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== Announcement ==

=== New Times LA ===
August 19, 1999<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20000603130937/http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/1999-08-19/nightstick.html</ref>

Alec Hanley Bemis

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Even if you are an ardent fan and supporter of the Red Krayola's 30-plus-year voyage, it's safe to assume that unless everyone you know is enrolled in an accredited art school or M.F.A. program, you may feel a bit skittish recommending the band to your friends.

The reason? On record, the Red Krayola often sound like one imagines conceptual art would sound if it was a largely aural phenomenon. This is unfortunate because even though this band's music does share a number of traits with conceptual art (primarily a chilly, detached aesthetic and an execution that seems to mix precise intentions with an impromptu slackness), Mayo Thompson, a professor at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design and the Red Krayola's only constant member, has always packed his group with a distinct band of players, making the live experience something of a formal undertaking.

In the '60s, Thompson played with the likes of fiction writer Frederick Barthelme and guitarist John Fahey; the '70s found him collaborating with the Art & Language collective; by the turn of that decade, he was working with a group of luminaries drawn from squirrelly English punk bands like X-Ray Spex, the Raincoats, and Epic Soundtracks, while he was moonlighting with Ohio's Pere Ubu, which occasionally returned the favor.

Since returning to the States in the mid-'90s, Thompson has employed some of his most impressive backing musicians to date, the best of whom will be present for this show -- a rare live date squeezed in as the Red Krayola readies for a short Japanese tour. From Chicago comes the duo of art-rocker David Grubbs (Gastr Del Sol, Squirrel Bait) and postrock impresario John McEntire (Tortoise, Bitch Magnet); Thompson's SoCal associates include SST veterans George Hurley (Minutemen/fIREHOSE) and Tom Watson (Slovenly), along with his Art Center colleague Stephen Prina and violinist Elisa Randazzo.

The Red Krayola always ends up sounding like the Red Krayola -- developed melodies sung insistently off-key, songs with a peculiarly brittle swing, lyrics seemingly drawn from a book of daily affirmations filtered through Marx -- but the combination of pristine avant-gardists from the Midwest and a ragtag bunch of Angelenos practically guarantees the jarring frisson that art-rock ultimately demands.
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== References ==
{{Shows|1999}}

Shows/1999-08-25 - Revision history

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