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Thursday March 3 2016 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $10 in advance / $12 at the door Guantanamo Baywatch www.facebook.com/guantanamobaywatchband surf sludge rock The Gooch Palms thegoochpalms.bandcamp.com/ rock lo-fi Meat Market www.facebook.com/meatmarketbeat garage rock melodic pop Guantanamo Baywatch Jason, Chevelle, Chris -from Portland, OR -Portland, Oregon’s Guantanamo Baywatch—a band that has built their reputation on wrangling up a ribald mishmash of classic surf instrumentation and brash garage rock. On the one hand, you could view this adherence to the rudiments of rock n’ roll as more of an homage than an artistic stride. Yes, the trio owes a hat tip to Dick Dale’s guitar licks and The Sonics’ primitive blown-out strut. But who gives a shit about reference points anyways? Every artist has ‘em. The question is: can you twist your influences into something exciting and new? In the past, Guantanamo Baywatch demonstrated their ability to do so by cranking everything into the red, making those traditional motifs sound far nastier than their forefathers intended. Remember how The Cramps made rockabilly sound dangerous and seedy even after it was several decades old? That’s what Guantanamo Baywatch did with their crosspollination of tremolo-picked leads and basement-band brashness. The Gooch Palms Leroy & Kat -from Newcastle, Australia / Los Angeles, USA -Once upon a time in a land far away a Frankenstein's monster of a baby was created. Equal parts Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison and fly girl; this baby was an unusual child that would be raised all the way across the oceans in the suburbs of Newcastle, Australia by two very normal parents. Their normality however, could not stifle the ever-growing demon inside the boy that at age 14 would be unleashed on an unsuspecting Novocastrian audience. This boy is Leroy Macqueen; singer, guitarist and one half of notorious duo The Gooch Palms. His partner in this story is Kat Friend, a fellow Novo that as a young girl, always dreamed of meeting her demented prince charming and starting a band with him. And sometimes, dreams really do come true. Not so long ago she picked up a couple of drum sticks, got herself two drums and has not looked back since. In the very short while it has taken Kat to become a bona fide shit-pop goddess, she has also become an absolute pro at providing the much needed yin to Leroy's schizophrenic yang, keeping it cool as a cucumber while oozing her very own brand of badass-femme-sass. Together these two are an unstoppable force that have been turning heads and boners everywhere they go. They play catchy-as-hell pop music for the underdogs of this world, singing songs about bogan life in a small industrial town on an isolated continent in a far away hemisphere. Not to mention a lot of songs about outer-space. The Gooch Palms debut album Novo's delves into the reality of what life in Newcastle is like for these two misfits and the good, the bad and the boredom that comes with it. Meat Market Ian, Jeffrey, Jake, Alex -from "The Yay" -While Meat Market came up in the Bay Area's garage rock scene, the bandmembers contended in an interview that this label no longer suits their new creative direction. On their forthcoming record, Dig Deep (which is due out on vinyl in early 2016), they've abandoned their previous work's distortion-heavy, washed-out aesthetic and tongue-in-cheek lyrics in favor of clean-cut song structures and pensive subject matter. "A lot of the songs we played in the beginning fit into [garage rock], but none of us felt strongly about it," said Freitas. The members of Meat Market, he continued, felt "lumped into" the subgenre — which became ubiquitous in West Coast rock by the early 2010s. |
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