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Saturday October 6 2018
  8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM
 
•••  ALL AGES
$15 in advance / $18 at the door
The Flatliners
www.theflatliners.com/
 Punk
Decent Criminal
www.facebook.com/DecentCriminal08/
 Rock and Roll
States Of Nature -----Sciatic Nerve is off the bill
www.theflatliners.com/
 Post-Hardcore / Punk/ Rock N'Roll




The Flatliners
Scott Brigham - Guitar + Vocals
Chris Cresswell - Vocals + Guitar
Jon Darbey - Bass + Vocals
Paul Ramirez - Drums
-from Toronto, ON

-The Flatliners' career is a testament to perseverance and dedication. With a lineup that has never strayed from the original members who met as teenagers, the band has since logged countless miles on the road and amassed a dedicated legion of fans along the way.

Now approaching 15 years of hammering out bombastic tunes everywhere from dive bars to festival stages to European concert halls, The Flatliners hold fast to the DIY punk-rock ethos that has been at the group's core since the beginning. The band came out swinging with youthful exuberance on their debut record, Destroy To Create, in 2005, and they've honed their anthemic style with each subsequent release: The Great Awake in 2007, Cavalcade in 2010, Dead Language in 2013 and Division of Spoils in 2015.

But frenetic touring schedules and prolific recording output takes its toll, and The Flatliners decided to spend the majority of 2015 off the road to recharge and reconnect with friends and family. Striking a balance between home and road life is a difficult task, but frontman and guitarist Chris Cresswell concedes that it's necessary.

"That's what we've been in search of for probably the last seven years. We noticed it in ourselves, and that's what we're really striving for now," he says. "We have a lot of people in our lives that are super supportive of what we do, and we're supportive of each other."

The band may have opted for more downtime, but there was still plenty going on behind the scenes. Early in 2015, the guys found themselves without the familiarity of the jam space they had inhabited for nearly a decade - four walls that had been the incubator for hundreds of songs and uninhibited creativity. Several months were spent renting rooms wherever they were available before the band was able to settle into a new space, but the group did their best not to let the upheaval hinder their burgeoning roster of new material. Borne out of that chaos was Nerves, a two-song EP released in October 2016 that also marked the band's first recording on Dine Alone Records.

The recording serves as a taste of what eager fans can expect to hear on The Flatliners' new album, Inviting Light, set to be released on April 7, 2017. The band has been working hard to refine its unmistakable style, ensuring they don't lose sight of their roots while continuing to move forward.

"Inviting Light is about trying to keep up with life around you but also wading through the potential bullshit of people thinking that a digital landscape is more important than their friends," Cresswell explains. "It's inevitable that you're fighting for people's attention now, whether you're a band or an individual, and there's not as much value placed on face-to-face human interaction as there is in elevating the profile."

Meaningful interaction may be more difficult to achieve these days, but the group's steadfast members continue to build on the enduring connection that brought them together all those years ago, celebrating one another's personal milestones and weathering each new experience as a unit.

"It feels like we're onto something," Cresswell adds. "It's exciting for a band to be 15 years into their existence and have this. It's a refreshing thing."




Decent Criminal
Hunter Martinez
Tristan Martinez
Alexander Alcantera Alcantra-Kouninos
Brian Gellman
-from Santa Rosa, CA

-While blending elements of 90's alternative with surf and power-pop, California's, DECENT CRIMINAL, offer catchy, upbeat songs that mercilessly collide with abrasive and often melancholy undertones, to bring forth a style that's playfully compatible while still feeling inadvertently raw.

There’s countless amounts of music you should dodge, duck, dip, dive, and… dodge these days. Especially in the punk rock world. One band you should let hit you square in the face however is Dodgeball Records 90s influenced punk rockers Decent Criminal. While they may only be decent in a criminal aspect, they are definitely above your ‘Average Joe’ musically.

With similarities to early Green Day and the slickest, sickest, waxiest, guitar riffs you could ever imagine paddling out and catching the gnarliest of waves to, Decent Criminal’s Bloom consists of solid catchy punk rock energy while blending a surf rock/power pop undertone throughout the album’s entirety. This Santa Rosa four piece does a radical job at holding close to the 90s punk rock roots. Each song holds no surprise with it’s basic structure, making it that much easier to lay back, rock out, and let the album Bloom take you for a ride.

The album starts off hot and heavy with “Deviant,” which is currently available for your listening pleasure through the Dodgeball Record’s YouTube channel. Imagine if Dookie was written now, on a surfing trip, or check it out for yourself below.




States Of Nature
E. Urbach - Guitar/Vocals
V. Flores - Guitar/Vocals
L. Anne - Bass/Vocals
D. Pierce - Drums/Tamborine
-from Oakland, CA

-On their debut EP Collide-A-Scope, San Francisco's States of Nature create a danceable hybrid of post-hardcore indicative of 90s era Dischord, with hook-laced rock n' roll. Formed in late 2017 by four friends, Eric Urbach (Guitar/Vocals) Lindsey Anne (Bass/Vocals), Vincent Flores (Guitar/Vocals) and Daniel Pierce on (Drums) spent most of the 2018 working on the songs that would become the Collide-A-Scope EP.  Recorded and mixed by Eric at his studio Lodasia Sound in Richmond, CA, States of Nature delivers a melodic, powerful statement of intent with lyrics speaking to the challenges of growth, self acceptance and vulnerability.