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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!

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/474817625537209/

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*

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