loudlooppress.com » Jim O’Rourke http://loudlooppress.com Amplifying Chicago's Music Scene Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:21:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sonic Youth drummer forms new band with Minsk’s Sanford Parker and White/Light’s Jeremy Lemos http://loudlooppress.com/news/sonic-youth-drummer-forms-new-band-with-minsks-sanford-parker-and-whitelights-jeremy-lemos/ http://loudlooppress.com/news/sonic-youth-drummer-forms-new-band-with-minsks-sanford-parker-and-whitelights-jeremy-lemos/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:39:01 +0000 Richard Giraldi http://loudlooppress.com/?p=6876
Photo Credit: Anna Maria Cerniglia

Photo Credit: Anna Maria Cerniglia

According to Pitchfork.com, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley has formed a new band called The High Confessions with industrial rocker Chris Connelly, well known for his work in both the Revolting Cocks and Ministry, Sanford Parker of Peoria metal group Minsk and Jeremy Lemos, who is not only a member of Chicago experimental, psychedelic outfit White/Light but has worked as an engineer along side Bill Callahan and Jim O’Rourke.

The band recently signed to Relapse Records and will release their debut, titled Turning Lead Into Gold With the High Confessions, this summer. According to the article, a rep from Relapse describes the band’s sound as…

“…a real heavy, psychedelic rock.”

Awesome.

Additionally, Shelley will perform with White/Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art on March 20, and they’ve even collaborated with noisy Chicago rockers the Disappears on a single that will soon be released by Sixgunlover Records.

You can catch White/Light the throughout the entire month of March at MCA performing with guest musicians including not only Shelley, but Tortoise’s John McEntire, Disappears, Tim Kinsella and more as part of an interactive art installation and music performance. Details can be found at MCAChicago.org.

]]> http://loudlooppress.com/news/sonic-youth-drummer-forms-new-band-with-minsks-sanford-parker-and-whitelights-jeremy-lemos/feed/ 0 Jim O’Rourke readies new Drag City solo effort for September release http://loudlooppress.com/news/jim-orourke-readies-new-drag-city-solo-effort-for-september-release/ http://loudlooppress.com/news/jim-orourke-readies-new-drag-city-solo-effort-for-september-release/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:52:33 +0000 Richard Giraldi http://loudlooppress.com/?p=1716 jim_o_rourkeEx-Sonic Youth member, Wilco producer and Chicago experimental rocker Jim O’Rourke is set to release Visitors, a new solo effort of original material, on September 8 on Chicago’s Drag City label.

Additional details from Pitchfork.com:

According to the label, the record is more song-oriented than his excursions into avant-electronics (see: stuff like 2001′s I’m Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 2007′s collaboration with Merzbow and Carlos Giffoni, Electric Dress). It’s apparently more in line with O’Rourke’s somber instrumental LP Bad Timing than his sly pop records, Eureka and Insignificance.

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