September 2011
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TERA MELOS: Tera Melos // BeatCast Coach Road... →
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Tera Melos stopped by to record a session with BeatCast during their busy summer touring schedule, which has seen them play across Europe and the US, including shows with Sargent House labels mates Le Bucherettes and Adebisi Shank. They very kindly ventured into the wilds…
August 2011
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So Occult / Kelly VIDEO!
July 2011
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BORIS
we’re going on tour with japanese legends Boris! check out their new record(s). we’ll be pulling some new/old things out of the bag as a three piece for these shows.
BORIS / TERA MELOS US TOUR DATES 2011
Oct 07 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brew * Oct 08 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom *^ Oct 10 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater *^ Oct 11 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore...
May 2011
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tour tour tour!
we’re super happy to announce that we’re going on a co-headlining tour this summer with El Ten Eleven! we played with these dudes years ago at the silverlake lounge is los angeles. they’re awesome. more info/dates soon, although you can probably do some detective work and get a head start on show details (yes, it’s a mostly full US tour. yes, florida is in there!) sorry...
Echo On The Hills Of Knebworth
when we finished tracking for Patagonian Rats at the hangar in sacramento, we had some additional studio time. so we decided to record a live, improvised piece for fun. we ended up with a 51 minute freakout (similar to that of the now infamous, often called out for during live shows, melody 8). after hashing out the pat rats songs for so long in the practice spot/studio , this was a welcome...
UK/IRELAND *FINALLY **WHOA
after being a band for 7 years, hundreds of emails asking about it, two previously canceled euro tours and relentlessly trying to figure out how to make it happen- we’re finally flying across the pond.
for a long time it seemed like we were cursed never to get there, so we’re extremely excited to make this happen. it’s a short run. no additional dates will be added. who knows...
April 2011
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Full HQ set from Orlando coming soon!
our friend Erick Wilczynski brought along some buds and filmed our entire backbooth set in orlando (it was a rager). we’ll be releasing the whole set, one song at a time. so keep your peepers peeled! oh, and we played 40 Rods to the Hog’s Head that night. so between this and the upcoming TerrorEyes tour documentary, there should be whole lot of awesome vids to occupy you lil...
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FORBIDDEN FRUIT FEST!!!
now that we’ve scooped our jaws off the floor, jack hammered the permanent smiles off of our faces for a second and cleaned the shit out of our pants we can announce that we will be playing the forbidden fruit festival in dublin, ireland. with. APHEX. TWIN. AND. THE. FLAMING. LIPS. WHOOOOOOAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
not to mention BATTLES and YO LA TENGO + many others. our very show in europe will be...
#2 FOUND!
well, steve lamas nabbed the second patagonian rats disneyland deluxe disc. that was a lot of fun. glad people were stoked on this. can’t believe how quickly these were discovered. we’ll have to get a little more tricky with future scavenger hunts.
we’ll be sending these dudes some fun stuff along with hand written lyrics (which have not been published thus far.) it’s up...
RAD!
Kevin Telkamp works fast! good work dude. holy shit!!!!
RAD!
Capital Public Radio Performance + Interview →
cheg it cheg it-
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Tera Melos How Patagonian Rats as the realization of Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 Hours Theory” Spend any Sunday with experimental rock band Tera Melos and you’ll learn a thing or two. 1). They’ve shared the road with Mike Watt 2). Nick Reinhart is an avid admirer of Brian Setzer 3)….
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Patagonian Rats (Disneyland Deluxe Edition)
there are two copies of patagonian rats hidden in disneyland. if you can find either of them we’ll send you hand written lyrics to the album and some other fun stuff.
clues:
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no idea how long they’ll last. GOOD LUCK!
(if you find one take a photo of yourself holding it in while sitting in the red car outside mr. toad’s wild ride) ((also, there’s custom packaging,...
Boston University's The Quad Talk Tera Melos
boston show was insane!
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Tera Melos Talks About Layers, Limits And The Simpsons
Tera Melos, a Sacramento-based rock band, played to a sold-out, enthusiastic crown at the Middle East on March 27. It took a little while for Tera Melos to set up, with wires everywhere and a multitude of effects pedals laid out over the small stage. It was well worth the effort.
It is hard to...
Tera Melos Live Review @ First Unitarian Church,...
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It’s a little past midnight and I’m waiting at the 22nd St Trolley stop, underground and away from the blistering cold winds above. My clothing are covered in sweat, mine and other’s alike, and my heart and lungs are pounding like a 5 mile marathon. A lanky, pale kid is standing next to me and finally makes the obvious comment, “Didn’t I see you over at the Tera...
March 2011
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February 2011
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Manar the Magic Video
coming soon...
our tour with marnie stern starts this friday! be sure to start paying closer attention to the blog, as we’ll stay on top of tour happenings, updates and other whacky things going on. you should also follow marnie’s blog. see you soon.
January 2011
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new video coming soon!
ZOO WEATHER EP
in addition to the super rad tour we’re going on with m. stern, we’ll be releasing an ep called Zoo Weather. we initially conceptualized ZW to come out before Patagonian Rats, but for whatever reason we couldn’t make it happen. so we took three of the tracks and created a “side d” for the Patagonian Rats double LP. now we’ll be releasing those tracks + three...
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TOUR W/MARNIE STERN, YAY
we’re doing a full u.s. tour with our friend marnie stern!
Tera Melos & Marnie Stern Winter Tour 2011 Feb 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo Feb 19 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar Feb 20 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Martini Ranch Feb 22 - San Antonio, TX @ Ten Eleven Feb 23 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk Feb 24 - Dallas, TX @ Sons Of Hermann Hall ...
LOTS OF VIDEOS
more Patagonian Rats related vids to come. here’s the collection thus far:
August 2010
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TERA MELOS & THE PATAGONIAN RATS BAND
now that you’ve listened to patagonian rats a hundred times, you may have noticed that it’s densely layered with goodie bits. there’s lots of skronky blip sounds, electro snare rolls and melodies hidden all over the place. we thought it’d be fun to recreate as much of the record as we could live. so our friend evan will be touring with us, helping to provide the pieces that...
TERA MELOS INTERVIEW W/LARS ULRICH!!!
July 2010
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THE SKIN SURF
here’s our new video for THE SKIN SURF, brought to you by Behn Fannin. spread the weird.
POLITICS
here are some conceptual stickers that could really help launch Patagonian Rats into the center of the politcal music universe.
“tera melos are from california but one time they drove through brooklyn new york”
“there was this time on tour when someone put the ipod on shuffle and a talking heads song came on”
“engineered by guys who...
FROZEN ZOO 7" SINGLE VIA TERROR EYES
Terror Eyes will be releasing a limited Frozen Zoo 7” single with two insane b-side remixes from Raleigh Moncrief (aka Robby Moncrieff/WHAT’S UP/THE ADVANTAGE/ZACH HILL COLLABORATOR/OVERALL MUSICAL WEIRDO) and Nick Reinhart (OVERALL WEIRDO).
go check out the terror eyes site. they do awesome live performance/videos and are super involved with the local skate/music scene. it’s...
PATAGONIAN RATS PRE-ORDER
you can now pre-order our new record, patagonian rats. we put together some really cool bundles to choose from. we structured these things with sargent house to be affordable and awesome for everyone. obviously we’re big proponents of the downloading age, however, it’s really important that everyone understands that every dollar that comes in, particularly off of this record, directly...
INTERVIEW
here is a new interview with flab magazine. when you’re done with that check out these amazing interviews:
June 2010
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ANOTHER SURF
"Can I say Something That I Think Is Bullshit..."
metallica have been dangerously close to becoming a parody of themselves. i don’t believe they’ve crossed that line just yet. even though those last two records sucked (actually, technically the last four records sucked), it’s rad that those guys have gone back to not giving a fuck- for some reason lars thought it’d be a good idea to record an entire album with his snare...
PATAGONIAN RATS LIVES
our new record is called patagonian rats and will come out on sept. 7th. you can have a song for free right now though. it’s called “frozen zoo.” please share that sucker with all your friends. there will be more patagonian rats tidbits to follow- lots of weird music videos, extremely fast songs, tours, rad pre-order packages etc.
Tera Melos - Patagonian Rats (LP) ...
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WE THOUGHT YOU WAS ON CRYSTAL
today we filmed a disturbing/bizarro/awesome video for a song off of our new record. directing the madness was video production master/fellow weirdo behn fannin, who is responsible for this gem as well as many others. towards the end of the day we found ourselves in a very seedy area surrounded by all of the wonderful plight los angeles has to offer. without giving too much of the video away, here...
PATAGONIAN RATS
cause we don’t give a fuckkkkk
May 2010
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the downward spiral
as previously mentioned, our new record is finished. artwork just got completed the other day. it sounds and looks awesome. no band will ever tell you that their favorite record was their first, or anything that came before their present body of work, hence, our new album is our favorite/the best piece of art tera melos has produced. of course there will be purists, (do we have any of those?? not...
April 2010
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Strength Beyond Strength
Our good friend Garrett is participating in an auction held by the Montana Skatepark Association. He did the artwork for the product that you can see smashed below, the Japanese Drugs/Complex release, and countless fliers and shirts of ours. He is also one third of the talent that brought you Snakeville. Usually when I am selling merch, people ask who did the designs, and most of them are...
???
last month we played some shows with all leather. on our way to irvine we saw something peculiar. up until this point it was not clear that this reality existed outside of the internet.
I-5 south/5:00 pm/man driving home from work/pants off/dick in his hand/the world is watching
“…life is kinda cool sometimes” - mark borchardt
the first record
we haven’t had our first record available for quite some time. when we were young and stupid we let a small pop punk label help us release it. i have no idea why. seriously, why would this band do that. actually, i think i just answered my own question- because we are this band. eventually we realized that was a very dumb thing to do and that we were getting taken for a ride. luckily we...
further into the digital rabbit hole
as you may know, we already have a blog. but i can no longer stand to look at it. i wish we could have a site that was completely blank with just text, like we had a few years ago- anyone remember that thing? it was rad. but i can’t remember how to do that- some ftp/login/html mumbo jumbo that my brain can’t compute. i came across our friend randy’s blog and it seemed pretty easy...