Upcoming Shows

The Giraffes

The Giraffes

The Upper Crust

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PCP

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Mercury Lounge

Doors: 9:30pm / Show: 9:30pm

Advance: $10 / Day of Show: $12

This event is 21+

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The Giraffes
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With a live show featuring wildly enthusiastic crowds, beer showers, ringing ears, drenched fans and impromptu visits to the Chelsea Clinic, THE GIRAFFES have earned a reputation for being one of the most energetic and dynamic acts on the circuit. Now the Brooklyn-based “sex metal band” has made their sexiest, metal-ist, most dynamic move of all: they’ve gone instrumental. Founding members Damien Paris (guitar) and Andrew Totolos (drums), along with long-time bassist Jens Carstensen, have churned out a slaying set of evocative, Spock-ative metal melodies, psychedelic excursions and wordless weirdness, fusing hazily together like a long, sun-scorched trip through the war-torn Middle East on a rabid camel. In addition, THE GIRAFFES are now accompanied by the sonorous siren serenading of backing singers The Rigelettes, Brianna Wanlass and Kimberly Paige Valor, operatically oohing and aahing straight through your brain, deep into your loins. No one else is making music like this. No one. The last year of work has culminated in “The Tales of the Black Whistle” Soundtrack, the 6th full length record by THE GIRAFFES, coming out March 2012 on Madison, WI’s venerable Crustacean Records. The 10-song set comes out in advance the low-budget psych-horror film of the same name, slated for release on Halloween the same year.
The Upper Crust
MYSPACE
The Upper Crust
The history of the Upper Crust is a subject that is, to say the least, controversial, in that various versions, reversions, diversions and perversions of the truth, as well as innumerable tales, anecdotes, accounts and outright fabrications have been put forth with a consistency inversely proportional both to their demands upon our credulity and their authority, in such a manner that the origin of the Upper Crust remains a subject that inspires bewilderment and perplexity among the best-intentioned and most sincerely curious, and the truth remains obscured as much by the sheer volume (in both senses of the word) of oft-acrimonious debate and the strident clamor of opinion, dispute and testimony, again, as much of it documented and attested by scholars of integrity and veracity, as it is obscured by the inventions and outright mendacity of those who would (sadly, but such is human nature) abuse our confidence in a matter of such unquestioned significance, in that one and all despite their differences are agreed upon an essential article of faith: namely, that the Upper Crust are the very font of all that we know today as Rocque and Roll and without a doubt the most important ensemble in the history of the world.
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