Sinkhole - South St. Louis Music Venue

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South City Rock n Roll Club
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Upcoming shows – 3/13 – 4/10 Not pictured – Exper

Upcoming shows - 3/13 - 4/10

Not pictured - Experimental Open Mic (3/19)

It’s gonna be nice out - come grab a beer or a CBD seltzer!

Announcing / tix on sale now for April 22nd – @bea

Announcing / tix on sale now for April 22nd - @beaubeaubarina (of @ylabamba )

Isabeau Waia’u Walker
https://beaubeaubarina.com/

Multicultural Kānaka Maoli singer songwriter, Isabeau Waia’u Walker, has had to get creative to attempt the question of genre: “bright gloom,” “joy adjacent;” “island of broken, demented toys.” Hailing from her homeland Hawaii and having spent the latter half of her life in Oregon’s Pacific Northwest. Unless touring with Y La Bamba, in which she sings backup vocals, her feet and roots are always close to the shores of the Pacific Ocean (yearning for and pulled by her packs). Experience, observations and negotiations with race, culture, gender and class are inextricably woven into her purpose and product. Songs of love. Songs of community and fight, of life and self. She lives in attractive vulnerability and sincere humility despite the power of her performances and songs. An early retirement as a full time secondary school teacher in 2019 has allowed her to tour, play local shows, and record more, releasing her EP, Better Metric, in 2020, then her first LP, Body, in 2022, with engineer, bandmate and friend Ryan Oxford at The Center for Sound, Light and Color. Since those releases she’s unsurprisingly caught the attention of and has been featured in and on several publications, podcasts and programs such as OPB, Live Wire Radio, Vortex Music Magazine, Willamette Week, KEXP. Isabeau dedicated the last year and a half to the release of her third record, an LP titled Heavyweight, out October 2024.

7pm - doors
730pm - show
$15 adv / $18 dos
All Ages

Announcing / tix on sale now for Saturday March 22

Announcing / tix on sale now for Saturday March 22nd

@ivthcrusadecollective presents
@koyolihc
@ivory.daze
@vespidofficial
@swingthechandelier
Get tix now - they’re moving FAST

Coming up at the Sinkhole! Double header this Satu

Coming up at the Sinkhole! Double header this Saturday Feb 15!
2/15-3/9

All locals (fossils) night at the Sinkhole! @glo

All locals (fossils) night at the Sinkhole!

@glory_n_perfection
@sole_loan
@googzmobile

Glory N’ Perfection
https://glorynperfection.bandcamp.com/

Sole Loan
https://soleloan.bandcamp.com/

Ryne Watts & the Wrecks
https://rynewatts.bandcamp.com/track/let-em-go

Googolplexia
https://googolplexia.bandcamp.com/

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

Flyer by @uncledrippy

2/25 – ROCK N ROLL SHOW @wesleyandtheboys @still_a

2/25 - ROCK N ROLL SHOW
@wesleyandtheboys @still_animals @shitstormstl

Wesley & the Boys (Nashville Rock n Rollers)
https://wesleyandtheboys.bandcamp.com/album/rock-roll-ruined-my-life

Still Animals (Slovenly Records)
https://stillanimals.bandcamp.com/

Shitstorm (Sinkhole Records)
https://shitstormstl.bandcamp.com/

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

Flyer by @deonslaviero

Tickets on sale now for Lee Bains ( @gloryfires )

Tickets on sale now for Lee Bains ( @gloryfires ) @adamrgaffney @tony_m_hall31 - Sunday March 16th!

Lee Bains (Don Giovani Records)
https://leebainsiii.bandcamp.com/

Lee Bains is a Rolling Stone-acclaimed songwriter and New Yorker-published poet whose work is steeped in the American South. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and living in Atlanta for over a decade, Bains’s songs are hopeful, but far from naive.

On 2022’s Old-Time Folks (Don Giovanni), his fourth album with The Glory Fires, he delivers songs that mix sounds of the South — rock and roll, gospel, punk, soul, country, hip-hop — to deliver stories of resistance and love.

Challenging revisionist histories that would prefer to forget the worst parts of our collective past as much as the present neoliberal logic that reduces people to numbers, they celebrate the messiness of humanity and the power of solidarity and love.

w/

Adam Gaffney (STL)
https://adamgaffney.bandcamp.com/

Tony M Hall (STL)
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6loQTO4XqD87ZEHbbbPNRn?si=d45_2YbkSu-ncE9bzTITtg

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

Announcing / on sale – @the.oxys @jeffyandthesunke

Announcing / on sale - @the.oxys @jeffyandthesunkenheads - Crash Hot
March 27th

The Oxys

https://theoxysatx.bandcamp.com/

THE OXYS (Dead Beat Records) ex Dead Boys, Bulemics and Sylvain Sylvain and the Sylvains out of Austin, TX are a Punk Rock N’ Roll band in the spirit of The Damned (or something like that).We have toured with Dwarves, Riverboat Gamblers, The Hangmen and done shows with FEAR, The Spits, Supersuckers, Zeke, Throw Rag, Daikuju and many more. The Oxys were also officially featured on eight shows this year at SXSW. See all socials and press material below.The band was featured two weeks in a row in LA Weekly in August 2023. They have put out two albums since their inception in 2022 with a third coming in early 2025 on Cleopatra Recordss. The band has been well received worldwide as well as touring the U.S. and EU Their EPK, videos, press can be found in the links below. The Linktree also has all the interviews and podcasts they’ve done.

Jeffy & the Sunken Heads
https://jeffy2.bandcamp.com/album/jeffy-the-sunken-heads-2

Crash Hot

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$10 adv / $13 dos
All Ages

Announcing / on sale – @starcleanerreunion March

Announcing / on sale - @starcleanerreunion
March 18th

Starcleaner Reunion (NYC)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0aE0jIMsKSVBasU5D0e5zM?si=WM1gJTdbQzONanFqUqN_7w

New York City-based Starcleaner Reunion is a new band of old friends. Singer Jo Roman, guitarists Pat Drummond & Neil Torman, and bassist Adam Kenter have been making music together in various configurations since they were high school students together in New Jersey, but never all together in the same group. After Drummond moved back to New York from Montreal and connecting with drummer Sam Unger through a mutual friend, the band solidified and began rehearsing in 2022.

Their new EP, Café Life, is the result of a newfound home-recording and production process, an inspired project in which the band felt they could explore and experiment for the first time. Listen closely and you’ll hear samples of rain and thunderstorms, rumbling 808 sub-bass, digital synthesizers ripped from a decade old copy of GarageBand, and ghostly spoken poetry buried deep in the mix of the 4 tracks. Café Life is indebted and dedicated to not hurrying and taking your time.

From the moment the group was formed, Starcleaner Reunion has been guided by their belief that music can be transportive and furnish a unique world. Jo Roman’s lyrics paint a captivating picture – one that prompts audiences to reckon with the impressions and colors that her imagery conjures up. Café Life is their first release that welcomes people into a world of their own

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$10 adv / $12 dos
All Ages

Announcing / tix on sale for April 15th! @for_fust

Announcing / tix on sale for April 15th!
@for_fust

Fust — the Durham, North Carolina-based band — announce their new album, Big Ugly, out March 7th via Dear Life Records. Big Ugly arrives after the release of 2024’s Songs of the Rail––“one of the best alt-country compilations…in a long, long time” (Paste) –– and 2023’s standout Genevieve, which unassumingly introduced new listeners to Fust’s unmistakable blend of “small-town poetry” (Mojo) with a familiar yet probing “country-tinged folk-rock” (KEXP) that made it “one of the most fun rock records of the year” (Pitchfork).

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$15 adv / $18 dos
All Ages

Announcing / tickets on sale now for April 13th!

Announcing / tickets on sale now for April 13th!

@youngwidowsband
@cherubsbandatx
@porcelain_band

Young Widows (KY)
https://youngwidows.bandcamp.com/
Legendary noise rock sluggers

Cherubs (TX)
https://cherubs.bandcamp.com/
Legendary texas noise rock provacatours - returning to perform at the Sinkhole for their second time!

Porcelain (TX)
https://porcelainatx.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

630pm - doors
7pm - show
$20 adv / $22 dos
All Ages

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-widows-w-cherubs-porcelain-tickets-1120135277769

Thanks @stlouismag for including three albums reco

Thanks @stlouismag for including three albums recorded at the Sinkhole (@borealhills “BLOODCODE”, @cyanidesstl S/T and Vile Desire’s “Sick With Hate”), two of which were released through Sinkhole Records on vinyl (Boreal Hills and Cyanides) in their year end St Louis music list. Also Lucky Shells which features our Experimental Open Mic hosts and sound engineer Jesse. We’re in good company with other buds that frequent our floor stage - check out the article on STLmag.com! Happy new year to all our friends and hope everyone has a righteous ringing in!

Announcing / tix on sale for @chanel_beads @more_e

Announcing / tix on sale for @chanel_beads @more_eaze April 5th -

Chanel Beads (NYC)
https://chanelbeads.bandcamp.com/
Chanel Beads — the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers — announces his debut album, Your Day Will Come (out 4/19 on Jagjaguwar), and shares the lead single/video, “Idea June.” Your Day Will Come marks Lavers’ arrival as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless.

More Eaze (NYC)
moreeaze.bandcamp.com
More Eaze is the project of brooklyn-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Ranging from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage, her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds, acoustic orchestration and instrumentation, and electronics into adventurous textural compositions. Her music explores themes of intimacy, yearning, and the transformation of abstract feeling into intense living through sound design that moves seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal. She has recently released work with Longform Editions, Leaving Records, Ecstatic, and Orange Milk with forthcoming releases on Thrill Jockey and 15 love. Her work as a string arranger, pedal steel player, and producer has recently been featured on recordings by Martha Skye Murphy, Water Damage, Lomelda, Fashion Club, Claire Rousay, Space Afrika and Rainy Miller, and Nick Zanca amongst others. She regularly performs in the duos Pink Must (w/ Lynn Avery) and whait (w/ Wendy Eisenberg) and is a regular member of the bands Water Damage and Iceblink.

7pm - doors
8pm - show
$16 adv / $20 dos
All Ages

Tix available through our eventbrite page - don’t sleep get tix now to ensure entry!

New shirts in stock at the bar! Pick one up next

New shirts in stock at the bar!

Pick one up next time you’re in - $25

Art by @sethrodgers
Screen printing by @love_shack_press

Tomorrow night (FRIDAY NOV 22) – the legendary @_1

Tomorrow night (FRIDAY NOV 22) - the legendary @_12rods.official_ with @system.exclusive @c0up0n_c0de

12 Rods

When Ryan Olcott, songwriter and frontman of Twin Cities’ iconic indie rock band 12 Rods, found unfinished Rods demos during lockdown, he was surprised. When he realized they were good, he was shocked. He quickly set to finishing and recording the compositions, which became If We Stayed Alive, the first 12 Rods album in twenty-one years. “These are songs that I forgot about,” he explains, “but upon finding them, I thought, ‘Wow, these are actually okay.’” That was the easy part. Reacquainting himself with a twenty-year-removed craft and technique took some getting used to — some parts longer than others. He recorded all the instruments in a week, but the vocals took a bit longer. “Oh my god!” he laughs, “it took a couple of days to get my voice back with that range and that power, but I could do it.” Any cobwebs that needed dusting are long gone. If We Stayed Alive is everything longtime fans have wanted, and the perfect introduction to what some called “America’s Radiohead” and what others have called one of the best indie bands of the ‘90s.

System Exclusive
System Exclusive (or SysEx if you sassy) are a dynamic synth-punk duo originally from San Francisco, California, USA, weaving a wall of sound out of two people and limited resources: a guitar, drums, a stack of miniature keyboards, and Ari’s towering yet vulnerable alto. Matt, well versed in the dark arts of MIDI, plays live drums along with his panoply of synth modules, creating driving new wavey soundscapes for Ari to slash post punk guitar and smear dramatic vocals upon. The results have taken them all over the world, with 150 shows in 13 countries last year alone.

Coupon Code (STL)
Electro-punk duo radness!

730pm doors // 8pm show // $12 // All Ages (as always)

SINKHOLE’S 8TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY // @borealhills

SINKHOLE’S 8TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY // @borealhills “BLOODCODE” 7inch record release show (Sinkhole Records #12) - SATURDAY DECEMBER 14TH - sponsored by @stagbeer

BOREAL HILLS! BOREAL HILLS! BOREAL HILLS!

WITH
@petmosquito (Carbondale / @slovenlyrecordings )
@still_animals (STL / Slovenly)
@cheapknivesstl

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$5
All Ages

Flyer by @lilnealion

Announcing @styrofoamwinos (Nashville // Sophomore

Announcing @styrofoamwinos (Nashville // Sophomore Lounge Records) w/ @cyanidesstl - The Losing End - @dankfizzer - Saturday Nov 30th! It’s a Saturday, let’s get wild and party

Styrofoam Winos (Nashville / Sophomore Lounge Records)
https://styrofoamwinos.bandcamp.com/album/real-time

Cyanides
https://cyanides.bandcamp.com/

The Losing End

Dank Fizzer
https://dankfizzer.bandcamp.com/album/hill-people

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

Announcing @dusk_on_instaglam @officialfanclubfanc

Announcing @dusk_on_instaglam @officialfanclubfanclub @visual.learner_mpls with @jane__wave + the Losing End (collab set) - Wednesday Nov 20th at the Sinkhole!

730pm doors / 8pm show / $12 / All Ages

Flyer by Martin Meyer

Announced shows 11/5-12/7 More show announcements

Announced shows 11/5-12/7
More show announcements for fall / winter to come!
See yall at a show, rock n roll

Saturday December 7th – St Louis bands and Sinkhol

Saturday December 7th - St Louis bands and Sinkhole familiars @shitstormstl @directmeasurehc @mindclotstl @nitefrvr @younganimalsband come together for a benefit show for Sinkhole staff member Vic’s mom’s recovery following a tragic cycling accident. More details TBA regarding items available for purchase via donation at this event as well. Doors 7 / show 730, $10-$15 - all proceeds go to support the Birchem family. Let’s rock!

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