9pm // $20 // 21+
Thee Oh Sees
The Blind Shake
Torture Love
It's nearly impossible to oversell how combustible a live performance from our old pals THEE OH SEES can become. Over the past decade the band has morphed from a showcase for rock savant JOHN DWYER's post-COACHWHIPS sensitivity into the hardest working band in garage-rock, delivering simple melodies and creepy lyrics, frequently delivered in a whacked-out monster-voice. Fleshing out guitars and drums with flutes, bells and thrift stor...
9pm // $20 // 21+
Thee Oh Sees
The Blind Shake
Torture Love
It's nearly impossible to oversell how combustible a live performance from our old pals THEE OH SEES can become. Over the past decade the band has morphed from a showcase for rock savant JOHN DWYER's post-COACHWHIPS sensitivity into the hardest working band in garage-rock, delivering simple melodies and creepy lyrics, frequently delivered in a whacked-out monster-voice. Fleshing out guitars and drums with flutes, bells and thrift store synths, Looney Tunes-worthy narratives are rolled into summery retro nuggets and delivered in playfully sinister, Sesame Street-on-LSD tales. With a score of releases on Captured Tracks, In the Red, Tomlab, and their last three LPs, 2013's Flying Coffin, 2014's Drop, 2015's Mutilator Defeated At Last, & this year's A Weird Exit, on DWYER's own label Castle Face. An annual tradition, THEE OH SEES live at The Empty Bottle must be seen to be believed.
Castle Face labelmates and tour partners THE BLIND SHAKE hit the Bottle once again with their spastic, rumbling, anxious noise-punk effort full of guitar-heavy tracks that plays like a smack to the face. Returning for the first time since headlining the Bottle last September, these hardworking maniacs are the real deal and will literally blow up your head with their overpowering sound and wild stage antics.
Post punk. Angular pop. Darker new wave. Experimental goth. Whatever you may call it, TORTURE LOVE have been writing great songs that fall somewhere within those realms since 2012. We welcome back TORTURE LOVE to The Empty Bottle stage for the first time since their LP release show back in May. "They Came Crawling" LP, released as a joint effort of Protagonist Music and Pressure Group, represents the tacit culmination of their varied influence and sonic exploration. Every time we see these guys they have proven to be a wild but cohesive four-piece.
