The Interiors And Friends Make Free Even More Awesome

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on May 3, 2010 8:20PM

The Interiors

It's been awhile since we last heard from The Interiors, but that long silence ends with the band playing a free show to release of their new EP at The Empty Bottle tonight. The Teeth EP is filled with five songs clocking in at fifteen minutes, but those tunes show the band making a tidy stylistic jump building on the promise of their self-titled debut from a few years back. The pace is slightly slower and the arrangements slightly sparser but the songs sound more powerful and massive for it. Chase Duncan's vocals are scratchier and more emotive, and his guitar playing is more nuanced than before. Collin Jordan's bass bounces alongside Brian Lubinsky's drums to provide a rhythmic bed both solid and melodic.

But wait, there's more!

Opening tonight's show is The Ragtones, a relatively new trio that combines vocals, drums, guitar and keys into a frenetic swirl that whizzes by sounding like a wave of industrial leaning oldies. Hoarse vocals scrabble to catch perch above walls of heavily distorted keys, simple guitars dart in and out of the mix, and the whole thing just pounds by -- one second with the force of a sledgehammer, the next as gentle as a feather tickling a nipple -- catching everything around it in its wake.

Not enough for you yet? Well, Dorian Taj, one of the solidest, rocking-est musicians on the scene, is headlining tonight's bill. So, even if you are the stidgiest of the stodgy, even you will have to admit that three terrific bands, absolutely no cover charge and cheap drinks are an awfully tempting way to spend a Monday evening.

Dorian Taj, The Interiors, and The Ragtones play tonight, May 3, at The Empty Bottle, 1055 N Western, 9:30, FREE, 21+