Premiere recording from DC's only avant-garde drum/bass duo with a post-Warhol, celebrity-centered ideology. Paeans to media archetypes like "Winona Ryder" and "Sean Connery" provide the ground upon which this duo's Minutemen-minded punk rave-ups find room to sprout with the help of some structured improvisation. Justin Moyer's bass work, which borrows equally from low-end hero Mike Watt and orchestral jazz composer Charles Mingus, finds perfect complement in Ryan Hicks' fusion of Elvin Jones polyrhythm, S...   [ read more ]

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Each song in Edie's entire body of work is named for a Hollywood celebrity. Contrary to the expected, though, he/she ignores the cliché and facile path of the ironic slam, instead opting for the much more clever, and infinitely more effective, route of incorporating each actor's notable character into a song-story that presents a far greater depth to the commentary. This curious celebrity-tinted lens on reality is backed by wicked electronic beats, live instruments, and Ms. Sedgwick's sneering tenor, all p...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. "Edie Sedgwick" - the nom de plume Moyer swiped from a forgotten Andy Warhol Superstar - became a vehicle for new songs, writing, and video art about mainstream celebrity culture. Like many outsider artists, Moyer was prolific - he started a blog at www.ediesedgwick.biz and released Her Love is Real, But She is Not, a sprawling electroclash full-length, on Desoto Records in 2005. After a ill-fated solo European tour in 2006 - a mid-air seizure forced the grounding of Moyer's 747 in Prague, w...   [ read more ]

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