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
Hubbell Benson
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 PMHubbell BensonIndie/Psychedelic Rock/Pop band from Trenton, NJ.https://open.spotify.com/artist/6WP9nmyuN0SE9hNxOh9OudPablo David MusiCohttps://soundcloud.com/pablo-david-724880568Jay Johnson w/ OTC CollectivePhiladelphia-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist active in the Indie DIY scene. Jay plays bass in Mandy Valentine, and plays guitar in Three Yards To Dover and The Pool Boys. Inspired by his love of travel, philosophy, the natural world, and 1960s bands like the Beatles, the Kinks, and Pink Floyd, Jay’s music celebrates love, nature, and adventure. https://jaykpjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/love-rock-roll-part-1
Sleep Cycles ~ Floorbird ~ Modern Culture ~ Dead Wrong
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 PMSleep Cycleshttps://www.sleepcyclesmusic.com/Floorbirdhttps://floorbird.bandcamp.com/album/fall-apart-anywhereModern Culturehttps://modernculturephl.bandcamp.com/album/separation-ep Dead Wronghttps://deadwrongpa.bandcamp.com/
Lucas Wolfe ~ The InGlorious ~ Balmour
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 PMLUCAS WOLFELucas Wolfe is an R&B/ Alternative artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2019, he released his first project “Before the Band”, which was a culmination of songs with his lead Producer, Don Lan. This next body of work represents who Lucas Wolfe really believes he is, R&B that pushes boundaries. More instruments, and more of an alternative sound. The sounds he grew up with. https://ditto.fm/stay-lucas-wolfeTHE INGLORIOUSThe InGlorious is an American music group comprised of singer-songwriter Stacey J. Harcum AKA Sensei, and instrumentalist-songwriter Kyle D. Johnson. With both their classical backgrounds, gospel influence, and unique musical upbringing, they bring a fresh sound to the industry. With influences from Soul/R&B to Hip Hop to Country, they push the boundaries of genre to bring truth and love to the masses. WebsiteBALMOURBalmour is a neo-soul artist from Philadelphia, pa. He fuses elements of folk, soul, gospel and r&b to offer his listeners a truly unique sonic experience. Balmour invites you to listen to his sophomore effort, Double HP, out now!
Peter Rono ~ COWBOYKILLERR ~ GAWD ~ inutech
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 PMPETER RONOThe multifaceted Philadelphia native has been an unyielding force in the city’s underground rap and metal/hardcore scenes for over a decade. While many know him as the frontman for buzzing Metalcore band Kaonashi, Peter Rono is also active in the deep-fried pocket of SoundCloud’s internet-infused Hip-hop community. He’s dropped over 12 projects since 2020, and collaborated with the likes of yungster jack, d0llywood, Christ Dillinger, and Fatherblaze. His August release Berkeley Sessions EP with Saito Flossy and Vantana Row finds Peter as experimental and fun-loving as ever. After nearly a year of touring the world with Kaonashi, Peter will return to the homeland and remind the city he’s really a rapper fr.Instagram | SoundcloudCOWBOYKILLERRThe trailblazing Philly emcee has solidified himself as one of the hardest working rappers in the city. In the last two years he’s released over 9 projects and dozens of singles. In addition to his work ethic, COWBOYKILLERR made a name for himself as one of the most intense live performers in the city. Much like the title of his March release “Kentucky Derby,” both the crowd and stage will turn into a rodeo once COWBOYKILLERR takes it.Instagram | SoundcloudGAWD“Keeping up with GAWD’s musical output is a full-time gig. Over the past decade, he’s logged more than 1,500 SoundCloud uploads—mostly self-produced rap tracks, along with beats for sale and DJ mixes—across nearly 50 different aliases including TRICK RACER, MR I GOT GASS N I CNT PASS, and, simply, YEAH. There’s probably even more material I’m missing. There have been GAWD songs that I heard once and was never able to find again, leaving me to wonder if they were hallucinations… The enigmatic 24-year-old’s music comes off as random and improvised but, in the grand tradition of mind-meltingly prolific rappers like Lil B, there is intentionality to the chaos.”Instagram| SoundcloudINUTECH““I make freak music for freaky people,” inutech explained to AL DÍA on a sunny afternoon in Clark Park. The emcee, originally from West Philly, beams with excitement as they describe their genre-defying music. inutech’s 2021 release “CUPID” provides a glimpse into the vast terrain their music encompasses. The six-minute track starts as an acoustic ballad that progresses into a distorted autotune mesh of 80s pop, emo, and punk, with an ending sequence that sounds like the final level of a Sonic The Hedgehog video game.”Instagram | Soundcloud
Griffin Brown ~ Donnie CoCo ~ c.zynski
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 PMGRIFFIN BROWNGriffin Brown is a musician, poet, and artist. Described by The Wire as “impressive” and “original,” his music has been featured at venues and festivals across the United States, Europe, and Canada. His poems appear in The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Prelude, and elsewhere. https://griffinnemobrown.com/ https://www.instagram.com/griffinbrown_/ https://griffinbrown.bandcamp.com/DONNIE COCO Lifelong multi-instrumentalist and Philadelphia based singer-songwriter Donnie CoCo fearlessly explores the landscape of grief, modeling a determined and curious effort to grow upward from a place of discomforts. For fans of Jaala, Nai Palm, and Jeff Buckley—Donnie’s soulful voice and tongue in cheek lyrics haunt listeners as potently as their dynamic ensemble teases with playful musicality. Donnie CoCo’s debut single ‘Bad Word’ was recorded at Office Ours on Knox in Germantown and released independently in July 2024. https://www.instagram.com/donniecocodeluxe/C.ZYNSKIc.zynski is a new ambient/instrumental project from the Philadelphia-based artist. Employing a mixture of synth and live strings, brass and woodwind instruments, his latest EP, “Sharashka,” alternates from light to dark ambient genres. Exploring the concept of memory loss through repetition, his latest EP,”Sharashka,” slowly unveils undulating swells of dark-synth textures lurking beneath rich orchestral instrumentation along side flittering, ozone-filled strings and piano, giving rise to a contemplative yet stirring listening experience that ranges from the macabre to revelatory. (Similar artists include Tim Story, Stars of the Lid, Harold Budd, Basinski, Cluster.) https://linktr.ee/czynski
The Jesters ~ Police Touch Museum ~ Betty Lawless
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 The JestersThe Jesters are a Philadelphia-based alternative rock band that grew out of the songwriting duo of Harry Buscher and Justin Libucki. The addition of multi-instrumentalist songwriter Dan Gandolfo and drummer Ron Breining has rounded out The Jesters’ current lineup.https://linktr.ee/thejestersmusicPolice Touch MuseumPolice Touch Museum is the Philadelphia based solo project of singer/songwriter Mike Parry, who’s been writing under the name PTM since 2020. Son of Steve Parry, guitarist for Heaven’s Edge, Parry started writing and performing original songs at age 12 and fronted the blues rock project, The Dead Flowers, from 2016-2022. Police Touch plays sentimental indie rock that echoes his realizations on romance and coming-of-age.https://ptmlinks.com/everythingBetty LawlessBetty Lawless is a band from Philadelphia, PA.https://linktr.ee/bettylawless
Rich Aucoin ~ NO SIR E
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 PMRich Aucoinhttps://richaucoinwabb.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-season-2NO SIR ENO SIR E is the Delaware-based producer, performing artist, monome magician, and forward-thinking future beat electronic musician making waves from east to west coast with his ambitious approach to music production. A self-proclaimed “sound scavenger” and “loop technician”, his live performances are a full-course buffet into a range of emotion and rhythm. Using a monome 256 and other futuristic gadgetry he transforms into a mad scientist performing beat-based alchemy.www.nosire.comwww.nosire.bandcamp.comwww.soundcloud.com/no-sir-e
Left Lane Cruiser ~ Nate Bergman ~ Adam Faucett
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 PMLeft Lane Cruiserhttps://leftlanecruiser.bandcamp.com/album/beck-in-black-3Nate BergmanNate Bergman, the Nashville by way of D.C. singer-songwriter, is a performer with a voice that transcends generations. His powerful vocals create a timeless sound that weaves through the rich tapestry of Nashville’s musical heritage. Bergman’s unique ability to infuse elements of Country, Rock, Folk, and Soul results in a sound that resonates with an increasingly diverse audience. Anchored in Nashville’s vibrant music scene, Bergman’s journey began with a passion for storytelling through song. His live performances are a testament to his exceptional talent, marked by a magnetic stage presence that captivates audiences wherever he sings. Whether with an acoustic guitar or a full band, Bergman’s performances are a visceral experience, leaving an indelible mark on those fortunate enough to witness his artistry live. Beyond the city limits, Bergman has navigated highways across the globe supporting legendary artists like Amigo The Devil, Clutch, Valerie June, Will Hoge, The War and Treaty, Thursday, Cursive, My Chemical Romance, Arlo McKinley, and Anthony Green. Nate Bergman’s commitment to creating a timeless musical legacy, combined with his powerful voice and electrifying live performances, establishes him as a standout figure in Nashville’s thriving music scene.Adam Faucetthttps://adamfaucett.bandcamp.com/