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early show w/Enablers and Shotwell Jr. - 6:30pm, $5 Enablers
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later show w/Girls, So Cow, Nodzzz - 9:30pm, $8 Girls
"Beach houses and broken hearts share equal time with hazy drug escapades up and down the golden state, all amidst a wash of heavy guitar reverb and blinding lyrical optimism."- Dazed Digital
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 So Cow
Brian Kelly was born too late. Going by the musical handle So Cow, he has the record-it-today, release-it-on-a-cheap-cassette-tomorrow aesthetic of 1983 running through his veins. Kelly is from Tuam, Ireland, and has a mess of songs that recall the spindly, propulsive electric-guitar pop of the Television Personalities, Wreckless Eric and Billy Bragg (if Bragg wasn't all serious). One of the new So Cow releases is a charming self-titled compilation that helpfully collects Kelly's best recorded moments. The other is "So Cow in a Shed," a covers EP (that can be downloaded for free) in which he tackles the Who's "Boris the Spider," 1970s Korean psychedelic folk queen Kim Jung Mi and Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know." Go see which of them he plays at the Velvet. Just look for the guy with the guitar who looks like Corey Feldman in "Stand by Me." - Washington Post
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 Nodzzz
"Nodzzz is fun. Fun in the way that the second incarnation of the Modern Lovers and the first Weezer album are fun. Nick Lowe, Billy Childish, Feelies – you name it. The best moments on the album approach that classic garage-pop abandon, only shot through with a present tense ragged aesthetic." - Dusted
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9:00pm, $7 |
Kymberli's Music Box presents: LSD & the Search for God
"LSD and the Search for God are the rightful inheritors of the more coherent side of My Bloody Valentine and the more experimental, noisy side of Luna." - Real Detroit Weekly
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 Hopewell
Tee Pee recording artistes blending vintage fuzz pedal jams with early space rock.
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10pm, $FREE |
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9:00pm, $6 |
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Pet the Bunny
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9:00pm, $6 |
 Buttercream Gang
"A tight post-punk band playing with African and Latin rhythms, as well as more adventurous, experimental song structures and instrumentation. When it clicks, it's brilliant." - East Bay Express
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9:00pm, $6 |
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 Zoo
members of Little Teeth!
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9:30pm, $7 |
 Ear Pwr
Hailing from Baltimore, "Ear Pwr’s main influence is likely the Nintendo Entertainment System, at least if you take the album title at face value. It all depends on one’s tolerance for twee amphetamine electronix. If you go in with an open mind, despite the penetrating elf march histrionics (similar to Dan Deacon’s chipmunk chants), you’ll notice on 'You Are the Bomb' and 'Boys II Volcanoes' that the duo of Devin Booze and Sarah Reynolds place skilled beats atop an atmosphere of rubber and static." - Agit Reader
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 Adventure
Carpark recording artistes Adventure:
"If Game Boy made soul music, it would sound like this. Both rinky dink and rapturously melodic, Adventure programs dense layers of synth lines and shifting beats that fall together like sonic Tetris. As addictive as a good video game - and you can't lose." -SPIN
"..An exercise in kitten-cute hyper-melody, a boroque blend of ping and counterping with dashes of Sparks' oompah-rock and Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth sugar that pours melted happy-happy down your lugholes. New High Score." -NME
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Shakes Gown
For 10 years Chris Rolls has manipulated sounds and minds in such bands as la Flange du Mal, Fuckwolf, Earwicker, the Front Bottoms, Content Provider, and Zeigenbock Kopf.
In December 2007 Chris headed to Berlin, Germany with a 4-track, SK-1, some effects and a microphone. The result is Shakes Gown. |
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 Hurry Up Shotgun
Mystic psycho pop from ex-members of Coma Girl and Green Light The Bombers.
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