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Adv. ticket sales are over but there will be tickets on sale at the door starting around 8pm. Jad Fair (Half Japanese)
In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair co-founded the lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese. Over the ensuing three decades, Half Japanese released nearly 30 records, and in the process, attracted a solid base of fans passionate about the band’s pure, unbridled enthusiasm for rock and roll. Jad also performs and records as a solo artist, and occasionally collaborates with such musicians as Daniel Johnston, Teenage Fanclub, Moe Tucker (of Velvet Underground), Yo La Tengo, Steve Shelly and Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), John Zorn, Kramer, and more.
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9:00pm, $6 |
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9:30pm, $7 |
Lover!
"At last, Memphis pop dilettante Rich Crook has found his true calling: delicately desecrating the three-minute rule in hit songwriting, and exploding forth with an unprecedented susceptibility that still brandishes it's dimly flickering punk roots in between hot flashes. As Crook's new primary musical vehicle, Lover! exceeds all expectations from this one-time member of such projectile punk pioneers, Reatards and Lost Sounds. if you think you can handle this kind of purity, this kind of cranial-crushing pop creativity, then strap yourself to the wall and turn it up, and you might just be ready for Lover!" - Todd Killings, Victim of Time |
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John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death
The Hill Country of North Mississippi is legendary, almost mythical, for the music the region has produced. We’re talking Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, The Hill Tops, Blue Mountain, North Mississippi Allstars and numerous others. But there is a new movement brewing in the hills as well. Bands such as Colour Revolt, The Black and Whites and John Barrett’s Bass Drum Of Death (JBBDD) are about to rock and we salute them.
John Barrett is a visonary, as JBBDD is a one-man-band with a huge sound. Equal parts Hasil Adkins, Junior Kimbrough, Jon Spencer and all parts John Barrett, JBBDD does thing the old fashioned way: guitar, vocals and kick drum.
The legend of JBBDD begins here: “while on the road to play a youth retreat in ann arbor, michigan with his former band JB and the Biodimple-Dumplings, john barrett’s tour hearse was attacked by a roving gypsy death squad of death. though all of his band members were disemboweled by the bloody gypsies’ wicked death hooks, jb managed to slaughter the attackers and steer the hearse off a cliff, escaping with only a black wifebeater, a single sandal, a guitar and amp, and the unholy kick drum.” |
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early show 6pm, free // later show 9:30pm, $6 |
Cocksparrer preparty!! Early FREE 6:00pm show with White Flag Down, Aires and Grace, and DJ Floyd.White Flag Down
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Aires and Grace
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later show w/Turks et al -- 9:30pm, $6 Turks
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Rats Eyes
San Diego hardcore with members of The Locust, Sirhan Sirhan, and Hostile Combover! '80's style in the vein of Black Flag and Circle Jerks. |
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La Guardia
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8:00pm, $8 |
 Grant Hart (Husker Du, Nova Mob)
"Grant Hart's new solo record 'Hot Wax' hangs together in a remarkably cohesive fashion. It opens up with “You’re The Reflection Of The Moon On The Water,” which is a garage-band extravaganza. There is a great vintage organ sound on it, similar to that of the legendary Them’s “Gloria.” It is a great way to kick off a record.
The garage band vintage organ echo continues on a number of tracks, including, “Charles Hollis Jones,” and “Sailor Jack.” Actually, “Sailor Jack” is sort of an unholy spawn of The Beach Boys and Question Mark And The Mysterians.
I have always been hard pressed to describe Hart’s voice, as he uses different inflections depending on the song. But on Hot Wax, there is a notable similarity to that of David Bowie, certainly of the way he intones “Changes.” A quick listen to “School Buses Are For Children,” and “My Regrets,” will confirm this.
One of Hüsker Dü’s all-time greatest songs is “Diane,” off Metal Circus. Grant Hart wrote it, and it shows off his way with a melody spectacularly. He still has the gift, as “California Zephyr” shows. This is sort of a Big Star meets the Dü kind of tune.
Hot Wax is in its own way the perfect summation of what Grant Hart has always been known for. Great punk, great pop, and wildly provocative lyrics are what this record is all about. It really does have merit for those who exist outside of the Dü-obsessed like myself."
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10pm, $FREE |
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9:30pm, $6 |
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 Talk Normal
NYC's Talk Normal – drummer Andrya Ambro and guitarist Sarah Register – "create a nice racket that does a deft job of splitting the difference between harsh sonics and the essential song-oriented structures required of noise rock. Neither a band in which noise is merely a bi-product of a savage attack nor an overtly experimental outfit steeped in this or that high concept, Talk Normal come off as an organic self-contained unit that extracts as much as they can from their explicitly minimal approach. Sure, there are some obvious touchstones here – Sonic Youth, Magik Markers, Ut, Teenage Jesus – but the songs never feel derivative.
Though various sorts of processed sounds work their way in and out of the picture, the band’s aesthetic is built on a basic foundation of guitars, drums and vocals. The duo are clearly working within a dark, neo-now wave framework, yet there‘s some variety, too. They can sound both hyper and dirgey, calling to mind heat-soaked basement shows and cold moldy practice spaces alike. “Grinnin’ in Your Face” opens the album and establishes the Talk Normal template, squiggling moans of feedback, a simple lurching riff, and a dual vocal attack all buoyed by frenetic drumming. “Eureka” then uses a Branca-style guitarscape as foundation for a sing-speak vocal monologue direct from early ’80s downtown NYC. “Lemonade” rides a catchy little groove early on, and then builds to a drum-guitar/ freak-out zenith." - Dusted
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 Wet Hair
Iowa City's WET HAIR are Not Not Fun recording artists and also have split record out with Australia's Naked on the Vague. For those requiring more explication: "Wet Hair are continuing the Suicide-Doors-Of-Perception aesthetic they began with [their first album] Dream, caress, rather than cudgel, with their repetitions. The strange, quasi-religious, cultic feeling of the album is deeply and immediately felt. Glass Fountain could just as appropriately serve as the soundtrack to a Manson Family orgy as it could the setting for a Masonic ceremony. Shaun Reed’s depraved and surly vocals effectively defile the sanctity of the gorgeous keyboard work. Employed sparingly, Reed’s voice tethers Wet Hair’s music, keeping it from becoming too wispy to form any feelings about." - Tiny Mix Tapes
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plus special guest deejays from Mi Ami!
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9:00pm, $5 |
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Elm canceled due to illness
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 Midday Veil
"Seattle's Midday Veil brand of mind-expanding psychedelia rarely gets above a snail's pace, allowing you to experience every spiraling guitar run and droning bleat of the band's vintage synthesizers, as well as the fluttering arc of Emily Pothast's space-mother vocals. It's a sound custom designed to coax you down the rabbit hole, leaving you blissfully lost in wonderland." - Willamette Weekly
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