @
Lone Star Vitality
11/15/2019: San Antonio,
TX @ Southtown 101
12/06/2019: San Antonio,
TX @ The Point
12/07/2019: San Antonio,
TX @ Freetail Brewing
12/15/2019: Wichita Falls,
TX @ WF Brewing Co. #
12/16/2019: Wichita, KS @
Kirby’s Beer Store #
12/17/2019: Tulsa, OK @
Hunt Club #
12/18/2019: Austin, TX @
House Show (TBD) #
12/21/2019: Brownwood, TX
@ Pioneer Tap House #
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The March Divide
“Distractions: Vol. 4”
(Slow Start Records)
Out Now
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Track Listing:
01. All I Wanna Do Is Laugh (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Real Life Is Hard (LYRIC VIDEO)
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Ryan
Traster | Live
# = w/ The March Divide
11/05/2019: Nashville, TN
@ The Basement
12/15/2019: Wichita
Falls, TX @ WF Brewing Co. #
12/16/2019: Wichita, KS @
Kirby’s Beer Store #
12/17/2019: Tulsa, OK @
Hunt Club #
12/18/2019: Austin, TX @
House Show (TBD) #
12/21/2019: Brownwood, TX
@ Pioneer Tap House #
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Ryan
Traster
Choses
Obscures
(Slow Start Records)
Out Now
Full Album Stream:
Track Listing:
01. Old World Present Tense
02. New Again (STREAM | MP3)
03. How Dark It's Been
04. Lost in a Sound (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
05. Libra
07. Kansas
08. Busy Mind Lazy Mouth
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BLUNDERBUSST
| About
The 15-year career of the noisy, Reno, Nevada-based
shoegaze-pop band BLUNDERBUSST has
included more time off than on.
The group sticks to an edict of not only letting the
songs be what they want, but also when they want. Essentially, BLUNDERBUSST makes music when the time
is right, and that time has arrived again as the band, consisting of songwriter
Jen Scaffidi (vocals, guitar), Carolyn Gates (drums), and Carson Cessna (guitars/synths), returns
from a five-year hiatus with a new EP this summer, to be issued as a four-sides
double 7-inch by San Antonio-based Slow
Start Records.
“This phase of the band started as, ‘Hey guys, I wrote
a few new songs,’” Scaffidi
explains. “I wondered what it would be like to get in the room with the band
and play them. And I thought we should probably play them in front of people before
we went into the studio.”
Scaffidi continues, “Being in rooms with our friends playing
music again felt like such a gift, like a small oasis of community in an
increasingly hostile world. We felt so lucky to still be part of Reno’s
incredibly active and vibrant music scene after such a long break.”
Suddenly BLUNDERBUSST
was a band again.
“With ‘Monarch
of the Mountain,’ we wanted to make something beautiful, something that
might be more than just ‘Here’s our new EP,’ something we could give to our
friends and the community that nurtured and embraced us, the people who made us
what we are.”
The EP is the keepsake that the band intended.
“Monarch of
the Mountain” sounds like the artists
on the playlists that Scaffidi and Cessna made to inspire them during its
creation (Aimee Mann, Neko Case, Brandi Carlile) meeting the trio’s stated influences (My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Swervedriver) head on. Picture a singer‐songwriter strumming an
acoustic guitar and then breaking it over your head at the end of the set. Scaffidi translates this description of
physical pain into cathartic, sometimes unsettlingly candid lyrics.
“Go now, write it down, because I’ve seen the end and
it comes too soon,” she sings on “Monarch
of the Mountain,” the EP’s title track and first single, recently
premiered via Ghettoblaster Magazine,
and now
streaming everywhere.
“Monarch of
the Mountain,” the latest EP by BLUNDERBUSST is out now from Slow Start Records. Members of BLUNDERBUSST are available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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BLUNDERBUSST | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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