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Since the dawn of Man, house shows have been the lifeline of true underground punk rock music. If you've never heard of them, or if their name is certain to generate some interest, chances are the bands playing at any given local house shows are worthy of your attention. Case in point, The Manor in Tempe is the left ventricle of the Arizona punk rock house show circulatory system. The guys who run/work/live at The Manor are also members of local punk bands like Higher Love, Lower Love and Standards, who coincidentally also populate some of the shows held there.
"For the past few years now, The Manor has played host to hundreds of bands and performance artists, ranging from every genre and style of music you can imagine. In those same few years, we've had a countless number people move in and out. Currently, we have four people living here, all of whom book and play shows all over phoenix (and the country I might add). This really works to our advantage, because all of the Manor residents are experienced in what it takes to book, promote and run a show, as well as all of us being very proactive people in general. This makes for an awesome show, regardless of what bands are playing or what day of the week the show falls on." - Neutral Words
The guys from Distort-Phx & CitySlaang Presents have been hard at work shipping in bands in from all over the place to entertain you restless degenerates. Shows at the Manor are advertised as donation driven, but that doesn't mean you get in for free, cheap-ass. Donations are suggested to help the touring bands and fix whatever holes or clogged toilets the guys have to take care of once the party ends. So how about this, go check out a show at The Manor, bring $7 for the touring bands, and try to respect the house a little, huh? These guys gotta sleep in whatever shit you may be dragging in.
"The place is pure fun. It's how punk shows should be really. ...No stage, lighting, or superb sound system. Just an old PA, bands, and sweaty kids in a living room going ape shit." -oh shit (part 2)
Check out some of the upcoming shows happening at The Manor:
Coconut Coolouts @ The Manor 7/14
Fag Cop @ The Manor 7/22
Born Bad @ The Manor 8/5
The Cysts @ The Manor 8/87pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $6
with L’orchidée D’hawaï--french Surf Rock!, Planets--grindy Diy Art, Freindship & The Fawn--folk Blabla, Secondary--??, Naw Meen--slimey Jam, Haunted Cologne--surf
8pm @ Yucca Tap Room • 21+ • Free Show!
with Liar's Handshake, Chip Hanna, Dj Johnny Volume
10pm @ Sucker Punch Sallys Diner • All Ages • Free Show!
with Noah Engh
6pm @ Copper State Tavern • All Ages • $10
with Calabrese, Stellar Corpses, Gun Smoke, Howlers, Returners, Slime And The Booby Tramps
7pm @ Underground (Nile Basement), The • All Ages • $10
with The Bled, Before You Fled, The So So Glos, The Author
7pm @ Shitty T-Pot, The • All Ages • Free Show!
with Sarafan, Sadistic Delusion, Dias Mas Oscuros, Systemaddict Slave, Death Squad, State Leech
8pm @ Judy • All Ages • Donation
with Bro Dawg Party, Custody Battle, Mouth Of Man, Gay Kiss
9pm @ Rogue Bar (East) • 21+ • $5
with Revoltrevolt, The Dark Hearts, The Bitten, Skin Walkers, Wirefeeder
6pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $10
with Earthmen And Strangers, So Cow, Tv Ghost, The Happy Hallows
6pm @ Underground (Nile Basement), The • All Ages • $7
with Run With The Hunted, Mouth Of Man, Dconscience, Built To Reign
9pm @ See Details • 21+ • $3
with At The College Dropout In Tempe Az..., Contradikation,, Jack The Cat, Celebrate Nebraska, Abraham Drinken
9pm @ Hollywood Alley • 21+ • $5
with Greenhaven, Antique Scream, Hogjaw, Adam Lee Cogswell
6pm @ Copper State Tavern • All Ages • $10
with Choptops, Sawyer Family, Buried In Red, The Do- Somethings
7pm @ Skrappy's • All Ages • $??
with Touche Amore, Red Son, Ready Resist
7pm @ Skrappy's • All Ages • $5
with Awful Truth, Touche Amore, Busted Bearings, Acies, More
7pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $6
with Red Pony Clock--super Cute Big Band Snark Punx., Funderstorm--all Over The Map Jerkout., Man About A Dog--tom Waits Dustcore., Evergreen Medic--shiny Pop Punk., Fatigo--mexi-pop.
8pm @ Hollywood Alley • 21+ • $8
with The Rebel Set, The Cosmeticators, Miss Derringer
8pm @ Rogue Bar (East) • 21+ • $7
with The Slants, Get Down! To Brass Tacks, The Maxies, Snake! Snake! Snakes!, Melted Cassettes, Whqles
7pm @ YOBS (Ye Olde Bike Shop) • All Ages • $5
with (3/13) Sewn Leather, Tracey Trance, Moment Trigger, Taterbug, Pigeon Religion, (3/14) Death Sentence: Panda!, Devon Williams, The Roar, Lazer Zeppelin, (3/15) Blessure Grave, Twin Crystals, Random Cuts, Ovariesy, Special Guests
4pm @ Tempe Beach Park • All Ages • Over $30
with Metric, The Bollox, Keltic Cowboys
7pm @ Revolver Records • All Ages • Donation
with Earn, Infinite Body, Sungsang
8pm @ Rogue Bar (East) • 21+ • Free Show!
with The Freeze, Liars Handshake, 80*d, Moovalya
9pm @ Rogue Bar (West) • 21+ • Free Show!
with Tokyo Electron, Becky Lee 7 Drunkfoot, Earthmen And Strangers, Cosmeticators, Dj Mike Genz
I was trying out the features Last.fm has. Pretty cool website for bands. Allows complete control over distro from only allowing samples of songs to be played, to downloading complete albums for free. Enjoy.
Check out the writeup on The Blaze's guest DJ shows coming up. Chris and I will be hosting from 1-2pm on March 23rd, so tune in!
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