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An All Star Line up currated by Yours Truly.
And though the video is missing the mountain hike in which we were almost shot by a wild gang of ATV riders doing target practice on a quite unfortunate pumpkin, and two hours of locating the relocated Dung Mummy camp, It is accompanied by an early version of "We're Really All Crazy".
"Songs for a Sinister Woman" is now available in the rock section of Aomeba Records Los Angeles for only 10 dollars. The same price we sell it for digitally and at shows. If you are in the area and can't make it out to see us go pick it up there.
Loyal Order of Moose and Open Gate Present David Zink, Dana Cooper and Tears of the Moosechaser at the most appropriate of venues:
The Glendale Moose Lodge
We are hoping this can become a more regular occurance.
Friday, October 21st at 7:30 pm
Glendale Moose Lodge #641
357 West Arden Avenue
Glendale, CA 91203
more info here
This one is awesome and free. We have been looking forward to this all year and you should scratch this Amazing outdoor adventure in to your calender. Two night festival, bring a tent, see bands the previous day, hike in the morning and wait for us on Saturday or roll out with us after the Friday Mooselodge Show, Rock faces and bonfires out in the wilderness with some of the best of what the Eclectic avant garde and noise scene of california has to offer. The environment alone is worth the drive the madness out there tips the scale.
October 21st and 22nd
out by Red Rocks Mojave
Take the I-5 North To the 14th North (Northeast) 46.2 Miles Past Lancaster off Hwy 14. Turn left on Jawbone Canyon Road (just past the convenience store and at the ranger station) To map the turnoff point use this address:
28188 Jawbone Canyon Rd Cantil, Ca 92519.
Entire Trip is apx. 115 miles from LA Proper. Head down Jawbone Canyon a couple miles until you see marker (construction cone w/ hop-frog written on it, note there will be other cones out there, make sure its the right one) for the dirt road turn off. It will be on your right. In the day turn right after the blue mountains at night look for the projections on the rock. We're about a mile before the road ends. By the way, someone could steal the construction cone (it's happened) so be prepared. P.S. IT'S MUCH EASIER TO FIND IN THE DAY. The blue mountain is really obvious..its saturated in copper deposits.
Featuring: Spindrift, Tears of the Moosechaser, RT and the 44s and many more.
Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
Thursday, June 16th at 7:30 pm
53688 Pioneertown Road
Pioneertown, CA 92268
Antony DiGennaro, Plotz!, Tears of the Moosechaser, and Reverend Red at Good Hurt.
Friday, September 2nd at 7:30 pm
12249 Venice Blvd West Los Angeles, 90066
Email us at our contact page with your name To get in on the free guestlist.
Featuring: Tears of the Moosechaser, Drunk on Crutches, Jaybird,The Freedom Ledges, and Firebug.
Join us at the backyard stage for a night of friends and acoustic music. BYOB.
Saturday, August 27th at 7:00 pm
3005 Del Monte Dr Los Angeles, CA 90026
Friday, August 19th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
The Forgotten Ranch - 4040 Verdant Street - Los Angeles, CA
Marathon Live Presents, A FREE Rock and Roll Spectacular featuring:
The Golden Ghosts, with Slow Motion Rider & Tears of The Moosechaser
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
1123 Vine St West Hollywood, CA 90038
Wicked show and venue everybody was really a pleasure many thanks to Sasha Vallely for inviting us out and to all who showed up.
Thursday, June 16th at 7:30 pm
53688 Pioneertown Road
Pioneertown, CA 92268
Thank you to the Pappy and Harriet's staff for treating us so well. We appreciate that you have not one but two mounted moose heads! Further more, Many thanks to Firebug for having us open up the show and a very special thanks to all who drove out to Pioneertown and the locals who took kindly to takin kindly!!
"I suppose if Tom Waits wasn't born in California but rather underneath a moonshine still in Kentucky then you'd have Tears Of The Moosechaser. It's that sporadic, bouncy, wild man vibe that is track three, "A Lonesone Fog" off of Songs For A Sinister Woman. Like a death ring the track chimes in and the tale begins. "Sleeping medicine to pass the time, my mind a tangled string of beads rides gondolas through bleeding streams into a leaky sink". Formed in 2008, Songs For A Sinister Woman was released in August of this past year. "A Lonesome Fog" screeches and scrapes with a mix of country, avant-garde, and bluegrass to create a sound I can't say I've ever heard before. It's exciting, creepy, inquisitive and original. All the while wrapping itself around a Western filled with spurs, dust, tumble weed and whiskey.
Wednesday, May 25th at 9:30 pm
See the archive at LA Art Stream - Ear Meal
We are breaking from exclusive Moose news because of our dolefullness at hearing that one of our great inspirations, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, will be playing their final Los Angeles concert Friday April, 8th at the Troubador. We wish to give them our heartfelt best and send them off in the way of Viking Lords. We will be there in the trenches and suggest that you do the same.
Tears of the Moosechaser plays a night of Shoot Out Music
with Psycho-Spaghetti Western group Spindrift alongside Lower Heaven's rhythmic shadows.
Going down at Bordello in Downtown L.A.
9:00 pm - $7 at the door.
"Even though Los Angeles, California is admittedly one of my least favorite American cities, I cannot deny that it is home to a good many worthwhile bands and singer/songwriters. One of those bands is an interesting and unusual outfit I came across recently called Tears of the Moosechaser. With a sound that has been referred to as avant-Americana and apocalyptic country, Tears of the Moosechaser do indeed weave a strange and elaborate threadwork of sound on a loom of instrumentation which ranges from mechanical to organic, and from high tech to rudimentary. Such a sound is what greets one upon listening to Tears of the Moosechaser's 2010 release, Songs for a Sinister Woman -- an intriguing and heterogeneous collection of eleven songs which pull certain resources from a variety of genres and subgenres, both old-timey and modern.
Read more...
Friday night awaits you.
Legion of Doom:
TotM opens for local progressive greats Falsetto Teeth and well sculpted compositions of The Chris Votek Quintet
The American Legion in Los Angeles
Friday, 19 November 2010 at 20:00
TotM is performing an hour of free improvised noise and Americana at the Muddy Waters
Santa Barbara New Music Series
Thursday, 11 November 2010 at 20:00
1. Join the Tears of the Moosechaser facebook page
2. Join our Mailing List. (We won't sale your email, just keep you informed of moose movements).
Then just kick back and wait for a notification via one of those two routes on November 10th. We will call it... FREE "WE'RE REALLY ALL CRAZY DOWNLOAD" and fill the message with a secret location to retrieve your download. In the meantime tell your friends who you think might be interested.
The download will be available between our Muddy Waters Show on November 11
and the American Legion Theater show on November 19th.
You have until November 10th to get connected.
"JAWBONE IV: COLD SNAKES WALK FREE FROM FIRE"
Camping + Music: Friday 22 through Sunday 24, October 2010.
In Jawbone Canyon which is about 2-3 hour drive North from Los Angeles.
Camp out, roast marshmallows in the fire, listen to Lots of great experimental/world/rock/noise/Americana bands, dance in the smogless night air. Good times.
Tears of the Moosechaser takes the stage Saturday, 23
Boots covered with the dust of blue mountains
Shadows burnt into the rockface behind the stage where we played
Clothes Smell of bonfires, whiskey and cigarettes. (more than usual)
So many great bands, such a sacred place to play music. We felt very at home.
Thank you Jawbone Canyon.
We would also like to extend a special thanks to Scott Knudstrup for joining our lineup for the night.
CDs will be five dollars to celebrate the release of "Songs for a Sinister Woman"
ResBox 8.19 - Thursday, 19 August 2010 at 20:00
The Steve Allen Theater @ The Center for Inquiry - 4773 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA 90027
For those who are farther away but want somthing physical to hold, Disks can be ordered at CD Baby
Songs for a Sinister Woman is also available digitally through iTunes
Upcoming Events
1-18-2012
Join us venturing out seawards to Max Steiners in Long Beach where the show is always free!
2500 E. Anaheim St. Long Beach CA 90804
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TotM is booking engagements throughout the Los Angeles area. Please contact us if you are a promoter or have a venue for which you need a volatile performing ensemble.
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Dispatched
Official Report on Moose Affairs
1-7-2012
Show at The Mint on January 7th 2012, with Jared Dickenson, Falsetto Teeth, Rundownhill and Swamplands.An All Star Line up currated by Yours Truly.
11-21-2011
Simon Rouby has assemmbled some footage from our Jawbone Canyon adventure and kindly provided It for the perusal of all at: Simon's Vimeo page.And though the video is missing the mountain hike in which we were almost shot by a wild gang of ATV riders doing target practice on a quite unfortunate pumpkin, and two hours of locating the relocated Dung Mummy camp, It is accompanied by an early version of "We're Really All Crazy".
9-29-2011
"Songs for a Sinister Woman" is now available in the rock section of Aomeba Records Los Angeles for only 10 dollars. The same price we sell it for digitally and at shows. If you are in the area and can't make it out to see us go pick it up there.
10-21-2011
The throngs of fate allowed for A Rare opportunity to see Tears of the Moosechaser in its entirety, full instrumentation, acoustic and all together at once, at a Moose Lodge. Gary Neil captured some footage of the night. It's posted up at our facebook page.Loyal Order of Moose and Open Gate Present David Zink, Dana Cooper and Tears of the Moosechaser at the most appropriate of venues:
The Glendale Moose Lodge
We are hoping this can become a more regular occurance.
Friday, October 21st at 7:30 pm
Glendale Moose Lodge #641
357 West Arden Avenue
Glendale, CA 91203
10-22-2011
Moosechaser @ Jawbone Canyon 5:more info here
This one is awesome and free. We have been looking forward to this all year and you should scratch this Amazing outdoor adventure in to your calender. Two night festival, bring a tent, see bands the previous day, hike in the morning and wait for us on Saturday or roll out with us after the Friday Mooselodge Show, Rock faces and bonfires out in the wilderness with some of the best of what the Eclectic avant garde and noise scene of california has to offer. The environment alone is worth the drive the madness out there tips the scale.
October 21st and 22nd
out by Red Rocks Mojave
Take the I-5 North To the 14th North (Northeast) 46.2 Miles Past Lancaster off Hwy 14. Turn left on Jawbone Canyon Road (just past the convenience store and at the ranger station) To map the turnoff point use this address:
28188 Jawbone Canyon Rd Cantil, Ca 92519.
Entire Trip is apx. 115 miles from LA Proper. Head down Jawbone Canyon a couple miles until you see marker (construction cone w/ hop-frog written on it, note there will be other cones out there, make sure its the right one) for the dirt road turn off. It will be on your right. In the day turn right after the blue mountains at night look for the projections on the rock. We're about a mile before the road ends. By the way, someone could steal the construction cone (it's happened) so be prepared. P.S. IT'S MUCH EASIER TO FIND IN THE DAY. The blue mountain is really obvious..its saturated in copper deposits.
9-23-2011
5th Annual Clean Air Clear Stars FestivalFeaturing: Spindrift, Tears of the Moosechaser, RT and the 44s and many more.
Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
Thursday, June 16th at 7:30 pm
53688 Pioneertown Road
Pioneertown, CA 92268
9-1-2011
Her Big Hard Jungle Monkey presents a night of Avant-garde music featuringAntony DiGennaro, Plotz!, Tears of the Moosechaser, and Reverend Red at Good Hurt.
Friday, September 2nd at 7:30 pm
12249 Venice Blvd West Los Angeles, 90066
Email us at our contact page with your name To get in on the free guestlist.
8-27-2011
Firelight - Sunset Junction Hosted by Firebug.Featuring: Tears of the Moosechaser, Drunk on Crutches, Jaybird,The Freedom Ledges, and Firebug.
Join us at the backyard stage for a night of friends and acoustic music. BYOB.
Saturday, August 27th at 7:00 pm
3005 Del Monte Dr Los Angeles, CA 90026
9-19-2011
TotM performed the after show for the down home Texas drama, The Honeypot Redux at the fantastically rustic "Forgotten Ranch". With all the wood trees and horses, It was hard to believe we were still in Los Angeles. Well worth a gander if you ever get the chance.Friday, August 19th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
The Forgotten Ranch - 4040 Verdant Street - Los Angeles, CA
9-10-2011
New show added at 3 ClubsMarathon Live Presents, A FREE Rock and Roll Spectacular featuring:
The Golden Ghosts, with Slow Motion Rider & Tears of The Moosechaser
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
1123 Vine St West Hollywood, CA 90038
Wicked show and venue everybody was really a pleasure many thanks to Sasha Vallely for inviting us out and to all who showed up.
7-13-2011
Tears of the Moosechaser's song "We're Really all Crazy" was selected as the song of the day at Songshooter.com.6-16-2011
Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace Presents Firebug and Tears of the MoosechaserThursday, June 16th at 7:30 pm
53688 Pioneertown Road
Pioneertown, CA 92268
Thank you to the Pappy and Harriet's staff for treating us so well. We appreciate that you have not one but two mounted moose heads! Further more, Many thanks to Firebug for having us open up the show and a very special thanks to all who drove out to Pioneertown and the locals who took kindly to takin kindly!!
6-13-2011
Special thanks to Brad Tilbe for our write up at Adequacy.net"I suppose if Tom Waits wasn't born in California but rather underneath a moonshine still in Kentucky then you'd have Tears Of The Moosechaser. It's that sporadic, bouncy, wild man vibe that is track three, "A Lonesone Fog" off of Songs For A Sinister Woman. Like a death ring the track chimes in and the tale begins. "Sleeping medicine to pass the time, my mind a tangled string of beads rides gondolas through bleeding streams into a leaky sink". Formed in 2008, Songs For A Sinister Woman was released in August of this past year. "A Lonesome Fog" screeches and scrapes with a mix of country, avant-garde, and bluegrass to create a sound I can't say I've ever heard before. It's exciting, creepy, inquisitive and original. All the while wrapping itself around a Western filled with spurs, dust, tumble weed and whiskey.
6-2-2011
MoosechaserMusic has joined the world of kittens and such on YouTube with a new video of old footage for the gentle classic: "We're Really all Crazy". Once again we would love for you to watch it fifteen times a day and have your friends do the same.5-25-2011
Antony DiGennaro solo performance on live webcastWednesday, May 25th at 9:30 pm
See the archive at LA Art Stream - Ear Meal
4-22-2011
Slumgum has just released "Quardboard Flavored Fiber", a brand new album of experimental jazz landscapes featuring Dashing Dave Tranchina. We highly reccomend going to see Slumgum live in a town near you and buying this masterpeice of avant-garde expression.
4-17-2011
On April 17th at Calarts in ROD, Ulrich Krieger lead the ensemble Sonic Boom performing an epic version of Tears of the Moosechaser's "On the Hunt Again" for more than 11 minutes with extended noise and free passages. Sonic Boom done did us proud, yessir!4-2-2011
Letting go of Sleepytime Gorilla MuseumWe are breaking from exclusive Moose news because of our dolefullness at hearing that one of our great inspirations, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, will be playing their final Los Angeles concert Friday April, 8th at the Troubador. We wish to give them our heartfelt best and send them off in the way of Viking Lords. We will be there in the trenches and suggest that you do the same.
3-25-2011
Tears of the Moosechaser at Abuelitas, Comida y tequilla for a little outlaw / south of the border action. Full band minus one. Opening set of new music by Antony, some country standards (which we rarely do) and a performance of Songs for a Sinister Woman in its sinister entirety. This one is going to be one not to miss. Come hungry and thirsty, no cover.
3-9-2011
For a Night of Los Angeles Country Cowboy morphed Americana Western like you have never experienced before.Tears of the Moosechaser plays a night of Shoot Out Music
with Psycho-Spaghetti Western group Spindrift alongside Lower Heaven's rhythmic shadows.
Going down at Bordello in Downtown L.A.
9:00 pm - $7 at the door.
3-5-2011
A very special thanks to James Calson for his write up on our album "Songs for a Sinister Woman" at Examiner.com."Even though Los Angeles, California is admittedly one of my least favorite American cities, I cannot deny that it is home to a good many worthwhile bands and singer/songwriters. One of those bands is an interesting and unusual outfit I came across recently called Tears of the Moosechaser. With a sound that has been referred to as avant-Americana and apocalyptic country, Tears of the Moosechaser do indeed weave a strange and elaborate threadwork of sound on a loom of instrumentation which ranges from mechanical to organic, and from high tech to rudimentary. Such a sound is what greets one upon listening to Tears of the Moosechaser's 2010 release, Songs for a Sinister Woman -- an intriguing and heterogeneous collection of eleven songs which pull certain resources from a variety of genres and subgenres, both old-timey and modern.
Read more...
3-4-2011
Get medicare with Tears of the Moosechaser live at GOOD HURT - 7:30 pm.Friday night awaits you.
2-08-2011
We've played a few super secret house parties recently, shout outs to Spindrift and Swamplands for their camaraderie. There happens to be some footage on our facebook page.12-22-2010
Video posted of Tears of the Moosechaser performing "Lost amongst the Whales" Live at Jawbone Canyon Music Festival IV: Cold Snakes Walk Free from Fire. Special thanks to Donato Lamont for shooting that on his iPhone.12-13-2010
Check out our friend Dave Quion's blog to see the the visual development for the animation to the song Cardsharps. Dave is also the brilliant mind behind our album art.11-19-2010
New date addedLegion of Doom:
TotM opens for local progressive greats Falsetto Teeth and well sculpted compositions of The Chris Votek Quintet
The American Legion in Los Angeles
Friday, 19 November 2010 at 20:00
11-11-2010
Save the DateTotM is performing an hour of free improvised noise and Americana at the Muddy Waters
Santa Barbara New Music Series
Thursday, 11 November 2010 at 20:00
11-28-2010
To raise awareness about "Songs for a Sinister Woman" we intend to give away a free mp3 copy of "We're Really all Crazy". But for the treat, we need you to do one of two things.1. Join the Tears of the Moosechaser facebook page
2. Join our Mailing List. (We won't sale your email, just keep you informed of moose movements).
Then just kick back and wait for a notification via one of those two routes on November 10th. We will call it... FREE "WE'RE REALLY ALL CRAZY DOWNLOAD" and fill the message with a secret location to retrieve your download. In the meantime tell your friends who you think might be interested.
The download will be available between our Muddy Waters Show on November 11
and the American Legion Theater show on November 19th.
You have until November 10th to get connected.
10-22-2010
Come out to the desert with TotM, for the Jawbone Canyon Music Festival:"JAWBONE IV: COLD SNAKES WALK FREE FROM FIRE"
Camping + Music: Friday 22 through Sunday 24, October 2010.
In Jawbone Canyon which is about 2-3 hour drive North from Los Angeles.
Camp out, roast marshmallows in the fire, listen to Lots of great experimental/world/rock/noise/Americana bands, dance in the smogless night air. Good times.
Tears of the Moosechaser takes the stage Saturday, 23
Boots covered with the dust of blue mountains
Shadows burnt into the rockface behind the stage where we played
Clothes Smell of bonfires, whiskey and cigarettes. (more than usual)
So many great bands, such a sacred place to play music. We felt very at home.
Thank you Jawbone Canyon.
9-16-2010
We are very excited to have Gabe Deutsch (previously of Cameltones fame) joining the live line up as a Banjitarist.8-20-2010
Many thanks to Hans Fjellestad and our friends and extended family for the great turnout for our first show at the Steve Allen Theater last night.We would also like to extend a special thanks to Scott Knudstrup for joining our lineup for the night.
8-19-2010
Come one Come all to witness the live birth of TOTM.CDs will be five dollars to celebrate the release of "Songs for a Sinister Woman"
ResBox 8.19 - Thursday, 19 August 2010 at 20:00
The Steve Allen Theater @ The Center for Inquiry - 4773 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA 90027
8-16-2010
Tears of the Moosechaser's Debut Album "Songs for a Sinister Woman" has After much anticipation finally been released into the wild. The package includes album art By Dave Quion and will be available at our Los Angeles shows for a reduced price.For those who are farther away but want somthing physical to hold, Disks can be ordered at CD Baby
Songs for a Sinister Woman is also available digitally through iTunes
1-21-2010
KBR has edited and posted posted a video for "A Lonesome Fog" on YouTube. It features some hawks eating smaller creatures, a heart beating on its own, trains crashing into each other, spreading fires, and other general anarchy. We think you will enjoy watching it 15 times a day.Connect with us.
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