Friday 10.31.08: THE SECRET MACHINES / THE ENTRANCE BAND / MACK WINSTON AND THE REFLECTIONS / JASON SIMON (of DEAD MEADOW)

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The Secret Machines || Listen || Watch With "The Fire Is Waiting", the band finally gets to cut loose with a full-on 11-minute blow-out full of Godzilla-sized riffs and quiet interludes. The song's length, especially as it transitions to otherworldly hums and drones, provides the perfect opportunity to ruminate: sure, it's grandiose, but is it pompous? Do Secret Machines cross that line? Well, yeah, probably, they do. With its apocalyptic portent, Secret Machines demands to be taken seriously. But at least the music-- ambitious, scary, inspiring, rousing-- matches the sentiment. Secret Machines are serious about what they do, and until more bands find ways to balance pop, prog, and booming hard rock as well as the Machines do on "Last Believer, Drop Dead", that pomposity can be forgiven as just part of the whole package.
-Pitchfork

with:
The Entrance Band || Watch Mack Winston and the Reflections
Jason Simon (of Dead Meadow)

Ticketweb

9PM / $10 advance; $17 day of show / 21+