CORSANO-BAIZA-WATT, Disaser Queen, The Sheen

A new trio to deliver a mix of free improvisation and punk, all of itwild-eyed and fierce as hell. Guitarist Joe Baiza (SaccharineTrust, Universal Congress Of) and bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen,fIREHOSE, Stooges) both need no introduction, but if you insist:they're defining figures of the 1980's California hardcore/post-punkscene and did as much as anyone to expand the music into somethingbeyond categorization, pulling things in from all over the imaginarygenre-map, including free jazz's improvisation and exploratory fervor.Drummer Chris Corsano (Rangda, Björk, Bill Orcutt) came up in a worldheavily indebted to Baiza and Watt, fully embracing the ethos of "Punkis whatever we made it to be." He's brought that approach to freeimprovisation/experimental/etc. since he came on the scene in the late'90s. Flash forward to late 2023 when the trio first met out in theMojave Desert. They cut an album for Yucca Alta records (due out inSeptember), followed by a pair of SoCal shows. Now they're embarking ona West Coast tour.Or, as Watt puts it:"this is mike watt's reckoning of what this is: late last year drummerchris corsano was put w/me for a gig in the joshua treedesert parts (by derek monypeny) and his first suggest was to get joebaiza which I was way into. we did that gig: totally improvisedinstrumental music. we did it sitting down: chris sitting down, me andjoe baiza are sitting down. for me, it's was a very interestingconversation to be involved in and I got big time fuckin excited.