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Planet B

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The Locust, Hot Nerds, Retox, Some Girls, Holy Molar, Swing Kids, Blue Note, All Leather, Leg Lifters, Sonido de la Frontera, Ill Saint M, Head Wound City, Adam Gnade, Death Grips, Ho99o9, Lil Ugly Mane

Inception

San Diego , 2015

Discography

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Planet B originally featured Justin Pearson (the Locust, Head Wound City, etc.) with frequent collaborator Gabe Serbian (the Locust, Head Wound City, Dead Cross, Zu) and Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera, First Power Crew). Their debut 7-inch, tracked at Penguin Studio in San Diego, features “Wrong Utopia” b/w “Join a Cult.” Released via Three One G Records, a video was shot for “Join a Cult.”

Their song “Attractive Mammals” was featured in Asia Argento's film Incompresa, and another song from the soundtrack was remixed and released on a limited edition split 7-inch single collaboration with the Invisible Scratch Pickles.

In 2017, Planet B collaborated with San Diego writer and performer Adam Gnade for Life Is the Meat Grinder That Sucks In All Things, a new prequel to Gnade's Locust House featuring minimalist jazz percussion and landscapes of sweeping, windy Eraserhead-esque ambience.

The debut self-titled Planet B album, released in November 2018, includes collaborations with Martin Atkins (Ministry, PIL, etc.), Brian Evans (Retox), Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and Sonny Kay (Year Future, the VSS). The video for "Disease Control" features Sonny Kay and was created by Eric Livingston. A video for "Crustfund" features Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic MCs).

Around the same time, Planet B collaborated with Bronx-based rapper Kool Keith (signed to Pearson's Three One G Records label) for a remix of Keith's “Blast” and "Uncrushable."

A music video for the track "[A] Not At All [B] Somewhat [C] Very Much," created by Displaced/Replaced and released in early 2019, captures the ominous, overtly political tension of Planet B's music, opening with a Cornel West quote and cycling through scenes of civil unrest. Another video was produced for "The Beginning is Near," created by Displaced/Replaced (who has worked on videos for other Three One G bands such as Geronimo and Deaf Club) and capturing Planet B’s penchant for pyromania, both metaphorically and literally. A new single was released in early 2020, a cover of the M.I.A. track “Bad Girls.”

In late 2022, they teamed up with dark dance duo Adult. for a split seven-inch single, "Glass in the Trash" b/w "Release Me," with a vinyl variant edition limited to 250 copies. The Swamp green vinyl was released by Three One G and the neon orange edition was issued by Ersatz Audio.

After the death of Gabe Serbian, the band adjusted the lineup to feature Pearson with Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox), and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing).

Their sophomore full-length Fiction Prediction features guest collaborators David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), Josie Cotton, Kent Osborne, Ric Scales, and Crow Jane. Instrumental contributions are included from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek), who have both passed away. The album was recorded by Luke Henshaw, mixed by Daniel Schlett, mastered by Brent Asbury, and pressed on limited color vinyl with two variants; “Pig in a Python” pink and “Melanin of War” camouflage. A single was released for the track "Dick on the Dance Floor," which was also produced as a video featuring Valeria Catalina.

A collaborative single for “Rack More Brains” features guest rapper Kent Osborne. According to Pearson, “I first saw Kent Osborne live when he played Deaf Club’s LP release party, and I was completely captivated,” he recalls. “When we talked about working on a track for Planet B, I had an idea to record both vocal parts, his and mine, as structure, or reference. Kent just followed up with his own stuff, which was raw, precise, and extremely punctual. Luke came up with a pretty insane track, and, well, I wanted to deliver on my end since Kent was joining forces.”

Early 2024 saw the release of a new single called “Clogged Sync” featuring Eric Livingston AKA First Church of the Void.

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