[DID NOT ATTEND: October 17, 2025] Guerilla Toss / Godcaster / Special World
I’ve been interested in Guerilla Toss for a few years now. They seem to play a lot in the area, but something always comes up.
They opened for Karina Rykman but I had tickets to a different show that night and later this year they’ll open for Built to Spill but I have surgery scheduled(really bummed about missing that double bill).
I don’t even really know all that much about their music. It’s weird and sounds like if The B52s (without Fred Schneider since the singer of GT is a woman) were more of an underground indie band (so, yes, if The B52s were WEIRDER). I’ve heard that their live show was a lot of fun–althouhg apparenty it used to be a lot more crazy since they have all matured. But As one person said it “Guerilla Toss is a chance for experimental, fans-of-the-fringe, noise heads to fuck with mainstream indie-pop, and for mainstream indie-pop heads to fuck with the noise.”
Sounds perfect. I was all set to go, but we had a family situation and I stayed home.
I feel like I’ve heard people talk about Godcaster, or I just like the name. Their recording for Audiotree says
Godcaster is an experimental heavy rock band founded by Judson Kolk and Bruce Ebersole who became close friends in Elementary School. The project is known for their ecstatic live shows and serendipitous, incendiary sound.
Listening to the Audiotree set, they are definitely out there. I’m guessing “experimental” is the new buzzword for hard to describe. Because they have a very Frank Zappa weirdo vibe. With lots of complicated melodies and a singer who seems to just sing the weird melodies–there’s even a flute.
Wow, I really want to see them now.
Special World is Andy Molholt, a Philly based experimental musician and guitarist for Speedy Ortiz. I knew he made cool sounds with Speedy, but this is some pretty trippy bedroom experimentation. Voices are blurred, sounds echo. There’s a melody, but it’s bathed in oddity. Probably a fun war up for the weirdness to follow
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