tisdag 22 Maj 2007, 18:32

Wednesday, June 6th
Twelve Gauge Valentine, Vanna, Bloodjinn, The Silent Escape
7:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show
This Louisiana-based quartet began as a screamo outfit before morphing into a metal-based hardcore band and adopting the name Twelve Gauge Valentine. The band found their way on the buzzed-about Exclamationaire EP, hashing out and exploring what would become their musical identity as they developed into the rock n' roll monster with a brutal underbelly they are today. Salt Lake City's Sound Vs. Silence label supported them early on. Then, after the band demoed three tracks in Nashville with producer Jeremiah Scott (Showdown, Living Sacrifice), they caught the attention of the Solid State label, who issued their latest, Shock Value.

Saturday, June 9th
Church of the 8th Day Presents Calabrese, Murderland, Back To Zero, Never Dead, All Hallows Grave
7:30 PM, $10
"Please allow me to introduce these horror punk heartthrobs from the
dusty graveyards of Arizona. This is a band of three brothers (actual
brothers, actual last name Calabrese) with a wicked Misfits-meets-Ramones-meets-Damned sound that is tight, hard and fiercely melodic. Songs like "Resurrection," "Eyes Down," "Shrunken Head Kids" and "Crizila" are liberally spiced with tasty hooks you can sink your fangs into along with all the requisite, whoa-whoa-oooh, chorus vocals that your black leather heart could ever desire. More often than not I've heard this horror genre done really poorly, but this can serve as the benchmark of how to get it right. This is as good as it gets, you can file this next to Walk Among Us.” – Jeff Dahl

Sunday, June 17th
A Change Of Pace, This Providence, June, Paulson
7:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show
A Change of Pace is a five piece rock band from Peoria, Arizona. They formed in 2001 when singer Torry Jasper and drummer Jonathan Kelly began playing together after meeting in a high school English class. In 2003, after a few years of jamming and playing small local shows, bassist Johnny Abdullah and guitarist Adam Rodgers joined the band. From there they put some self-produced recordings on MP3.com where they were discovered by manager Jorge Hernandez. Within a few months they had a deal with Immortal Records and released their EP "Change is the Only Constant.” In 2005, they released their first full-length, "An Offer You Can't Refuse.” In 2006 they released their latest album, titled "Prepare the Masses.”

Saturday, June 23rd
Neurobox
8:30 PM, $12 advance, $15 day of show
“Scary stories to sing in the dark: Mature, musical metal with a wordly, Dimmu Borgir-esque bent, the five-piece group from NYC is in L.A. these days, regularly offering up their supremely paced collection of pulsing, dynamic, weirdly energetic sounds. Fronted by K’noup – part-villain, part-Renaissance romantic, and a world-class crooner, growler and story-teller – Neurobox songs come coated with the kind of delicious creepiness that would worry your mama. Neurobox shows are the type of parties that fill the room with dramatics with enough natural edginess that audiences gladly never quite know what they’re in for – except that it’s gonna be so good.”—The Press Enterprise

Wednesday, June 27th
It’s Like Love, Talk of the Town
7:00 PM, $8
Selling over 5,000 copies of the Everything EP online and on tour, It’s Like Love’s has a growing fan base across the country. Tours and shows at home have had them sharing the stage with the Format, All Time Low, Vendetta Red, Bayside, Waking Ashland, My American Heart, Goodbye Tomorrow, Bullet for My Valentine, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, National Product, and more. Its Like Love are now ready for whatever the music industry throws at them. Making music is their life and they are happiest out on the road. They are committed to working for every bit of success they get and making young girls cry along the way.

Sunday, July 1st
Patrice Pike (as seen on TV’s Rockstar)
7:30 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show
According to Rolling Stone, Patrice Pike is "Tina Turner, Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin, and Robert Plant all rolled up into a tiny but explosive package."
Austin recording artist Patrice Pike is fresh from a multi-category win ( Musician of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rock Band, Best Female Vocalist and Induction in the Music Hall of Fame) at this year's Austin Music Awards SXSW 2007. Her album, released by her own new label TapeSlap Records and distributed by Redeye USA, showcases Pike’s well established substance as a songwriter and dynamic versatility as a performer. In 2006 Patrice Pike finished as a Top Seven finalist in the prime time television show Rock Star which introduced her to a worldwide television audience (10 million national viewers weekly). Pike has long enjoyed a loyal following extending back to her days as the front woman for the band Sister 7.

Sunday, July 1st
EVOEKORE MEDIA Presents…Red Store Bums (CD Release), with Viernes 13, La Resistencia, 8kalacas, Ultima Caida, La Infinita Protesta
7:00 PM, $12 in advance, $15 day of show
This is the official release party and show for the first Red Store Bums record. The Mead Valley, California band plays a high intensity version of skacore with a strong Mexican flavor, as spikey beats are accented by timbales and other Latin percussion. Add the trumpet and it ain’t nothin’ but a party.

Saturday, July 14th
New Wave Rave 2007 with The Cured, Blasphemous Rumors & DJ Lando spinning all your favorite new wave hits!
8:30 PM, $10

Monday, August 6th
My Life In Black And White, The Rubberneckers
7:30 PM, $7
"My Life in Black and White colors their roots-punk palette with shades of country and western (to paraphrase an old joke) to evoke noir-ish images of a harsh past and bleak future. The quintet, however, bears quite a similarity to Bay Area literate-punk legends Jawbreaker, particularly its singer, whose raspy, slight vocals are hauntingly reminiscent of Jawbreaker's Blake Schwarzenbach. But the songs' singalong choruses and stomping western feel give them their own character, as well." - Willamette Week

Tuesday, August 28th
Pyrexia, Crematorium, Infernaeon, Sons of Azrael
7:30 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show
Mixing a hardcore influence into their New York metal, Pyrexia aim for a more metalcore audience. Musically, they are similar to their mentors, Suffocation, blasting fast power chords with intense rhythmic emphasis. A stress on rhythm and development of rhythmic ideas through a matrix of double bass drumming, fast snares, and heavy downstroke strumming propels simple themes.

Wednesday, August 29th
Saw Doctors
7:30 PM, $17 advance, $20 day of show
The Washington Post has referred to the Saw Doctors as “one of the world’s most appealing roots-rock outfits.” Thing is, those roots spread quite far. The Irish band deftly mixes the tunefulness and directness of the Beatles and Merseybeat with the working class imagery of Springsteen, topped with traditional Irish music and revved up in a punk rock engine. They have become the most popular Irish band since U2. Their annual visits to the Knit are always joyous affairs, especially for our Guinness distributor.

Friday, September 21st
Over the Rhine
7:00 PM, $18
Allmusic.com: “Over the Rhine had already developed a large and intensely loyal following in its native Cincinnati, OH, before they independently released their first two albums, Till We Have Faces (1991) and Patience (1992). Their music, which they aptly dubbed "post-nuclear, pseudo-alternative, folk-tinged art-pop," is difficult to pigeonhole. They have been compared to 10,000 Maniacs, the Innocence Mission, U2, and Shawn Colvin, but the band's personality seems to owe more to their literary influences (which include Dylan Thomas, C.S. Lewis, and T.S. Eliot). In 2003, the group returned with Ohio. This double-disc set, which marked Over the Rhine's tenth album overall, reflected the band's Midwestern connections. Following a tumultuous year of heavy touring, the band returned to the studio and recorded their next album, Drunkard's Prayer, which came out in 2005. They released a career retrospective, Discount Fireworks, earlier this year.”