Oakland’s NineteenEightyEight (aka 1988) has released their debut album! NineteenEightyEight started as the bedroom project of Luis Gutierrez, drummer of much-loved, psychedelic post-rock band Religious Girls, however, live 1988 has grown into a full band featuring revolving contributors from the Bay area music scene. NineteenEightyEight occupies a late-night dreamspace, where the drive of Post Punk crosses over with disco rhythms, horror movie atmosphere, and wasted, ghostly vocals meet washed out guitars and synths, creating a singular vibe not locked into any particular time or place. Check out their music and support up and coming local bands!
Philadelphia
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Shaking Through w/Hemming
For the premiere episode of the new season of Weathervane Music’s Shaking Through (above), the documentary series revamped its usual format a bit, giving us a more in-depth look at their featured artist Hemming (a.k.a. Candice Martello), who has already had quite an interesting journey in the music industry. From getting her feet wet fronting the indie-punk duo Omar to winning VH1’s reality show music competition Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project, you definitely learn some valuable lessons from Martello’s experiences and get the honesty that she’s now trying to achieve with her music. You also find her creating a wonderful track, "All I Want," with friends Augusta Koch and Allegra Anka of Cayetana and Matt Schimelfenig and Pat Brier of Three Man Cannon. Take the new single for a spin and download it for free below!
Portland
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PDX Pop Now’s Comp release party coming soon
Exactly one week from now, Holocene will be host to yet another year of PDX Pop Now‘s compilation release show. The comp, which has featured upwards of 40 Portland artists (both on and off the festival’s bill) for quite a few years now, has presented the city’s varied music scene with artists of all different genres.
This year’s release show will highlights three of the comp’s artists, with performances by classic pop act the Minders, along with the noisey indie rock of Months and the endlessly entertaining experimental set from Kulululu.
Admission to the all ages May 15th show is $8-$10, which comes with either a physical or digital copy of the compilation. Listen to Months’ comp contribution, "Cannibal," below.
Philadelphia
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Trish Keenan Duo Dives Into the Abyss at W/N W/N May 6
A folksy, echoing, psychedelic ambiance persists as one dives into the abyss better known as the sonic waves of Trish Keenan Duo. While the layers envelop a somewhat eerie, meditative state, the music constructs itself. Not so distant vibrations shake off the baggage of the everyday, allowing the internal speculations to temporarily rise to the surface as they seek illumination. The multi-faceted, electro-noise pop combination of Flesh Prince and the rich elusive instrumental tunes of R.R. Perkins help to mold this evening at W/N W/N. With a freshly released album Trix Shadow Yogurt, the industrial experimentation of Baltimore’s Kryz Kniv completes this lineup of sonic manipulators. W/N W/N, 931 Spring Garden St., 8pm, All Ages – Michael Colavita
Portland
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Saturday Night Sounds: Rotties – “Dead”
Rotties just dropped their sophomore self titled album last month and it’s every bit of what we’ve been fiending for from them since their debut three years ago. Featuring a cover of the Gits‘ "Second Skin," their second album is full of jams that make you both want to push and pogo around and girate about all at the same time.
Tonight we’re sharing the album’s closer, "Dead," which is an ideal mix of raw punk with grooving elements and a straight forward vocality. Give it a go below.
Philadelphia
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A Fundraiser for the Philadelphia Student Union w/Sheer Mag, Bad Canoes & More at PhilaMOCA May 6
Will McAndrew (of R5 Productions) is curating a fundraiser show at PhilaMOCA to support the Philadelphia Student Union in its mission of banding students together to "demand a high quality education in the Philadelphia public school system." It’s a tried and true method; there’s no better way to empower young people and bolster a youth movement than through the magical power of rock ‘n’ roll music. Guitarmony shred-rock titans Sheer Mag will be headlining the event, busting out riffs that they would never teach you in school. Dark Thoughts will also be performing in support of the students with their angsty, accelerated Ramones swagger, building heavy parallels in sound and objective to Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Hopefully all buildings will be left intact. Bad Canoes, which features the unparalleled vocal stylings of Marissa Paternoster from Screaming Females, are also pitching in by bringing their outlandish, no-wave meets Slits-inspired rock ‘n’ roll to the stage. With songs that range in subject from bangin’ radio stations to meeting babes at the mall, each tune is delivered with a raw ferocity and jarring rejection of musical standards. On this lineup, they’re like that one disruptive kid in class who can always get the whole room going: disorderly and chaotic, but a welcome departure from the status quo. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $12, All Ages. – Bryce Woodcock
Nashville
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Roco drops video for “e. silver”
They say there’s a lot of value in first impressions, and Roco (née Bashly) isn’t one to waste an opportunity like that. Their debut single "e. silver" dropped last month, and the beginning of May saw the release of a colorfully twee video to accompany the colorfully twee song. The stop-and-start nature of the stop motion video, which looks like a set piece from Fantastic Mr. Fox, nicely compliments the minimal baroque pop of "e. silver."
It looks like we’ll be getting some more from Roco once Pidgin Tongue debuts on May 17, so now’s your last chance to be ahead of the curve on a band everybody should be talking about. If that’s not enough to convince you to give the video a watch, stick around after it’s done to see YouTube’s auto-play feature launch into some real out-there conspiracy videos about silver and the Illuminati, for whatever reason. -Austin Phy
NYC
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Brooklyn’s Stone Cold Fox celebrates new EP at Mercury Lounge tomorrow (5/7)
Last week, Brooklyn indie rock quartet Stone Cold Fox released its electric new EP, ‘Tunnel Vision.’ Reportedly recorded over the course of two years yet bursting with urgency, the five-song effort starts its ominous magic with the reverb-backed “Contagion” (streaming below), a track that pleasantly melds The Strokes’ early ruggedness with Tame Impala’s solid psych rock. Middle track “Morning Light,” similarly, radiates with a guitar-based warmth that could be a refreshing antedote to a gray day, recalling the great ELO tracks of the late ‘70s. In short, ‘Tunnel Vision’ illuminates wonderfully strange magic. To celebrate the EP, Stone Cold Fox plays at Mercury Lounge tomorrow (5/7). – Zach Weg
Philadelphia
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Weekend Warrior, May 6 – 8
Still managed to miss seeing Queen of Jeans despite The Deli’s diligent coverage of the talented crew? Lucky for you that the month of May not only brings flowers, but also a vibrant bouquet of 60s-style flower-pop every Friday at Bourbon & Branch compliments of our beloved blossoming local artists Queen of Jeans. The band will have a month-long residency at B&B with performances every Friday featuring a different lineup of local acts. This week, we’ll be presenting the pairing their dreamy-textured 60’s girl-group pop with the 80’s new-wave textures of Suburban Living, whose musical interest falls more in line with Disintegration-era Cure but measures up to Queen of Jeans’ love of reverb-soaked pop sensibility. Joining in on the dreamy, poppy forays of the evening will be The Soft Spots, whose attempts to synthesize the best of the worlds results in tunes that are immediately appealing on the surface but derivationally complex. You can also catch Julia Rainer, a Philly singer-songwriter with a gentle, emotive voice and a powerful sincerity. Bourbon & Branch, 705 N 2nd St., 8pm, $10, 21+ – Bryce Woodcock
Other places to hideout from the rain this weekend…
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI DJ Deejay/Collar, Gestalt, AIEE, SAT Emmett Drueding, Miles Orion Butler, Sweetbriar Rose, Dawn Hiatt/Clique, SUN Eric Bigelow, Lexx, Mizzy Black/Bleu Velvet
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St.) SAT Sheer Mag, Bad Canoes, Dark Thoughts, SUN Spirit of the Beehive, Amanda X
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) SAT Rosu Lup, Post War Dream
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SAT (Upstairs) Seoul Delhi/(Downstairs) The Good Mess, Stellarbelly, Linus The Moon, SUN (Upstairs) (12pm) Minas/(8pm) No Good Sister Milk
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) SAT E-Dubble, Waxx, Teef, Sage Laszlo, SUN Corey Lee, Frankie Vado, The Joey Stix Experiment
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Atley Moon and The Say Somethings, SAT Like Crazy
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) SAT Agent Moosehead
Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) FRI DJ Dav, Reed Streets, SAT DJ Deejay, SUN Francisco Collazo
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) SAT American Schoolyard, SUN Rusty Cadillac
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI Vessna Scheff, George Engle Brooks, SAT Francis Dunnery, SUN Joy Ike
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Those People, Sonny Knockout, Weekday Warriors
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Riverside Odds, LAW, SAT Kenny Price
Bourbon & Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI Queen of Jeans, Suburban Living, The Soft Spots, Julia Rainer, SAT A Tribute to Sade: Zeek Burse, Sonni Shine, Elise Moureau, SUN Resilient, Chalk and the Beige Americans, Medusa’s Disco
Morgan’s Pier (221 N. Columbus Boulevard) FRI DJ Beatsteet, SAT Mr. Sonny James
Frankie Bradley’s (1320 Chancellor St.) FRI Franky’s Foxes, DJ Chris Urban, SAT Ed Christof
Ardmore Music Hall (23 E. Lancaster Ave.) FRI Mutlu, SAT A Tribute to Prince: Johnny Showcase, Four Lads Insane
First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) FRI Nation Of Wolves
PhillyCAM (699 Ranstead St..) FRI The Pretty Greens, Le Yikes Surf Club
W/N W/N (931 Spring Garden St.) SUN Trish Keenan Duo, Flesh Prince R.R. Perkins
Goldy’s (723 Chestnut St., #3) FRI QQQ, Dark Nuclear Bogs
The Waiting Room (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Horsecops
LAVA Space (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Remainder (Record Release/Reunion), Anomie, Mary and the Small Omission
Philadelphia
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Hurry Record Release Show at Everybody Hits May 6
This evening at Everybody Hits locals Hurry will be celebrating the release of their new LP Guided Meditation, out now via Lame-O-Records. The positive reviews have already started coming in for the album, and are well-deserved. The project has come a long way from Matt Scottoline’s bedroom (probably?) to a tight and polished trio with 2 LPs under the belt. The group is filled out by the DeCarolis duo of Rob (ex-Univox) and Joe (Psychic Teens), who play drums and bass respectively. Markedly more produced, Guided Meditation drops a lot of the fuzz for nimble lead guitar lines and shifts in dynamics. Not to say there isn’t still a bunch of crunchy guitars, because there are, but the range of Scottoline’s songwriting and the bands attention to detail are more apparent on this latest batch of recordings. Fans of Teenage Fanclub will still dig this album, but so will fans of Brian Wilson. The guys from Hurry also recruited a bunch of friend’s to come along for the ride tonight, which includes Telepathic, Fake Problems frontman Chris Farren, and Cave People. Everybody Hits, 529 W Girard Ave., 8:30pm, $5, All Ages – Adam G.
Nashville
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Holy Mountain Top Removers ascend with “Pagoda Nods to Euphrates”
Finding the words to describe a band I’ve experienced as many times and in as many states as Holy Mountain Top Removers is difficult, so let’s stick with the facts right now. They have a new album coming out May 10 on the excellent Otherness Records. The lead single, Pagoda Nods to Euphrates, is out for you to enjoy right now. Still sticking with the facts: this is a band you need to see live (more than once) at your earliest convenience, or even your earliest inconvenience. Cancel family plans. Drive a little farther than you’d like. Whatever it takes. Each show is its own experience of far-out explorations featuring, seemingly, whatever the band members pulled out of their toyboxes on the way out the door, punctuated by set pieces ranging from Mid-East Morricone surf pieces such as Euphrates to funeral dirges heavier than a freshly-occupied coffin.
Check out the stream below and keep your eyes peeled for physical releases due later this year. –Austin Phy
Philadelphia
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Video Premiere: Tired of Tomorrow (Nothing Documentary – Part V) & LP Available for Streaming
We see the Martin Shkreli drama unfolding in episode 5 of Nothing‘s Tired of Tomorrow documentary. Check out what frontman Nicky Palermo has to say about Shkeli and the whole fucked up situation! Ha…you’ll also discover that Nicky has pretty sweet jump shot. The LP is also currently streaming at NPR’s First Listen, and it will be officially released on May 13 via local powerhouse Relapse Records.