The Fall of Troy at The Annex *Performing Phantom on the Horizon*
Legacy Concerts Presents:Monday, September 9, 2024 at The AnnexThe Fall of Troy – Performing “Phantom on the Horizon”The Number 12 Looks Like YouStrawberry GirlsRhododendronDoors 6pm // Music 7pm$25 Advance // $27 Day of ShowAll Ages
Bit Brigade performs “The Legend of Zelda” + “Castlevania” LIVE
LAVA Presents:Friday, September 6, 2024 at The Annex Bit Brigade performs “The Legend of Zelda” + “Castlevania” LIVEwith special guest Stage SelectBit Brigade performs rock covers of full NES game soundtracks as their gamer speedruns the game live on stage!Tickets $15 ADV // $20 DOSDoors 7pm // Music 8pmAll Ages—“When was the last time you attended a live music performance with a genuine element of risk involved?And no, going to a Gwar show with a white t-shirt on doesn’t count. When Bit Brigade takes the stage yourmind will frantically oscillate between “Oh! Agh!! Please don’t die!!” and “YES! He’s doing it!!”Combining the dread and daring of a live video game speed run with the spot-on technique of a live bandcovering the musical accompaniment to everything you’re seeing on-screen in real time, Bit Brigade willhave you swinging between the two mediums. From thrashing about to live renditions of your favorite stagethemes, fingers yearning to the sky in a rock ‘n roll parody of sea anemones seeming to silently plead,”Please, feed us more fretboard pyrotechnics!,” to being locked in stock-still rapture as the infalliblemaestro of the d-pad, Noah McCarthy, takes on the final boss and risks his video game life under the threatof intense peer scorn (or the reward of night-long glory and a credits score). No matter the outcome, BitBrigade must play on until the deed is done – which it always is – on the first (and last) try. Once Noah’sNES buzzes on, there’s no turning back.” – Metalhead Mike of The Shizz, summer 2011
Kishi Bashi with Sweet Loretta
LAVA Presents:Sunday, October 6, 2024 at The AnnexKishi Bashiwith Sweet LorettaDoors 7pm // Music 8pmTickets $22 ADV // $25 DOSAll AgesThe latest full-length from Kishi Bashi, Kantos is a work of exquisite duality: a party album about the possible end of humanity as we know it, at turns deeply unsettling and sublimely joyful. In a sonic departure from the symphonic folk of his critically lauded 2019 LP Omoiyari—a career-defining body of work born from his intensive meditation on the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II—the Seattle-born singer/songwriter/producer’s fifth studio album encompasses everything from Brazilian jazz and ’70s funk to orchestral rock and city pop (a Japanese genre that peaked in the mid-’80s). Informed by an equally kaleidoscopic mix of inspirations—the cult-classic sci-fi novel series Hyperion Cantos, the writings of 18th century enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, a revelatory trip to ancient ruins on the island of Crete—Kantos ultimately serves as an unbridled exaltation of the human spirit and all its wild complexities.