(re)Cycle - K.I.D.S. and a lot more...

DeLeano Acevedo says he's excited for Blowout this year...

"I...am..."
...there's a hushed accentuation  upon that second word, breathy, but still noticeable, anyway, considering how soft-spoken he normally is when he's away from stages or recording booths and not warbling his high Numan-esque/Mothersbaughian singing voice over increasingly rock-driven guitars via his band,  K.I.D.S.

"There's a ton of new bands, this year," said Acevedo, looking forward to the forthcoming 4-night-long music festival. 

"It's not really the same old faces anymore...
...Granted, many of those bands are people that we do know and some of it are their new projects, but, I feel like we're on a full re-cycle now, basically. It feels good."

Acevedo reset his own musical modus-operandi last May when Beehive Recording Company started streaming a digi-EP of jangly, fuzzed-out, minimalist pop songs that ushered in the next band-centric chapter of his life (now, coming on about 18-months or so since the break-up of the locally and just-on-the-cusp-of-nationally-notable group Silverghost). 

K.I.D.S. solidified with bassist Nick Jones, drummer Don Blum and guitarist Scott Stimic, joining Acevedo in the summer 2011 - taking what may have started out as electro-friendly, echo-friendly, new-wave dabbling space-pop and whittled it, all rough-and-tumbly- into more of a straight rock n' roll charge. 

And things are re-setting all over...
...Not only is former-Scarlet Oaks strummer Steve McCauley unveiling his new band (The Walking Beat), but former Ghost City shoegazer (and current Electric Six keyboardist) TAIT is debuting his new project with Jesse Paris Smith, Belle Ghoul...

All three of those bands play Blowout's Pre-Party, Wednesday, Feb 29th - at the Magic Stick (--which is where most of us musicheads will be getting our festival wrist-bands). 

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Acevedo's re-fresh mirrors that of singer/songwriter Scott Masson of GLOSSIES... (who, himself, had a bit of an ugly break-up with the label he'd signed with heading his main band, OFFICE. Masson, like Acevedo, went into a bit of a hermit mode (...actually, perhaps way more so than Acevedo), and stepped back from the scene after the demise of OFFICE, squirreled away in a basement wherein he started marvelous, mad, whimsical and just flat-out weird song experiments that would eventually be jigsawed together to become GLOSSIES' debut, Phantom Films. 

And then, GLOSSIES, like K.I.D.S., was eventually rounded out by a full backing group, including drummer Jeff Supina, bassist Fabian Halabou and guitarist Kip Donlon. 

So it'd make sense, maybe, if GLOSSIES and K.I.D.S. considered doing a split 7" single release together, soon, right?

Well, then, yes... That will happen. No sure date yet...but stay tuned. 

"I'm happy where K.I.D.S. is at...I kinda wanted to start a rock band..." He nods to the likelihood that audiences who saw the group's first big shows, like Dally in the Alley, were encountering things, sounds, volumes, that weren't present on the initial Beehive demos. "And that's what I wanted," said Acevedo, who brings song-skeletons in and lets these players, whom he trusts, make up their own parts from there. "Just....to see what happens. I never wanted to tell anyone exactly how to play the song..."

It's not the DeLeano-Acevedo Band...beyond that, the band, (K.I.D.S.), an ever-shifting acronym, almost doesn't even, technically, have a concrete name, in that regard. Self-effacing to a T...

Masson, likewise, has seen his collaborators start working out their own parts for GLOSSIES' newest track.

Acevedo's got some solo stuff streaming out there - the result of a mad-spell of songwriting he fell into at the end of November that hasn't let up until just last week. He now has three EP's worth of material - the first of which is out in form of a 15-minute / 4-song / sample-dotted / synth-heavy dream-pop odyssey ...a bit of a "mix-tape," if you will - in SoundCloud form and a decent taste of what's to come, as he hopes to develop a live set and put some more of these recordings out later next month.

The guy's got a rock band now, yeah, -but he still can't quell that love for electronic music - the evolution of his Silverghost-ian sensibilities.

And what kinds of other evolutions will local audiences discover...

Phantasmagoria has an album coming out... So do the HandGrenades... What's Future Slang all about, anyhow... and what about Oblisk?

Yeah... Oblisk...they recently wrapped recording with Chris Koltay at High Bias...an engineer (who, it turns out, worked sound for the Fox 2-filmed Blowout-promotional segment performed by K.I.D.S.) who expressed interest in someday-recording Acevedo's band...

We'll see...

happy blowout