FULL CIRCLE Volume 1 2019
GUIDE BOOK
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About Full Circle The idea for Full Circle started as just a fun idea to have a music festival based on community and networking as well as benefitting the city it takes place in. This came after visiting so many music fests around the country that only inconvenience the local people and doesn’t benefit them in any way. Coming to experience new as well as established independent music, having access to quality drinks and foods from local vendors. Limited and exclusive merchandise available, community and music workshops as well. We want to promote and showcase and hopefully grow the independent music scene of a different city every year. Thanks for you supoort, we hope you enjoy your time at Full Circle!
Workshops - Automotive 101
- Nutrition Basics
- Self Defense
- Interview Skills and Communication
- How to support survivors (of all abuse -sexual assault, violence, etc.) - Starting your own business - Starting and Building a Co-op - Screen Printing Basics
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- Dog Obedience - Community Gardening - Basic Physical Fitness - More TBA!
Line Up Hum Beach House Sunny Day Real Estate The Jesus Lizard Shiner Quicksand Emma Ruth Rundle Brian Eno Failure Cult of Luna
Jessica Lea Mayfield Cloakroom Nothing Jawbox Coalesce Protomartyr Drive Like Jehu Boris Code Orange Cursive
Curator Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums during his career. He has had major influence on the development of genres such as noise rock, posthardcore and math rock. Albini is also known for his outspoken views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from album sales, feeling that a producer’s job is to record the music to the band’s desires, and that paying a producer as if they had contributed artistically to an album is unethical.
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Outside of niche circles, Hum is probably best known as “that one band from the car commercial.” In 1995, the band released You’d Prefer An Astronaut, its third full-length offering and major label debut. It was—and still is—an impeccably dense record, at least as far as a nine-track, traditionally packed LP is concerned. Among these hypnotic and soaring songs that pay homage to the mystery of outer space, Hum cracked the mainstream surface with “Stars,” a rollicking and emotive ballad that was used by Cadillac in 2008 to market a sedan. Mathematically speaking—and for any label executive concerned with a return on investments—the Cadillac commercial could be viewed foremost among Hum’s major coups. But Hum’s fans—who are as devoted and blindly unwavering as any—see things differently: Hum should have been a much bigger band.
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One of the finest dream pop groups of recent times, Beach House is the duo of vocalist/keyboardist Victoria LeGrand and guitarist Alex Scally. Over the years, Beach House moved from the charmingly lo-fi sound of early Carpark releases like 2006’s self-titled debut to the ethereal perfection of Sub Pop efforts such as 2012’s Bloom, but they always focused on hypnotic melodies and LeGrand’s velvety voice. LeGrand and Scally met in Baltimore’s indie rock scene and formed Beach House in 2004. They began releasing songs soon after, including “Apple Orchard,” which appeared on Pitchfork’s Infinite Mixtape MP3 series in August 2006. That October, the duo released their self-titled debut album, which drew comparisons to Nico and Mazzy Star, on Carpark. Early in 2007, Beach House recorded their second album in two months at Lord Baltimore Studio; the results were the fuller-sounding Devotion, which arrived on Carpark in 2008. Following a lengthy tour, Scally and LeGrand worked with producer Chris Coady on their Sub Pop debut Teen Dream. Released in early 2010, the album continued to refine the duo’s sound, and debuted in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200.
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Sunny Day Real Estate was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. They were one of the early emo bands and helped establish the genre. In 1994, the band released their debut album Diary on Sub Pop Records to critical acclaim. However, shortly after releasing their second album LP2, the band broke up, with members Nate Mendel and William Goldsmith joining Foo Fighters and Jeremy Enigk embarking on a solo career. In 1997, they regrouped long enough to record two more studio albums and a live album but ultimately disbanded once again in 2001. The band reunited again in 2009. Bassist Nate Mendel, who chose to remain with Foo Fighters during the previous reunion in 1997, took part in this reunion. In a 2013 interview with MusicRadar, Mendel said Sunny Day Real Estate was inactive. According to Mendel, the band attempted to record a full-length album after the end of their reunion tour, but the sessions “just fell apart”. When Sunny Day Real Estate started, few would have predicted the impact the Seattle band’s music would still be having over a decade later.
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Willfully abrasive and atonal, the Jesus Lizard emerged in the early ‘90s as a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground. During the first part of the decade, the band turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitardriven pseudo-industrial noise, all of which received positive reviews in underground music publications and heavy college-radio play. After a brief run as a recording-only project based in Austin, founding vocalist David Yow, bassist David Wm. Sims, and guitarist Duane Denison relocated to Chicago, Illinois in 1989, where they found kindred spirits in recording engineer Steve Albini and Touch and Go Records. With the addition of drummer Mac McNeilly, they began performing live, eventually attracting an international audience. Despite releasing a split single with leading alt-rockers Nirvana and signing to Capitol, the band failed to find commercial success amid the alternative rock explosion of the 1990s and disbanded in 1999. Their reunion tour ten years later garnered positive responses from audiences and critics. The Jesus Lizard performed another reunion tour in 2017.
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Shiner is an American post-hardcore band from Kansas City, Missouri that was active from 1992 to 2003. Since 2012 Shiner has been playing several shows a year. The group formed in 1992, and quickly found wide exposure, releasing a vinyl EP in 1993 and touring with acts such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Chore, Jawbox, Season to Risk, The Jesus Lizard, and Girls Against Boys. The group released their first LP, Splay (recorded at Steve Albini’s Chicago studio) in 1996, and a second album, Lula Divinia the next year. Sub Pop took notice, and released a 7” single of the group’s songs “Sleep it Off” and “Half Empty”. Following this the band toured with Hum in 1998. A third full-length, Starless, was released on a label run by members of Descendents, Owned and Operated, in 2000. A fourth LP, The Egg, would follow before the group broke up in 2002. This was recorded and produced at Matt Talbott’s recording studio, Great Western Record Recorders in Tolono IL. Malinowski and Gerken are now in Open Hand, while Josh Newton is the guitar/synth player for Sie Lieben Maschinen. Allen Epley is in The Life and Times. Shiner is reportedly working on new music.
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Quicksand is an American post-hardcore band from New York City, United States, founded in 1990. Their debut selftitled EP was followed by two major label albums, Slip (1993) and Manic Compression (1995). Quicksand’s sound has been compared to that of post-hardcore bands Fugazi and Helmet. The band supported their releases with extensive touring but fell short of the mainstream success anticipated by their labels. These factors and internal stress led them to separate first in 1995 and again in 1999 following a failed year-and-a-half reunion. In June 2012, Quicksand reunited for a special one-night performance and since has been playing additional live shows. The band’s third album (and first full-length in 22 years), Interiors, was released on November 10, 2017.
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Emma Ruth Rundle is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist based in Louisville, Kentucky. Formerly of the Nocturnes, she has released three solo albums and is a current member of Red Sparowes and Marriages. With her first band, the Nocturnes, she released the an EP and two albums, A Year of Spring and Aokigahara. Rundle also joined Red Sparowes and played on their third album, The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer, released in 2010. She self-released an ambient guitar album, Electric Guitar: One, in 2011. It was later reissued in 2014 by Errant Child Recordings. In 2012, she formed the trio Marriages, who have released the Kitsune EP (2012) and Salome (2015). In 2013, she self-released the album Somnambulant, attributed to the Headless Prince of Zolpidem, which she described as “my somewhat anonymous downtempo, somewhat creepy electronic dark wave project”. Rundle’s official debut solo studio album, Some Heavy Ocean, was released in 2014. Rundle lived at the studio complex as an artist-inresidence for the period. Rundle suffers from adenomyosis, which in part inspired the material on her second album, Marked for Death, released in 2016. Rundle’s third studio album, On Dark Horses, was released on September 14, 2018.
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Brian Eno is an English musician, record producer, and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop, and electronic music. A self-described “non-musician”, Eno has helped introduce a variety of conceptual approaches and recording techniques to contemporary music, advocating a methodology of theory over practice, serendipity over forethought, and texture over craft. He has been described as one of music’s most influential and innovative figures. Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school of Ipswich Civic College in the mid 1960s. He joined glam rock group Roxy Music as synthesiser player in 1971. After recording two albums with Roxy Music, he departed in 1973 to record a number of solo albums, coining the term “ambient music” to describe his work on releases such as Another Green World, Discreet Music, and Music for Airports. He also collaborated with artists such as Robert Fripp, Cluster, David Bowie on his “Berlin Trilogy”, and David Byrne, and produced albums by artists including John Cale, Talking Heads and Devo. Eno has continued to record solo albums and work with artists including U2, Slowdive and Coldplay. Eno has also made installations have included the sails of the Sydney Opera House in 2009 and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016. An advocate of a range of humanitarian causes, Eno writes on a variety of subjects and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation.
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Failure is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1990 to 1997 and from 2014 onwards. They are often compared to other alternative rock bands from that time that were similarly labeled as “alternative�, such as Nirvana and Soundgarden, but are distinguished by their meticulous attention to textural sonic detail, inventive use of guitar effects and signal processing, and the overall expansive sound design of their later albums. Failure reunited in 2014. In 2018, Failure announced a series of four EPs, with the first, In The Future. The remaining three will be released throughout 2018 and will eventually culminate in a complete full-length studio album later in the year. The second EP, Your Body Will Be, and the third, The Furthest Thing, was released on September 14, 2018. The finished album, titled In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind was released on November 16th, 2018, with the completion of the fourth and final EP, From Your Mind.
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Cult of Luna is a Swedish heavy metal band from Umeü founded in 1998. They are known for post-metal music similar to the contemporary bands Neurosis and Isis. The band was signed to Earache Records in the early 2000s and released five albums, including the commercially successful albums Salvation (2004) and Somewhere Along the Highway (2006). After an extended period of inactivity, Cult of Luna returned with its Indie Recordings debut Vertikal (2013) and companion EP Vertikal II (2013), both drawing inspiration from Fritz Lang’s 1927 film, Metropolis. In 2016 the band released their space-themed seventh album, Mariner, featuring American vocalist Julie Christmas.
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Jessica Lea Mayfield (born August 27, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio, United States. She is known for her ominous song writing, with a plaintive minimalist style that draws on both country and rock music. Mayfield first performed with her family bluegrass band One Way Rider at the age of 8. They began touring as a family band, boarding a 1956 tour bus (once belonging to Bill Monroe, Kitty Wells, and Ernest Tubb) and headed south from Ohio to Tennessee. At age 11, Mayfield began playing guitar and writing songs. On September 29, 2017, Mayfield’s fourth studio LP Sorry is Gone was released This was another nod to Mayfield’s grungealternative influences, while incorporating some alt-country and pop elements as well. The deeply personal album chronicles Mayfield’s years-long journey as a survivor of domestic abuse, and separation from her abusive husband: “I feel like it’s almost my duty and my responsibility to advocate for this subject. Because if I really want things to change and I want women to be treated more fairly, then hiding my own experiences isn’t going to help anyone.”
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Cloakroom is an American rock band from Northwest Indiana, United States. They are currently signed to Relapse Records. The band formed in June 2012. Lead singer and guitarist Doyle Martin was previously in the bands Grown Ups and Lion of the North, and bassist Bobby Markos was in the band Native. The band signed to Run For Cover Records in 2013. The band released their first extended play, titled Infinity, in 2013 via Run For Cover. In 2014, the band released a single “Lossed Over� also on Run For Cover. On January 20, 2015, the band released their debut album, Further Out (Run For Cover). On June 20, 2017, the band announced that they would be releasing their second album, Time Well, via Relapse Records on August 18.
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Nothing founder Dominic Palermo was previously a member of the hardcore punk band Horror Show. The short-lived band only released a pair of EPs through Deathwish Inc. during its existence. Horror Show was put on hold when Palermo stabbed another man during a fight and spent two years in jail for aggravated assault and attempted murder. About this period in his life, Palermo said: “It was kind of a violent time. We were going to shows and kind of, like, fucking shit up for the whole scene.” Following his stint in jail and done with performing in punk bands, Palermo spent a long time soul-searching. He said: “I didn’t know what else to do with my life, what would make me want to wake up every day. I really struggled with that for like four years and, not to sound dramatic or anything, but I thought about blowing my brains out every day”. Palermo eventually began making music again, and released a demo titled Poshlost under the name “Nothing” in 2011. Nothing went through several lineup changes over the next few years while releasing two EPs, Suns and Lovers and Downward Years to Come in 2012. The band’s third studio album, Dance on the Blacktop, was released on August 24, 2018 by Relapse. After the recording of the album, new bassist Aaron Heard (also the vocalist for hardcore band Jesus Piece), replaced Bassett.
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Jawbox played its first show opening for Fugazi in 1989. Not long after that, the band began to tour and record, releasing its first single, “Tools & Chrome”, in 1990 as a split between Desoto and Dischord. Jawbox released two full-length records on Dischord, “Grippe” and “Novelty,” and toured heavily throughout the ’90s. During that decade, the mainstream record industry developed an interest in the underground music community and gravitated toward bands like Jawbox, who possessed a strong work ethic and a proven audience. In 1993, Jawbox left Dischord to sign with Atlantic Records, where it would release two more albums – “For Your Own Special Sweetheart” and “Jawbox” – before disbanding in 1997. In 2009 Desoto and Dischord began working together to re-issue the long out of print album “For Your Own Special Sweetheart”. The album was remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service and is being re-issued with all new artwork on both CD and LP.
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Coalesce formed in 1994, and, throughout the first half of its career, the quartet constantly veered toward implosion. Original drummer Jim Redd quit after a heinous tour that made him hate the hardcore scene. Bassist Stacy Hilt left after a particularly gnarly gig that involved Jes Steineger smashing his guitar to pieces and James Dewees throwing his floor tom into the crowd, injuring at least one fan. Amid this chaos, Coalesce released some of the most influential and profound metalcore albums in existence. Sean Ingram’s barrel-chested roars; Nathan Ellis’ simultaneously dexterous and crushing bass playing; Dewees’ manic percussion; and Steineger’s Jimi Hendrix-on-bath-salts guitar work: Coalesce is in its own world. Give Them Rope came out in 1997, and Coalesce recorded Functioning On Impatience that same year. While the former is Coalesce in its most chaotic state, Functioning On Impatience is a shape-shifting mass of pandemonium glued together with nervous energy. Like an orgasm that releases mercury instead of dopamine, these records blaze a swath through the brain.
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Protomartyr often plumbs the depths of doom, gloom, and conspiracy in their music, yet an exceedingly normal group of human beings comprise this band. When Casey and I first start chatting, there’s hardly an indication that he’s been on tour for weeks with the band, comprised of Greg Ahee on guitars, Alex Leonard drumming, and Scott Davidson on bass. The band recently signed to the indie powerhouse Domino Records. Or that he’s about to play a live-wire riverboat show in Detroit to kick off the album’s release. Instead, he’s talking about being back home in Detroit and catching mice. Not quite what you’d expect from a front man whose band has been given the contemporary post-punk torch to carry. But then again, at one point during our conversation, Casey remarks of his hometown that “the city could be quite fine without a post-punk band.” The thing is, Protomartyr - so named for the first figure to die for a cause, usually in religion or politics - is unlike any arty, intelligent postpunk band that’s ever become a reference point in musical history, such as Wire, Pere Ubu and the Fall. There is no posturing, and they don’t take themselves too seriously. Yet look no further than a salient line from “Bad Advice,” a number from their 2014 breakout Under Color of Official Right, for what might be Protomartyr’s unofficial mission statement: In it, Casey decrees: “Overconfidence is a parasite!”
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Drive Like Jehu was an American post-hardcore band from San Diego active from 1990 to 1995. Formed by rhythm guitarist and vocalist Rick Froberg and lead guitarist John Reis, ex-members of Pitchfork, along with bassist Mike Kennedy and drummer Mark Trombino, both from Night Soil Man, after their two bands disbanded in 1990. Drive Like Jehu’s music was characterized by passionate singing, unusual song structure, indirect melodic themes, intricate guitar playing, and calculated use of tension, resulting in a distinctive sound amongst other post-hardcore acts and impacted the evolution of hardcore punk into emo. After releasing their eponymous debut in 1991 through local record labels Cargo Music and Headhunter Records, Drive Like Jehu signed to major label Interscope Records along with Reis’ other band Rocket from the Crypt. Their second album, 1994’s Yank Crime, gained a cult following, but the group disbanded shortly afterward. Reis continued with Rocket from the Crypt and Trombino became a successful record producer and audio engineer, while Froberg and Kennedy pursued careers outside of music. In 1999, Reis and Froberg began playing together again in Hot Snakes, which was active from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2011 to present. Reis also re-released Yank Crime through his Swami Records label.
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Boris is a Japanese experimental band formed in 1992 in Tokyo and composed of drummer Atsuo Mizuno, guitarist/ bassist Takeshi Ohtani and guitarist/keyboardist Wata. All three members participate in vocal performance. The band is named after a song of the same name on the Melvins’ 1991 album Bullhead. Their debut album Absolutego was released in 1996 on their own record label, followed by 24 more studio albums (as well as a number of EPs, singles and collaborative albums) on various labels around the world. Throughout their career, Boris have made deliberate efforts to avoid a strong association with any musical style. In particular, they do not consider themselves a heavy metal band despite frequently being categorized as such.
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Code Orange (previously known as Code Orange Kids) is an American hardcore punk band that formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2008. The band signed to Deathwish Inc. for their first two studio albums Love Is Love/Return to Dust (2012) and I Am King (2014) and have since released a third, Forever (2017), through Roadrunner Records. The band found some difficulty touring in their early days. Because all the members went to various high schools in Pennsylvania, they were not old enough to play at some of the clubs and could only tour between semesters. In 2012, four of the band’s members – Reba Meyers, Jami Morgan, Joe Goldman and Dominic Landolina – formed the rock band Adventures. The band have one Grammy nomination under their belt for the song “Forever”.
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Cursive is the longtime trio of Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar), Matt Maginn (bass), and Ted Stevens (guitar, vocals), with Patrick Newbery (keys) and Cully Symington (drums). Cursive has released seven full-length albums - including the heralded Cursive’s Domestica (2000), The Ugly Organ (2003), Happy Hollow (2006), Mama, I’m Swollen (2009), and I Am Gemini (2012) - two EPs, a disc of rarities, and numerous singles since the band’s 1995 inception. The band is also known for their vital, magnetic live show, earning rave reviews from outlets including the Cleveland Scene’s C-Note music blog (“[Tim Kasher’s] effect on the crowd was chilling last night... Cursive was focused and on-spot, composed and gripping”), Nuvo Weekly (“... the five-piece slashed through a near-perfect set of songs from their last nine years of albums”), and the Orlando Sentinel’s Soundboard blog (“... the band still knows how to rock on stage...[Cursive] thrashed away with an abandon that heightened the passion of Kasher’s dense, emotionally charged wordplay.”).
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