PJ's Lager House
1254
Michigan Ave
Corktown
Detroit, MI
www.pjslagerhouse.com
KITCHEN IS OPEN
M-F 11am -
Midnight
Sat + Sun 10:30am - Midnight
Sat + Sun BRUNCH 10:30 -
3pm
Sunday Dinner 6pm - Midnight
For those hungry and stuck at
work, we now DELIVER M-F via Hotspokes Bicycle delivery M- F!
All shows
21+ unless otherwise noted.
Sat May 18
Future Slang, Justin
Walker and the Crossguards, Benedict Arnold & the Traitorstba, Cosmic Light
Shapes $5
Future Slang formed as Kyle McBee, Dmitry Shteynvil,
and Stephen Cooper-McCann in 2011, with Nick Thornton stepping in as Stephen's
replacement in 2012 after a series of shows performed with Cosmic Light Shapes'
Eugene Strobe helping out on bass.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Future-Slang/286355514760062
J.
Walker & the Crossguards
Known to many locals as "Justin Audio" (in
tribute to his former group, Velvet Audio, RIP), J. Walker now fronts a new
conglomerate of Detroit's best. Somewhere between the comparably riffed and
rigid curbs of Bo Diddley and Gang of Four, stands our Crossguard, J. Walker.
He’s the next up to bat for the Beehive collective, having his sensibilities for
gnarly soul, fuzzed-out funk and shimmied-punk bolstered by the brass and bass
of a cool, cookin’ Beehive-built band.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/JWalker__The_Crossguards/
Mon
May 20
Tyvek, Eat Skull, Roach Clip $6
Tyvek -- Named after a popular
brand of synthetic home-siding, Detroit lo-fi garage rockers Tyvek started
gaining recognition in 2008 alongside fellow noise poppers Vivian Girls, Times
New Viking, and Eat Skull. After recording a multitude of singles and 7"s for
the labels X, What's Your Rupture?, M'Lady's Records, S-S, and Sub Pop, the band
took a year to record its first full-length, which was scheduled for release on
Siltbreeze in the spring of 2009. The album's release date was postponed for
undisclosed reasons and the band underwent a name change (likely pressured by
the threat of copyright infringement from Dupont), switching to TVK and Tijvek
before settling on Tyvek. The band ramped up in 2010, releasing the demo LP
Skyin and its first album for In the Red, Nothing Fits. In 2012 the band
followed up with another monument to lo-fi, On Triple Beams.
http://tyvek.bandcamp.com/
Eat Skull -- In the context
of Led Zeppelin’s discography, III is the “soft” record. Before then, Zeppelin
was known as a bunch of knuckle-dragging lemon-squeezers who distorted the blues
with consciousness-shifting levels of pure volume. But on III, they embraced
acoustic instrumentation and more thoughtful songwriting. This bugged old fans,
but it made the band more palatable for everybody else. Portland noise-poppers
Eat Skull exist in a stranger, less shlong-y dimension than the mighty Zep, but
its latest record III similarly departs from the cacophony that precedes it. The
disembodied, screechy detritus floating amidst the sneakily catchy songs on the
first two Eat Skull records has been pushed down low into a foreboding hum on
III-- or removed altogether. It hardly seems accurate to describe III as
noise-pop at all-- it’s just a straight-up pop record, and a very good one at
that.
The easy-listening aspects of III are sure to disappoint those who love
Eat Skull for its in-the-red side. Thankfully, the group hasn’t lost all of its
weirdness. With III, Eat Skull is willing to be loved-- and be loveable,
too.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eat-Skull/242553573363
Roachclip
- This fantastic teen/garage group from one of our current favourite labels with
connections to The Bibs et al: Roachclip play an amazing devolved version of USA
garage with the kinda songs that would combine the optimism of the first Modern
Lovers or the Hackamore Brick LPs but with an extremely crude no-technique
appeal that could be Index covering The Velvet Underground’s “Black Angel’s
Death Song” for K Records. The addition of organ gives them a cool, moody Rising
Storm appeal while the levels of no count look to UK rubes like Desperate
Bicycles but the kinda collapsing universe these guys specialise in might be
better understood as a basement American take on the post Shaggs/Jandek pop
music of Mad Nanna. VT
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roachclip/122059211186563
