Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale began Black Pus as a solo recording project back in 2005, and in the following years he self-released a number of CD-rs from this drum & noise, freakout project before putting out the 2011 LP Primordial Puss, on Load Records. On March 19th Thrill Jockey will release All My Relations, the next installment from Black Pus. For the album Chippendale moved from his self-produced, four-track work into the studio to record with Keith Souza and Seth Manchester, at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, RI. Fans of Chippendale’s comics should also note that the first 100 pre-orders for the album will ship with an 11″ x 11″, hand-made, three-color silk screen print, about which he says, “”The comic is a joke that popped into my head while biking – basically thinking about when you post something to soundcloud or bandcamp, you have to classify it into a certain genre. What if people really talked about their music that way?” The new video for “1000 Years” features more drawings from Chippendale, this time in the form of old, flip-book style comics he made and scanned, depicting stickman armageddon. Don’t miss the Black Pus tour dates below.
Black Pus hits the road this May…
Fri May 3 Boston, MA – Cambridge Elks Lounge
Sat May 4 Buffalo, NY – Sound Lab
Sun May 5 Cleveland, OH – Happy Dog
Mon May 6 Ann Arbor, MI – Elk’s Lodge
Tue May 7 Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle
Thu May 9 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club w/ Skoal Kodiak, Seawhores
Fri May 10 Omaha, NE – Slowdown
Sat May 11 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
Mon May 13 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
Tue May 14 Boise, ID – Neurolux
Wed May 15 Seattle, WA – Black Lodge w/ MTNS, Numbs
Thu May 16 Portland, OR – Bunk Bar
Sat May 18 San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern
Sun May 19 Oakland, CA – Lobot Gallery
Mon May 20 Los Angeles, CA – The Smell w/ Foot Village, Street Buddy
Wed May 22 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
Thu May 23 Tucson, AZ – Topaz Tundra
Fri May 24 Albuquerque, NM – Small Engine
Sun May 26 Austin, TX – Mohawk
Mon May 27 Houston, TX – Domy/Cafe Brasil
Tue May 28 New Orleans, LA – Mudlark Theater
Wed May 29 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Thu May 30 Raleigh, NC – Kings Barcade
Fri May 31 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
Sat Jun 1 Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
Sun Jun 2 Brooklyn, NY – Death By Audio
