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Ground Control Touring

Des Ark

Listen to "Ties"

During the last decade, Aimée Collet Argote has had more bands called Des Ark than she has albums under that name. She’s howled and jerked in sweaty houses and rock clubs, backed by a drummer, another drummer, yet another drummer and a second guitarist, and a small symphony. She’s brought big crowds to a whisper with nothing but her voice and a banjo or a tiny guitar that kept slipping out of tune. And though it perennially confuses the crap out of crowds expecting one thing & getting the other, she somehow manages to maintain these two separate Des Ark’s—different songs, utterly different audience experience—and the dissonance & tension in turn somehow binds together in a brilliant display of songwriting.

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Tracyanne & Danny Merge Records
Hunx And His Punx Hardly Art
Russian Circles Sargent House
Widowspeak Captured Tracks Listen to "Ballad of the Golden Hour"
The Julie Ruin Hardly Art Listen to "Ha Ha Ha"
Saintseneca ANTI-
Emma Ruth Rundle Sargent House Listen to "Marked For Death"
Rangda Drag City
Mac McCaughan Merge Records Listen to "Box Batteries"
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Dais Records
Bright Eyes Saddle Creek Listen to "Shell Games"
Guided By Voices GBV, Inc. Listen to "The Birthday Democrats"
Parquet Courts Rough Trade Records Listen to "Content Nausea"
Escape-ism Merge Records
Mount Eerie P.W. Elverum & Sun
Lithics Kill Rock Stars Listen to "Lizard"
Superchunk Merge Records Listen to "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo"
Tamaryn
The West Wing Weekly
Gang Gang Dance 4AD Listen to "Lotus"

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Agent Natasha Parish!

Posted 11/05/2018

We’re delighted to introduce Natasha Parish as Ground Control Touring’s newest agent! Natasha began her career in music on the venue side, first as the exclusive talent buyer for Club Downunder at her alma mater Florida State University and later as an assistant at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. Since transitioning over to the agency world, she’s developed a diverse…

Gauche Joins The Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 11/01/2018

Ground Control Touring is pleased to welcome Gauche to our artist roster. Washington D.C’s Gauche is an anti-capitalist, anti-racist feminist jam band. The trio of Mary Jane Regalado, Daniele Yandel, and Jason Barnett form the core of the band who play with a rotating casts of friends and collaborators. Their debut EP was released on Sister Polygon Records in 2015,…

Everything Is Terrible! Joins The Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 10/25/2018

Ground Control Touring is pleased to welcome Everything is Terrible! to our artist roster. Everything is Terrible! is the video and performance collective who are responsible for some of the internet’s most hilarious and bizarre videos. EIT! has posted daily re-edits for 11 years that have been culled from the mountains of dead media on the verge of abandonment by…

Emel Mathlouthi Joins The Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 10/17/2018

Ground Control Touring is pleased to welcome Emel Mathlouthi to its artist roster. Emel represents a unique voice in the modern, music landscape, combining vocal melodies grounded in traditional North African and Arabic folk music with western electronic rhythms and instrumentation. Comparisons to contemporaries such as Bjork and Nine Inch Nails have been made, yet Emel maintains a style which…

Anna St. Louis Has Joined The Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 10/11/2018

Ground Control Touring is excited to announce the addition of Anna St. Louis to our artist roster! If Only There Was a River is the first full-length studio album from Anna St. Louis. The songwriter, who originally hails from Kansas City, began writing songs after moving to Los Angeles five years ago and has previously released a cassette of recordings…

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