Search - Slot :: Sweet Black Bear

Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Kyuss in the U.S.; My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Tricky, The Verve in the UK ... you know the list and probably have one of your own. In the early nineties music took a right step. And yet the single most criminally underrated and ignored band in the world was Slot: Sue Lott, Eddie Alterman, and Billy Rivkin playing just for their own pleasure, blissfully unimpressed and unconcerned by the musical trends around them. Slot released various CDEPs on a small indie, favoring that format over albums because it allowed them to write and record in small batches--and it was cheaper. It also allowed fans to follow the band's evolution closely, and Slot recorded one last lot of songs before their dissolution in 1995. Alas, it was never released to anyone but close friends. When Billy Rivkin lost his struggle against cancer in 2004, the Small Stone crew was in Austin looking forward to nights of heavy drinking and heavy rock. But when the phone call came, that all changed ... pain, anger, and disbelief led to nostalgia. Eventually Small Stone "revisited" the Slot catalog and, to the label's amazement, the "unreleased" material held up beautifully. The Sweet Black Bear is nothing less than Slot and Rivkin's last testament, and Small Stone has decided to release this album not only as a tribute to dear, departed friend, but as fans--pure, gleeful fans of this little band called Slot.