Cut Of The Day

Art of Ballistics’ “Broken Mornings” makes “Cut of the Day” on the Willamette Week’s music blog today, alongside great quotes from Bob Ham (The Voice of Energy, For The Ears) like “The more you know about this band, the better.”

Renaissance Man

After being exhibited in several art spaces and galleries around the world, and featured on a handful of record jackets, Greg Reynaud’s (Behold The Profit, Art of Ballistics) paintings and are now featured in the pages of the fledgling arts magazine, Art Elemento.

The Next Big Thing?

Two tracks from Art of Ballistics’ “Broken Mornings” kick off this week’s installment of Marshall Stax’s “The Next Big Thing” on Berkeley, California’s own KALX 90.7 FM.

Breakin’ A Couple Eggs

Art of Ballistics is the name given to the trans-Pacific collaboration between two former El Pasoans, one Greg Reynaud (Behold The Profit, Lovetron) and another Will Watts, whom now live South Korea and Portland, Oregon, respectively. Broken Mornings, their debut, mastered by Don Grossinger (Flaming Lips, Sharon Jones), gives the audience a sense of what primordial ooze the project developed out of, and what its next freakish progeny might evolve into. Stream it below, or click here for more information.

Exporting ‘The Profit’ To Korea

After spending years in small towns all over South Korea, going virtually unnoticed for anything other than his height, Greg Reynaud (Behold The Profit) has finally gotten some coverage from the “local” press. Tracks from “You Hold The World Like A Gun” get featured heavily in Volume 34 of the expatriates-go-local podcast “Korean Homesick Blues”, alongside some background information on Lowatt and what Greg intends to do next.

No Honor Amongst ‘Thieves’

Greg Reynaud has dropped the moniker ‘Thieves’ in favor of the slightly more irreverent ‘Behold The Profit’. This change is effective immediately, and will be reflected on his upcoming self-titled EP, and all his previous material (e.g. ‘You Hold The World Like A Gun’), as retailers are notified. This necessary shift comes as a direct result of Lowatt’s inability to expend the necessary legal fees to protect Greg from the massive, unwashed hordes of name poachers that have taken over the internet since his last release in 2004.

It Begins With A Spark

Much like the Helen of Troy, Behold The Profit’s “You Hold The World Like A Gun” has the face that could launch a thousand ships. The half-hidden face of George Bush Jr., gracing the album’s cover (painted by the artist himself), encourages the listener to find out exactly what kind of music would make such a once confident, powerful man cower, and peer cautiously out from hiding — through his cold, lifeless eyes. Stream the album below, or click here for more information.