Death Valley Girls, The Shivas, Top Down
Recommended
This event is in the past
Sun., Sept. 11, 9 p.m. 2016
Mississippi Studios
Boise (Portland)
$10 - $12
Death Valley Girls’ June release, Glow in the Dark, ferociously torments lo-fi grittiness with hot poker guitar riffs and Bonnie Bloomgarden’s hell-raising howls and shrieks. Her unbelievably elastic register is the dark centerpiece of standout “Seis Seis Seis,” a track that devolves from controlled incantation into complete sonic breakdown. “I’m a Man Too” head-butts the notion that “It’s a man’s world” with doo-wop punk, while “Love Spell” mechanically churns drums and heavy riffs under Bloomgarden’s piercing snarls. Death Valley Girls’ hellish punk is inescapably magnetic, like running into a tornado and relishing the hair-whipping chaos. CIARA DOLAN