Restless Spirit ~ Gristmill ~ The Dead Moon Hung ~ Hauntress
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 6:00 PM Show: 6:30 PM Restless Spirithttps://restlessspirit.bandcamp.com/album/blood-of-the-old-godsGristmillhttps://gristmillnj.bandcamp.comThe Dead Moon Hunghttps://thedeadmoonhung.bandcamp.com/track/6-demoHauntresshttps://hauntress.bandcamp.com/album/open-doors
JOHN ~ TUNIC ~ BLOOD
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMJOHN“Limitations are key for us,” says John Newton, drummer and vocalist in JOHN. “I never view being a two-piece as a minus – it’s a key idiosyncratic element of what the project is.” For the last decade, the duo of Newton and Johnny Healey have constantly redefined and expanded the role, function and parameters of what a guitar and drum two-piece can be, with a sense of balance, contrast and duality fundamentally at the heart of JOHN. They are an outfit who on the surface are stripped back to a bare bones essence, a format perhaps lazily synonymous with just primitive rock, yet their work is richly layered and multifaceted – resulting in something that eschews and evades easy genre categorisation. This is crystalised in the band’s name too. “It’s a statement against colouring the music with superfluous attachments,” explains Newton. “It says: ‘we’re not going to be sensational’. It doesn’t mean to say it’s not intensely theatrical but I think there’s enough theatre in the actual energy that’s on the stage.” The band have a rich history of independence and doing things for themselves and as a result they have shaped every aspect of JOHN with great thought and detail. They formed their own label Pets Care Records and built up such momentum that they were invited to support bands such as IDLES, Mclusky, Viagra Boys and METZ and by the time of their second album, 2019’s, Out Here On The Fringes, they found themselves in Top 40 of the UK Independent Vinyl Chart and recording a live session for the esteemed US radio station KEXP. 2021’s album Nocturnal Manoeuvres proved to be an even more formidable trojan horse, finding it’s way into the Top 75 of the UK album chart, and subsequent standalone 7” Theme New Bond Junior (released in March 2023) gained the duo a coveted No.1 in the UK Vinyl Single Chart. https://www.johntheband.co.ukTUNICFor all the chaos and aggression in Tunic’s songs, the Winnipeg trio is haltingly perceptive and emotionally resonant. Composed of singer-guitarist David Schellenberg and drummer Dan Unger, the punk band is responsible for bracingly intense full-lengths about the anxieties and insecurities of daily life, including the 2021 LPs Quitter and Exhaling. But with their third album Wrong Dream, which is out via Artoffact on April 28, they’ve written their most introspective and adventurous music yet. Across nine unpredictable songs, they grapple with integrity, grief, tumultuous relationships, and universal questions that come with trying to do the right thing. Co-produced by Seth Manchester (The Body, METZ) and stand-in bassist Drew Riekman (Blessed), it’s a document of a band pushing themselves as far away from complacency as possible to make something intentional and compelling.BLOODHailing from Philadelphia, Blood basks in grasping the most opposite poles of energy, making them sit right next to each other to see what gold can be parsed from the uncomfortable. Their latest record sits at this tension of being pushed away only to be pulled back in. The collage of deviating styles and pretty mistakes brought up in the mix, reveal a band pleasurably crashing their previous vehicle, which was not yet ready to stray from the tired masculine bravado of contemporary punk.
Flummox ~ JAELYN ~ UGLI
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM FlummoxFormed in a rundown trailer near the garbage dump off of an old Tennessean Highway, Flummox has been causing audiences to fall into euphoric fits of shock for over a decade. Branding their style as “genre-fluid,” Flummox combines twisted musical-theatre tactics with avant-garde fusion & extreme metal stylings set with strange hooks that stick with you well past their welcome. www.linktr.ee/flummoxofficial JAELYNPhiladelphia’s JAELYN plays progressive metal with nods to post hardcore and post punk. Featuring current or former members of Boy Sets Fire, Iron Roses, and Label The Traitor, JAELYN combines sci-fi dystopic imagery with hard-hitting rock/metal ballads.UGLI https://ugli.bandcamp.com/album/ugli-u-gotta-luv-it
**CANCELED** Bad Cop/Bad Cop ~ The Homeless Gospel Choir
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Bad Cop/Bad CopIt’s been a hectic couple of years since Los Angeles punk quartet Bad Cop/Bad Cop dropped their debut full-length, Not Sorry. The band spent a huge chunk of the intervening time on the road, like most bands do—and they wound up discovering some ugly things about themselves, like most bands do. Only for Bad Cop/Bad Cop, it got very serious, very quickly. “We were on the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary tour in 2015, and Stacey was partying really hard,” says co-vocalist Jennie Cotterill. “She ended up bottoming out on the tour, and we had to leave. It was not a good separation. We had to go home and drop off the tour and figure out if we were still a band, what are we going to do about Stacey… Thankfully, Fat helped send her to detox, and she came out of that as a completely new person with a totally different trajectory. Before that, she was demonically possessed. She was destroying everything around her.” Out of that experience came “Amputations,” one of the highlights on Bad Cop/Bad Cop’s explosive second album, Warriors. The song is a slower, bigger sing-along than anything else in the band’s growing catalog, and it’s about the only thing not at a breakneck pace on the record.http://www.badcopbadcopband.com/The Homeless Gospel ChoirThe Homeless Gospel Choir is a punk band based out of The United States of America.Brainwash. Brainwash.https://www.thehomelessgospelchoir.com/
Post Sex Nachos ~ The Jesters ~ Lazyacres
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Post Sex NachosWebsite | Facebook | Instagram The Jesters “The Jesters are a DIY new wave-retro-alt-folk-punk-rock (also known as ‘indie’) band formed out of a Manayunk basement in 2022.” SpotifyLazyacres Starting out as a guitarist in the Philadelphia DIY scene & refining his own music and songwriting skills in the meantime, Lazyacres (Josh Owens) converts life experiences into a sincere, relaxing, surf-induced musical journey. Chock full of wistful lyricism and lackadaisical aesthetic melodies, his new 5-track EP ‘Rookie’ debuted in early Spring 2023. Josh is joined by great friends Anant Murty (lead guitar), Mason Jones (bass), and Brandon Pirrocco (drums).https://linktr.ee/lazyacreshttps://www.instagram.com/lazyacres.phl/
(hed) p.e. ~ Revenants ~ Heathen Sun
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM (hed) p.e.https://www.hedplanetearth.com/Revenants Hailing from the NJ/PA area, Revenants is a band that offers their unique twist to the Nü-Metalcore genre. With influences that include Korn, Loathe, Slipknot, and Left To Suffer, Revenants gives the listener a full on sonic assault with dynamics to help keep you on your toes. Formed in 2021 by rhythm guitarist Tyler and lead vocalist Scarlet, they soon met bass player Dan and lead guitarist Chris. The band became fully solidified with the addition of Nick on drums a few months after. Since then, the band has been working on putting the finishing touches on their eventual debut EP “Dead Inside & Still Alive”.https://instagram.com/revenantsmusic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://www.facebook.com/revenantsmusic?mibextid=LQQJ4dHeathen Sunhttps://www.facebook.com/heathensun?mibextid=LQQJ4d
The Messenger Birds ~ The False Alarms ~ Fury in Few ~ Blood Bücket
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM at Kung Fu NecktieThe Messenger Birdshttps://themessengerbirds.bandcamp.com/The False Alarmshttp://www.thefalsealarms.com/Fury in Fewhttps://furyinfew.bandcamp.com/Blood BücketNorth Philly’s Blood Bücket is a thrash metal outfit that can be seen playing in bars as well as DIY venues both in and around the city. Taking heavy inspiration from old school death and thrash metal artists such as Death, Demolition Hammer, Cancer, Sepultura, Slayer, & Possessed, Blood Bücket brings hard hitting riffs, guttural vocals and explosive drumming to the stage with hopes to see some angry faces and circle pits.https://instagram.com/bloodbucket215?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
The Amazons ~ Stud Wiser
**All shows 21+—valid ID required for entry**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMTHE AMAZONSHow Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?, The Amazons’ anthem-packed third album, is both alove letter and a rallying cry. Expansive, uplifting, sun-drenched singalongs produced with JimAbbiss (Bombay Bicycle Club, Arctic Monkeys, Adele) find the Reading rockers emerging fromthe darkness of 2019’s Future Dust full of lust for life and post-pandemic optimism.“It’s easily our most joyous album,” says flame-haired frontman Matt Thomson. “Sonically we’recelebrating the return of real life and the communal, spiritual experience of being back at gigs.Lyrically, it’s me longing to see my girlfriend again after seven months apart.”https://theamazons.co.uk/Stud Wiserhttp://studwiser.bandcamp.com/
Goodnight Lights ~ Those Looks ~ Looser
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Goodnight Lightshttps://goodnightlights.bandcamp.com/Those Lookshttps://thoselooks.bandcamp.com/Looserhttps://looser.bandcamp.com/
Ringo Deathstarr ~ Pleasure Venom ~ Bleary Eyed
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Ringo DeathstarrRingo Deathstarr formed in 2007 in their native Austin, Texas channeling influences such as The Cure, The Smiths, Fugazi and The Velvet Underground. They initially released a batch of singles on both sides of the Atlantic and in Japan – a self-titled EP in 2007 and in 2009, a brace of 7’s in the States, You Don’t Listen & In Love.https://ringodeathstarr.bandcamp.com/Pleasure VenomExplosive experimental garage punk outfit Pleasure Venom of Austin, TX, explores topics of love, sex, resentment, and the general “absurdity of it all,” consistently blasting audiences with a firehose deluge of fierce femme-punk rock led by singer, Audrey Campbell on vocals, Thomas Valles on drums, Chase Dungan on Guitar and Jordan Emmert on bass.https://pleasurevenom.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-venomBleary EyedBleary Eyed is a shoegaze band from Philadelphia with moments of glitchy ableton production and big vocals.https://blearyeyed.bandcamp.com/album/guisehttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0JTGTWQ2CBQlQtAHb8zMWS?si=5l0Zsdu-QPCE0FKx_RaLDg