Plug In Music isn't a normal 5 year old eating glue and gearing up for kindergarten. We're more of a fierce 5 year old, terrorizing the neighborhood. To celebrate our 5th birthday, we're throwing a party and you're invited! Come spend an evening checking out some of our favorite bands, hear some new music and have fun! Bring your dad for Father's Day.
The core of The Situation’s gripping sound stems from the remarkable chemistry between songwriter Christopher Tucker and lead guitarist Joe Castro, whom Tucker dubs “Joey Marr” in reference to the Smiths legend. The Big Takeover poetically observed that The Situation’s “walls of ringing, arpeggiating Rickenbackers and proper pop songs sound geographically attuned to the Liverpool/Manchester sound—the sound of the Mersey as filtered through the Schuylkill.” Magnet compared the group to ‘60s Brit gods The Kinks and The Small Faces, noting that they conjure “the same wobbly, psychedelic visions that the Brian Jonestown Massacre excels at.”
Sixfifteens - We regret to announce that the Sixfifteens will not be able to make the show. Our apologies!
After nearly a decade as two-thirds of the well-toured pop-punk outfit Dryer, Bob Carlton and Joel Lilley, were no sooner out of one band then at the helm of a new, more expansive project, The Sixfifteens. Taking their cues from the likes of Goo-era Sonic Youth and Pavement, the new project angled towards pop, but with an eye to exploring the sonic periphery of the genre. Early on, the sound was fueled by Joel Lilley’s propulsive rhythms and pulse-racing kick drum, coupled with Carlton’s anxious guitar attack. After releasing their 2004 EP Let’s Not Think About It, the band recruited angular guitarist Jeff Fox for their debut full-length, Feature, Conference, Transfer (Fake Chapter). This latest showcases a greater departure from Bob and Joel’s pop roots. Hooks are interrupted by quick stops and temporarily swallowed by bursts of noise; melodies are masochistically bent and twisted – seemingly beyond repair – before snapping back into shape with the alacrity of a well-swung sonic whip. And fans and critics alike are taking notice of the band’s tortured pop.
The PB Army formed in early 2001, when Micah Shimborske and Keith Bergman (ex-Chicken Dog) re-entered the rock game after a few years' hiatus from making music. The two snagged Mahlon Orrin, and recorded their debut CD, the charmingly-titled Inebriates, Equivocators, and Mockers of the Devil Himself, in 2002, and garnered worldwide praise. With their energetic stage show (made all the more unexpected by the "singing drummer" and lack of frontman) and memorable songs, anticipation has been mounting for 2005's Spine For the Snapback. Not many bands skid to the edge of the abyss and get a chance to "snap back." The PB Army have rebounded in fine style, and in the process, have cemented their status as cult favorites, and a band to watch now and in the coming years.
To quote their song "Disco Hammer", Chicago's Mystechs exist half-way in between Retarded and Rad, mixing today's cutting-edge sounds with some of the moldiest, most unfashionable genres of yesteryear. Like Ween, Outkast, and Frank Zappa before them, the Mystechs use humor as an excuse to get away with avant-garde murder, disguising their art-rock experiments as jokes in order to sneak past listeners' defenses. They've been known to switch from hardcore punk or gangsta rap to 70s soft-rock piano ballads and falsetto-drenched doo-wop without warning, sometimes attempting to do all of the above at the same time.
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