The Dead Coats, Alpaca, Mortales

SXSW already? Witnessing a band from Shanghai in an Eastside biker bar might as well signal such. The not-all-Chinese quartet expands and contracts at maximum volume in a flail of hair and spit. Led by Lauren Warner, local noise punks the Dead Coats support, and Mortales lower the doom of September’s Death Rattle Valley. – Raoul Hernandez