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The Flying Luttenbachers, Microwaves, Ben Opie & Patrick Breiner
The Government Center
Pittsburgh, PA
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Mar 09, 2025 7:30 PM



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The Flying Luttenbachers, Microwaves, Ben Opie & Patrick Breiner
Sun Mar 9   7:30 pm  all ages/21+ to drink  $20 advance/$23 door
Government Center, 715 East St., North Side

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punk-jazz, brutal prog and no-wave legends from Chicago
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
https://theflyingluttenbachers.bandcamp.com/

with special guests
((microwaves))   https://microwaves.bandcamp.com/
Ben Opie & Patrick Breiner
https://benopie.com/
https://www.patrickbreiner.com/

The Flying Luttenbachers are:
WeaselWalter (guitar)
Luke Polipnick (bass guitar)
James Paul Nadien (drums)

Formed in Chicago in 1991, moved to California in 2003, disbanded in 2007, reformed in New York in 2017, then relocated back to Chicago in 2022, The Flying Luttenbachers recently completed a crushing direct support slot on 8 dates of Melt-Banana's May/June 2024 headlining tour. The latest trio formation of the Luttenbachers is a tight, intense, wild beast executing complex compositions with visceral showmanship and presence. The music is hypercomposed brutal prog - not your grandpas prog rock, but an intricate, detailed assault fueled by punk, no wave, free jazz, and extreme metal. As documented on the recent live-in-studio EP Spectral Warrior Mythos 2, todays band is on fire. The new proper Flying Luttenbachers full-length Losing the War Inside Our Headsis released on LP/CD and download in July 2024 and the band will be supporting the release with US touring this Winter and a European tour in early 2025.

Since erupting forth in 1991, the seminal punk jazz/brutal prog/no wave band The Flying Luttenbachers has steadily deconstructed music, reason, and all notions of sanity on 20 releases and more than 400 live performances around the world. Predictibly unpredictable, the Luttenabachers fierce, modernistic approach draws from inspirations like No Wave, Free Jazz, Death Metal, Noise, Modern Classical, Free Improvisation, Punk and the blackest humor possible.

During the initial runs in Chicago and the Bay Area of California, some of the prominent musicians that came through the ranks included:Ed Rodriguez (Deerhoof), Mick Barr (Krallice), Hal Russell(NRG Ensemble), Jonathan Hischke (Dot Hacker), Alex Perkolup (Cheer-Accident), Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark and many others. After a ten-year break, a NYC-based Flying
Luttenbachers emerged again in 2017 and made a week-long tour of France, performing an hour long set of classic material from the entire catalog and culminating at the Sonic Protest festival in Paris. The new-era albums Shattered Dimension (harmolodic skronk), Imminent Death(an angular tribute to 70s Miles Davis),Negative Infinity(a brutal prog highwater mark), and Terror Iridescence(bizarre outerspace minimalism) continued the groups diverse agenda of organizing dissonance and energy.

Never tame or predictable, The Flying Luttenbachers continue to assault musical mediocrity. The latest incarnation of this iconoclastic unit heads in yet another bold new direction. After the four full-length albums and numerous shows and tours with the New York-based lineups of the band (featuring various combinations of Tim Dahl, Matt Nelson, Brandon Seabrook, Katie Battistoni, Alex Ward, Wendy Eisenberg, Henry Kaiser, Chris Welcome and Evan Lipson), erstwhile leader and founding member Weasel Walter decided to change up the scenery by heading back to the original ground zero - Chicago. The latest formation is a stripped-down power trio featuring Mr. Walter on guitar, bassist Luke Polipnick, and drummer James Paul Nadien.

Location

The Government Center (View)
715 East St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
United States

Categories

Music > Experimental
Music > Jazz
Music > Metal & Hardcore
Music > Punk
Music > Rock

Minimum Age: 12
Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: Manny Theiner
On BPT Since: Mar 03, 2016
 
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