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Concert Thu Mar 20 2008
A sight for sore ears
Friday night at the Empty Bottle (1035 N. Western Avenue) will bring those who jab sharps bits of painful audio into their eardrums for fun to a eye-rolling fit of unfettered ecstasy, with three different flavors of dark chocolately sonic weaponry on tap. Michigan/New York-based Sightings have been atomizing their core sound (guitar/bass/drum) and restructuring the fragments into more and more complex tapestries for so many years, it's almost hard to remember how they started out. All of their album son Load Records have been radical jump-offs from all prior endeavors, with Mark Morgan's trademark tinfoil-deluxe guitar sound leading the way. Cleveland' Emeralds have gone from 0 to 60 in the word-of-mouth dragstrip, with a synth-based drone sound that gets people whispering all manner of high-minded names ("LaMonnnnnnnte...") out of the corner of their mouths as the brain matter oozes out of their ears. Opening up is Akhkhazu, another new project by Seth Sher, formerly of the Coughs, and now also of Oakeater. Primal and percussive, Akhkhazu summons all manor of major and minor demons from beneath the floor, first to your delight, then to your horror.
Festivities, as usual, get underway at 10 p.m., and the cost is $8.