Negative Fun Records, Cherub Records and Delayed Graffitification Present:
Let Feedback Ring, a Hopscotch Day Party
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA: Record labels Negative Fun (Raleigh, NC), Cherub (Richmond, VA) and blog Delayed Graffitification have teamed up with Legends Nightclub and sponsors Steady Sounds and Blanchard's Coffee to present a free Hopscotch Day Party on Saturday, September 7th from 12pm-5:30pm.
Thirteen bands from up and down the east coast, Chicago, Boston and the triangle area will let feedback ring on two staggering stages. Start your day rocking out for free!
(Donations for touring bands are always appreciated)
Legends Nightclub
119 South Harrington St
Raleigh, NC 276
Phantom Glue takes a crushing, surrealistic approach to extreme music. The Boston band recently released their second LP, A War Of Light Cones on the prolific NH based Black Market Activities imprint. It’s not quite doom, it’s not quite metal and it’s not quite hardcore, but it might be the best heavy record you hear this year. http://phantomglue.bandcamp.com/
The Bronzed Chorus is two dudes doing 20 things, with guitarist Adam Joyce playing rhythm and lead lines simultaneously and drummer Hunter Allen filling in the midrange with synths and old Ataris. The result is finely textured, but never crowded, cutting an emotive, danceable middle ground between !!! and Mogwai. https://www.facebook.com/thebronzedchorus
Midnight Plus One translates 60s psych-pop through a hard-driving shoegaze filter, like go-go dancers dry-heaving behind a nowave club. Rather than Rickenbacker twang and Warhol-worship, we get half-crazed "White Rabbit" vocals riding thunderous drums and snake-charmer guitar to the Summer of Love's disorienting, apocalyptic zenith. http://www.facebook.com/MidnightPlusOne
Hog's churning sludge hits hard, but never wallows, balancing intellectual prog complexity with metal physicality. This Durham band is remarkable for its mesmerizing intricacy, yeah, but also for its ability to both soar the rarefied heights and grovel in the ditches - often within the same anthem. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hog/154449607911735
While Irata's jagged angles and sinuous basslines suggest Don Cab, there's none of that act's compulsive hyper-math in the Greensboro trio's hard-prog. Instead, all that sturm and drang goes to back battling vocal lines occasionally suggesting a demented Perry Ferrell. So drop jaws and pump fists, yo. http://www.iratalive.com/
Dripping Slits hail from Middle-Of-Nowhere, Illinois. Guitarist Thom Crawford formed the band with good friends Derek Guldan, Tim Ramirez, Craig Godar and Jeremy Baker with the intention of taking the overt sexuality of Death From Above 1979 and making it louder and faster. The results fall somewhere between deviant and deranged. https://www.facebook.com/drippingslits
Fourteen years' absence? More like 14 years' practice, as Drug Yacht's three dudes named Dave spent the gap honing their musiccraft in numerous Durham bands. When they got back together in 2012, for the first time since '98, an indie-math creature emerged bearing rawboned angles and pristine bass tone. http://www.facebook.com/DrugYacht
DiNola rose from the ashes of New Orleans’ heavy prog outfit Hands Of Nero as much as they emerged from the receding waters of Hurricane Katrina. Lead by forces of nature (and noted racounteurs) Jimmy and Sue Ford, DiNola recalls The Runaways or The Pretenders as refracted through a Josh Homme desert session. http://www.reverbnation.com/dinola
The men & women of Alpha Cop attack their chosen task -- making weirdo eclectic garage-prog/postpunk/artrock -- with a delightful combination of seriousness & unpretentiousness. Their new split single with VT's Carton is their best work yet, and is well worth yr five bucks. – Triangle Rock http://www.alphacop.bandcamp.com
The Snowy Owls set daydreaming melodies adrift on a sea of fuzzed-out guitar. Jangle, drone and swirl meld into melancholy pop songs with shades of Yo La Tengo, The Cure, and My Bloody Valentine. http://www.thesnowyowls.com
Black Market hail from Charlotte, NC, bringing with them a diehard commitment to commitment. Each month, this band releases a new 2-song EP, which is a lot more than most bands can say. They combine noise-driven guitar with in-your-face vocals and a punk ethos. http://blackmarketclt.bandcamp.com/
Hoax Hunters from Richmond, VA are fronted by photographer PJ Sykes with rhythm section comprised of Tim Falen (Diamond Center) and James O'Neill (Snowy Owls). Sonically compared to Husker Du and Screaming Trees with a hint of Dinosaur Jr, they start recording their debut album right after Hopscotch. http://www.hoaxhunters.tumblr.com
Architeuthis started in Durham, NC as Jordan Reyes’ one-man-band before he moved to Chicago. He wrote his first song after not eating for three days and realized that he wasn’t that bad at it. He calls his music “ghost-folk,†as it combines a feeling of hyperreality with folk. http://jordanreyes.bandcamp.com
