Wed 1/8 @ 9PM
Japan is known for producing quintessentially weird and noisy bands.
Ultrabide was one of the trailblazers, releasing its first record in 1980. The band caught the attention of Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra who signed them to his notoriously outside-the-box label Alternative Tentacles.
While they started as part of the era’s punk scene, Ultrabide has certainly strayed outside that genre’s relatively narrow boundaries, finding new ways over the years to attack audiences with aggressive, noise-based music. Their Wikipedia is in Japanese; how punk is that? (For a laugh, you can translate it — and it makes about as much sense.)
You won’t be surprised to learn that their latest visit to town takes place at Cleveland’s noise clubhouse Now That’s Class. Weakwick, a noise-punk duo from Minneapolis, and Cleveland’s Fertile the Drip open.
Admission is $5.
11213 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 Cleveland, OH 44102