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Pong, Talmage D'Amour, Bipolar Gentlemen

Fri., Feb. 3, 10pm

Hotel Vegas, 1500 E. Sixth, 512/589-1411

This reconstituted meeting of the minds that brought you local late-Eighties staples Ed Hall and Crust is sure to be fruitful. Now in its second decade, Ed Hall-spawned sextet Pong continues enlivening the genteel with danceable electro-rock paeans to oddball dystopia. John Hawkins’ pre-Crust combo Talmadge D’Amour crosses unvarnished synth-pop with a creeping sense of doom, while fellow Crust-mate Richard Smith’s Bipolar Gentlemen is a gothic-industrial swirl of psychoactive guitar jags, percussive thunder, and 45 Grave-style vocals. – Greg Beets

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