Vita.mn Are You Local? 2013

Last Minute Show - 1/31 at Turf!

2013 greetings!

We added a show for this coming Thursday with our friends Fate's Palette and Orion & The Extra Terrestrials.

If you speak Facebook, here's the event.

If you don't, here's what you need to know:

Thursday, January 31
Turf Club

Orion & The Extra Terrestrials
Fate's Palette
The Discord Syndicate

21+, $5, Music starts at 10pm, we play early.

Buzz about tonight.

Tonight's the big night, and it looks like we're not the only ones excited about it. There's been quite a bit of favorable press over the past 24 hours - if you're needing more good reasons to spend the night with us at Memory Lanes, check it:

"Worlds away from her previous gig in Chastity Brown's band, Nikki Schultz fronts a stormy, hard-rocking new quintet called the Discord Syndicate, also featuring drummer Aaron LeMay (Mark Mallman) and some other experienced dudes. They're playing Memory Lanes on Friday with Nightosaur and Frankincense to tout a debut EP, "Mergers and Acquisitions," reminiscent of Concrete Blonde and the Heartless Bastards' heaviest stuff."

- Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune/Vita.mn 

"The Discord Syndicate play a kind of bracing, interestingly proggy brand of aggro garage-pop – smart, subtle but super-damn energetic, with terrific songwriting courtesy former folksier Nikki Schultz (formerly a member of Chastity Brown’s band), whose potent wail provides a super-cool top-end for the fuzztone blasts on their last single, “Black Hole Device.” Their forthcoming EP, Mergers and Acquisitions, is full of this kind of stuff – arty, sure, but definitely with a powerfully punk spirit at heart. Openers Nightosaur, meanwhile, are pure damn metal – brutal and heavy and downtuned. It’s gonna be a night of many guitars – get there early."

- Jon Hunt, l'etoile magazine 

"The Discord Syndicate has a bright sound with a racing pulse, with just enough reverberating electric guitar chords to be futuristic without being weird. The five songs off Mergers and Acquisitions waste no time in getting big fast, but the songs never misstep, never lose sense of themselves, and are never forgotten to chaos. The young band -- composed of veteran musicians Aaron LeMay (drums), Alex Von Der Hoff (bass), Tom Cheever (guitar), and Jeff Williams (guitar) -- has already mastered the art of tight, controlled progression, and it rests in a listener's ear as sweetly as candy."

- Natalie Gallagher, City Pages 

We could not be more excited to share tonight with you. Get there early, plan to stay late. Leave the rest up to us!

Friday - Party with us!

Poster by Lizardman

Friday's the big day. Memory Lanes is the place.

Join us right at 10pm when Frankincense kicks off the night, then some psychadelic parlour favorites from Orion & The Extra Terrestrials. We hit third with the EP and some unreleased work. Nightosaur will close it out with epic dyno sludge jams.

The EP will be available for $5. We have men's t-shirts for sale...and stickers just came in!

Downloads, Photos, Fall Shows and more!

Lots of cool things are happening, and we're excited to share them with you. Read about it all here.

First, swing by our Bandcamp page to grab the new single, Black Hole Device.

Next, check out the spiffy photos that our friend Marshall took for us. We included a sneak peek here, but you can find the rest on our Facebook page, which you should take a moment to like if you haven't already.

Finally, we have two shows this fall that we are really excited about. We'd really love it if you and your friends came out:

Saturday, 10/06/2012
CAUSE SPIRITS AND SOUNDBAR
Middlepicker
Maudlin
Goldenboy (Los Angeles)
The Discord Syndicate

Music at 9:30pm - $5 Cover, we play first - get there early!

Friday, 11/09/2012
MEMORY LANES
EP RELEASE!!!
w/ Nightosaur and others TBA
21+, free, music starts at 10pm.

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/discordsyndicate
BANDCAMP: http://thediscordsyndicate.bandcamp.com

Hitting the road!

We have our first out of town show on Aug 11th in St. Cloud at the Keller bar with our friends The Liverspots. We are really excited to hit the road for the first time!

Red Hot Art: Saturday, July 28

Saturday marks a whole year since our first show as a band. To celebrate, we're playing the same neighborhood arts festival where we got our start.

RED HOT ART FESTIVAL at STEVENS SQUARE PARK

Free, All Ages

We hit at 5:30pm on the lower stage on 18th St E and 2nd Ave S

There are tons of cool artists and tasty treats to check out all day. Like the Rogue Citizen booth. Lizardman, who has done our logo and album artwork, is part of that crew and will be showing work there. And if Lizardman and Co. aren't enough stimulus for sufficient mind blowing, there's also music. Lots.

For more details, visit: http://redhotart.org/

SET TIMES

11:00 – inBoil

11:30 – DKO

12:00 – Skunk Hollow

12:30 – Public Joy

1:00 – Ced Linus and Sti-Lo Reel

1:30 – Paul Fonfara

2:00 – No Guest Energy

2:30 – Jezebel Jones

3:00 – Bronson

3:30 – Hevy Syrup

4:00 – France Camp

4:30 – Desert Vest

5:00 – Ecid

5:30 – Discord Syndicate

6:00 – Phantom Tails

6:30 – Bitter Roots

 *Set times on the hour will be on the “upper” stage (near the playground in the center of the park), and those on the half hour will be on the “lower” stage (at the corner of 18^th St and 2^nd Ave).