fallFRINGE Music
Location: The Shop - Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave NW
Saturday, Nov 5
Bar 6pm / Doors 9:45pm / Advance $8 /$10 DOS
Imperial China: This Socket Records trio has quickly become one of DC’s most acclaimed bands, honing an explosive live show built around post-punk dance beats, sample-based loops and frantic vocals.
Weekends: Are the sound of young Baltimore, a blissfully fuzzed out explosion of pure sonic joy. The duo’s omnivorous approach to rock & roll draws from psych, art, garage, noise pop, surf, drone and whatever else you want to call it.
Friday, Nov 11
Bar 6pm / Doors 10:00pm / Advance $8 /$10 DOS
The El Reys: Are a new 5-piece surf band led by experimental guitar virtuoso Anthony Pirog. The band charts the outer limits of 21st century surf rock with guitar, tenor sax, farfisa organ, bass and drums.
Les Rhinocéros: Blending aspects of rock, world music, noise, ambient and jazz, the young band Les Rhinocéros exploded onto the international music scene this summer with their debut album on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. The trio of teenagers formed in 2008 while still in high school, and has developed since then into an intense and wildly imaginative group focused on surreal, dream-like soundscapes.
Saturday, Nov 12
Bar 6pm / Doors 10:00pm / Advance $8 /$10 DOS
Raindeer of Baltimore play synth-pop dance music with intricate multi-part vocal harmonies.
Loose Lips: This local foursome channels bits and pieces of the best pop music of the last four decades. Their synth melodies don't sound dark and introspective but upbeat and breezy as if injected with a dose of 1960s California pop, with a side of working class grit.
Saturday, Nov 19
Bar 6pm / Doors 9pm / Advance $8 /$10 DOS
The Whole Damme Delegation: cooks up a strange brew of hip-hop, blending swami sounds and home-grown beats into “one big ole’ disgusting audio rainbow.”
Fivewordslong: This Sci Fi hip hop duo have traveled through time to warn the people of today about the coming robot apocalypse.
METRO: Mt. Vernon Sq. 7th St. (Green/Yellow); Gallery Place/Chinatown (Red,Green/Yellow)
BUS: 42,70,71,79,80,G8,P6, X2
CIRCULATOR: Convention Center/Waterfront;
Georgetown/Union Station
BIKESHARE: Convention Center/7th & M St NW & 5th St & K St NW