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Thursday October 15
2026
7:30PM doors -- music at 8:00PM ••• ALL AGES $20 in advance / $25 at the door $25.31 in advance [20 face value +5.31 service fee] Imperial Teen imperialteen.com Pop Punk Rock Kids on a Crime Spree www.allthemwitches.org/ noise pop punk Crows of Poundsign, Track Star instagram.com/this_is.crows Indie rock roll Imperial Teen -from San Francisco, CA -Imperial Teen is a San Francisco-based pop group made up of Roddy Bottum (Faith No More) on guitar/vocals, Will Schwartz (hey willpower) on guitar/vocals, Lynn Truell (née Perko; Sister Double Happiness, The Dicks, The Wrecks) on drums/backing vocals, & Jone Stebbins (The Wrecks) on bass/backing vocals. Kids on a Crime Spree -from the Bay Area, CA -Falling in line with bands in the past who had the bright idea of combining the precise songcraft of the Brill Building with the unpredictable noise of the Velvet Underground, while also adding in some sneaky punk energy, Kids on a Crime Spree's infrequent recordings show they are expert at executing classic noise pop. After 2011's We Love You So Bad introduced their take on the sound, 2022's Fall in Love Not in Line took a long time to arrive, but it captured the same balance of noise and melody while adding a few twists. Inspired by a fateful night of listening to girl group deep cuts at a friend's house in Stockholm, Sweden, Oakland-based Mario Hernandez (formerly of Ciao Bella and From Bubblegum to Sky) spent a long time being haunted by the sounds he had heard, then began working on songs that served as his own noisy update on the era. Once he began recording them, he called in two old friends he had played with in From Bubblegum to Sky to help -- #poundsign# drummer Becky Barron and guitarist Bill Evans -- and Kids on a Crime Spree was born. Drawing on the deceptive simplicity of girl group tunes and adding a hefty helping of reverb and distorted guitar, it's little wonder the group found themselves on Slumberland Records' roster -- home of similarly minded groups like Black Tambourine and Henry's Dress -- soon after the lineup solidified. Kids on a Crime Spree's debut album, the eight-song We Love You So Bad, was released on Slumberland Records in May 2011. The band played a host of high-profile gigs in support of the record, including both the New York City and San Francisco editions of Popfest. The group released the occasional single over the next decade -- "Creep the Creeps" in 2013, a 2016 split single with Burnt Palms, and a shared EP with Terry Malts in 2017 -- before returning with their second album, Fall in Love Not in Line, in 2022. Released again by Slumberland, the record was tracked at Hernandez's home studio and featured occasionally fierce political lyrics and a slightly more varied musical approach (slower tempos, 12-string guitar) than the band's debut. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi Crows -from the Bay Area, CA -Crows is a project comprised of members from Poundsign, Track Star, and the Phat ‘n’ Phunky Phamily delivering bittersweet male/female vocals set against a backdrop of fuzzy dynamic chaos with some pulling of the 'ol heartstrings along the way, respectively. Band buds Poundsign and Track Star's friendship goes back to the mid 90's with Rebecca on drums/vox and Matthew on guitar/vox. Ruben on bass/vox was introduced to the band through mutual friends Shinobu. |
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