Genre: Alternative

Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Gary VPatrick ToneySpur Lowe Gardens Friday September 9th 9pm doors 21+$12adv/$15doshttps://garyv.bandcamp.com/album/prism-tats

Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Julia Shapiro (of Chastity Belt)No. 2 Record Release (ft members of Heatmiser, Calamity Jane & Eyelids)Floored Faces Sept 10th 8:30pm doors 21+$12adv/$15 dos Zorked (adj.) – what happens when you end up thunderbaked, as in extremely stonedor in any situation where you feel not sober. You can feel so tired youre zorked. In fact, any state, so long as youre a little out of it, qualifies. And Julia Shapiro, of Chastity Belt, Childbirth, and Who Is She?much like everyone on this earth with a pulsewas zorked on more than one occasion in 2020. In March, she packed up her things and traded Seattles late-winter gloom for the perennial sunshine and seemingly endless opportunity of Los Angeles only to be forced into near-total isolation. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, she began working on her second solo album, Zorked. On the resulting batch of songs, were given Julias vision of Los Angeles: a wasteland melting in slow-motion, a place to commune with ghosts and warped legacies.Living within earshot of a man who spent his entire 2020 singing karaoke for over 10 hours a day, Julia could write, record, and play an albums worth of instruments without fear of noise complaints. Her roommate Melina Duterte (Jay Som) transformed their house into a viable home studio, making it easy to fully realize the sound in her head, even at the height of a global lockdown. Taking things a step further, Melina agreed to co-produce the record, pushing Julia to make these new songs sound less like Perfect Version, her first solo album, or like the songs she performs in Chastity Belt. At the peak of her uncertainty and discomfort, she jumped into the deep end in search of something newand found power in heavy sounds.This is evident in the first few seconds of album opener Death (XIII). Taking newfound inspiration from the namesake Tarot card, drone metal, and shoegaze, Julia layers walls of guitars, bass chords, and programmed drums. Come With Me, the albums lead single, takes inspiration from a mushroom trip gone bad. Take me to awful places now, she sings, envisioning heat death as her own eyes stare directly into the sun. On Wrong Time, shimmering guitars smolder and levitate, yet she finds herself stuck inside this hole Ive dug. That said, these songs arent unbearably sad, nor has Julia become any less of a merciless observer of human behavior. By album closer Hall of Mirrors, shes come full circle. Over fingerpicked guitar, the sense of lost identity becomes all-encompassing. Its the sound of a life lived in servitude to digital screens and the psychic damage invisibly done along the way.Though Julia Shapiro found herself in a near hermit-like existence, writing and recording almost all of the albums instruments herself and struggling to navigate her place in a city and world rendered nearly comatose, she maintains a sense of humor about all of it. At the very least, Its funny to force people to have to say Zorked out loud. Any other title sounded pretentious. https://juliashapiro.bandcamp.com/

Clock-Out Lounge Presents:somesurprises w/Shady CoveCoral Grief Friday September 16 9pm doors 21+ $12adv/$15 dossomesurprises is the brainchild of Seattle-based songwriter and guitarist Natasha El-Sergany. Once a bedroom project focused on spectral balladry and late-night exploration, somesurprises is now a dynamic four-piece live band. Motorik beats, reverb-drenched vocals, washes of fingerpicked guitars, and hazy synths expand El-Serganys delicate and blissful songwriting.With its 36th release, Drawing Room brings in a new wonder with somesurprises self-titled debut LP, a treasure among pop treasures. The album explores a range of styles, from gradually intensifying meditative drones, to songs where the same moment never quite happens twice. As in previous cassette releases with fewer members, El-Sergany uses her ethereal voice as an instrument, no more or less central to the music than a guitar hook or a drumbeat. But the vocals and lyrics are more in focus than ever before. From shimmering cascades of reverbed guitar chords, to driving bass and percussion guiding guitar and synth freak-out outros, as a full band, somesurprises finds its fullest expression yet. The songwriting here, laden with effects and orchestral arrangements, reaches for more than navel-gazing, or (even shoegazing) and seeks, perhaps, through knowledge of the self, to guide the way out of ones own mind. https://somesurprises.bandcamp.com/album/somesurpriseshttp://shadycove.bandcamp.comhttps://coralgrief.bandcamp.com/

False Prophet and Hierophant Booking presentKaelan MiklaKangaSerpententOct 26th 8:30 doors 21+ $20adv/$24 dosKlan Mikla was founded in 2013 as an entry in a poetry competition. In the following years they continued to emerge and establish themselves as a solid part of the Reykjavik grassroots scene. In 2015, the song Kalt was released and attracted a lot of attention abroad. Subsequently, the band began performing with various well-known bands abroad. Over the past five years Klan Mikla have travelled continuously and have released three LPs. Robert Smith, the front-man of the immortal band The Cure is a big fan and has booked Klan Mikla to play at the various festivals he has curated, alongside iconic bands such as Pixies, Slowdive, Deftones, as well as having them solely open for the rock band Placebo. Following the release of their third LP, Ntt eftir ntt, they have gained a large audience amongst fans of dark and dreary music, but what really makes Klan Mikla stand out is the strong audiovisual adventure through their magical world that is constantly evolving and always leaves the crowd with a memorable concert experience. Now Klan Mikla has just returned from a long tour with the French blackgaze band Alcest and are currently recording their fourth album which will mostly revolve around folklore and fairytales, drawing the band even deeper into their realm of magic and mysticism.https://www.kaelanmikla.com/http://kanga.bandcamp.comhttp://serpentent.bandcamp.com/

Friday 10/07/22The Crocodile Presents:YELLOW OSTRICH w/ Katie Von Schleicher$16 ADV / $18 DOS9:00pm doors / 9:30pm show 21+ Soft is the gorgeous new LP from Yellow Ostrich. It takes its name from the lyric that stands as a thesis for the entire album, a beautiful and haunting rumination on the pitfalls and pressures of traditional masculinity and on band founder Alex Schaafs drive toward vulnerability and tenderness as core tenets of his being.The albums ten tracks represent the first new music in seven years to be released by Schaaf under the Yellow Ostrich moniker, since he paused the project to explore new musical identities on a handful of excellent self-released albums (from which much of the best music is included on the stellar compilation Like A Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology 2010-20211).Identities whether externally-defined or those we manufacture for ourselves are central preoccupations for Schaaf, who elegantly examines desire, the search for connection, and the sometimes-blurry boundaries between platonic and romantic closeness and distance. He meditates on the emotional aches and physical bruises that we all carry and long to heal, and tries to find ways to communicate things that are hard to say to ourselves and to those closest to us.He notes, When youre translating an experience into a song, it can sometimes get at something more accurate and universal than trying to express that feeling in a face-to-face conversation at least for introverts like me.Katie Von Schleicherhttps://www.k-v-s.net/

Clock-Out Lounge Presents: New Age HealersKinskiFloored Faces Friday June 17th $12adv/$15 dos9pm doors21+Seattles New Age Healers announce the release of their first new music since 2020s pandemic inspired collaboration In Dreams that featured members of Sacramentos Soft Science, and Seattles Jupe Jupe and Black Nite Crash. Dont Let Me Go leads off a yet unnamed full-length out summer 2022. Recorded by Matt Brown at Avast Studios and Crackle a bombastic tornado of shoegaze. Songwriter Owen Murphy jokes its about the disintegration of friendships in a period of great change. Keep your friends close, until they become your enemies. Then keep them closer.https://newagehealers.bandcamp.com/https://kinskiseattle.bandcamp.com/musichttps://flooredfaces.bandcamp.com/Proof of vax or negative test within 48 hours required for entry

The Crocodile Presents:TIM KINSELLA / JENNY PULSEByungOhr​Saturday 08/27/22$12 ADV / $15 DOS9:00pm Doors / 9:30pm Show21+We are Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulsebased in Chicago, IL.We claim no element of our sound as our own. We simply curate the many whove come before us & present our responses in the varying ratios that we intuit.We are dedicated to hauling our cumbersome unconsciouses into our conscious minds in hopes of amplifying our degrees of self-determination.Each day we create, siphoning flow from contrast, to create our perfect day.Our existence is our creativity & our creativity is our existence.The ultimate intent is to shift perceptions & we are the first witnesses & primary beneficiaries of this power.We organize what we organize & it, in turn, organizes us. To reveal the hidden selves within us & within you.To expand & deepen, us & you. We enjoy ourselves very muchwe maybe have more fun than most adults decide is possiblebut fun is not the goal. Fun is the fundamental necessity to achieving this expansion & deepening as individuals & as a duo. We commit to this for ourselves, our communities, & the ever-expanding infini-verse.We invite you to join us www.goofduck.comByung is the first name and moniker of instrumentalist/singer-songwriter BJ Choe.As a 1st generation Korean-American who grew up in the bible belt, BJ has developed an eccentric music palette evidenced by the first album he purchased, Sisqos Unleash the Dragon, his high school prog-rock band, classical guitar training, and contemporary church gigs. It was only shortly after discovering singer-songwriters like Justin Vernon, William Fitzsimmons, David Bazan, Ben Gibbard, Sufjan Stevens, and many others that stirred BJ to write songs that tell hisown story. Byung is ready to release a collection of songs that explore previous psychological melodies about memory, loss, relationships, and faith. For a decade, Byung has been developing these stories, setting lyrics to his layered ambient instrumentals, and discovering his voice. His debut record, Humid Memories, is set to release on September 2nd, 2022.https://byung.bandcamp.com/https://ohrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/walk-in-the-light

The Crocodile Presents:TV PRIESTw/ Liily8/7$16 ADV / $18 DOS8:30pm Doors / 9:00pm Show21+ Without a brutal evaluation of their own becoming, TV Priest might have never made their secondalbum. Heralded as the next big thing in post-punk, they were established as a bolshy, sharp-wittedoutfit, the kind that starts movements with their politicalire. There was of course truth in that, but itwas a suit that quickly felt heavy on its wearers shoulders, leaving little room for true vulnerability. Having made music together since their teenage years, the London four-piece piqued press attention inlate 2019 with their first gig as a newly solidified group, a raucous outing in the warehouse district of Hackney Wick. Debut single House of York followed with a blistering critique of monarchist patriotism,and they were signed to Sub Pop for their debut album. When Uppers arrived in the height of a globalpandemic, it reaped praise from critics and fans alike for its dystopian doublespeak, but the bandDrinkwater, guitarist Alex Sprogis, producer, bass and keys player Nic Bueth and drummer Ed Kellandwere sat at home like the rest of us, drinking cups of tea and marking time via government-sanctioneddaily exercise. As such, the personal and professional landmark of its release felt both colossal andminuscule dampened by the inability to share it live. It was a real gratification and really cathartic, buton the other hand, it was really strange, and not great for my mental health admits Drinkwater. I wasnt prepared, and I hadnt necessarily expected it to reach as many people as it did. It sounds a bitnave, but it was all very quick. It felt kind of divorced from reality.http://tvpriest.bandcamp.comLiily are four Los Angeles musicians – Dylan Nash, Sam De La Torre, Charlie Anastasis s major rock playlists. But then, as quickly as they appeared, they seemed to vanish. Almost two years later, and now all of 22 years old, the band returned with their debut album TV or Not TV in October. It is a highly aggressive record, even more so than their early work. But here they jump from moment to moment and genre to genre, creating an experimental and original set of songs, all more strange and abrasive but also far more three dimensional than anything the band has done before. It still contains the unbridled energy of those early shows and singles but feels stripped of anything passive or unintentional. I think thematically its very different, says singer Dylan Nash. I think the intensity of it is very different. I think we had the same intention though which is to completely obliterate peoples ear drums – thats what it still has in common.http://liilytheband.com