Bumpy

01/31/2025

🎶 Guitar Band’s self-titled debut is out in just one week! 🎸 Have you listened to the preview track on our Bandcamp yet, or obtained tickets for the album release show on February 27th at ? 🎫 You can do both via the links in the Bumpy bio 🌞

📸: .phxtxgraphy
🎨: Bryan Murray

12/20/2024

📢 ON SALE NOW:
GUITAR BAND release show with Fake Accent and The Miami Dolphins
Thursday, February 27, 2025/ Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Seated
$18 Advance, $23 Day of Show

🎟 Get tickets: https://tinyurl.com/emxn6cks

12/18/2024

📯 Announcing Bumpy 29: “Guitar Band” by Guitar Band! 🎸 Guitar Band is a Minneapolis-based outfit consisting of as many electric guitarists as possible and at least two drummers, specializing in long-form repetitive music 🌀 Adam Zahller composes the material and guides its realization. Toby Ramaswamy provides wisdom and organizational oomph. Once described as “so annoying,” Guitar Band, in its exuberance, reconfigures what it means to rock and roll 🤘

“Guitar Band” is now available to pre-order via the Bumpy Bandcamp, where you can also take a listen to a sneak preview! The album comes out Feb 7th, 2025 ♒️

Listen/pre-order here: https://guitarband.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-band

Guitar Band will be celebrating their release show here in Minneapolis at The Cedar Cultural Center on Feb 27 with support from Fake Accent and Bumpy alums The_Miami_Dolphins (minneapolis, mn) 🤩 Inflatable guitars will be given out to audience members while supplies last, so you can play along with the band! 🎈

Advance Tickets Available Dec 20 at 12PM 🎫 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guitar-band-release-show-with-fake-accent-and-the-miami-dolphins-tickets-1115835105839?aff=oddtdtcreator

••Show info••

🕰️ Doors 7pm • Show 7:30pm
💰 $18 Advance, $23 Day of
🥳 All ages

📸 Isabel Fajardo

12/18/2024

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The Cedar Presents
GUITAR BAND release show with Fake Accent and The Miami Dolphins
Thursday, February 27, 2025/ Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Seated
$18 Advance, $23 Day of Show

🎟 Tickets on sale Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12PM CT!: https://tinyurl.com/emxn6cks

11/29/2024

Thanks for playing tracks from our Used Condo reissue “Domestic: I Went to Heaven” on the latest episode of the Tabs Out Podcast! 🥳

🎙️ Take a listen to the episode here: https://tabsout.com/?p=30052

🎶 And listen to the album here: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-i-went-to-heaven-2?label=3509473594

10/25/2024

✂️ “SNIP” by Ben Varian is out everywhere today! 🧨 Take a listen to this gorgeous album on Bandcamp and/or wherever you like to hear tunes below, and order a tape/CD through the link in the bio if you’re a fan of the physical 💿

Listen/order here: https://benvarian.bandcamp.com/album/snip

Tapes and CDs will be shipping out in the next few weeks, and in the meantime, there are a couple celebrations to be had! ☀️ The Bandcamp Listening Party for “SNIP” is on Wednesday 11/6 online at 7pm PT, and the album release show itself is Friday 11/15 at the wonderful Scribble Community Center in Los Angeles! ✏️🧠 It’s a double album release with Different Attitudes and an Art Show Opening for Jake Tobin of Truly Bald with DJ duties performed by the fabulous Pearl & The Oysters 🎶 Ben’s got a super great full band put together for the show to boot! 🎸🥁🎹🎺 It’s been a real treat helping to get this album out there, and I truly hope you enjoy the music 😊 Happy Listening! 🧡💚🩵

✨Credits✨

☼ All songs written by BV, July - December 2022
☼ Produced/arranged/engineered by BV, January - July 2023
☼ Mixed/mastered by BV, December 2023
☼ Played/sung by BV except where noted
☼ Album art and layout by Jake Tobin
☼ Co-released by Bumpy & Truly Bald

Release Show Flyer by Pumpkin Press 🎨

10/04/2024

🥎 It’s “Battings Up”, as they say, for our next release! 🤪 Bumpy No. 28 is “SNIP” by LA-based avant-pop singer/songwriter Ben Varian ✂️ Co-released by the return of a truly magnificent label, Truly Bald 🌟 You can now pre-order Ben’s new album on Bandcamp, and stream the two leading singles “It’s Our Breakup Call By The River” and “The Egg” there as well 🍳 “SNIP” by Ben Varian is out on streaming, cassette, and CD on 10/25 - And if you’re in the LA area, stay tuned for upcoming release show news! 🥳 Enjoy the music on this Bandcamp of all Fridays! :)

Gorgeous album art by Jake Tobin ❤️‍🔥

Check out "SNIP" here: https://benvarian.bandcamp.com/album/snip

09/27/2024

Out today! 👁️ The 2024 reissue of Used Condo - “Domestic: I Went to Heaven”, magnetic tape loop noise explorations by Larry Wish from September 2011 📻🎛️ Order a super limited edition tape and/or stream the album on our Bandcamp here: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-i-went-to-heaven-2 📡 Happy Listening! ⏲️

09/06/2024

🍂 In the Autumn of 2011, I started a side project under the name Used Condo 🏢 I had been working in a thrift store for a little over a year, and occasionally some interesting musical gear would come in. One day, I was stocking things out on the floor and came across a bulky, yellow cassette player. It had features that allowed the manipulation of tape speed, tonal quality, and instant side-flipping. This was the notorious Library of Congress C1, used by DIY recordists, tape music obsessives, experimental musicians, and DJs all over. I absolutely had to have it 🥹

The timing of this machine coming into my life was perfect, as I just recently gotten into trying my hand at making tape loops. I spent hours in my room opening up cassette shells with a tiny screwdriver, cutting randomly selected pieces of magnetic tape, and forming a loop by adhering each end with a tiny strip of scotch tape. It was a super exciting and cathartic process that often ended in failure, but could also yield cool organic/decaying sounds, weirdness, and beauty ✨

I had grown a fascination with Noise and Experimental Music at large since being steeped in it within the underground music scene of the Twin Cities after high school, and this felt like the perfect time to try my own hand at it. Using the LOC C1, a variety of tape loops, and a delay pedal as my primary instruments, I spent about a month in my room recording “Domestic: I Went to Heaven” – the first Used Condo full length. This album is very dear to me, because it was made entirely out of Play, Exploration, and Excitement. The source material ranges from the Windham Hill catalogue, to Paul McCartney, to my other band Obchod Na Korze. The album art features a section of a painting my mom did in college, based on Stephen King’s “The Stand”. I’m really psyched to reissue this one on Bumpy where you can pre-order for Bandcamp Friday today! 🥳 The audio has been remastered, and the album art has been newly recreated as well. It’s out on Bandcamp/everywhere else on Sept 27th, and there is a (very limited) run of tapes (appropriately). I really hope you enjoy this fun and wild album! 😊🎛️🎶

Check it out here: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-i-went-to-heaven-2

08/23/2024

🫖 “It Ain’t Coca-Cola” by Rice is out now! 🎉 The album is available to stream on all platforms, and fans of physicals can order a tape via our Bandcamp or buy one in-person at the album release show this Wednesday 8/28 at Icehouse MPLS 🎶 Enjoy this beautiful album! 🐚

→ Listen/Buy here: https://riceband.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-coca-cola

→ Advance release show tickets: https://icehouse.turntabletickets.com/shows/4002/?date=2024-08-28

*Credits*

✧ All tracks composed by Rice: James Blake, M. Harlan Engelmann, and Toby Ramaswamy.

⭑ James Blake: Sequential Prophet-6 (1–7, 9–12), voice (13).
⭑ M. Harlan Engelmann: sampling, synthesis, effects, and sequencing in SuperCollider (1–13), electric guitar (8–10).
⭑ Toby Ramaswamy: Yamaha PS-2 and effects pedals (1–7), electric guitar and effects pedals (8–11, 13).

→ Tracks 1–7 were recorded by Matt Olson at Grape Escape St. Paul on June 4th, 2023. • The finished piece is spliced together from two live takes: tracks 3–5 are from the first take, and tracks 1–2 and 6–7 are from the second take.

→ Tracks 8–13, titled Boxing Day, were recorded by Matt Olson at Grape Escape St. Paul on January 31st, 2023.

☾ Mixed and mastered by M. Harlan Engelmann.

☾ Cover art by SEER. Cassette design by Adam Wish-Werven & SEER.

🌷 From the band: “A special thanks to Ivan Cunningham and Cole Pulice, who reignited rice. And thank you to Matt Olson, SEER, Ryann Daisy Swimmer, Keaton Blake, and Adam Wish-Werven for their essential creative contributions.”

07/26/2024

Announcing Bumpy No. 26! 🥳 Very excited to say that our latest upcoming release is the brand new full length album by Twin Cities-based electronic/experimental trio Rice 🎛️💖 Starting today, you can pre-order tapes and downloads of “It Ain’t Coca-Cola” by Rice on our Bandcamp, as well as take a listen to the album’s beautiful opening song “Electrickotatsuand” below:

https://riceband.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-coca-cola 🎶

“It Ain’t Coca-Cola” comes out August 23rd, and the release show is August 28th at Icehouse MPLS with Robot Slide, Boy Dirt Car, and Adam Laurence 🍄 Grab tickets here!: https://icehouse.turntabletickets.com/shows/4002/?date=2024-08-28 And stay tuned for more between now and then! ✨

1st Pic 📸: Willem Fissell
2nd Pic 🎨: SEER
3rd Pic 🖼️: Sarah Joye Wolf

Rice is: James Blake Mark Engelmann Toby Ramaswamy 🥸

04/20/2024

Tonight! 🥳 Larry Wish Rupert Angeleyes Products Band shrimp olympics at Eagles 34 Events 🤘

🎨: Sarah Joye Wolf 🙌

04/12/2024

The Larry Wish and Rupert Angeleyes Double LP Release Show is in just 1 week + 1 day! 😱 I won’t make you count, that’s Saturday April 20th 😄 Hope to see you then and there at the Minneapolis Eagles Club where we’ll celebrate “The Mind is the Builder” and “Pillow Talk” with our friends Products Band and shrimp olympics 🎶 Incredible poster by Sarah Joye Wolf 🎨

04/10/2024

📖 Huge thanks to Leah Kardos and The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music for their wonderful review of “The Mind is the Builder” in the latest issue 🥳 The comparison to Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips is deeply felt and very much appeciated! 🤩💫

The listening party for “The Mind is the Builder” is tonight at 7PM CT on Bandcamp 🎶 RSVP/Attend here: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/live/the-mind-is-the-builder-listening-party 🃏 I hope to see you there! 😊💜

04/09/2024

😱 The Larry Wish listening party for “The Mind is the Builder” is tomorrow 4/10 on Bandcamp at 7PM CT! 🎉 Listen to the album with Larry where he’ll be chatting, answering questions, and throwing out factoids about the music LIVE on the internet! 🎹 RSVP here: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/merch/the-mind-is-the-builder-listening-party 😊 See you there! The music will start promptly at 7 ⏰

📸: Michael Gaughan 🧡

04/05/2024

“The Mind is the Builder” by Larry Wish is out today! 🥳 You can head over to our Bandcamp page to pick up LPs, CDs, tapes, & album downloads for , and stream the album wherever you like listening 🎶 Check it out below:

https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/the-mind-is-the-builder

The Bandcamp listening party is next Wednesday the 10th at 7PM CT, and you can RSVP now via the link below. Come listen to “The Mind is the Builder” live with Larry, chat about the music, and ask soul-piercing questions! 💫

RSVP: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/merch/the-mind-is-the-builder-listening-party

And of course, the album release show is Saturday April 20th at the Eagles Club in Minneapolis with Products Band, shrimp olympics, and Rupert Angeleyes (whose album release show it is too!) This will be a great opportunity to grab a record in person while they last, and check out the incredible new Larry Wish band featuring Sam Cramer, Pat Kessler, Toivo Hannigan, Alec Tonjes, & Patrick Adkins! The event page is below and the incredible poster by Sarah Joye Wolf is in the comments.

Event Page: https://fb.me/e/4vXUO70qo

Album Credits:

❉ Music & Album Art by Adam Wish-Werven
❉ Recorded & Mixed at Mid City Studio in Minneapolis, MN, April 2021 - May 2022
❉ Produced/Engineered/Mixed by Aaron Baum & Brock Lammers
❉ Drum Tech: Jared Isabella
❉ Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering
❉ LP/CD/Cassette Liner Notes Photo by Kate Farstad
❉ Album title inspired by Edgar Cayce

02/23/2024

Check out Larry Wish's newest single "Being There" on the latest installment of Adeventures In Sound And Music over at The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music!

You can pre-order Larry Wish's newest upcoming full-length "The Mind is the Builder" here: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/the-mind-is-the-builder

The 22 February edition of The Wire 's weekly show included tracks by Darius Jones, Still House Plants, Ka Baird, Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and more