CONAN ~ PSYCHIC TRASH ~ OKTAS
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PMCONAN”I guess this is where I’m supposed to wrap up by calling them immortal or making some clever-bul-still-cliché remark about their work living forever. Well fuck that. Everything fucking dies.” – The Obelisk.”A very high recommendation from a longtime fan” – grizzlybutts.com”I’m so excited for the future of this band and all there is to come. A wondrous listen that, in spite of the crushing and trudging weight behind its mass, only finishes too soon.””Evidence of Immortality is a classic Conan record proving the band’s continued ascent like that of a victorious battle hawk. Hail Conan.” – New Noise Magazine”Very much like a recordly flattening Conan” – Metal Hammerhttps://www.hailconan.com/PSYCHIC TRASHFor the better part of the last 15 years, the duo of Max Dameron (guit/vox) and Sam Ford (drums/vox) have been too weird and too wild for this lame-ass planet. After enjoying vagabond stints living in Portland, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn, they now call Detroit home. Here they rebuild, out of the scraps and wreckage of the 21st century, something which casts aside any rules or adherence to banal tropes. Specializing in the unexpected, Max and Sam have wrought an individual sound that’s as much post-Melvins sludge punk as it is futurist prog metal. Their forthcoming self- titled debut, recorded in 2022 at High-Bias in Detroit, puts on display the fruits of their metamorphosis. From the soaring triumphal fuzz of “Uncanny Valley” or the sweep and thrust of “House of Butterflies” their craft is precise, they’re just making up their own shapes to sculpt. Times change and artists mature: now under the name PSYCHIC TRASH, Ford and Dameron come to Riding Easy Records as veterans turning a fresh page, reinvigorated at the prospect of forging a new path and the beneficiaries of about a decade and a half’s slog through the underground. Psychic Trash’s self-titled debut is unmistakably uncompromising, a little theatrical, intermittently manic, and deceptively broad in style for just how much punk rests beneath.https://linktr.ee/psychictrashOKTASAn okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover one might experience on any giving day. Oktas began in 2017 by artist and musician Bob Stokes as an exploration into the depths of bass instrumentation. Influences ranging from ambient minimalism to atmospheric black metal to epic doom metal woven together with a cinematic edge. Based in the filth ridden streets of south Philadelphia the lyrical content transports you to a world destroyed by mankind’s own hubris. Plagued with endless war, constant natural disasters and humanity desperate for redemption.https://oktas.bandcamp.com/album/the-finite-and-the-infinitehttps://www.instagram.com/oktasband/
Scott H. Biram ~ Driftwood Soldier
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PMScott H. BiramScott H. Biram, a proud Texan raised on the outskirts of Austin, is a maverick in the tradition of Doug Sahm, Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators) and Gibby Haines (Butthole Surfers). Shortly after releasing his third record (2003’s Lo-Fi Mojo), the 28-year-old’s life was nearly cut short after a near-fatal head-on collision with a big rig semi. He was still bedridden when he made his Rehabilitation Blues EP, the predecessor to his 2005 debut for Bloodshot Records, The Dirty Old One Man Band. Flash forward to 2022. After almost thirty years of tirelessly writing, recording and touring the front and backroads of America as a solo bluesman, collecting a wide array of critical accolades, Biram found himself suddenly stopped cold by the pandemic. Once again, unwilling to allow outsized forces slow him down, he took advantage of the shutdown to write, record and produce nine new songs and two traditional covers for his new album, The One & Only Scott H. Biram, his 13th overall and 9th for Bloodshot Records. “I’m constantly trying to go back to the junky, lo-fi sounds of my early records,” says Biram. “But it’s harder to do now. The more you learn about production, the harder it is to convey that genuine unproduced feeling. I have to compromise between overproduced and lo-fi, so it sounds pro, but still keeps that grittiness.” “I tend to be all over the place. My brain’s restless. If something interests me, I’ll write a song about it. I have a kinda rootsy, blue collar approach with blues, country and folk, but I always throw in some of my heavier influences from metal and hard rock. I consider myself a singer and guitarist, above everything else.” The music on The One and Only Scott H. Biram has the down home, in-your-face feel that Biram is noted for. “No Man’s Land” opens with a blues turnaround played on a twanging electric guitar, backed by a stomping bass and drum backbeat. Biram growls out a lyric, describing the hazards of growing up poor in a small Texas town, breathing the fumes from oil wells and brush fires. “I was remembering a bumper sticker I saw as a kid that said, ‘Oil Field Trash and Proud of It!’” Driftwood SoldierDriftwood Soldier isn’t your average mandolin-bass foot-stomping gutter-folk duo. Growling and crooning, muttering about lost love, brimstone, and the glorious view from the underside of a rusty world order, Owen holds the rhythm on mandolin and foot percussion. To his left, Bobby stretches bass notes into lyrical vines that vibrate somewhere north of your liver and flower unexpectedly at night. This is the kind of roots music that grows through the cracks in a West Philly sidewalk and drinks its rainwater laced with motor oil. Their second full-length album, Stay Ahead of the Wolf, arrived late in 2019. It was produced with Erin McKeown and mixed by Grammy winner Ted Hutt. Unfazed by a world in disarray, Stay Ahead of the Wolf crawled up onto its four legs and went barrelling through the digital ether, carrying with it this strange beast’s howl.https://driftwoodsoldier.com
Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre ~ Skullovich
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PM TTCM Crossover thrash band from the underground of Chicago, Ten years strong this 4 piece combines their love of pop culture, thrash metal and putting people through tables. Skullovich Conjured within the dungeons of Pennsylvania, Skullovich is an epic and dark fantasy themed metal band that explores hymns of clashing blades and deadly spells through their own blend of thrash and heavy metal.
Here/Now ~ Kinzua ~ Modern Culture ~ Atlassian
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Here/ NowPhiladelphia native Post Hardcore / Alt Rock Listen to the latest single Partial Permanent, new music and shows in 2024!https://bit.ly/m/herenowbandKinzua http://kinzua.bandcamp.comModern Culture https://www.modernculture.net/AtlassianAtlassian began in the winter of 2015, when Nickolas Kossup and Anthony Belcaro were playing early acoustic versions of their songs. It was then in the spring of 2016 that a fuller version of the band was formed with keyboardist Brad Murray. The band began to really blossom with the addition of their long time musical confidant and lead guitarist, Aaron Michael Brown, of the band Saint Slumber. A fuller sound and visual aesthetic was needed and was finally resurrected when they asked art director and musician Dave Meyers to help make their vision come to life. Together Atlassian have been passionately working to create your favorite new songs, visually striking content, a memorable live show with healthy amounts of improvisation that not only solidifies the bands professional skills but prove that they are worthy of the praise they get. The journey is just beginning, so stick around. You’ll want to see what happens next. Atlassian is a perfect listen for fans of The Killers, Hippocampus, Local Natives, Lord Huron, Kings Of Leon, Wilderado, and Briston Maroney.https://open.spotify.com/artist/3BgXrHfGl97PFpPX2v00CK
WOAH ~ Garden Station ~ the same page.
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMWOAHInstagram // Spotify Garden StationPlaying energetic hook-heavy garage rock, Garden Station are four childhood best friends from the suburbs of Philly who bring over the top class-clown energy to the stage. Mixing loud guitars with playful lyrics about partying, love, and trying to escape the endless grind of adulthood, Garden Station brings a sense of humor and fun to the post-punk scene.https://linktr.ee/GardenStationthe same page.https://thesamepage.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-that-you-breathe
**SOLD OUT** Night Club ~ Rosegarden Funeral Party ~ CD Ghost
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Night ClubRosegarden Funeral PartyCD Ghost
’68 ~ The Callous Daoboys ~ The Homeless Gospel Choir
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PM’68https://theyare68.bandcamp.com/album/give-one-take-oneThe Callous Daoboyshttps://thecallousdaoboys.bandcamp.com/The Homeless Gospel Choirhttps://thehomelessgospelchoir.bandcamp.com/album/curt-large-demo-tape-recordings
Bring it Back
Bring it BackBringin that organic energy back with some classics and new bops!Sounds by:HashlandMagglezzzJah the DJ9PM – 1AM$5 B4 10PM
Ouroboros ~ The Rebecca Zimmerman Band ~ Arcane Jane
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMOuroborosPhiladelphia based rock group with a soulful attitude. In 2023 the band wrote, recorded, and produced a new record. This success motivated them to reach higher and higher. Stay tuned for the unveiling of Alchemy and the 2024 Ouroboros American tour.Rebecca Zimmerman BandRebecca Zimmerman (Philadelphia, PA) blends elements of rock, folk, and blues to produce a style that is genuinely raw.Arcane Jane
Supercurse ~ Soft No ~ Modern Culture
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMSupercurseSUPERCURSE is a Philadelphia-based trio drawing inspiration from shoegazers tinged with Americana as well as early-2000s post-hardcore. Their first EP—Great Wide Empty was released in February 2023. SUPERCURSE’s music is stocked with heavy rhythms, aggressive distortion, and ominous lyrics, while reclaiming capital-B Big reverb. Upholding all of the trimming is the knowledge that nothing beats an infectious hook.SUPERCURSE is here.SOFT NOIn winter 2023 when Austin and Scott from Philly post punk outfit Sold approached Allie from garage gazers Flatwaves and Jon from mosh lords Rock Bottom, they wanted to play music that sounded “…like the Deftones, or something”. Fast forward a year later, and we guess you could say it sounds like that maybe fifteen percent of the time, except now with synth parts provided by our friend Kate (Raw Force). If you like bops, riffs, and a whole lot of dropped D, you’ll be a hard yes for Soft No.@softnophlModern CultureModern Culture is a Philadelphia based rock band. Kevin Dunne(Vocalist and Guitarist) and Brandon Cole(Drummer) have been constant collaborators in various projects since meeting in high school, and while searching for individuals who shared a similar sonic vision, they met Jonny Ibarra(Guitarist) and Brad Parsons(Bassist) who have helped round out the line up. Taking influence from 90’s-00’s emo, and combining them with elements of shoegaze and post-hardcore, the band released their debut EP entitled “Separation” that talks about the loss of a loved one, the effects it can have on those left behind, and the nonlinear journey that can follow after.