Although we just got a ton of snow, there's still a reason to get out, drive through the white stuff and check out the club debut of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, a local superband of sorts that includes Doug Spencer and Hayley Helmerecks (Monofog), Hayley's brother Will, Kit Peltzel (Mr. Pacman, Joshua Novak, Space Team Electra) James Yardley (Hawks of Paradise) and Andrew Warner (Bad Luck City, Red Cloud). Warner says the band has a dancey sound but still keeps a dark edge thing going. Think earl
​Houses, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Joseph Pope III
Friday, Aug. 7
Meadowlark
Better than: The other performances I've seen from the same three acts.
Houses' schedule has been demanding lately. The group's ambitious goal
for the year -- to release four separate EPs, each bearing the name of a
separate season and each touting a unique sound and structure - has
translated into a seemingly nonstop schedule of writing, recording and
performing. Happily, any toll from the group's ambitious project
Black Mountain Studios​Hearts of Palm started out in the winter of 2006 as a pop song writing
collaboration between former Roper and Black Black Ocean guitarist
Stephen Till and longtime friend Nathan McGarvey. Within the following
year, the project expanded to eight plus members and the band's sound
went from a spare and earnest beauty to an exuberant and impassioned
exorcism of melancholy moods. During the course of the band's
existence, it won accolades from critics and fans alike and relea
