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9:00pm, $6 |
 Transmography
"The unlikely sound of Transmography has been perplexing and mesmerizing Austin for the past year, unpacking an industrial thwamp of experimental rock that coheres in abstract rhythms and explosive instrumental freak-outs. The duo of James Evans and Michael Frazier combine for a cacophonic sweep that is almost unimaginable for simply two players, and to watch them trade guitar, drums, bass, synth and electronic duties throughout their cathartic live sets is almost overwhelming. Last year Transmography released their debut, Polydactyly through the artist collective 8088, which unleashed equal parts ambient meditations and furiously pounding syncopations of metal scrapes and junk-punk percussive anthems." - Austin Sound
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 Rad Racket
Rad Racket (Philadelphia): "a great mix of punk and art-damaged prog-rock to go along with screaming vocals that aren’t annoying." - The Big Takeover
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 Grandchildren
Blending horns, keyboards and electronically layered guitar melodies that were orchestrally interwoven. The result was the debut recording Quilts (2004), an array of heavily instrumental epic compositions in which layers of looping melodies emerge into an orchestral wall of sound. In their new release the orchestral and horn-heavy rock has given way to a more meditative confrontation of the electronic and acoustic. With dizzying syncopation and surreal choirs of ominous voices, the new beat-driven sound is transportive, composed of the tribal and synthetic. (bio)
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9:30pm, $15 |
Akron/Family Residency - sold out Akron/Family
"I reiterate they are one of the best bands on the planet. I don’t recall seeing such fantastic live shows ever, except maybe Pere Ubu at the Whisky in LA circa 1978 or Pink Floyd circa Umma Gumma era 1968/9. Take those unrelated reference points and mix in The Beatles, Chicago Art Ensemble, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, The Hollies, The Butthole Surfers, Led Zeppelin, and you might get a notion - probably not. Best thing is to see them live and listen to their recordings and leave it at that…" - Michael Gira, Young God Records/Swans
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9:00pm, $15 |
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10pm, $FREE |
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Private Event with The Onion 7-9pm
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9:00pm, $7 |
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 Azeda Booth
From Calgary, Alberta! "Azeda Booth's solution is to render lullabies on the scale of anthems. The Calgary, Alberta, quintet's starry meditations for laptop, synths, and guitars are as delicately formed and colored as soap bubbles, yet they drift with a paradoxically leaden sense of weight. They've created a signature sound that is both idiosyncratic and durable enough to sustain a whole album: Each track on In Flesh Tones is comprised of chirpily androgynous vocals (with hints of subterranean soul), ice-baths of beatific mood, and insistently sputtering glitch tracks that thread a thin wire of urgency through the indeterminately unfurling melodies." - Pitchfork
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9:00pm, $7 |
 Lake
LAKE (K Records) is a group of cloudy individuals brought together through lines drawn along Interstate-5, intersecting in olympia on or around 2005. The sounds they craft are straight from the playbook of the good parts of Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, and Turkish psychedelic music. Caressing the Rhodes piano, endearing drum fills, guitars that don't sound like guitars, and some slamming bass lines. (bio)
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KUSF co-presents Wildildlife
"Thunderous psychedelic pop disappears into a vortex of phaser noise before returning to completely flatten you with double-bass chaos and splattery sludge. From there, WILDILDLIFE move through vast realms of skull-expanding beauty and heaviness, glacial tempos and alien soundscapes, mesmerizing dark folk pop and churning psych metal." - Stabbed in the Face
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 Gunslingers (France)
"This Julian Cope approved (Record Of The Month for August '08 on his Head Heritage website) band has come up with a doozy of debut here, a real humdinger from these Gallic guitarslingers. Featuring Matthieu Canaguier on "thunderbass", Antoine Hadhoannou on "prophetic drums", and most importantly, badass-in-chief Gregory Raimo on "guitar & guitar lighter, yaya preach, feedback", this trio's No More Invention sounds something like the French answer to The Heads, or White Hills, or even Mainliner. Utter aggro over the top distortodelic geetar excess. Frickin' savage. SAVAGE." - Aquarius Records
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