https://specialinterest.band/music

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“Special Interest is a four piece punk band emerging from New Orleans, Louisiana. Combining elements of No-Wave, Glam, and Industrial Special Interest create a frenetic and urgent revisioning of punk and electronic music for a modern world gone mad. Propulsive drum machines, a swirling layer of detuned samples, and a driving bass line create the foundation across which angular guitar work and dissonant synth lines glide. Front and center are Alli Logout’s commanding vocals and razor sharp lyrics moving from high camp satire to insightful political imperatives often within the course of one song.

Special Interest initially formed in 2015 to play one show in a basement. Originally a two-piece with Alli Logout and Maria Elena playing guitars and power tools over the beat of a 70’s Univox drum machine. Soon after they ditched the power tools and were joined by Ruth Mascelli on electronics and Nathan Cassiani on bass. Special Interest quickly gained a reputation for their intense and energetic live shows. A dense wall of sound oscillating from aggressive and noisy to joyous and danceable punctuated by the no holds barred on stage persona of their vocalist. Special Interest have embarked on several short tours of the southeast and have traveled to play festivals such as Suoni Per Popolo, Slut Island, and Not Dead Yet.

Their debut album Spiraling w as recorded in New Orleans in 2017 by organist, inventor, and fixture of the local underground music scene Quintron. The first new release on Brice Nice’s Raw Sugar label since 2011, Spiraling is perhaps the sum of its members influences. Which is, to say, everything. They are currently working on a follow up LP to be released in the US on Thrilling Living and in the UK/Europe on Night School Records.”

AUTOROMANTIX

In 2016 I started toying with the idea of a solo project in commemoration of friends who passed in the ghostship fires. There was a small grant given to friends and family affected and I used it to buy a synth. Since then I have had sporadic shows once or twice a year but plan to have my first ever release at the end of 2023.

SKANTCH

SKANTCH is a sonic overload consisting of multidisciplinary artists Alli Logout and Juicebox Burton. Using movement sound and looping mechanisms SKANTCH sends the audience into the portal of a manic black bitch. From violent hymns of intrusive thoughts, suicide, lack of love and the inevitable race-war SKANTCH sends the message rage rage rage, but heal.... this performance is for everyone who has ever been labeled TOO MUCH.