Do You Need the Service? Album Release Party at JB’s July 24

In typical Saturday night fashion, Johnny Brenda’s is pulling out the party with a triple-header featuring an album release celebration for I Hurl Myself Towards Glory and fusion junkies Do You Need the Service?, a band who wants to know: “Can you keep a clown secret?” This is just a hint to let you know that by listening to their tunes you’re about to transcend your comfortable suburban upbringing and lose yourself to a wiry base undercurrent of experimental jams or that you might get molested by a group of thirty-something, married dudes dressed like John Wayne Gacy. Joining them will be post rockers/mind-fuckers Grimace Federation. This crew plays only the wildest psychedelic jungle rock, kin to Chicago’s Black Moth Super Rainbow, enjoyed best with a tab or two of the finest shit to make your head spin out of line and in step with the music, which I’m sure they saw plenty of last weekend at Camp Bisco. For a slight change of pace, there’s also seasoned veterans Photon Band who will be bidding farewell to long-time comrade Dr. Art DiFuria before he heads off to Savannah, GA, where he will be a professor at Savannah School of Art and Design. Wish him and Nancy well! Cheers! Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Katie Bennett