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If the details seem scarce, it's because that's how TOBACCO likes to keep them. Hailing from an unspecified burg in rural Pennsylvania, somewhere north of Pittsburgh, he has successfully made a name for himself even as he's avoided acknowledging that name's legal counterpart. As both the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow and the sole creative engine behind TOBACCO, he's earned the eager ears and prying eyes of doggedly loyal fans and smitten critics alike - a kindness he's repaid by granting few interviews, obscuring his face in photos, and seeming wholly uninterested in the subject of his own identity. Such things just get in the way of the music after all, so if it's easier, you might think of TOBACCO as music - a one-man genre made of equal parts analog crunch, earthy psychedelia, fuzzed-up hip-hop, and outside pop. All the same, here's what's known.

TOBACCO has a sister. He grew up in a decent neighborhood. He was nearly strong-armed into elementary school band after an aptitude test suggested he play an instrument. He hated the idea, so he didn't do it. He didn't like music at all, in fact, until he discovered MTV - and hence, the Beasties' "So What'cha Want" video - one long summer bridging the middle of middle school. The first concert he attended was Butthole Surfers, and it's still his favorite. His favorite record of all time is Beck's Mellow Gold. Sticking to his childhood guns, he typically doesn't like music released earlier than the late '80s.

As for high school, TOBACCO could have done without the classes. An extracurricular interest in freestyle BMX - flatland - was soon replaced by a growing zeal for music, even though his first band, called Wood, didn't employ any instruments to its cause. (Its two main ingredients were flyers and hype.) Acquiring a guitar and a four-track opened up new doors, to the purplish noise and busted ghetto-blaster tracks that now populate The Allegheny White Fish Tapes, which TOBACCO self-released in 2009.

This was before the gritty analog synths, the murky vocoder-ing, and the hypnotic aural crush that came with founding Black Moth Super Rainbow. TOBACCO rounded up the group's members before graduation, and until last year's Dave Fridmann-produced collaborative affair, Eating Us, roughly treated BMSR as a solo project, penning three albums' and several EPs' worth of sludgy pagan pop for his cohorts to realize live. He designed BMSR's album art as well, which occasionally involved scratch-n-sniff elements or hair.

But TOBACCO would come to crave a more pure musical identity, one steeped in guttural sounds that hit harder and flashed brighter. This fixation reared its ugly head as 2008's beat-oriented Fucked Up Friends, TOBACCO's official debut. Two years later, with BMSR effectively on hiatus, the man is back and beastlier than ever with Maniac Meat, a record designed to bully his previous works into a corner, gut them, and leave 'em for dead. This is a good time to mention that TOBACCO believes he is making pop music.

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artist news


August 24, 2010


Hustler recently interviewed TOBACCO about porn, Maniac Meat and his incredible music videos.

Also, Graveface Records, home to Black Moth Super Rainbow, needs some help after a flood ruined their stock.

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July 29, 2010


SPIN premiered the new video for TOBACCO's "Grape Aerosmith," a Maniac Meat track featuring Beck.



Plus, if you're interested in TOBACCO's process, EQ Magazine took time to talk with him about making Maniac Meat.

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July 15, 2010


Revolver USA's latest podcast features TOBACCO, and "Fresh Hex," featuring Beck, was recently NPR's "Song Of The Day."

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July 02, 2010


MTV online has posted a run-down of the best albums of 2010 ("so far") and TOBACCO's Maniac Meat made the cut. They called it "a twitchy, witchy listen, darker and more perverse than anything he's previously done."

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July 01, 2010


TOBACCO's Maniac Meat is Rough Trade Shops' album of the month starting next week, which means you get a special bonus disc of unreleased gems with purchase.

The marvelous video for TOBACCO's "Super Gum," a non-album cut, is now playing over at Pitchfork TV, and it's not even remotely safe for work.

And the on-album track, "Sweatmother" was recently KCRW's Top Tune of the day.

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June 18, 2010


In honor of the feature coming out in the July issue of Dazed & Confused, the mag has shared the new TOBACCO-made mixtape, "Songs to Get Killed in the Woods To 2."

And visit Post Family to read a fresh TOBACCO interview.

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shows

Tobacco. September 09, 2010.
DC9 - Washington, DC w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 10, 2010.
First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA w/ Junk Culture & Drea w/

Tobacco. September 11, 2010.
Ottobar - Baltimore, MD w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 16, 2010.
Iron Horse - Northampton, MA w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 17, 2010.
Higher Ground - South Burlington, VT w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 18, 2010.
Middle East Downstairs - Cambridge, MA w/ Junk Culture & Dreamen w/

Tobacco. September 23, 2010.
Mickey Finn's Pub - Toledo, OH w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 24, 2010.
The Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 25, 2010.
The Strutt - Kalamazoo, MI w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 29, 2010.
Artistika - Greensboro, NC w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. September 30, 2010.
Local 506 - Chapel Hill, NC w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. October 01, 2010.
Square Room - Knoxville, TN w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

Tobacco. October 02, 2010.
123 Pleasant Street - Morgantown, WV w/ Junk Culture & Dreamend w/

press

AV Club - January 2009
Fucked Up Friends

Pitchfork Best of 2008
Fucked Up Friends

Itunes
Fucked Up Friends

XLR8R - November 2008
Fucked Up Friends

Brooklyn Vegan - October 2008
general

Blurt - October 2008
Fucked Up Friends

Earplug - October 2008
Fucked Up Friends

Exclaim - October 2008
Fucked Up Friends