SLINT
MAY 11 AT MILL CITY NIGHTS

EVENT DETAILS: SLINT
VENUE: Mill City Nights
SHOW DATE/TIME: Sunday, May 11 at 9pm. Doors open at 8pm. Ages 18+
GA TICKET PRICES: $25 ($28 DOS) A limited amount of Reserved Balcony Seats are available for $45 each.

Tickets on sale Friday, March 21 at 10am at the Mill City Nights box office, Electric Fetus in Minneapolis, Discland in Bloomington, online at www.AXS.com [http://www.axs.com/]or by calling 1-888-9-AXS-TIX. For more information, please visit www.millcitynights.com.

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SLINT began in 1986. Before that, drummer Britt Walford, guitarist David Pajo, guitarist/vocalist Brian McMahan, and original bassist Ethan Buckler had played together in various bands within the tight-knit Louisville Punk scene. Brian and Britt formed their first band Languid and Flaccid in middle school, when Britt was just eleven. The older punks collapsed in fits of laughter when Britt and Brians dads carried in their amps and set them up on stage. Languid and Flaccid also featured Ned Oldham, later of the Anomoanon and older brother to Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy. Everyone in the band traded instruments from song to song. Brian and Britt also played in the beloved melodic hardcore band Squirrel Bait.

SLINTs first show was during a service at the Unitarian Universalist church that Ethans parents attended. Even the people who held their ears told the band afterward how much they enjoyed it. In 1987, SLINT recorded their first album, _Tweez_, in Chicago with Steve Albini, who also produced albums for the Pixies, PJ Harvey, and Nirvana. _Tweez_ was released on the minuscule Jennifer Hartman Records and Tapes label in 1989 and later reissued by Touch and Go Records in 1993. Ethan Buckler left the band after _Tweez_ to pursue his own vision with his band King Kong and was replaced by Todd Brashear. In the fall of 1989, the members of SLINT scattered to various colleges throughout the Midwest. Britt and Brian wound up at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Before the school year was out, both were invited not to return. Then, over four days in August of 1990, SLINT recorded their second album, _Spiderland_, and the world would never again sound the same.

Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on _Spiderland_ methodically_ _map a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting its structure built largely on absence and restraint, on the echoing space between the notes, but punctuated by sudden thrilling blasts of unfettered fury. It is a sound that no one had heard before and that no one will ever forget. The eerie, now-iconic black and white cover photo of the four band members heads breaking the surface of the water was taken by their friend Will Oldham. PJ Harvey was among the respondents to the bands call for interested female vocalists on the back cover.

_Spiderland_ spawned a whole new genre, frequently called Post-Rock, and came to be regarded as one of the most important and influential records of the past thirty years. The album was introduced to a wider audience when the song Good Morning, Captain appeared on the soundtrack for Larry Clarks controversial 1995 film _Kids_. In 2010, _Spiderland_ was enthroned in the popular and acclaimed _33 ? _series of books about seminal record albums. SLINT broke up shortly before _Spiderland_ was released. Band members went on to play in Tortoise, the Breeders, Palace, The For Carnation, Papa M, Evergreen, Interpol, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In 2005, SLINT reunited to headline the All Tomorrows Parties festival in Camber Sands, England, followed by a subsequent eighteen date tour. In 2007, the band performed _Spiderland_ in its entirety for a series of European shows and at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. In late 2013, they co-headlined the final All Tomorrows Parties weekend at Camber Sands.