| After a move from Nashville to LA, Seth Sutton is on his way with his band Useless Eaters on a full US tour with punk outfit The Spits,including stops in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Columbus and more. Check out full tour dates below.
Seth Sutton learned a lot from Jay Reatard in the last two years of his life-a time that included taking Sutton’s band (Useless Eaters) on tour and pressing one of their many limited singles-but one lesson stood out above the rest. “Jay always felt like he was running out of time,” explains Sutton, “so he thought it was important to try and be as musically productive as possible.”
That’s certainly been Sutton’s case over the past four years, as the singer/guitarist crammed a couple side projects into an already packed schedule of rehearsing/replacing band members and releasing as many records under the Useless Eaters name as humanly possible. “It showed me that punk is more of an idea and an attitude than a fashion statement,” says Sutton, a self-taught musician who considers dropping out of high school “the best decision I’ve ever made,” because it “gave me the freedom to focus on my art and music.”
While that phrase has been uttered by many self-taught musicians over the years, Sutton’s songwriting actually speaks for itself Take his first studio LP Hypertension, for instance. As Useless Eaters‘ cult following first heard on the ” Addicted to the Blade” 7” and Black Night Ultraviolet EP, Sutton’s cleared yet another layer of dust from his scrappy sound and pushed a revolving door of haymaker hooks and restless rhythms to the fore. That goes for everything from the neon-bathed locked grooves of ” Life on a Grid” to the welcome, climatic cacophony of “Vertical Africa.” Hypertension is out now on Jeffery Drag Records |
 SOCIAL MEDIA: USELESS EATERS FACEBOOK USELESS EATERS TWITTER 10/1 San Francisco, CA
10/4 Cleveland, OH*
10/5 Rochester, NY*
10/6 Toronto, ON*
10/7 Montreal, ON*
10/8 Cambridge, MA*
10/10 Brooklyn, NY*
10/11 New York, NY*
10/12 Baltimore, MD*
10/13 Philadelphia, PA*
10/15 Pittsburgh, PA*
10/16 Columbus, OH*
10/17 Cincinnati, OH*
10/18 Bloomington, IN*
10/19 Chicago, IL* 10/20 Milwaukee, MI 10/22 Fargo, ND 10/23 Missoula, MT 10/24 Seattle, WA 10/25 Vancouver, BC 10/26 Portland, OR
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