6pm doors, 7pm first band. Show over by 10pm!
$10 at the door.
Tha Retail Simps (Montreal, Total Punk Records)
"What if the Velvet Underground had written ‘Wooly Bully’ and Sam The Sham ‘Sister Ray?' If Ron House picked up some bongos and joined CCR or If Half Japanese and Hasil Adkins started a Meters cover band? This is the scrap yard of the Retail Simp's mind. Gang activity started when moldy Joe (Celluloid Lunch, Itchy Self...) enlisted fellow rhythm bro, Tom tha Moleanderthal (Feeling figures, Hélène Barbier band...) to make a perfect record in the Ides of corona March. Short on practice and high on ideas, thee Retail Simple Tones were born, well traveled and unraveled individuals, bound by a musical adventure. Now to show for it, Reverberant Scratch is a 9 track ruckus of tinny guitar sketching, horn-honking deliberations, keyboardarific doodles, and whatever else one can summon in a basement to bang on. It's a ramshackle party stabber. Loose, loud, and 100% TOTAL PUNK!!!”
"Skronky, funky, punky, derelict rock ‘n’ roll — I don’t have any proof that Tha Retail Simps are America’s happiest garage punk band, but they certainly sound like they’re having the best time.” - SPIN
DIY art punk from Stanley, Andy, Amber, and Matt of b(r)and names you can trust: Rays, The World, Naked Roommate, Violent Change and more.
"Three-fifths of the WORLD (to say nothing of the dozens of other projects they’ve had a hand in, but let’s start there) regrouped last year as FAMOUS MAMMALS, shifting their post-punk allegiance from rhythmic, sax’d-out ESSENTIAL LOGIC stylings to something closer to the shambolic UK DIY aesthetic trafficked by the HOMOSEXUALS-aligned It’s War Boys label. A clattering Rhythm Master provides that patently early ’80s chintzy analog drone, the murky psychedelia of “The Plum Overcoat” suggests that the TELEVISION PERSONALITIES really did know where SYD BARRETT lived and paid him a house call, there’s a dryly faux-Brit accented “Ode to Nikki” (I’m assuming Mr. SUDDEN; I’ve never been so sure of something being a SWELL MAPS homage in all my life).” - MRR
Future Kill "There’s never a wrong time for mutated garage-y noise-punk, but the current atmosphere feels particularly apropos. Good thing then that Fresh Kill recently formed, hailing from Salt Lake City with a clown car’s worth of auxiliary band members scattered around. This debut is a bubbling pot of future-primitive noise, songs that slosh back and forth like barf on a school bus." Yellow Green Red
Started in Salt Lake City, relocated to Missouri and now based out of Oakland, CA comes Future Kill. With one sonic foot in the past and one in an equally bleak and hopeful future, the "band" comes across sounding like an old drug warped RocknRoll record stuck into the chest of a Berg flick. For fans of Cramps, Scientists, Chrome, Can, Hawkind etc.