Reg Bloor

Guitarist Reg Bloor's experiments in dissonance have been described as "It’s like part black metal, part no wave, and part nuclear holocaust." (MP Lockwood - No Core) As a solo artist, she is currently performing at The Red Bull Music Academy New York Festival on May 16, 2014; at 119 Gallery's Memorial Day BBQ on May 26, 2014: at at the OFF Festival in Katowice, Poland on August 3.

She is the guitarist, composer and founder of the NYC-based angular experimental band THE PARANOID CRITICAL REVOLUTION since 2005. The band has 3 recordings out on SYSTEMS NEUTRALIZERS - "Crimson Canvas" (2013), "Euphobia" (2010) and "Death of the Cool" (2007) The band appeared at ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES, "A Nightmare Before Christmas" in Minehead, England in December 2007 and the South By Southwest Music Festival in March 2009.

Reg has also been working with legendary avant garde composer Glenn Branca (to whom she is married) since 2000, performing all over the world in his Symphony No. 12, as concertmaster for his Symphony No. 13 for 100 Guitars and Symphony No. 15 "Running Through The World Like An Open Razor" (Music for Strange Orchestra) and as part of The Glenn Branca Trio. She also appeared as part of the Glenn Branca Ensemble on his CD "The Ascension: The Sequel" and on his subsequent tours in support.

Through the years Bloor has work with David Bowie, Page Hamilton, Thurston Moore, John Patitucci, Annie Clark/St. Vincent, Mike Watt, Adrian Utley (Portishead), Ty Braxton, tomandandy, among others. She appeared uncredited on the soundtrack to the Paramount Pictures film "The Mothman Prophesies". Reg collaborated with artist Tony Oursler on the installation "Empy Blue" for EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany. She was part of Bill T. Miller's improvisational ORGY OF NOISE project on the CD "Noodle Braino".

Previously, Reg was a founding member, guitarist and composer for the experimental Neo-No Wave band TWITCHER who performed all over the Northeastern United States in the late 1990's. They were a runner up for the Boston Phoenix Demo Derby in 1997. Their self-produced CD "Leg of Lamb of God" was released in 1999, the same year they appeared on the soundtrack to the TROMA film TERROR FIRMER.

"Whoa. That was pretty intense, to say the least."
Mike Watt - The Watt From Pedro Show