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Tuesday September 1
2026
8:00PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• 21 AND OVER $30 $36.31 in advance [30 face value +6.31 service fee] Black Lips black-lips.com garage punk psychedelic Escape-ism instagram.com/escape_ism_official garage/post-punk Black Lips -from Atlanta, GA -Garage punk saviors The Black Lips transform from austere country pioneers into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of 21st Century rock‘n’ roll. Their new album ‘Season of the Peach' is as absurd and unhinged as ever, joined by 'Bebop Armageddon,' containing "detours and offcuts" from the former. The Lips' rapid stylistic evolution has played out over decades of prolific touring and releases, taking them where no garage punk band had gone before - huge venues, network television shows, and major music festivals. Making their living the way they knew how, burning up the road like their heroes – gaining and losing members up and down the highway. Formed in 1999, their self-titled debut album was released in 2003. It was followed by 2004’s ‘We Did Not Know The Spirit Made The Flowers Grow,’ which saw the Lips' fanbase grow and launched them into an aggressive touring ethos. The band’s 2007 effort, ‘Good Bad Not Evil’, propelled them onto TV screens on both sides of the Atlantic. Line ups shuffled, stages were invaded, songs were mooted for TV shows and Mark Ronson, Sean Lennon and Black Keys’ Patrick Carney all put in a shift in the producer’s chair. In 2013 they added secret weapon Zumi Rosow who was later joined by Oakley Munson on drums and guitarist Jeff Clarke. Escape-ism -from Washington, D.C. -Dominated by lo-fi electronics, buzzy guitars, witty and subversive lyrics, and the coolly passionate vocals of Ian Svenonius, Escape-Ism represents another vehicle for the unique talents of the man who founded the Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War, and Chain & the Gang. Debuting in 2017 with Introduction to Escape-Ism, Svenonius has declared it to be his first true solo project, in which he writes all the songs, handles all the vocals, and plays all the instruments. Ian Svenonius has long been one of the most intriguing figures in the firmament of underground rock, known for the distinctive brand of political and social commentary he's expressed as a musician, as the host of the talk show Soft Focus, and as the author of the books The Psychic Soviet and Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group. As with many of his projects, Svenonius fashioned a specific thematic outlook for Escape-Ism, framed by a rejection of nostalgia and an emphatic embrace of stylistic primitivism. Svenonius debuted the Escape-Ism project in 2017, running concurrently with Chain & the Gang (who released two albums that year) and a reunion tour for the Make-Up. The first Escape-Ism recording, the album Introduction to Escape-Ism, was released in November 2017 by Merge Records. While the debut was a one-man-band project, for the second Escape-Ism album, 2018's The Lost Record, he featured guest musicians and vocalists, though the lo-fi attack of the first album was little changed. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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