Ruby The Hatchet ~ Heavy Temple ~ Sonja + Riff Mountain & Wicked Sisters DJs (The Loft)
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM RIFF MOUNTAIN & WICKED SISTERS DJsBEHOLD ! When the Riff Mountain and Wicked Sisters DJs join forces, you will enter a journey to the Wicked Mountain – an auditory onslaught of retro rock, glam, garage, metal + deep cuts hand-picked and hand-spun on vinyl before. after and in-between acts. RUBY THE HATCHETForming in a snowed-in New Jersey basement circa 2009, heavy psychedelic rock quintet Ruby the Hatchet mix other-worldly melody with heavy, roaring riffs; landing on a sound best heard at a dark carnival in the recess of a dream. Reminiscent of early heavy metal with heart and harmony a la groups like Rainbow, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple and Priest, the band is trademarked by the howling, dynamic vocals of Jillian Taylor and drummer / vocalist Owen Stewart, as well as the wild playing of organist Sean Kahn Hur, guitarist Johnny Scarps Jr., and bassist Lake Muir. Whether up on a big stage or tucked away between tour stops in a more intimate venue, this group lives for the live show and will stun you with a high-energy, authentic rock ‘n’ roll performance. Join them in celebrating their 4th studio full length, Fear Is a Cruel Master.https://thehatchet.bandcamp.com/album/fear-is-a-cruel-masterHEAVY TEMPLEPhiladelphia’s Heavy Temple formed in 2012 during a brutal mid-Atlantic winter, and quickly released a pair of critically acclaimed EPs that presented a mature blend of fuzzy grooves, doom, and heavy psychedelia with occult motifs and a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. Since its inception, the band has made waves throughout the heavy rock underground, galvanizing their brain-melting attack over the course of tours with Corrosion of Conformity, Ruby the Hatchet, Ecstatic Vision, and Royal Thunder, and appearances at fests including Psycho Las Vegas, Desert Fest New York, The Obelisk All-Dayer, Muddy Roots and Decibel Metal and Beer. Fusing their strongest lineup into place just ahead of the pandemic, Heavy Temple took advantage of the forced layoff from touring to finish and release their first official full-length, Lupi Amoris, which arrived in June 2021 on Magnetic Eye Records. In addition, they honed their cosmic heaviness and have been crafting yet another collection of blistering, riff-laden incantations. Ready for a world that allows this well-oiled riff machine back onstage, the band proudly presents a heavy psychedelic expedition that seamlessly weaves from boogie van grooves to Candlemassian gravitas.https://heavytemple.bandcamp.com/SONJAhttps://sonjaband.bandcamp.com/
Ultra-Lite ~ Tourneforte ~ Clementine ~ Mt. Worry
Ultra-Lite: New Alt from Philadelphia PA. Debut EP “Moldy” streaming everywhere you listen to music. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7om5QGtg4YyvK7OnDBfDD9?si=560YijMcSmOJYck96D091Q Tourneforte: “As far as I’m concerned, this is the indie rock album of the year to emerge out of South Carolina. “Swimming Lessons” by Myrtle Beach’s Tourneforte gives us a heavy dose of nostalgia…It’s the longing of wanting to make someone feel better because they make you feel better, and the process of fumbling through figuring out what love means.” – KALYN OYER Post and Courier The Best of South Carolina Music 2021 https://open.spotify.com/artist/5C8nnsJYiL5AbRqzZEq2ES?si=bWHPCJA1T66vTXskxl9uFQ Clementine: Clementine is a grunge/emo/punk band originally from Rockford, IL, now relocated to Milwaukee, WI. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w5fod5FOdSfULpZfwvM1c?si=bNQCugFXSrSPi3UwbVpGKA Mt. Worry – Brand new band from John Galm (Snowing, Bad Heaven, etc.)
The Polychromatics ~ Makeout GRRL ~ Mojohand
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 6:30 PMShow: 7:00 PMThe Polychromaticspol•y•chro•mat•ic/pälēkrə’madik/adj.~of two or more colors; multicoloredThe•pol•y•chro•mat•ics/THē pälēkrə’madiks/n.~your new favorite band.Bandcamp Makeout GRRL https://instagram.com/makeoutgrrl?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://open.spotify.com/artist/5BNvdX4LvJ1TNOEPt8Zvqk?si=CClkZITwT-aul7zkDAHKJA Mojohand https://instagram.com/mojohand.music?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://open.spotify.com/artist/5f1RmABH5bNuZGvY3RKNBr?si=MNlJBqfFTSiP3lTlRahdtA
El Perro ~ Justin Mazer
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PMPOSTPONED TO FEB 20 2023EL PERROEL PERRO is a brand new band led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/producer Parker Griggs of RADIO MOSCOW. The sound contains elements that fans of Radio Moscow will recognize, but this is rock music with a new, fresh spin and feel. You could say that EL PERRO plays psychedelic funk rock, and you wouldn’t be wrong.Instagram | Facebook I SpotifyJusitn Mazer
Cancer Bats ~ War on Women ~ Spaced ~ L.M.I
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 6:00 PMShow: 6:15 PMCANCER BATSWith 17 years under their belt including 6 acclaimed studio albums, five Juno Award nominations, and countless tours around the globe, Canadian hardcore punk heavyweights, Cancer Bats are a well-known force within the world of heavy music. On their seventh studio album, PSYCHIC JAILBREAK (out April 15 via their own label Bat Skull Records in partnership with New Damage Records), the beloved metal stalwarts found themselves once again stepping into new territory as a band, writing and recording as a three-piece following the departure of founding member and guitarist Scott Middleton, while navigating a global pandemic. https://www.cancerbats.com/ War on WomenWar On Women is a co-ed feminist hardcore-punk band. Formed in Baltimore, MD in 2011, W.O.W.use driving riffs and in your face vocals that attack the listener both sonically and lyrically,penning catchy and confrontational songs that touch on rape culture, street harassment, thegender wage gap, transphobia, and other vitally pertinent social issues.http://www.bridge9.com/waronwomenSpacedhttps://spaced.bandcamp.com/releasesL.M.IL.M.I. stands for Lazy Middle-Class Intellectuals. Stoned noisey Punk/Hardcore from Lansdale, PA. https://lmiband.bandcamp.com/album/l-m-i-vulturepeak-split
The Sonder Bombs ~ The Human Fly ~ Driving Underwater (Cambridge Hall)
Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM**All Ages**The Sonder Bombssonder – n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your ownhttps://thesonderbombs.bandcamp.com/track/the-starThe Human Flyhttp://www.thehumanfly.bandcamp.com/Driving Underwaterhttps://drivingunderwater.bandcamp.com/
Rising Sun & Dave Kiss Presents: The Jungle Giants ~ Tim Atlas (Cambridge Hall)
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM The Jungle Giantshttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6wFwvxJkurQPU2UdeD4qVtTim Atlashttps://timatlas.bandcamp.com/
The Atomic Bitchwax ~ Mirror Queen ~ Black Moon Cult
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM The Atomic BitchwaxFormed in the mid 90s by bassist/singer Chris Kosnik, guitarist Ed Mundell, and drummer Keith Ackerman, the self-titled album “The Atomic Bitchwax” was released in 1999 with the N.Y.C. label Tee Pee Records establishing them with audiences of the burgeoning “Stoner Rock” community. As of 2020 the band has released nine studio albums and have performed over 1,500 live concerts worldwide.https://theatomicbitchwax.bandcamp.com/Mirror QueenOut of the ashes of long running NYC band Kreisor emerges MIRROR QUEEN.https://mirror-queen.bandcamp.com/Black Moon Cult
Open Mike Eagle ~ Serengeti ~ Video Dave ~ Fatboi Sharif
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 6:00 PMShow: 6:50 PMOPEN MIKE EAGLEHumor can conceal and alleviate the pain of trauma, but no joke will erase it. Even Wu-Tang Clan told you that tears come after laughter. Relief comes only from opening every emotional and psychological wound.Open Mike Eagle spent the 2010s finding comedy in rap music and American nightmares. On albums like Brick Body Kids Still Daydream and Dark Comedy, he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. Acclaim from publications like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and NPR coincided with headlining solo tours and top-billing at events like Adult Swim Festival. Between studio sessions, Eagle co-founded The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of blackness. He and co-founder Baron Vaughn brought the show to Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Central, and venues around the U.S. Since founding his record label Auto Reverse Records, though, Eagle has scaled back the jokes. He’s finally unpacking his traumas and acknowledging their impact. With over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. http://mikeeagle.net/ SerengetiDavid Cohn, better known by his stage name Serengeti, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinoishttps://www.facebook.com/serengetidave/Video DaveVideo Dave is from Chicago and attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where he began making music and studied production. He has lived in Miami, New York, and LA, being an artist in all those places. He now travels and works with a few other artists and friends who he met at SIUChttps://videodave.bandcamp.com/Fatboi SharifSharif doesn’t look at his performances with the traditional lens that a normal rapper does, but treats the live show as a spiritual experience where Sharif and the crowd become married through raging and serenity. With being inspired as a child by Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, and Parliament Funkadelic it’s hard to put Fatboi in a box. Grit over glamour is the name of his game. Production wise, once he finds the right instrumental that speaks to him in his language, he’ll sit with it for a few weeks and sleep to it on repeat. https://anniversarygroup.com/Fatboi-Sharif
The Halluci Nation ~ Creeasian & the della kit (The Loft)
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM The Halluci Nation The Halluci Nation is real. As they enter a new cycle, Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of A Tribe Called Red are reintroducing themselves as The Halluci Nation, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation, takes its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell, to describe the vast global community of people who remember at their core what it means to be human. As a visionary artist and activist, Trudell recognized the connection between his accomplishments and what ATCR did intuitively through music and art. Trudell’s voice was the first heard on Tribe’s last record, We Are The HalluciNation, and will, fittingly, be the first you hear on The Halluci Nation’s upcoming record, One More Saturday Night. The album is a love letter to the Electric Pow Wow gatherings launched at Ottawa’s Babylon nightclub in 2007. It represents an imagined denouement to the biweekly Saturday-night parties that ended abruptly in 2017, without ever getting the proper send-off. OneMore Saturday Night thus pays homage to the parties’ energy and momentum that elevated The Halluci Nation to this pivotal point in their career of fully mastering their own music style while also moving beyond club music; or “mixing dance music with dance music,” as Bear Witness succinctly puts it. Website | Facebook | Instagram | SpotifyCreeasian & the della kitCreeasian is a beat maker, DJ, finger drummer and dancer. Inspired by the likes of Madlib & J Dilla. His most recent live performances are centred around chopping drums & soul samples on the MPC. Cree is a resident dancer for The Halluci Nation and has toured all over the world supporting artists such as: Pete Rock, Mac Miller, & Mix Master Mike. the della kit (FKA Erica Dee) is a vocalist , producer & DJ who shares dreamy atmospheric soul over hip-hop beats, with uplifting lyrics and magnetic melodies. She just released her debut album “moonbeams & frequencies” that features a collaboration with Mr. Carmack. Creeasian & the della kit premiered their debut performance at Victoria Ska Festival in 2019 and have been building ever since. Together they combine live MPC, looping, vocals & beats to take their audience on a journey through classic and modern Soul creating a show that is dedicated to all music lovers.Creeasian Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/creeasian/tracksthe della kit Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iizvwAcI4QI2haMM6mM1q?si=CrVZTwI2STuhwt3ylB6_pg