December 5, 2009 8pm
The Summit
2210 Summit St.
(614) 268-9377
$6 adv / $8 door
Ages 18+
Screaming Females
http://myspace.com/screamingfemales
Formed in 2006, New Jersey’s Screaming Females combine scorching guitars with a firmly D.I.Y. approach to create their own brand of indie rock. Mixing equal parts Dinosaur Jr. and Sleater-Kinney, the Brunswick trio of Marissa Paternoster (guitar/vocals), Mike Rickenbacker (bass), and Jarrett Dougherty (drums) strives to embody the spirit of indie rock in its purest form; Screaming Females book their own shows and release their own records to bring their guitar-driven rock to the people. In 2007 the band fired its opening shot, self-releasing its debut full-length, Baby Teeth, as well as the Arm Over Arm/Zoo of Death 7”. The band quickly followed up with its sophomore album, What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.?, which was self-released and later reissued by Don Giovanni Records. The band focused on collaborative releases in 2008, including a split 7” with Full of Fancy on Let’s Pretend Records and another split 7”, this one consisting of Neil Young covers, with Hunchback. The Females got some more exposure in 2009 after a series of jaw-dropping performances at New York’s CMJ and a tour with Dead Weather. That same year the band made the jump to a label, releasing Power Move through Don Giovanni.
Tin Armor
http://myspace.com/TinArmor
Indie pop meets punk, and sometimes there’s no place that I’d rather be. Heartfelt, pouring-it-all-out lyrics, delivered in a nasally MORRISEY style, backed up by jangled guitars rocking it out almost as hard as THE THERMALS. I’m a sucker for this, I can already guarantee myself that I’ll be proclaiming this CD as a masterpiece come a very drunken weekend. Did I mention the beautiful packaging to match the bountiful music? If THE HOUSEMARTINS were on No Idea. - Sean Dougan, Maximum Rock’n'roll
This Is My Suitcase
http://thisismysuitcase.com/
This Is My Suitcase is the unruly music performed by five even-unrulier friends.
This Is My Suitcase was born in the innocent times of 2005, carved from the atrophied spots on Joseph Anthony Camerlengo’s heart. The induction of This Is My Suitcase to the scary world outside of Joseph’s bedroom walls would soon be the band’s first full length album: Missent to Thailand (2006), a unique thirteen song proclamation that love exists and is. With little-to-no “critical” acclaim, Missent to Thailand was, in it’s own untraditional way, a hit, especially considering it exclusively recorded with a computer microphone! Now with a notable amount of public support, This Is My Suitcase grew and grew into an entire five piece punk orchestra, currently featuring: Nicholas Manos (bad karma’s response to U2’s The Edge), Jeremy Skeen (the potential ghost of the late Mitch Mitchell), Joseph Fitzgerald (Satan’s answer to Sting), and Mary Lynn Gloeckle (our own personal Schroeder). Over the last four years of trying times and some concurrent failing times, This Is My Suitcase has self-released an insurmountable amount of freakish pop music over the internet, free of any charge to it’s lucky listener, including: The C EP (2006), The C.R.E. ep (2007), and countless other original songs, cover songs (from The Beach Boys to Michael Jackson), and limited-releaser tour theme songs to coincide with each of their tours.
By January 1st of 2008, a fat-ruled notebook had been filled red cover-to-red cover with production, recording, mixing, and vocal notes for the next This Is My Suitcase full length album. Six months later, the raucous band overtook Mike Green’s (The Matches, Paramore) Los Angeles studio during the graveyard shift (usually eleven pm to then am), working themselves in and out of a comatose state for two weeks of recording drums and shattering glass. As quickly as they came, the band soon found themselves back in Columbus, Ohio, chauffeuring a laptop and broken microphone from random location to random location, recording woodwinds, strings, horns, saws, and tinkerings on their record, literally every single day. This was still only the beginning, as the self-recording of The Keys To Cat Heaven would stretch on for eight more long months, unbeknownst to anyone at this point. From July of 2008 until August of 2009, This Is My Suitcase masterminded a fifteen-song disasterpiece unlike any other. Any time wasted or spent on this album was well worth it, any of the five band members will tell you with absolute certainty in their otherwise uncertain voices. The band’s latest full length album, The Keys To Cat Heaven (2009), is their best collection to date.
If you are fed up with paying full price for albums that lack french horn featurettes and string quartets; if your record collection feels void of cat and ghost content, lyrically-speaking; if your album art collection feels incomplete without a cat ghost, literally-speaking; if you immediately need your body to build an immunity to a virulent swarm of dancing falsettos and flutes; if you have been digging for records that will highlight that you are both playful and witty; if you want an album that you can stream at an appropriate volume from your apartment window to prove to passer-bys that you are intelligent and ironic; if you have been looking for a solid album to rattle the tiles from your roof while you bang your head; if you wish that Sesame Street sing-alongs sounded more like old Flaming Lips albums; if you wish that new Flaming Lips albums sounded more like vintage Sesame street records, we have the album for you: The Keys To Cat Heaven.