Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Art Gray Noizz Quintet (NYC, ex-Lubricated Goat, Live Skull)Quid Quo And The Dim Locator (DJ) aka Adam Wakeling Tuesday August 8th 8:30 doors 21+ $15 adv/ $18 dos https://artgraynoizzquintet.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-gray-noizz-quintetSpearheaded by twisted Australian guitar legend Stu Spasm of Lubricated Goat, Crunt, and The Beasts Of Bourbon, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet were originally formed for an afterparty celebrating the New York City premiere of Amphetamine Reptile documentary The Color Of Noise. It was obvious I must assemble a supergroup of the finest noise rockers New York City had to offer, says Stu Spasm. First choice was basher extraordinaire Bloody Rich Hutchins, veteran of such explosive musical exports as Live Skull, Of Cabbages And Kings, and Ruin. Next, Skeleton Boy of Woman was recruited. Who, just as Leadbelly was the king of the twelve-string guitar, is himself the king of the two-string bass. Then came the twang, with the addition of suave slinger Andrea Sicco of Twin Guns. When our guitars merge, it forms a most piquant aural mlange. In a nod to the latter half of his birth name, Stu Spasm now became Art Gray, and an entirely new mess was born. The Art Gray Noizz Quintet have recently been witnessed onstage opening for kindred spirits such as The Scientists and Mudhoney, and 2019 saw them survive a successful tour of the West Coast. Catching the eye of no wave queen Lydia Lunch led to teaming up for a collaborative musical effort, and sharing a few stages including bookending the pandemic.https://quidquo.bandcamp.com/album/apaintedroomisasmallerroom
YES Music Productions presents -Fawns of Lovew/ Fotoform, SurrealizedThurs 7/20Doors 8pm, show 9pm$15 adv, $20 dos21+https://fawnsoflove.bandcamp.com/Fawns of Love is singer Jenny Andreotti and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Andreotti. Their new album titled Innocence of Protection (Kingfisher Bluez, Sunday Records) was written and recorded in the duos studio using Moog synthesizers and Eastwood Guitars. The album centers on the themes of innocence, frailty, and vulnerability. When explaining the themes of the album Jenny says, I think when we are children we use make believe as a creative outlet, but as we get older we use daydreaming as a tool of protection when we feel overwhelmed and as a way to have control over something. For this album I liked the idea of recreating what it feels like to float in and out of daydreaming and reality. While writing the songs both Jenny and Joseph were inspired by Cocteau Twins, The Pastels, Yukihiro Takahashi, Dalis Car, and New Order. Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2019 LP Permanent, Fawns of Love released Someday (Robin Guthrie Version) b/w Never Sing For Joy 7 (Kingfisher Bluez) and a second KXLU Part Time Punks radio session titled, Part Time Punks Session: Permanent Revisited 12 EP (Obeah Records) in 2020. With both releases they further evolved their post-punk ethos using Cocteau Twins inspired reverb drenched vocals along with New Order inspired guitar leads and sequences. Someday (Robin Guthrie Version) was recorded and mixed by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, who created his own version of the track that originally appeared on the previously released Permanent LP (Test Pattern). Guthrie created an ethereal and earnest mood to his version of Someday by contributing multiple lush guitar tracks, bass guitar, keys, and drums which Grimy Goods wrote delivers twice as much ethereal wonder as the original.https://fotoform.bandcamp.com/Seattles Fotoform create beautiful, dreamy post-punk. New album, Horizons, out now! KEXP says: This Seattle bands second album is a well-crafted blend of post-punk and dream-pop with atmospheric guitars and synths, driving rhythms, ethereal vocals, hypnotic song hooks and lyrics of grief, love and loss. https://surrealized.bandcamp.com/Surrealized is a synthwave/future bass band composed of ethereal live vocal loops, danceable beats, and evocative synths, all wrapped in layers of strings, horns and psychedelic multi-media lights and visual projections. The brainchild of Kimo Muraki and Robert Sydow, Surrealized started in Seattle in the summer of 2009 as an experiment in combining wildly different genres for parties and festivals. Surrealizeds third release DENSITY is a collection of deeply felt material telling stories about time, change and the power of music, light and dance.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Cardiel (Mexico City) Ladrones Future Tense Sunday July 2 8pm doors 21+ $15adv/$18 dos https://cardiel.bandcamp.com/album/el-armaged-n-afterpartyCardielSamantha Ambrosio on drums and Miguel Frano on guitar and vocalsparked their equipment close to the front of the Cafe Nine stage, to be that much closer to the audience. Were from Venezuela but we come from Mexico City, so thanks so much for coming to see us, Ambrosio said in a friendly voice. The sheer size of Franos amps gave a hint as to what was coming, but it was still hard to prepare for the onslaught of the duos first four notes, precise, full of crunch, and played at the kind of volume that seems to move the molecules in your body.This reporter must apologize, for that volume managed to completely overload his cameras microphone. Cardiel has albums on its Bandcamp page that offer a sense of the range of the duos sound, which shifted from punk to dub in a heartbeat and sometimes visited a few points in between. But the records couldnt capture the assault of the band live. On guitar, Frano was adept at shredding riffs, laying down rhythm, taking solos, and sometimes just letting the guitar unleash drones; with the deft aid of a looper, he also used it to lay down the occasional throbbing bass part, while he screamed vocals into the kind of microphone you might otherwise use (in this context) on a trumpet. Ambrosio more than matched Frano on drums, hitting harder than any drummer Ive seen in recent memory, creating rhythm after textured rhythm that were tight, explosive, and fatally precise. The music only ramped up in energy as Ambrosio and Frano raged through their set. By the end, Ambrosio was soaked in sweat and Frano was on the floor, releasing waves of fuzz from his amps as he mashed foot pedals with his hands. The collision of styles and the force with which Ambrosio and Frano played made Cardiels music darkly visionary, a possible band for the last party on Earth before the waves take useven if the congenial reggae put on as house music afterward was a reminder that we probably still have a lot of parties to go before that happens.https://ladrones.bandcamp.com/Hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, by way of Atlanta, Ladrones is a screaming, wailing blast of garagy punknroll.A band with enough bad attitude to garner at least a weeks worth of detention before homeroom is over!https://futuretense206.bandcamp.com/album/future-tense
Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Tami Hart, Kaia Wilson plus Seaside Tryst8/10/2321+ doors 8:30pm$15adv/$18doshttps://tamihart.bandcamp.com/track/thanks-for-saying-hihttps://kaia.bandcamp.com/https://seasidetryst.bandcamp.com/album/seaside-tryst
Saturday 07/15/23The Crocodile Presents:Califonew/ guest Max Knouse$17 ADV / $20 DOS8:30pm doors / 9:00pm show21+https://www.califonemusic.com/With 25 years of Califone in his catalog (not to mention a variety of other projects, including alt rock heroes Red Red Meat), the Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based Tim Rutili knows well how to find that moment of awe and bliss even as things are falling apart. Part poet, part abstract painter, and always surrounded by a variety of hyper-talented collaborators (here including longtime cohorts Ben Massarella, Michael Krassner, Rachel Blumberg, and Brian Deck, as well as the likes of Nora OConnor and Finoms Macie Stewart), Rutili has always excelled at luring listeners through elusive lyrics, flashes of shadows and images coming together in disarming unity.https://maxknouse.bandcamp.com/
Saturday 07/08/23The Crocodile Presents:SNOOPER w/ Advoids, Mueca$16 ADV / $18 DOS9:00pm doors / 9:30pm show21+https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/Snper (the Project) began as a collaboration between local Nashville punk mainstay Connor Cummins and Blair Tramel, an early education teacher with a sideline in wickedly funny animation and art. As their cassette tapes and homemade videos began to find scattered fans around the world, the duo brought the Project to the live stage in late 2021 and Snper (the Band) was born.Featuring one of the wildest live shows out there, as well a maelstrom of puppets, 8 bit animation, papier-mch, whistles, flashing lights and a whirling dervish of bodies, Snper commits the live act to a studio setting and sets the stage for one of the most promising punk debut albums in decades. But dont take our word for it; heres Henry Rollins, at-length on the magic of Snper:In the briefest of descriptions, Snper is a band who, in a 33 1/3 rpm world, make 45 rpm music they play at 78 and it completely works.https://advoids.bandcamp.com/album/advoidshttps://munecasea.bandcamp.com/
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:hannah ramone Album Release Showw/ J. Graves (PDX),Intercom Heights (Austin)Friday June 9thDoors 8:30 21+$15https://hannahramone.bandcamp.com/album/some-kind-of-humannesshannah ramone (they/them) is a singer/songwriter / teacher / parent / human / seeker/ questioner / dreamer who writes / channels / summons songs for digging deep. They are accompanied on this self-healer artist journey by a band of space musicians who bring an electronic ambient indie alternative pop vibe to the live performances https://jgraves.bandcamp.com/album/fortress-of-funThe work of Portland, Oregon post-punkers J. Graves is caught between the darkness of various emotional traumas and a musically buoyant approach to overcoming hardship. Streaks of wiry guitar and propulsive percussion provides the backdrop for narratives detailing heartache, regret, and anger and maybe even the stray bit of joy. Channeling the unfiltered emotion of early Sleater-Kinney and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the band comprised of singer-guitarist Jessa Graves, bassist Kelly Clifton, and drummer Aaron MacDonald mold their sinewy sound around bursts of intimate revelation and universal experience @bpmny https://intercom.bandcamp.com/album/night-measures-2Harris Thurmond is proud of the bands he has graduated from, but hed rather look forward. Its hard to blame him. His new project, Intercom Heights, shines with the joy of an artist discovering a new source of creativity, of a songwriter finding collaborators equally obsessed over a collective vision. Thurmond was an integral part of the Seattle music scene during the grunge years and his credits are nothing to scoff at, playing guitar and writing in Hammerbox, Orbiter and Sanford Arms, but hes been in Austin for 15 years. Hes seen the same thing here: The city has changed, the scene has evolved, and hes been creating moving art through it all.Thurmond joined a band in Austin called New Roman Times, who put out three albums, two of which Thurmond was a key contributor on. Though the band fell apart, Thurmond found great joy in making music with the group, particularly Josie Fluri, who played bass and sang. After the band split, Thurmond did what he always did: write. He was inspired by the interplay of male and female harmonies, that perfect moment at which they meld and form something entirely new and unexpected. When Fluri approached Thurmond to gauge his interest in a new project, he immediately found a fit for the new music he was working on. When Josie first said, I would love to do something together again, that became an important motivating factor for me. They found the groups third member, Meg Bernhard (a former member of Black Books) and Intercom Heights was born a short while later. The bands forthcoming debut record, Night Measures is a prime example of what happens when three musicians find their platonic collaborators.
YES Music Productions presentsSoriah w/Black Magdalene,Otherwith DJ Pavor Nocturnus Thursday June 8, 2023Clock-Out Lounge, SeattleDoors 8pm, Show 9pm$15 adv, $20 dos21+https://soriahmusic.com/The Tuvan throat singing phenomenon that is SORIAH will take you to that holy place whenever you lend an ear to his music. David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Night Crickets)SORIAH is the stage persona of Enrique Ugalde, an internationally-acclaimed throat singer and ritual artist who generates experimental soundscapes where ancient traditions are revealed through the lens of modern experience.Birthed in one of the most historically isolated locations on the planet, Tuvan throat singing is a musical sound like no other. Mysterious, primordial and awash in a deeply visceral drone, it invokes the full range of the natural world from deep mountain roots to the whistle of birds in flight.SORIAH weaves Tuvan throat singing, pre-Columbian sounds, classical Indian raga, and modern Western styles, looping and processing his voice and traditional instruments into lush sonic tapestries. His lyrics are often written in Nahuatl (Mexica/Aztec) or Tuvan, preserving and expressing cultural mysteries with reverence and wonder.In 2008 SORIAH was awarded Best Foreigner at the st-Khree Festival in Tuva and received the Third Laureate award in the 2008 Fifth Quinquennial Ethnomusicology Symposium, the highest honor a non-native Tuvan had yet achieved in this field. In 2019 he won the award for best Kargyraa in the International Khmei in the Center of Asia Festival, in 2020, he was awarded the title Magical Musician of Khmei, and in 2022, he won the first place in the International Khoomei in the Center of Asia online competition. His entry into the Tuvan Anthropological Museum speaks to the deep impact his work has within its native culture.When not visiting or competing in Tuva, SORIAH showcases to sold-out crowds in Europe, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. He has shared the stage with artists including Peter Murphy and David J (Bauhaus), cEvin Key (Skinny Puppy), Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction), Liberation Movement, and Clan of Xymox. He has contributed to studio recordings of Modest Mouse, The Dandy Warhols, Thor and Friends and Hans Joachim Roedelius. He was also a noted performer at the 2009 Peace Ball to celebrate Obamas inauguration in Washington, D.C.https://blackmagdalene.bandcamp.com/Black Magdalene is an Organic Darkwave ensemble, whose soundscape of haunting tones and rhythms luxuriously navigate between dark, atmospheric percussion and beautifully intricate instrumentation.Based in Eugene Oregon, the group was formed Beltane 2011. Black Magdalene is Star Wrey, Victor St. Petersburg, Christopher Pfeffer, Lindy Comrada and Regina Anne.https://other-band-seattle.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-and-profane
Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Versing w/ The Nags, M.O.S.S. Friday April 14th9pm doors 21+ $15 cover https://versing.bandcamp.com/https://thenags.bandcamp.com/album/the-nagshttps://m-o-s-s-band.bandcamp.com/album/nside
