Erase Errata

The music of Erase Errata has been compared to such eclectic experimentalists as <a href="spotify:artist:2ebK4ueGwhVaXUm060m1BS">Captain Beefheart</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0z6zRFzl5njXWLVAisXQBz">the Minutemen</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3dP1h4150iwrDTqryQ5ybE">the Dog Faced Hermans</a>, due to the fact that the group possess an uncanny knack of improvising on the spot (claiming that they could improvise a whole set if pressed to). Originally comprised of members <a href="spotify:artist:7j5fi06zmOhgTYhlJe2OCx">Jenny Hoyston</a> (vocals and trumpet), Ellie Erickson (bass), Bianca Sparta (drums), and <a href="spotify:artist:2UiiMKAHswOc9BvHmof6tK">Sara Jaffe</a> (guitar), Erase Errata formed in San Francisco in December of 1999, when the group jammed in the vacant room of one of Sparta and <a href="spotify:artist:7j5fi06zmOhgTYhlJe2OCx">Hoyston</a>'s roommates. The quartet immediately proved that they had a solid chemistry, penning ten original tunes in the span of a half-hour. After spending six weeks during the fall of 2000 touring alongside the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:1aDpQ3bo57IlYWmsG5sdlp">Melt Banana</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2n6FviARgtjjimZXu18uRM">Le Tigre</a>, Erase Errata issued a split single with Brooklyn, New York-based noise rockers <a href="spotify:artist:6xV3tISBQOJ46BJPlC02tX">Black Dice</a> on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Troubleman%22">Troubleman</a> label. A year later, Erase Errata's full-length debut Other Animals arrived (also via <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Troubleman%22">Troubleman</a>). In 2002, the band released a split single with electro-rockers <a href="spotify:artist:54QfCw9UFq4SUZydhuDVSy">Numbers</a>, and in spring 2003, Dancing Machine, a remix album featuring <a href="spotify:artist:2jh27vMWRDaPgtwvluMomC">Adult.</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7kDf1ziRxPFtWbbZB1XmrM">Kid 606</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0xBkYJzwFzcIYev4fOkvk0">Matmos</a>, arrived. Meanwhile, <a href="spotify:artist:7j5fi06zmOhgTYhlJe2OCx">Hoyston</a> worked on her other project <a href="spotify:artist:2cKewnkpiHjkB4atzmMQt9">Paradise Island</a>, releasing the debut album, Lines Are Infinitely Fine, that summer on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Dim+Mak%22">Dim Mak</a>. Erase Errata's long-awaited second album, At Crystal Palace, came out in fall 2003. The following year, <a href="spotify:artist:2UiiMKAHswOc9BvHmof6tK">Jaffe</a> left the band, and <a href="spotify:artist:7j5fi06zmOhgTYhlJe2OCx">Hoyston</a>, Erickson, and Sparta released their first album as a trio, Nightlife, in 2006 on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kill+Rock+Stars%22">Kill Rock Stars</a>. The label also released the 2010 7" Damaged before the band went on hiatus. In 2012, the group reconvened as part of the artist-in-residence program of Iowa City's Mission Creek Music Festival. Working with producer/engineer Luke Tweedy, the trio improvised and polished the seven songs that became 2015's Lost Weekend. After a string of performances promoting the album, the band announced via a press release that their two Texas shows in October 2015 would be their last before breaking up. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi