San Francisco’s Tussle are a four piece band, but not in the traditional rock sense. The line up contains two drummers, bass, and one gentleman designated as full time knob twiddler. The result is a solid dance backbone with lots of repetition, percussive sprinkles, heavy bass, and ambient noise accents. They have an accompanying visual video presentation that tends to lean towards the abstract psychedelic end. Recent live highlights include extra percussion onstage for members of the audience to take part in should they choose. They currently have a few releases on the Smalltown Supersound label.

Sample “Here it Comes”:

Tussle: Cool video for “Second Guessing”
Tussle: Official Website
Tussle: Myspace
Tussle: Live video on YouTube

Raymond Pettibon is of course most famous for his great artistic illustrations that have graced many a punk rock flier, and album cover, and he designed the ubiquitous Black Flag logo. His style is fairly simple and usually involves an illustration and a caption, and some good old punk rock sarcastic wit. Raymond was born here in Tucson AZ so we have an extra soft spot for the guy, and I discovered this great page of recent works in progress (recent as of 2003 let’s hope some are done).

Raymond Pettibon: Summer 2003