Connoisseur
From:
CA,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Connoisseur News
Below is our complete Connoisseur news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Connoisseur Announces Tour Dates
California sludge punk legion Connoisseur will bring smoky psalms to the streets again next month on a mini-run of live dates that include a performance supporting Eyehategod, Infest, and Brainoil June 4th in Oakland.
Additional live incursions are in the plotting stages. See all currently confirmed dates below, in support of the "Over The Edge" full-length album released via Tankcrimes last month.
6/04/2017 Metro - Oakland, CA w/ Eyehategod, Infest, Brainoil
6/08/2017 Skip Gibson's - Grover Beach, CA
6/09/2017 Redwood Bar - Los Angeles, CA
6/10/2017 Black Light District - Long Beach, CA
6/11/2017 Tower Bar - San Diego, CA
6/17/2017 Caffe Pergolesi - Santa Cruz, CA More...
Connoisseur Releases New Video
California stoner violence collective Connoisseur rolled out the "Over The Edge" full-length album for the masses via Tankcrimes earlier this month and today, April 20th -- aka 420, the most sacred of days among weed enthusiasts -- the band offers up the visual accompaniment for "Weeding Out the Weak."
Shot and edited by Armando "Mondo" Armas, the clip is currently playing below. Connosieur will bring these marijuana missives to stages this spring, with additional live dates to be announced in the weeks to come.
4/20/2017 The Ritz - San Jose, CA w/ Ghoul
4/22/2017 Spring Meltdown @ Hard Rock Café - South Lake Tahoe, CA w/ Ghoul, more
6/04/2017 1 Fest @ Metro - Oakland, CA w/ Infest, Wormrot, Brainoil, more More...
Connoisseur Streaming Full Album
California stoner violence collective Connoisseur today unchains the "Over The Edge" full-length via Tankcrimes. Boasting fourteen resin-coated burners, the record was captured by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Iron Lung, Brainoil) and mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound (Spazz, Ghoul).
Check out a full stream below, and you can pick up the album for (what else?) $4.20 at Bandcamp here. The full track listing is as follows:
1. The Stoning 02:01
2. All Day Every Day 00:41
3. Maximum Hashism 01:05
4. Boulevard of Broken Bongs 03:17
5. Weeding Out the Weak 01:21
6. It's Lit 00:54
7. Live to Smoke 02:34
8. I'd Rather Be Smoking Weed 02:36
9. The Answer 01:06
10. Mala Yierba 01:49
11. Free The Weed 00:02
12. The Doctor 01:01
13. Plague Mask 03:36
14. Cashed Out 01:43 More...
Connoisseur Posts 45 Second Lyric Video
"Over The Edge" is the impending new full-length release from California stoner violence faction Connoisseur. Set for communal inhalation next month via Tankcrimes, "Over The Edge" flaunts fourteen resin-coated burners captured by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Iron Lung, Brainoil) and mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound (Spazz, Ghoul).
In advance of its release, today the band's forty-five-second, weed-centric "All Day Every Day" lyric video comes online and can be seen below.
Adds the band, "We set out to write a song that was the exact opposite of bands we love like Sleep. Who's got an hour? We barely have a minute! This ain't your uncle's stoner rock; we got things to do, and this bong ain't gonna smoke itself, ya know?"
Connoisseur will further bring these weedian odes to stages this spring with additional live dates to be announced in the weeks to come.
4/02/2017 Cafe Colonial - Sacramento, CA w/ DS 13, Classhole, Cliterati
4/03/2017 Metro - Oakland, CA w/ DS 13, Classhole, Cliterati
4/04/2017 Appleton Grill - Watsonville, CA w/ DS 13, Classhole
4/20/2017 The Ritz - San Jose, CA w/ Ghoul
4/22/2017 Spring Meltdown @ Hard Rock Café - South Lake Tahoe, CA w/ Ghoul, more
6/04/2017 1 Fest @ Metro - Oakland, CA w/ Infest, Wormrot, Brainoil, more More...
Tankcrimes Offering Free Compilation
Get your Labor Day weekend jams on with a free compilation courtesy of Tankcrimes. Entitled "Every One Is Wrong!," the fourteen track collection includes a ravenous lineup of sonic deviance from the likes of Ghoul, Victims, Necrot, Spazz, Deny The Cross, Connoisseur, Brainoil, Double Cross, Kicker, and Vivisick.
1. Ghoul - Shred The Dead
2. Victims - Questions
3. Necrot - Rebirth In Chaos
4. Spazz - B-Street Butta
5. Deny The Cross - Bacteria Tribute
6. Connoisseur - Brick Weed
7. Connoisseur - Machinegun Grenade
8. Brainoil - Support In Numbers
9. Deny The Cross - Heart Like Siberia
10. Spazz - Thrice The Heiney
11. Double Cross - Anywhere But Here
12. Kicker - You Can't Take Me Anywhere
13. Vivisick - Rebel Is Creation
14. Ghoul - Ghoulunatics More...
Connoisseur Streaming "Stoner Justice"
The West Coast weed demons in Connoissuer just released the "Stoner Justice" album via Tankcrimes, and now all the tracks are online and available for streaming below.
The band continues to level stages throughout the U.S. with weedian odes on the epic "...And Stoner Justice For All" summer tour, currently underway. Full date and venue details can be found after the stream. More...
Connoisseur Posts "Pot Hole" Video
Now embarked on the "...And Stoner Justice For All" Summer tour, today Connoisseur offers up the hilarious new video for "Pot Hole." The stoney psalm comes by way of the band's "Stoner Justice" full-length, set to drop next month via Tankcrimes Records. Check out the clip below.
Connoisseur will bring weedian hymns to stages throughout the U.S. on a mammoth run of live incursions that recently kicked off in California. The trek will smoke out over four dozen metropolises through July 11th. Hide your nugs!
Connoisseur Streaming "New Amsterdam"
Following a solid year of blunt rolling and live perversions, glassy-eyed, California smoke goliaths Connoisseur will unleash the weedian fruits of the "Stoner Justice" offering this June via Tankcrimes Records.
Initially released in EP form last year and captured by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios, the "Stoner Justice" redux is remastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound Mastering and has been expanded to fourteen blunted ragers, including a live set professionally recorded at the Tankcrimes Takeover on February 13th, 2015.
Puff, puff, pass the track "New Amsterdam" below, courtesy of a stream hosted by CvltNation.com. More...
Connoisseur Announces EP Redux
"Stoner Justice" was the debut EP from California smoke kings Connoisseur (a band that likens itself to "an Earth Crisis that smokes weed and listens to Spazz"), and now the glassy-eyed ganja squad will revisit the release.
Now re-mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound Mastering (Abscess, Toxic Holocaust, Voetsek etc.) with an updated, wholly mind-bending cover art collaboration by Skinner (Mastodon) and Hal Rotter (Atriarch, Cough, Eyehategod, Skeletonwitch), "Stoner Justice Redux" has been expanded to fourteen skull-crushers, including a live set professionally recorded at the Tankcrimes Takeover on February 13th, 2015 (mixed and mastered by the same team).
"Stoner Justice" will see release this June on CD, LP and digitally via Tankcrimes. In the meantime, take a smoke break and check out the band's new lyric video for "Orc Summer," now playing below courtesy of Revolvermag.com. More...
Connoisseur Streaming New Tracks
With the release of "Stoner Justice," the debut EP from California chronic kings Connoisseur, less than a week away, today three tracks from the EP have been posted online.
Check out "Pot Hole," "The Camper," and "No Dice" in the player below, courtesy of Noisey.Vice.com.
Likening themselves to Earth Crisis if they "smoked weed and listened to Spazz," California's Connoissuer recorded "Stoner Justice" with Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios, Oakland (Annihilation Time, Iron Lung, Vhöl, Brainoil). You can also see the band live on these dates:
7/25/2014 The Rock Shop - San Jose, CA
7/26/2014 Ground Control - Reno, NV
7/29/2014 Basement Of Frustration - Chico, CA
7/30/2014 The Ink Annex - Eureka, CA
7/31/2014 ESAP - Eugene, OR
8/01/2014 Megaton House - Portland, OR
8/02/2014 Black Lodge - Seattle, WA
8/03/2014 Alf House - Vancouver, BC
8/04/2014 TBA - Kamloops, BC
8/05/2014 House Show TBA - Squamish, BC
8/06/2014 Third St. Pub - Bend, OR
8/08/2014 TBA - Pacoima, CA
8/09/2014 Rumpshaker Fest 2 - Los Angeles, CA
8/10/2014 C.A.F.E. Infoshop - Fresno, CA
9/24/2014 DNA Lounge - San Francisco, CA w/ Skeletonwitch, Black Anvil, Ghoul More...
Connoisseur Announces EP Release
Tankcrimes is beyond baked to break out their latest stash of riff-smokers, Connoisseur, with the release of the Oakland stoner violence trio's debut EP "Stoner Justice" on July 8th.
Likening themselves to Earth Crisis if they "smoked weed and listened to Spazz," the bongclobbering Smokeland, California-based bandburns through hemp field sized riffage with each of the six jacked-up tracks on "Stoner Justice."
The song "Circle of Heads" can be heard below, thanks to Revolvermag.com and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Circle Of Heads
2. Pot Hole
3. The Camper
4. No Dice
5. Full Blown Marijuana Addict
6. I Am The Weed More...