Come
Brother JT
Wrekmeister Harmonies
Friday July 12, 2013
9:00 PM
Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
773-276-3600
$15.00
The
dark and dissonant blues-rock band COME formed in Boston, Massachusetts
in 1990 and proceeded to terrorize the noisy rock underground
throughout the decade. Led by singer/guitarist THALIA ZEDEK and
guitarist CHRIS BROKAW, also the drummer for Codeine, COME included a
pair of Athens, GA refugees in bassist SEAN O'BRIEN, formerly of
KILKENNY CATS, and drummer ARTHUR JOHNSON. The band released a single
on Sub Pop before signing to Matador and releasing their superbly atmospheric album 11:11 in 1992. Throughout the 90s COME released critically claimed LPs, EPS and singles on Matador,
opened for seminal alt-rock bands like NIRVANA, SONIC YOUTH, SUGAR and
DINOSAUR JR, and were consistently on the brink of commercial fame,
ultimately never achieving the widespread recognition that many felt
they deserved. It's an honor and a privilege to welcome to our stage
tonight. BROTHER JT is JOHN TERLESKY, a grown-up rocker who got started
in the late 80s as garage-pop ravers THE ORIGINAL SINS, a band who
released numerous records throughout the decade, ultimately dissolving
by the end of the decade. During his time in that band, TERLESKY adopted
the BROTHER JT alter-ego as a way to express his more
experimental/psych-minded interests. Throughout the decade he released
albums on Twisted Village, Siltbreeze, Drag City,
and others and toured with numerous damaged-pop acts such as ROYAL
TRUX, BARDO POND, SMOG and BLONDE REDHEAD. Of late, BROTHER JT has been
self-releasing CDs accompanied by books filled with drawings and
writings, but this year's LP, The Svelteness of Boogietude, was released on none other than Thrill Jockey and
it's well worth your ear-time. J.R. ROBINSON is a Chicago-based sound
artist who works under the name WREKMEISTER HARMONIES to explore the
darkest corners of minimalistic synth, drone, and ambient music,
combined with visual projections he creates. His Thrill Jockey debut, You've Always Meant So Much To Me was
released on June 11th. The recording is an album-length composition
spread over two sides of vinyl, featuring some of Chicago's most
infamous minds in the metal and experimental worlds, including SANFORD
PARKER, BRUCE LAMONT (YAKUZA, BLOODEIST), JEF WHITEHEAD aka WREST
(LEVIATHAN), MARK SOLOTROFF (ANATOMY OF HABIT), JAIME FENNELLY (MIND OVER MIRRORS), FRED LONBERG-HOLM, and more.
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