Nounw/ Bangzz & Weird God
at The Pinhook
Durham, NC
doors 7pm // show 8pm
$15 adv // $18 day of show
On sale at 10am September 26
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NOUN
NOUN is the long-running solo project from Marissa Paternoster formerly of the critically acclaimed rock trio Screaming Females. NOUN is based out of Philadelphia, PA and Paternoster is currently collaborating with + is joined by the multi-instrumentalist Phillip Price of Kayo Dot and Moor Jewelry
・Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/4iJf7GRdGbJS8GRf2TBFwQ
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BANGZZ
WXPN once wrote, “If lightning bolts were music it’d be BANGZZ.”
The project began as the stormy brain child of Japanese American songwriter Erika Kobayashi Libero who started recording angry guitar riffs with charged lyrics in her bedroom in 2017. Determined to bring this sound to life, Kobayashi Libero teamed up with drummer, Jess Caesar in 2019 and the duo began tearing through the underground music scene, building a following in their home state of North Carolina and beyond while opening up for notable acts like Screaming Females, The Gories, Wednesday, Mannequin Pussy, Guerilla Toss, The HIRS Collective, and more.
BANGZZʼ sound has been described as “confrontational femme-punk that weds a Stooges stomp to five-alarm-blaze-yelps” and a “brand of punk noir” that is “all scuzzy irreverent riot girl catharsis.” Their first full length album "You Took My Body Long Ago and Now I am Taking it Back" released on North Carolina label, Potluck Foundation, was hailed by INDY Week as “one of the most exciting full-length Triangle debuts to emerge out of the muck of 2021.”
Barreling out of the lull of the pandemic, the band was featured on NPR Live Sessions and began to turn heads with campy music videos they made in support of their album. Kathleen Hanna of Bikini K*ll discovered the bandʼs ramen-encrusted music video for their single, “Hell is Other People” and shared it on social media with the comment “Thank You” and said of the duo, “This is the future and now colliding!”
Now BANGZZ has recorded a nine track sophomore album that comes packed with another round of snarky punk punches while also digging deeper into a sludgy 90s grunge that gives a headbanging nod to Nirvana and PJ Harvey in the same breath, while still including irresistible pop numbers with a retro-radio charm, and an undeniable cowbell driven, dance-punk, track about bodily autonomy that is guaranteed to have crowds shaking.
The new album is playfully titled, “Maybe She's Born with It, Maybe It’s a Trauma Response.” Song themes include finding your true authentic self, dissociation and depression, reproductive rights, generational trauma, self worth, abusive relationships, and unlearning all the ways you were taught to shrink yourself. For Kobayashi Libero, these songs are born from a place of self discovery and healing. It’s a release of all the quiet, unspoken truths, now screamed. It’s the ripping off of a patriarchal “good girl” mask and howling at the moon, while inviting all who hear it, to do the same.
・Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/3ugeleYVQP0P4q4CzIwutK
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WEIRD GOD
brothers making music
・Listen: weirdgodmusic.bandcamp.com
Event Venue
The Pinhook, 117 W Main St, Durham, NC 27701-3603, United States,Durham, North Carolina
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