Party: "Punk Rock Mondays" presents King Tuff and La Sera

Party: "Punk Rock Mondays" presents King Tuff and La Sera

Punk Rock Monday presents
King Tuff
La Sera
Lola's Room | Saturday, October 25, 2014
5:30 p.m. doors, 6:30 p.m. show | $15 advance, $15 day of show | All ages welcome
Buy Tickets
Tickets on sale now!

King Tuff's new record is called Black Moon Spell.

It was produced and recorded by Bobby Harlow at Studio B in Los Angeles, California, in the hot winter of 2014. No one involved was prepared to make a record, but an invisible hand pushed them to do it. Perhaps it was God or that special someone we all know and love called The Devil.

God and The Devil actually have very similar interests. They both love electric guitars and they both want you to listen to Black Moon Spell and freak the fuck out. There were many strange occurrences during the recording session- Dracula landlords, flashes of mysterious light, haunted microphones, songs that mixed themselves, demonic vortexes swirling in coffee cups, etc.

Under the Black Moon Spell you may experience euphoria, demented visions, wet dreams, bouts of backwards laughter, and dazed confusion resulting in primordial dancing. Fire played a very important role in the making of this album. King Tuff loves fire. For some reason, no one can really explain how the Black Moon Spell came to be. It just appeared one day and demanded heavy rock music and meatball subs. Backwards messages may be found on this record.

Los Angeles, full of its screaming coyotes and creeping helicopters, surely slathered its sexy, twisted, hairy, polluted spirit all over Black Moon Spell. The Sunset Strip shat itself when it heard all these guitar solos. A lot of people always ask King Tuff when he's gonna put out a new record. The answer is September 23, 2014. Can you feel the Black Moon Spell creeping up the back of yr neck yet?

King Tuff would prefer not to tell you the full story of making this record because its long and crazy and you wouldn't believe him anyway. Also, I am King Tuff. Magic Jake, who played bass and is beautiful like sunshine, would like to take this moment to give you a hug and invite you to a tanning party on a beach of your choice.

Old Gary, who plays drums and has the most glorious cackle, would like to take this moment to crack a cold one with you and invite you to watch the old ballgame with him. Old Gary was out watching the old ballgame, so a wild critter named Ty Segall played drums on the song "Black Moon Spell". Ty enjoys speaking in a goblin voice in his spare time.

Night fell on Studio B. A Tarot card leapt from the deck and said, "No human judgement is of any value here." King Tuff agreed.

Sub Pop first discovered King Tuff curled up in his palace in Vermont. It was basically a shit hut made of moss, mud, and glimmering stones hidden near the graveyard, and it was guarded by beautiful wild bullfrogs with silver fangs and baseball bats.

Punx, Squares, Skaters, Farmers, Bartenders, Grandparents, Stoners, Carpenters, Hobos, Heshers, Babes, Babies, Plumbers, Strippers, Art Teachers, Teenagers, Townies, Moms, Dads, Truck Drivers, and Witches will all love this record.

Every song on Black Moon Spell was written without giving a shining fuck about nothing. Listen to Black Moon Spell, turn yr volume knob up to 666, put yr lover in a 69, and let yr inner grinagog rear it's wicked, unwashed, smiling snake head. Listen to Black Moon Spell and give yr ears what they've been begging for all year; a heavily weird, heavenly dark, hysterically magical Rock & Roll Sexperience.

ps. the only part of this story that isn't true is the part about the shit hut. I actually was living at my parents house when i was discovered. Love, KT





Website:
http://www.kingtuffworld.com/
About La Sera
Content
As La Sera, Katy Goodman turned an aching heart into two marvelous, alluring yet bittersweet break-up albums (2011's self-titled debut and 2012's Sees the Light). On her latest, though, the former Vivian Girl is through crying. .


Hour of the Dawn sees Goodman waking up, throwing open the bedroom windows and welcoming the day."I wanted the new La Sera record to sound like Lesley Gore fronting Black Flag," Goodman says. "I didn't want it to be another record of me sad, alone in my room. I wanted to have fun playing music and writing songs with a band." To back her nimble basslines and enchanting vocals, Goodman assembled a new band helmed by guitarist Todd Wisenbaker."We started playing faster, louder and more aggressively," Goodman says. "I wanted to get that energy onto the album."The forceful new La Sera line-up set about fleshing out Goodman's melodies and lyrics into strapping rock anthems, debuting them to enthusiastic crowds on tour, and refining them with a new-found obsession to detail.After a year of perfecting their new material, La Sera was ready to commit it to tape. In the summer of 2013, the group decamped to a sweltering studio in East Los Angeles with engineer Joel Jerome and banged out the ten songs that would become Hour of the Dawn-an album that never walks, but runs, a collision of unleashed punk and ‘80s power-pop."We wanted to make a classic American record," Wisenbaker says. "The album was inspired by a lot of bands: The Pretenders, Minor Threat, X, The Smiths, The Cars and more."


The sound that emerged from these disparate influences combined hardcore energy with tuneful harmony, as exemplified by opening track "Losing to the Dark." Title track "Hour of the Dawn," meanwhile, rides a steady groove towards a long horizon of sunrise. It's the record's thematic center: a final wave goodbye to a messy past and the beginning of a new day. In a burst of bright, immediate and jangly Smiths-inspired pop, "Fall in Place" captures La Sera at an emotional and musical crossroads.

Hour of the Dawn, as its title suggests, heralds the beginning of a radiant and energetic new chapter in La Sera's evolution-the summit of Goodman's steady ascent to rock and roll queendom.



Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/laseramusic?sk=wall&filter=2

Invited: David Ricardo, Jenny Carrizo Smith, Megan Moyles, Stacie Zinser, Anden Oquendo, Todd Walberg, Aimee Marie Alvarez, Katy Hampton, Beth Marie, Mark Scharfen, Chris Wirth, Carter Ause, Androo Lane Meyers, Nicole Knutson, Gina Tynan, Kurt Hagan, John Gerhardt, Nick James Mundell, Stephanie McKinzie, Jacob Gellman, Anna Andersen, Matt Marine, Jessi Garver, Christopher Reeder, Ian McGranahan, Lyndsie Earle, Sary Perez, John Barnaby, Josh Hathaway, Mallory Jones-Kienholz, Priscilla Joy Roth, Cayman Beach, Apoorva Somayazulu, Tyler Valenta, Nick H'l show more »