8pm doors, 9pm show. $14 adv., $16 door. 21+
A new band of long-time players, Hammered Hulls’ music hews close to some of their early influences. Alec MacKaye (The Faith/Ignition) is the voice, Mark Cisneros (The Make-Up, Kid Congo) is the guitarist, Brendan Canty (Fugazi) is the bassist (filling in on this tour for Mary Timony) 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.
“The members of post hardcore/punk super group Hammered Hulls — Alec MacKaye, Mary Timony, Mark Cisneros, and Chris Wilson—have all been in numerous influential bands: Helium, The Make-Up, The Faith, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Warmers, Autoclave, Kid Congo, Titus Andronicus, and Wild Flag to name but a few. And together as HH they have just released their debut full length, Careening (via Dischord) which follows their 2019 self titled EP. They have also shared the first single, “Rights and Reproduction,” a song loaded with a palpable push and pull tension, coupled with MacKaye’s urgent vocals and full of the legacy and sound of the great Washington DC bands that have come before them (and often times included them).
Fellow DC veteran and living punk legend Guy Picciotto of Rites of Spring and Fugazi shared these thoughts via a press release on Hammered Hulls and the song saying:
‘Alec MacKaye has been a source of inspiration to me since I was 15 years old when his bands the Untouchables and Faith made their massive crater-sized impacts on me. “Inspiration” doesn’t do it justice – in the chaos of his performance and the power of his voice, Alec was always to me the distant horizon of what any singer could aspire to be. It is surely the only debt you can incur that feels like a gift. That he now continues to provide that same energy to me 42 years later with his band Hammered Hulls is not really a surprise but it is wildly welcome. Mary Timony, Chris Wilson and Mark Cisneros, three musicians of absurd pedigree, sensitivity and skill, create a weave that’s both tough and lithe, the ideal setting for Alec’s singular voice and words. Their new single “Rights and Reproduction” colonized my mind when I saw them play it live and is now just as disruptive in its recorded form. A highwater mark has been redrawn. Hammered Hulls are for real.’” - Full Time Aesthetic
Wound-up art punks. Nasty riffs, dark vocal harmonies and bombastic drumming.
Post-punk indie rock from Oakland.