Moira Scar is post-punk freak-deathrock trio of LuLu Gamma Ray (synthesizers, vocals), Aimee S (drums) and Roxy Monoxide (guitar, vocals, sax) from Oakland Ca.  

founded by Roxy Monoxide and LuLu Gamma Ray in 2009, Moira Scar started as a duo, releasing two albums (Excerpts from the Holy Scumbrella, 2009, self released; Slink To Intensity, 2010, self released) and touring the states multiple times.   In 2012 Moira Scar became a trio (Ryan Bonus Beast), releasing Scarred For Life (Resipiscent Records), and touring the states.   2014 brought a different third member (Mikey Mayhem) into the Scar-ship, producing the album Psychoid (Cochan Records) and another national tour.   Roxy and LuLu then went into V.E.X. mode, recording three albums as V.E.X. (Voltage Empath Xanaxax, also known as Ventriloquest Ectoplasmold Xanaxax) and touring Europe, Mexico City and parts of the U.S.   Now back as Moira Scar, Roxy and LuLu are joined by Aimee, creating a huge lush sound and an epic new album (Wound World Part 1, Near Dark Records) with tours coming, Moira Scar is stirring up their most potent witches cauldron of spells yet.

We live in the belly of a great rusty beast and harvest our ideas from the cracks between concrete and forest. We humbly except the disorganized chatter and spew and collect it in our brains nurturing it until it gives us a heart beat a melody and a voice. We let it grow slowly until it busts out with all the conviction of a destitute banchee and takes its place among its brothers and sisters. A perfectly preserved translation of us and the world in which we tangle. A thought preserved in music. A song.

2024: MOURNING RITUALS & RELEASING RITES double album of 23 instrumental impromptus to console the dead & dying.

published the BITTER PIE COMIX anthology, 320pp. hard bound graphic novel. 

2018: OUBLIETTE, lofi analogue piano ballads mastered by Thomas Dimuzio 

controversial animations + catalogue of 20+yrs live videos banned on utube... 

AUTONOMOUS ROGUE gone 16000 miles in an off-grid d.i.y. converted 20ton box truck/multimedia production home/studio

 EMBRACING HOPELESSNESS. (((0)))

DELETIST / DAS BLUT / CTRL V 3RR0R @ Bleakhaus Publishing&Recording. % of WELTSCHMERZ, DI SETA SCURA. # of BEAT COPS, SURVEILLANCE, FRIENDS OF THE JITNEY. Creator BITTER PIE + Organizer [:]PLUG[:] SF's Global Headphone Festival in association with LePlacard Paris.

all is lost. 

AUTHOR & PUNISHER, named, “one of the most prolific acts in aggressive music,” by Noisey, has just released his first album on Relapse Records entitled “Beastland”.  His newest and most intense album recalls Ministry, channeling Godflesh, traversing through dark, uncompromising, and often disturbing soundscapes, with occasional detours into rich melodies and splinters of light. After leaving a career as mechanical engineer in Boston to focus on art and sculpture, Tristan Shone, the creator and sole artist behind AUTHOR & PUNISHER, moved west to pursue his MFA in Southern California. In the metal and machine shops of University of California, San Diego, Shone forged a relationship with design, sound and fabrication that ultimately yielded AUTHOR & PUNISHER‘s first music and mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made, precision machinery. Shone used his technical knowledge, along with his artistic background to create what Wired Magazine has hailed as his own “special brand of doom metal.” All aspects of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER sound begin with physical movement, limbs struggling in unison to coordinate a wall of electronic rhythm and oscillation, ultimately conditioned by an organic and loose quality absent of sequencing and plastic perfection. AUTHOR & PUNISHER performances are a real amalgamation between man and mechanisms. They are direct, physical, heavy experiences that have amassed praise and intrigue from a wide array of audiences. Pitchfork styled him “immediate but mysterious,” Stereogum described his “chilling, unrecognizable form,” and NPR hails him as “a thrill [who] fires on all cylinders.”
“ In the contiguous realms of metal nerds and gear nerds, Shone possesses semimythical status. He performs within a semicircle of frightening homemade machines that seem at once futuristic and medieval.“ – The New Yorker (2016).

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