NICO STAI: "12,000 Years" (Rehearsal Demo)

Photo of live performance at The Roxy, Hollywood. June 2008.

Pictured:
Sean Stentz — Bass
Steve Elkins — Drums

SOKO: "We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow"

From César-nominated French actress Soko's first record released in 2012. The first video for the album was shot by Spike Jonze.

Soko (Live In Paris)

This video also contains a brief television performance.

Katie The Pest

Various recordings with Katie The Pest over the years have never seen the light of day, but this mix unearths some long lost recordings.

House Of Wires — Pivot Clowj

Collaboration with House of Wires (formerly known as Pivot Clowj) for various albums recorded in the '90s.

Jon Sonnenberg: Electronics
Robert Gutschow: Electronics
Steve Elkins: Drums (occasionally)

For more on Pivot Clowj and the legendary Jon Sonnenberg: https://www.steveelkins.net/Writings/First-Time-I-Heard/

MINUS MUSIC: "Clouds"

From the debut Minus Music EP released in 2012.

Personnel:
MK (The Sound of Animals Fighting)
Knick Weiller (Evol Intent)
Steve Elkins

PYRAMIDS: "The Echo Of Something Lovely"

Pyramids is something of a hermetic conglomerate of artists from a number of bands you are probably familiar with, but would never expect to play together. The exact membership is sworn to secrecy. Operating in a hypothetical world in which Norwegian black metal discovers My Bloody Valentine, or vice versa. This track is a remix by Jesu, which carves unexpected seraphim from the usual extreme noise and blast beats.

Released by Hydra Head Records, alongside label mates Sun O))), Merzbow, Lotus Eaters, These Arms Are Snakes, Botch, and Isis.

SOVIET LEAGUE: "Nurse Down"

Ben Eshbach: Guitar, Vocals
Matthew Kelly: Guitar, Vocals
Steve Elkins: Drums
Dustin Morgan: Bass

Recorded in 2008
Cover art by Jen Lobo

SOVIET LEAGUE: "Shylight"

Ben Eshbach: Guitar, Vocals
Matt Kelly: Guitar, Vocals
Steve Elkins: Drums
Dustin Morgan: Bass

Recorded in 2008
Photograph by: Steve Elkins

ARCHER BLACK: "Addiction Is A Trigger Puller"

Recording "Addiction Is A Trigger Puller" for the first Archer Black album in Los Angeles (2010).

Night Of The Wrecking Ball (Live In Grafton, North Dakota)

Justice Constantine: Electric Piano
Steve Elkins: Drums
Josh Killfoil: Guitar
May 2003

This music written while living out of a car for two months all over the U.S. and Canada. Most of the band's concerts somehow wound up being literally underground. This one was in a North Dakota tornado shelter that doubled as a central hub for the local hardcore scene, including bands from all the surrounding states (Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota) and Canadian provinces (Saskatchewan and Manitoba). Another concert took place in the Times Square subway in NYC, where the band performed exclusively on random objects found around the city. It ended climactically when the National Guard was literally called in to stop the concert.

Night Of The Wrecking Ball (Live In El Paso, Texas)

Justice Constantine: Electric Piano
Steve Elkins: Drums
July 2004

Joined by Josh Killfoil and Vincent Carafano on the second song. And friends “Four Flights Of Fright” at the end.

Killer Of Doves (Rare Television Performance)

For a period of time between 2000 and 2001, fans of The Autumns were baffled to discover that another band called Killer of Doves was frequently performing in their place. Killer of Doves bore a striking resemblance to The Autumns, but performed Willie Nelson covers, fictional gospel tunes, and dive-bar renditions of 19th-century patriotic classics like “America The Beautiful.” They preached an unorthodox theology in which Hank Williams Jr. is the third person of the Holy Trinity, armed with some batshit numerology just incoherent enough to prove it.

Believing themselves to be exiled from Galveston, Texas for introducing the reverb pedal into country music in 1974 (a claim disputed by the locals who only recall their drunken debauchery), and continually on the run from a gun-wielding lunatic named Rich Carless (who made frequent confrontational appearances at their shows), each performance was unpredictable and unhinged; a stiff cocktail blending apocalyptic Texan theology, esoteric mythologies about the history of guitar pedals, and the spirit of Spinal Tap.

Incredibly, a public access television station broadcast an investigative report on whether Killer of Doves are actually members of The Autumns, featuring interviews with both bands and live performances in their studio. Attempting to "unravel a tangled web of boots, belt buckles, guns, and guitars," this rare footage is a brief excerpt from their original broadcast in 2000 and some of the only evidence that Killer Of Doves ever existed.

The Grizwalds: "I Wanna Go For A Walk / Diaper Bag"

Recorded live direct to cassette tape in 1993 or 1994 (at the age of 14).
Epileptic Records.
Thanks to F.Y.P and Recess Records.

Vocals: Cameron Byers
Guitar, Vocals: Garett Goddard
Bass: Lee Kaser
Drums: Steve Elkins

The Grizwalds: "Dumb Luck / Take The Skinheads Bowling"

"Take The Skinheads Bowling" originally written by Camper Van Beethoven.

Recorded live direct to cassette tape in 1993 or 1994. Epileptic Records.
Thanks to F.Y.P and Recess Records.

Vocals: Cameron Byers
Guitar, Vocals: Garett Goddard
Bass: Lee Kaser
Drums: Steve Elkins