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Wednesday, September
5
Admission: $7, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
Charles Bissell is guitarist/vocalist for the critically acclaimed
group
the Wrens, described by the All Music Guide as "one of the
catchiest and most thoughtful indie rock groups".
Bissell will be performing a solo set on guitar, “reworking
the same older weirder wrens songs with the usual loops, pedals
and crossed fingers”.
Singing Journalist Tris
McCall will play solo piano for the opening
portion of the show,
and then will join Overlord for their set. Tris has been releasing
hard-charging songs about his
beloved New Jersey since 2000, all the while a sought-after session
player and member
of such bands as Palomar, Overlord, Kapow! and Japan Seoul.
Overlord originated in Philadelphia in 1996 with an name that
ran
willfully contrary to its mope rock/britpop/indie rock sound,
and
relocated to Brooklyn ten years later. The group features drummer
Matt
Houser and guitarist Kerry Kennedy. Special guest bassist Sarah
Brockett,
currently of Palomar (and overlord's bassist from 1996-2000),
will round
out the band. Pasles, who writes and records the band's songs,
will turn
the big 3-2.
Overlord recently released its fourth album, TICKER SYMBOLS.
The tracks
were hailed as "sheer genius" by The Big Takeover,
which stated,
"
...there's an effortless melodic grace to everything Pasles touches."
Blog Indiepages raved, "I just astounded that every new
song was as good
as or better than the last." Blog Dagger E-zine concluded, "I’m
convinced
that TICKER SYMBOLS will be hailed as a classic if not now, then
sometime
in the future...A classic if anyone’s looking."
The four videoscreens of Monkey Town will feature selections
of overlord's
public domain-plundering videos, summed up by AOL's Viral Videos
thusly:
"Imagine if Luis Bunuel directed a music video for an indie
Brit-pop band.
Oh, stop imagining and just bathe in the weirdness."
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