This will be a loud as hell noise show! Come get your face melted and your brain destroyed cuz it's fun!
Drunks with Guns was a punk is a punk band from St. Louis that started in the mid 80's. They're known to carry a genuine negative energy that makes them one of the greatest punk band ever to bulldoze St. Louis. An ongoing battle between Doskocil's obnoxious mouth, Stan Seitrich's Flipper/Black Flag/Sabbath guitar and the massive dumbo rhythm section of bassist Mike DeLeon and drummer Fred Broadhacker, DWG began its rampage in 1984. The quartet's self-titled debut single sports one of a classic sleeve showing four sauced, weird-looking guys sitting stupefied atop kegs with beers in hand and countless empties of Milwaukee's Best and Meister Brau at their feet. The three songs inside (mastered from cassette after the reels "accidentally got erased") are some of the heaviest, stupidest post-HC around — messy, visceral mono-riffs with Doskocil groaning low-rent paeans to car races at the Kiel Auditorium, "giving drugs to little kids" and getting his lights punched out. Amazing.
Scum-pop blasters Vaz are a consistently underrated Minneapolis treasure. Vocalist/guitarist Paul Erickson and spasmodic herky-jerk drummer Jeff Moordian have outlived all your favorite scenes - both emerged from the distressed clobber of AmRep stalwarts Hammerhead and released full-length records on practically every cool label in the '00s (Gold Standard Labs, Load, Narnack) [...] Their ill-tempered blast and squawk updates AmRep's sinister sizzle for more extreme days, still teasing it with the boldest, brashest, shiniest hooks in the nu-pigfuck underground - think Queens Of The Stone Age getting a Pissed Jeans makeunder.
Upright Forms is guitarist/vocalist Nick Sakes (Sicbay, Dazzling Killmen, etc), bassist Noah Paster (Ripper, Blaha and way more than I can even remember) and drummer Shaun Westphal (Mise En Place). “They Kept On Living” won’t sound totally out of place in the lineup of Sakes’ former bands but that isn’t to say there’s a few great twists. Some great keyboard takes you out of the mathy verse straight into a great big rock chorus.
