Clock-Out Lounge Presents: The Briefs The DrownsThe Coolers Saturday March 7th8:30 doors 21+$22adv/$25doshttps://thebriefs.bandcamp.com/musicHitting their 25 year anniversary and forever moving forward, THE BRIEFS have been busy in 2024/2025 playing packed shows to both sides of the pond, releasing new singles on TKO Records, rereleasing back catalogue and keeping their feet firmly planted on the sticky punk rock floor from where they started. THE BRIEFS live shows continue to ignite crowds, reaffirming their status as punk rock stalwarts. Theirrelentless touring and dynamic performances have garnered the band a fierce following that spans decades– and fads.This quarter-century of mayhem traces back to the bands unlikely start: Like a scud missile from outer space, their debut album Hit After Hit set out to destroy thenew Millenniums flaccid alt-rock scene in 2000and, in turninspired two decades of raucous radioactive fallout. Sewing together a tattered tapestry of 70s-style punkwith a nod toward Dangerhouse Records, DEVO, Thrasher Magazine, and ABBAtheyve urged countless kids to grab a junk guitar, a pair of second-hand sunglasses, and a bottle of peroxide. What started with four idiot savants in a downtown Seattle basement has led to a remarkable ride, spawning some of the catchiest anti-hits this side of Y2K. Off the Charts,Sex Objects and Steal Yer Heart are more than essential punk classicsthey may have aided in reversing punks once terminal diagnosis. Whats next? THE BRIEFS legacy has proven to be as sticky as industrial hold hairspray. A mid-2000s hiatussaw members forming side projects like Sharp Objects, The Cute Lepers, and Suspect Parts, but all roads led back to THE BRIEFS. Following their Singles Only box set and Odd Numbers, demos and rarities release, 2018 album Platinum Rats proved the band to be as vital as ever (a US tour with the legendary Dead Boys followed). For this unstoppable force, the radiation is still in the water andgood news for our speciesthe punk rock mutations are alive and kicking. After 25 years, THE BRIEFS are still weird, still wired.https://thedrowns.bandcamp.com/https://thecoolers253.bandcamp.com/
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Ya Tseen record releaseAshley Young Friday Jan 16th8:30 doors 21+ $25 adv/$30 dos https://yatseen.bandcamp.com/album/stand-on-my-shouldersYa Tseen (previously Indian Agent, Silver Jackson) has performed across North America, Europe, and Australia, most recently with Portugal the Man and Samantha Crain to fund the rebuilding of a Tlingit clan house in Sitka. As Ya Tseen, the band has expanded into a musical project, a fluid collective woven from numerous voices and sonic signatures.Ya Tseens first album with Sub Pop Indian Yard included collaborations with Shabazz Palaces, Stas THEE Boss, Nick Hakim and continued his long term collaborations with O.C.Notes, Zak D. Wass, Tunia, Jesse Hughey, supported by Derek Haukaas (drums), Nikko Van Wycke (Bass), Jase Ihler (drums). With their second release on Sub Pop Ya Tseen expands their collaborative approach, featuring Portugal The Man, Meshell Ndegeocello, dreamcastmoe, Anel Figueroa, Jahon Mikal, Pink Sifu, Sidibe, Hanna Ben, and Ashley Young.Ya Tseens newest album, Stand On My Shoulder, builds on connection and revolutionary love as the foundation for collective liberation that ran throughout Indian Yard. The album cover art is a monoprint created by Galanin, based on a photograph of his father in Tlingit regalia. The regalia remains, but the wearer isnt visible, leaving space to be filled by future generations. With Stand On My Shoulder Ya Tseen uplifts the gifts given to us by our ancestors and the collective responsibilities we have to future generations. The album is an incandescent exploration of existence and a celebration of the persistence of love and connection to Land.https://ashleydaydreaming.bandcamp.com/Just below the Arctic Circle, a songwriter with fiery, lush vocal texture warms her ancestral land Alaska. Ashley Young invites you in like a friend with her refreshing honesty & infectious laughter. Her unquenchable curiosity has led her to exploring expressions unbound by genre. Her focus is rather on using music to reveal vulnerable truths that many experience but are often afraid to discuss.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Calm Down PartyDining Dead Sun Spots Friday Dec. 5th8:30 doors 21+$15 adv https://calmdownparty.bandcamp.com/musicjust 4 bubshttps://wearediningdead.bandcamp.com/musicDining Dead, a Seattle music project, was formed after Emma Belmont and Sammy Skidmore, both Seattle natives, reconnected years after meeting at summer camp. Bonding over their shared love of guitar, they were fast friends in 7th grade. Fast forward years later and the two began writing song joined by future drummer Bogie Pieper, bassist Shannon Barberry, and violinist/synth player Kennedy Webb.https://sunspotsaltrock.bandcamp.com/
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Grrrl Gangplus guests Saturday March 28th8:30 doors 21+ $20adv/$25 dos https://grrrlgang.bandcamp.com/musicGrrrl Gang is not your typical indie pop band. Hailing from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a city known for its rich cultural heritage and artistic spirit, Grrrl Gang combines punk attitude with pop sensibility to create their own unique sound. The trio of Angie, Akbar, and Edo met in 2016 and decided to form a band that reflects their personality and perspective. (A-Indie)
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:AROEAUSTEN + Lerin AnUngulate Saturday December 6th8pm doors 21+ $15 adv/ $18 dos https://aroe.bandcamp.com/AROE began coalescing in December 2024, sparked by Alessandras desire to reclaim a space for creativity. With songs already written but not yet fully realized, she connected with Paul Berryman and Johnny Nails to help refine her vision and bring the music to life in the studio. As the tracks evolved, so did the collaboration. AROE was no longer just an idea, but something fully formed. Rooted in lyricism, the music weaves melodic vocals through songs that reflect on what gives life meaning and why we stay close to it. Whether for love, friendship, purpose, or protest, AROE explores the reasons we choose to stay.https://www.instagram.com/austen.music/?igsh=OWV5bG0yZmVtZWQx#https://www.instagram.com/lerinherzer/?igsh=czN6dDMyam51aWIz#https://anungulate.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-angry-teeth
Mad Meow Music & Clock-Out Lounge Presents: 2nd Annual Blackie Friday featuring Blackie ( A Tribute To Blondie) w/ special guest Jealous Dogs (Pretenders Tribute) Friday November 28th8:30 doors21+$15adv/$20 dos
Hierophant Booking Presents: CaressSleek TeethVoidwrmrw / DJ Coffinbirth Thursday Nov. 6th 8 PM doors 21+ $18 adv / $25 doshttps://caress.bandcamp.com/album/night-callCaress, the LA Based solo project of Tara Jane is heavily inspired by 1980s dark wave and modern synth pop. She is best described as a blend of haunting ethereal vocals that slither around hypnotic beats, pulsating basslines, trancey glassy synth loops, and evocative sparkling guitar melodies, exuding an eerie yet mesmerizing seductive flair impossible to resist. – (WL//WH). https://sleekteeth.bandcamp.com/musicSleek Teeth is a dark electronic duo based in Los Angeleshttps://voidwrmr.bandcamp.com/music
Clock-Out Lounge Presents: JW Francis + Magic River Tourplus Forest RaySunday Nov 28 PM doors 21+ $17adv/$20dos https://jwfrancis.bandcamp.com/album/sunshineSpecializing in melodic, jangling indie pop with a lo-fi bent, JW Francis is a New York-based musician whose D.I.Y. ethos and breezy songwriting earned him an international following in the late 2010s. He first found a home with U.K. indie Sunday Best, which released engagingly offbeat albums like 2021s Wanderkid and 2023s Dream House. https://forestray.bandcamp.com/Forest Ray is a psychedelic rock project whose dedication to analog recording has harbored a darker, older and more intimate sound. Forest Rays music combines guitar driven psychedelic rock with tinges of raw synth-laced post-punk, Tropicalia flute and uninhibited performances that embody the garage punk aesthetic that fueled the groups creation.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Bandw/ John Bellows Saturday Nov. 1st8:30 doors21+ $17 adv/ $20 dos https://sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com/album/ryan-davis-the-roadhouse-band-dancing-on-the-edgeAfter more than 15 years of releasing music on labels like Feeding Tube, Load Records, Astral Editions, Bruit Direct Disques, Petty Bunco, All Gone and others (including, if not primarily, his very own Sophomore Lounge imprint) as/alongside such outfits as State Champion, Tropical Trash, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Roadhouse, et al., Dancing on the Edge – a seven-song, 53-minute basement folk opus, self-released at the end of 2023 and recently reissued by Tough Love in the UK/EU – is the first collection of material produced under Kentuckiana-based visual artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ryan Davis birth name.The tunes on the album range from bare-boned, achingly crooned avant-folk tales to jovial, collaborative excursions into long-form experimental country-tinged rock modes. Continuing in the tradition of the TVZs, Terry Allens, Souled Americans and DC Bermans before him, this 2XLP reimagines the exceedingly dated archetypes of modern day indie troubadour music and the inherent trappings therein. Davis solo debut is a dense collection of Americana-Noir that navigates a familiar yet alternate reality, one of enchanted mundanity and uniquely Mid-Southern introspection. Simultaneously antisocial and outwardly inviting, free of cynicism yet slightly stepped in paranoia, Dancing on the Edge is as delicately choreographed and emotionally connective as it is, at times, absurd.The Roadhouse band, as its been assembled to meet increasing demands for live performances this summer and fall, features members of Kentucky-based experimental unit Equipment Pointed Ankh, Nashville songwriting voltron Styrofoam Winos and Athens bummer country/power-poppers Little Gold in a certain-to-dazzle assembly of both labelmates and friends.This is the sound of someone bearing a torch. – Bill CallahanDavis talents are immense: vivid imagery and clever one-liners pulling epiphanies from the sacred, mundane and profane. – Jon Blister (Rolling Stone)https://johnbellows.bandcamp.com/album/the-emotions-songJohn Bellows is a singer songwriter and home recorder from small town Kentucky, schooled in Chicago, and now back to the land in rural Washington.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Ultimate FakebookThis Will Be Laughing 25th Anniversary Tour (Performing the original album in its entirety) Plus Guests TBA Saturday August 9th8:30 doors 21+ $20 adv/ $25 dos https://ultimatefakebook.bandcamp.com/album/electric-kissing-parties-remastered-and-expandedMelding the pop power of 70s groups like Cheap Trick with the snark of 80sgaragebands like the Replacements, Ultimate Fakebook play a brand of emopowerpop thatresulted insome now cult-classicrecordings. 1999sindieThis Will Be LaughingWeekwas reissued by550/Epic Recordsin 2000, and remains the bands best-lovedalbum to date. Thetrio reunited in 2020 forThe Preserving Machine(released by SonicRitual Recordings),andtheir skills were undiminished.Working withEd Rose, whoproducedThis Will Be Laughing Week, the trio recaptured the powerful pop sound oftheir early records and added some well-earned maturity to the lyrical content.To celebrate the 25thanniversary ofThis Will Be Laughing Week, Ultimate Fakebook willdo something they never did back in the dayplay the original album in its entirety.
