Assault The Weekend! (5/21/10)

May 21st, 2010 by Oswald Hobbes / Comment on this post

Do your weekend the Assault.it way -- with plenty of beer and live music.

FRIDAY

Start your weekend by trekking all the way out to House Of Blues, if you dare -- our good friends The Action Blast are headlining another action-packed show there, and you’re sure to get plenty of action if you go. Also appearing: Heart Set Self Destruct, Seven Day Sonnet, A Hero Named Hope, and Trainwreck Symphony. A couple of those bands have terrible names, but don’t let it deter you -- there will be some good talent onstage, particularly once the Action Blast start blowing shit up. Doors open at 5:30 for this all-ages show, and tickets are ten bucks. The Assault Party Death Squad will possibly be representing there, although we’ll have to leave early to make it to darkroom, where our beloved Maybenauts are playing a CD release show (and also celebrating the birthday of guitarist Vee Sonnets, who is a very good guitar play and is most definitely not named Lee Vonnets). Also playin’: Tenniscourts, TAFKA Vince, Gidgets Gaga, Penthouse Sweets, The Safes, and the Sonnets. Best part about this show, besides watching a space panda play guitar? It’s free if you show up before ten! This show is highly recommended, especially to those 21 and up, because they’re the ones who can get in. If you show up after ten, it’s five bucks, which isn’t bad either.

SATURDAY

Saturday is your chance to catch Anna Vogelzang doing her singer-songwriter thing at the Uncommon Ground location on Clark. We recently reviewed Ms. Vogelzang’s new CD Paper Boats, and we really, really liked it. We also like everything else she’s ever done because she’s super-talented, super-nice, and she can play Lady Gaga songs on the banjo. You really don’t see that everyday. According to the UG’s website (I call it “the UG” because I’m a hipster), Ms. Vogelzang plays from 10 to 10:45pm, and I believe this show may actually be free as long as you’re doing something inside of the UG that falls into the category of “eating” and/or “drinking.” A dinner reservation guarantees access to the performance, so that may be the route you want to go -- you’re gonna eat dinner anyway, why not do it at some cool place in the city while being serenaded by Anna Vogelzang? (Miranda Rae plays from 11 to 11:45pm.)