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Fronted by Natalie Hoffmann of NOTS, Memphis’ OPTIC SINK “finds an eerie seam between Suicide’s synthy menace, Devo’s robotics and early female-dominated post-punk, the Raincoats and LiliPUT especially.” - Dusted
"Detroit’s TYVEK are revered DIY lifers, still flying the lo-fi flag nearly 20 years into their existence, laying it all on the line via cheaply recorded two-minute punk blasts informed by the Ramones, The Fall, Television Personalities, etc, but shot through their distinctive Midwest Michigan worldview. Overground is Tyvek’s first album in six years and is a welcome return — 11 bleaty jams flecked with skronky sax, frontman Kevin Boyer’s free association (but thoughtful) lyrics and more musical finesse than the hissy recordings may suggest.”
Red Richardson is a critically acclaimed standup comedian, writer and actor and is regarded as one of the most exciting and in demand new faces of comedy. His ‘Stay Toxic’ videos have received over 80 million views on Instagram and his stand up comedy shows sell out theatres and comedy clubs across the UK. In 2023 his stand up show ‘The Best of Red Richardson’ sold out the iconic Leicester Square Theatre in under 24 hours.
Maggie Winters is a Chicago-fried comedian turned internet personality best known under the moniker @saggiesplinters. With training through both Second City and iO Chicago, Maggie quickly transitioned her talents from the stage to online where she immediately amassed thousands of followers through her unique online characters. In the live space, Maggie is credited with performing with the likes of Colin Jost, Meg Stalter, Hannah Einbinder, Matt Rogers, and Paul F Tompkins. Directed by her Southside-Irish blood relatives, Bart and Liam Winters, Maggie Winters’ solo show Marguerite will explore her life, her laugh, and her love!
Quintron and Miss Pussycat have been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for over fifteen years. The majority of their 14 full-length albums (Including ones for Goner Records and Third Man Records) have the psychedelic soul of traditional New Orleans party music filtered through a tough distorted Hammond B-3 and a cache of self-made electronic instruments.
Chloe Troast is the only new SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE cast member to join season 49 and was named a NEW FACE at Just for Laughs 2023. Previously, she landed the Amy Pascal Feature Film GOODRICH starring Michael Keaton and shot a recurring role on Paul Feig's ABC pilot DROP OFF, opposite Ellie Kemper. Chloe can next be seen in HBO Max’s Feature Film SWEETHEARTS, starring Kieran Shipka, and Judd Apatow’s Feature Film, PLEASE DON’T DESTROY: THE TREASURE OF FOGGY MOUNTAIN, opposite Conan O’Brien, Bowen Yang and Megan Stalter.
Cindy Lee's fifth album showcases the project's most entrancing strengths: ethereal snowdrift pop and sly nods toward classic girl-group motifs…a mix of pop culture indoctrination, pain and suffering, hopes and dreams, fierce confrontations and wide-open confessional blurs.
Cindy Lee's fifth album showcases the project's most entrancing strengths: ethereal snowdrift pop and sly nods toward classic girl-group motifs…a mix of pop culture indoctrination, pain and suffering, hopes and dreams, fierce confrontations and wide-open confessional blurs.
Talent Moat is once again teaming up with the Noise Pop festival to present a FREE HAPPY HOUR SHOW at Bender’s Bar & Grill featuring top-shelf IRL entertainment from three of the best bands in the SF/Oakland sub-underground: THE LOSERS, CROISSANT, AND FOG LAMP.
Philadelphia guitarist Emily Robb (Bandcamp’s “Best Experimental Music of 2023”) teams up with Very Special Guest to debut a one-of-a-kind duo set. Heads, this one’s not to be missed!
"There’s no shortage of squall on Emily Robb’s new album, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection. It’s a guitar pageant! One listen and you’ll hear Charley Patton amidst the buzz, his primitive blues lurking in the cacophony. Pull those impulses forward 40 years and you’ll hear familiar sounds that take you right to the early Velvets.”
"There’s no shortage of squall on Emily Robb’s new album, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection. It’s a guitar pageant! One listen and you’ll hear Charley Patton amidst the buzz, his primitive blues lurking in the cacophony. Pull those impulses forward 40 years and you’ll hear familiar sounds that take you right to the early Velvets. - Dusted Magazine
Hammered Hulls are a band from Washington D.C. A new band of long-time players, Hammered Hulls’ music hews close to some of their early influences. Alec MacKaye is the voice, Mark Cisneros is the guitarist, Brendan Canty of Fugazi is the bassist, and Chris Wilson commands the drums. Each of them brings their individual imprint to the total sound. This concussion of strength upon strength, unified by vulnerable songs, only barely contained, is the signature sound of Hammered Hulls.
"Bay Area guitarist Bill Orcutt and New York drummer Chris Corsano are one of the great improvising duos of our time. Orcutt has forged a powerful amalgam of blues phrasing, stabbing noise, and spindly hypnosis, extracting a titanic flow of sound that holds on to some abstract vestige of the past as it rockets into the void.”
Grace Kuhlenschmidt is an NYC based stand-up comedian, actress and writer who was recognized by the New York Times as one of the top 7 Comedians to Watch. Last year she was also recognized as a New Faces: Creators by Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival. Grace recurred in the final season of SEARCH PARTY (HBO Max) and can be seen in the first season of KILLING IT (Peacock). She also appeared in the first season of ZIWE on Showtime. She wrote for the Audible Original series HOT WHITE HEIST which was directed by Alan Cumming and produced by Broadway Video.
Non Plus Temps feature members of Naked Roommate, the World, Famous Mammals, and Preening, among other groups based in Oakland, California.Influenced by a “communist interpretation of collective music” and the variable post-punk and dub combinations of the On-U Sound label.
Spiritual Cramp “weaves together disparate punk strands into a furiously cool whole. The group, named after a Christian Death song, sounds like the Marked Men and the Specials locked in a death spiral,”
Legendary Portland keys and drums power duo.
Join us for a celebration of Kleenex/LiLiPUT, the new book about this iconic and influential Swiss punk group, edited by Grace Ambrose and released on her label Thrilling Living. A translation of guitarist Marlene Marder's diaries, this book is the definitive English-language document of this important band. Live music from Croissant, Kissing, and a feminist punk soundtrack by DJ Dulcinea, a photobooth and more await!
The Marked Men is an American punk rock band from Denton, Texas, composed of guitarists/vocalists Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan, bassist Joe Ayoub, and drummer Mike Throneberry.
They have released four albums through Rip Off Records, Dirtnap Records, and Swami Records. Their most recent album, Ghosts, was released in 2009 through Dirtnap.
The wanderings of Oog Bogo wind up on the same island of lost joys, manufacturing a virtual jukebox of singles and side flips that won’t unplug, and just keep reeling and raging on instead. A bright metallurgy of guitar pop, psyched post-punk and apocalypse disco.
The Marked Men is an American punk rock band from Denton, Texas, composed of guitarists/vocalists Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan, bassist Joe Ayoub, and drummer Mike Throneberry.
They have released four albums through Rip Off Records, Dirtnap Records, and Swami Records. Their most recent album, Ghosts, was released in 2009 through Dirtnap.
"Cindy Lee is a Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter, performer, and recording artist known worldwide as one of the last great torch singers and as a living guitar legend. A transient drag queen and dangerous drifter hellbent on corrupting the youth of America. Beautiful and compelling Pop tracks and L-I-T-E torch ballads in the great tradition of Roy Orbison, Ros Sereysothea, Gloria Ann Taylor, and Patsy Cline. A blurring of fiction and reality is a theme, apparent in the contrast between grandiose pop ambitions and amateur recording techniques."
Rotterdam quartet LEWSBERG will be touring North America for the first time this Autumn, with a 25 show run kicking off September 20 at Brooklyn’s Union Pool. The band’s first-ever trip to these shores includes a September 30 Memphis appearance at the 20th edition of Gonerfest.
PYREX delivers driving, scrappy hardcore-leaning post-punk that sounds like a mix between a lost KBD artifact and an Eastern European post-punk unknown. This LP explores dystopic and nihilistic themes both lyrically and musically packaged in no-brainer high energy punk. Pyrex delivers distorted, angular and heavily entwined bass and guitar hooks strengthened by linear, pummeling drums with raw, aggressive vocals.
”Spiral Dub’s self-titled debut album, out via Sanctuary Moon, is a lively bunch of sugar-spun swarmers and high-octane proto-punk, built on the strength of three guitars and plenty of psychedelic heft. The songs are spiky but hooky, there’s an effortless cool and endlessly warbling distortion. The texture of the record feels in constant motion, the lush psychedelic nature of it becoming the constant thread as they roar between barn-burners and sun-spotted pop.”
“As with their ace debut, Traffic Control, Automatic Gratuity is the sound of the last forty years of punk, no wave, and hardcore melted down and worn as (cheap, obvs) sunglasses. More ranter than crowd pleaser, but impossibly fun nonetheless, WARP makes a strong argument for punk being correctly indifferent to its own relevance with the squares.
Free outdoor show at Vesuvio/Kerouac Alley in SF with VIOLENT CHANGE + CROISSANT
Any band boasting members of LUBRICATED GOAT and Live Skull will get my attention. So it's pleasing to report that THE ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET live up to expectations. The Brooklyn brutes' recent "A Call To You"/"Won't Say It To My Face" single pummels, whooshes, and oscillates like Hawkwind on a tequila bender. It's pugilistic rock with gravel-voiced singing that aspires to space, but it's too busy kicking your ass to achieve stellar liftoff. (Key detail: The drummer's name is Bloody Rich.) And that resultant friction is what makes the music so compelling.” - Dave Segal, The Stranger
Wolf Eyes is a band from Michigan. Formed in the fall of 1996 by N. Young. They are known for their bizarre and otherworldly approach to music. Creating a sound that is both disturbing and hypnotic. The band has released numerous albums and EPs on various labels. With their intense and bizarre live performances, Wolf Eyes has garnered a reputation as one of the most frightening and weird bands in the world. Wolf Eyes is currently John Olson and Nate Young. They have performed together for over 20 years.
JAMES AUSTIN JOHNSON is a comedian originally from Nashville and a featured player on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. The New York Times has called him “one of SNL’s most versatile celebrity impressionists.” His spot-on impression of Trump paired with his improvisational ramblings about Weird Al, Julia Louis Dreyfus, and Scooby Doo have garnered over 5 million views, with profiles on James in Vanity Fair, Slate, Mashable, and Vice to name a few. As an actor, James' TV/Film credits include FUTURE MAN, BASKETS, ROBBIE, BETTER CALL SAUL, THE LAST TYCOON and the Coen Brothers’ feature HAIL, CAESAR!. As a stand up, James has performed on the Vice series FLOPHOUSE, as well as RIOT LA and JUST FOR LAUGHS as a New Face.
Snotty and brazen in the LA tradition, but careening with the velocity of an early James Chance record, Advoids have delivered a masterful opening statement with their taut, tense demonstration. Having honed their song-craft doing time in prolific DIY stalwarts The Freakees & Diode, they have already perfected the art of sounding genuinely unhinged. They approach this with a visceral sense of economy; no note of the sparely laid guitar is wasted, while the rhythm section propels every song with an unstoppable groove, the perfect foundation for vocalist Gabbie to launch her venomous rants and raves.
"With inspirational templates as far-flung as Les Paul & Mary Ford, The Specials, and Lee Scratch Perry, The Intelligence’s latest album, Lil’ Peril, pulls off the absurd shift “from ‘No-Wave Santana’ to ’Screamers recorded by Jon Brion.”
Mammatus have become increasingly reclusive in the years since their inception. They have also been honing their vision of mathy stoner rock, proto-new age, Kraut-prog and organic proto-metal into a panoramic, ever-expanding visionary world uniquely their own resulting in their new album, Expanding Majesty.
Pure Hex are one of the top Bay Area traffickers in contempo-shoegaze.
San Francisco/Oakland/Chicago reprobates CCR Headcleaner produce a sleazy, riff-heavy, feedback-drenched brand of psych. It’s the band’s first local show in almost 3 years plus it’s the release show for their spanking new album. Sunday afternoon outdoors on the El Rio patio with a stacked lineup, a cheap cover, and YOU! There’ll be plenty of time later on for self-loathing.
590 Tahoe Keys Blvd, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
