Snow Roller, Little Star, Golden Hour, Mr. Bones
Recommended
Portland four-piece Snow Roller has navigated the local indie/punk underground for a few years, releasing three EPs leading up to their upcoming debut full-length, What's the Score? (Broken World Media/Good Cheer Records). This all-ages show will celebrate Snow Roller's new album with a stacked lineup of friends—Little Star, Golden Hour, and Mr. Bones. The record reveals primary songwriter Collin Kritz's undying love for the guitar-driven pop spectrum, with songs ranging from Pinkerton-era pop-punk ("Fritz Brickle"), to twinkle-emo ("Living the Dreamshake"), to alt-country ("Snot"), to straight-up '90s indie ("Too Good"), to some fantastic combination of all of the above. On the penultimate song, "Say More," the riffs guitarist Tyler Bussey (of the World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die) plays are utterly baffling, going from crunchy to sounding almost like a violin in the span of four minutes. CAMERON CROWELL