R Stevie Moore’s back. He’S almost never toured in his life and now for the second time in a little over four months we get to experience his genius again.
After a fairly odd early show (previously), odd as in 5pm is just too early for such genius, this time it’s a regular starting time round at Marie-Antoinette’s.
R. Stevie Moore is a true original. Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, comedy writer, vocal stylist, sketchpad artist, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born in 1952 in Nashville to famed Elvis bass player Bob Moore. Since 1966 RSM has recorded nearly 2000 songs, he’s the Godfather of Home Recording .
One of the most difficult to categorize musicians in rock, R. Stevie Mooreis a true original. Bypassing the traditional recording industry more thoroughly than just about any internationally known singer/songwriter ever has, Moore has self-released literally thousands of songs through The R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club (now online at /www.rsteviemoore.com), an ongoing mail-order operation which has hundreds of individually dubbed cassettes and CD-Rs in its catalog. The handful of traditional LPs and CDs Moore has released since 1975 are primarily collections of some of the best songs from those cassettes. Moore’s music, a blend of classic pop influences, arty experimentalism, idiosyncratic lyrics, wild stylistic left turns, and homemade rough edges, is one of a kind, but entire generations of lo-fi enthusiasts and indie trailblazers, from Guided By Voices to the Apples in Stereo, owe much to Moore’s pioneering in the field.
Here’s the same videos as last time, cos they’re just too good:
Tropical Ooze join R Stevie again, these kids have gained themselves quite a reputation from touring with him and deservedly so. Here’s their self-titled EP:
If they’re not busy touring the globe with R. Stevie Moore (for the first time ever!) Tropical Ooze spend their days crafting entrancing bits of psych pop, pasting them together with snappy garage riffs. This summer they have released a tape on New York’s Tritone Tapes label which only displays a fraction of the jam-heavy energy
they bring on live. You’ll be stoked by their howling vs. synth battles, frantic chords and 3-minute-rock acuteness.
