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Sunday May 3
2026
8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $13 in advance / $15 at the door $17.61 in advance [13 face value + 4.61 service fee] M.U.T.T. (vinyl release) instagram.com/m.u.t.t._ punk Blue Zero instagram.com/blue__zero post-punk shoegaze False Flowers instagram.com/falseflowers_band gothic rock post punk M.U.T.T. -from San Francisco, CA -Comprised of former Culture Abuse members John Jr., Matt Walker, Isa Anderson, and Shane Plitt, M.U.T.T. is a band with grimey melodic hooks on their minds. Based out of San Francisco, the group lands somewhere between the sonic lines of punk, grunge, power pop, and those obscure yet cool bands you would see on MTV's 120 Minutes in the early '90s one time before the channel never played it again. Whatever they're doing, M.U.T.T. always have an eye on the aforementioned melodic hook. The band is releasing a music video directed by Timmy Lodhi of Bay Area hardcore band Bite the Hand, for a track called "SF Is Killing Me" which will appear on their forthcoming EP, Dirty Deeds. Some thoughts about the song's lyrics from John Jr.:“'SF Is Killing Me' is a song I co-wrote about/with my best friend and bass player, Shane. He wrote the majority of the music, I helped him arrange it and I wrote the lyrics. Shane grew up homeless with drug addicted parents. Still hasn’t gotten his shit together but I can see why it’s hard for him to do so." -Carlos Ramirez, No Echo Blue Zero -from Oakland, CA -The Bay Area has long been a fertile landscape for arty DIY rock innovators to fashion together some of the best music to come out of the US- the local musicians pushing the boundaries of pop and counterculture aesthetics. In the middle of this creative oasis you’ll find multi-instrumentalist songwriter Chris Natividad making iridescent waves with his many projects including Marbled Eye, Public Interest, Aluminum, and now- Blue Zero. What started as a few outlier demos cultivated in Chris’ studio has now fully bloomed into a live band featuring members Lauren Melton of SUCKER and Rick Altieri of Blue Ocean, and a forthcoming LP titled Colder Shade Blue. The songs on the record harmoniously tow the line of warm and meditative artrock and fuzzy, damaged grunge a là Lily’s, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine. While Blue Zero pays homage to their predecessors, the music is wholly unique with its mesmerizing big hooks and blown-out radiating psychedelic atmosphere- a tonal yin yang. With Blue Zero, Natividad effortlessly escapes the asymmetric and angular guitar stylings of his other projects on Colder Shade Blue. The songs are layered with natural and loose guitar riffs- alternating clean jangle and fried fuzz leads. These guitar parts are intentional and calculated, but never over-played, while the dialed-in and punchy rhythm section paves the way for the memorable vocal melodies and velvety choruses. Songs like “Lemon Year” and “Fortress” are more pop-forward with sugary, head bobbing melodies, while “Scar” and “Gone Again” have a more melancholic, heady quality that pulls you in and under. To say the least, this is an idiosyncratic and diverse rock n roll artifact. The instrumentation was performed solely by Natividad, however the expansive sound of the record was captured by Chris’ longtime friend and collaborator engineer Andrew Oswald resulting in a glowing and powerful wall of sound. Blue Zero’s Colder Shade Blue is an energetic, dynamic and shimmering river of tasteful arrangements and deeply stylized songs that will wash over the listener with continuous, tranquil, and ecstatic reverberation. - Sims Hardin released October 11, 2024 Written and Performed by Chris Natividad Produced and Mixed by Andrew Oswald at Paradise Recorders Mastered by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering Service Additional tracking by Chris Natividad at OMC Additional vocals by Lauren R Melton Artwork and Layout by Jeff Fox False Flowers -from Sacramento, CA -Lory Gil: Vocals & Keys Brian Hanover: Guitar & Vocals Craig Hancock: Drums Conrad Melancon: Bass |
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