Thursday, October 10, 2019

BLUNDERBUSST fall tour launches today; Fellow Slow Start Records label mates The March Divide, Ryan Traster also supporting new releases.

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
06. Endless Summer Blues (STREAM | MP3)
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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