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Lithics (Portland, OR - Kill Rock Star Records)
https://lithics.bandcamp.com/
Lithics is a four person minimalist punk band from Portland, Oregon formed in late 2014. Over the last year and a half they have refined a sound focusing on interlocked bass and drum rhythms paired with shrill guitar counterpoint and stark female vocals. While counting Wire, The Fall, Devo, Pylon, The Shadow Ring, and Captain Beefheart?s Magic Band as reference points, the band?s concerns are contemporary and urgent. An injection of uptight, nervous energy into the reverb drenched complacency of today?s musical underground.

?...basically the stuff of my post-punk dreams, with needles-and-pins guitar lines jabbing and competing for space with minimalist, meditative bass/drums synchronization and coolly detached female vocals that drift somewhere between the twin inspirations of Allison Statton of Young Marble Giants, and Vanessa Briscoe of Pylon. Throw in some hair-raising neo-no wave scratches and scrapes of six string across the otherwise steady and taut rhythmic throb of ?Lizard? and ?Seven People? and you?ve got a band who should be making all the weirdo art-punk kids drooling over that CCTV single similarly lose their shit, if they know what?s good for them.? - Erika Elizabeth, Maximum Rock ?n? Roll #392.

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Complainer (St. Louis)
https://alreadydeadtapes.bandcamp.com/album/ad236-complainer-floodplain

8PM
$7 dos/adv
All Ages

Cree Rider's Annual all day music festival features some of the best in STL roots and Americana music!

18 acts. $15 bucks for all-day wristband.

Cree Rider Family Band
The Dock Ellis Band
River Kittens
Old Capital
Cara Louise Band
Jenny Roques
The Fighting Side
River Despair
Nick Gusman
WT Newton
Fred Friction
Les Gruff and the Billy Goat
L.S. XPRSS
Devon Cahill
Old Souls Revival
The Warbuckles
The Native Sons
The Riverside Wanderers

Sustenance provided by Devil Dogs Wienery!

Family friendly until 8pm.

Accepting entries for vendors! Limited spots available! Message for deets!

The Regrettes come to the OB June 19th. Advance tickets are $10. Doors 7pm Show 730pm. All ages show.

Jack Grelle and special guest Jeremy Pinnell come to the OB June 29th. Doors 7, show 9. Advance tickets are $8, $10 dos. All ages

Ruby Boots Live at Off Broadway! Doors 7, Show 8.
$10 Flat, $3 Minor Surcharge. Under 18 Must be accompanied by an adult 21+.

TYPHOON comes back to Off Broadway June 16th, 2018 with special guests The Fourth Wall. Doors 7pm, show 8pm. Advance Tickets $16, $18 day of show. All ages show with a $3 minor surcharge. If a Fellini film, a Bosch painting, and a Rorschach drawing had a collective sound, it would be Typhoon's new release. The 14-track record Offerings is a musical and lyrical excursion into surreal imagery, eerie soundscapes, and an emotionally jarring narrative. The 70-minute album for Roll Call Records, which is the Portland, Oregon indie rock band's fourth studio album, centers on a fictional man who is losing his memory, and in turn, his sense of self. "I've always been preoccupied with memory, losing memory, and trying to recapture memory. I wanted to explore the questions: What does a person become if they don't know where they came from? What is the essential quality of the person if you strip away all memory?" explains singer/songwriter Kyle Morton. Motivated in part by his own preoccupation with "losing it," Morton also found a treasure trove of inspiration through various books, art, and film he was immersed in during the writing of this record. "I was watching a lot of David Lynch, and thought a lot about the Christopher Nolan movie, Memento, and Fellini's 8 ½. And there were a lot of books on my nightstand that played into this. It made it a much darker album for sure," he says. Offerings is divided into three movements of descent and an epilogue (Floodplains, Flood, Reckoning, and Afterparty) to represent the mental phases the main character goes through where he first realizes that something is wrong, then struggles through the chaos of his situation, and finally moves into acceptance before succumbing to his dreadful fate. "I wanted this record to be a journey, like Dante's Inferno. It kicks off with 'Wake,' where the character wakes up and he's shitting the bed and doesn't know what's going on. I was going for a specific feel that Samuel Beckett does so well," says Morton, who was reading Beckett?s Three Novels, specifically Malloy, while writing the song's lyrics. "Beckett would call it a literature of impoverishment where he'd strip away as much as he could so he could get a feeling of essence and scarcity; that's what I tried to do musically and lyrically here."

Kelly Willis comes back to the Off Broadway July 1st to celebrate the release of her new album, Back Being Blue, out May 18!!

Doors 7pm, show 8pm. Advance tickets $17, $20 day of show. All ages. Seated show.

Ruby Boots comes to the Off Broadway June 26th 2018. 7pm doors 8p show. $10