Melodic prog outfit Crime in Choir will be performing at SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) on September 13 with NYC-based visual artist Anthony McCall. McCall, who specializes in cinema/projected film, will do projections set to live Crime in Choir music.
Crime in Choir will also be celebrating another art/music synthesis with new T-shirts designed by San Francisco artist Bert Bergen.
Gold Standard Laboratories labelmates An Albatross, who were reviewed by ALARM at a recent Chicago show with Blue Cheer, also are in the news. The group, a thunderous wall of tech-ish rock riffs, synthesizer, and grind, has just finished its European tour and now has a re-pressed edition of Blessphemy available on yellow vinyl.
Also, GSL will shortly undertake the release of a new album from prog-fusion poster boys The Mars Volta. The group, which is fronted by composer/guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, entered the studio to record its fourth full-length album in April. Rodriguez-Lopez released another full solo album, Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo, through the label on May 29.
Crime in Choir: “The Hoop” (The Hoop)
An Albatross: “Hairobics / The Ballad of the Electric Coyote” (Blessphemy)