Recommended Shows This Week 5/13/13 - 5/19/13

MONDAY, MAY 13

Joy Sores (Denton, TX)
Spelling Bee
Laika
@ Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center / 3301 Lemp Ave.
8 PM / $5 / All Ages
Joy Sores packs fierce guitar noise into tight rhythms with their abrasive shoegaze. Think noise rock for emo kids from the '90s and Joy Sores fills the gap. Laika are local screaming teens (young adults?) with riffs for miles.

FRIDAY, MAY 17

Little Big Bangs
Stonechat
Peck Of Dirt
Corrigan Brothers
@ Lemmons / 5800 Gravois Ave.
8 PM / $5 / 21+
This noisy night at Lemmons features an angular wall of guitars by way of the Corrigan Brothers. Little Big Bangs filter all your '90s nostalgia (a la Pavement, Sonic Youth and Fugazi) through a distinctly River City sound. Stonechat is a guitar and drum duo that breeds confusion with melody in a twisted and noisy pop format.

SATURDAY, MAY 18

Rhizomatic St. Louis 2 (Cassette Tape Release)
featuring:
John Tamm-Buckle, Radiant Husk, Marble, Byssus
with visuals by:
Jeremy Kannapell & Ajay Khanna
@ Kerr Foundation / 21 O'Fallon Street
9 PM / $5 (cassette included) / All Ages
If sound-art and free improvisation are foreign concepts to you, try Rhizomatic St. Louis for an introduction to local experimental and exploratory music. If you are well acquainted, the artists featured provide an involved and engaging sound and admission nets you a free cassette tape compilation.

SUNDAY, MAY 19

Night Moves (Kansas City, MO)
Shaved Women
Lumpy and The Dumpers
Life Like
@ Bonerville / Ask A Punk
9 PM / $5 / All Ages
This show looks St. Louis versus Kansas City in a game of hardcore all-stars. Night Moves is a fairly new band from No Class, Dark Ages, Meat Mist and more while Life Like (members of Voight-Kampff, Shaved Women, Masculine Journey, others) plays their first show.

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Recommended Shows This Week 5/6/13 - 5/12/13

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

Arvid Noe (Boston, MA)
Banned Books (Philadelphia, PA)
The Funs
Stonechat
Spelling Bee
@ Mushmaus / 2700 Cherokee St.
8:30 PM / $5 (suggested donation) / All Ages
Boston's Arvid Noe features two guitars riffing, wiggling and intermingling amidst equally unpredictable and driving drum patterns. The weirdo post punk axe wielders sound like they're desperately playing their way out of a retro video game, shredding the virtual world to ragged, jagged ribbons along the way. The trio makes rock roll along unlike the next guys, coaxing their instruments to communicate to each other in weird blips, clicks, slides and carefully picked harmonious noises. Catch them howling along while performing songs off of their new record, Islington, during their last ever tour, dubbed "Noe Future."

THURSDAY, MAY 9

Ulan Bator (France)
Wei Zhongle (Carbondale, IL)
Nathalie Forget (France)
@ Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center / 3301 Lemp Ave.
8 PM / $7 / All Ages
Ulan Bator's post-rock recalls early Kraut-masters Can and Neu! but spins the genre with unhinged and heavy pieces. Ulan Bator has spent the latter part of its 20 years closely working with Faust while grinding away at its own noisy dirge. While volumes ebb and flow through each piece, textural shifts provide rich complexity. Ulan Bator comes from France, and their rare U.S. appearance is made more personal with the stage-free Lemp Arts Center, wherein audience and performer share an intimate space. Wei Zhongle's moaning vocals creep under dueling clarinets and fierce but reserved percussion. Rob Jacobs sings with mystique, bringing human voice to alien sounds. Wei Zhongle drones with repetition only to break with swirling progressive-rock.

FRIDAY, MAY 10

New Music Circle Showcase: Celebration of Sun Ra's 99th Birthday
Featuring
The Trinity Piano Trio, Eric Hall, Adam Maness, Robert Wykes, Serban Nichifor, Tracy Andreotti, Fred Tompkins, James Hegarty and Michael Hunt
@ The William A Kerr Foundation / 21 O'Fallon St.
7:30 / General $20 / Students $10 / All Ages
Check out many area composers as they share their works based on the life and music of Sun Ra. Expect a Sun Ra inspired live performance by The Trinity Piano Trio. The show is expected to begin at 7:30 and last no later than 9:30.

SATURDAY, MAY 11

Slingshot Dakota (Philadelphia, PA)
The Funs
Times Beach
Trenchfoot (Reunion Show)
@ Chromozone / Ask A Freak
9 PM / $5 / All Ages
Slingshot Dakota slings pop punk with hints of jazz over straight ahead piano and drum music. Happy jams are aplenty with Times Beach, which features members of Masculine Journey and Overdoser bringing what they identify as RAW POP. The Funs are fresh off a recent tour and Trenchfoot returns after several years of hiatus with feel good punk.

SUNDAY, MAY 12

Curved Dog (New Orleans, LA)
Glow God (Oklahoma City, OK)
Missionary Haircut (Oklahoma City, OK)
Nos Bos
Spelling Bee
@ Blank Space / 2847 Cherokee St.
8 PM / $5 / All Ages
No-wave riffers from down south bring their noise north. You can check Curved Dog in the video above, but skip to the one minute mark for music. Glow God and Missionary tour together on a split cassette tape and push their angular post-punk with solid, driving songs.
If you're into Japanese metal you can check out Boris and Pallbearer over the Firebird on this night.

New Album by Forteana

Forteana features current members of Pillow Talk and Good Luck At The Hog Slaughter. This is heady math rock that delves into metal but thankfully stays distinct. Forteana has been active since early 2012 and just released this full studio effort yesterday. Check it out!

Stag Nite 10th Anniversary Show TONITE @ Blank Space

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

This one almost slipped by. Stag Nite's been going for 10 years now, and has been crucial in getting heads out to soak in beer and loud sound. Johnny Vegas has worked with practically every little sub-scene in St. Louis and turned his weekly Stag Nite into a showcase of rejects and weirdos, regardless of musical leanings. According to Johnny Vegas: "Tonite we celebrate- ten great years, six great venues, about a thousand acts, three vans and four haircuts later- Stag Nite is still kicking ass! Thank you Saint Loufest! Can I have ten more? And some pizza?"

Yes. Yes you can.

Malaikat Dan Singa (featuring Arrington de Dionyso)
Union Electric
Cuckolds
Is-Is
@ Blank Space / 2847 Cherokee St.
9 PM / $5 / 21+
Arrington de Dionyso's latest digs Malaikat Dan Singa provide tribal rhythm with heavy noise and truly guttural vocals. Other than sounding like an alien ritual, Singa pushes a uniquely dark and twisted music. Union Electric, led by St. Louis hall-of-famer Tim Rakel, merges droney folk music with crunchy, distorted guitars. Check it out, FOLKS! You can read more about South City's tradition of Stag Nite right here.

Recommended Shows This Week 4/22/13 - 4/28/13

MONDAY, APR. 22

CJ Boyd
Rooster Doctor (of The Barely Free Partial Prisoners)
@ Foam / 3359 S. Jefferson Ave
8 PM / $5 / 21+
Watching CJ Boyd is like reaching into a grab bag of gold mixed with live hedgehogs. Boyd could decide to pepper you with subtle string music or blast you with abrasive noise. Check the video above for some of the former, but be prepared for the latter. The ever engaging Rooster Doctor opens with fresh ambient tunes.

WEDNESDAY, APR. 24

Wax Idols (Oakland, CA)
TV Ghost (Lafayette, IN)
Autonomy (Carbondale, IL)
Trauma Harness
@ The Heavy Anchor / 5226 Gravois
8:00 PM / $7 / 21+
Jangly post-punk fills the bar with wiry sounds coming from Oakland, California. If you're wondering what the heck 'post-punk' means in 2013; Bring 7 bucks and ear plugs. Trauma Harness is fresh off the release of a split 7 inch with Bunnygrunt, so be sure to look out for that if you're into collecting wax.

THURSDAY, APR. 25

Solid Attitude (Iowa City, IA)
Shit For Brains (Carbondale, IL)
Shaved Women
Lumpy and The Dumpers
@ Apop Records / 2831 Cherokee Street
9:00 PM / $5 / all ages
Expect full-on sunglasses wearing, pogo-stick carrying punk with nasty guitars. All four bands provide visceral sounds through rough-edged songs. Solid Attitude is touring on a new 7 inch and Shit For Brains makes their St. Louis debut.

SATURDAY, APR. 27

Marriage (Austin, TX)
Britches
Spelling Bee
Raglani
@ Mushmaus / 2700 Cherokee Street
9:30 PM / $5 / all ages
Marriage brings tribal rhythms while building walls of insane noise to create dance-able but complex songs. Featuring members of Black Eyes and When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Marriage brings together abrasion and accessibility. Britches is blackened indie rock with howling vocals and skronk-riddled guitars.
Check out the EARLY show happening over at FOAM: Four Hands, Sasquatch Telepath, Lobster and Perverted starting at 9 PM SHARP

Keep an eye out for these gigs NEXT week:

Kremlin (Canada), Laughboy (IL), Bath House Boys (first show) and Pink Sock at Bonerville on Monday 4/29

Moonrises (IL), Trancers and Kisser at Mushmaus on Tuesday 4/30

BDR Records Show with Trauma Harness (as MAX LOAD) and more on Friday 5/3

Cool Dog (MN) and Demonlover at Blank Space on Saturday 5/4

Barely Free Partial Prisoners release show at the Livery in the afternoon (2 PM) on Saturday 5/4

APOP Records 9th Birthday Party at Plush on Saturday 5/4