The Pauses ~ Honeythunder ~ Disaster Artist
**All shows 21+ – valid ID required**THE PAUSESWith their sophomore release Unbuilding (Arctic Rodeo Recordings), the Pauses have hit their sonic geyser, and attentive listeners can marvel at the resulting indierocktronica glints and glitter. Based in Orlando, Florida, the Pauses are multi-instrumentalist Jason Kupfer, vocalist-bassistkeyboardist Tierney Tough, and drummer Nathan Chase. Produced and mixed by J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), his influence can be heard in the heavier guitar propulsion that churns under the allure of the electronic ear candy on the surface. This combination live makes dancing feel like a decision the whole room made at once. On Unbuilding, the Pauses have evolved their collaborative songwriting, and few tracks show the pop heft of that effort as well as “Digital Detox.” It slams you almost like a wall of sound, with Tough’s typically clear-as-a-bell vocal distorted to great effect, evoking ‘60s girl groups with warped sensibilities. Trumpets, timpani, cello, theremin and electronic elements are called upon to create the Pauses’ authentic sound, and then whisked away to allow the vocals space, as in the sparse, unusual dreamscape on “Had/Have.” Other times, the sound can bound in bilateral increments, like the playful piano to guitar crush of “The Means.” Their range is key, with loud live rockers like “Don’t Wake Me Up” and “Animus?”, which is particularly intense as it dangles wildly at the album’s end and concludes, “What a way to feel nothing real.” That line evokes an overarching theme of the album, which gazes into the black mirror and is smart enough not to take it seriously. Songs like “Eventually, Everything Connects,” “Digital Detox” and “Don’t Wake Me Up” suggest a rebellion against the online drone, with lines that invite you to throw your arms up and sing out, “I don’t need the details shoved down my throat.”https://thepauses.bandcamp.com/HONEYTHUNDERFriendly punks making indie grunge in a basement in West Philadelphiahttps://honeythunderphl.bandcamp.com/album/thats-baseball-babyDISASTER ARTISThttps://disasterartistband.bandcamp.com/
**CANCELED** The Bombpops ~ The Last Gang ~ Riverside Odds
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PM THE BOMBPOPSWhere The Bombpops had a Fear of Missing Out on their 2017 debut full-length, their highly anticipated follow up shows what happens when you’re too involved—with booze, bad situations, and behavior that’s unsustainable at best and destructive at worst. This is Death in Venice Beach (Fat Wreck Chords, March 13th), the comedown after the high, when clarity pierces the morning-after haze. It’s right there in the title, an allusion to Thomas Mann’s celebrated novella about the price of an artistic life. The Bombpops co-founder and singer-guitarist Jen Razavi read it as the band debated titles for their second full-length. “It’s a cautionary tale to those that want to become an artist,” she says, “but it’s also really comforting to artists who can’t help or necessarily contain being who they are and what they’re drawn to.” https://www.instagram.com/thebombpops/?hl=enTHE LAST GANG The year is 2021. America is still fighting its way through an ongoing pandemic, currently fueled by the ignorance of millions who have decided science isn’t good enough for them. Countless lives have been lost or disrupted by an inefficient government loaded with corrupt politicians, egged on by snake oil salesmen who are inexplicably given nightly platforms on cable TV or allowed to spread their disinformation through social media. Make no mistake: Rome is burning. We are fiddling.Pissed off yet? So is The Last Gang. https://www.thelastgang.com/Riverside OddsFronted by RW Hellborn’s gravely vocals and a larger-than-life stage presence, along with Matty Cobra’s combination of blues rock meets punk riffs, Riverside Odds has been sharing their signature blend of ‘Speed-Punk Rock-N-Roll’ across the country since 2013. Cutting through genres like a razorblade with an energetic stage performance that is anything but mundane, Riverside Odds has been described as “a perfect blend of Black Flag, Ramones, Clutch and Motörhead.”Www.riversideodds.com
worlds greatest dad ~ Best Bear ~ Elephant Jake ~ Valendina
**All events 21+ — valid ID required for all events**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMworlds greatest dadworlds greatest dad is an emotive indie band from Atlanta, GA.https://worldsgreatestdadmusic.bandcamp.com/ELEPHANT JAKEElephant Jake is an Indie-Punk band from Orange County NY.https://elephantjake.bandcamp.com/BEST BEARBest Bear is an indie rock/pop band based out of Philadelphia, PA. Members include Jeanette Lynne, Gwen McFadden, Charles D’Ardenne, and Storm Paul.https://bestbear.bandcamp.com/album/its-complicatedVALENDINAhttps://soundcloud.com/the-band-valendina
King Buffalo ~ Heavy Temple ~ Screaming Rattler at First Unitarian Church
ARTIST PRESALE: Tuesday, June 7th from 10AM Local – Friday, 6/10 at 9AM local. PASSWORD: REGENERATOR Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PM KING BUFFALOKing Buffalo is the trio of vocalist/guitarist Sean McVay, bassist Dan Reynolds, and drummer Scott Donaldson. Since forming in 2013, the self-proclaimed “heavy psych” band has made its name via 4 Full-lengths, 4EPs, and tours with Clutch, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, All Them Witches, The Sword, and Elder. King Buffalo will issue their fifth full-length, Regenerator, on Sept. 2, 2022, as a self-release in North America and through Stickman Records in Europe. Preorders will be available on June 10th via http://kingbuffalo.bigcartel.com. Written and recorded by the band with mixing and engineering by Sean McVay and mastering by Bernie Matthews, the seven-song outing is the third in King Buffalo’s stated ‘pandemic trilogy,’ following Two of 2021’s Best Albums in The Burden of Restlessness and Acheron. Both of those albums – like 2018’s Longing to Be the Mountain, 2016’s debut, Orion, and the various EPs and other offerings they’ve made over the last eight years – made bold declarations about who King Buffalo are as a band, and Regenerator is no different. As McVay, Reynolds and Donaldson continue to explore the outer reaches of modern psychedelic songcraft, melding progressive rhythms, drifting atmospheres and accompanying surges of electricity, the new collection only further establishes them as one of the brightest lights shining in underground rock today.https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com/HEAVY TEMPLEA trio of psychedelic doom metal deviants, here to take you on a wild ride.https://heavytemple.bandcamp.com/SCREAMING RATTLERLet these rattlers loose and they’ll scream toward the sky with golden crackles in their wake. Revel in the Joy of these powerful rockers. Southern kissed rock AND roll done the heavy way from Philadelphia.screamingrattler.com
Ouroboros ~ Mose ~ Headband
OUROBOROShttps://ouroboros2.bandcamp.com/album/dark-placesMOSEhttps://linktr.ee/moseofmanayunkHEADBANDhttps://linktr.ee/headband_music
Petrol ~ Puriden ~ Glenn Matthews
**All events 21+—valid ID required for entry**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMPETROLhttps://petrolphl.bandcamp.com/album/cheap-hotelPURIDENhttps://puriden.bandcamp.com/track/youll-find-outGLENN MATTHEWShttps://glennmatthews.bandcamp.com/
Crowbar ~ Spirit Adrift ~ High Reeper ~ Caged
*Show is 18+ — Valid ID required for entry*Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMCROWBAR Crowbar songs are unapologetic emotional outpourings, with a bare-knuckle resolve alongside its soul-searching vulnerability, reliably delivered with crushing heaviness. Zero and Below, which cements the band’s dense catalog as exactly one dozen studio albums deep, is the most unforgivably doomy Crowbar record since their landmark 1998 effort, Odd Fellows Rest. Zero and Below is reverently old-school, counterbalanced by a resonant melodicism that’s stunningly mature. Songs like “Chemical Gods,” “Bleeding from Every Hole,” and “It’s Always Worth the Gain” demonstrate what Crowbar does better than any other band: powerful, evocative, and crushingly heavy music.https://crowbar.bandcamp.com/album/zero-and-belowSPIRIT ADRIFTSpirit Adrift refuses to slow down. With ‘Enlightened In Eternity’, Nathan Garrett, alongside drummer Marcus Bryant, has created yet another monument to the timelessness of heavy metal. And while ‘Enlightened…’ builds on the sizable foundation established by previous albums, it also sets itself apart in formidable new ways, widening the scope of what Spirit Adrift can be.https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/HIGH REEPERFormed in 2016, High Reeper is made up of Zach Thomas, Justin Di Pinto, Pat Daly and Shane Trimble. With a sound deeply rooted in modern stoner rock while still giving a nod to the earliest Sabbath records, High Reeper’s first offering is driven by pounding rhythms, thick guitars and soaring, screeching vocals. https://highreeper.bandcamp.com/CAGED “Young Gnarly and Full of SLUDGE – CAGED brings something new to the genre! They’ve decided to create riffs that seem like they were dipped in industrial sonic pain to inflict maximum listening pleasure. Their songs are the perfect soundtrack for the world we are existing in right now because they reek of disgust! Let’s all get ugly and blast the new CAGED tape STRICKEN BY CONTINUANCE.” – CVLT Nation https://cageddoom.bandcamp.com/releases
Rottrevore ~ Ritual Mass ~ Vaamatar ~ Blood Spore
ROTTREVORE Death metal band from North Charleroi, Pennsylvania, formed in November 1989. Originally active from 1989-1995. Reformed again, as of 2011.https://youtu.be/KLNLZaBrxboRITUAL MASShttps://ritualmass.bandcamp.com/album/abhorred-in-the-eyes-of-godVAAMATARhttps://vaamatar.bandcamp.com/album/evil-witching-black-metalBLOOD SPOREhttps://bloodspore.bandcamp.com/
A Will Away ~ Sleep Cycles ~ Beech Dream ~ Saver
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 6:00 PMShow: 7:00 PMA WILL AWAYA Will Away is an American modern rock band formed in 2011 in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The band’s original five members all lived within a mile of each other growing up, forming the band while in high school. Their name is a play on words from their shared philosophy, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”https://linktr.ee/awillaway SLEEP CYCLESPunk Rock/Alternative band from Philadelphia, PA. “Learning to Fall” out now!https://www.facebook.com/SleepCyclesPABEECH DREAMBeech Dream is an Indie soul singer songwriter band from the suburbs of Philadelphia. With pulsing rhythm based instruments, contemporary flowing melodies to make your soul sway. Influenced by urban culture, and the need for resolution in love, affection and anxiety. SpotifySAVERRock band from Philadelphia. Debut acoustic Ep “Saver- EP” released in 2015. Full band full length album released in 2019.Spotify
Direct Hit! ~ Crossed Keys ~ Twentytwo
**All events 21+ — valid ID required for entry**Doors: 7:00 pmShow: 7:30 pmDIRECT HIT!Direct Hit is a midwestern punk band, led by singer/songwriter Nick Woods since 2007. Featuring a rotating cast of members influenced in equal measure by The Ramones, The Thermals, Blink 182 and Andrew WK, the group signed to San Francisco’s Fat Wreck Chords in 2015, and will feature long-time drummer Logan Stang, along with collaborators Ben Sargent and Patrick Schwoegler at this year’s Breakin’ Even Fest.CROSSED KEYShttps://crossedkeys.bandcamp.com/TWENTYTWOPennsylvania punk rock since 2019. Featuring members of prior bands including Bangarang!, Man Overboard, and Your Best Regret; twentytwo. recorded their introductory 4-song EP with producer Pete Steinkopf of the Bouncing Souls in January of 2020 which was then mastered by Alan Douches (Saves the Day, AVAIL, Lifetime) for release in March of 2020.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7qxm6EIJjNxlV7xJ95oIzJ?si=KmFkN4IVQNO4Z_H7ac-tWg&nd=1