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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
On Canary Yellow and Black Aside Bside style colored vinyl w/ fold-out insert mini poster of the Captain.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Hot Head
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Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.
shipping out on or around May 29, 2026
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
On classic black vinyl w/ fold-out insert mini-poster of the Captain.
Includes download of the album.
Ships media mail usa, GlobalPost/ UPS international.
Includes unlimited streaming of Hot Head
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.
shipping out on or around May 29, 2026
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$12USDor more
Test Pressing Edition
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Orcutt Shelley Miller Yow 'Hot Head' Test Pressing edition. Includes a test pressing disk used to approve the pressing. Plus individually hand painted, stamped, stickered and numbered jackets.
Edition of 25.
Test Pressing editions ship priority mail within the US and GlobalPost/ UPS international.
Includes unlimited streaming of Hot Head
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Orcutt Shelley Miller and legendary frontman David Yow of The Jesus Lizard join forces for a feral rendition of Captain Beefheart’s Hot Head, b/w Neil Young’s A Man Needs A Maid by Orcutt Shelley Miller, to be released as a digital EP out April 7th and on 7-inch vinyl May 29th on Silver Current Records.
Orcutt Shelley Miller follow their critically acclaimed self-titled 2025 debut album with a 7-inch EP that presents an unexpected pair of covers and a perfectly tailored guest vocalist appearance by David Yow for Beefheart’s Hot Head.
Ethan Miller, known for his singing in bands like Howlin Rain and Comets On Fire handles the intimate and glass-fragile vocal duties on OSM’s cinematic rendition of Neil Young’s A Man Needs A Maid.
On how Hot Head came about OSM bassist Ethan Miller says, “Beefheart is definitely one of our big, as Bill would say, Venn diagram intersections for OSM. Bill had been playing the Hot Head riff and throwing it into the middle of one of our tunes that had a similar tempo on certain nights on tour.” Miller continues, “We just kept digging in further and further to it until it was a full song embedded in this surrounding other song! David Yow and Steve were old friends and David just seemed like a perfect fit to bring it home and do Captain’s duties on vocals. David is one of the great through-lines helping to carry the spirit of Beefheart’s musical legacy into and beyond alternative music of the ‘90s and 2000s. In my estimation that explosive blending of sonic complexity and visceral, primitive expression is really at the heart of David and The Jesus Lizard’s power, as it is also at the heart of Orcutt Shelley Miller. Beefheart hand-carved the model for that musical dynamic in marble.”
On the subject of Beefheart David Yow says, “I am extremely grateful for Don Van Vliet and the stuff he made, both the things you look at and the things you listen to, but no more so than OSM. That may or may not be the truth.”
The b-side cover of Neil Young’s A Man Needs A Maid came about when Uncut magazine asked OSM if they could turn around a Neil Young cover for a compilation cd very quickly. Over text message Ethan asked Bill what song he thought would be a good choice to which Bill replied by text: A Man Needs A Maid. Later Bill told the band that he was joking when he suggested that song, but not being able to read tone through the text message Ethan shortly sent him basic tracks of acoustic guitar, a vocal and strings to work with and Bill and Steve’s electric guitar and percussion elements quickly brought the song to completion.
Hot Head/ A Man Needs A Maid releases digitally everywhere music streams and downloads April 7th and on limited edition 7-inch vinyl May 29th.
Orcutt Shelley Miller embark on a tour of Europe and the UK starting April 19th at Roadburn festival in Tilburg including a special guest appearance by David Yow with Orcutt Shelley Miller at the 100 Club in London on April 23rd.
EU/UK Tour Dates:
19.4 Roadburn, Tilburg, NL
20.4 Cafe OTO, London, UK - SOLD OUT
21.4 Castle & Falcon, Birmingham, UK
22.4 Bristol New Music Festival at Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
23.4 100 Club, London, UK
24.4 Instants Chavires, Montreuil, FR - SOLD OUT
26.4 Neue Zukunft, Berlin, DE
27.4 Meet Factory, Prague, CZ
28.4 Arena, Vienna, AT
29.4 Live Evil, Munich, DE
30.4 Bogen-F, Zurich, CH
1.5 Bad Bonn, Dudingen, CH
2.5 MPS Studio, Villingen, DE
3.5 AB Club, Brussels, BE
credits
released April 7, 2026
1. Hot Head:
David Yow: Vocals
Steve Shelley: Drums
Bill Orcutt: Guitar
Ethan Miller: Bass
Yow vocals recorded by Rui Sousa at TSB Studio in Porto, Portugal
Music recorded by Jeff Sarafinas at Johnny Brendas in Philadelphia PA.
Written by Don Van Vliet.
2. A Man Needs a Maid:
Ethan Miller: Vocal, acoustic guitar, synth, bass
Bill Orcutt: Electric guitar
Steve Shelley: Drums and gong
Recorded by Ethan Miller at The Silver House, Eureka CA, Bill Orcutt at The Living Room, San Francisco, CA and Phil Becker at El Studio, San Francisco, CA.
Orcutt Shelley Miller is an avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated figures of experimental music: Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire).
The original release is probably my all-time favorite album. This version sounds like an in-your-face live recording of flawless, powerful performances. It lacks the extreme loud/soft dynamic of the official release, where the range goes from a whisper to a scream. But the performances in Albini's recording are punchy and focused, and they make for a thoroughly enjoyable way to revisit this absolute classic from a different perspective. meteormags
A killer live experimental rock LP from Chris Forsyth with the rhythm section of Sunwatchers, full of blistering energy. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021
An updated best-of compilation—recent TikTok hit "Harness Your Hopes" included— from an iconic indie band who need no introduction. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 25, 2025
This album is raw, in your face. This album is sophisticated, too. Deceptively simple and somehow also very conscientiously layered. It makes little sense to me, and I understand every note. chumpwhmo
