This Will Destroy You
Amen Dunes, John LaMonica, Key Grip
Tue, January 31, 2012
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Firebird$12.00
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This event is all ages
$3 minor surcharge at the door
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This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You are an instrumental quartet from the great state of Texas who play a cascading brand of cinematic rock music. Often compared and linked to purveyors of the "post-rock" sub-genre, the band has managed to transcend the tag and carve its own niche via a delicate and balanced infusion of electronics, strings, and an array of unconventional "rock" instrumentation over bombastic and receding harmony.
The journey began in 2004-2005 as 4 friends (Raymond Brown, Chris King, Jeremy Galindo, and Andrew Miller) began refining and piecing together a collection of songs that would become known as "Young Mountain," originally intended as a demo to be sold at local shows. The recording immediately found its way onto the radar of Magic Bullet Records, where the band subsequently was signed and the demo quickly turned into one of 2006's biggest Indie retail surprises.
2007 saw more of the same momentum, with the band getting their sea legs on the touring circuit, looping the U.S. before ever-amassing crowds of enthusiastic patrons excited to be finally witnessing "how those sounds are made" in person. They closed out the year by convening in a secluded house out on a private lake to pen what would become "S/T," the highly anticipated follow-up to their kinetic debut.
Recorded and produced by John "Larry" Congleton, "S/T" was released on January 29, 2008 and the band (with Donovan Jones replacing future M.D. Raymond Brown on bass) hit the road hard, logging thousands of miles and embarking on a six week our of Europe. With no rest for the weary, This Will Destroy You came home for the first time in months and set to work on their half of "Field Studies," a split 10" with long-time friends and traveling companions Lymbyc Systym, recorded in early July with Congleton once again behind the board.
The band has spent the last year on the road, touring Europe. This year alone their music has been heard in major motion pictures, commercials, and most recently a video for a non profit organization called Charity: Water which is currently the featured video on Youtube.
The journey began in 2004-2005 as 4 friends (Raymond Brown, Chris King, Jeremy Galindo, and Andrew Miller) began refining and piecing together a collection of songs that would become known as "Young Mountain," originally intended as a demo to be sold at local shows. The recording immediately found its way onto the radar of Magic Bullet Records, where the band subsequently was signed and the demo quickly turned into one of 2006's biggest Indie retail surprises.
2007 saw more of the same momentum, with the band getting their sea legs on the touring circuit, looping the U.S. before ever-amassing crowds of enthusiastic patrons excited to be finally witnessing "how those sounds are made" in person. They closed out the year by convening in a secluded house out on a private lake to pen what would become "S/T," the highly anticipated follow-up to their kinetic debut.
Recorded and produced by John "Larry" Congleton, "S/T" was released on January 29, 2008 and the band (with Donovan Jones replacing future M.D. Raymond Brown on bass) hit the road hard, logging thousands of miles and embarking on a six week our of Europe. With no rest for the weary, This Will Destroy You came home for the first time in months and set to work on their half of "Field Studies," a split 10" with long-time friends and traveling companions Lymbyc Systym, recorded in early July with Congleton once again behind the board.
The band has spent the last year on the road, touring Europe. This year alone their music has been heard in major motion pictures, commercials, and most recently a video for a non profit organization called Charity: Water which is currently the featured video on Youtube.
Amen Dunes
Amen Dunes, the solo project of Damon McMahon, began with recordings made in the fall of 2006 in upstate New York. Those tapes were initially put on the shelf as personal recordings he never intended for release, and the following summer, McMahon moved to China and all but stopped making music. He would live in Beijing for the next few years, writing and recording only occasionally. With the release of DIA on Locust Music in 2009, however, he decided to move back to the States and form a band around Amen Dunes.
After playing in New York and touring the US and Europe from 2009–2010, in the summer of 2010 McMahon released the Murder Dull Mind EP, a collection of the apartment recordings made while in Beijing, on Sacred Bones. This past January, he began recording for his second full length, Through Donkey Jaw, his first proper recordings in almost five years. Where Murder Dull Mind was sparse, mostly acoustic and almost all first-take improvisation, this new work contains many more fully-realized sounds and songs; it is very much the winter to Murder Dull Mind's summer.
After playing in New York and touring the US and Europe from 2009–2010, in the summer of 2010 McMahon released the Murder Dull Mind EP, a collection of the apartment recordings made while in Beijing, on Sacred Bones. This past January, he began recording for his second full length, Through Donkey Jaw, his first proper recordings in almost five years. Where Murder Dull Mind was sparse, mostly acoustic and almost all first-take improvisation, this new work contains many more fully-realized sounds and songs; it is very much the winter to Murder Dull Mind's summer.
John LaMonica
John LaMonica lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he samples microcassettes, live percussion, drum machines and himself.
He puts his pants on one leg at a time.
He hosts a monthly party called 3rd Bass and is known by a number of aliases.
He played a variety of roles in bands with confusing names for many years and occasionally has night terrors about it.
He records at home where he produces tracks, remixes and videos.
You should ask people on the street if they know him and judging by their response try to exchange numbers with them.
You should buy his records and enable him to open a bar, casino or bodega.
You should see him play live.
He puts his pants on one leg at a time.
He hosts a monthly party called 3rd Bass and is known by a number of aliases.
He played a variety of roles in bands with confusing names for many years and occasionally has night terrors about it.
He records at home where he produces tracks, remixes and videos.
You should ask people on the street if they know him and judging by their response try to exchange numbers with them.
You should buy his records and enable him to open a bar, casino or bodega.
You should see him play live.
