Curt Cameruci—better known as Autobot of the DJ duo Flosstradamus—has expatriated to Brooklyn, leaving his partner, Josh Young, back in the Chi. Cameruci has his first solo DJ gig in Brooklyn this weekend at Public Assembly. Young, who has spent much of the past two years working with his sister, Melisa Young (aka Kid Sister), is now DJing under the name Young Josh in addition to the more millennial moniker J2K. He and Cameruci are “still working and touring together,” Young tells Gossip Wolf. “And we have a single coming out on Fool’s Gold next month.” The song, CTGD (Cape Town Get Down) will be the lead single off a new Fool’s Gold compliation.
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Chicago’s Plastic Boner Band, the noise outfit of one Sam Henry and the self-described “hardest boning band in show business,” is doing a one-date tour on October 16. Kansas City, here’s your Boner!
In a Reader article earlier this year, Chicago seven-piece Bloodiest refused to call themselves as a metal band, even though singer Bruce Lamont also fronts local prog-metal squad Yakuza. Guitarist Tony Lazzara, who did time in the final lineup of Milemarker, now plays in Follows (not entirely metal, but some of their chord progressions are), as does guitarist Eric Chaleff. Drummer Cayce Key used to bash skins in 90 Day Men (not so metal) but now he has a beard that’s like two nuthatch nests beyond Rick Rubin. That’s pretty metal. Key is the boyfriend of Nandini Khaund, the classically trained pianist in the band. That’s more Tori Amos than metal, but guitarist Sean Patrick Riley kinda looks like Robert Mitchum if he played in Morbid Angel. Now Gossip Wolf hears that the Bloodiests have just finished mastering their debut record with local engineer Colin Jordan at the Boiler Room, and that the long-player is due for a spring release on metal label Relapse Records. The album, as yet untitled, was even recorded at Electrical Audio and Semaphore by none other than local metal producer Sanford Parker. So who’s not metal again?
