Obsession and South Bitch Diet Reviews

Permanent Records reviews of recent releases.

Tape - Lazy - Obsession - $4.99 - TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK IN CHICAGO
"We scored a grip of tapes from Kansas City band Lazy when they were in town playing Bitchpork last weekend (caught the band's set too - wowzers!) & thought we'd pass along the goodness! Lazy roar outta the gate with punk laced R'n'R in the vein of the more esoteric bands of the classic era - i.e. Wire, Hubble Bubble, The Fall (and a dash of Wipers for good measure) who knew their way around a pop hook - dark & aggressive, but with a confident swagger that makes the songs swing a bit! What sets this tape apart a lil' more is the tunes - hooks for days that stay stuck in your head (Will we be able to get the chorus of "Childhood Wonder" out of our heads?? We don't know!) It's highly recommended you don't be LAZY & grip this now - let it become your new OBSESSION. (yikes, sorry guys) RECOMMENDED!"

"Tape - South Bitch Diet - South Bitch Diet - $4.99 - BUY - LISTEN

Side project release from Lazy main-man Brock Potucek - weirdo, lo-fi, 4-track, pop ramblings that fade in & out of clarity - not unlike Bob Pollard jamming with Psychic TV. There's a special kind of "everything but the kitchen sink" vibe here - seemingly disparate elements sit side-by-side (Syd-laced pop songs, lo-fi GBV majesty, minimal synth & soundscapes, & warped, troglodyte country jams all make an appearance), but Potucek holds it all together with gleeful aplomb! We're not sure what's happening over there in K.C. but consider our interest piqued. It may be too early to call but we're inclined to say that this may be a dark-horse runner for a shop cassette fave of 2012! Recommended!"

LAZY Live

LAZY (song title unknown) from Joseph Wilson on Vimeo.

LAZY (song title unknown) from Joseph Wilson on Vimeo.

Footage taken by Joseph Wilson. Joe is moving to Santa Cruz, CA soon to pick up his BMX career. Keep an eye out for him in the xtream

LAZY - OBSESSION

THIS SATURN-NA-DAY AT PHO-CUL

ART EVENT CLICK HERE

Description
COME JOIN US IN HONORING THE MONTH OF THE WATER BEARER.

FEATURING WORK BY:

Mitch Meseke // http://www.mitchmeseke.com/

Erica Peterson // http://ericapeterson.tumblr.com/

Brock Potucek // http://www.brockpotucek.info/

Leslie Kinsman // http://wunderhub.com/

Michael Boles

Mary S.
http://www.asciifriends.com/whois.html

MORE TBA

MUSIC FROM KC'S FINEST:

LAZY
Witch and Hare
EXPO 70

$5 AT THE DOOR, ALL AGES

Fine Hoods

FINE HOODS - NEW SENSATIONS EP

1. Afraid to Ask
2. Trusted Sights
3. Heavy Ground
4. On Your Trail
5. Fare Thee Well
6. +

On CDR + CS

Listen Here

Jukebox Babe/Peres Projects

Lazy K - Jukebox Babe from BPotucek on Vimeo.

I'll be in La next week for the Ssion showing at Peres Projects! See you there!

SSION
"BOY"
Peres Projects, Los Angeles
January 16 – April 3, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 6pm – 9pm

Press Release:

Javier Peres is very pleased to present "BOY", the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Cody Critcheloe – SSION (B. Kentucky USA. Lives and work in Kansas City, MO). "BOY" brings together nine separately shot but jointly conceived music videos for SSION's 2007 record Fool's Gold.

First things first! It's SSION, pronounced "shun," as in mission, fission, ambition-all apt words to describe the gesamtkunstwerk that is Cody Critcheloe and the queer punk/performance/art band he invented ten years back as a high school student in Lewisport, Kentucky. In the time since then, SSION has released 4 full-length records, toured extensively through the United States, and enjoyed cult status among fans and music writers who have lauded Critcheloe as everything from Out magazine's Hottest Artist of the Year to "Prince's love child" to the "one true master" of "high-concept sleaze pop." Critcheloe's songs are catchy, not abstract, and his visuals and live shows are crafted to appeal to more than an art-going crowd. SSION could easily cross over to become a pop phenomenon-a potentiality (or prophecy) which, in a stroke of self-reflexive genius, Critcheloe has already written into the narrative arc of his work to date. The story of SSION is a raucous, louched up, camp parody of Critcheloe's own life, in which a small-town punk kid hooked on doughnuts and pizza follows his dreams with razor focus to emerge as a svelte, smoky-eyed pop star embraced by adoring crowds. And here, it seems, is the catch. While the annals of art and film give us plenty of examples to draw on for theorizing the artist's alter ego, the image-obsessed dandy, the high-camp auteur, and the concept band, the discourse is less prescribed for an artist and musician who straddles all of these genres while aspiring to create work that actually is pop in the broadest and most populist sense of the word.

SSION's first feature-length film, BOY, affords a fresh opportunity to consider the band's work in the context of popular media and within the discourses of contemporary art. To situate the work this way is to necessarily highlight a degree of fluidity, criticality and complexity in the work that far exceeds the typical coming-of-age movie or arena concert experience.

-- Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Mo., 2009

"BOY" will be on view at Peres Projects (2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034) through April 3, 2010. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M and by appointment.


For further information or reproductions please contact Javier Peres or Richard Lidinsky at tel. + 1 310 559 6100 or via email at Javier@peresprojects.com or Richard@peresprojects.com.

Jukebox Babe

Newsroom

The First Family

I'm gonna be in an art show at the Foundation (1221 Union Avenue Kansas City, MO, 64101) on Saturday, June 27th. the event is titled Stranger Danger. Open from 7pm till extremely late.

the 26th

What a bummer. RIP SHAWN MORTENSEN

Bullshit Weekend

The Ssion made a new video for their song Bullshit from the infamous Fool's Gold album. They had a great opening reception last Friday. Take a look at the vid!




(My youtube debut is at 1:52)