Truth Zone Records

🚨Big fat holy Atwood Magazine feature dropped today. It covers all of the inner machinations of the rich and ever expanding world of Curls Ultra-- a colloidal psych jazz mutual aid jam band boy band who are meeting the moment of 2026 head on. Read the full piece to learn. All photos by @electriclight_photography Shoutout @annaliesebaker and @atwoodmagazine for the coverage. Next @curls_ultra show is 3/28 for AV Brain Melt with @hydrosoniclightshow at @ramovachicago . Do not miss it. New full length studio album coming this June. 👀

GET READY WITH ME ON BANDCAMP FRIDAY 😘🥹🫪 PLEASE PURCHASE ON BANDCAMP SOMETHING FROM SJOD TODAY TO SUBSIDIZE MY ALBUM COSTS :) U HAVING A VINYL IS PAYMENT ENOUGH!!!! LINK IN BIO!!’ #GRWM #GETREADYWITHME #bandcampfriday #bandcampartist #sjod

🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE🚨 CINEMA ULTRA: VOL 6 Thursday May 14th at the @californiaclipper This month’s installment of the highly lauded film and improvised film score series is Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT. A psychedelic infrared odyssey about the world’s greatest assassin’s struggle to balance family life, partying with Travis Scott and battling literal demons across a gorgeous apocalyptic Miami landscape. EXTREMELY RARE public screening of this little seen gem from 2023. Featuring a live improvised score from @curls_ultra with projection from @hydrosoniclightshow As always, this programming is free and brought to you by @truthzonerecs & @curls_ultra Poster by @dissonantdessert

Introducing: Vegas (Mandalay Bay) A short film by @crudcountry starring Curls Ultra. Now on YouTube and the beautiful link in our bio Vegas (Mandalay Bay) is also the first single from Curls Ultra’s debut album AMERICAN BLOOD and can be streamed nearly anywhere as of today The full digital album and LIMITED EDITON CD from @truthzonerecs is now available for PRE ORDER on the Curls Ultra bandcamp page And remember… What you allow is what will continue :) #newmusic #newalbum #bandcampartist #chicagomusic #musicvideo hashtag Stephenpaddockthousanddollarsushidinner

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT 🇺🇸AMERICAN BLOOD🩸 AN ALBUM RELEASE TOUR OF THE MIDWEST 6/25 Urbana @galleryartbar.urbana 6/26 Kansas City @farewellkcmo 6/27 Omaha @pageturnerslounge 6/28 Davenport @bootleghillhoneymeads 6/29 Chicago @emptybottle Tour Poster by @swollen_ankle Promo Vid by our good friend Ken Bone (Politics) Live Photos by @electriclight_photography Bathroom Photo by @parkbenchsnom 🍿Please stay tuned for something very special dropping this Wednesday…🎬 See you soon America :) #tour #livemusic #americanblood #indie #kenbone

🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE🚨 CINEMA ULTRA: VOL 5 Thursday April 23rd at the @californiaclipper This month’s installment of the highly lauded film and improvised film score series is the 1988 Czech classic ALICE by Jan Švankmajer Featuring a live improvised score from @_annajohnsonart_ @chelsea__bridge and @taraliepeterson with projection from @hydrosoniclightshow As always, this programming is free and brought to you by @truthzonerecs & @curls_ultra ABOUT THE ARTISTS Anna Johnson is a Chicago-based electroacoustic musician and visual artist. Her sound unites experimental improvisation with a background in Celtic and Anglo folk traditions and sacred medieval polyphony. Chelsea Bridge is a Chicago-based violinist and improviser experimenting across many realms and genres, from noise, experimental, and ambient to pop, rock, and folk. Taralie Peterson (Louise Bock, Tekla Peterson, Spires That in The Sunset Rise) is a sorta Chicago-based experimental cellist, saxophonist, electronic musician and improviser. Poster by @dissonantdessert

AMERICAN BLOOD Track List 🇺🇸EXPOSED🩸 1. God’s Lonely Man (11:05) 2. Immediate Problem (2:20) 3. Nothing 2 Love (11:09) 4. TOAD: The Mind Prison (10:29) 5. Vegas (Mandalay Bay) (9:16) 6. Luxury Fragrance (14:15) Out 6.26.26 on @truthzonerecs Album art by @cretsina Graffiti lettering by @sloris227

𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒖𝒕 :: is out today on bandcamp (CD & digi) Big thank to @truthzonerecs & @thawedoutfest :: we’ll be celebrating tomorrow, Saturday, 4.11.26 at @hideoutchicago with the one n only @lilyseabird (full rock band) ✨ mm band in Saturday will be @quinkirchner on drums, @augustusmartini in bass, @max.subar on steel & @luckycloud.hz on squiggly guitar. we play at 8:30. wrote a few more words about this release over on the ‘light up schmaltz’ substack, link in bio The album was recorded by milwaukee taper Richard Hayws @rmhaze ; Dave Vettraino aka @publichouserecs and I mixed it at the Land School. 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒖𝒕 features The Light Up Waltz core album band — Chet Zenor (@luckycloud.hz ), Jason Ashworth (@jason.g.ashworth ), Max Subar (@max.subar ) & Sam Subar (@sam.subar ) CD design and cover art by @garrettlawrence Cover art photo by Richard Hayes hideout show poster by @vvlightbody thawed out show photos by @kaitlin.photos

Our debut studio lp AMERICAN BLOOD is out June 26 on @truthzonerecs :) 💦Chicago release party is 6/29 @emptybottle with @marital_bed @nonnie_parry_is_real and @shy_bronco and it is FREE💦 “C Ultra’s debut studio album AMERICAN BLOOD is a provocative psychedelic odyssey thru the mind of “A Man in Trouble”. The title ‘American Blood’ derives from a 1983 Don DeLillo penned article in Rolling Stone. In the piece, DeLillo ruminates on Political Assassinations in America fresh off Hinckley’s potshot at Rappin’ Ronnie Reagan. Some of these observations served as inspiration for CU songs like VEGAS and NOTHING 2 LOVE.  The record’s sonic tone and themes are heavily influenced by looney tunes, motorcycles, guns, deserts, cinema, conspiratorial psychosis, divorce, Stephen Paddock & yearning. AMERICAN BLOOD is available everywhere and on compact disc Friday June 26th courtesy of Truth Zone Records.” CU will perform a stretch of additional Midwest release shows in June before embarking on lengthier tours in the late Summer & Fall. Dates TBA in the following weeks :) Album art by @cretsina Front cover graffiti lettering by @sloris227 Release show poster by @swollen_ankle Slide 7 photo by @electriclight_photography #musicrelease #originalmusic #newalbum #newmusic #stephenpaddock

SHY BRONCO LIVE 4/18 @judsonandmoore opening for legends @garrett_t_capps and @bobbyconn67 We will be joined by da god @annedepartment on vox :) Tix in bio or online or @localuniverse_ It’s the Spring Of Love y’all <3

Minor Moon :: 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒖𝒕 :: on April 10th, in collaboration with @truthzonerecs , we’re putting out a limited run of CDs from our set at @thawedoutfest last spring :: we’ll be celebrating with a release show on Saturday, 4.11.26 at @hideoutchicago with our shining star bud @lilyseabird , on big long tour from Burlington, VT in support of their recent album Trash Mountain ✨ The album was recorded by milwaukee taper @rmhaze with a stereo pair of Beyerdynamic MC930s in ORTF & a board rip. Richard sent over the tracks a few months after the show. I’d completely forgotten he’d recorded the set so it was a pleasant surprise — and then I was really taken by the performance. I hit up @publichouserecs and we got it sounding prettty juicy I think!! 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒖𝒕 features The Light Up Waltz core band — Chet Zenor (@luckycloud.hz ), Jason Ashworth (@jason.g.ashworth ), Max Subar (@max.subar ) & Sam Subar (@sam.subar ) — and it will be available exclusively on Bandcamp. You can preorder the CD & stream the ‘live at thawed out’ version of Miriam Underwater today at minormoon.bandcamp.com. Also get your tickets to deout go do it. (links in bio). Cover art by @garrettlawrence Cover photo by Richard Hayes Gig poster by @vvlightbody

THURSDAY - LOVE ISN’T SUPPOSED TO HURT 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭👕👕👕👕👕👕👕👕 unreleased snippet of My Portillo’s Sweater - the opening track of Side A of the new record. scoop a vinyl preorder or 3/12 release show at @epiphanyarts201 tickets at the link in bio now! photo by @yoitscarol edit by sjod #sjod #sjodomy #loveisntsupposedtohurt #portillos #idm