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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 - she's featured as a soloist on clipping.'s track for the Rick and Morty album, praised by the Quietus as one of the highlights of the 2024 Skanu Mezs festival alongside Autechre, and opened for the Sun Ra Arkestra in duo with 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's second album - an hour-long concept album depicting an exaggerated hero's journey to the grocery store in modern America - is wrapping up production with producer and engineer Chris Koltay (Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Bad Bad Not Good). 

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