El Pathos, Flash Boys, TSOL
Wed., Sept. 5, 9pm
Red 7, 611 E. Seventh, 512/476-8100
Long Beach’s darkpunk all-stars were immortalized in Penelope Spheeris’s spiky melodrama Suburbia during their early Eighties heyday, but frontman Jack Grisham’s soaring vocals and guitarist Ron Emory’s X-Acto blade chops still define the True Sounds of Liberty. SoCal melodic hardcore at its punchiest; come dance with them. Frankie Nowhere and Nick Curran’s Flash Boys and the eternal skronk of Austin’s Jesus Christ Superfly open. – Marc Savlov