CMW: Red Mass present Kilrush Drive @ Monarch Tavern, May 10

After a number of unsettling singles and EPs, Montreal's Red Mass have just knocked out a menacing new album, Kilrush Drive. 

With Kilrush Drive, Montreal's Red Mass, led by Roy Vucino and partner Hannah Lewis, has refined its post punk sound, incorporating pop hooks, surreal politics and unsettling noise tonalities over a bed of dark electro, punk and hip hop beats. Kilrush Drive was recorded by Mingo L'indien (Les Georges Leningrad, Ellemetue) and mixed by Sebastien Perry. There are 9 new tracks along with 2 songs the band chose to rework at Breakglass Studios with Dave Smith and Jace Lasek (Besnard Lakes). Producer/musician Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop & Herbie Hancock) also contributed to a song. Check out the Kilrush Drive trailer followed by the album's lead track "God's House." Kilrush Drive is out now on Bobby Hussy's Wisconsin-based No Coast Records available right here.

Red Mass are playing a CMW Showcase at Toronto's Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton) on Friday (May 10) at 12 midnight with Pink Acid Wash (10 pm), Brenda (11 pm) and World News (1 am). For more info, check the FB event posting over here.




Red Mass is a gathering of artists, musicians and agent provocateurs from around the globe, created by Roy Vucino as part of the 'Free Creative Enterprise' TA DA arts collective. Its goal is to create punk music and art, in various mediums while incorporating ideals of automatic creation, chaos magic and liberation through art. To do so, the Mass forgoes any allegiance to a specific scene, genre or sound.

This method of working outside of the classic band format allows the Mass to work with as many international collaborators as it likes regardless of their skills, experience, style or background. This has lead us to work with our idols, our families, our friends or just strangers who wanna create something subversive. The means are the end in order to create freely, nothing is sacred in the sweet blasphemy of art.

Roy Vucino aka Choyce is a founding member of seminal Montreal garage punk bands Les Sexareenos, PYPY and CPC Gangbangs. He has played guitar/noise on many of Mark Sultan’s (BBQ) albums and co-wrote the music for the Canadian headbanger cult movies/tv show FUBAR, wetting his feet in acting for the latter.

Over the last few years Vucino has concentrated on collaborating with a wide array of musicians (Mike Watt, King Khan, Evan Dando, members of the Hot Snakes, the Black Lips and Godspeedyoublackemperor, to name a few) under the moniker Red Mass. During this period the project has released countless singles, tapes and EPs but had held off on releasing its first full length album until now.

Red Mass on tour
May 10 - Toronto, ON @ CMW – Monarch Tavern w/ Brenda, Pink Acid Wash and World News 
May 11 - Ottawa, ON @ The Dominion Tavern
May 25 - Brooklyn, NY - Gold Sounds (Improvisational set w/ local noise musicians)
June 29 - Brooklyn, NY @ Gold Sounds (TA DA performance w/ projections & guest performance artists)

Red Mass Appeal

Hell-raisin' Montreal rock 'n' roll congregation Red Mass welcome you to their nightmare with a live presentation of their devilishly demented new 7-song Red Mass (Semprini) disc at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina) tonight (Friday, January 22) with openers Action Makes, Danger! Danger! and Ostrich Tuning.
 You know what they say about "idle hands" so heathen high-priest Roy "Choyce" Vucino, when not gazing into mirrors to perfect his unblinking stare, has been keeping his Red Mass cult busy in the recording studio doing all sorts of unholy things with guitar distortion and sinful synthesizers.

Watch for the Life Is A Cabaret and Eternal Nature's Fountain Spring silkscreened 12" EPs on Montreal's New Romance For Kids label along with a split 10" EP with Strange Attractor on P.trash and the Split Brain Experiment 10" EP on Roccoco Records.
There's also a slew of seven-inch singles due including Too Many Parties (Wallride), To All The Good People (Dusty Medical), a split with Vicious/Delicious on Magnificent Sevens as well as-yet-unamed releases forthcoming from Hozac, Goodbye Boozy and Hobo Cult.

For those Red Mass converts planning a Montreal visit, there are a few Choyce-approved places which are certain to enhance your experience.

Montreal by Choyce

Best dining establishment at which to chow down
5000 Ans (3441 Saint-Denis) although any Korean BBQ on Saint-Denis will do.

Best bar to get loaded with pals
Escogriffe Café Bar (4467A rue Saint-Denis)
Bar Korova (3908 boulevard Saint-Laurent)
Bar Salon Midway (1219 St Laurent)

Best breakfast joints to hit when hungover from the night before
Green Spot Restaurant (3041 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest)
Dusty's (4510 avenue Du Parc)
Fruits en Folies (3817 rue Saint-Denis at Roy)

Top vinyl vendors
Cheap Thrills (2044 Metcalfe)
Musique-Disque Sonik (4050 Rue Berri)
Backroom Records & Pasteries (5912 St. Urbain, back alley entrance)

Best place to score cool clothes on the cheap
Just go over to Mont-Royal between St-Laurent and St-Denis.

Best place to find replacement instruments in a hurry when your gear gets swiped
Diplomate (311 rue Beaubien E)
Italmelodie (274 Jean-Talon E)

Three most exciting groups to see in Montreal right now
Jesus Les Filles, Black Feelings and Red Mass

Links
myspace http://www.myspace.com/redmassfce 
label http://www.semprinirecords.com/