Tom Fec, aka Tobacco, the frontman for the trippy Pittsburgh electro-pop group Black Moth Super Rainbow, is coming to the Square Room later this year. His new solo album, Maniac Meat, is out on indie hip-hop label Anticon this week, with a supporting tour starting in September.
Tobacco will be in Knoxville on Friday, Oct. 1. Andrew Clayman interviewed him last year, when BMSR played at Pilot Light. (Whatever you do, don't call what he makes in either project psychedelic music. "I've never set out to make psychedelic music," he told Clayman. "I don't listen to psychedelic music. I don't particularly appreciate psychedelic music. ... I find it extremely limiting, and I'm definitely not okay with it," he says. "I mean, I don't care what anyone does when they listen to the music. It does not matter to me as long as you enjoy it. But what bothers me is how 90 percent of our write-ups have to talk about how we're stoners or how you have to be stoned to listen to the music. It just trivializes everything that I'm trying to do. It's fine if people still want to call it whatever they'll call it, but it's just the constant, never-ending drug references that really get old."
Tobacco will be in Knoxville on Friday, Oct. 1. Andrew Clayman interviewed him last year, when BMSR played at Pilot Light. (Whatever you do, don't call what he makes in either project psychedelic music. "I've never set out to make psychedelic music," he told Clayman. "I don't listen to psychedelic music. I don't particularly appreciate psychedelic music. ... I find it extremely limiting, and I'm definitely not okay with it," he says. "I mean, I don't care what anyone does when they listen to the music. It does not matter to me as long as you enjoy it. But what bothers me is how 90 percent of our write-ups have to talk about how we're stoners or how you have to be stoned to listen to the music. It just trivializes everything that I'm trying to do. It's fine if people still want to call it whatever they'll call it, but it's just the constant, never-ending drug references that really get old."
