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Tuesday
November 19
2013 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• 21 AND OVER $12 Obits www.obitsurl.com/ Indie Rock - alternative, punk Rob Crow's Gloomy Place www.flowerbooking.com/artists/robcrow/ of Pinback Pins Of Light pinsoflightsf.bandcamp.com/ metal punk heavy rock psychedelic punk hardcore Obits Greg Simpson as The Bass Player Rick Froberg as The Guitarist and Singer Sohrab Habibion also as The Guitarist and Singer Alexis Fleisig as The Drummer (except for the song “Besetchet,” whereon Scott Gursky appears as The Drummer) Bed & Bugs: New album out September 10th on Sub Pop Records. of Seattle, WA Obits are a four-piece band who currently live in Brooklyn, NY, and whose music is most probably considered an occupant of the rock music genre, with more specific reconnaissance in the areas of garage, punk, surf, surf-punk, and garage-punk (though, not surf-garage). On this new album, they’ve also covered a song (“Besetchet”) from volume 23 of the excellent Ethiopiques series; and so much for tidy categorization. The album for which this clumsy biographical dispatch has been prepared is entitled Bed & Bugs and it is the third full-length album by Obits, following their 2011 album Moody, Standard and Poor, which itself followed their 2009 album I Blame You, which we in the professional music industry refer to as the band’s “debut” (which is French for “LP1”). Bed & Bugs was recorded somewhere in Arlington, VA at an unnamed recording studio, simply and rather unhelpfully described as “upstairs.” This recording was accomplished by Nikhil Ranade, and the resulting songs were later mixed, variously, by this same Nikhil Ranade as well as Eli Janney and Geoff Sanoff. Critical response to the aforementioned Obits albums has included such adjectives as: “spacious” and “jumpy” from The New York Times; “propulsive,” “sandpapery” and “sweaty” from Pitchfork; “powerfully wiry” and “declamatory” from SPIN; “driving” and “really good” from Dusted. Descriptive responses from actual, verifiable employees here at Sub Pop Records range from “fidgety,” “tight” and “loose” (Warehouse Manager Mark Arm), to “picaresque,” “pithy” and “cogent” (International Sales and Distribution Honcho Gabe Carter), to “skronkeratchity” and “ffffromp-ful” (from our borderline incomprehensible Direct Sales Commander (Western Quadrant) Dean Whitmore). We look forward to new and inventive adjectives with the release of Bed & Bugs. On listening to Bed & Bugs, the discerning listener may well note more than a passing similarity to such bands as Hot Snakes, Edsel, Drive Like Jehu, Girls Against Boys, Pitchfork, possibly Television or the Wipers. This is un-coincidental! With the exception of those last two, Obits share members with all of those bands. As is the habit of many of the best contemporary rock bands, Obits will perform live with the release of Bed & Bugs, both domestically and internationally. For instance, they recently performed in the building in Warsaw that Stalin gave to Poland. Less flippantly: There are scenes and there are connections; trending hashtags and experiences. It’s cool, these are not either/or propositions and there’s no need to postulate any us vs. any them, the kids today and the back in my day. Much of what’s best about any music, all art, across genres, within and beyond the latest craze, is the way it speaks to some definition of “us.” Proving, as Obits sing (or “jumpily declaim”?) in Bed & Bugs’ “Receptor,” that “You ain’t the world’s lone receptor,” is deeply valuable. Because we’re all headed to the same place: me today, you tomorrow. And, in that waning interstitial space, let’s go ahead and have what we want. No need to choose: make ours both Bed & Bugs. Obits - No Fly List from Nick Sewell on Vimeo. Rob Crow's Gloomy Place The fat one in Pinback, Optiganally Yours, Goblin Cock, The Devfits, Physics, Mission Valley, Etc. from San Diego ------the incredible immediacy of Rob Crow's voice could make a phone book sound compelling Rob Crow is the frontman for the relatively well-known group Pinback. When he's not touring with, or making albums for one of his many collaborations (including the aforementioned Pinback, The Ladies, Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours, Other Men, Alpha Males, etc.), he makes solo records. His latest album, 'Living Well', is his most focused and heartfelt album yet. He writes some of the most addictive songs we have ever heard, and he often has a giant beard to boot. Pins Of Light Ravi, Shane, Phil, Jake San Francisco's Pins of Light reside in that murky musical shadow-territory of the nearly unclassifiable. They craft a brutal and intricate mélange of metal, punk and prog that isn't quite any of those things. Pins of Light's most progressive moments are more Motörhead than Mothers of Invention; their metal is more Pink Floyd than it is Judas Priest; the elements of punk are a driving fistfight that's entirely the band's own. Singer and bassist Shane Baker, guitarists Jake Palladino and Ravi Durbeej, and drummer Phil Becker come previously (and currently) from such SF institutions as Dead and Gone, Night After Night, Hightower and Triclops (among a slew of others). The group's debut album II was recorded by Kurt Schlegel (Jello Biafra, Melvins, I Am Spoonbender) and Phil Manley (TransAm, The Fucking Champs) at Lucky Cat Recording and mixed by Becker in the band's hometown. |
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