Founded by Tom Smith in 1990, To Live And Shave In LA have spent most of the last two and a half decades ploughing through genre boundaries in riotous fashion. To Live and Shave in L.A. (aka TLASILA) rip through sonic boundaries and demolish cultural mythologies with a kinetic mélange of violent, constantly shifting musique concrète structures, splintered electronics, and stark, dramatic vocalizations. Their powerfully evocative compositions can take the form of forty-minute Kuiper Belt freak-outs or dense, demonic, two-minute pipe bomb pop. Their avowed enemy is genre itself, their ultimate goal, unknowing. Hyper-literate texts, ungovernable performances, and a ruthlessly meticulous production regimen yield recordings without referent, sounds that garrote taxonomy.

For this OTO show they appear as a special five-piece line-up:

- Lucas Abela (The Band From Bloody Elle, Martin Ng Turntable Orchestra, Noddingturd Fan)
- Tom Smith (Boat Of, Merkwürdig Riechen, Miss High Heel, Ohne, Peach Of Immortality, Pussy Galore, Rope Cosmetology, Three Resurrected Drunkards, To Live And Shave In L.A., X Narrative)
- Graham Moore (Black Meat, Branks, Cursory, Exploring Therapeutic Encounter, Graveyard Wanderers, Offerings, To Live And Shave In L.A., X Narrative)
- Rat Bastard (Bubonik Stupefaktion, Laundry Room Squelchers, The, To Live And Shave In L.A.)
- Balazs Pandi (Cuts, Metallic Taste Of Blood, Obake, Rope Cosmetology, Slobber Pup, To Live And Shave In L.A., Wormskull)

“Noise purists hell bent on chaos and destruction have been craving the return of genre-shattering art-punk collective To Live And Shave In L.A. since it's alleged final ripper, 2011's The Cortège, was cranked out at Sonic Youth's studio in Hoboken. Now, TLASILA — the brainchild of brutarian overlord Tom Smith that has featured a rotating cast of iconoclastic misfits that count Andrew W.K., Thurston Moore, Don Fleming (Velvet Monkeys) and the late, great Chris Grier as members — are back to inflict another brutal dose of mayhem.” – Village Voice