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Category: Unholy Two
Coming September 7 – UNHOLY TWO – ‘The Pleasure To End All Pleasures’ LP
More than 4 years have elapsed since Unholy Two’s ‘Talk About Hardcore’ rendered what was left of the nation’s alleged “noise-rock” milieu as obsolete as the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Though naive, feeble competitors struggled to keep up during that period, Unholy Two instead retreated to their Columbus, OH compound where the exhaustive attempts to top a universally-acknowledged masterpiece began. Nearly 51 months (and hundreds of dollars) later, the duo of Chris Lutzko and Kellie Morgan-Lutzko)— have re-emerged with the 3rd Unholy Two album, ‘The Pleasure To End All Pleasures’. Putting the O NO in “monolithic”, the Lutzkos have made zero concession to past or present notions of rock, underground or otherwise. With scattered allusions to some of history’s most malignant figures (Peter Kürten in the album title, Chris Benoit in “Master Of The Crossface”, the Rev. Jim Jones in “Let The Night Roar”, Godsmack in “Woodstock ’99”), the two guitar onslaught sounds closer to two hundred. The end result is nothing short of musical obliteration and the most fully realized documentation of this band’s nightmare vision.
(photo : Michael O’Shaughnessy)
Upcoming Shows – February Edition
Chris Brokaw
Feb 18 – Luecma Music Bar, Prague CZ (supporting Dinosaur Jr.)
Feb. 19 – Vatos Taco Truck, Loebckstr. 30-35, Berlin (solo)
Feb. 20 -Aufladetechnische Konferenz, Berlin (with the ATK 5 Orchestra)
Feb 22 – Guestcollege PHL Music (lecture)
Feb. 26 – La Paloma, Nimes, France (w/ Mono)
Feb. 27 – La Fourmi, Limoges, France (w/ Mono)
Feb. 28 – La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France (w/ Mono)
March 1 – Noumatrouff, Mulhouse, France (w/ Mono)
March 2 – Bad Bonn, Dudingen, Switzerland (w/ Mono)
March 3 – Schuur, Luzern, Switzerland (w/ Mono)
March 4 – PML, Innsbruck, Austria (w/ Mono)
March 5 – K4, Nurnberg Germany (w/ Mono)
March 6 – Kinky Star, Gent, Belgium
March 18 – TT The Bear, Cambridge MA (w/ Thalia Zedek Band)
Burnt Skull
March 3 – Hotel Vegas, Austin TX (afternoon show w/ Pharoahs, Foreign Mothers, Gory Details and more)
March 16 – 12XU night at Trailer Space, Austin T (w/ Obnox, Unholy Two, G.Green, Dino’s Boys, Sweet Talk)
March 17 – 29th St. Ballroom, Austin TX (with Breakout, Recide, Crystal Shit, Pelts and more)
Upcoming Shows – January 2013 edition
Chris Brokaw
1/16 – Naked Lounge, Sacramento CA (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/17 – Woodside Grill, Anderson CA (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/18 – Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff CA (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/19 – Sam Bond’s Garage, Eugene OR (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/20 – Mississippi Studios, Portland OR (with Jennifer O’Connor)
Burnt Skull
1/27 – Museum Of Human Achievement, Austin TX (Farewell Books/Las Cruxes Benefit, with Elvis, Kurraka, Hidden Ritual and more)
1/31 – Beerland, Austin TX (w/ Sweet Talk, Flesh Lights, Nazi Gold)
2/7 – Bernadette’s Bar, Austin TX (w/ Breakout, The Vipers)
2/9 – Swan Dive, Austin TX (w/ Eets Feats, Gory Details)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (night show w/ Sweet Talk, G.Green, Obnox, Unholy Two)
G.Green
3/8 – Bar 11, San Diego CA
3/13 – Beerland, Austin TX (day show)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (w/ Unholy Two, G.Green, Burnt Skull)
3/19 – The Smell, Los Angeles CA (w/ Wet Illustrated)
The Gospel Truth
2/16 – Beerland, Austin TX
OBN III’s
1/25 – Mohawk, Austin TX (w/ Ty Segall, Ex-Cult)
2/21 – Beerland, Austin TX
2/22 – Depot District Bar
2/23 – Train Yard, Las Cruces NM
2/24 – The District, Tucson AZ (with Destruction Unit, Lenguas Largas)
2/25 – Yucca Tap Room, Tempe AZ (with Destruction Unit)
2/26 – Soda Bar, San Diego CA
2/27 – The Smell, Los Angeles CA (with Audacity, Pangea)
2/28 – The Knockout, San Francisco CA (with Fuzz)
3/1 – 1234 Go! Records, Oakland CA (with Fuzz)
3/2 – The Know, Portland OR
3/3 – Comet Tavern, Seattle WA
3/5 – Holland Project, Reno NV
3/6 – Canvas SLC/Richards, Salt Lake City UT
3/7 – Lion’s Lair, Denver CO
3/8 – Replay Lounge, Lawrence KS
3/9 – 35 Denton Festival, Denton TX
Obnox
1/14 – Now That’s Class, Cleveland OH
2/1 – The Flat, Brooklyn, NY (w/ Unholy Two)
2/2 – Death By Audio, Brooklyn NY (w/ Family Curst, Live Fast Die)
3/14 – Beerland, Austin TX (day show w/ Protomartyr, Unholy Two, Spray Paint)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (night show w/ Sweet Talk, Unholy Two, G.Green, Burnt Skull)
Sweet Talk
1/30 – End Of An Ear instore, 6pm
1/31 – Beerland, Austin TX (w/ Flesh Lights, Burnt Skull, Nazi Gold)
2/7 – The Blind Pig, Oxford MI (w/ Unwed Teenage Mothers, YouthFlag)
2/9 – 529, Atlanta GA (w/ Resons, Acids Freaks, Rodney Kings)
2/10 – Soundpony, Tulsa OK (w/ Glow God, Lizard Police, Creepazoids)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (w/ Burnt Skull, G.Green, Unholy Two, Obnox)
Unholy Two
2/1 – The Flat, Brooklyn, NY (w/ Obnox)
3/14 – Beerland, Austin TX (w/ Obnox, Protomartyr, Spray Paint)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (w/ Sweet Talk, Burnt Skull, G.Green, Obnox)
Young Governor
1/17 – The Piston, Toronto
Unholy Two / Obnox December Dates
December 15th Chicago @ Multikulti (w/ Running)
December 19th Nashville @ The Stone Fox
December 20th Memphis @ Lamplighter Lounge
January NYC action TBA soon.
Obnox reissue, New Unholy Two 7″ and some big plans for 2013
2) our reissue of the 2011 Obnox LP, ‘I’m Still Bleeding’ (12XU 039-1), originally released in 2011 by Smog Veil, comes out at the end of August.
3) Rebecca Gates and the Consortium just completed their 2nd batch of US touring in support of ‘The Float’. There’s a great live session taped by OPM Music available for streaming.
4) Cruddy are currently touring the western US and they’ve got an 8 song casstte of new material that you’d better snap up before some label forces an overproduced, overpriced version out of them.
4) The Golden Boys are playing Goner Fest, preceded by Eastern U.S. dates with The Spider Bags and the Limes.
5) Unholy Two’s first recordings as a quartet will be available on a new 12XU 7″ in mid-September.
6) on the horizon : a debut 7″ from Melbourne’s Ratsak, the first first studio offerings from Dustin Pilkington & Anthony Davis’ slaytastic Burnt Skull, the debut album from Austin’s Sweet Talk, the first new recordings from Austin’s The Gospel Truth in way too long, and that oft-promised, but not yet delivered full length from James Arthur’s Manhunt. And some surprises. Please act surprised.