The Bowery Presents

The Bowery Ballroom upcoming shows

Don Giovanni Records Showcase

Shellshag / Forgetters / Screaming Females

JEFF The Brotherhood / The Measure (SA) / Black Wine / Groucho Marxists

Venue:
The Bowery Ballroom
Date:
Sat 2/06
Notes:
16+
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
$13 advance / $15 day of show
Tickets
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
Forgetters
official website
myspace
forgetters (no “the,” no capital “f.”) is the new band of Blake Schwarzenbach, formed right after the short-lived Thorns of Life broke up. It features Schwarzenbach (Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil) on guitar and lead vocals, Kevin Mahon (Against Me!) on drums and Caroline Paquita on bass.
Screaming Females
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myspace
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.
JEFF The Brotherhood
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myspace
JEFF The Brotherhood is Jake and Jamin Orrall, two brothers that play drums and guitar. They grew up in Tennessee making music and trying to have a good time. Since their inception they have been playing anywhere from house parties to rooftops, backyards, bars and art galleries and releasing their own records, tapes, comic books and home made videos.

The Brotherhood has been called "kraut punk", "psychedelic grunge" and "noise pop" drawing comparisons to bands like Hawkwind, Wipers, and early Sonic Youth.

They have been carrying their heavy damage all over the country since 2006 and have shared bills with Oneida, Battles, Sonic Youth, Ex-Models, Jay Reatard, Black Pus and Dave Cloud. Their "we'll play anywhere" attitude and frenetic live shows have earned them near legendary status in the clubs and basements of Nashville and beyond. With three guitar strings and a minimal drum kit, they manage to distill rock to its primal essence.

In 2009 they released two split seven inches, one with Sisters from Brooklyn and the other with Screaming Females from New Jersey. Their new full length "HEAVY DAYS" dropped October 13, 2009 on their family run record label Infinity Cat Recordings.
The Measure
official website
myspace
The Measure [sa] is a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. They are Fid, Lauren, Mikey and Tim. Strictly Analog. Somewhat Attractive. Seldom Appropriate.
Black Wine
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Groucho Marxists
official website
myspace
The New Brunswick NJ music scene has always been a bizarre amalgamation of disenfranchised punk rockers, ornery skinheads, weirdo goth folk, freaked-out college kids and directionless hippies. This is fertile musical ground when you can find a niche and defend it to the death. So goes the classic tale told by the members of THE GROUCHO MARXISTS. All members of previous local musical endeavors, the story woven by the Marxists isn’t all that different than that of millions of musicians worldwide. You’ve heard the saga before: cool local band gaining momentum suddenly derailed by inner-band turmoil and a plethora of outside pressures. This is a story THE GROUCHO MARXISTS would like to forget and never hear again. Chris Gobo Pierce had spent nearly ten years zig-zagging across the country with his numerous bands (DOC HOPPER, THE A.G.’s, SINKHOLE, DEADGUY) until he came to rest in New Brunswick back in 1996, where he found a comfortable community to plant his punk rock roots. He played with more than a few local combos like THE STUNTCOCKS, CASANOVACANE, THE SLOW WIRE, and eventually made a name for himself with his altruistic and occasionally elitist recording ethic at his own Technical Ecstasy Studio. Now all he needed was a few other musicians to fully realize his musical dream. Then it all came together shortly after it all fell apart. Doc Hopper played their final shows in the fall of 2002, but since Pierce was the only musical engine in the band, he had a song backlog nearly as long as his discography. The obvious decision: time for a new vehicle for his hyper-active power pop. Enter the rest of the Marxists bozos… Austin ands Brian were playing in Mach 7-era STUNTCOCKS and recording the ‘debut’ CD when they approached Pierce about doing another band. Since there were songs to be sung and beers to be drank, the 3-piece started in attacking the song catalog Pierce had amassed for the past years. All that were needed was a moniker and a bassist. In November of 2003 the first batch of songs were recorded and the search for both a name and a low-end representative came to an end: thru a mutual friend they met Gary Zampini, the former bassist for THE SELTZERS. The chemistry was immediate and with the new line-up and definite name, world domination was imminent. Since then the group has been impressing audiences along the East Coast with their brand of breakneck pop, reminiscent of The Descendents and Husker Du. With an EP in the can awaiting release and a full-length in the works, THE GROUCHO MARXISTS are making friends and impressing young and old. There’s always someone listening to you when you play it at 130 decibels…
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