Mark Kozelek, Of Sun Kil Moon And Red House Painters, Accused Of Sexual Misconduct : NPR

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• All Music Review: Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - 30 Seconds To The Decline Of Planet Earth
• Go To Your Bed
• Mark Kozelek And Sean Yeaton To Release 'Yellow Kitchen' Collaboration This Summer - Stereoboard
• The Fight City reviews Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”
• Free Limited Edition CD: Release Date February 19, 2013
• Mojo: Sun Kil Moon - Americana Albums of the Year - No. 4

Kozelek’s candour wasn’t the only reason that Benji met with more attention. His live banter has often been antagonistic, but last September, a cruel streak emerged. A week later, he actually released a song called War on Drugs Suck My Cock, in which he also attacked the “spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat” female journalist who reported his “hillbilly” comments. In another song, Adam Granofsky Blues, Kozelek read and laughed at the War on Drugs frontman’s bewildered comments about the affair. In his teenage years, he led a band named God Forbid.[14] Upon relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, he met drummer Anthony Koutsos. Listening closely to these records now shines a light on the rest of Kozelek's career.

All Music Review: Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - 30 Seconds To The Decline Of Planet Earth

The album picks up where "Sparks" left off, detailing his summer, fall and winter of 2020. All direct purchases through the Caldo Verde website will receive a FREE, limited 4 song Sun Kil Moon EP entitled I’ll Be There. The EP includes covers of Stereolab, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and The Jackson 5.

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On January 2016, Mark's collaboration with Justin Broadrick entitled Jesu/Sun Kil Moon was released via Caldo Verde/Rough Trade Records, to positive reviews. The band promoted the album with live shows in Europe, USA and Japan and will tour again in September and November of this year. On May 27, 2016, Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites was released through Caldo Verde Records. The album features guest singers Mimi Parker, Minnie Driver, Mike Patton, Will Oldham, and Rachel Goswell. Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys of Blood was released by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon on February 24, 2017.

Mark Kozelek And Sean Yeaton To Release 'Yellow Kitchen' Collaboration This Summer - Stereoboard

The album was coupled with Mark’s 2001 release White Christmas Live, recorded in Scandinavia. On October 11, 2019, Caldo Verde Records released the collaborative album Mark Kozelek and Petra Haden, Joey Always Smiled. Longtime friend and collaborator Alan Sparhawk interviewed Mark about the album for Talkhouse. Sun Ki Moon Welcome to Sparks, Nevada, was released January 7, 2021. The album is about Mark's life and times throughout the first half of 2020.

The Fight City reviews Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”

Mark Kozelek, Of Sun Kil Moon And Red House Painters, Accused Of Sexual Misconduct - NPR

Mark Kozelek, Of Sun Kil Moon And Red House Painters, Accused Of Sexual Misconduct.

Posted: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Affecting and engrossing in spite of its nearly 10-minute running time, "Lost Verses" fits seamlessly alongside Kozelek's best work with Red House Painters. On “24,” the magisterial slowcore opening track to Red House Painters' debut album Down Colorfull Hill, Mark Kozelek takes the perspective of someone aged 24, worrying about growing old. The track starts off almost completely silent, with extremely soft minimal guitars, before the drums come in. The final album on the box, and his last for 4AD, is 1995's Ocean Beach. It opens with a sunny, lilting instrumental called "Cabezon", three breezy minutes of pleasant music. The album, in general, seems to be Kozelek's California record, and stands out from what came before it.

Red House Painters was an alternative rock band from San Francisco, CA, United States, formed in 1989 by singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek. The band is described, along with Low and American Music Club, as one of the linchpins of the slowcore movement in alternative rock. Kozelek used this group primarily as a vehicle for his very personal and emotional songs of despair, pain and suffering. In 1994, they released an EP entitled Shock Me and in 1995, the introspective Ocean Beach, which saw Kozelek’s songs becoming more acoustic-based and folk influenced, and featured far less of the lengthy, dreamlike epics of the group’s first two albums. His lyrics also showed a considerable shift in tone, as he increasingly began to write about the power of memory and the significance of geography, a subject that would become an obsession in his subsequent recordings.

It's the most you can hope for as far as reissues go, and it really does feel like a skeleton key returning to these albums you thought you knew so well. Like Ella’s, Laura’s first encounter with Kozelek began with an invitation to join him onstage. (She also requested to use a pseudonym in this article.) A singer-songwriter herself, she met Kozelek at a show in Australia in 2017, when she was 37 and he was 50. He brought her up from the crowd to sing his song “I Can’t Live Without My Mother’s Love” with him—audience duets on the song were a somewhat regular occurrence in his show at the time—and she accompanied him on four more songs after that.

Mojo: Sun Kil Moon - Americana Albums of the Year - No. 4

Describes hearing Kozelek masturbating in his bed while she attempted to sleep in a separate cot each night. The original report from August 2020 detailed accusations from two women, Sarah Catherine Golden and “Andrea” (who requested a pseudonym), that outlined alleged nonconsensual behavior from Kozelek. Golden, a mental health specialist based in Los Angeles and a Sun Kil Moon fan, described meeting Kozelek on a flight from Madrid to Portugal during which he offered to put her on the guestlist for his show in Porto. After attending the show, Golden was invited by Kozelek to his hotel, where she said she assumed she’d be drinking in a group setting with him and his bandmates. But Kozelek is a master of covers, and makes the songs his own; plus, there are more than enough originals here to balance it out. Even accounting for the added years and maybe some Kozelek burnout, the four LPs in this boxset remain Red House Painters' most magical records, and some of the most beautiful works of Kozelek's career.

Sun Kil Moon show December 6 canceled by venue space - South Bend Tribune

Sun Kil Moon show December 6 canceled by venue space.

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February 24, 2017 - Caldo Verde Records

The album received some of Kozelek's best reviews including a 9 out of 10 in Uncut Magazine and an A- at Consequence Of Sound. In 2015 Mark also released a free EP entitled Down In The Willow Garden as well as a spoken word album entitled Dreams Of Childhood with Argentine actor Nicolas Pauls. Kozelek's music is also featured extensively in the Paulo Sorrentino film Youth.

On November 1, 2018, Mark released Sun Kil Moon's This Is My Dinner, an album written during a November 2017 European tour. The album details Mark's experiences during that tour and his history with touring Europe since the early 1990s. In December of 2019, Mark Kozelek and actor Kevin Corrigan released a Christmas EP entitled, The Christmas EP. Kevin and Mark also released the two collaborative books The Panther and The Honey Badger and Zhao Tao. Mark also released a book of photography in late 2019 called 500 Payphones.

If you're someone who's been put off by his feuds and outbursts, put aside those reservations—these records deserve it. And, really, when you come back to them, even after all these years, that mystery somehow still remains. In fact, now and then I need to remind myself just who it is I'm listening to. Kozelek's lyrics are personal, and moving, but come cloaked in ellipses and metaphor rather than the tell-all logorrhea of Benji.

Still, she alleges, he was sexually aggressive in ways that violated her consent. Anjuli, who requested that her last name be withheld from this article, had dinner with Kozelek after introducing herself to him at a Sun Kil Moon show in San Francisco in 2014. (Pitchfork reviewed screenshots of texts about the dinner between her and Kozelek.) He offered to walk her back to her apartment, then asked to use her bathroom when she told him she was going inside, she says. He began grabbing at her, she claims, attempting to pull her toward him and place her hands on his body, continuing even as she protested multiple times that she was uncomfortable with the situation and wanted him to stop. When she told him she was calling him a cab, he asked her if he could masturbate on her bed, and she said no, but he got into her bed anyway, she claims.

Soon after that, she says, he got fully undressed, without any prompting from her. She says she expressed her discomfort and got up to leave, but he pleaded with her to stay the night, and she reluctantly agreed. He asked her if he could masturbate in front of her, and if she would have sex with him, she says. She told him no, she says, but he continued asking, seeming to feel entitled because she’d previously told him she admired his acting performance in the 2005 film Shopgirl. Pitchfork also reported a third allegation, from a woman musician who asked not to be named.

According to Ella, Kozelek invited her to dinner the following night, and from there to his hotel room. Throughout their conversations, she was dizzied by her sudden closeness to this artist she admired. She says that he stressed repeatedly that he saw her as a potential friend and nothing more, seeming eager to dispel any ideas she might have about his sexual interest in her.

Between 1992 and 1999 Mark released six full length studio albums with Red House Painters. Three women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against musician Mark Kozelek, who frequently performs as Sun Kil Moon. The accusations were published by Pitchfork on Thursday in a report by Amy Zimmerman. Mark Kozelek, the singer-songwriter behind Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters, has been accused of sexual misconduct by seven more women, Pitchfork reports. The accusations follow an earlier Pitchfork report from last summer that detailed Kozelek exposing himself without permission and pressuring women into sex.

“As a way of appeasing him in the moment,” Laura says, she allowed him to spoon her. He made a few more sexual comments, she says, and after she made it clear she wasn’t interested, he eventually fell asleep. In the morning, Laura drove to her sister’s house and told her what had happened, her sister confirmed to Pitchfork.