Former The Microphones frontman Phil Elverum, is coming to Louisville as Mount Eerie alongside the brilliant Tara Jane O’Neil and No Kids. We’d already mentioned that Mount Eerie was coming to Lexington’s Red Mile on Oct. 22, the one year anniversary of their Louisville show at Skull Alley. Well, if an hour was to far for you to drive to see this show, you have another show Thursday, November 5th at Skull Alley. Tickets are $8 bucks. Starts at 8pm.
Mount Eerie – Voice in Headphones
Tara Jane Oneil – Untitled
No Kids – For Halloween
More details below…
On that note, we’ve been fortunate to catch each of these acts in the past, including bringing in No Kids for one of our own shows with the first Casiotone for the Painfully Alone show last October, we caught former Louisvillian Tara Jane O’Neil at Terrastock in ‘08. Tara has a new album coming out soon entitled A Ways Away to be released on K records, which, as I’m sure I’ve said before, is one of the more influential record labels for me. Notably, her move follows her friends Saturday Looks Good to Me having joined the K crew for their last album. Lastly, Mount Eerie came to town with Julie Dorion to Skull Alley, and it was one of the few shows you’ll venture into and see Will Oldham aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy sitting on the floor enraptured by the artist on stage. Further, his tourmates, TJO & No Kids, will also be his backing band for a set that promises “2 drummers, some gongs and a wall of amps.”
The press release for the show 
Phil Elverum is Mount Eerie. The 30 year-old multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name the Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie after returning from a trip to Norway, where he lived alone in a remote cabin for a winter. “Mount Eerie” specifically refers to the mountain on Fidalgo Island, an island an hour and change north of Seattle where you’ll also find Elverum’s lifelong Anacortes, Washington hometown.
Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice, which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place. In addition to his extravagantly packaged albums, Elverum has released self-published books (which he illustrates or fills with his photographs) via his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. – Brandon Stosuy
Since her musical beginning as a bass player in the great Louisville, Ky., indie band Rodan, Tara Jane O’Neil has moved in all manner of directions. During the mid-1990s she formed Retsin, a folk-pop duo with the multi-instrumentalist and poet Cynthia Nelson. Then came The Sonora Pine, where she got her experimental chops in collaboration with former Lungfish guitarist Sean Meadows. This was later followed by a stint in the fantastic progressive metal trio the King Cobra, and her relocation to Portland, where she is now based. In addition to her continuously productive solo career which began with the 2000 full-length Peregrine, O’Neil is also a notable artist who’s work has been published in two profoundly lovely books of paintings, Who Takes a Feather [Map] and Wings. Strings. Meridians: A Blighted Bestiary [Yeti].
No Kids are the non-children of P:ano, a Vancouver-based indie pop group who borrowed from an unusual array of influences– from Broadway to post-disco– over a catalog of three little-heard albums, one 7″ single, and an 11-track EP. After the departure of co-founding member Larissa Loyva, P:ano’s remaining threesome have returned as No Kids, changing course from 2005’s ukulele-driven Ghost Pirates Without Heads for a debut that rivals the Dirty Projectors’ The Getty Address in its art-saturated omnivorousness, though its appetites aren’t always within its means. On [their latest] Come Into My House, everything from present-day urban radio to kitchen-sink chamber-pop to college glee clubs serve as fodder for F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque depictions of effete East Coast student loneliness. – Pitchfork
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Someone say hi to TJO for me.
That was a different thought track. I love your finesse that you put into your work. Please do move forward with more like this.