Formed in 1993ย by avant-garde musicianย Tom Smith and Miami Beach musician Frank Falestra, TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A., one of the most offbeat bands ever, are back on the road. The collectiveย have just wrapped up their US tour and will be hitting European shores in October. Representing them will beย Tom Smith, Rat Bastard, Balรกzs Pรกndi, and Graham E. See the dates and watch the video below.
New to TLASILA Bandcamp: Objects of Timeless Validity. A contiguous survey of studio perturbation, March 1998-September 1999. The Wigmaker was still being pared down, the ill-fated Tony Conrad, Fat-Ass was contorting into shape, and the free-glam convulsions of October 1999 loomed while a murder of edits descended on Western Blot. Magnitudes and tensors hummed and throbbed.
Discerning “Neue Sachlichkeit” buffs will perhaps recognize the title of the compilation from the acidic harangues penned in the mid-1920s by aesthetic contrarian Gustav Hartlaub; his attacks on bourgeois art bores of the day mirror TLASILA’s unstinting battle against itself.
