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LITTLE TEETH
September 06, 2010
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3069 Broad St
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Los Angeles, CA
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September 07, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
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September 08, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The Smell
September 08, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
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September 09, 2010
Long Beach, CA
The Prospector
September 10, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
Echo Curio
September 10, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
Echo Curio
September 12, 2010
Irvine, CA
UC Irvine
September 12, 2010
Irvine, CA
UC Irvine
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Bottom of the Hudson
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Buttonhead
Chet
The Court and Spark
Rob Crow
The Dead Science
The Dudley Corporation
Eltro
Ex-Boyfriends
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Frog Eyes
The Gang
Chris Garneau
Get Him Eat Him
Goblin Cock
The Hidden Cameras
Hometapes
Jack Hayter
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Jukeboxer
Laarks
Life Without Buildings
Little Teeth
The Mountain Goats
Okay
Optiganally Yours
P.E.E.
Pidgeon
Pinback
+/- {Plus/Minus}
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60 Watt Kid
Sparrow
Summer at Shatter Creek
Sunset Rubdown
The Swords Project
Sybris
Telegraph Melts
The Places
Thingy
Two Guys
Virginia Dare
Wax Fang
The Wrens
Xiu Xiu
The Dead Science
  
  
The Dead Science began its life as the Sweet Science in Seattle, WA when brothers Korum Bischoff (drums) and Jherek Bischoff (contabass, bass guitar) began collaborating with the young Sam Mickens (voice, guitar). Another band laid claim to the name just prior to the release of the Seattle trio's debut Submariner in 2003 and they were rechristened The Dead Science. Like experimental pop running mates Blonde Redhead, Deerhoof, and Xiu Xiu, The Dead Science infuse their songs with sometimes abrasive, sometimes unsettling doses of avant classical, free jazz, and other musical esoterica, while maintaining a heady pursuit of the perfect pop moment. Following the release of the 2004 Bird Bones in the Bughouse EP, Korum left the touring line-up of the band to become a family man and was replaced by the equally proficient Nick Tamburro. The Dead Science present art songs of harrowing passion and palpable intimacy that has earned them a growing enthusiastic fanbase.

Combining the hyper-active looseness of improvised music with the economical arrangements of classic pop, The Dead Science have achieved a new and strange model of the "power trio," which owes equal debts to Prince, Einsturzende Neubauten, and John Coltrane. Mickens and J. Bischoff occasionally play with the Degenerate Art Ensemble while the whole band has backed up Xiu Xiu and former Shudder To Think singer Craig Wedren. Jherek has also collaborated with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.
Frost Giant CD (Absolutely Kosher, 2005)
Bird Bones in the Bughouse CDEP (Absolutely Kosher, 2004)
Submariner CD (Absolutely Kosher, 2003)
The Dead Science's homepage.
The Dead Science's My Space page.
Buy The Dead Science's releases digitally from iTunes!
The Dead Science - split w/ Xiu Xiu
7in - $4.75
 Temporarily Unavailable
Xiu Xiu is fronted by Eugene Robinson of Oxbow while the Dead Science get an assist by the late great Shooby Taylor the Human Horn. On Deathbomb Arc.
The Dead Science - Crepuscule With The Dead Science
CDEP - $8.50
 Temporarily Unavailable
This 2006 ep was released by our friends at Slender Means Society, who write, "Crepuscule is a powerfully understated collection of twilight ballads that finds the Dead Science yet again challenging their own ever-refining palette. The staggering drama of Frost Giant has scarcely quelled, but here seeps in with unexpectedly cinematic restraint." It's good stuff and we're happy to offer it for sale here.
The Dead Science - Frost Giant
CD - $12.00
 
The 2005 album from our favorite avant-popsters. Recorded with dark pop uber-producer Ryan Hadlock (Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, Stephen Malkmus, etc.), Frost Giant is a 9 song litany of invisible crushing forces, sexual longing, and the well of misery. Combining the hyper-active looseness of improvised music with the economical arrangements of classic pop, The Dead Science have achieved a new and strange model of the "power trio," which owes equal debts to Prince, Einsturzende Neubauten, and John Coltrane. (AK050)
The Dead Science - Bird Bones in the Bughouse
CDEP - $7.50
 
The second release from Seattle's noir-soaked mystery men. With roots in jazz, art/experimental and the more accessible side of post-rock, The Dead Science create an enigmatic, yet compellingly unique sound which showcases vocalist Sam Micken's breathtaking tenor over the groups gritty guitar-drums-upright bass arrangements. In addition to four tremendously strong originals (including the infectious toe-tapper "Cuz She's Me") recorded by the band in their new home studio, the EP also features the beautiful, unsettling and perhaps unlikely cover of Terrence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name". (AK044)
The Dead Science - Submariner
LP - $11.00
 
On Woodson Lateral.
The Dead Science - Submariner
CD - $12.00
 
The debut full length from this incredible Seattle trio. A ghostly and compelling tenor (like Jimmy Scott, Roy Orbison and Thom Yorke singing together from the Phantom Zone) plummets through imaginative guitar/contrabass/drums arrangements where jazz bites post-rock back and modern classical has itself a seizure. Includes the thundering "White Train." Includes sometime members of Xiu Xiu, Degenerate Art Ensemble and others.(AK033)