Whenever the last Bandcamp Friday was, I placed an order for the new Caustic Casanova tape. It’s a live release called EPPPCOT that they did a limited run for and it came with handmade art, a nice handwritten note — yeah, I appreciate and absolutely keep that kind of thing, always — and a coozie and stickers and whatnot. It also came with a SECRET THING that I can’t talk about but if you get the tape you’ll find out about it too and then we can talk about it together and pretend we’re the cool kids in the SECRET THING Club and I think if humanity is honest with itself that’s all people have ever aspired to be. The post-industrial capitalist ideal, somehow given charm because, well, it’s Caustic Casanova. Needless to say, there is no level on which I regret the purchase.

EPPPCOT is the second live release Caustic Casanova have put out this year, and if that makes you think to yourself, golly, this band must really miss touring, I think that yes that is precisely the case. Fortunately they’ve got a round of shows getting back into the swing of things show-wise slated to begin next month, heading off into the wild whatever-color yonder with their underrated selves. And a new album in Summer 2022? Please and thank you. Glad they’ll still be working with Magnetic Eye, too.

Tour dates follow, as per social media:

Pleased as punch to announce our fall tour dates, our first tour in two years! Can’t wait to get out there – hope to see y’all.

We have a new album coming next summer on Magnetic Eye Records so we’ll be debuting some new material from that as well as all the hits and some surprises.

Thu, NOV 11 Mr Small’s Theatre Millvale, PA
Fri, NOV 12 Parts & Labor Bar Melvindale, MI
Sat, NOV 13 Spacebar Columbus, OH
Mon, NOV 15 Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
Fri, NOV 19 Buzzbin Art & Music Shop Canton, OH
Sat, NOV 20 Hideaway Johnson City, TN
Mon, NOV 22 Highlands Tap Room Louisville, KY
Fri, DEC 3 Pie Shop Washington, DC
Wed, DEC 8 Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern Wilmington, NC
Thu, DEC 9 Tua Lingua Art Studio North Charleston, SC
Fri, DEC 10 529 Atlanta, GA
Sat, DEC 11 Fleetwood’s Asheville, NC
Sun, DEC 12 Upside Down Plaza Birmingham, AL
Tue, DEC 14 Rain Dogs Jacksonville, FL
Thu, DEC 16 Nice Guys Pizza and Beer Cape Coral, FL
Fri, DEC 17 Hooch and Hive Tampa, FL
Sat, DEC 18 Soundbar Orlando Orlando, FL
Sun, DEC 19 The Wooly Gainesville, FL

Caustic Casanova are:
Francis Beringer – Bass/Vocals
Stefanie Zaenker – Drums/Vocals
Andrew Yonki – Guitar
Jake Kimberley – Guitar

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Caustic Casanova, EPPPCOT (2021)

Caustic Casanova, Lïve Läugh Löve Malört (2021)

Wasn’t I just posting about Caustic Casanova like two days ago? In fact, I was, but that was my own fault for being late on the arrival of their “Memory King” video. This news? Current! How about that?

EPPPCOT reportedly stands for Experimental Protoprog Psych Punk Concert on Tour, which is enough to make one thankful for the acronym. All the more appropriate that the second Caustic Casanova self-released live album of 2021 was tracked in Orlando, Florida, since, you know, Disney and all that. If you, like me, have been known to enjoy a soundboard bootleg from time to time, dive into “Boxed and Crated/Show Some Shame” knowing that’s what you’re getting in mixed and mastered form. They were playing as a trio at the time. They’re a four-piece now. As they tell it they’d had a hard few days, but the songs (united as one track here) still sound right on. Maybe the rest of the thing is a mess. I haven’t heard it, but I’m thinking I might preorder a tape.

It’s out later this month, as per the below info, which I nabbed right off their Bandcamp page, thanks to the cut-and-paste-readiness of the internet at large.

Dig:

EPPPCOT (Experimental Protoprog Psych Punk Concert On Tour) by Caustic Casanova

On November 18th, 2019, Caustic Casanova played at about 1 am at Will’s Pub in Orlando, FL on a Monday night. The band was on close to 24 hours of no sleep. Stefanie had experienced a personal family tragedy in the past day. It was a rough night, but we endured. This is a document of that.

There are two sides to touring, and they are beautifully captured on a cassette release that will feature EPPPCOT – Experimental Prototype Psych Punk Concert On Tour (named lovingly after an Orlando landmark) on one side, and Lïve Läugh Löve Malört (named lovingly after a Chicagoland alcohol benchmark) on the other. In Chicago, in 2018, we played on a Saturday night to a packed house of drunk metalheads. In Orlando in 2019, we played on a Monday night, nearly hallucinating from lack of sleep, to the few people who dared to stick around into the early morning hours. We rocked both nights with everything we had. The 2018 Chicago gig featured the classic Yonki-Zaenker-Beringer lineup, and the Orlando 2019 show featured the (at the time) very new Kimberley-Zaenker-Beringer lineup, yet another way these two shows exemplify two sides of the live CC experience. Hopefully the next live CC set can show off the four piece lineup in all its glory.

EPPPCOT was recorded live by Kevin Tuck at Will’s Pub, Orlando, FL on November 18, 2019, and was mixed by Kevin Tuck. It was mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio. Artwork by Selena Benally.

Releases September 29, 2021.

Tracklisting:
1. Wicked World (Black Sabbath Cover)
2. Boxed and Crated / Show Some Shame
3. Donut and the Golden Hen
4. Filth Castle / Poor Wigs

Recorded Live Off The Board by Kevin Tuck at Will’s Pub, November 18th, 2019, Orlando, FL
Mixed by Kevin Tuck
Mastered by Dan Coutant

Lineup:
Jake Kimberley – Guitar
Stefanie Zaenker – Drums / Vocals
Francis Beringer – Bass / Vocals

http://causticcasanova.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CausticCasanova
https://www.instagram.com/CausticCasanova/

Caustic Casanova, EPPPCOT (2021)

Caustic Casanova, Lïve Läugh Löve Malört (2021)