SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2012. Cropped Out and The Other Side of Life Present:

WHIPS/CHAINS (first show // ft. members of Black God, Coliseum, Xerxes)

WHIPS/CHAINS is a band from Louisville, Kentucky. WHIPS/CHAINS plays loud, slow, quiet, fast, noisy, precise, angry, sludgy, blasting, down-tuned, punk, hardcore. WHIPS/CHAINS is Will Allard (Xerxes), Ben Sears (Black God), and Ryan Patterson (Black God, Coliseum).

ROYAL BATHS (from San Francisco // on Woodsist/Kanine)

ROYAL BATHS “has its obvious influences- The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3- but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punk’s apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken” (Emily Epstein, Thrasher). ROYAL BATHS “take cues from Neil Young’s lightning-struck guitar sermons and the Velvet Underground’s creeping paranoia” (Pitchfork). Recording on whatever cheap four or single-track cassette recorder they could find, they eventually borrowed a Tascam 388 to make their first 7″. Their new album Better Luck Next Life is set to be released by Kanine Records on February 7, 2012.

GANGLY YOUTH (from Louisville, KY)

GANGLY YOUTH, is a five-piece band from Louisville, Kentucky. Led by Dan Davis along with Brent Mills, Daniel Tilford, Ashley Urjil-Mills, and Nate Woodard, the band writes jangly, fuzzy, reverb-soaked “pop” songs. Pulling from a wide array of influences and a very small amount of technical skill, GANGLY YOUTH applies a shared punk mentality and manages to make songs that are refreshing and new, yet familiar all the same.

FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/196881313742581

DOORS AT SEVEN.

FIVE BUCKS.

ALL AGES.

*Flier by Kin Ship Press