The Idaho Songwriters Association Forum (1/30/18)

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$12 - Two nights only!
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Music. Madness. And so, so many tentacles.

Detective John LaGrasse is searching for a murderer. Francine Thurston?s uncle vanished without a trace. The only clue to both mysteries is a bizarre statue worshipped by a nightmarish cult. And it?s leading both of them out to sea, and towards insanity. But you know, with singing puppets.

The show is what in a sensible universe would be impossible: a feature-length musical comedy adaptation of one of the least musical or comedic stories ever; H.P. Lovecraft?s cosmic horror classic, ?The Call of Cthulhu,? performed entirely with puppets.

The Portland Mercury said, ?You haven?t truly experienced Lovecraft?s madness until you?ve experienced it in its truest form: As a puppet musical.?

Equal parts rock band, and comedic powerhouse, Puppeteers for Fears have sold out theaters up and down the west coast with witty writing, electrifying acting, and anthemic original songs. And Cthulhu: the Musical has been written up as ?some next-level puppet shit,? as far away as Italy.

The Oregon troupe will make a special appearance as part of its west coast summer tour.

The show runs 90 minutes, with 12 original songs, a dozen original hand-and-rod puppets, and digitally projected multimedia sets. It is not for children. Unless they?re awesome.

Learn more at PuppeteersForFears.com, or listen to the original cast soundtrack here.

https://thejoshgross.bandcamp.com/album/cthulhu-the-musical-original-cast-recording

$10 tickets at Neurolux, The Record Exchange and www.ticketweb.com or $12 door

Duck Club Presents
Here's a rockin' show to add to your summer concert calendar ? Speedy Ortiz are coming to Neurolux on June 14th with special guest Anna Burch and more tba! Tickets on sale now!

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Thursday, June 14th
Speedy Ortiz with Anna Burch
Neurolux
$12 / $15
7pm

Tickets on sale now
speedy-ortiz-3.eventbrite.com
Also available at The Record Exchange

Upcoming Duck Club Shows: www.facebook.com/DuckClubBoise/events

SPEEDY ORTIZ
speedyortiz.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/speedyortiz

?Necessary brattiness? is the motto for Speedy Ortiz?s dauntless new collection of songs, Twerp Verse. The follow-up to 2015?s Foil Deer, the band?s latest indie rock missive is prompted by a tidal wave of voices, no longer silent on the hurt they?ve endured from society?s margins. But like many of these truth-tellers, songwriter, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis scales the careful line between what she calls being ?outrageous and practical? in order to be heard at all.

?You need to employ a self-preservational sense of humor to speak truth in an increasingly baffling world,? says Dupuis. ?I call it a ?twerp verse? when a musician guests on a track and says something totally outlandish - like a Lil Wayne verse - but it becomes the most crucial part. This record is our own twerp verse, for those instances when you desperately need to stand up and show your teeth.?

Twerp Verse was tracked in Brooklyn DIY space Silent Barn, mixed by Omaha legend Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley) and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Emily Lazar (Sia, Haim, Beck). The record pulls from the most elastic pop moments in Squeeze?s Argybargy and the seesawing synth-rock of Deerhoof and the Rentals. With Dupuis on guitars, vocals, and synths, supporting guitarist Andy Molholt (of psych pop outfit Laser Background) now joins Speedy veterans Darl Ferm on bass and Mike Falcone on drums - and together they accelerate the band?s idiosyncrasy through the wilderness of Dupuis? heady reflections on sex, lies and audiotape.

Dupuis, who both earned an MFA in poetry and taught at UMass Amherst, propels the band?s brain-teasing melodies with her serpentine wit. Inspired by the cutting observations of Eve Babitz, Aline Crumb?s biting memoirs, and the acute humor of AstroPoet Dorothea Lasky, Dupuis craftily navigates the danger zone that is building intimacy and political allyship in 2018. Now as public pushback against the old guards reaches a fever pitch - in the White House, Hollywood and beyond - the band fires shots in disillusioned Gen Y theme ?Lucky 88,? and casts a side-eye towards suitors-turned-monsters in the cold-blooded single ?Villain.? Closing track ?You Hate The Title? is a slinky traipse through the banality of this current moment in patriarchy - in which survivors are given the mic, but nitpicked over the timbre of their testimonies. ?You hate the title, but you?re digging the song,? Dupuis sings wryly, ?You like it in theory, but it?s rubbing you wrong.? Tuned smartly to the political opacity of the present, Twerp Verse rings clear as a bell.

Duck Club Presents:
The El Paso, Texas rock band Sparta (led by former At the Drive-In member Jim Ward) is baaaaack and they're swinging through town on 7/9 at Neurolux with guests tba. Tickets on sale Friday 4/13 at 10am.

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Monday, July 9th
Sparta
Neurolux
$14 / $17
7pm

Tickets on sale Friday, April 13th at 10am MT
https://sparta-boise.eventbrite.com
or at The Record Exchange

More Info:
facebook.com/spartatheband
theduckclub.com

Upcoming Duck Club Shows: facebook.com/DuckClubBoise/events

Bent Knee ? The Paper Earth Tour
w/ special guests Gatherers & Sun Blood Stories

RADIO BOISE TUESDAY!
$8 tickets at Neurolux, The Record Exchange and www.ticketweb.com or $10 door

++ With featured Radio Boise DJ spinning when doors open at 7pm and in between sets, plus drink specials! ++

20% of drinks sales benefit KRBX 89.9 FM, community radio for Boise and beyond!

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Bent Knee is a band without frontiers. Its borderless sound combines myriad influences from across the rock, pop, minimalist, and avant-garde spectrums into a seamless, thrilling whole. Fiercely innovative, the group bridges the gap between the experimental and the familiar, merging texture and style into music that?s moving, addictive, and unapologetically original. The Boston sextet's fourth album, "Land Animal", was just released on InsideOut/Sony. http://bentkneemusic.com

?Mind boggling. The grandest and subtlest ideas are on the table.? -NPR
"Breaking new stylistic and temperamental ground." -The Boston Globe
"Equal parts ingenuity and deliciousness.? -The Wall Street Journal

$10 tickets at Neurolux, The Record Exchange and www.ticketweb.com or $12 door

++ With featured Radio Boise DJ spinning when doors open at 7pm and in between sets, plus drink specials! ++

20% of drinks sales benefit KRBX 89.9 FM, community radio for Boise and beyond!

$8 tickets at Neurolux, The Record Exchange and www.ticketweb.com or $10 door

++ With featured Radio Boise DJ spinning when doors open at 7pm and in between sets, plus drink specials! ++

20% of drinks sales benefit KRBX 89.9 FM, community radio for Boise and beyond!

Breaking Wheel (MI)
https://breakingwheel.bandcamp.com

Fuming Mouth (MA)
https://fumingmouth.bandcamp.com

Natural Evil
https://naturalevil.bandcamp.com/releases

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