Sinkhole - South St. Louis Music Venue

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South City Rock n Roll Club – – – sinkholestl.bandcamp.com

7/18! @jeffreylewisband comes thru with local supp

7/18! @jeffreylewisband comes thru with local support from @nerveestate - Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage
www.TheJeffreyLewisSite.com
(Moshi Moshi Records/Don Giovanni Records)

Indie 4-piece band from NYC, lyrically powerful urban garage rock/folk with multi-media illustrated/cartoon songs mixed in, worldwide fanbase.

The mind-spinning indie-rock/folk/art of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage developed when songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in New York City in 1998; his critically acclaimed, unusual and word-dense songs lead to Jeffrey signing to Rough Trade Records in 2001 (record label of The Smiths, The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, etc.), and the project evolved into a live touring cult sensation around the world. Creating a brilliant style of scuzzy urban indie-rock-folk, like a 21st Century mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger and R. Crumb, Jeffrey’s band has played countless gigs all over the world, including playing as the opening act for icons like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall, Dr. Dog, Pulp, Roky Erickson, The Vaselines, and more.

As of 2022 the 4-piece line-up of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage includes Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard, Mem Pahl on bass and Brent Cole on drums.

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Nerve Estate (STL)
https://nerveestate.bandcamp.com

5/21 – Chris King & The Gutterballs (Seattle, WA)

5/21 - Chris King & The Gutterballs (Seattle, WA)
https://chriskingnthegutterballs.bandcamp.com
Chris King & The Gutterballs know the secret to creative success; movement is key to progress. Whether by a gust of tornado wind or rubber against the road, pushing forward is all there is in a life, buoyed and scarred by love. The band infuses this propelling urgency in all of its performances into its songs, starting with King’s dynamic, uncorked-fire-hydrant voice.

The band has released three full-length records, Hidin’ Out in 2014, Cocktails in 2016, and Painwaves in 2019. Since their last full-length release, Chris King & The Gutterballs have released the singles Fantasy Island and Weekend Warrior in 2020, Party With You in 2022, and, most recently, City Love on April 14, 2023.

Chris King & The Gutterballs have played at major music festivals, including Treefort (Boise, ID), Off-Beat (Reno, NV), Freakout Festival Seattle, WA), The San Juan County Fair (San Juan Islands, WA), Fisherman's Village (Everett, WA), Filo Fest (Online), and Capitol Hill Block Party (Seattle, WA).

They've had the honor of sharing the stage or live stream with national and local acts, including The Growlers, The Quilters, Bob Weir, David Crosby, The Smokey Brights, Acid Tongue, Shaina Shepherd, Tomo Nakayama, The Moondoggies, Silver Triplets of the Rio Hondo, and more. They’ve performed live in-studio on the acclaimed radio station KEXP. In addition, the band was featured on Seattle Channel’s Art Zone with Nancy Guppy and 107.7 The End’s Locals Only radio show.

Bleach Balta (STL)
https://bleachbalta.bandcamp.com/album/bleach-balta

Cave Radio (STL)
https://caveradio.bandcamp.com/

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$10
All Ages

Announcing 7/1 – Charlie Martin https://charliema

Announcing 7/1 - Charlie Martin

https://charliemartin.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-people-deluxe-edition

Charlie Martin is a Texan artist and producer. Six years ago, Charlie and collaborator Will Taylor combined likeminded batches of material to form the Austin-based project Hovvdy. During a year without touring, between sessions for the steady indie-pop band’s next album, Charlie reworked songs amassed over the years alongside new creations. A hand-hewn set of colorful tales, Imaginary People introduces a spacious, singer- songwriter format to Charlie’s celebrated pop compositions. Elegant piano lines and sturdy acoustic strums anchor the brilliantly determined solo debut. Welcoming and sympathetic, the collection of Imaginary People teems with a community of characters in daily scenes of compassion. There’s the reliable Madison, a childhood best friend, or the large-looming Mister Heavy, an ethical compass of sorts. Shouldering the weight of the world, he stands in for religion and other archetypal influences. Much like the vivid album artwork, Charlie’s moral allegories land somewhere between Richard Scarry and Steinbeck.

Returning to rootsy influences, Charlie’s gentle Southern tone paints in the timeless tradition of an Arthur Russell or Jon Brion. The artist travelled to Mississippi, where he and his wife both have familial ties, to record on an 1870s Steinway grand piano at his mother-in-law’s house. Charlie says it’s “the first piano I ever really fell in love with.” A large room opened up the wistful melodies with engineer Evan Kaspar.

Between trips to L.A. for work on the fourth Hovvdy LP, solo recording wrapped at Austin's Estuary Recording. Streamlined arrangements allow for an earnest, unfiltered presentation of Imaginary People. The songs are reminders to stand firm and grounded. The exuberant rush of “September” sets an intention for a new chapter. In “Courage,” it is artistic fortification – “a song you made up / it takes courage / a poem / it takes courage.”

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Fishplate

https://fishplate.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-heart

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$12 adv / $15 dos
All Ages

Upcoming shows – 5/7 – 5/22

Upcoming shows - 5/7 - 5/22

Get your tix now for – N�olan Potter's Nightmare

Get your tix now for - N�olan Potter's Nightmare Band (Castle Face Records / Austin, TX)
https://nolanpotter.bandcamp.com/
Nolan Potter is putting us home recording freaks to shame. We had a year of global pandemic to lay out our grand ideas and the sum total of most artists “quar-riffs” wouldn’t push the constraints of a normal band practice (gosh, remember those?). Nolan Potter, in the meantime, has quietly painted us a beatific masterpiece that veers from the whimsical to the wigged out, deftly weaving an untamed tapestry of sound all the while archly commenting on the present musician’s predicament - and he did it alone. No drum machine clattering in the background amidst tape hiss and 4 track grime here - this is a fully realized, insanely well played, full on rock record that might even one-up his first LP for us, last years excellent Nightmare Forever. The guys’ got more chops than a beauticians’ college across a wide array of instruments - no small feat, and easily overlooked when you leave the lyric sheet and credits on the dining room table. That the songs travel far, wide, up, down, backwards, and gamely spill out over the 5 minute mark with exceptionally loose interludes and diversions is just another marvel in this carnival of aural delights. It’s a gem of a record and it’s out on Castle Face September 24th.

7�30pm - doors
8�pm - show
$�12 adv / $15 dos
A�ll Ages

Announcing / tix on sale now for @pardoner.band @s

Announcing / tix on sale now for @pardoner.band @shady.bug Nick G Band at the Sinkhole July 17th - doors 7pm / show at 730 pm - $10 adv / $13 dos - All Ages (as always) - ripper alert!

Announcing @lifeinvacuum – 5/19/23 – Life in Vacuu

3/24-4/4 at the Sinkhole

3/24-4/4 at the Sinkhole

3/21/23 – @decentcriminal @vacation_rnr @pinkstrap

3/21/23 - @decentcriminal @vacation_rnr @pinkstrappunk @nite_sprites - 8PM $12 adv / $14 dos - rock n roll baby

March is wild – 3/8-3/19

March is wild - 3/8-3/19

3/16 – @new_standards_men @__apparitions__ – FFO:

3/16 - @new_standards_men @__apparitions__ - FFO: experimental heavy music - New Standards Men (Denver, CO)
https://newstandardsmen.bandcamp.com/
Imagine reading Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine during a solar flare.
That’s basically the deal with New Standards Men.

Drew Bissell and Jeremy Brashaw are the two constants of the Denver, CO psychedelic noise rock combo.

They are often joined by select collaborators on recordings as well as live performances, which at times also adds elements of drone, sludge and jazz

Apparitions (Houston, TX)
https://ensembleapparitions.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-like-predatory-wealth

TBA

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$10
All Ages

Announcing @the_atomic_bitchwax April 4th – tix no

Announcing @the_atomic_bitchwax April 4th - tix now available - THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX
https://theatomicbitchwax.bandcamp.com/album/scorpio
is an American rock band from Long Branch N.J.that plays balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll, smashing 60s, 70s riff-rock and proto-metal into a towering celebration of the riff.

Formed in the mid 90s by bassist/singer/songwriter Chris Kosnik, guitarist Ed Mundell,and drummer Keith Ackerman, their first self titled album "THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX" was released in 1999 with the N.Y.C. label TeePee Records establishing them with audiences of the burgeoning "Stoner Rock" community.

Current lineup featuring Kosnik, drummer Bob Pantella and guitarist Garrett Sweeny (all also of MONSTER MAGNET past and present) the band has perfected its unique style of hard rock that High Times magazine appropriately dubbed "thunder-boogie" As of 2022 the band has released nine studio albums and have performed over 1,500 live concerts worldwide.

Since its formation, THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX has inspired hundreds of developing rock and metal bands, but no group of musicians has come close to matching its unique style of fun, frenetic and formidable rock and roll.

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$15 adv / dos
All Ages

Upcoming shows – 2/7 – 2/19 – check out sinkholere

Upcoming shows - 2/7 - 2/19 - check out sinkholerecords.com for our full calendar.

Announcing @urbanheatband 3/25 – tix available now

Announcing @urbanheatband 3/25 - tix available now via our website - Urban Heat (Austin, TX)
https://www.urbanheatband.com/
Urban Heat are a 3-piece American post-punk band from Austin, TX. The band formed in 2019 when creative center Jonathan Horstmann enlisted Kevin Naquin and Paxel Foley to form a live show based on his analog sound design experiments. The result fuses dark 80's stylings with modern flourishes, with Horstmann's throaty baritone delivering musings on existence and romanticism against an unrelenting industrial gothic pulse. Their live show is undeniably energetic and engaging, earning them slots at Austin's Levitation and Seattles Freakout Fest in 2021 and SXSW 2020 and 2022. In 2019 Horstmann was selected as a member of Project ATX6, which saw the bands frontperson performing at Thailand's Jai Thep Festival and CMW in Toronto.

In 2020 the band caught the attention of Brett Orrison (Jack White, The Black Angels) and signed to Spaceflight Records. The bands Wellness EP was produced by Jonas Wilson (BP Fallon, The Ghost Wolves) and is slated for release in July 2022.

"A lightning rod of dark electro/proto-punk/new wave/synth wave/part goth/part industrial sound that is all the things butsimultaneously transcending them into something fresher." - Laurie Gallardo, KUTX 98.9

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$12 adv / $15 dos
All Ages

A whole slew of announced shows coming up this spr

A whole slew of announced shows coming up this spring!

Announcing @kepighoulie 5/22 – tix available now v

Announcing @decentcriminal + Vacation at the Sinkh

Announcing @decentcriminal + Vacation at the Sinkhole 3/21 - grab your tix via our website now - - - Decent Criminal (Santa Rosa, CA)
https://decentcriminal.bandcamp.com/
With a sound reminiscent of 90s alternative, punk, surf, and power-pop, Northern CAs Decent Criminal offers catchy, upbeat songs that mercilessly collide with abrasive and often melancholy undertones, to bring forth a style that is both playfully compatible, and inadvertently raw.

In 2014, brothers Hunter and Tristan Martinez took what was already an active touring act, and rebuilt it from the ground up, giving the band a new sound and set of players. Hunter, the bands only original member, switched from guitar/vocals to drums, and the band never skipped a beat. Tristan, who was at one point the bands fill in bass player, took on the key roles of guitarist and primary songwriter. The two brothers enlisted the services of bassist/vocalist Alex Kouninos, and later guitarist/vocalist Brian Gellman to round out the sound. The new band quickly developed their own style, with unique three part vocal harmony permeating their recordings, and live performances. In 2018, Jesse Hernandez (Caskitt) joined to entourage on bass guitar to complete the current lineup.

Since the overhaul, Decent Criminal has released a 7 split w/ Screaming Mimis in 2015, a self-titled debut LP in 2016, "Bloom full length LP via Dodgeball Records in 2017, Bliss LP in 2019 (via Bearded Punk/Wiretap Records) and most recent DC EP released March 2021. Over the past few years, Decent Criminal has picked up some serious momentum, thanks to a combination of prolific songwriting, and a relentless drive to tour and play live.

Vacation (Cincinatti, OH)
https://vacation.bandcamp.com/

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$12 adv / $14 dos
All Ages

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