His name is Derek Schartung, he’s in the underground Nashville noise scene and plays really good stuff.

There’s also this other guy in Nashville that I really like. And she’s been on the scene for a while and she’s great. Scene: Those band names are all…uh…poetry. And she sort of hooked up with Angela Messina-there’s this whole Nashville noise underground of bands and was in a bunch of them, like Taiwan Deth, Tan as Fuck, The New Faggot Cunts and I think she was in Vegan Brand. She’s a huge Be Your Own Pet fan and we were putting their records out. And there’s a certain kind of pure sound that she deals with, you know? She kind of filters radio signals into this kind of noise wash and I thought it was good stuff, so I kind of reached out to her. She sets up her own sort of idiosyncratic kind of noise gear with radios and cassette tapes and stuff. Moore: Well, Leslie Keffer moved to Nashville from Ohio, and she makes harsh underground noise music. Scene: So aside from Be Your Own Pet and Turbo Fruits, who else on your label is from the area? We caught up with Moore over the phone last week, and his passion, humor and laid-back boyish charm clearly translated across the wire. Between Moore’s fondness for Grimey’s New & Preloved Music and deep, historical knowledge of the Nashville underground music scene, he could easily pass as a lovably weird local noise dude. Moore claims roots in McKenzie, Tenn., and therefore, good “Tennessee radar,” so it’s no surprise that he’s tuned in to regional acts, or that Nashville is one of only five show dates for Sonic Youth in April. And these guys were on the road, punking-out across the world.” Moore enthusiastically describes BYOP as “totally hot” and elaborates, “I remember thinking, who are these kids? When I was 17, I was just mowing lawns and being very afraid of girls and stuff. His small record label, Ecstatic Peace!, has found success with quite a few Nashville bands, most notably with the noisy garage rock of Be Your Own Pet. With the recent album releases of Sonic Youth’s spectacular Rather Ripped and Moore’s own deliciously lo-fi Trees Outside the Academy, he has been roundly praised as being at the top of his game. His many projects include scoring film soundtracks, playing in other bands, releasing solo work, running his own label, guesting in documentaries and writing and editing books.

A life-long booster of punk rock and punk ethics, Moore believes in doing it all (and doing it all by himself). Sonic Youth play Friday, 25th at City Hall w/Leslie KefferĪs a singer and guitarist for America’s preeminent indie rock band, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has devoted the better part of three decades to engaging and electrifying the alternative underground scene. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on Nashville’s noise scene

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