Levittโs Summer Concert SeriesBlonde Redhead with Allison LorenzenFriday, October 4th, 2024All Ages | Rain or Shine Doors Open: 6:00 PM | Show Start: 7:00 PMTickets on-sale Friday, March 29th at 10am MTBlonde RedheadMoving from Sonic Youth-like art punk to eclectic pop over the course of their decades-long career, Blonde Redhead remained one of indie rockโs most creative acts. The band formed in 1993 after Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi randomly met Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace at an Italian restaurant in New York. (The name was taken from a song by the โ80s no wave band DNA.) With Makino and Amedeo on guitars and vocals, Simone on drums, and Takahashi on bass, the bandโs chaotic, artistic rock caught the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, who produced and released the bandโs debut album, Blonde Redhead, on his Smells Like Records label...
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Levittโs Summer Concert SeriesBlonde Redhead with Allison LorenzenFriday, October 4th, 2024All Ages | Rain or Shine Doors Open: 6:00 PM | Show Start: 7:00 PMTickets on-sale Friday, March 29th at 10am MTBlonde RedheadMoving from Sonic Youth-like art punk to eclectic pop over the course of their decades-long career, Blonde Redhead remained one of indie rockโs most creative acts. The band formed in 1993 after Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi randomly met Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace at an Italian restaurant in New York. (The name was taken from a song by the โ80s no wave band DNA.) With Makino and Amedeo on guitars and vocals, Simone on drums, and Takahashi on bass, the bandโs chaotic, artistic rock caught the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, who produced and released the bandโs debut album, Blonde Redhead, on his Smells Like Records label. Shortly after the albumโs release, Takahashi left the band. The remaining members continued as a trio, releasing a second album, La Mia Vita Violenta, on Shelleyโs label in 1995.For their 1997 release, Fake Can Be Just as Good, recorded for Touch & Go, the trio was joined by guest bass player Vern Rumsey from Unwound. By 1998, the band eliminated bass and scaled back to guitars, drums, and vocals for In an Expression of the Inexpressible. Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and the Melodie Citronique EP followed two years later. The bandโs first for 4AD, Misery Is a Butterfly, was released in spring 2004. For 2007โs 23, the group opted for a mix of dream pop and delicate electronic textures. Three years later, Blonde Redhead delivered Penny Sparkle, a more stripped-down, even more electronic-leaning set of songs the band recorded in New York and Stockholm with Alan Moulder, Van Rivers, and the Subliminal Kid. In 2014, Blonde Redhead returned with Barragรกn, featuring production from Drew Brown (Beck, Stephen Malkmus, Radiohead).The band revisited its early days in 2016 with the Numero Group box set Masculin Feminin, which collected Blonde Redhead and La MiaVia Violenta along with demos, singles, and radio performances from that era. That year also saw the release of Freedom of Expression on Barragรกn Hard, a collection of Barragรกn remixes including contributions by Deerhoof, Van Rivers, Nosaj Thing, and Connan Mockasin. Blonde Redhead returned with new music in 2017 in the shape of the EP โ3 OโClockโ, which they released on their own Asa Wa Kuru Records.Allison LorenzenAllison Lorenzen is a musician based in Southern Colorado by way of Denver, whose darkwave dreampop sound explores a minimalist approach to acutely felt noise-pop and aching slowcore. Her first solo album, Tender, was released by Whited Sepulchre Records in 2021 to critical praise. Lorenzenโs latest single โWordsโ released in 2023 as part of the dark music label The Flenserโs compilation of LOW covers, which received acclaim from numerous publications including Stereogum.
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