Alicja Trout
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Alicja Trout is a Memphis
-based American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and artist.
She is best known for her work with the synth-heavy Lost Sounds
, which she started with Jay Reatard
. Her current band, the River City Tanlines, were named an essential Memphis band by Spin Magazine in December 2007.
Trout also owns and operates Contaminated Records, her own independent record label
. In 2009 she was featured on the MTV
show $5 Cover
.
oriented band. Trout has also played a part in a number of other Memphis-based rock bands, including: The Clears, The Fitts, The CC Riders, Mouserocket, Destruction Unit and Black Sunday.
In September 2011, Certified PR Records released a 7 inch record of her latest solo project, "Alicja-Pop!".
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
-based American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and artist.
She is best known for her work with the synth-heavy Lost Sounds
Lost Sounds
Lost Sounds was a rock band from Memphis, Tennessee. Starting in March 1999, the band was made up of Rich Crook on drums, Patrick Jordan on bass, Jay Reatard on synth, guitar and vocals, and Alicja Trout also on synth, guitar and vocals. The band, originally working within the garage rock genre,...
, which she started with Jay Reatard
Jay Reatard
Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. , better known by the stage name Jay Reatard, was an American musician from Memphis, Tennessee. Lindsey was signed to Matador Records...
. Her current band, the River City Tanlines, were named an essential Memphis band by Spin Magazine in December 2007.
Trout also owns and operates Contaminated Records, her own independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
. In 2009 she was featured on the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
show $5 Cover
$5 Cover
$5 Cover is an online series created by filmmaker Craig Brewer and produced by MTV and is a fictional series created to complement the documentary series "$5 Cover Amplified"...
.
Other musical projects
After the Lost Sounds "abruptly yet not unexpectedly" disbanded in May 2005, Trout's focus switched to the River City Tanlines, a more rock and rollRock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
oriented band. Trout has also played a part in a number of other Memphis-based rock bands, including: The Clears, The Fitts, The CC Riders, Mouserocket, Destruction Unit and Black Sunday.
In September 2011, Certified PR Records released a 7 inch record of her latest solo project, "Alicja-Pop!".
The Clears
- The Clears LP (Resort Theory Entertainment, 1997, RT 006)
- The Clears CD (Smells Like Records, 1997, SLR 23)
The Fitts
- I Can't Break Away 7" (Contaminated Records, 1998, CR 001)
- I Have To Laugh 7" (Big Neck Records!, 2003, BN-026)
7-inch singles
- Lost Sounds 7" (Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records, 2000, SSLD 001)
- 1 + 1 = Nothing 7" (Empty Records US, 2001, MTR-387)
- No One Killer 7" (The Holy Cobra Society, 2004, THCS 004)
- Demos & Outtakes Vol. 2 3x7" (Rockin' Bones, 2004, RON 052)
- Motorcycle Leather Boy 7" (Tic Tac Totally, 2008, TTT-011)
- Split 7" w/ Vanishing (Cochon Records, 2003, Coch 012)
Albums
- Memphis Is Dead LP/CD (Big Neck Records!, 2001, BN-014)
- Black-Wave 2xLP/CD (Empty Records US, 2001, MTR-392)
- Outtakes & Demos Vol. 1 CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2001, no cat.no.)
- Outtakes & Demos Vol. 1 LP (Hate Records, 2002, hate 24)
- Recent Transmissions CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2002, no cat.no.)
- Rats Brains & Microchips LP/CD (Empty Records US, 2002, MTR-397)
- Demos II CD (On/On Switch, 2003, OOS/004)
- Future Touch 12"EP/CDEP (In The Red, 2004, ITR 115)
- Lost Sounds LP/CD (In The Red, 2004, ITR 117)
Compilations inclusions
- Fields And Streams 2xCD (Kill Rock Stars, 2002, KRS-341)
- Pain In The Big Neck CD (Big Neck Records!, 2004, BN-035)
- Static Disaster The U.K. In The Red Records Sampler CD (In The Red, 2005, ITR 1313)
- We Hate The Underground CD (The Holy Cobra Society, 2006, HCS 005)
CC Riders
- Riders CD-R (Ft. Jay Reatard, Jeffrey Evans) (Contaminated Records, 2001, no cat.no. - Limited Edition of 100)
Mouserocket
- You're Alright 7" (Loverly Music, 1999, cat.no.?)
- Missing Teeth 7" (Wrecked Em Records, 2003, wrecked 005)
- Mouserocket CD (Empty Records US, 2004, MTR-403)
Alicja-Pop!
- Shining Apple b/w Walking The Cow (Daniel Johnston) 7" (Certified PR Records, 2010, CPR012)
- I Play The Fool b/w Water Death 7" (Certified PR Records, 2011, CPR019)
Destruction Unit
- My Disease 7" (Contaminated Records/Discos Cagados, 2001, cat.no.?)
- Let's Lie 7" (Disordered Records/Lo-Fi Records, 2008, DISO-002.5/LF-45010)
- Self Destruction Of A Man LP/CD (Empty Records US, 2004, MTR-401)
- Death To The Old Flesh LP/CD (Empty Records US, 2006, MTR-416)
Nervous Patterns
- Nervous Patterns CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2003, no cat.no.)
- Nervous Patterns LP (Cochon Records, 2004, Coch 015)
River City Tanlines
- Black Night 7" (Misprint Records, 2004, msp 0150)
- Gimme Whatever 7" (Goodbye Boozy Records, 2005, GB 23)
- The Devil Made Me Do It 7" (Contaminated Records, 2005, CR 006)
- Saw You Hiding 7" (KenRock, 2005, KEN42)
- Black Night 7" (Last Day Entertainment, 2007, LDE02)
- Modern Friction 7" (Savage Records, 2008, SAV 7017)
- Split 7" w/ The Intellectuals ("In My Mode Rollin) (Gonna Puke, 2007, GPK 018)
- I'm Your Negative LP (Dirtnap Records, 2006, ZZZ 67)
Black Sunday
- I Can't Remember 7" EP (Neat Neat Neat Records, 2011, NNN-005)
- Split 12" w/ Le Jonathan Reilly (Tic Tac Totally Records, 2007, TTT-010)
- I Don't Wanna Work 7" (Zaxxon Records, 2006, ZR 004)
- Dancing Knives 7" (Misprint Records, 2006, msp 0170)
- Cut Out 7" (Tic Tac Totally, 2006, TTT-002)
- Gli Amanti D'Oltretomba 7" (Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records, 2007, SSLD 031)
- Tronic Blanc LP/CD (Dirtnap Records, 2005, ZZZ 57)
- Black Rabbit Of Death CD-R (Contaminated Records, 2006, no cat.no.)
as Daphne Diaphanous
- "Guntown" on The Sore Losers Soundtrack 2xLP/CD (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1997, SFTRI 338)
Other sources
- Turn it Down Interview with Alicja
- Spin Magazine Memphis music feature
- Lost Sounds Web site
- Commercial Appeal Story