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a month ago

SLUG BEAT SELF TITLED ALBUM OUT NOW - LINK IN BIO TO PURCHASE

Feel that rumbling in your hips? Your favorite raver tried to warn you about their favorite band. But the truth is, you could never truly prepare for the cosmic groove music revolution that is Slug Beat.

There’s nowhere to run from the liquid dub of album opener “Slug Beat” and smooth metal of “Pleasure Center.” Nowhere to hide from the smoldering swing of “Sensory Leakage” and Medium Rare Groove, perfectly done, of “Is This Heaven?” Yet there’s everywhere to dance to the purple psyche fusion of “This One’s for the Lovers (In the World).”

We’re all asking ourselves how this happened. Late in 2024, Sug recruited JZKL’s Kiernan Laveaux and Johnny Zoloft to embark on a solemn mission to transform the Ableton compositions behind Sug’s 2024 Lizard Label solo release Slug Beat into live band party music. Over the course of a year, the core trio played those tunes on guitar, drums, and CDJs to bars, warehouses, and listening rooms across the Northeast and Midwest. And sure enough, those tunes evolved into A New Thing. The trio took to Tempo House studios in Baltimore in December 2025 to lay down interpretations of four tracks from the Lizard Label release and one from Sug’s Fusion Edits, with Johnny Zoloft on drums, congas and marimba, Kiernan Laveaux on electronics and vocals, and Sug on guitar and keyboards. What you hear now is 45 minutes of arcane synergy, supernatural radiance, and extrasensory possibility manifested through the amorphous vessel that is Slug Beat.

Arrangements and mixing were inspired by Sonny Sharrock’s Ask the Ages, an album deeply imprinted on the group’s collective consciousness. Performance cues were taken from Archie Shepp, Annette Peacock, Anteloper, grunge era Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and Nightlife Unlimited.

Thank you for asking the question

Kiernan Laveaux: electronics and vocals

Johnny Zoloft: drums and percussion

Sug: guitar and keyboard

Produced and written by Sug

Recorded by Craig Bowen at Tempo House in Baltimore, MD

Mixed by Sug and Johnny Zoloft

Mastered by Russell E. L. Butler
Art and layout by Wayne Beers
Thank you Lifted, Lizard Label, and Benny Boeldt by @slug_zone

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SLUG BEAT & PAMELA & HER SONS - LIVE AT L&SD TAPE NOW AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM @slug_zone @pamela__ahs @kiernanlaveaux @johnnyzoloft

SLUG BEAT & Pamela & her sons are proud to present an audio document of the performance they shared at @lightandsounddesign in NYC March 2025, alongside a stellar lineup of Matthew Regula & Bookworms + Alex Zhang Hungtai duo

Side A contains 38minutes of arcane material from SLUG BEAT - the psychedelic fusion ensemble brought to life here by SUG on guitar, JOHNNY ZOLOFT on drums, & KIERNAN LAVEAUX on samples/vocals/FX

Performing smash hits such as “Slug Beat”, “Pleasure Center”, “Sensory Leakage”, & “This One’s For The Lovers In the House” plus more to also be heard on their forthcoming SLUG BEAT: THE ALBUM to be released later in 2026, this performance found the trio at the height of their manifestation abilities concluding a Northeast tour, & set a new chapter towards exploring the beguiling essence of what SLUG BEAT can be 🐌🌀✨

SLUG BEAT live set also now streaming on soundcloud for any previewing & listening pleasures!!! Check out audio previews in slides

SIDE B contains Pamela & her sons closing set from the night, with their supple & entrancing dreamscapes punctuated by ever-evolving inspirations, breakbeat sciences, & cloudlike nimbostratus kinetics. More of what you’ve come to know & love from PAHS decade+ as a vagabond synthesist serenading the masses that are willing to listen. 🌤️💫😎

Available NOW on beautiful orange tape dubbed by @three6sashiaa & featuring art by Pamela & her sons by @slug_zone

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8 months ago

1 - Malzof visuals 4 Sweet Abyss with Formosa, Sug & Slug Beat Live, Carrie Sours
2 - Sug & Slug Beat at Sweet Abyss, Bantha Tea Bar Pittsburgh
3 - Carrie Sours at Sweet Abyss
4 - Sug & their pedals
5 - Malzof visuals during Sug & Slug Beat live at Sweet Abyss
6 - Formosa DJing at Sweet Abyss
7-8 - Sug & Slug Beat live at Sweet Abyss
9 - next Sweet Abyss - the 2year anniversary! WEDNESDAY 3-19-25
11 - next queer avengers collab - DEINSTALL - SATURDAY 3-15-25
12 - Sug & Slug Beat in Brooklyn
13 - Johnny Zoloft and Kiernan Laveaux on lot radio
14 - Jmal, Justin & Shayna
15 - another upcoming show! Malzof & Kiernan Laveaux at Microtones, Ithaca, 3-22-25
16 - color kismet and Depeche mode cd
17 - 18 - JZKL live at Daddy's Pittsburgh
19 - JZKL live at Final Destination Pittsburgh
20 - throwback to a piece by Jules Malice Art by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Slug Was Here takes NYC. Absolutely crazy gig. Just some of the best people making electronic music. taken in Greenpoint, Brooklyn by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Slug Was Here tour slithers into Providence next week. Classic music. Fresh perspectives. Back to back DJing. Fun outside area for smoking cigarettes. Last time I played this spot a bunch of Zoomers did some sort of ritual dance, bet it’s gonna happen again. by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

WEDNESDAY FEB 26 7-11PM ALL AGES $5-$20 AT @banthateabar

SUG + SLUG BEAT BAND (feat. @slug_zone + @johnnyzoloft + @kiernanlaveaux ) making their debut live performance at Sweet Abyss, performing material from Sug’s album “Slug Beat” on @lizard_label LIVE & enhanced with experiential energetics, irreverent freeform ballads, & evocative realms of soft body mollusk dancing 🐌 check out Slug Beat: the album on bandcamp for a sneak peek of some music to expect, BUT remember: the unexpected is right around the corner… 🤓😉

Check them out alongside Carrie Sours & @formosa.exe + catch them on tour end of Feb in Buffalo, Providence, & NYC by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Thursday! Liz Pelly is coming to Providence to talk about her book Mood Machine at Lost Bag. We’ll also have some live music *and* a local streaming server only accessible at the venue. Incredible book by an incredibly cool DIY lifer. And if you want music on the server, please send files! by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Crazy party at @allensthardware with some very fun friends // See you there 🔥// flyer by @nplsk and Icky by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Gig stacked sky high here. Unreal lineup at one of my favorite spots in PVD. Come on down and get your socks rocked clean off. by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Made an hour of dance tunes for Diane’s Hunting Club a couple weeks back, gonna be giving that a whirl Sunday at AS220. Would be fun if you came to hang. by @slug_zone

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2 years ago

Can’t wait to play the FIREHOUSE in Worcester next Saturday. Love that place, haven’t been there in years, and the bill is stacked with some of my absolute favorite jammers in Massachusetts. Going up there with deep Providence heads SS/NN, told them we’re *in the car* at 6 AM sharp so we make it on time, especially since I just know we’re gonna have to stop a couple of times on the way. by @slug_zone

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