UPDATE: Photographer Kim Glenn submitted another photo from the Black Moth Super Rainbow show at the Drunken Unicorn. Click the jump bellow to see her rather haunting image from last night.
Black Moth Super Rainbow headlined a show at the Drunken Unicorn last night (Wed, July 29).
We’ll have a gallery of more photos from the show posted here soon.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Black Moth Super Rainbow with Serengeti and Polyphonic. $10. 9 p.m. Wed., July 29. Drunken Unicorn, 736 Ponce de Leon Place.
Black Moth Super Rainbow crafts the kind of music you can see, feel, taste and touch, wrapped in album covers you can hear. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines this sort of sensory confusion as synesthesia, but the group’s elusive and soft-spoken leader Tobacco, née Tom Fec, isn’t keen on labeling the music anything at all. “I want it to be whatever you want it to be,” he offers with a lingering silence at the end of his words. “To me it’s just pop music. I don’t call it psychedelic and I don’t call it electro-synth music as some people have done. But if that’s what the listener wants it to be, then that’s what it can be.”
As frustrating as his passing of the buck seems, that open-ended mystery has bestowed BMSR with its greatest asset: intrigue. The group’s identity, and in turn the music, is so rich with abstraction that revealing too much information would do it a disservice.
“Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise” mp3
Continue reading “Method to Black Moth Super Rainbow’s mystique”
(Photo by Jae Ruberto)
AT SXSW: Michael Stipe of R.E.M. (All photos by Perry Julien.)
Music conference vs. music festival.
Badges vs. wristbands vs. free shows.
Official showcases vs. un-official showcases.
Regardless of your opinions, there is something about 1,700 bands getting together for 24 hours of music.
I was able to see and photograph 49 bands over five days. Fucking rock excess.
Below are photos from: REM, Dark Meat, Ocha La Rocha, Elf Power, Dead Confederate, The Whigs, Von Bondies, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Raveonettes, Vampire Weekend, and X.
R.E.M.
