A Place to Bury Strangers, Airiel, Hartfield, IfWhen September 21, 2005

11PM A Place to Bury Strangers
Three-piece dark shoegaze rock band. Attitude is completely DIY; self-produced their self-titled EP, hand silk-screen posters and book their own tours. APTBS weds sonic mayhem to pop melodies.

10PM Airiel
A strident combination of reverb, distortion and sweat, Airiel are advancing the art of sheer sonic energy while utilizing the power of a good melody to provide a basis for the effects, never forgetting the innate human desire to shake one's ass. In short, it's loud, it's beautiful, and you can dance to it.

9PM Hartfield
Hartfield are part of the Shoegaze movement in Japan. Their sound combines dreamy melodies, noisy guitars, and breathy, cute male/femaile vocals.

8PM IfWhen
MY BLOODY VALENTINE and AIR meet KING CRIMSON.  Ifwhen are carefully chaotic and pleasantly unsettling.  Dense sonic layers of intertwined melodies and lush, unpredictable chord changes rest upon smoothly intricate bass lines that tie it all together.  Along with heavier grooves than ever expected from anything called "shoegaze," Ifwhen create walls of sound like they?ve never been heard before ? This music is somewhat disorienting and even uncomfortable if you let it be ? and you definitely should.