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Listings are
in the opposite order of appearance: headliner is listed at the top,
next is the support band(s),
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Saturday
October 4 2014 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:30PM ••• ALL AGES $10 in advance / $12 at the door Ought www.facebook.com/internetought art-punk Silver Shadows www.facebook.com/SilverShadowworker new wave rock rock & roll post-punk shoegaze Mall Walk mallwalkband.com/ lo-fi psychdelic rock Ought -Ought is part of a vital and politically-engaged DIY arts community that has coalesced around one of the loft spaces at the northern limit of Montreal’s Mile End district in recent years (the same zone that incubated Constellation almost 20 years ago). The four band members are, unsurprisingly, participants in a half-dozen other music projects. -Ought came together in Montréal as a band of expatriates initially attracted by sense-sharpening Canadian winters and university tuition that doesn't cost $40k a year. The city's cultural scene – especially its independent music ethos and galvanizing radical politics – was the underlying attractor, however, and one they jumped right into. Guitarist and vocalist Tim Beeler, originally a folk musician hailing from New Hampshire, fell in with New Jersey native Matt May (keyboards) and Australian émigré Tim Keen (drums, violin) – the three of them began sharing an apartment that doubled as practice space, where they were soon joined by Portland OR transplant Ben Stidworthy on bass. Ought played its first show and recorded its first EP in the apartment's largest bedroom, in the summer of 2012. Silver Shadows Janice Arteaga, Colleen Johnson, Margot Rhodes, Megan Low -from SF -Hardcore, new wave, dark wave, punk, dreeeam pop, disco, Enya Silver Shadows had their first show in June of 2013. Mall Walk three band members -from Oakland -Talented and trippy. Just a few months after the band formed in Oakland, California, Mall Walk began working with producer-engineer Monte Vallier (The Soft Moon, Terry Malts) at San Francisco’s Ruminator Audio studio. That collaboration resulted in the band’s eponymous debut EP, which will be released on singer-guitarist Rob I. Miller’s modest independent label, Vacant Stare Records, October 14th, 2014. Alternately infectious and gritty, spare and expansive, world-weary and inspired, the EP reveals Mall Walk as both compulsively listenable and exceptionally sophisticated. The urgency conveyed by many of the five tracks belies Mall Walk’s thoughtfulness as a rock band. Here it plays with established tropes and hardened expectations, and addresses a distorted (post-) information age culture that, as novelist Don DeLillo once wrote, “lead[s] the world in stimuli.” |
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