Reptaliens • Black Belt Eagle Scout • Nizhóní Girls • punk • Weedrat • post-punk

Reptaliens

Portland, Oregon's Reptaliens is the husband and wife team of Cole and Bambi Browning. Named in reverence for their interests in cult mentality, transhumanism, and conspiracy theories, Reptaliens quickly evolved from a bedroom-recording project to a full-fledged band that explores fringe pop culture through analog synthesizers, electric guitars, melodic bass lines, and Bambi's lulling vocals. Inspired by all things science fiction, writers like Philip K. Dick and Haruki Murakami, and music ranging from Paul McCartney/Wings to African artists Francis Bebey and Nahawa Doumbia, the band creates psychedelic, chameleonic dreamscapes that fall sonically and visually somewhere between abstract expressionism and surrealism. These ideas and influences all coalesce on FM-2030 - named after the renowned transhumanist writer and philosopher - the band's debut album on Captured Tracks. Full of dreamy melodies and catchy hooks, the feel-good vibe often belie something a bit more sinister.

Black Belt Eagle Scout

"Having this identity-radical indigenous queer feminist-keeps me going. My music and my identity come from the same foundation of being a Native woman." Katherine Paul is Black Belt Eagle Scout, and after releasing an EP in 2014 Paul has wrapped up the band's first full-length. Recorded in the middle of winter near her hometown in Northwest Washington, the landscape's eerie beauty and Paul's connection to it are palpable on Mother of My Children. Stemming from this place, the album traces the full spectrum of confronting buried feelings and the loss of what life was supposed to look like.

On Mother of My Children, the songs weave together to capture both the enduring and fleeting experiences of loss, frustration, and dreaming. The structures are traditional, but the lyrics don't adhere to any format other than what feels right in the moment. "I don't play music to write songs," Paul explains, "I play music to process feelings, and sometimes what comes out of that is a song." Paired with Paul's clear and measured voice, each song leaves the listener feeling as if they were there when the song was written, the immediate, candid emotion tangible.

http://blackbelteaglescout.com/

https://blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com/

Back-to-back sets from:

Weedrat

https://weedrat.bandcamp.com

&

Nizhóní Girls

https://nizhonigirls.bandcamp.com

$5. Doors at 8pm.