Fri 1/22/27

Skip the Needle, Frightwig, Black Gold Sun

8:00pm, $15 adv., $18 door

Skip the Needle

Black dyke rock from Oakland, California — punk, funk and soul-fired rock with a biting, socially conscious message, delivered with radical joy.

https://www.skiptheneedle.com/

https://www.instagram.com/skiptheneedle/

Frightwig

Since forming in San Francisco in 1983, Frightwig has had two objectives: Spread joy and smash the patriarchy. For 40 years, they’ve succeeded on both fronts with a mix of in-your-face hardcore energy and a fearless activist spirit. A formative influence on the Riot Grrrl movement and beyond, the band embraces fellow freaks, sinners, and misfits — and the coven of Frightwig devotees has only grown larger and stronger with time.

Birthed by Deanna Mitchell and Mia d’Bruzzi, Frightwig invented the template for the Riot-grrl phenomenon that followed over a decade later. Funny, funky and furious, Frightwig produced the full-length albums Cat Farm Faboo (Subterranean Records 1984) and Faster Frightwig Kill Kill (Caroline Records 1986), as well as the EP Phone Sexy (Boner Records 1988). The first two LPs were re-released as the double album Wild Women Never Die… (Southern Records 1994). Frightwig has widely been credited as one of the most original, intense and fearless feminist bands by musicians, critics and fans alike.

https://frightwig.org/

https://www.instagram.com/frightwigofficial/

Black Gold Sun

Black. Girl. Punk Band.

https://blackgoldsun.bandcamp.com/album/black-gold-sun

https://www.instagram.com/blackgoldsun1/?hl=en