Party: THE FLATLINERS, The Greenery, Slates, Jenny

Party: THE FLATLINERS, The Greenery, Slates, Jenny

Sunday Nov. 23rd, 2014
The Flatliners (Toronto)
The Greenery (Long Beach, CA)
SLATES
Jenny
@ Nite Owl
18+
*****Early Show! Doors at 8PM*****
$18 adv/ $20 door

Tickets on sale at www.zoobis.com

The Flatliners
If you spent every minute, every penny of your adult life on the road, you might make a record like Dead Language.
There’s something that happens when four people have been playing music together, day in and day out, for ten years. In every basement, every colossal concert hall, every small European nation that would have them, the same four people playing the same four instruments. A full decade of plane tickets and van repairs and hangovers and fast food. At some point, the interaction between instruments, between members, transcends the brotherly love of most touring bands and enters the terrifying realm of twin telepathy. The Flatliners aren’t just four dudes banging out riffs five hundred miles from home every night. They’re four dudes banging out riffs in the hallways of the Overlook Hotel just like the unsettling twin girls in the The Shining. You see what I’m getting at yet?
It’s been three years since Cavalcade (2010), The Flatliners’ most successful album to date. A behemoth of a record, it brought famous friends like A Wilhelm Scream and Dillinger Four into the fold for huge songs like “Shithawks” and “Bleed.”
Which is why Dead Language is the perfect response – it’s the brutally crisp sound of four people in a room, the sonic payoff of a decade of learning how to play as one fierce unit. Its strength doesn’t come from racks of guitars or bass drops, but from its sparse precision. The band’s songwriting chops are as honed as their playing, allowing them the freedom to bang out their point quickly (“Young Professionals”) or take their time to make an impact (“Ashes Away”).
The Flatliners’ records have always been an accurate, honest portrait of where the band lived, from the youthful explosion of Destroy to Create (2005) to the nuance of blooming adulthood on The Great Awake (2007), Which is why Dead Language, the band’s most direct and vital record to date, is the monument to the honesty of ten years in the trenches that it has to be.

The Greenery
Pure awesomeness from Long Beach California!

Slates
Sometimes people exist in a certain place and at a certain time for a reason. Slates is a punk band from Edmonton, Alberta; not punk like leather/tattoos/screaming/one minute songs and junk. Just punk. Edmonton is a cold, industrial city where money often dominates little things like art, the environment, and pride. Slates have to exist in Edmonton. They couldn’t exist without these surroundings, and the city needs somebody to document it and say when it’s right or wrong. The two go together perfectly.

Since 2008, Slates have been recording and touring. Their stinky van has taken them everywhere it physically can, and a less-stinky plane has brought them to places like Cuba, Bosnia and the Yukon Territory. Places that don’t often get to see touring bands. They’ve released three LPs and five 7-inches. The newest full-length called Taiga, was recorded with engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana, The Stooges, Jawbreaker, Neurosis) at Electric Audio, and released in early 2014.

Invited: Skyler Rousselet, Zach Frankart, Randal Low, Jessica Lack, Josh Rece, Savvi Nichole, Mike Searle, Crystal Rose Bryan, Maren Elise, Heather Christine, Dave Thompson, Matt McFarlane, Kyra Venditti-Fisher, Lydia Clark, Jorin Albert, Landon Hommy, Joanna Leigh, Jessica Bilodeau, Laura Lindsay, Eric Richie, Natasha Elizabeth, Ian Rutherford, Michelle Drews, Justine Holthe, Beth McReynolds, Emma MacIsaac, Ainsley Robertson, Johanna Peters, Rielle Braid, Alex Lukin, Dawn Daniels, Claire Hazelwood, Lauren Jonasson, Robbie Davidson, Jarett Lee Sitter, Tara Vincent, Sam Nicholas, Sean Parker, Tyson Porritt, Alex Jokinen, Mathew Said, Patrick Welsh, Matt Mosley, Peter Joseph Begley, Mitchell Taylor, Ryan Kwasniewski, Max Hurd, Amelia Steiger, Jesse Ann Cough E, Violet N Brown, Joshua Schayer, Aaron Petrowitsch, Claire Walrus, Tyler Guichon, Colin Jack, Brett Hopper, Doc Kohler, Damien Mustaphi, Gene Lachica, Mitch Bunda, Rob Bourdeau, Adrien Alin, Anjou Bhullar, Jason Andrew Zavarella, Nathan Hurd, Andre Touchette, Kaley Kinjo, Lindsay Hope, Donna Horstead, Philip Van Hooft, Kara Eadie, Rene Rioux, Jordan Driessen, Brandyn Smith, Lauren Reid, Katie Green, Amanda Cyr, Christopher Schieman, Emma Wilson, Rachel Jacques, David Leeder, Elysia Rose, Flora Hobday, Shannon-Shameless O'Halloran, Sean Hamilton, Jenn McDonald, Krista Kent, Anna-lise Catherine Madsen, Joshua Ptah-Pahana Michael, Skish E Ishy, Josh Anderson, Tom Thatcher, Rich MacFarlane, Brandyn Darko, Malissa Dunphy, Evan Woolley, Jinx Lysh Kerby, Joe Reina, Stephen Balser, Matthew Isenor show more »