TONIGHT! ROOMRUNNER (Fan Death, Baltimore) // THE KARLOFFS // Black Cat

ROOMRUNNER (ex-Double Dagger, Fan Death Recs, Baltimore)
“Roomrunner’s ready to draw the curtains on ’80s nostalgia and move on to the ’90s. Their terse muscularity, scratchy hooks and gritty throb signal that they’ve ingested the principal lessons of pre-Nevermind alt-rock. The music blends the spindly structures of Wire-inspired D.C. post-punk and the propulsive throb of Midwestern noise bands like Big Black and Tar with the hook-laden squall Nirvana adopted from the Pixies and the Vaselines.” -Chris Parker, Hopscotch
:::::: http://roomrunner.bandcamp.com/

THE KARLOFFS (Boone, of course)
A regular Boone institution, The Karloffs are one of the town’s longest-running punk outfits. These guys play straight-up American punk RnR in the vein of The Cramps or a burlier Ramones.

::$5
::::18+
::::::10pm