Revolver Guide To Moogfest 2011.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27TH

TOBACCO
Asheville Music Hall, set time 8:00 PM


FRIDAY OCTOBER 28TH

DEAR, MATTHEW
Animoog Playground, set time 5:30 PM


TOBACCO
Orange Peel, set time 9:00 PM


SATURDAY OCTOBER 29TH

CLOUDLAND CANYON
Asheville Music Hall, set time 10:30 PM

MOON DUO
Asheville Music Hall, set time 12:00 AM

YACHT
Asheville Civic Center Arena, set time 5:30 PM


SUNDAY OCTOBER 30TH

BATHS
Asheville Music Hall, set time 8:30 PM

GOLD PANDA
Asheville Music Hall, set time 11:30 PM

Podcast #42 - Readiest Of Ready.

Revolver USA Podcast #42 features releases with a street date of December 14th 2010. Hear tasty tidbits of tunes from such fine artists as: Agalloch,  Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Girls Names, Tobacco, Nadja, Vanessa Van Basten, Luv Clowns, and Discodeine. A comfortable 24 mins and 55 secs of pure audio enjoyment. 

Download and streaming options can be found at the usual destination:
REVOLVER POD PAGE.

It's Time For Podcast #29.

Podcast 29 covers releases that hit the street on May 25, 2010: Rudi Zygadlo, Swindle, Ty Segal, Manatee, Grovesnor, Castevet, Neverever, Tobacco, Coffins, Twin Sister, Secret Chiefs, Dead C, and the Spits. Download and streaming options can be found at the usual destination:
REVOLVER POD PAGE.

Tobacco Vinyl Crash Landed In The Rev Warehouse.

Tobacco Maniac Meat double vinyl goes on sale next Monday, streets June 8th!

The Fine Taste Of Aquarius Records.

Tobacco was deemed record of the week on Aquarius' weekly email blast. Oh yeah!

TOBACCO "Fucked Up Friends" (Anticon) cd/lp 14.98/14.98

Tobacco would definitely be a strange name for a group. But it's an even stranger name for a -person-, except when you realize, that person is in fact the twisted mastermind behind the cracked electro pop of aQ faves Black Moth Super Rainbow. In our review of the most recent BMSR record, we compared their sound to Air covering Daft Punk, but with a bunch of junky old equipment, busted up amps and rickety swap meet synths. What's not to love?!?!

For Mr. Tobacco's first solo foray, he actually sticks pretty close to the Black Moth template he created, but does manage to give that sound a little twist. The instantly recognizable fuzzed out gritty synths, the stuttery crunchy crumbling beats, the chopped up vocodered vocals, the blissy eighties sheen, all in full effect, but up the hip hop vibe a bit, mix in some ethereal female vocals, some borderline cheesy (but still kick ass) cop show theme song groove, handclaps, fluttering flutes, soaring cinematic faux strings, even some rapping at one point (courtesy of Aesop Rock, who took BMSR on tour earlier this year), and we're slipping into Fucked Up Friends territory. A few of the tracks are instant classics, sounding sometimes like a more sunshine-y hip-hop flecked Goblin, other times like a more lo-fi synth heavy Boards Of Canada, and once in a while like an LSD dosed Daft Punk doing the soundtrack for a nature special on Yo MTV Raps all about jellyfish or mountain goats or those weird fish that glow in the dark. WTF?! But par for the course with Tobacco and his Black Moth Super Rainbow. And while there does seem to be a bit more hip hop happening here, it's essentially another gloriously fractured and fucked up BMSR record, which is just fine with us!

According To The Rolling Stone Tobacco Is "Buzz Worthy".

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Tobacco
When he's not fronting the day-glo psychedelic group Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tom Fec (a.k.a. Tobacco) turns out highly tuneful, vocodor-heavy synth-rock jams with titles like "Yum Yum Cult" and "Pink Goo." True, the super-groovy bong-water vibe is very similar to Black Moth's tunes, but when the stuff this jaw-droppingly great, more is definitely better. KEVIN O'DONNELL

Tobacco Fucked Up Friends Commercial.

Tobacco Knows How To Make A Video.

Tobacco can write a badass synth jam, he can also be part of a killer video. The vid for 'Hawker Boat' from the upcoming Fucked Up Friends album (streets 10/14) is a two minute / seven second mind blender of pop-culture references and visual manipulations. Cameo appearances include Richard Simmons, 80'ies fuzzy creatures, and a preposterous Bart Simpson imposter holding a “Don’t Eat Drugs, Eat Pizza" sign. In other words, entertainment of the finest quality.