The ripple effect caused by this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest has reached Red River, with official aftershows taking place at venues like Room 710, Headhunters, and Beerland. Listed below is a breakdown of the more notable events, with some blanks left for unannounced special guests.
Friday: Club de Ville gets things started with a free show that includes NYC’s Robbers on High Street, Great Northern, Goodbye Girl Friday, and locals Til We’re Blue or Destroy. DFA’s Tim Sweeney and Ian Orth work the ones and twos at Beauty Bar, while Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Buzzoven’s Kirk Fischer fly solo at Headhunters.
The clocks roll back an hour at midnight Saturday, so that translates to an extra hour of live music. Festival headliners Murder City Devils are hinted to be the special guests at Mohawk, following Those Peabodys. Beerland hosts a garage punk revival headlined by the Heart Attacks and High Tension Wires, the new project of Riverboat Gambler Mike Wiebe, with equally impressive openers Holy Shit and Teeners, who have a sweet new 7-inch on local imprint Super Secret Records. Denton’s most paranoid avant-rock act, the Paper Chase, is at Red 7 with Assacre and Death is Not a Joyride, but the real catch is Stinking Lizaveta, a progressive instrumental trio from Philadelphia. Swedish rockers Witchcraft enchant Room 710, while Sick of it All and Madball barrel through Headhunters. Busdriver is rumored to appear at Beauty Bar alongside Daedleus and Anitmc, and Mates of State close the night at Club de Ville with Small Sins and Immaculate Machines.
For those still standing Sunday, renowned California punk label TKO Records houses Lower Class Brats, Krum Bums, and the Heart Attacks at Red 7. Austin-bred standouts What Made Milwaukee Famous and Loxsly serenade Mohawk with New York-based Afro-punks Dragons of Zynth. Brownout and the Table Manners Crew lay down grooves next door at Club de Ville, and Beauty Bar hosts the Mad Decent party with Baltimore’s Blaqstarr, Prince Klassen, and Iheartcomics’ Franki Chan.
This article appears in Richard Suttle.