The Bowery Presents

Music Hall of Williamsburg upcoming shows

Dead Confederate

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Submarine Bells

Venue:
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Date:
Tue 9/28
Notes:
18+
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM
$12 advance / $15 day of show
Tickets
Dead Confederate
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Georgia rockers Dead Confederate made their debut album, Wrecking Ball, in a tiny, dingy Austin studio — the same place where the sound effects for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre were recorded. "It was a shit-shack," says bassist and songwriter Brantley Senn, 28. "We called it 'the dump.' It was spooky." The eeriness seeped deeply into the quintet's music — a raw, howling take on Southern rock that recalls the darkest moments of Nineties grunge; not surprising, since they are the first band on the new label from Gary Gersh, the A&R exec who signed Nirvana and Sonic Youth. Lead singer Hardy Morris' raspy vocals are a ringer for Kurt Cobain's, while lead guitarist Walker Howle kicks out Dinosaur Jr.-like spiraling riffs. "Our music has always been dark," says Senn. "I don't think I've ever written a song when I wasn't angry or hurt by something." But the band's growing popularity is making it harder for Senn to get into the proper songwriting mind-set. "I'm at the point where I am about to take a minimum-wage job just so I can be unhappy about something so I can write a good song." Gus Wenner, Rolling Stone Magazine
Submarine Bells
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Submarine Bells are a new band from Brooklyn with the line up having been completed only 6 months ago. Tim Nestor from Sentimentalist.org caught one of the band’s first shows - “I was in Siren’s Isles today and I have sunk my boat for the Submarine Bells. Owen McCarthy’s arresting voice descends my mind into the alpha waves, I think it’s a dream where I’m snapped together by the bass, the underlying drums fishing for my heartbeat.”

The band is comprised of former members of the Everyothers, Chariots, the Child Ballads, Foreign Islands, Mota Rosa and NY Loose. Quite a diverse resume from these 4 members. With this myriad music they once called home, they’ve come together to create a very unique sound that people have a hard time categorizing. But if you do need some sort of category to tie your dinghy to, some have described the 4 as creating psychedelic goth.

Owen McCarthy and Scott Irvine’s clean guitars ring with delay and create a counterpoint to one another. Eric Odness hung up the guitar to play bass, then hung up the bass and grabbed a baritone guitar to cut through the band’s wall of sound with a dexterity and drive that highlights John Melville’s powerful yet musical drumming which keeps it all moving to a place we know you will like. A more recent live review from Zabatay at Sentimentalist.org gives an apt example - “there is every bit of unique in them to make me get an ecstatic smile and to want to hear more and more of their songs.”
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
myspace
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band formed from the ashes of a popular Pacific Northwest outfit In Praise of Folly. The MSHVB line up consists of frontman Benjamin Verdoes (vocals, guitar), alongside IPOF band mates Matthew Dammer (Moog, guitar, trumpet) and Jared Price (bass, vocals), his wife Traci Eggleston (Percussion, keys, vocals) and their adopted son/brother, 13 year-old Marshall Verdoes (drums).

MSHVB has created quite the stir in its hometown of Seattle. Rather than introduce the band with an MP3, MSHVB got creative with a series of hilarious PSA’s on their My Space page (“Homeostasis,” “Boring,” “Technology,” and “GDOL- Gradual Death Over Lifetime”) starring various members of the band with focus on scene-stealer Marshall. Locals (both would-be fans and media alike) were intrigued, and led to 8k fans (and counting).
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