Bang Bang

USA Is A Monster

The popular Tralee based club night, Club Head Bang Bang, brings two acts to Tralee on Thursday, March 15th.

First up is USA Is A Monster, a brilliantly fried two-piece guitar and drums band of sun spotters hailing all the way from the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The band has roved the planet with instruments strapped to their backs playing on the tops of mountains, in skin-melting deserts and in rusted out America. Having trekked across Europe, America, Japan, Canada and Mexico on their way to Tralee the gig promises to be a melting pot of rock and "thoughtful, hardcore, hippie explosions tempered with tribal breakdowns and politically and environmentally aware chants."

The band has released albums on Infrasound and Load Records (home to Lightning Bolt).

Also in Club Head Bang Bang on Thursday, March 15th are Tralee band Scenes, originally known as 6th Of October City, a band that formed in mid-2005.

With a wide and varied list of influences ranging from the musical Bad-Plus, Don Caballero, Keith F. Whitman, and Saul Williams, to the plain bizarre their music has fused into a modern heavy jazz style. Given that Scene's music has been variously described as "sounding like octopi mating out of water with cymbals attached to all 8 pairs of legs" and as a "medley of rock, metal, jazz and climactic punk" the night is sure to be, at the very least, a strenuous and vigorous affair.