FRICTION gets festive for the holidays with a lineup featuring Chicago’s Bound Stems, Syracuse’s Ra Ra Riot, and New York City’s The Muggabears and Tall Hands. As always, we’ll be hosting an open bar from 9pm-10pm, most likely Sparks, which we say we’re going to stop drinking, but never do (and really should). In addition, the guys from Tall Hands will be handling DJ duties before and after their set.
Doors open at 7:30pm and advance tickets are available on Ticketweb. Set times are as follows: 11:00pm Bound Stems / 10:00pm Ra Ra Riot / 9:00pm The Muggabears / 8:00pm Tall Hands
Bound Stems “music is smart and ambitious incorporating a tongue-tying jumble of lyrics, but it’s also emotionally super-saturated, achieving post-rock’s complexity without its aridity or pretension - this is clearly a band bound for greatness, or at least bigness.” [Chicago Reader]
Bound Stems ”Wake Up, Ma And Pa Are Gone”
“Ra Ra Riot knows how to orchestra a pop song. Combining violin, cello, keyboard, and guitars with glowing happy lyrics, the band polishes their sound to an absurd sheen. Try not to grin when Wesley Miles is singing.” [Productshop NYC]
“The Muggabears make the kind of music those people over at Pitchforkmedia usually drool over. It’s the kind of dissonant, non-conventional, elliptic guitar rock…that sounds as if it’s constructed by bi-polars who spent a decade analysing the collected works of Sonic Youth, The Silver Apples and Pavement…wallowing in fractured, disjointed sound pieces instead of straightforward verse/chorus/verse-structures that don’t defy the rules of cosiness and common values.” [Guy's Music Reviews]
The Muggabears ”I’m Coming True”
“Taking well-worn pages from the books of Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones and Bowie, Tall Hands sound is a swaggering mix of classics that coarses with new blood.” [SXSW 2006]
