Lee Ranaldo has to cancel his spot (medical reasons/nothing serious we’re told) on this bill but assures us he will be making the date up in Ithaca shortly. In his place we have added LOFTS (formerly BLOW!) to the bill for some local flair. Steve Shelley of the Sonics is still on the bill in Disappears as well as Deerhunter’s guitarist/vocalist Lockett Pundt in his alter ego Lotus Plaza. Please come see this amazing show and watch for a Lee date soon.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ALREADY BOUGHT TICKETS AT $13… (it’s now $10 adv) I’LL GLADLY BUY YOU YOUR FIRST BEVERAGE NIGHT OF SHOW… OK? Tickets will be available at the door for you…

DISAPPEARS
Right on cue, the third annual report from Chicago’s Disappears is submitted for your consideration. Following up on the acclaimed Guider album released just over a year ago, and with new drummer Steve Shelley now fully integrated into the group, these songs were again forged into proper shape during live shows before heading to the studio and the tape machine.

Never ones to dither or be indecisive, it’s a full-bore assault from the opening track to the last as Disappears attack these new songs with their usual relentless determination. It’s a sinister proceeding – debut Lux was preoccupied with death and endings while follow up Guider with protection – but Pre Language finds the band speaking on, of all things, love. Direct allusions to Philip K. Dick, James Baldwin, and Joan of Arc sit side by side with songs about the lows of life and the characters that permeate it.
Recorded in Hoboken New Jersey at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon West studio and mixed with John Congleton, Pre Language finds Disappears at their most potent and focused. The band has finally stepped into their own world and the results are thrilling.

LOTUS PLAZA
The project of Deerhunter guitarist/vocalist Lockett Pundt, Lotus Plaza recalls some of his other band’s shoegaze-tinged hazy experimentalism and bursts of lucid guitar pop, but takes those sounds in directions influenced by ’50s and ’60s pop and ’80s post-punk. Though he played in several groups during high school, Pundt wasn’t in any serious bands until he met Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox in college and joined the fold. Pundt began recording as Lotus Plaza in 2007, playing most of the instruments himself and working in his bedroom on a four-track and computer setup. Lotus Plaza’s debut album, The Floodlight Collective (named for the first band Pundt was in), arrived in spring 2009 on Kranky Records.