Strike City
Description:
A dynamically apocolyptic band with huge amounts of short delay and clever crescendos. Powerfully and provokingly beautiful. They were usually pretty fucking dark and mind-bending. Unfairly compared to Slint and Rodan. Early on they covered "Prophecy Theme" by Brian Eno from the film Dune and later "Back in New York City" by Genesis from "the Lamb Lays Down on Broadway" album w/ Shelby McDowell III on vocals and Pete Petersen on organ. A free CD recorded by Kevin Ratterman was given away at the door of their last Show. RIP.
Link:
Strike City on myspace - MP3s of "Phonographic Memory" and "Social Faux Pas"
Band Members:
- Mark Campbell: drums
- Matthew Gardiner: bass
- Tyler Trotter: guitar/synth/samples/vibes
- Michael Oerther: guitar
- Shawn Trail: mallets/drums/djembe/perc/pianet
Other members include:
- Jon Smith: drums
- Patrick Luebbers: sample guru
- Pete Petersen: piano
- Cinemanonymous: multi-projection film ensemble (Scott Carney, Ryan Daly, Noel Havier, Rian Ridge)
- Aron Conaway: Occasional Visual Stimuli & Graphic Design
Influences:
Pink Floyd, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, King Crimson, This Heat, Cheer-Accident, CAN
Played shows with:
- Arch
- Scaramongo
- Tyrone
- Seluah
- Parlour
- Your Black Star
- Starkiller
- The Children
- Murder by Death
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Man or Astro-Man?
- Pinback
- Canyon
- OXES
- Isotope 217
- Halifax Pier
- Maserati
- Last House on the Left
- the Swords Project
- Entertainment
- Lynx
- Fin Fang Foom
- Mono
- Mercury Program
- Cheer-Accident
- and many others