Billy Woods ~ ShrapKnel
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: 10:00 PM Show: 10:30 PMBilly WoodsNYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal are back with their first collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places; their new album Maps drops May 5th on Backwoodz Studioz. At heart, Maps is a story of the road, and fittingly, in support of the project, Kenny and woods will be touring together for the first time.ShrapKnelCurly Castro and PremRock; a duo as dissimilar as they are made for each other. The two artists are a veritable study in contrasts and contradictions, Castro was born and raised in Brooklyn but lives in Philadelphia, PremRock grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania but has been in New York since ‘08. Castro’s militant wordplay, reggae-influences, and booming baritone somehow perfectly balance PremRock’s silver-tongued flows, literary allusions and deadpan humor. ShrapKnel is a Venn diagram of ill communications; Schooly D to Stromile Swift. Def Jux to Detlef Schremf. Students of Black Uhuru and Breeze Brewin, Baldwin and Bukowski. Steel sharpens steel and this blade is as sharp as it gets. It has been more than two years since ShrapKnel’s debut album, during which time the duo of Curly Castro and PremRock have individually released successful solo albums with Backwoodz Studioz. Fittingly, these two albums were nothing alike; Castro’s incendiary Little Robert Hutton is an high octane soundclash, a stark contrast to the knotty intimacy of PremRock’s Load Bearing Crow’s Feet. A new ShrapKnel album means a return to foundry and forge, the alchemy of turning two into one. Carbon and Iron make steel, rest assured, there will be no sophomore slump. Metal Lung is the evidence.https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/shrapknel-a-tribe-all-stressed-new-song-listen/
Codefendants ~ Myles Bullen ~ Upgrade
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 PMSpecial Duo performances of Codefendants, Ceschi & Get Dead songs Codefendants Launched & produced by Fat Mike of NOFX, Codefendants, are the breath of fresh air and the steel-toe-cap kick in the nuts music has needed for too long. Get Dead vocalist Sam King’s graffiti crew were giving tattoos and making flash art to raise money to help rapper Ceschi Ramos when he was in prison. Months later they met at the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, California. They bonded, talking about their love of hip-hop and punk rock. They didn’t know it yet, but they had just started Codefendants. Impossible to define by traditional standards, Codefendants were forged out of a desire to make an album that sounded like nothing else. They call the genre ‘Crime Wave. https://linktr.ee/codefendants_legal_fund https://www.facebook.com/ceschiramos https://www.facebook.com/getdeadband Myles Bullen (they) (Fake Four Inc.) (Absentee Shawnee) Myles Bullen is a self-described “migratory songbird, grief rapper, screaming art poet” planted & sprouted in Portland, ME. Their music is influenced by indie rock bands, underrated rappers, spoken word poets, and soft, folk melodies. Bullen has toured nearly every state in the US & quite a few European countries performing at music venues, colleges, recovery centers, prisons, festivals, coffee shops, backyards and opera houses. They have released several EPs, and multiple albums on the internet including their latest, “Mourning Travels” www.mylesbullen.com Upgrade While dwelling in various parts of upstate New York, Upgrade has been constantly developing as an emcee over the past decade. Some career highlights include sharing stages with Mac Miller, Styles P, Chris Webby, Saigon and Big Sean. Through a chance encounter he also received a big supporter in the personage of Josh Eppard (of Coheed & Cambria / Weerd Science) www.upgradehiphop.com
Dead On A Sunday ~ Night Spins ~ Llynks
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 PMDEAD ON A SUNDAYDarkwave rock from the city of Denver, Colorado, Dead On A Sunday’s live show is dangerously electric and emotion wrenching incorporating theatrical make up and at times orchestral instrumentation. The project began to see success quickly after serveral TIKTOK posts reached viral status, the most popular comparing Ryan’s vocals to those of Bob Belcher from the popular Fox TV show Bob’s Burgers which fans have dubbed the term “bob-core” as a description of the band’s sound. The trending viral videos have amassed several millions of views to date and have boosted Dead On A Sunday’s profile to developing an active following of dark music lovers as well as shinning light on the artist’s debut LP as well as the recently released “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead” EP. Dead On A Sunday was formed in early 2021 by artist/producer Ross Ryan. After years of touring under another moniker on the electronic music circuit, Ryan felt a calling back to his roots in dark-rock based music. Having never sung in a project before, he tried his hand at lead vocals (as well as performing, writing, producing and mixing all the music for the project). The result was Dead On A Sunday’s first single “So What If It Kills Me”. The track was released in August of 2021 with several singles to follow over the next year. The debut “Strange Days” was released in October of 2022 (a body of 12 songs Ryan had been curating over the past 18 months).https://open.spotify.com/artist/2y19rzmHIF4YOLHm7AW0pl?si=wdfmHEe2SBum-X5fP9MCtA&dl_branch=1&nd=1NIGHT SPINShttps://nightspins.bandcamp.com/LlynksSPOTIFY // IG
Hotflakes ~ jim e brown ~ MWAA
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 PMHotflakeshttps://hotflakes.bandcamp.com/album/calamityjim e brownhttps://jimebrown.bandcamp.com/MWAAhttps://mywifesanangel.bandcamp.com/album/what-to-expect
Ulcerate ~ ALTARS ~ HATH (Cambridge Hall)
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 PMULCERATEThe unmistakable sound of ULCERATE finds its emotional apex on 6th album “Stare Into Death and Be Still”, as the band emerge from the claustrophobia and dissonance of their recent past to present a next-level exploration of melody, harmony and power.The band’s signature ultra-atmospheric blend of highest order unorthodox Death Metal with the texture of futurist Black Metal is here pared-down with the consummate hand of experience, giving stunning credence to the riff, the song and the meaning.Embracing production clarity, ULCERATE use these songs to fully showcase their other orldly musicianship: a vocal performance from Paul Kelland of unadulterated authority, Michael Hoggard’s guitar and Jamie Saint Merat’s percussion working in tandem with startling skill and originality, simultaneously skewed and heart-rending, often addictively succinct and reveling in strident motifs that hook, haunt and transform the listener with their expressive honesty.Thematically the album explores the concept of “death reverence” – drawing on recent personal experience to confront the truism that death and tragedy aren’t always sudden or violent, that people are often passive observers trapped “in the silent horror of observing death calmly and cleanly”.”Stare Into Death and Be Still” is the deepest, purest and most meticulous form of ULCERATE: a soul-searching conflagration of atypical melodicism, immaculate virtuosic dexterity and sublimated psychological upheaval. A breathtaking new beginning for one of the most uniquely talented bands inextreme music.http://www.ulcerate-official.com/ALTARShttps://altarsdeath.bandcamp.com/music
TIOGA ~ FAZE WAVE ~ SLEEP HOUSE ~ THE LAST GENERATION ON FILM
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 PMTIOGAhttps://tiogatheband.bandcamp.com/track/just-my-bodyFAZE WAVEFAZE WAVE is an alternative/indie band out of Jacksonville, Florida who have been performing together since 2015. Over the course of 2 albums and 3 EPs, the group developed an audience that reaches far beyond their hometown. More recently, they have been playing support slots for bands like Grouplove, Cold War Kids, Cherub, Hocky Dad, Broncho, and more, making appearances on festival and club stages. FAZE WAVE is poised to drop 4-5 singles throughout the rest of 2023, followed up by an EP in Q1 of 2024. They have a consistent content schedule set up, and are excited about this East Coast Headline tour. They have performed as north as NYC and as west as Texas, with most of their show history happening in the South East. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rsBReXv6wZK0s0nGN3yzF?si=dnKdyIcMRBqN6Bo7wkQoxghttps://instagram.com/fazewavemusic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://www.facebook.com/fazewavemusic?mibextid=LQQJ4dSLEEP HOUSEPHILLY’S VERY OWN, SLEEP HOUSE IS AN INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK BAND THAT HAS BEEN CREATING AND PERFORMING ON THE EAST COAST SINCE 2016. THEIR FOUNDATIONAL INFLUENCES INCLUDE THE STROKES, HIPPO CAMPUS, THE 1975, AND SINCE THEN HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY NUMEROUS STYLES OF MUSIC. AT 14 YEARS OLD, THE GROUP FORMED DURING THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL AND HAVEN’T LOOKED BACK SINCE. FROM THEN UNTIL NOW THEY HAVE WRITTEN, RECORDED, PRODUCED, AND ENGINEERED 4 EPS, 5 SINGLES, TOURED, AND HAVE AMASSED OVER 485K+ STREAMS. https://open.spotify.com/artist/6NywggIfyJeLr7gedhU165?si=B6i3fP3iSySeBnt2Aib4fQ&nd=1THE LAST GENERATION ON FILMThe Last Generation On Film is a Modern Rock Outfit from Philadelphia. Their music draws from a variety of influences including electro-pop, funk, chillwave and dance music with an Alternative Rock core and their sound has been compared to A Flock Of Seagulls, Duran Duran, and Glass Animals. Formed in 2014 by Jeff Familetti (vocals, keys, guitar) and Ryan Bayler (keys, guitar) as a synth pop duo, the band recently went through some dramatic changes with the addition of two new members, Joe Tockett (Drums) and Cameron Kynett (Bass). As a result, the group’s sound has blossomed, a shift that has garnered local attention and resulted in a feature as one of WXPN’s Local Picks, as well as a prime spot on the lineup for 2nd Street Festival. The group is currently in the process of recording their third EP, “Repercussions.” Their first two EPs, “Repetitions” and “Reflections,” were recorded at Headroom Studios by Mark Watter and are currently available for streaming online.https://thelastgenerationonfilm.bandcamp.com/track/one-less-voice-single
Woods ~ Anna St. Louis
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: 7:30 PM Show: 8:00 PMWoodsWoods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial. Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, above and below the root, reliably emerging every few years with new music that grows towards the latest sky. Operating the Woodsist label since 2006 and curating the beloved homespun Woodsist Festival for the musical universe they’ve built, Perennial is the sound of a band on the edge of their 20th anniversary and still finding bold new ways to sound like (and challenge) themselves. Perennial grew from a bed of guitar/keyboard/drum loops by Woods head-in-chief Jeremy Earl, a form of winter night meditation that evolved into an unexplored mode of collaborative songwriting. With Earl’s starting points, he and bandmates Jarvis Taveniere and John Andrews convened, first at Earl’s house in New York, then at Panoramic House studio in Stinson Beach, California, site of sessions for 2020’s Strange To Explain. With a view of the sparkling Pacific and tape rolling, they began to build, jamming over the loops, switching instruments, and developing a few dozen building blocks. The album’s resulting 11 songs, 4 of them instrumental, are in the classic Woods mode—shimmering, familiar, fractionally unsettling—but with the half-invisible infinity boxes of Earl’s loops burbling beneath each like a mysterious underground source. From source to seed to bloom, each loop unfolds into something unpredictable, from the jeweled pop of the aching “Little Black Flowers” to the ecstatic starlit freak-beat of “Another Side.” They are blossomings both far-out and comforting, like the Mellotronic cloud-hopping of “Between the Past,” or sometimes just plain comforting, like the widescreen snowglobe fantasia of the instrumental “White Winter Melody,” touched by Connor Gallaher’s pedal steel.https://woodsist.com/woods/ Anna St. LouisAnna St. Louis is a singer-songwriter based mostly in Los Angeles, sometimes in upstate New York. This June she released her sophomore album ‘In The Air’, on Woodsist and Mare records. ‘In The Air’ is a contemplative and serene collection of country folk songs.Instagram | Bandcamp | YouTube
New Desires Dance Party featuring N8NOFACE
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: 10:00 PM Show: 10:30 PM New Desires is a new dance party that encompasses modern post-punk, dream pop & darkwave. Music and Visuals curated by DJ Paul T (DJSC/Night Drive) https://www.instagram.com/djscphilly/?hl=enN8NOFACEHe’s been described as a Chicano Flannery O’Connor playing chiptune Ministry, the Sleaford Mods of the American Southwest, Suicide for the 21st Century and Ghostmane meets darkwave synthpunk dashed with early Ween’s glue-huffing pop. Lyrically, his sometimes romantic, oftentimes violent storytelling tunes lean toward Narcocorrido, the bloody ballads of Mexican drug cartels. It sounds dark on the surface, but really N8NOFACE’s music is a lot of fun, and as exciting and cathartic as the birth of punk rock and hiphop. Nate, or N8, NOFACE is animated and all over the map when he speaks. But, he always gets straight to the point, just like his music. His songs often clock in around 1-minute long, typically abruptly ending before even repeating a chorus. The songs are built around a few stark, evocative mantra-like lines about life’s struggles over a simple, hummable hook. That he’s so prolific with these 50-60 second dark pop masterpieces is astonishing. “If you can’t explain it simply you don’t know what you’re talking about,” he says. “I do scream rap, but after that I might pick up a banjo and do outlaw country,” N8 says, discussing the multiple personalities of his music. “I want to do it all. I am a little bit of everything, why can’t I use every frequency to tell those stories?” He’s been making and posting glitchy synthpunk since the days of MySpace, when he first gained attention in chiptune duo Crimekillz. Even before the demise of that band, however, N8NOFACE was disseminating his dadaist lo-fi rants online, recording them on the cheap on his home computer setup. “Even to this day, everything I do is recorded in my closet,” he says. “I’ve never recorded at a studio. My goal was always to try to make these genres with the gear that I have, which comes from hip hop. I just do it the wrong way and it comes out my sound.”
The Riffs ~ Doc Rotten ~ Lil Bambinos ~ The Mesos
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 PMThe Riffs will be making their first Philly appearance since 2003 on Thursday, August 17th!!! They are only playing two east coast dates in 2023 so get to the gig We’ll also have a solid lineup full of exciting recent activities!!The Mesos from Scranton will be joining us to kick things off! We caught a blazing set of theirs recently and loved them! Hit the link below for 70’s influenced rock n roll goodness!Lil Bambinos are celebrating their recent release and will start off the night! Next up and fresh off their European tour Doc Rotten, a favorite in Philly will be direct support! Check out links below!We’ll also have some DJ sets by Rob the Ripper, DJ Warlock, and Jklank77!The Riffs (Portland, Oregon)Doc Rottenhttps://docrotten.bandcamp.comLil Bambino’shttps://lilbambinos.bandcamp.comThe Mesoshttps://themesos.bandcamp.comDJ sets by Rob the Ripper, DJ Warlock, and Jklank77
Great Falls ~ ZOMBIESHARK! ~ East Of The Wall ~ Eaten By Bees
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: 6:00 PM Show: 6:30 PM Great Fallshttps://greatfalls.bandcamp.com/album/objects-without-painZOMBIESHARK!https://zombieshark.bandcamp.com/album/born-from-a-wishEast Of The Wallhttps://eastofthewall.bandcamp.com/Eaten By Bees