Three noteworthy shows this Hump Day Wednesday (May 6). Breakdown below.
The Relationship with Gringo Star, Zulu Wave, Infinite Eights When your name is attached to Weezer, it’s hard for people not to take notice. Longtime guitarist Brian Bell has been fronting a side project while not rocking arenas with Rivers Cuomo & Co. since 2006: The Relationship, with Nate Shaw of Die Hunns on guitar, Albert Hammond Jr. songwriting collaborator Jon LaRue on bass, and drummer Anthony Burulcich, who beat-keeps forr Morrissey and the Bravery. The alt rock quartet hits town behind a new 7-inch single fresh-pressed off Burger Records and featuring the single “Oh Allen,” its muscular catchiness driven by the same crunchy distortion and nostalgia-vibing melodies that you hear in a really good Weezer tune. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Flogging Molly It’s been a few months since the St. Patrick’s Day cruise ring-led by Flogging Molly, and after recording some much anticipated new material for the follow-up albums to 2011’s Speed of Darkness, the beloved Irish punk septet from LA returns to the road. Their sound marries hard kicking and grinding sounds with folk traditions and instrumentation that encompasses accordion and concertina, banjo and mandolin, fiddle and tin whistle, and from brogue-howling Dublin-born frontman Dave King, acoustic guitar paired with bodhrán. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
Christworm with Ostrov, Weltesser, Vanilla As Fuck It’s a Hump Day of dark and heavy sounds that touch on blown-out loud doom metal from Baton Rouge, La. (Christworm), more atmospheric crush carrying gut-raging bellows and dredged in Mississippi sludge (Ostrov), with two local crushers rounding out the bill – Weltesser and Vanilla as Fuck. (Fubar, St. Petersburg)
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2015.
