Come enjoy an evening of music with sets from Honey Made (headliner), Big Sky Collective and Blue Tongue. Doors open at 7:30 PM, and advance tickets cost $12 and tickets at the door will cost $15. This is an all ages show!
Local shoegaze aficionado and Cheer Ups booker Trish Connelly teams with California’s online shoegaze frequency DKFM for a two-day overload. Saturday lays on homegrown fuzz: Vet Trip’s sleepy vox tangling in distortion; Grivo’s inverted goth-gaze; and Blushing’s melodic wall of sound walloping sinister sonics.
Other grunge-era Seattle bands break up, reunite, do lucrative nostalgia tours, but Mudhoney endures as the standard bearers for Northwest garage rock. Last year’s Digital Garbage, the quartet’s 10th album, keeps the faith as well as anything in their three-decade catalog. Recent Relapse Records signees Cherubs stage test new material they’ll record this year, and fellow Austinites Xetas open with dirty post-punk.
Swedish death metal’s alien abductee Peter Tägtgren counts 13 seminal studio LPs since 1991, while co-headlining Italians notch five symphonic/technical DM long-players since 2009. Together, the two extremists represent the past and future of a style propagating as many subgenres as black metal. Aenimus, Darker by Design, an Whore of Bethlehem limber the pit first.
Two of the finest, funkiest Latin outfits in town explore the psychedelic sounds of the Southern Hemisphere. Built from the core rhythm section of Grupo Fantasma and Brownout, Money Chicha muses on the distortion-heavy surf-guitar cumbia of Seventies Peru and throws in the occasional hip-hop cover. Superfónicos flexes deep Colombian roots in a swirling mezcla of cumbia, funk, and Afro-Latin rhythms. Suelta!