Mt St Helens Vietnam Band, The Growlers, And My First Earthquake

MT ST Helens Vietnam BAND
The Growlers
My First Earthquake
8 pm
$10 adv/$12 door
MT ST Helens Vietnam BAND
"The [Seattle quintet's] Weepy Ep is an exuberant glimpse into what this mixed-gender group has to offer: no fuss rock 'n' roll. Relying on indie-rock touchstones, like twitchy male vocals and weird tempo changes, the tracks are sprinkled with alternative-era guitar licks that go straight to the heart." -- Bust Magazine
myspace.com/mtsthelensvietnamband
THE GROWLERS
Devendra Banhart's favorite surf-rock band comes up the 505! "The Growlers play party music that's shot through with an undertone of melancholy. It's as if their sepia-tinted rock songs come equipped with both the drunken cheeriness and the nauseating hangover. They know how to rollick like champs, but they can also creep along with a vaguely Eastern European worldweariness that's endearing. They may claim Ol' Dirty Bastard and Lee "Scratch" Perry as influences on their MySpace page (wigga, please), but the Growlers actually sound more like Man Man if they were fixated on pre-psych rock that's too sophisticated to be considered 'garage.'" --OC Weekly
myspace.com/Lbcgrowlers
My First Earthquake
"My First Earthquake's bold, synth-riddled indie pop, rooted in Mates of State's angularity and Of Montreal's multi-instrumental jumpiness, places them in the same musical territory as the Kills, the Sounds, and the Blow." --AllMusic.com
myspace.com/myfirstearthquake