Iao Core is an experimental rock band formed in San Francisco in 1987. Far outside the mainstream (in terms of music and career path), they have released more than 20 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently. Their music touches on classical, electronica, industrial, speed metal with a distinctly experimental/avant-garde bent; The lyrics are in fact superb: out of such pockets light pours, conjuring spirits of an America both mysterious and obscene.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
We rock Sonar once again!: "Dogtower" performed live in Barcellona, July 7, 2010
I am so happy to announce that once again IAO Core will be part of the great International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. The Sonar Festival 2011 will be held in Barcelona on 16, 17 and 18 June and in A Coruña on 17 and 18 June. Cast is incredible as always, just look below to get an idea.
Underworld, M.I.A., Aphex Twin, Magnetic Man, Die Antwoord, The Human League, Dizzee Rascal, Cut Copy, James Murphy, Janelle Monáe, Paul Kalkbrenner, Chris Cunningham, Boys Noize, Four Tet, Buraka Som Sistema, Katy B, Steve Aoki, Steve Reich + bcn216 + Synergy Vocals, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shackleton, James Holden, Nicolas Jaar, Global Communication, Trentemøller, A-Trak, Atmosphere, Annie Mac, Hype Williams, IAO Core, Little Dragon, Yelawolf, Tyondai Braxton, Apparat Band, Actress, Yelle, Scuba, Dominique Young Unique, Agoria, DZA, Benji B, Pearson Sound aka Ramadanman, Gilles Peterson, How To Dress Well, L-Vis 1990 b2b Bok Bok, Shuttle, Open Reel Ensemble, Silent Servant, Diskjokke, DELS, Lory D, Africa Hitech, Mary Anne Hobbs, Toddla T, oOoOO, Redlight feat. Ms. Dynamite & Dread MC, Bjørn Torske, The Gaslamp Killer, Poirier feat. Boogat, Surgeon, Egyptrixx, Toro Y Moi, Djedjotronic, The Brand Brauer Frick Ensemble, Discodeine, Annie, Offshore, Daito Manabe, Hauschka, Astrud + Col·lectiu Brossa, Jackmaster, Floating Points, Lucy, Chelis, Dadub …
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Give Head and Strange Powers -- Live in Seattle 2003
This is no arbitrary test for survival of our genepool. It is the perfect test. If we can learn to braid electrical space with the harmonics which love weaves, then we have passed the "ring pass knot" gate to the privilege of doing that same activity for the braid creation of star systems and galaxies with our similar but much unpacked and blossomed electrical bodies. Love is not just a good idea, it's the Law
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
I'd Tip My Hat To You.avi
this rare clip shows johannes ayres and demitria monde thraam performing Iao Core's
first single "I'd Tip My Hat To You " at San Francisco's 455 10th St.
Johannes is the one on the left. also note that matmosian wise guy m.c. schmidt is seen in the audience eating candy....
Monday, March 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
POSTER FROM LAST SUMMERS "LIVE ON THE PHARM" SHOW STILL AVAILABLE
WE HAVE ABOUT 150 OF THESE GORGEOUS POSTERS LEFT. ORDER ONE NOW FOR ONLY 3 DOLLARS SHIPPING AND WE'LL AUTOGRAPH IT FOR YOU! DID I MENTION THEY ARE GORGEOUS? More
powerfully cool than blasting ejaculations of dragonbreath fireballs at the mainstream media charade, or shooting fireworks out the business ends of elf flamethrowers at the fleeing asses of slum lords and neo-conservative goons. Well maybe not that cool, but cool none the less.
Monday, November 29, 2010
The Core issue 66 release event and Iao Core: “Live on the Pharm” CD Listening Party

Metaversal Media presents on Friday December 3
The Core issue 66 release event and
Iao Core: “Live on the Pharm” CD Listening Party
They are here. The Winter 2010 copies of the 66th issue of The Core. These gorgeous, hand made, investment quality art zines are limited to 200 copies of each issue. Each mag has a painting of an Enochian Angel by yours truly, Johannes Ayres, as it's back cover, so this will be the last time all 200 paintings can be viewed at the same time and anyone interested in picking out the painting they want gracing the back of their copy can do so.. This issue features : the Coming Insurrection (the infamous manifesto in it’s entirety, The Secret History of Oil, interviews with Siouxsie Sioux , Peter Carrol, and Alejandro Jawdorosky, Iao Core News, as well as a free CD of Iao Core’s live performance at Heather Farms Park in Walnut Creek this summer.
Friday evening, I will show you the process of production of the Enochian Angel Paintings, and you can view all 200 before they catch the four winds, and be the first to hear the new Iao Core CD (it's awesome). Celebrity guests will read excerpts from this issue, and Cash Hose will give a slide presentation/lecture on his recent trip to the Abyss …Will there be fireworks? No, there will not be fireworks, but there’s a young Christian girl (a bastard daughter of yours, if Reverend Glitch is to be believed) who will read from the Core for tips and cheese. You needn’t dress in any but the most perfunctory manner nor bring any crickets (there will be plenty of those!) and I myself will be wearing but a thin military camisole from the pelvic region upwards and may be toting a gecko or two.
This event is free of charge and will take place from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Historic Merritt Lodge, 2332 Harrisson in Oakland, California, which may or may not be the arsehole of the universe, but one thing is certain: Art of this almost other-worldly nature could not be created within the confines of the civilized world. It is Art that pleads a kind of lost divine madness a its guiding inspiration. the center will make itself known to those who will be a part of it there and who will find their way there and those who are to be a part of it in another location will also respond to the gravitational pull of Love in evolution, embracing the death of the false, for the endless perpetuation of the real, via the mysterious process of change, which is the dance performed by that which is immortal in us …and is the perceptible part of the divine in demonstration of it.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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