Tonight, the Picador hosts a show that will veer between noisepop (Datagun), metal-influenced prog (Russian Circles), and straight-up metal (Paria). It should be an interesting mix. Local openers and Mission Creek staffers, Datagun, have been steadily exacting their drum-machine driven synth-pop on Iowa City audiences this year, playing songs that highlight nice harmonies at some points and full-on guitar noise at others. Omaha’s Paria, the real metal-heads on this bill, plan to fire things up with instrumental mayhem. Bring your earplugs.
The awesome Russian Circles are headlining, but if this isn’t a heavy twin bill then I don’t know what is. Providence, Rhode Island’s Daughters are the notorious purveyors of grindcore, a band usually concerned equally with writing spandex-tight riffs and being uncompromisingly offensive. Their debut CD, Canada Songs, featured 10 songs in 11 minutes, and they then returned in 2006 with Hell Songs, on which they further fleshed out their ideas. Their music is quite simply: gripping.
Show at 9PM / $8
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