PFH Productions presents:
"Atlanta band HAWKS raises the bar on all fronts with its second album, Rub. Although the songs here still don't capture the raw immediacy of the group's live presence, there's no way to effectively re-create the experience of a naked man jumping out of the speakers and screaming in your face. Instead, the album's full-bodied complexities swell in "A Future Reaping" and the discordant piano and drum tussle of "Holy Day," proving that there's more to HAWKS' abilities than aggressive displays of male angst — although there's plenty of that here, too. "Hung" and "Late Bloomer" are bigger than anything the group brought to the table with its '09 debut, Barnburner. A nod to the Jesus Lizard guides the searing guitar throughout, and vocalist Mike Keenan's lumberjack growl channels the spirit of the entire AmRep legacy. But an experimental trudge fills in the spaces between the monstrous rhythms, giving the album a brutal sense of refinement." - Chad Radford / Creative Loafing Atlanta
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This Chapel Hill, NC power trio has been tuning down and turning up since late 2005, constantly evolving their aural offerings of psychedelic sludge. With a combination of the foreboding heaviness of blues based proto-metal, the spry attitude and approach of punk, and the dynamics of progressive rock, their songs often project a dark & urgent energy.
Black Skies is: Kevin Clark, Tim Herzog, Michelle Temple
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Minnesota’s Vaz is one of the rock ‘n roll nuts and represents another major score for the little NYC label that could.
Relatively established in their own right, Vaz was founded some time in the late-ish 90s by refugees from the highly influential noise rock band Hammerhead.
Originally touring about as a two-piece duo, Vaz was generally lumped together with other noise-ified bare-bones rock acts like Lightning Bolt, early Hella, and Pink & Brown.
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LOOK OUT FACES, SEE YA LATER! DA SHREWS ARE BACK FOR ROUND OCHO AND IT'S THEIR MOST INSENSITIVE SLAB YET. YELLING, RIPPAGE, BIG JUMPS -- YOU KNOW THE THE DRILL . . . AND THEY'RE HOLDING IT TO YR TEMPLE, SMART GUY. LATER HIPPIES!
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$6 in adv, $8 DOS, 21+
Doors @ 9 pm
Advance tickets available @ Ticket Alternative, Criminal Records,
Decatur CD, Fantasyland Records and the following CD Warehouse locations: Buford, Duluth, Kennesaw, Lawrenceville and Roswell.
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