Bitch Magnet Announce Reunion

The show will mark Bitch Magnet's first live performance since 1990, and the first onstage appearance of the band's original recorded lineup - Orestes Morf�n (drums), Sooyoung Park (bass and vocals) and Jon Fine (guitar) - since 1989.

Bitch Magnet was formed in the fall of 1986 by Fine and Park, when the two were sophomores at Oberlin College. In 1987, they convinced Morf�n - then known as Orestes Delatorre - to sign on.

In January 1988, they recorded their debut mini-LP Star Booty in three days. The band self-released it in the fall of that year on their Roman Candle label, and the band began performing and building a following in key US cities. The pressing of 1,000 copies sold out quickly and the band was signed to The Communion Label in the US and Shigaku/What Goes On in the UK. Both labels reissued Star Booty and released the widely-acclaimed Umber.

Amid a wave of extraordinarily positive notices in the British and European press, the band toured Europe, with Dave Galt and Bastro/Squirrel Bait founder David Grubbs on guitar, in fall of 1989. Following the tour, with Grubbs on guitar, the band recorded the single "Valmead."

The trio lineup of Fine, Morf�n, and Park reconvened in the early spring of 1990 to record what would be their final album, the hugely influential Ben Hur. The album is now often cited as a key inspiration for what would become known as "post-rock." The "Valmead" single cracked the Top 20 on the British independent charts, and the band toured the US and Europe that year.