This whole week is dedicated to real indie rock. Not the indie rock that we’ve come to know and love (hate) where there’s a publicist, new media consultant, radio promo team,and a full “indie” label staff of ten working the record to The Chop Shop, NPR, KEXP, Zune, ad agencies, multinational conglomerates, cigarrette companies for potential tour support, guitar string manufacturers for, well, guitar strings, and any beer company with a “indie rock” budget. Not the indie rock you hear in JC Penney commercials, Volvo ads or disguised as background music at Starbucks. I’m partly inspired this week by the low budget success of the anti-musical musical Once.
So I was just talking about The Original Sins (haven’t posted that bit yet so stay tuned) and here comes the side-project of one of the members – Brother JT. Instead of scuzzy garage rock you get lo-fi, maniacal, Pentecostal-like weirdo heaven. Here’s a song off his new lathe cut 8″ vinyl ep Purgatory, Sweet Purgatory available now on Summersteps Records. Don’t skip the YouTube vids.
Brother JT live at Kyber Pass
Brother JT at The Balcony/Trocadero