Bad Markings, Acid Carousel, Math Judson, Weed Martyr

Who the hell are Jack and Shaun, anyway? Doesn’t matter. [Editor’s note: It’s actually sound engineer Shaun Shawnerson and Bright Light Social Hour bassist Jack O’Brien.] They’ve ditched the traditional birthday party crap for a wild psychedelic serenade. Shoegaze fivepiece Bad Markings will be presenting a cellophane gift basket filled with experimental mayhem and distorted allegro earworms. The ever-evolving Acid Carousel crew forgot to bring a present, but will make up for it with Badfinger-style retro rowdiness that flows straight-up groovy. Math Judson comes bearing newspaper-wrapped bundles of lo-fi-minded alternative songcraft, and BLSH alter ego Weed Martyr smokes the birthday candles. – Mars Salazar