Guerilla Toss
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Guerilla Toss performing live in 2016. From left to right: Sam Lisabeth, Greg Albert, Peter Negroponte, Kassie Carlson, and Arian Shafiee.
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| Origin | Boston, MA, United States |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
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| Website | facebook |
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| Past members | See Former members section |
Guerilla Toss are an art rock band formed in 2010 and from Boston, MA. Now based in New York, NY, the group currently consists of singer Kassie Carlson, drummer Peter Negroponte, guitarist Arian Shafiee, keyboardist Sam Lisabeth, and bassist Greg Albert. They have released four studio albums, seven EPs, and one remix album, and they are currently signed to DFA Records. They were also listed in Rolling Stone magazine as one of the “10 Great Modern Punk Bands”.
The first incarnation of Guerilla Toss formed in 2010 when they were students at New England Conservatory of Music in the Contemporary Improvisation department. Guerilla Toss’ members consider the band to have truly started, though, when singer Kassie Carlson joined the band in 2012. The lineup then consisted of herself, drummer Peter Negroponte, bassist Simon Hanes, guitarist Arian Shafiee, and keyboardist Ian Kovac. Carlson first met Guerilla Toss when her former hardcore band, Western Syndrome, performed with the group at a house show.
Guerilla Toss toured extensively nationally and within Boston’s DIY community by performing at many show houses such as Gay Gardens, where Carlson and Negroponte were both residents on separate occasions. Later that year Guerilla Toss released their first recordings with Carlson—two EPs, My Real Dad: Live in Nappa through Spooky Town and GTOSS + FDOME = SEXDOME through Feeding Tube Records, as well as their first album, Jeffrey Johnson, through Feeding Tube Records. They also won The Deli’s “Best Emerging New England Band of 2012” award.
In May 2013, Guerilla Toss released their second album, GTOSS, through Tzadik Records, the record label owned by avant-garde composer John Zorn. The group then released two EPs later that year—Kicked Back Into the Crypt, a split LP with noise rock band The Sediment Club that was co-released through Sophomore Lounge Records and Feeding Tube Records and Rambo Part II: First Blood Volume 3 through Hidden Temple Tapes.
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