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HALLOWEEN SHOWS

Public Water Supply is Rochester, New York’s premier Alt. Rock/Indie Americana act. PWS consists of six university-trained musicians, blending distinctive songwriting, spectacular vocals, and incredible instrumentalists. The band members include: Iggy Marino, frontman; Karis Gregory, Jr., lead guitar; Alex Brophy, team captain and bass; Spencer Kornrich, bus driver and drums; Jordan Paresk, fiddle and vocals; all masters of their craft! The band has been seen on Fox Rochester, WXXI Connections, and Opening Tunings. PWS has performed in the Rochester Lilac Festival, Borderland Music Festival and Estival Festival.The group has boogied their way across the Northeast, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states. Public Water Supply has sold out venues like Iron Smoke Distillery, Three Heads Brewery, and Buffalo’s Jackrabbit. PWS will pack a punch in the year 2024 as they tour their second album, General Strike.

LOCAL STONER ROCK/DOOM METAL BAND FOX 45 & ROCK BAND DYNOBOYS WILL TRANSFORM INTO BLACK SABBATH ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 26TH FOR A NIGHT FULL OF CLASSICS SPANNING THE CAREER OF THE BAND. 

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FOX 45 KICKS OFF THE SHOW, FOLLOWED BY NOT ONE, BUT TWO SETS FROM DYNOBOYS. 

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DID WE MENTION THERE IS A COSTUME CONTEST (WITH SOME GREAT PRIZES) SO DON'T FORGET TO DRESS UP!

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Grease Creepers & New Math are co-headlining at Your Bar on Earth this Halloween. The real Halloween (not the weekend before shenanigans) Grease Creepers are Rochester's favorite horror punk/rockabilly band!

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Formed in Rochester, NY in ‘76, New Math opened for the likes of the Ramones, the Cramps, the Damned & Gun Club at now-extinct local clubs. Offering up an endless supply of ascending guitar lines & catchy hooks of amphetamine-fueled power pop. With a 7" on CBS in the UK and an EP on 415 Records label, the band rode the new wave. This collection of early singles and unreleased demos showcases why they made fans far & wide. In 1984, the band became the Jet Black Berries & signed to Enigma Records.

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TUES. OCT 8th @ 8:00PM

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The Velveteers, a rock trio from Denver, CO made up of singer/guitarist Demi Demitro and drummers Baby Pottersmith and Jonny Fig, spent most of 2022-2023 performing on tours with Greta Van Fleet and The Black Keys. They released their debut album Nightmare Daydream on Easy Eye Sound, produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Dan Auerbach.
 
Growing up in local DIY music scenes, Demitro developed a unique songwriting style for the band through her raw distorted baritone guitar playing and heart grabbing vocals. Joined by Pottersmith and Fig playing on a conjoined drum kit, the band quickly gained a reputation for their rip-roaring and out of control performances. Clips of the band’s live shows and DIY videos made it back to Auerbach, who invited them to his studio in Nashville to produce Nightmare Daydream.
 
“I instantly dug them,” says Auerbach. “They’re amazing live, and their videos are so creative. And they just sound so powerful. Any time you doubletrack drums on a record, it’s going to sound so heavy. Then you put that together with this baritone guitar player who is so unique, and it’s so bombastic. There’s nothing like them.”

Tacoma, WA’s Alex Vile began as a solo project in with singer/guitarist AlexandraVilenius and has turned into a 4 piece Modern, Indie Grunge band with theaddition of Kaelyn Stevens on bass, Leo Quale on lead guitar & Evan Hartung ondrums.TheirDIY roots anddiverse musical taste hasputtheirown twist on thegenrescraftingaspace to thrive in. Alex Vile has played numerous showson theWest Coastand has recorded an album worth of songs with Producer Jim Kaufman(Everclear,Helmet,Night Riots)

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WED. OCT 9th @ 8:00PM

Hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Davila 666 is one of the biggest rock 'n' roll attractions in the country. Over the past two years, they have amassed a large local following and their shows have a reputation as must-see spectaculars. A Davila 666 set functions almost like a theatrical event, as the band presents a thematic environment in which viewers are called to interact with props and exotic dancers. According to singer Carlitos, "Davila is a living homage to the sex, drugs, and good times of rock 'n' roll we all idolize." Their sound is the combination of obvious rock 'n' roll classics like the Stones, Stooges, Velvets, and Dolls, along with less likely influences such as Mazzy Star, Li'l Wayne, and Plan B. "We are like Menudo (the group--not the soup) on lots of drugs," says Carlitos.

Davila 666, whose name combines references to a notorious Bayomon city slum with the number of the beast, recently toured the West Coast, where they made fans in every town they played and alliances with like-minded bands such as The Spits, Black Lips, and The King Khan & BBQ Show. All of their songs are sung in their native Spanish but that doesn't stop English-speaking audiences from dancing on tables and going crazy at their shows.

Las Nubes is the band poised to grace your summer playlist. The Miami based band has built a catalog defined by devastating pop, pulsing drums and refracting clouds of shoegaze. Spanning over several languages, their lyrics address the emotional truths of being a person— treating the mundanity of everyday life with the same poetic reverence as the big and dramatic moments, relationships and people that shape our lives. With a slate of new music and a tour on the horizon, their songs are bound to soundtrack our year.

Hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, by way of Atlanta, Ladrones is a screaming, wailing blast of garagy punk'n'roll.A band with enough bad attitude to garner at least a week’s worth of detention before homeroom is over!

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THURS. OCT 10th @ 8:00PM

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Coming straight out of Queens with a captivating mix of modern rock and a hint of vintage guitar, NYC based outfit King Falcon has released their eagerly-awaited self-titled debut album. Showcasing an exhilarating blend of indie-rock adventurousness and Classic Rock swagger, King Falcon’s exceptional songwriting recalls artists like Black Keys, Jack White, Cage the Elephant, The Strokes, Royal Blood, and The Killers.

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FRI. OCT 11th @ 8:00PM

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Kal Marks have never made a record as personal as Wasteland Baby. Though Carl Shane, the band’s vocalist-guitarist, has made a career off of exploring blunt, uncomfortable truths through song, with Wasteland Baby, he steered Kal Marks toward something utterly new. Shane looked inward to stare down a fear that had long plagued him: What would it look like to have a child in a world that looks like this? “The album was driven by the fears I’m having about being a father,” says Shane. “The initial spark was this fear, and I thought that maybe if I could express it, I could overcome it.”

What started out with this simple premise slowly grew into a sprawling, borderline-concept record. It’s no surprise, then, that Kal Marks went deeper and darker than ever before when writing Wasteland Baby. Though, in order to reach that final product, it required the band—bassist-vocalist John Russell, drummer Adam Berkowitz, and guitarist-vocalist Christina Puerto, who is also Shane’s partner—to interrogate every decision they made with exacting detail. “We really had to be more thoughtful if we really wanted to make a more mature, cohesive record,” says Shane. ”We were really all on the same page in that we wanted to make something really, really special and that was going to require us putting a lot of ego aside and just trying to serve the songs as best as possible.”

“Insects” kicks the album off with Berkowitz laying down a tom-heavy groove alongside squelching, screeching guitars from Shane and Puerto while Russell’s horrifically hypnotic bassline pulls you into the band’s accosting orbit. The discomforting hallmarks of noise-rock that Kal Marks built their name on are still here but, for the first time, gone is the atonal churning and, instead, it's been replaced with a groovy, danceable backbeat. “We got kind of pigeonholed into the noise-rock thing, and I think we wanted to depart from that. Sure, we’re noisy, and we like The Jesus Lizard and Fugazi, but a lot of that doesn’t feel that imaginative to us at this point. I also listen to a lot of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan and Silver Jews, and we listen to a lot of funk and soul, and we wanted to not shy away from showing those sides of ourselves,” says Shane.

The lyrics driving Wasteland Baby become a sprawling hero’s journey, chronicling an unnamed protagonist’s discontent, aimlessness, and eventual discovery of purpose in a dystopian landscape. “We really wanted the album to have a good flow so we treated it like a movie,” says Shane. “I would storyboard everything and find common threads in the words. I always kept notebooks on me to write lyrics, notes on the production, and just my overall feelings. Some days were really fruitful, some were filled with writer's block and sleepless nights. Some of the songs I kind of hallucinated. I don't know how to fully explain it, but it felt surreal. At times I even felt I was losing my mind and hearing voices.”

With the album’s creation serving as a disquieting expedition all its own, those feelings are fully imbued into the tracks that chronicle the protagonist’s despair (“Insects,” “Hard Work Will Get You No Where,” “Functional Earth”) making for the most ominous and textural pieces Kal Marks has ever created. Recorded at Machines With Magnets with Seth Manchester, the album’s production perfectly weights the newfound rhythmic bounciness while retaining the distinct auditory ugliness fans of Kal Marks have long loved. The result are tracks like “Midnight,” which sounds like all of the fears tucked inside your subconscious got bored of terrorizing you and decided to start a rock band. It’s disquieting and disorienting yet, somehow, strangely fun, too.

As the album progresses, and our protagonist begins to find hope in an otherwise desperate world, there’s a sense of optimism that begins poking through Wasteland Baby while avoiding overt naivete. When Shane sings “The world has a ruthless reputation” on “You Are Found” it’s less a cutting indictment and more a resigned acknowledgment, as if the protagonist has been pummeled enough to no longer fear one final, crushing blow. It’s in these stretches that Shane presents as a more humanist Andrew Falkous. There’s an acerbic feeling running throughout Wasteland Baby but also a willingness to keep pushing forward to find the few patches of sunshine among the looming darkness.

It’s a feeling that the members of Kal Marks felt when they listened back to the final version of Wasteland Baby. “When we finished, I remember Christina saying that this is the best piece of work that any of us have ever done,” says Shane. In many ways, Wasteland Baby feels both like an endpoint for the first phase of Kal Marks, and the beginning of a new chapter for its members. The result is that, perhaps, things will look different for Kal Marks in the future. “In an ideal world, Kal Marks will go on forever. But it may be the end of a chapter for a while. I don’t want it to be the end, but there was an element running through the album that maybe could be the end,” says Shane. No matter what the future holds, Wasteland Baby is an emphatic reminder to brush off the things that keep you from truly living and venture into the unknown. You never know what will happen when you do.

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SAT. OCT 12th @ 8:00PM

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INDIVIDUALS WHO FAIL TO PRODUCE PHOTO ID THAT MATCHES THE AGE OF THE TICKET PURCHASE WILL BE DENIED ENTRY WITHOUT REFUND
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