Friday, October 2nd
Across the Crabs
8:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show
Contrary to online rumor, Across the Crabs is not a tribute to Attack Attack. But they are a tribute…You may recall back in May we had the Crabs—an amalgamation of players from
Ozma and
Teaneck—performing in it’s entirety an eponymous recording affectionately known as The Green Album. Well, Crabs have returned with a longer name and a new album to pay tribute to, the elusive and revered
Pinkerton. It’s a one time thing, don’t miss it.
Monday, October 5th
Bane,
Trash Talk,
Foundation
6:30 PM, $12
Founded on beliefs that are in short supply within the current underground music scene, Bane has established themselves as one of the most influential and relevant bands in hardcore today. Since their inception, they've become one of the scene's hardest working bands touring the world over and releasing the full lengths, It All Comes Down To This and 2001's critically acclaimed Give Blood, an album that breathed life into the then-stagnant hardcore scene. Returning with their first album in three years, Bane offer up The Note - an album that embodies the spirit, the community, and the love of traditional hardcore that Bane has become synonymous with.
Tuesday, October 13th
Quietdrive,
The Higher
7:00 PM, $10
Minneapolis' Quietdrive has a proud and organic streak that continues to captivate. Since 2005, the band has made more than 900 appearances in front of every imaginable type of audience. "We tour like maniacs, and we have never slowed down. We are on our fourth van already,” vocalist Kevin Truckenmiller notes. That hard work paid off. In the toughest sales climate to ever face the record business, Quietdrive's debut release, When All That's Left Is You, sold 64,000 in the US alone and put Quietdrive at the forefront of emerging artists. The band sold another 400,000 digital singles as well. Now the band is ready to launch their sophomore effort, Deliverance (The Militia Group), continuing to showcase their ability to deliver strong pop-rock gems one after another.
Sunday, October 25th
Hit the Lights,
There For Tomorrow,
Fireworks,
Sparks The Rescue,
I Rival
6:30 PM, $12
There are a few ways to tell the story of what's happened to Lima, OH band Hit the Lights between the releases of their debut This is a Stick Up… Don't Make it a Murder in 2006 and their new album Skip School, Start Fights, which comes out July 8th 2008. The tale could be recounted as an overly dramatic saga of four young lads who prevailed over the tragic loss of their former singer and came out swinging- and singing- with even greater ferocity and passion than before. Or it could be conveyed as a comedic lark, eschewing drama for a series of jokes about guitarists with afros and puns involving their band name. Or, maybe, it could even started with the words "Once upon a time…" But anyway you tell it, anyway it's told, the journey of Hit the Lights over the past two years has been a necessary one, filled with blessings in disguise, and ending happily in every possible version.
Bane
