Paperrad is what happens when your brain pukes inside your skull. The Pittsburgh and Providence-based collective specializes in video art, doom drone, and head lozenges. When on tour, they perform in three parts: two different groups including Extreme Animals and Fortress of Amplitude (both of which have that great Load Records style spazz psych free-for-all), and their collections of unequivocally, deliciously deranged music videos / cartoons / installation art. There’s no real way to describe a Paperrad video installation other than what it would be like to watch children’s shows while frozen in carbonite. Or how it would feel to have a fatwa issued on your peepers. Their excellent website gives some insight about where they’re comin’ from.
I mean, just look at their ballistic visual interp of Lightning Bolt’s “13 Monsters”!
Czech the video, and you will be converted. Hightail a hajj over to their nearest rockshow, longhair. You won’t regret it. Plus, most of the spot they’re playing are art galleries or small, non-profit co-op venues, so they should all be all ages and really cheap. Don’t sleep on this.
7.24: Carnegie Museum of Art — Pittsburgh, Pa
7.26: Silent Barn — New York, NY
7.27: Secret Project Robot — New York, NY
7.30: The Rendezvous — Turners Falls, MA
8.1: Pageant Gallery — Philadelphia, PA
8.2: The Bank — Baltimore, MD
8.4: Nightlife — Carborro, NC
8.6: Gypsy Hut Bar — Cincinnati, OH
8.7: The Herrot — Muncie, IN
8.8: Enemy — Chicago, IL
8.9: Borg Ward — Milwaukee, WI
8.10: The Eagle — Detroit, MI
Extreme Animals on MySpace
Fortress of Amplitude on MySpace
