event Melt-Banana
Also Playing: Triclops! and Heart Shaped Hate
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Tue Dec 1
8 pm
Melt-Banana, Triclops!, and Heart Shaped Hate at 7th Street Entry
Japan's Melt-Banana hasn't been merely freaking out since the early '90s: It's been building turbo-pop-punk songs from the stuff freak-outs are made of. The most maddening thing about Yasuko Onuki's thumbtack-spitting vocals, Ichirou Agata's squiggle-fucked guitar, and the jackhammering rhythm section is how tight and on-point a unit emerges from their collective whoop, boom, and squawk. Albums like 1996's Scratch Or Stitch and 2007's Bambi's Dilemma capture the Jesus Lizard-on-crank attack with all due ferocity, but the new Melt-Banana Lite Live: Ver. 0.0, showcases a version of the band that ditches the guitars in favor of samplers and synths. As live albums go, 1999's MXBX 1998: 13,000 Miles At Light Velocity offers a better prediction of what this show will be like: getting suffocated by angry rainbows.
7th Street Entry 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Japan's Melt-Banana hasn't been merely freaking out since the early '90s: It's been building turbo-pop-punk songs from the stuff freak-outs are made of. The most maddening thing about Yasuko Onuki's thumbtack-spitting vocals, Ichirou Agata's squiggle-fucked guitar, and the jackhammering rhythm section is how tight and on-point a unit emerges from their collective whoop, boom, and squawk. Albums like 1996's Scratch Or Stitch and 2007's Bambi's Dilemma capture the Jesus Lizard-on-crank attack with all due ferocity, but the new Melt-Banana Lite Live: Ver. 0.0, showcases a version of the band that ditches the guitars in favor of samplers and synths. As live albums go, 1999's MXBX 1998: 13,000 Miles At Light Velocity offers a better prediction of what this show will be like: getting suffocated by angry rainbows.
Updated 11/17/2009
