Tuesday, April 26
DIRTY BEACHES
Outdoorsmen
Chasms
8 pm
$10
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DIRTY BEACHES
"It's not hard to get tangled up in the Name Game while listening to Dirty Beaches. Alex Zhang Hungtai's schizo romantic crooning alter ego is chillwave-ugly in name and greaser-gorgeous in execution, as defined by its many references as it is by its creeping allure. The recently released "Sweet 17" mines a few crucial touch points -- Suicide's desiccated punk wailing, the existentialism of David Lynch's ominous Lost Highway, Duane Eddy's rollicking echo rock -- to create something that slashes ligaments and hits the bone. In this moment of relentless, unchecked nostalgia, the 1950s have remained a curiously under-romanticized era, with a torrent of mystery and unmined cool ready to be pillaged. Hungtai, clearly an admirer of the decade, has a blood-red baritone that explodes into shrieks here, revealing some alien hybrid of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Dirty Beaches' forthcoming Badlands EP splits its time between corroded dream-pop and this sort of menacing road music. Brace yourself for the pomade revolution." --Pitchfork.com
http://www.dirtybeaches.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/dirtybeaches
OUTDOORSMEN
"Garage punk with a good dose of the necessary-for-success Ingredient X that too many bands lack. Added plusses: the production sounds suitably cheap but not too skuzzy, and the songs have a quasi-Back From The Grave feel without coming off as slavish imitations." --Maximum Rock 'n' Roll
http://www.myspace.com/theoutdoorsmenmusic
CHASMS
Spooky SF guitar noise from Jess & Shannon.
http://www.myspace.com/ooochasmsooo