Kat Larios

Rank #27 Kingston, NY Alternative / Rock / New Wave

About

Members: Kat Larios. FEATURED PERFORMERS INCLUDE: Bonnie Smith, Ed Butler, Elan Kwiecinski, Jane Scarpantoni, Jason Miranda

Label: Safety Clyde Records

Manager: Ed Butler

Bio: if ever i tread on treacherous trade, what can i say?

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hosting & playing the show at BSP in kingston tonight, & every thursday until the apocalypse. 9 PM.

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"Larios is a smacking wordsmith, a madman’s puzzle prophet, offering a refrigerator magnet-poetry acid trip brimming with ill-iteration and tongue-tripping wordplay."

— Sharon Nichols, Chronogram Magazine

“From seemingly out of nowhere weirdo acoustic singer-songwriter Kat Larios materializes on the local musical landscape fully formed; a Romilar-voiced, gifted, and wickedly surreal lyricist for whom even the term “unique” doesn’t quite suffice. Actually, Larios is from Kingston and gestated as the front woman of defunct unit Concrete Wave, rather than beneath a bed shared by Nico and Antony Hegarty, as her slo-mo folk croak suggests—well, kind of suggests, at least. In truth Bathos in Aqua, her beguiling debut and the first release on upstate indie Safety Clyde, is damn hard to describe, always a good sign when it comes to music. But here goes, anyway…”

— Peter Aaron, Roll Magazine -Bathos in Aqua

“Though she also plays organ and accordion and there’s a handful of unobtrusive guests on board—including Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper on guitar and clarinet and Lou Reed/R.E.M. ancillary Jane Scarpantoni on cello—the sound of Bathos in Aqua is mainly just Larios with only her guitar or ukulele for company. And yet somehow from the perch of her stool Larios weaves a mysterious, slowly swirling whirlpool spell, dragging you down, down, ever deeper down, into her gray-hued, world-watching anonymous cave. A creeped-out reading of “Misirlou” puts a heretofore unheard downer-psych spin on the oft-covered Greek traditional, but it’s really Larios’s sour, wounded warbling on “Gangrene” (“Gangrene / aquamarine / skeletal melting unforeseen, sardines / Vaccine / needle sheen / every day is Halloween, ceasing”) and other originals that’s the irresistible, dark force at work here. The freak folk revolution has a new date with destiny, and her name is Kat Larios.”

— Peter Aaron, Roll Magazine -Bathos in Aqua

“There’s a world of difference between trying to be an eccentric artist and innately being an eccentric artist. I believe Kat Larios to be weird-wired. Envision Tracy Chapman, Tiny Tim, and Little Jimmy Scott in some David Lynch/carny-esque scenario and you’ll have something akin to the musical side of Bathos in Aqua. This acoustic Kingstonite is a minor-chord minimalist, relying mostly on freakish warblings and lone instruments—ukelele, accordion, guitar, organ—to produce 13 hypodermic tunes with simplistic strummings and unnerving, repetitive strains. Larios’s sparsely spaced guest artists on this record include Grasshopper (Mercury Rev) on clarinet, and cellist Jane Scarpantoni (Lou Reed, REM, 10,000 Maniacs).”

— Sharon Nichols, Chronogram Magazine- Kat Larios CD Review

“After hearing 20 seconds of track one, this reviewer was riveted. Then came the lyrical doppelganger, sucked screaming from the muse of confusion. Larios is a smacking wordsmith, a madman’s puzzle prophet, offering a refrigerator magnet-poetry acid trip brimming with ill-iteration and tongue-tripping wordplay: “Oh console / fold-out molting / high-end hole / eat-in quarantine” (from “Molting Consultant”); “Gotta rot, go carve a notch / wretched wrist / demolish watch / tick-tock uneven” (from “Gray Area”). Readers, don’t be stupid enough to ignore a paragon of profundity when it’s staring you in the kisser.”

— Sharon Nichols, Chronogram Magazine- Kat Larios CD Review

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2011
Dec 15

The Lounge at BSP
Kingston, NY, US | 7:00pm
The Lounge at BSP
Kingston, NY, US
Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:00pm
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7:30PM OPEN MIC SIGNUP 8PM OPEN MIC BEGINS (MUSICIAN, POETS, COMICS, SPOKEN WORD ALL WELCOME) 12AM OPEN MIC JAM SESSION BEGINS - We stay open until you stop playing!!!
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Dec 8

The Lounge at BSP
Kingston, NY, US | 7:00pm
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Kingston, NY, US
Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:00pm
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Doors at 7PM - $5 Suggested Donation for Patrons (NOT PERFORMERS) 7:30PM OPEN MIC SIGNUP 8PM OPEN MIC BEGINS (MUSICIAN, POETS, COMICS, SPOKEN WORD ALL WELCOME) 9PM Damien Tavis Toman Toman is a singer-songwriter, poet and author based in New York’s Hudson Valley and Catskill regions. http://thememorialsociety.com/ 10PM Coyote Remedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXhJdhf6K_s 11PM Kat Larios Larios is a smacking wordsmith, a madman’s puzzle prophet, offering a refrigerator magnet-poetry acid trip brimming with ill-iteration and tongue-tripping wordplay. http://www.reverbnation.com/katlarios 12AM OPEN MIC JAM SESSION BEGINS - We stay open until you stop playing!!!

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Jeremy Bar-Illan
Kat, Nice to be here!
Secret Ions
I just saw yer blog about shows, I guess that answers my question.
Secret Ions
thank you very much... sadly I know of no drummers around here, I have been looking for the past few months myself. My Les Paul is lonely, she needs a drummer too. I had...