Wet Illustrated, The Mallard, Swiftumz, and Chris Thayer at Verdi Club

End of Rock presents Wet Illustrated, The Mallard, Swiftumz, and comedian Chris Thayer live at the historic VERDI CLUB. Thursday, May 31st. 8:00pm, $7. 21+.

WET ILLUSTRATED
a group committed to celebrating the legacies of weirdo pop outsiders like the Soft Boys, Guided By Voices and the Swell Maps- writing jagged pop songs imbued with skewed hooks and personal yet playful lyrics. The song... [read more]

End of Rock presents Wet Illustrated, The Mallard, Swiftumz, and comedian Chris Thayer live at the historic VERDI CLUB. Thursday, May 31st. 8:00pm, $7. 21+.

WET ILLUSTRATED
a group committed to celebrating the legacies of weirdo pop outsiders like the Soft Boys, Guided By Voices and the Swell Maps- writing jagged pop songs imbued with skewed hooks and personal yet playful lyrics. The song structures which at first appear straightforward unravel to reveal sophisticated arrangements and evocative lyrics in the tradition of homespun pop-ists like The Homosexuals or Cleaners From Venus, all channeled through Wet Illustrated’s own idiosyncratic punk/pop visions.

www.facebook.com/pages/Wet-Illustrated/137718542955550
www.truepanther.com/artists/wet-illustrated

THE MALLARD
The Mallard are a garage psych-rock trio from San Francisco. Their songs harness the naked abandon of 60's punk, but inject the form with a deranged spirit all their own. Close attention to texture and dynamics allow the band to explore unusual terrain – to grant access into unexpected realms of beauty and terror.

"They write catchy, weird, unique tunes and somehow sound old and new at the same time. The recordings (which are as interesting as the songs) sound, not so much "underwater" but more like laying in a warm bathtub with your ears right on the surface line so that the water creates strange fluctuations in your hearing between obscure and waterlogged and clear and airy. (Huh?) When I first heard the LP I wrote a gushing email to band leader Greer McGettrick saying I thought they sounded kind of like the the Country Teasers playing the Amps (ok fine, the Breeders) covers with microphones borrowed from the "White Light / White Heat" sessions." - Lars Finberg (Intelligence/Ohsees), The Stranger
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mallard/102026253183781

SWIFTUMZ
Chris McVicker—a.k.a. Swiftumz, famous for penning the fastest selling Hunx & His Punx single—sambas through ’80s Factory singles, afternoon hits of MDMA on the beach, Ibizia before techno, Glaswegian nonchalance, Stolen Kisses and tripping at the Haçienda (the San Francisco one; Manchester’s closed down years ago). Seriously, it’s all present—but like any other great interpreter of Britain’s finest musical traditions, McVicker is just a guy from near Mac Dre’s hometown in Northern California who might laugh if one told him that “More Than Sleep” should be in a Sofia Coppola movie, because he was probably aiming higher than that. Like the best Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk commercial ever, his album "Don’t Trip" is your summer jam.

www.midheaven.com/item/dont-trip-by-swiftumz-lp

CHRIS THAYER
San Francisco comedian Chris Thayer is mining new depths of self-objectification with his droll, serrated deadpan. He might very well be the hate-cuddle love child of early SNL's Michael O'Donoghue and young adult author Judy Blume.

www.facebook.com/christhayercomedy

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