NEW BUMS (BEN CHASNY & DONOVAN QUINN) + TARA JANE O'NEIL

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Great double bill of outré song and folk forms headed up by a new (awkwardly named) duo of Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Donovan Quinn (Sky Green Leopards) whose debut LP 'Voice in a Rented Room' channels what they call the Old Drunk America. It's out now on Drag City. Alongside New Bums, Tara Jane O'Neil, whose recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations.

NEW BUMS (Ben Chasny & Donovan Quinn)

New Bums formed in the summer of 2009 with Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) after Ben Chasny moved to the Mission in San Francisco, two doors down from Donovan. A healthy mistrust of each other for a good year gave way to tolerance and eventual comaraderie as they wrote their jams.

In 2011 Donovan supported Six Organs on a month long tour that saw New Bums perform at the end of Donovan’s set. Their new LP is out now on Drag City.

"So why did I start a band with Donovan Quinn? Because he’s one of the best lyricist out there today. Living in San Francisco for a few years, down the street from Donovan, was one of the more rewarding times in my life. I learned a lot about writing words. I mean, the man wrote Disciples Of California with his band, Skygreen Leopards." Ben Chasny, Six Organs of Admittance

TARA JANE O'NEIL

Tara Jane ONeil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with her brilliant friends. Her recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures.

As a solo artist, TJO has released 7 albums internationally. She was a founding member of Rodan and several other bands, and has collaborated on recordings and stages with musical artists such as the groups Ida, Mirah, Jackie O MF, Mount Eerie, Papa M, Come, the vocalist Nikaido Kazumi, and many more. In addition to rock clubs, galleries and DIY spaces all around north America, Europe, and Japan, she has performed at All Tomorrow’s Parties, the Centre de Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, TBA festival (portland), High Desert Test Sites and many many others. She has shown her visual art in galleries all over the northern hemisphere and had four monographs of her visual art published.