We're Not Dead, Yet!

It's been a while since the last update here, and apologies for that. A lot of things have changed in Autonomy: Taylor left the group to pursue schooling, Monica moved to New York City, and Ray moved to San Francisco.

However, Autonomy is still going strong. Some time is being taken in order to find more people interested in collaborating musically and artistically, along with songwriting and general re-adjustment.

That being said, there are also a couple of new releases:

Our split 12" with St. Louis' DOOM TOWN is out now on Trend Is Dead Records:
http://trendisdeadrecords.blogspot.com/

Our split 7" with Berkeley's STREET EATERS is out now on Off The Books Records:
https://www.facebook.com/offthebooksrecords

We also still have copies of our three track 8" square, clear, semi-flexi lathe cut record. Each record is individually cut. The covers were handscreened by Jared Davey and hand stamped by Ray Martinez. Each copy also contains a fold out screenprinted poster by Kelly Ahrens, a hand decorated DVD by Carson Cates, a photo print by Heather Blotto, and slap stickers stamped by Ray. Only 40 copies were made. You can by them directly from the band at $12. Email - withouthatredwithoutfear@gmail.com if you're interested.

The long coming split 7" with Minneapolis' SERENGHETTO should be coming out soon as well.

Stay tuned for future updates.

Reverse Engineering.

How Heather de-codes our songs.

Massive Changes and an Upcoming East Coast Tour.

We've had a lot of changes going on as of late. As of August, Taylor will no longer be performing with Autonomy. He is taking a sabbatical of unknown length as he goes back to school. Taylor has been playing with the band since April of 2011. He joined as a temporary tour guitarist at our 5th show, and simply remained in the band - switching to drums at a point as well. He was actually at our first ever performance, taking pictures. He will be greatly missed and we all hope that he will be able to fit Autonomy back into his life sooner than later.

Though we wish Taylor would be able to go with us on our upcoming EAST COAST TOUR in October, we are very excited to have the amazing Heather Blotto filling in on drums for the trip. Heather has been a close friend and huge supporter of the band since the very beginning; she also met up with us on our last East Coast tour when her band SURRENDER linked up with us for three days. She's an amazing musician and an endless wealth of knowledge and positivity. We're flattered that she's going to be taking the time to learn our songs, and then fly from Oakland to Carbondale to tour with us. 

We have also been working on a intraband "side project" with our friend Vinny Segretario of local synth-dance group WINGTIPS. We hope to be able to perform with him sooner than later. Right now we are mostly focusing on writing and recording this variation of Autonomy for a future release.

Also, we still have records about to come out. Our split with DOOM TOWN and our split with STREET EATERS should be available in time for our tour, along with a special limited edition record/art box that will include a lathe cut 8" semi-flexi record along with pieces of original art from a wide group of artists who are friends of Autonomy. This release will be limited to about 30 copies, each coming with a record, multiple posters/art prints, photographic prints, a patch, original video/film, and various other physical pieces of art. Every item involved in the box will have been made by made by hand in some capacity, so every set will be a unique. We're excited to be able to work with many of our non-musician friends who are artists and collaborate on this fluxus box inspired release.

We have posted songs off these upcoming releases on our bandcamp site.

Upcoming Performances:

#85 - 8/2/13 - 7 PM - Chicago, IL @ CLITfest / Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S. Morgan) - w/ No Babies, Split Feet, Lord Snow, When Falling Feels Like Flying

#86 - 8/3/13 - 3 PM - Chicago, IL @ Wilcox St. Block Party (2600 block) 

East Coast Tour with DOOM TOWN.

#87 - 10/9/13  - Carbondale, IL

#88 - 10/10/13 - Chicago, IL @ TBA - w/ Broken Prayer

#89 - 10/11/13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Linneman's 

#90 - 10/12/13 - Columbus, OH @ Bourbon Street - w/ Nervosas

#91 - 10/13/13 - Pittsburgh, PA

#92 - 10/14/13 - Philadelphia, PA

#93 - 10/15/13 - New Brunswick, NJ

#94 - 10/16/13 - NYC, NY

#95 - 10/17/13 - Boston, MA

#96 - 10/18/13 - NYC, NY

#97 - 10/19/13 - DC

#98 - 10/20/13 - Richmond, VA

#99 - 10/21/13 - Charlotte, NC

#100 - 10/22/13 - Raleigh, NC

#101 - 10/23/13 - Atlanta, GA @ TBA - w/ Wymyn's Prysyn

#102 - 10/24/13 - Nashville, TN @ The Owl

#103 - 10/25/13 - St. Louis, MO

Announced Performances / Cancellations.

EUROPEAN TOUR CANCELLATION:

We're really sorry to say, but it looks as though our European tour this fall has been cancelled/postponed. We are working on going to Europe next year, but as of now we have no definitive plans. We are incredibly bummed out about this, and very much hope to make it overseas sooner than later.

ANNOUNCED PERFORMANCES:

#80 - 6/24/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - w/ Robocop 3, High Horse
#81 - 7/11/13 - Carbondale, IL @ The Swamp - w/ Priests
#82 - 7/12/13 - Chicago, IL @ They Liver Fest
#83 - 7/13/13 - Bloomington, IN @ TBA
#84 - 7/18/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - w/ White Knight, Duffy and the Beer Slayers
#85 - 8/2-4/13 - Chicago, IL @ C.L.I.T. Fest (specific date TBA)

Videos.

Here are some videos for the new recordings we will have available soon.

Limerence (A Game Of)

from the upcoming split with Street Eaters on Off The Books Records 

Uncanny Valley

from the upcoming split with Doom Town on Trend Is Dead! Records

Territories

also from the Doom Town split

All the videos were made in collaboration with Shaina Perry and Jamaal Harris.

The Autonomous Cafe + Announced Releases / Performances

With the help of Morgan Demling at Stone Cutter Recordings we have finished recording eleven new songs. Six of these will be on our split with Doom Town, two on our split with Street Eaters, and three on a solo limited-edition lathe cut 8" record. We will be done with mixing next week and be sending the songs off to be pressed shortly after.

We are also hosting a tour benefit in the form of a pop-up restaurant at Ray's house on 6/30. The Autonomous Cafe will feature food prepared by Schuyler and Taylor and drinks served by Monica. We hope to raise some money for tour, but want to offer something more unique and intimate than a standard benefit show. All are welcome.

Plans are also in the works for a three week winter West Coast tour with Doom Town - we will post more information on that as it comes up.


Announced performances:

#77 - 5/19/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Animal Farm w/ Earthling, The Black Blacks, Han Ma and the Camaros
#78 - 6/1/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - w/ Serenghetto, Wingtips
#79 - 6/24/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - w/ Robocop 3, + TBA
#80 - 7/12/13 - Chicago, IL @ They Liver Fest
#81 - 7/13/13 - Bloomington, IN @ TBA
#82 - 7/18/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - w/ White Knight, Duffy and the Beer Slayers
#83 - 7/28/13 - Carbondale, IL @ TBA - SOLIDARITY ROCK! benefit show - w/ Lab Partner, + TBA

Announced Releases and Performances.

We are really excited to announce that were going to be doing a split 7" with our good friends from Berkeley, Ca Street Eaters on Seattle's Off The Books Records. We will be recording songs for that and our split 12" with St. Louis' Doom Town that will be released on Trend Is Dead Records out of Normal, IL this weekend. Both of these records are planned to come out later this summer, just in time for our European tour.

We've got a lot of new music coming out this year, and only hope to put out more. 


UPDATED ANNOUNCED PERFORMANCES:
#74 - 4/24/13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Heavy Anchor - 9 PM w/ Wax Idols, TV Ghost, Trauma Harness
#75 - 4/26/13 - Carbondale, IL @ The Skihaus - 10 PM - w/ The People's Temple, Flowers of Evil
#76 - 5/5/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - 3:00 PM w/Thrasher Magazine Skate Rock Tour - Bad Shit, Arctic, Ratt Black, Tsuchinoko (Japan), Shit For Brains
#77 - 5/19/13 -  Carbondale, IL @ Animal Farm w/ Earthling, The Black Blacks, Han Ma and the Camaros
#78 - 6/1/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - RECORD RELEASE SHOW w/ Serenghetto, Wingtips
#79 - 7/12/13 - Chicago, IL @ They Liver Fest
#80 - 7/13/13 - Bloomington, IN @ TBA

Announced Performances.

We have a handful of upcoming shows in the next few months.

 

#73 - 4/13/13 - Nashville, TN @ The Pussy Palace - 8:30 PM - w/ Fancytramp, How Cozy, Quichenight, Dogtooth

#74 - 4/24/13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Heavy Anchor - 9 PM w/ Wax Idols, TV Ghost, Trauma Harness

#75 - 5/5/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - 3:00 PM w/Thrasher Magazine Skate Rock Tour - Bad Shit, Arctic, Ratt Black, Tsuchinoko (Japan), Shit For Brains

#76 - 5/11/13 - St. Louis, MO @ A Squat

#77 - 5/15/13 - Carbondale, IL @ TBA - w/ Bitchtits

#78 - 6/1/13 - Carbondale, IL @ TBA - RECORD RELEASE SHOW w/ Serenghetto, +TBA

 

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES!

Fr. 13.09.2013 Bremen / Münster
Sa. 14.09.2013 Aalborg - 1000 Fryd (tbc)
So. 15.09.2013 Copenhagen - Dödsmaskinen (tbc)
Mo. 16.09.2013 Gothenburg
Di. 17.09.2013 Oslo
Mi. 18.09.2013 Stockholm
Do. 19.09.2013 Malmö
Fr. 20.09.2013 F...lensburg - Hafermarkt (tbc)
Sa. 21.09.2013 Hamburg - Störte (tbc)
So. 22.09.2013 Kortrijk
Mo. 23.09.2013 Paris - tba
Di. 24.09.2013 Lyon
Mi. 25.09.2013 Tübingen
Do. 26.09.2013 Basel / Zürich
Fr. 27.09.2013 Milano
Sa. 28.09.2013 Bologna
So. 29.09.2013 Zagreb
Mo. 30.09.2013 Budapest - tba
Di. 01.10.2013 Wroclaw
Mi. 02.10.2013 Warsaw - tba
Do. 03.10.2013 Poznan
Fr. 04.10.2013 Berlin
Sa. 05.10.2013 Leipzig / Münster (noch fragen)

 

If you have any specific questions about the shows, or want to help us out with a date, please get a hold of our friend Flo - info@trapdoor-tourz.de

On The Cover of the MRR.

Pick up a copy of the new issue of Maximum Rocknroll (#360) if you'd like to read an interview with the six piece lineup of Autonomy. Many thanks to Julia Booz Ullrey for doing the interview.

Announced Performances:

#72 - 4/12/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - 9 PM - w/ Fancytramp, Western Medication, Raw Flesh Eaters

#73 - 4/13/13 - Nashville, TN @ The Pussy Palace - 8:30 PM - w/ Fancytramp, How Cozy, Quichenight, Dogtooth

#74 - 4/24/13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Heavy Anchor - 9 PM w/ Wax Idols, TV Ghost, Trauma Harness

Shows and Records and a Lovely Photograph.

Announced Performances:

#71 - 3/29/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Skihaus - 9 PM - w/ Nervosas, Doom Town, Les Rhinoceros, Wei Zhongle

#72 - 4/12/13 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross - 9 PM - w/ Fancytramp, Western Medication, Raw Flesh Eaters

#73 - 4/13/13 - Nashville, TN @ The Pussy Palace - 8:30 PM - w/ Fancytramp, How Cozy, Quichenight, Dogtooth

#74 - 4/24/13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Heavy Anchor - 9 PM w/ Wax Idols, TV Ghost, Trauma Harness

Our next show will be this one at the Skihaus. We will be performing for the first time with our new lineup, and also playing quite a few new songs. The show is going to be starting early because there are 5 bands. We will be playing first, at 9:30 PM sharp. 

There has been a delay in releasing our split 7" with Serenghetto, but it will definitely come out within the next few months courtesy of Let's Pretend Records. Here's what the cover is going to look like.

Out split 12" with No Sir, I Won't is currently being mastered and will soon be available via Germany's Cut The Cord That... Records. Here's the cover art for that.

We are also recording soon for a 12" split with Doom Town , a split 7" with Street Eaters, and a split with No Brainer. We are hoping to have them all out by the end of summer.

And here's a picture of the new lineup thats going to be run in our interview for Zero Tolerance magazine in the UK.

Photograph by Carson Cates

Announced Departures/Releases/Performances.

Announced Performances:

#68 - 2/15/13 - Carbondale, IL @ the Glove Factory Surplus Gallery - 8:30 PM (actual performance time) as part of the 17th annual Love at the Glove art show.
#69 - 3/1/13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Scheme City - 7 PM - w/ Siamese Twins, Short Walk, Lambs Legs, Cousins
#70 - 3/3/13 - Chicago, IL @ Alderaan - 6 PM - w/ Siamese Twins, Technicolor Teeth, Outside World
#71 - 3/29/13 - Carbondale, IL @ TBA - 9 PM - w/ Nervosas, Doom Town, Bitchtits
#72 - 4/24/13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Heavy Anchor - 9 PM w/ Wax Idols, TV Ghost, Trauma Harness


Things are changing like crazy for us right now. After some time, John has decided that as of right now he can no longer give the amount of time and energy to Autonomy that he believes is needed, and will be leaving the band. John has been in the band since its conception, and without his hard work and his unique style of drumming we would not be the band that we are now. Hopefully in the future he will have the time to be a part of the group again. Like Nick, he will be playing all the shows with us through March, including this newly announced performance at Love at the Glove. That show will be Nick and John's last show with the band, and Taylor's last show on guitar. 

Hopefully we will have copies of the Altar of Apathy single in time for Love at the Glove. In more record news, Let's Pretend Records will also be releasing our split 7" with Serenghetto from Minneapolis. We're stoked to see those two tracks, which are holdovers from the recordings we did with Andrew for our LP, finally released. That record should be out later this spring.

We have also confirmed the dates for our European tour this fall. We will be touring from September 12th through October 6th. As we get confirmations on cities/venues/shows we will post them. We hope to have a new demo tape by this tour as well, but we'll just see about that...

Video.

A short film by Husni Ashiku.

Announced Performances / More Change to Come.

Announced performances:

#67 - 1/10/13 - Carbondale, IL @ PK's - 10 PM - w/ Vanna Inget, The Heat Tape, The Black Blacks
#68 - 3/1/13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Scheme City - 7 PM - w/ Siamese Twins, Short Walk, Lambs Legs, Cousins
#69 - 3/2/13 - Chicago, IL @ TBA (GENERATOR SHOW!) - w/ Siamese Twins
#70 - 3/3/13 - Chicago, IL @ Alderaan - 6 PM - w/ Siamese Twins, Technicolor Teeth, Outside World


Along with the previously announced change of John and Taylor switching instruments, we are also going to be having a change in vocalists. Nick has decided to leave Autonomy, and the above shows will be his last performances with the group. We have enjoyed the last 7 months collaborating with him tremendously, his work on the Altar of Apathy 7" and the upcoming split 12" with No Sir, I Won't is nothing short of great and we will miss his presence and talent. As of now, we are not going to have a male frontman. The rest of the band will be sharing vocal duties with Monica. 

Because of these changes in the group, we are taking off even more time and not performing (outside of the previously announced dates) until April. We hope to have a large amount of new material, as well as be able to do justice to our favorite older songs. 

Also, the Altar of Apathy single will finally be out next month on Let's Pretend Records. We will have copies at our shows in March.