Mission Of Burma at Union Transfer on 09/07/2012 09:00 PM EDT

Mission Of Burma

Simply stated, Mission Of Burma were, and remain, one of the most important American rock bands of the last 20 years. Strong words, but over the course of their brief four-year career (1979-1983), the band delivered the goods in spades. Rykodisc's three-CD re-release campaign of band's entire Ace of Hearts Records catalog includes the 1981 'Signals, calls, and marches' EP (with the 'Academy Fight Song' b/w 'Max Ernst' 7" single appended), the groundbreaking 1982 'VS.' LP (with four bonus tracks not available on the original album), and the posthumous 1985 live LP THE HORRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT BURMA, which documents the band's final tour (with four previously unreleased bonus tracks).
Playing a bracing mix of punk, pop, art rock, and avant-garde experimentation, the Boston quartet's vocal/guitar/bass/drums/tape manipulation line-up was relentlessly intense and dynamic. As adept at playing strident, angular blasts as they were at powerful, pretty instrumentals, Mission Of Burma were integral in laying the foundation for a movement in postpunk rock which remains vital today. Formed in February 1979, when guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller and bassist/vocalist Clint Conley, fresh from the break-up of the band Moving Parts, decided to join forces with drummer/vocalist Peter Prescott, who had just parted company with The Molls. M.O.B. worked as a trio until the summer of 1979, when they drafted Martin Swope to provide what was commonly seen as the "x- factor" in their sound.
Like such truly seminal artists as the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, Mission Of Burma's stature and influence continue to grow; their material remains of a caliber that is rarely paralleled in creativity or integrity. Welcome back!

Purling Hiss

Purling Hiss' Mike Polizze has put in much time in the fried Philly blooze overdrive of the group Birds Of Maya, but in his own vehicle he's expanded his grotty guitar wailing further into the cosmos, still shredding speakers aplenty. Revealing themselves as not only purveyors of Rallizes Denudes/Vermonster-style guitar jams, Purling Hiss also embrace a serious 90's grunge/pop ethic not too far removed from bits of Bleach-era Nirvana. They were hand-picked by Jeff Tweedy to play Wilco's Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA last June. The trio recently wrapped up national tours with The War on Drugs and Dr Dog. Latest EP Lounge Lizards is out now on Mexican Summer, planning to release their new full-length this fall.

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