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.
Freeze MF ~ Fromjoy ~ Age of Panic ~ Strangers
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMFREEZE MFfreezemf | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Linktree FROMJOYfromjoy – Listen on Spotify – LinktreeAGE OF PANICAge Of Panic | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | LinktreeSTRANGERSInstagram
Band of Gringos ~ Proper Shapes
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PMBAND OF GRINGOSBand of Gringos is a power trio hailing from the psychedelic and soulful town of Ocean Beach in San Diego, CA.Spotify | Instagram | YoutubePROPER SHAPESProper Shapes is a Philly based band with extensive performance experience at venues and festivals in Philadelphia and South Jersey, building a devoted following in the area. They have a significant buzz going after the release of our first official music video for “Valentine,” the lead single from their upcoming debut full-length album.Facebook | Spotify
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/
The Very Nowhere ~ Electives ~ Blackelijah
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PMTHE VERY NOWHEREInstagramELECTIVESElectives is an instrumental power trio from Lancaster, PA.Detail-oriented grooves with flavors of rock, Latin, and jazz.https://electives.bandcamp.com/ BLACKELIJAHRnB artist currently living in philly.SoundCloud
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
Spitalfield ~ Shane Henderson of Valencia ~ Rookie Of The Year (The Loft)
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PM Spitalfieldhttps://victoryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/remember-right-nowShane Henderson of Valenciahttps://shanehendersonandthefutureperfect.bandcamp.com/album/controlRookie Of The Yearhttps://www.instagram.com/rookieoftheyearofficial/?hl=en
Bent Knee ~ Sarina (Cambridge Hall)
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Bent KneeBent Knee are not a band for convention. In fact, since forming in 2009, the Boston-based six-piece have been on a constant journey of musical exploration that thoroughly disregards it. The result is five records that completely defy categorization and transcend genre. In other words, the band don’t just break the rules, they make up their own. That’s ensured they exist exclusively on their own terms. Frosting, the band’s sixth full-length, pushes those boundaries even further. It’s the most Bent Knee-esque Bent Knee record to date, which means that, simultaneously, it’s also the album of theirs that sounds the least like Bent Knee.Sarinawww.sarinasounds.bandcamp.com