Imaad Wasif With Two Part Beast, The Gentlemans Club & Autumn in Halifax

IMAAD WASIF WITH TWO PART BEAST (FEATURING IMAAD WASIF, from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Folk Implosion, Lowercase & Alaska!)

Imaad Wasif was born in Vancouver, B.C., he was educated in the desert, India, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and now resides in Echo Park, California. Imaad Wasif has been in Lowercase, Alaska! The New Folk Implosion is his first solo record/released on Kill Rock Stars in April 2006.
He also toured with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2006. Imaad & his Two Part Beast just released their new album Strange Hexes this month.

Tickets | $6 Over/$8 Under

Black Diamond Heavies & The Found

The Black Diamond Heavies hail from the Southern States of America, but currently live as “vagrants/citizens of the world.” Their music is urgent,raw,and full of ass-shaking soul. The live show has been described as both “Pentecostal”and”Demon-Possessed”. Most of the material is original, although covers are sometimes thrown in as tribute to gods, generals, heroes, and vampires such as John Lee Hooker, T-Model Ford, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, and Tom Waits. The Heavies continuously gain momentum on their quest to unleash the punk-ass blues on the world. The Heavies tour internationally and constantly and have shared the stage with many notable acts including Son Volt, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Immortal Lee County Killers, Thee Shams, Jimbo Mathus, Kenny Brown, and Scott H Biram.

The band consists of :

John Wesley Myers : bass keys, fender rhodes, organ, knife and vocal . Left hand of rhythm, right hand of soul. The son of a Baptist preacher, John Wesley is from Port Arthur, Texas and has been shaking his. …. “testimony” all over the south for 25 years, playing gospel as a child till the devil got hold of him. John Wesley also fools around with fellow blues-evangelists, the Immortal Lee County Killers.

Van Campbell : Drums, vocal, getaway . Van is from Louisville , Kentucky and comes from a family of bourbon distillers. He holds a degree in Mandarin Chinese from a small girl’s college in New York and has drummed professionally on three continents . Upon deportation from England, Van returned to the states after a three year stint with The Invisibles, and the art punk explosion now known as The Rum Circus.

Jucifer, Bludwulf & Orodruin

Jucifer:

Equally liable to produce inscrutable noise/grind, barbaric sludge, fist-pumping rock propelled by ass-shaking drum grooves, and gorgeous wisps backed by a single naked banjo or a multi-tracked “orchestra” (performed by its two members), Jucifer is encompassing the best of the world of music for themselves— and for the initiated, their ever growing legion of fans.

The new double album L’autrichienne (March 08) should quickly lodge itself into many music listeners’ top ten lists. It is the culmination of all Jucifer has led us to expect: thoughtful, sonically satisfying beyond belief, a spell-binding ride through every facet of human emotion. It’s beautiful— it’s terrifying— it rocks.

Tickets | $8

137, Left Lane Cruiser & The Apostles Of The Hidden Son

Left Lane Cruiser:

One of them there lo-fi slide guitar street corner broken string wooden box for a drum two piece greased up whisky drenched hobo blues bands outfits. R.L Burnside, Seasick Steve, trash cans, hub caps, meth smoking two dollar pawn shop mics and all sounding as cool as that all sounds – sound, pass me that square bottle with the number seven on it while I go put this sucker on line.
- Organ Magazine

The Bicycats (CD Release), Walri & Golf

Hair Police, Pengo & The Bloody Nos

Tickets | $6 Over/$8 Under

St Phillips Escalator, The Found & Raunchy Sex

Tickets | $6