Thurs., July 15th: Filthy 'Tussin Weirdpunk / Dual-Drummer FutureGods / Sidewindin' Sonoran Surfers @ FOOLS
Posted by DJ Rick on 2007-07-16 6:53:21pm


Green Bay, Wisconsin, is known primarily for its football Packers, but truly the city's crowning achievement and export these days is Pink Reason, purveyors of the best in miserable, depressant 'tussin-rock since...since...Joy Division?!?! That really seems totally plausible. On the strength of the outstanding debut 7" EP's filthy weirdpunk slumtrip through psych, folks, darkwave, blues, and (dare I say it?) goth, Pink Reason toured the West Coast in November 2006 from the Bay Area to Vancouver and back. The live show drew shouts of "Punk Reason!" as the band kicked into covers of Fang, Agent Orange, and Christian Death classics, and brash/loud versions of the originals penned by Kevin DeBroux, the band's original and constant member. Over the winter of 2007, Pink Reason released the full-length Cleaning the Mirror on legendary tastemaker Siltbreeze, which took an even slummier trip away from punk vigor and into introverted explorations of agony and heavily medicated drifting on cozy clouds of filth. Returning to the form shown during the tour, the brand-new By a Thread 7" EP on Trick Knee Productions actually rips rather ferociously. One touch of folky-ness is still there, too; "The Devil Always Wins" is a foot-stompin' acapella crowd-pleaser (or WTFpwner, depending on each audience member's proneness to perplexion), and it brings to mind an old-timey folksong from the downtrodden hollows.
http://www.myspace.com/secondculture

From nearby Algoma, Wisconsin (pop. 3000, yet home to at least half a dozen ruling bands), Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones are here to take the pain of your recent Black Lips experiences away. Are you bummed, too, that the same band that unleashed the brilliant Let It Bloom in 2005 has middled so disappointingly since they've been bolstered by the hype-machine of Vice magazine? Don't wanna share the band with douchebags that just changed outta their electroclash tracksuits a couple years ago? Get over your disgust and dig your next fave...Hue Blanc's Joyless ones made an LP last year called Fait Accompli that you probably missed because it was a German import, but it was an incredible album of garagepunk with a touch of quirky cleverness here (e.g., a truly cunning Tuxedomoon "No Tears" rewrite), some trashy raunch there, and supersolid songcraft and chops from start to finish. And in every picture of the band I've seen, they have two drummers!
http://www.myspace.com/hueblancsjoylessones

Sacto's San Kazakgascar open the show at 9:00 p.m., so come on-time and be treated to dusty, desert-psych showing a serious Savage Republic fascination with that sumptuous quasi-Eastern guitar skating over the ominous rhythmic propulsion.
http://www.myspace.com/sankazakgascar

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