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Drummer John Moloney was a founding member of long-running Boston-born experimental/improv freak rock collective <a href="spotify:artist:29Mbw8R1q12GBgUd3ouzJi">Sunburned Hand of the Man</a>, forming in the late '90s from the ashes of Shit Spangled Banner, his previous band with <a href="spotify:artist:29Mbw8R1q12GBgUd3ouzJi">Sunburned</a> guitarist Robert Thomas. Moloney played on dozens of releases and in countless performances with his main act, often sitting in with other like-minded groups on record or on tour. As the decades went on, Moloney collaborated with a multitude of experimental song sculptors, including <a href="spotify:artist:38D9fLVrGAclPJnH6rs663">Hush Arbors</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:02LHcfPkBLgQKq8ElwtoSC">MV & EE</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6GsO5IUaiXIklNxtYLzxWw">Vibracathedral Orchestra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5jX8L7D6vWHYlNj9k361vI">Six Organs of Admittance</a>, Gown, and many others. In 2006 he joined on with sprawling freak blues band <a href="spotify:artist:0BfBRvmhpZQNSWI6SxJIKn">Howlin' Rain</a>, only to play on the band's debut and go on their supporting tour before leaving to continue his ongoing work with <a href="spotify:artist:29Mbw8R1q12GBgUd3ouzJi">Sunburned Hand of the Man</a>. Over the years Moloney had fallen in with the <a href="spotify:artist:5UqTO8smerMvxHYA5xsXb6">Sonic Youth</a> camp, playing in various incarnations with <a href="spotify:artist:5UqTO8smerMvxHYA5xsXb6">SY</a> guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:1J4ACYB6yMqd79q3rjskqs">Thurston Moore</a> and even creating artwork for their 2009 album The Eternal. When <a href="spotify:artist:1J4ACYB6yMqd79q3rjskqs">Moore</a> launched new band <a href="spotify:artist:2CFDYbcjLeFAb6Xv2T9k4F">Chelsea Light Moving</a> in 2012, Moloney signed on as drummer. <a href="spotify:artist:1J4ACYB6yMqd79q3rjskqs">Moore</a> and Moloney also formed the high-energy guitar/drum improv duo Caught on Tape, issuing various small-run releases as well as the black metal-inspired full-length Full Bleed in 2015. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi
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