Dirty R&R: Lord Buffalo (Austin), Same Sex Mary, Kvasir (PDX), Mr. This & That 7/31/2024 @ The Usual Place LV

Join us at Dirty Rock & Roll Dance Party garage and psych night. This night we feature Lord Buffalo from Austin, TX. They toured with Elder, and played Psycho Las Vegas twice, RippleFest, etc.

LORD BUFFALO - psych-Americana from Austin on Blues Funeral Recordings
Lord Buffalo is heavy in the way that ghosts are heavy... in the way that billowing dust is heavy.

That is to say, the Austin, TX psych-americana band’s music impacts hard, though it seems impossible to touch. Their sound flows through us, it doesn’t invite the Pavlovian response of typical heavy rock music.

Perhaps it’s fitting then that their new album Holus Bolus takes its name from an antiquated term meaning “all at once.” It materializes instantly from the first notes of the opening title track, like a dark grey haze drawing listeners in with the band’s deft juxtapositions of droning violin, guitars, drums and vocals. It draws equally from Morricone and Badalamenti as from Sabbath and Swans.

While the quartet trudges the same murky waters as dark emotive brethren David Eugene Edwards/Woven Hand, Chelsea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle, Earth/Dylan Carlson, Echo & The Bunnymen, Nick Cave, etc., their creative interplay of Middle Eastern influence with a distinctly Western feel takes listeners in entirely new directions as the album envelops them.

Lord Buffalo is Daniel Pruitt (guitar, bass, piano, vocals, melodica), Garrett Hellman (guitar, synth-bass, piano, synths), Patrick Patterson (violin), and Yamal Said (drums, percussion). Holus Bolus was recorded by Danny Reisch and Max Lorenzen at Good Danny's in Lockhart, TX. Mixed by Danny Reisch. Mastered by Max Lorenzen.

“While the making of this record feels a bit like a sleep-deprived hallucination to me,” Pruitt says. “Listening to it now, I find it strangely hopeful — there's a kind of release that you hit in exhaustion. I think the record knew what it was after, even if we didn’t. It felt very much like the record just appeared one day, holus bolus.”

Holus Bolus will be available worldwide on vinyl, CD, and digital via Blues Funeral Recordings on July 12, 2024.
https://www.lordbuffalo.com/

with special guests

SAME SEX MARY - alternative/psychedelic rock from Las Vegas
Same Sex Mary will engage you. They will intrigue you. They will thoroughly rock your socks off. Why? Because they love you! Formed in 2009 by opposite-sex couple James Howard Adams and Tsvetelina Stefanova, the band epitomizes the rock and roll ragbag of their Las Vegas environment. Bolstered by rousing guitars and a Farfisa organ that injects an urgency into each song, the chemistry between Adams and Stefanova directs much of the band's character. The two have been together for almost two decades, and it shows in their music and in their performance.

Same Sex Mary has shared the stage with Ty Segall and The Muggers, Thee Oh Sees, Deer Tick, Le Butcherettes, Os Mutantes and more. They have performed at festivals such as Life Is Beautiful, Neon Reverb, Night of the Living Fest and Life Is Shit. When they're not performing, they are hard at work in the form of their agency Bad Moon Booking, booking and promoting shows and festivals locally and setting up national tours for bands from all over the United States.
https://samesexmary.bandcamp.com/

KVASIR - progressive doom metal from Portland, OR on Glory Or Death Records
https://kvasirpdx.com/

MR. THIS & THAT - folk punk from Las Vegas
Mr. This & That is the solo project of Las Vegas based musician, Marshall Lytle.
https://mrthisnthat.bandcamp.com/

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Wednesday, July 31th 2024
Doors 8:00pm / Bands 9:00PM
Ages: 21+

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The Usual Place
100 S Maryland Pkwy suite 110, Las Vegas, NV 89101
Free parking lot validation at the door

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$10 Presale / $15 Day Of Show