OK, perhaps you’re all music festival-ed out after last weekend’s Whartscape, but maybe you’d still like to check out some ear-ringing noise–and preferably for free. It’s a bit of a hike for those people who also choose to love their planet and hate on oil by not owning an automobile, but “DNA is the DNA”–a program on WMUC (88.1 FM), the University of Maryland’s student-run radio station–has organized a nice two-day lineup of noise, metal, and other unclassifiable musical extremes into its FREE DNA Test Fest down in College Park. Twenty acts in all–including Baltimore’s own Ian Nagoski spinning 78s, Philadelphia hardcore heavyweight YDI, the total abandon of Cleveland’s Homostupids, and the absolutely shitfuck nutty FNU Ronnies, which can sound like the Brainbombs if they got a hold of a bipolar beat sequencer. Good times.
Friday, July 25: Tall Firs, Satanized, Kurt Vile, FNU Ronnies, Ian Nagoski, No Fucker, Vegetative State, Kid Romance, Eightyfive, True Womanhood, Nicholas Szczepanik, and the Lampshades.
Saturday, July 26: YDI, Homostupids, Violet, Locrian, Copier, and Nocnitsa.
Both nights start at 6 p.m. at the WMUC studios: 3130 S. Campus Dining Hall, College Park. Tables will also be set up with people from MT6 Records, Zeromoon, DNA in the DNA Records, and more.
Thank you, Austin American-Statesman pop critic, all-around righteous human being, and friend of noise Joe Gross, for the heads-up.