Throwaway

Haunted by a mysterious woman with a brown paper bag for a head, guitarist Kirsten Carey created Throwaway, an angular post-punk band that acrobatically leaps around virtuosic riffs and unexpected rhythms. Carey's garnered a reputation as a fearless and genre-defying guitarist, collaborating with artists like clipping. and Tyshawn Sorey.

Carey recruited bassist Ben Willis and drummer Jonathan Barahal Taylor, a trio which has played together in multiple projects for over a decade. Armed with that tightness, Throwaway has opened for bands like Deerhoof, Fucked Up, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Flying Luttenbachers, and Evicshen. They've toured extensively around the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan, headlining major venues like The Empty Bottle (Chicago), El Club (Detroit), The Bootleg Theater (LA), and Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto).

The masked namesake of the band is surreally represented in on-stage project and music videos, which have won awards at the prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival.

After a string of singles between 2015 and 2018, Throwaway released their debut album, WHAT?, to widespread acclaim in 2019. FPE Records released their follow-up EP, Hand That Takes, in 2022. Throwaway is wrapping up production on their next release - an hour-long concept album depicting an exaggerated hero's journey to the grocery store in modern America - with producer and engineer Chris Koltay (Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Bad Bad Not Good).