Love/Hate

Let’s not talk about the obvious. Let’s instead bury ourselves in the warmth of loud guitars and cymbal crashes. Let’s get lost. Together. Alone. AgainOr. Not. Just come out and have a good time. Monsterland haven’t played in twenty-three years! That’s back when the husband of the person who was supposed to be our president now was president. That’s back when South Africa’s newly elected Parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the first president of the post-apartheid era. That’s back when Tom Waits sued Frito-Lay. Now we have a Cheeto in charge of our great experiment. Or is it the greatest experiment? So, yeah, let’s not talk about that. Here’s a better experiment:

 

Anyway, we’re excited to share the drum rug and 1/2 price drinks with Monsterland in a couple of weeks. Come spend the evening(s) with us, wontcha?

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th
WFDU “Signal To Noise” Benefit featuring:
Monsterland + SAVAK + Fruit & Flowers
Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston Street, New York, NY, 10002
$12, 9:30 pm
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th
Monsterland + SAVAK + Creature Did
Cafe Nine
250 State Street, New Haven, CT 06510
$10/$12, 9 pm
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Meantime, Jaws & Schrabby (AKA Sohrab & Garfunkel) are playing a couple of jams at The Bowery Electric next week as part of a benefit for the good folks at Planned Parenthood. Others more worthy of your attention/detention/retention disorder include John & Toni of Speed the Plough, Sean Eden of Luna, Dave Derby of Gramercy Arms, Renée LoBue of Elk City, Laura Poe & Don Piper, Leslie Goshko & Gary Burton, Jessie Kilguss & Ben Cartel, Sebastian Blanck of Twin Fog, Alison Tusick & Emma Kaye, Charles Bissell of the Wrens, Joey Sweeney, etc.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15th
The Bowery Electric
327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003
$10, 8pm
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