Name: Bad Moves, Weakened Friends, Blis at Comet Ping Pong
Start: 2019-10-20T21:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-10-21T00:00:00-04:00
Location: Comet Ping Pong

Bad Moves, Weakened Friends, Blis at Comet Ping Pong

Rediscover Fire Booking

Comet Ping Pong

Bad Moves

Weakened Friends

Blis

Sunday, October 20thBad Moves + Weakened Friends + Blis.9pm - $12 - All AgesBAD MOVESWashington, DChttp://badmoves.bandcamp.comBad Moves is four friends making upbeat power-pop about anxiety and identity. After years knocking around the Washington, D.C. punk scene in bands of their own, guitarists Katie Park and David Combs, bassist Emma Cleveland and drummer Daoud Tyler-Ameen began playing together in 2015, with a few goals in mind: Songwriting would be collaborative, singing would be everyone's job and arrangements would be generously staggered, blending voices and ideas to avoid centering any one member.WEAKENED FRIENDSPortland, MEhttps://weakenedfriends.bandcamp.com/Common Blah is the debut full-length by Portland, Maine’s Weakened Friends. Founded by songwriter Sonia Sturino and bassist Annie Hoffman, the band is a low pressure outlet for emotionally volatile music. Engineered and produced by Hoffman and perfected over the last year, the record broadcasts heavy feelings amid screech and feedback with little more than a fuzz pedal to clog up the signal chain. For Sturino, writing in Weakened Friends is more of a physical process than a mental one. “I have to feel the vibration or sound coming out of my body. I need the physicality to do it, to enjoy singing it,” she says. “People probably hear the vocals and think, ‘she just puts on that weird voice,’ but it’s really just what comes out. It’s my body making that sound.” Many of the songs reckon with deep mid-20s malaise — with the feeling of being young, stuck, and settling for less. “Sometimes, things look good on the outside, but they’re not working. That’s how it used to be for me. It was ‘Common Blah’ though because I was miserable. Now, I’m at the other end of the spectrum. I wrote the lyrics about the time before that happiness.”BLISAtlanta, GAhttps://blismusic.bandcamp.com/Debut albums are rarely fully-formed. They’re ground zero for artists to experiment, breathing room to allow musicians to form identities within their project. Atlanta, GA’s Blis. debut LP, No One Loves You, avoids the trope: it’s an album of a band that’s lived a lot of life, exploring sonic realms that on the surface, should not go together, but manage to find cohesion. The record mosaics their influences—the intricate rock riffs of American Football, Pedro the Lion’s midtempo balladry gone awry with crucial aggression, indie rock sensibility that has mainstream press publications referencing Modest Mouse and Silversun Pickups. It was their 2015 Starting Fires in My Parents House EP that inspired Sargent House Records to sign them, a cathartic, unexpected release that garnered press from top-tier places like Pitchfork, Stereogum and Consequence of Sound. It’s easy to see that something’s in the water—and Blis. have come to prove that it’s not just hype. Far from it.

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