About this Event
Clean Freak, Dummy Ache, The Streaks (aka Muddy Ruckus), & aLEX kEATON
Wed 8/20
6pm doors/7pm show
All Ages | $15
Clean Freak is a New Hampshire-born sonic panic attack—equal parts rock, indie grit, post-punk sneer, and psychedelic whiplash. They're not here to make you feel good. They're here to scrape the barnacles off your soul with jagged riffs, basement sweat, and the kind of melodic chaos that makes your teeth itch and your heart remember it still has a pulse.
Max, Sam, and Rich met in Brooklyn’s grimy underbelly, swapping sweat and feedback on stages built to collapse. Years later, washed ashore in New England, they formed Dummy Ache—less a band, more a beautiful racket born of restlessness.
Think Galaxie 500’s haze, Yo La Tengo’s spiral freak-outs, Dinosaur Jr.’s fuzzed-out fury, and Slowdive’s reverb avalanches—all erupting from just three guys. It shouldn’t sound this big. But it does. And it hurts in all the right ways.
Shadow & Salt aren’t just a band—they’re a séance in slow motion. A Portland/Boston duo conjuring low rock, soul, slowcore, and psych like they’re dialing into some ancient static-drenched radio from the beyond. It’s moody. It’s molten. It’s music that doesn’t ask permission—it just drips in, slow and strange, and rearranges your insides.
The Streaks? They pulse straight out of the scar-tissue rhythm section of Erika Stahl and Ryan Flaherty, the hardened, road-worn duo behind Muddy Ruckus. These aren’t weekend warriors. These are lifers. Battle-tested. Feedback-fed. And still chasing the ghost of the perfect, bleeding note.
aLEX kEATON is a four-headed Portland hydra spewing gloriously messy indie rock—equal parts heartbreak, hairballs, and existential dread wrapped in fuzz pedals and cheap beer. They write songs about love, cats, and whatever else claws its way out of their collective frontal lobe at 3 a.m. It’s sloppy. It’s sincere. It’s a beautiful wreck you’ll want to crawl inside and live in.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Press Room - Upstairs, 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, United States
USD 17.03
