The Weeks w/ Jombi / H.A.R.D. [Big Room-Upstairs]
Tiny Tree / JD Pinkus [Small Room-Downstairs]
Friday February 24th at Hi-Tone Memphis, TNTINY TREE w/ JD PINKUSDoors 9pm – $10Tiny Tree – Is a two man experimental post-rock band from Michigan, United States.“There’s one thing that’s simultaneously surprising, yet completely undeniable upon listening to the music…— it’s absolutely massive.”REVUE MAGAZINE “The two-piece of drummer Paul Jensen and guitarist and vocalist Addison Eiles have honed a big post-rock sound that they succinctly summarized as “confused post-rock.” That’s formed of a perfect combination of laid-back atmosphere sections answered with brutal replies of aggressive riffing and powerful drums.”GIG RADAR UKhttps://www.tinytreeband.comJD Pinkus – is an American bassist best known for his work with American punk band Butthole Surfers from1985 to 1994 and since the 2009 reunion.In 1990, he and Butthole Surfers’ lead vocalist Gibby Haynes released Digital Dump, the only album from their psychedelic house music side project The Jackofficers.Upon leaving Butthole Surfers, Pinkus worked full-time with the Austin trio Daddy Longhead, which he had assembled during his waning months in the band, and which included longtime Atlanta associate Jimbo Young on guitar and Rey Washam on drums. Daddy Longhead retired after 10 years, leaving Pinkus free to explore other projects including Skinny Leonard and Areola 51. Pinkus played with Helios Creed on his albums NUGG:The Transport [1996] and Activated Condition [1998], and has also collaborated with Bad Livers frontman Danny Barnes several times in a live setting.JD Pinkus then co-founded the band Honky who went on to record five albums and are still currently active.Pinkus also performs with Pure Luck,who released a self-titled release in 2017 on Heavy Feather Records. He leaves his bass to play Banjo and Guitar in this project. On their 30th anniversary tour in 2013, Pinkus joined the Melvins in place of Jared Warren (on paternity leave) as well as performing with the opening Honky. He subsequently joined the Melvins full-time, touring with them in 2014 in support of the album Hold It In, which also featured Butthole Surfers founder Paul Leary, and againin 2015. He also plays on the song Captain Come Down which was first released in 2015 on Chaos as Usual, a split release with Le Butcherettes, and later included on the 2016 album Basses Loaded.In 2018, JD Pinkus released a solo album, Keep on the Grass on cassette tape on Danny Barnes Minner Bucket Records and later Vinyl and Compact Disc through Heavy Feather Records. It was recorded entirely on banjo and features a rendition of the song Bride of Crankenstein from the Melvins album Hold It In.The Keepon the Grass album release show was with Sleep in San Pedro on September 15th 2018.On February 12, 2018, the Melvins announced that Pinkus would be joining them, alongside current bassist Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), on their next album and subsequent tour. Released on April 20, 2018, the aptly titled Pinkus Abortion Technician features both bass players and four songs written or co-written by Pinkus. In May of 2021 JD Pinkus and Daddy Longhead released another album titled ‘Twinkle” which was originally recorded but not distributed in 1998.JD Pinkus is now releasing his second solo “space grass” banjo album titled “Fungus Shui.” The album was written, recorded, and mixed by Pinkus himself at Plastic Cannon Studio in Asheville, North Carolina. The album was mastered by Kramer.
Fuck Cupid: A Variety Show [Big Room-Upstairs]
Sairen’s Birthday Bash & Roast [Big Room-Upstairs]
Skull Lady Vendor Artist Market [Big Room-Upstairs]
Chrora Album Release Show [Small Room-Downstairs]
An Evening With: Mia Borders [Small Room-Downstairs]
A native of uptown New Orleans, Mia Borders’ powerhouse vocals and compelling songwriting have made her a perennial figure in the regional music scene. Heralded locally and nationally as one of the city’s best talents, Borders has been featured on AXS.tv’s coverage of The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and has performed at such renowned venues as Essence Festival, Brazil’s Bourbon Street Music Festival, House of Blues New Orleans, Tipitina’s, Santa Cruz Blues Fest, Chattanooga’s Night Fall, Voice of the Wetlands, Memphis’ Levitt Shell, Wakarusa, Long’s Park Amphitheater, 2012 Food & Wine Classic, and The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. She has shared bills with B.B. King, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lee Fields, and Marc Broussard, among others. Her live shows are regularly praised as “deeply funky” (USA Today) and “confident and cool” (The Times-Picayune). Borders herself is “a chanteuse of the highest order” with “miles of style and charisma” (AXS.com). Her expansive catalogue includes six LPs, various live albums, five singles, and three EPs – including 2019’s “well-steeped in classic soul” Good Side of Bad (Offbeat Magazine). 2021 brings Borders’ latest self-produced singles, “Sweater Weather” and “Right on Time,” released under Borders’ own label, Blaxican Records. For more information, visit www.miaborders.com.
