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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!

The new @cyanidesstl S/T 7inch vinyl (Sinkhole Rec

The new @cyanidesstl S/T 7inch vinyl (Sinkhole Records release number 11) will be available for mass consumption on Saturday, October 26th!

The new record features primitive garage rock and psychedelic shimmers from the south city lads - this will be their return engagement after nearly two years!

Call Letters (members of Bunnygrunt, Hotel Party, + many more) and Fault (Jesse of Lucky Shells) join the party too!

$5 entry, another $10 gets ya’s the record!

Not only will the four song record drop this date, a full Cyanides album will appear digitally on bandcamp + other streaming services!

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

Flyer by Kristie & Andy
Flyer and record sleeve photo by Leanna Kaiser @holymatter

A MOST UNHOLY SATURDAY NIGHT NOVEMBER 2ND Total H

A MOST UNHOLY SATURDAY NIGHT
NOVEMBER 2ND

Total Hell (NOLA)
@total_hell_666
https://totalhell.bandcamp.com/album/killed-by-evil

Emerging from their vile tomb once again, Total Hell has risen and conjured their debut LP “Killed by Evil”- a perfect amalgamation of demonic metal and raw, prodding punk. With “Killed By Evil”, this band of twisted rippers featuring New Orleans elites Drew Owen (Sick Thoughts), John Henry (Static Static), Michael Hohan (Trampoline Team), and Panzer (Persuaders/ Tirefire) tap even deeper into the sullen world of brutal 80’s metal and hardcore.

On “Killed By Evil”, Total Hell masterfully references the sounds of bands like Venom, John Carpenter, Slayer, and Discharge, while creating their own cursed, singular vibe. On tracks like “Demonized” and “Nuclear Satanic Warfare”, Total Hell taps into warped, proto-metal landscapes accessing dark, ruthless shredding and pummeling d-beat… While on the “Intro” and “Outro” tracks, the band takes the listener on a demented, atmospheric odyssey with synthesized soundscapes and psychedelic space guitar tangles. The album’s arrangement is deeply intentional and conceptual glued together with devilish samples and glitchy, synthesized transitions, all while astral projecting hellish nightmares into the listeners feeble minds with their wicked and unhinged lyrics.

Run for your life, fuckers… Total Hell and “Killed By Evil” are here to blow your putrid mind and bludgeon you beyond recognition with endless, unmerciful riffing.
-Sims Hardin

Hotel Party
https://hotelpartystl.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-party

St. Louis hardcore punk

Kato
https://roachlegrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-13

Imagine your favorite Finnish punk band you never heard being buried alive in ‘83 then crawling out from the muck in ‘23 to record this demo. - Sorry State Records

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$13
All Ages

Get your tix now for 11/17! The Flying Luttenbach

Get your tix now for 11/17!

The Flying Luttenbachers (CHI)

Since erupting forth in 1991, the seminal punk jazz/brutal prog/no wave band The Flying Luttenbachers has steadily deconstructed music, reason, and all notions of sanity on 20 releases and more than 400 live perform- ances around the world. Predictibly unpredictable, the Luttenabachers’ fierce, modernistic approach draws from inspirations like No Wave, Free Jazz, Death Metal, Noise, Modern Classical, Free Improvisation, Punk and the blackest humor possible. (The universe has been destroyed a few times during the course of the cryp- tic plot running through the releases.) During the initial runs in Chicago and the Bay Area of California, some of the prominent musicians that came through the ranks included: Ed Rodriguez (Deerhoof), Mick Barr (Kral- lice), Hal Russell (NRG Ensemble), Jonathan Hischke (Dot Hacker), Alex Perkolup (Cheer-Accident), Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark and many others. After a ten year break, a now NYC-based Flying Luttenbachers emerged again in 2017 and made a week long tour of France, performing an hour long set of classic material from the entire catalog and culminating at the Sonic Protest festival in Paris. The new-era al- bums “Shattered Dimension” (harmolodic skronk), “Imminent Death” (an angular tribute to ‘70s Miles Davis), “Negative Infinity” (a brutal prog highwater mark), and “Terror Iridescence” (bizarre outerspace minimalism) continued the group’s diverse agenda of organizing dissonance and energy. Never tame or predictable, The Flying Luttenbachers continue to assault musical mediocrity. The latest incarnation of this iconoclastic unit heads in yet another bold new direction

Maximum Effort

Zantigo!

Damon Smith / Dave Stone / Alex Cunningham
Free jazz trio

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

@theflyingluttenbachers @maxeffstl @zantigo_band @newmusicbass @alexcunningham.wav

Get your tix via our eventbrite page (link in bio)

October shows at the Sinkhole! Plus the return of

October shows at the Sinkhole! Plus the return of Craft Night (Oct 20th).

Announcing @oliveklug November 10th! Olive Klug h

Announcing @oliveklug November 10th!

Olive Klug
https://oliveklug.com/

Olive Klug refuses to be put in a box. Working out who you are in front of an ever-growing audience is no small task, but one that the Portland-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter is up for and thriving.
Olive graduated with a liberal arts degree shortly before the 2020 pandemic derailed their plans of pursuing a career in social work. Though they’d recorded and self-released the 2019 EP “Fire Alarm” from a childhood friend’s bedroom, up until early 2021, Olive categorized their music as either a hobby or a pipe dream, depending on who was asking. However, after being laid off of a teaching job in late 2020, Olive starting working as a barista and decided to commit all of their extra energy to an ever-growing community of fans online.

Olive can’t help but be unapologetically themselves, something their community of fans (dubbed the “Klug Bugs” on Instagram and Discord) appreciate most about them. Their debut LP ranges from a playful Americana romp about “watching all the rules disintegrate” to folk-punk anthem “Coming of Age,” which somehow manages to reference both pop singer Taylor Swift and existential philosopher Kierkegaard in one song, to “Parched”’s haunting modern ballad about a doomed relationship, to an indie rock closer about learning to take up space as a person with a marginalized identity. Through this no-holds-barred documentation of the struggles of their early adulthood, Klug embraces all their inner contradictions with reckless abandon.

7pm - doors
8pm - show
$15 adv / $18 dos
All Ages

*TIX ON SALE SEPT 13th via EVENTBRITE*

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olive-klug-tickets-1008756426627

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Announcing / tix on sale – 11/22 – @system.exclusi

Announcing / tix on sale - 11/22 - @system.exclusive @c0up0n_c0de

System Exclusive

https://systemexclusive.bandcamp.com/

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. They’re touring the US for the first time in support of their sophomore LP, “Click”, released on Mt St Mtn in the US (in conjunction with Le Cepe Records out of Paris) this past May. They’ve been overseas grinding the UK and EU tour circuits since the release, throwing comfort and good financial sense to the wind in their eternal quest for the perfectly bittersweet synth pop bop. Riding high on Spotify royalty checks and grown strong off of a steady diet of cured meats and backstage hummus, they return to America for their second US tour of 2024, this time with their LP “Click” in hand. Tour tight, breaking a sweat for the boogie, throughout the West Coast, Southwest, South and Midwest - don’t miss it

Coupon Code (STL)

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

Announcing / on sale – 11/11 – @frailbodyil return

Announcing / on sale - 11/11 - @frailbodyil returns to the Sinkhole!

Frail Body (Rockford, IL)
https://www.frailbody.com/
https://frailbodyil.bandcamp.com/
Frail Body is a three piece band from Rockford, IL.

“Artificial Bouquet” is an eleven song album by Frail Body. Produced, engineered, and recorded by Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording, and mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor, Loma Prieta).

Opening track “Scaffolding” explodes out of the gate with dizzying speed before descending into a wash of discordant melody. “Berth” and “Critique Programme” then inject pulse-pounding tempo shifts and unorthodox heavy riffing into the fray. “Devotion” plays as a stunning ebb and flow epic that shows method to their musical chaos. “Monolith” and “Refrain” then blur the lines between post-hardcore and melodic black metal in their frantic approach. These lead to “No Resolution” and “Runaway”; two slow build numbers that showcase the otherworldly dynamics Frail Body possess. “Horizon Line” follows this path as it builds to bone-shaking crescendo. Lastly “Another Year Removed” serves as an instrumental bridge to closer “A Capsule In The Sediment”. A song that empties the emotional tank for all to bear witness. All of it so raw and beautifully out of control.

Without question, “Artificial Bouquet” establishes Frail Body as leaders within the modern “screamo” movement. A shining example that the once dormant sub-genre continues to evolve and thrive for all the world to see

7pm - doors
730pm - show
$13 adv / $17 dos
All Ages

*tix available via our eventbrite page*

Announcing a wild night of deranged punk, noise, a

Announcing a wild night of deranged punk, noise, and experimental chaos - Sunday October 13th! Tix available at the door.

Drunks With Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcUqZcbMr4

Flesh Narc (Denton, TX)
https://fleshnarc.bandcamp.com/album/smokeout

Dromez (TX)
https://soundcloud.com/Dromez

Damon Smith / Weasel Walter / James McKain

Radiator Greys
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/denying-the-other

730pm - doors
8pm - show
$15
All Ages

11/19 – @floraltheband @robfordexplorer @wise_disg

11/19 - @floraltheband @robfordexplorer @wise_disguise @younganimalsband

Floral (California)
https://floral1.bandcamp.com/album/floral-lp

Rob Ford Explorer (Reno, NV)
https://robfordexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/two-songs

Wise Disguise
https://wisedisguise.bandcamp.com/

Young Animals
https://young-animals.bandcamp.com/music

7pm - doors
730pm - show
$10
All Ages

Get your tix for @kal_marks_the_band @nightosphere

Get your tix for @kal_marks_the_band @nightospherekc - October 18th!

Kal Marks (NYC)
https://kalmarks.bandcamp.com/album/my-name-is-hell

Nightosphere (KC)
https://nightosphere.bandcamp.com/album/katabasis

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

*tix via our eventbrite page*

Some updated flyers for September!

Some updated flyers for September!

Announcing / on sale – @extralifetheband @theconfo

Announcing / on sale - @extralifetheband @theconformists @18andcounting - NOVEMBER 14TH

Extra Life (NY)
https://extralife.bandcamp.com/
Extra Life was formed in 2007 as the main vehicle for New York-based guitarist/composer/vocalist, Charlie Looker. The band plays a fusion of aggressive math rock, dark dramatic pop, modern classical, and ancient liturgical music, bridging the worlds of abstract art music and DIY post-punk musical culture. Looker was a founding member of NY noise-chamber outfit Zs, frontman of industrial metal band Psalm Zero, and is a prolific collaborator across the experimental music scene, with credits including Xiu Xiu, Dirty Projectors, Lingua Ignota, Darius Jones, and John Zorn.

Between 2008 and 2012, Extra Life released four records, and toured the U.S. and Europe extensively, including appearances at Primavera Sound (Spain), Moers (DE). Villette Sonique (FR), and Bad Bonn (CH), and sharing bills with Sonic Youth, Ariel Pink, Deerhoof, Owen Pallett, Deerhunter, and Chelsea Wolfe. Looker put Extra Life on hiatus in 2013, to focus on his classical composition, improvisation, and his metal band Psalm Zero.

Looker reunited Extra Life in 2021, releasing Secular Works Vol. 2 (2022), to great acclaim, and The Sacred Vowel (2024), both on his own imprint, Last Things Records. International touring followed, including a slot at A Colossal Weekend Festival (DK). The current band line-up includes Toby Driver (Kayo Dot), violinist Timba Harris (Ultraphauna, Secret Chiefs 3), and drummer Cameron Wisch (Sheer Mag, Dust Star).

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The Conformists
https://theconformists.bandcamp.com/music

18andcounting
https://18andcounting.bandcamp.com/album/some-sort-of-future

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

*tix available via our eventbrite page*

Announcing / tix one sale – @airielmusic w/ @night

Announcing / tix one sale - @airielmusic w/ @nightswimstl - Nov 5th!

Airiel (Chicago)
https://airiel.bandcamp.com/
Active since the late 90's, the Chicago-based group's lush washes of effects-heavy guitars and yearning vocals recall U.K. shoegaze acts like Kitchens of Distinction and Ride, and American indie songwriters like Bob Mould. The group released a series of four Winks and Kisses EPs in 2003 and 2004, then sporadically resurfaced with the albums The Battle of Sealand (2007) and Molten Young Lovers (2017). Winks and Kisses was remastered for a 20th anniversary deluxe reissue in 2023. The 20th anniversary deluxe edition included demos dating back to the group's 1997 formation and several previously unreleased songs. ~ Paul Simpson

Nightswim
https://nightswimstl.bandcamp.com/album/glimmer

830pm - doors
9pm - show
$15 adv / dos
All Ages

*Tix available via our eventbrite page - link in bio*

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