The amount of talent and ambition taking the stage at The Paperbox this Friday is too much to capture in a small blurb; what I can say is no one should miss this, and the audience will feel the excitement and transformative joy that all our favorite concerts deliver. If you don’t already know and love these bands, then you will leave with at least four new artists inhabiting your personal playlists. With styles spanning across experimental pop, folk pop, garage rock and surf punk, this isn’t a simple or static show- it will excite and satisfy with every set change- truly a fantastic bill.
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Bears
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Bears is the OG east coast surf punk outfit. Comprised of Zach Campbell, Mack Williamson, and Kiril Orenstein, three boys from New York/New England that have never so much as touched a surf board, the band's sound reaches into the honey pots of punk, hardcore, surf, blues, and good old fashioned rock 'n roll to bring their audience a high-energy, low-frills, familial stage presence that's seafoam green and burnt on the edges. In their debut record, Surf Asses, Bears touches on such topics as breakups & unrequited crushes, distrust of higher technology, insomnia, and the imminent legalization of marijuana in the United States. They tie it all together with intelligent, but relatable melodies, superfuzz guitars, and handclaps & gang vocals that leave the listener with his or her fists in the air, out of breath, waiting for a hi-5 and a gatorade shower.
Tiny Hazard
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Experimental pop band from Brooklyn, NY
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The Wives
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The Wives are a garage rock band whose members converge in New York City but hail from around the United States. What started as a couple one-off, liquor-fueled jam sessions at the cheapest practice spaces they could find became a legitimate project for Thom Levin (vocals, guitar), Danny Gomez (vocals, guitar), Dmitri Potemkin (bass), and Charlie Ambler (drums). The band set-up might be conventional, but their chemistry and mixture of doo-wop, surf rock, punk and garage rock is definitely unique.