Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek is an experimental grindcore band comprised of John Wiese, Jesse Jackson, and Cory Ronnau. Their music typically consists of Ronnau on vocals and Wiese on bass/drum machine, and Jackson on guitar with the results often cut up at a very fast tempo using a computer.
Geometric Reason
On Geometric Reason, Sissy Spacek reroute their long‑running extremism into a jagged strain of musique concrète, splicing voice, electronics and acoustic shards into a volatile collage charged by fire‑displacement, Japanese connections and their endu…
Electric Garden
On Electric Garden, Sissy Spacek and Smegma blur into a single, unstable organism, trading identities inside a live electro‑acoustic tangle where tape, junk percussion, turntables and guitar debris drift through The Pink House like sentient interfere…
Declensio
On Declension, Sissy Spacek’s core duo John Wiese and Ch. Mumma condense their most feral impulses into two mid‑2024 blowouts, erecting sheer walls of cascading electronics and scorched‑throat vocals that feel like being dropped into a collapsing sta…
Non-Linear
Sissy Spacek’s Non-Linear detonates the idea of narrative from within, stitching decades of raw sessions and volatile improvisations into a panoramic fever-dream. Restlessly shape-shifting, the album spirals through states of collapse and acceleratio…
Gong
Gong, newly reissued on CD with bonus tracks, finds Sissy Spacek at their inventive peak, transforming the noise duo format into a meticulous, sprawling environment. The album’s two extended pieces are collages of violently manipulated junk noise, sh…
Raiser
Raiser captures a 2013 Bronson session of Sissy Spacek—Phil Blankenship, Charlie Mumma, and John Wiese—in Los Angeles, channeling an intense fusion of harsh noise and noisecore. The album is a relentless, cathartic experience: shriek-laced blasts, se…
15-Tet Oakland
2010 release ** "Recorded at 21 Grand in Oakland, California, this disc features a truly monster lineup of musicians adding to the Sissy Spacek core duo of John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau. We’ve got guitarists, woodwind, percussion, drum and double bas…
Entrance
Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project’s most captivating outings to date. Encountering the duo of John Wiese and Charlie Mumma joine…
Hunter Killer
2015 Disfathom-era multi-track recording with Mike Du Bose on vocals.
Mirror Aggressor State
On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese trio line-up.
Coronado
In their first collaborative album, pioneering Japanese sound artist Merzbow and prolific outsider outfit Sissy Spacek unite to unleash an unstoppable firebomb of frenzied electronics and raging percussion across two 45-minute discs in this monumenta…
Cosm
A new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, and John Wiese on organ. Unlike anything that's come before.
Benigemony Asiniscrepancy
Diehard oxblood red vinyl, limited to 100 copies. Bone-crushing U.S. noisecore avalanche, brand new recordings from this prolific unit terrorizing the masses since 1999! Special line-up consisting of: Isaac Horne (Mankind’s Devastation, Sulfuric Caut…
Threshold
Noise/noisecore/grindcore/cut-up in unparalleled intensity from Mumma/Wiese with two tracks featuring Jay Randall.
Mechanical Abstraction
A scorching assembly of recordings from Sissy Spacek's 2022 ensemble tour, featuring the first John Wiese solo as Sissy Spacek since 2001 and two sets from the trio of Chris Goudreau/Jay Randall/John Wiese. Jewel case with heavy 28-page booklet.
Live In Hong Kong
Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released a broad range of work, from grindcore to musique concrète, with a consi…
Remote Whale Control
John Wiese's Sissy Spacek ensemble counts the kinetic drumming of Danny McClain and hazardous, shredded guitar from Corydon Ronnau on their 2007 release, 'Remote Whale Control'. It's all diced and dissected by Wiese and his box of electronics tricks,…
Tempo Scalato
Tip! 200 Copies. Staggering concrète tape cut-ups and raw electronic collage from from the duo lineup of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese. Another pinnacle of modern, harsh musique concrète!
Blear
Tip! An entropic vortex of full-room tear-up texture. Duo lineup of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese. Originally released in 2018 on LP/CS, this crucial CD reissue brings back into a print a pinnacle of modern, harsh musique concrète – with nearly 15 min…
Reslayer
Tip! ‘Sissy Spacek reaching full maturation – Hyper destructive low end heavy cut ups. Harsh noise from unheard nether-realms.’ - Brandon Hill
Electric Field In Parallel
‘Another stunning, definitive and beyond harsh release from the arguably the most forward thinking ultra-sonic-destruction unit in the world.’ - Brandon Hill
Trash Staging
*2022 stock* New Forces is proud to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sissy Spacek with their latest LP, "Trash Staging." Sissy Spacek have been one of my favorite bands for a long time, with a genre-bending catalog that spans grind, noisecore, …
BMW
Tip! A screeching smash of searing grit and demolished shock from the trio of Blankenship / Mumma / Wiese, which can be identified as a distinct subgroup within the Sissy Spacek discography, responsible for such carnage as Wreck (2013), Basement (201…
Gong
Torn Light Records presents a new tape release by great harsh noise duo Sissy Spacek featuring John Wiese and Charlie Mumma. A treat for your ears!
Radio Format
While we may live in an oversaturated time of hi-definition, microwave-pulse paced images and video snippets, one format that has remained in play since the early 1900’s is that of radio. A format perhaps overlooked most in its ability to not only ac…
Ballast
Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, and Ju Suk Reet Meate (three original members) are joined by Rock ’N’ Roll Jackie (35 years in the band), John Wiese (approximately 10 years), and a cast of others form the current third phase Smegma. Personnel of this a…
Scissors
* 2x7-inch, gatefold cover * 20th anniversary edition of Sissy Spacek's second album, first reissue since it's original release, this time as a double 7-inch in a deluxe gatefold cover. An incomprehensible, discombobulated wreck."This four-track expl…
Sissy Spacek
* 20th anniversary edition of Sissy Spacek's first album, first ever LP edition * Helicopter presents the first LP edition of Sissy Spacek by Sissy Spacek . Frantic, violent, destroyed music.
"Probably the world’s first plunderphonic grindcore record…
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Entropic
* 2020 Stock * On the verge of their 40th and in the midst of their 20th anniversaries, respectively, Hijokaidan and Sissy Spacek merge in Tokyo for their first collaboration, featuring Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, T. Mikawa, Charlie Mumma, Futoshi Okano, …
Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways
* 2020 Stock * Helicopter presents Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways by The Haters and Sissy Spacek. Performer – Charlie Mumma, GX Jupitter-Larsen, John Wiese.
Featureless Thermal Equilibrium
Helicopter presents Featureless Thermal Equilibrium by Sissy Spacek. New and revelatory full length album with a trio line-up of Charlie Mumma, Jay Randall, and John Wiese. A world of mesmerizing evocations and alternating realms. An unceasing kingdo…
Freaked With Jet
**100 copies** No guitars and fuck two-second gaps. A collection of six 7-inches (Gutter Splint, Fortune b/w The Eyes of Men, Epistasis, Vacuum, Vanishing Point, and the split with Agathocles). Performed by Mumma / Ronnau / Wiese. The only band to ma…
Pitched Intervention
Finally available on vinyl! Recorded in Los Angeles in February 2018, Pitched Intervention consists of a Concrete and collage session by Charlie Mumma and John Wiese with Don Bolles (The Germs, Ariel Pink) and Mitchell Brown (Gasp), and one session w…
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Blear
* 2020 Stock * Widening their scope from recent grindcore on Nuclear War Now! Productions, Sissy Spacek's Blear explores a much more dynamic and spacious approach to sound--an entropic vortex of full-room tear-up texture. Duo lineup of Charlie Mumma …
L/L
Recorded on Sissy Spacek’s ensemble tour in January 2018, combining sets from Louisville with Tim Barnes, Bret Barry, and Margo Morley and Lexington with Robert Beatty.
First Four
Sissy Spacek's long out-of-print "Sissy Spacek" (Nuform 2001), "Remote Whale Control" (Gameboy 2003), "Scissors" (Misanthropic Agenda 2002), "Devils Cone and Palm" (Misanthropic Agenda 2006), plus the exclusive full-length Coast To Coast. The DVD …
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Dash/Anti-clockwise
Scathing sound by John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau, joined by Lasse Marhaug and Will Strangeland of Tearist and Sivler Daggers, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore. Ruptured and bleeding out, heavily. Seventeen bonus t…
Gate
A new 7" from Sissy Spacek on Wendy. If you have asked yourself this you know how this new vinyl sounds.Short crazy blast of terror, insane fast drums, screaming vocals, feedback and shards of noise. Play it loud. Play it at 45rpm. Flip side. Do it a…
Dash
Dash' is just over eight minutes long, and it's forty-three tracks. If you've heard the band before then you might know what this means - short hyperactive bursts of the finest extreme noise punk the world has likely ever witnessed. And I don't sa…
Rip
Recorded up and down the West Coast by JESSE JACKSON, CORYDON RONNAU, and JOHN WIESE and featuring appearances by YELLOW SWANS, PETER KOLOVOS (OPEN CITY) and PAUL COSTUROS (DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA!). Studio and live recordings with concrète witcery.