To Live and Shave in L.A.

Infobox musical artist
Name = To Live and Shave in L.A. (TLASILA)
Background = group_or_band
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Origin = Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Genre = Experimental / Noise Rock
Years_active = 1991–present
Labels = Menlo Park Recordings, Savage Land, Blossoming Noise
URL = http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com
Current_members = Tom Smith Ben Wolcott Rat Bastard Mark Morgan Don Fleming Chris Grier Andrew W.K. Graham Moore Andrew Barranca Sickboy Milkplus Balazs Pandi Nandor Nevai
Mark Shellhaas
Past_members = Weasel Walter
Thurston Moore
The Lady Tigra

To Live and Shave in L.A. (TLASILA) is an experimental music collective founded in 1991 by Tom Smith in Miami Beach, Florida. The "wildly inaccessible" [Sanneh, Kelefa. "Pop and Jazz Guide: To Live and Shave in L.A." New York Times. 10 September 2004: E4.] ensemble has featured Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Andrew W.K., Weasel Walter, and at least two dozen other musicians and sound artists. Their primary aesthetic assertion posits that genre is "obsolete". Although often categorized as purveyors of noise music, TLASILA have been noted to pursue an unorthodox approach, "construct(ing) songs around an overwhelming plethora of sonic detail, challenging the listener to engage with a surfeit of information," [Brassier, Ray. "Genre is Obsolete." Multitudes #28. March 2007: 47.] deliberately burring "the line between harsh metal-on-metal noise and abstract musique concrète." [Sisario, Ben. " The Listings: May 11 - May 17." New York Times. 11 May 2007] To Live and Shave in L.A.'s poetic texts "distance" the group "from any potential peers," "scanning like (they) came from some previously unearthed hermetic treatise." [Keenan, David. "To Live and Shave in L.A.: Wigged Out." The Wire August 2002: 14]

elected Discography

*"30-minuten männercreme" CD (Love Is Sharing Pharmaceuticals, 1994)
*"Vedder Vedder Bedwetter" CD (Fifth Column, 1995)
*"An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers" CD (Audible Hiss, 1995)
*"Tonal Harmony" CD (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, 1997)
*"Where a Horse Has Been Standing and Where You Belong" CD (Western Blot, 1998)
*"Peter Criss vs. Peter Christopherson" CD-R (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, 2000)
*"The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg" 2xCD (Menlo Park Recordings, 2002)
*"God and Country Rally!" CD (The Smack Shire, 2004)
*"Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière" CD (Blossoming Noise, 2006)
*"Noon and Eternity" CD (Menlo Park Recordings, 2006)
*"Les Tricoteuses" CD (Savage Land Records, 2007)
*"The Cortege" CD & 12" LP (Blossoming Noise, 2008)
*"The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply" 2xCD (Important Records, 2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com To Live and Shave in L.A. (official site)]