The Bowery Presents

The Mercury Lounge upcoming shows

Screaming Females
10:00

Shellshag
9:00
You Without Teeth
8:00
Black Wine
7:00

Venue:
The Mercury Lounge
Date:
Tue 9/01
Notes:
21+
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
$10
Tickets
Screaming Females
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The band—guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, drummer Jarrett Dougherty and bassist King Mike—live and breath their hometown of New Brunswick, NJ, and are possessed of the ethos, drive, and spirit that has made the punk greats great during a time when fewer and fewer artists have the gumption to operate as such. Since their 2006 inception, the band have self-released two full-lengths and one 7", contributed songs to two splits, and self-booked over 260 shows, scoring a mass of critical praise and accruing throngs of devotees along the way with both their recorded output and devastating live shows. As their legend grew to epic proportions, Screaming Females were approached by many labels and various industry crackerjacks. All were denied—until 2008, when the band signed to the one label that mirrored their values and championed their hometown, Don Giovanni Records. Now, with their third and most scorching full-length (aptly titled Power Move) in the bag, Screaming Females are poised more than ever to do what they do best, on their own terms, their way.

Power Move is Screaming Females at the top of their game—Paternoster, heralded already as the principal delegate for this era's "new generation of femme shredders", as renowned writer Jessica Hopper noted in the Chicago Reader, is at her bombastic best, firing off gritty, urgent solos and spitting radical magic into the mic that builds upon the oeuvre of those before her (Patti Smith, Corin Tucker, Iggy Pop) and will undoubtedly inform those after her. The rhythm of it all, the rooty grooves and dub notes and post-dance beats laid down by Dougherty and Mike, are iron-strong roller coaster tracks upon which the train careens forwards. A further Hopper assertion: "I don't think anything like her has happened to punk before, and I'm glad it finally has"—the band happens to you; you can't un-hear them, their is no going back to your pre-Screaming Females self.
Shellshag
official website
myspace
Together since 1998, SF music scene stalwarts Shell and Jen Shag have
shared outrageous bands and projects. They are partners in the record
coop Starcleaner, once a historical music warehouse space in SF's
Mission District, where bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre ,Dandy
Warhols, and 50 Million got their start performing some their earliest
live shows. They met as members of two separate bands, 50 million and
Static Faction, and eventually went on to form power pop three-piece
Kung Fu USA, who performed as an opening act for Iggy Pop, and
acoustic supergroup Me You and the Boys with Matty Luv from Hickey.
Stripping everything down, they formed the explosive duo Shellshag in
2003. They have inspired countless underground punk bands with their
relentlessly catchy sludge punk pop songs. Shellshag have managed to
figure out a way to locate the ultimate indie rock lifestyle.
Perpetually on tour, releasing great records on their label, and
putting on shows. The duo approaches music and life with the kind of
elation, unpretentious soul, and D.I.Y. brotherhood that you just
don't see all that often anymore- if you ever really did.
Globetrotting, singing punk love songs face to face through a homemade
crossed v-shaped mic stand, this creative couple are now one of
Brooklyn's #1 punk bands.
Shellshag's 1st release, a limited edition EP/CD, currently sold out,
was recorded by Gary Young of Pavement in 2004. It will be available
on-line March 4 2008 along with the entire Starcleaner Record
collection. Shellshag's first full length 12"/CD "Destroy me I'm
Yours" is available now at www.starcleaner.com
You Without Teeth
official website
myspace
Black Wine
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