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Monday September 22
2025 7:30PM doors -- music at 8:00PM ••• ALL AGES $15 FACS instagram.com/wearefacs indie rock post-punk Vulture Feather instagram.com/vulture_feather post-punk emo Facet instagram.com/facetnoise noise rock post-hardcore FACS -from Chicago, IL -Chicago trio FACS never stop pushing forward; they’ve honed and refined their stark, minimal scrape and clatter for four years and counting, having risen out of the ashes of beloved Chicago band Disappears in 2018 with the bone-rattling intensity of Negative Houses. The trio return in 2021 with Present Tense, their fourth album and perhaps their sharpest statement as a band. Opener “XOUT” barrels forward like a tank, with Case’s guitar chiming like warning bells, until the climax comes crashing down, glitching out near the close. “Strawberry Cough” comes next, its fusion of corporeal playing and stately, electronic heartbeats punctured by random bursts of noise or backwards masked sounds. “Alone Without”, a track originally recorded for Adult Swim’s 2020 singles series appears next in different form; more menacing and serpentine. Side two opens with “General Public”, taking the loud/quiet dynamic as a jumping off point for the song’s unsettling seasick vibe. ‘How To See In the Dark” offers a brief respite, with its persistent, dark quietude that lingers until the song’s end. “Present Tense”, the album’s title track, offers up its first truly weird moment mid-song when the song changes mood distinctly, and the music drops out save for Case’s guitar and vocals. The album’s final track, the densely packed “Mirrored”, begins with a restrained, post-rock shuffle. The mind-scrambling cacophony that comes next takes its time to roll in, but once it does, it comes in waves, flipping back onto itself multiple times until it’s folded into oblivion. FACS once again shuttered themselves into Electrical Audio with lauded engineer Sanford Parker to lay down the basic tracks and overdubs for Present Tense. This time, the band approached their songwriting from a different angle “Alone Without was the first song we recorded and we really built it in the studio” Case says, “Alianna and I played different instruments, and I think that freedom informed how the other songs developed. All the lyrics were random phrases on a big sheet and were put together as the songs took shape, so I feel like I was collecting these thoughts and trying to figure out how to process them as a big picture vs making complete ideas in individual songs.” Case adds ”...letting the songs go where they wanted, without steering them into what we all think a FACS album should be.” The change is palpable from last year’s claustrophobic and fried Void Moments, but Present Tense is still ALL FACS, albeit draped in a layer of haze. Paranoia in soft focus, perhaps? Vulture Feather -from Hayfork, CA -Vulture Feather is a post/pre/future punk band from the mountains of northern California. Featuring members of the Baltimore band, Wilderness, and early-mid 90's post-hardcore group, Don Martin Three. Colin McCann, Brian Gossman, and Eric Fiscus periodically return to the grid from the remote mountains of Northern California to document their evo/involution as Vulture Feather. Touring the states throughout much of 2024, they brought the sharpened machine back to Tim Green's Louder Studios to capture their second album, It Will Be Like Now. In literary terms, the record is a work of man versus nature, except man and nature are both secret identities of a third, unnamed thing. Tears and the ocean and death are the main characters, and the initiated may get the sense that these too, belong to the absolute. It all ultimately resolves as a terrifying and beautiful love story. Sonically speaking, It Will Be Like Now reports from a place where PiL and Jah Wobble never parted ways, where Johnny Marr righted the ship, where songs only need one part: the good part. The heads will know McCann and Gossman from their time in the prehistoric Don Martin Three (recently re-issued catalog by Numero Group) and later, Wilderness (Jagjaguwar). While prior efforts are beside the point, this is undeniably the sound of people who have been making music together for 25+ years. Glistening as much as howling, the guitar and vocals function as duet, delivering The Only Story Ever Told over a concise and thunderous rhythm section. It's the sound emulating from everywhere, all the time, through thick carpets of clouds, reverberating off canyon walls, through troubled waters, and finally to your devices, your ears, your heart, if you choose to hear it. -Mike Taylor Facet -from Oakland, CA -“Facet’s most important aspect is just how damn loud and enjoyable their debut is. This Self-Titled is much more than an Unwound fan’s dream, but if their famous blend of noise rock and post-hardcore ever whet your whistle, boy howdy, do I have your new favorite band. “ -New Noise Magazine “Pretty fucking sweet” -Jon Glaser “Facet brings to mind the driving and angular workouts fans of Cherubs and Unwound will absolutely lose their shit for. It's a slow-burning, mean-sounding sonic world.” -No Echo “Facet, have plenty of that sweet, sweet skree on their self-titled debut. Guitars, whine, squeal, slash and generally raise a ruckus, while the thick, ropey bass rumbles along and the drums are frantic, precise and terse. All this from three dudes bent on keeping the noise rock dream of the ’90s—think Unwound, Unsane, Drive Like Jehu—alive in the 21st century.” -Decibel Magazine |
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