Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! Providence agit-punks Downtown Boys bring their fuzzed-out, two-horn assault to the Exchange basement. Songs about mass incarceration and police violence come wrapped in chugging guitars, blaring brass and righteous fury. Searing punk rock pointed squarely at White supremacy and entitled bro culture FFO: Protomartyr, The Fall, Bikini Kill, Special Interest.
Downtown Boys at Exchange.
'Why the fuck isn't there more PROPER goth metal?' we've been crying, 'til we hit play on Sorrows and got drenched in the unruly, graveyard bastard offspring of Chelsea Wolfe and Type O Negative. Cwfen answer all our slow, heavy, dark prayers in spades with the ethereal hex of true occult doom. Consider us spellbound.
CWFEN / BIRDWITCH / URZAH at Exchange.
Marauding Norsemen Agabas charge into town wielding their self-coined ‘deathjazz’: a pummeling uptempo rawk engine with a thrash gallop, horn blasts strafing through the noise, and shredding throat growls atop a storm of riffs and rhythms. A cataclysmic ruin ritual FFO: Kvelertak, Imperial Triumphant, Slipknot, Converge.
AGABAS at Exchange.
Finally, a spin class we can actually get down with: Bristol weirdos Spin Class showcase their ADHD desert-prog in a psychedelic cocktail of sticky melodies and overcooked guitar amps. It's a huge Exchange main room show for them, testament to the pulling power of their gonzo hair-grunge. Hot tip FFO: Soundgarden, King Gizzard, Faith No More, Biffy Clyro.
Spin Class Autumn Headline
Live roots and dancehall prowess celebrating the BRS > JA > SWISS connection. Da Fuchaman brings his prime-time ragga rasp to the rootical vision of Switzerland's 20 year matured Little Lion Sound, celebrating their new link up hot on the heels of pure LLS vocal fire from giants like Capleton, King Kong and Queen Omega. Grassroots gold in the place!
This will be the launch of Da Fuchaman & Little Lion Sound highly anticipated Ep.