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Fri 22nd Upset The Rhythm presents MIKA MIKO + No Age + Kit
Doors 8.00 Mika Miko is an underground youth punk / noise band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, featuring Jennifer Clavin, Jenna Thornhill, Michelle Suarez, Jessica Clavin and Kate Hall. Pounding their way through interesting, fast, pop songs that recall Black Flag, X-Ray Spex, The Slits or The Germs with a fresh flare of anxiousness, they've gained a rabid local following for their frenetic live performances which emulate being at a party and often take place at parties. After several self-releases and an eponymous 7" for No Age's Post Present Medium imprint, Mika Miko put out their first full-length 'C.Y.S.L.A.B.F' in the summer of 2006 - a joint release by PPM, Kill Rock Stars and Deleted Art. Entrenched in LA's DIY scene, the band volunteer at legendary all-ages club The Smell. No Age is Randy Randall and Dean Spunt - two heavyweights from the LA punk / skate / art underworld, who previously performed as two thirds of that post-hardcore DIY machine, Wives. A crashing collision of sweetly shouted ditties, ecstatic crunch feedback and violent bouts of percussion, the No Age sound is abound with pop songs fighting to break through a mist of white fuzz. In March 2007, the band released a set of five vinyl only EPs across five different labels, including the 'Get Hurt' 12" on Upset The Rhythm. A full-length CD album entitled 'Weirdo Rippers' compiling highlights from the EPs will be out in June on Fat Cat. Kit are a super-melodic experimental rock band from Oakland, California. They play very fast, short, defiant songs that fuck with the ideas of pop music. Maybe they'll start off playing a song straight - sweetness and light abounds - but before you know it everything gets flipped on its head and chased into chaotic abstraction.
Kit songs can typically embrace hardcore rush, pop verse, ambient noise and cheer rally, all within the same moment - nothing but raw positivity and instinctive songwriting holding it all together. Kit members also perform in XBXRX, Lil' Pocketknife, Hawnay Troof, Snowsuit* and Warbler. Their debut LP 'Broken Voyage' is out now on UTR Records. |
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