TEXTURE - NEUROLEPTICA

Texture is 1/3 of Shallow Rave's current radio team, and the co-founder of boutique netlabel Black Lantern Music and spoken word noiseniks Chemical Poets. His three EPs, released on Black Lantern between 2009 and 2011, have been collected and lovingly remastered by fellow Black Lantern producer (and next Shallow Rave show's special guest!) Asthmatic Astronaut, along with two new tracks, and remixes by AA, hip-hop-blues fusionista Mild Maynyrd, THEFT//OBJECTIVE aka rapper/producer p.WRECKS, and dark electronic star I††. NEUROLEPTICA is available as a limited edition CDR with deluxe, foldout artwork by D. Miranda Pole, hand numbered and signed by Texture. 



Texture has not one but two launch gigs coming up in Glasgow - next week he plays the Black Lantern Showcase at New Life Glasgow, in Bar Bloc, from 11pm on June 30th. There are live performances from Texture, Asthmatic Asttronaut, and firebrand rapper Tickle, plus a DJ set from Monkeytribe.

The second is a soundclash between punk and hip-hop, as Texture plays live alongside Roscoe Variant & The Gantin' Schriechs, Giro Babies and Hordes of Unstoppable Skeletons. That's at The Art School on July 20th, from 8pm.

It's TAD motherfucker!!!!!

I found this (^) great clip lately of a reformed Soundgarden (minus Chris Cornell) playing in Seattle with Tad Doyle on vocals. However, I was pissed off by the many comments left by total rock noobs along the lines of "Soundgarden ith liek tho awethum! But who's the fat guy?". Bitchez - the fat guy is TAD. IT"S TAD MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!



I may be showing my age here a bit, but in my youth Tad was a rock icon. For those who don't know, TAD (the band, fronted by Tad the man) were at the forefront of the first wave of Seattle bands that came to be known as "grunge". TAD's "God's Balls" and "Salt Lick" releases were hugely influential on the likes of Nirvana, combining as they did the heaviness of Sabbath with a rough punk spirit, all bound up in a beer-stained check shirt. Unfortunately they seemed dogged by bad luck, as none of their records got the proper exposure they deserved, but man do they still stand up! Here's some more TAD goodness:




Stumblin Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMXakcYVLU
Trash Truck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csmybgZLK8M
High On The Hog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5APzEKsFY



Anyway, there's an amazing documentary on TAD called "Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears" that was made in 2008. It features some very candid commentary on the Seattle scene from the likes of Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Pavitt & Poneman from Sub Pop, Krist Novoselic, and an amazingly youthful looking Chad Channing. Here's the trailer (if you have any interest in alternative music then this film is a must):



Tad Doyle is still making music, now it's some fierce doom-metal as Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, which you can hear over at his website www.taddoyle.com. You can also buy the DVD there, and some other cool shit. Unfortunately the older TAD records seem to be out of print, but word on the grapevine is that producer Jack Endino has a remixed version of the "God's Balls" album ready to drop, if only Sub Pop records feel there's a demand for the re-release. So send them an email asking for it: info@subpop.com