RESERVE A SEAT Velocity Staxcomes from the Rubber City, bringing the party with our original Rockabilly. Sizzling guitar, bombastic drums, thumping bass. Experience a lively, fun, and danceable time! Vanity Crash: Vanity Crash: Glam punk heroes from Cleveland with five releases of original material, Vanity Crash was… Read moreShow less
RESERVE A SEAT Velocity Staxcomes from the Rubber City, bringing the party with our original Rockabilly. Sizzling guitar, bombastic drums, thumping bass. Experience a lively, fun, and danceable time! Vanity Crash: Vanity Crash: Glam punk heroes from Cleveland with five releases of original material, Vanity Crash was born on stage under hot lights as the house band for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, preparing to record their sixth original release, having shared the stage with the New York Dolls, Poison, the Darkness and Gogol Bordello, including two collabs with David Bowie’s pianist Mike Garson. VanityCrash.com (7/11 & 7/16) Akron’s Bizarros had substantial impact on the early indie scene, through their hard-edged records and singer Nick Nicholis’s Clone label, which released records by The Waitresses, Human Switchboard and others. In a classic case of bridesmaidery, the Bizarros – who reformed in the 21st century – were more influential than popular. Playing serious, intense, sometimes hypnotic rock with poetically inclined verbiage and pre-Gang of Four jabbing guitars, Bizarros music was strong and affecting. Their half of From Akron (a 1977 album they shared with Rubber City Rebels) is pretty raw and hard to enjoy. But by the time of their 1979 self-titled album (released by a major label, self-produced with an engineer, wrapped in strictly amateur artwork) the band had developed considerable polish, which they used to good advantage without compromising their strength. Five subsequent releases followed, the last in 1981, and The Bizarros took a 23-year hiatus, reemerging in 2003 with You Can’t Fight Your Way Up Town From Here.