with A Place to Bury Strangers

The Big Pink is coming all the way “across the pond” to Club Downunder on April 5th. They’ll be bringing their British electro-pop sound that you may have already heard. Their popular song, “Dominoes,” has been featured in a commercial for Xbox 360 and given fantastic reviews by Pitchfork. Band member Milo Cordell also has his own record label, representing artists such as Crystal Castles and Titus Andronicus. The Big Pink has a single album, A Brief History of Love, but they have already won best new act at the NME Shockwave Awards and opened for TV on the Radio. If you’re looking for a sound like The xx, Wild Beasts, Girls, The Twilight Sad, or the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, you’ll find it here.

Considered one of the “loudest bands” in New York by bloggers and indie reviewers, A Place to Bury Strangers will be blasting their atmospheric wall of sound-influenced blend of psychedelic rock, shoegaze and space rock to start of the night. The band gained national attention by Pitchfork in 2007 and opened for several Nine Inch Nails shows in their 2008 US tour. Check out their new album released last fall, Exploding Head, which appropriately describes their unique ear-bursting melodies.

The Big Pink

The Yes Men

The Yes Men are activists and self-professed anti-corporate hoaxers who expose the world’s biggest criminals. They create fake websites that are similar to the corporations or peoples they wish to spoof and then they are accidentally invited to make public appearances as their personas. When they make appearances, they tend to make satirical and shocking comments that they believe expose the true intent of the organization they are targeting. Many times, people don’t even realize that they have been involved in the hoax and fake news stories are run about possible disaster scenarios.

The Yes Men will be speaking at Club Downunder about their antics and successes as activists and hoaxers while using a multimedia presentation featuring props and clips from their new and classic antics. This event is co-sponsored between Center for Participant Education and Union Productions and provided by Evil Twin Booking.

with Holiday Shores, Screaming Females

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will be stopping by Club Downunder on April 3, on the heels of the release of their sixth full-length album, The Brutalist Bricks. The band, formed 11 years ago in Washington, D.C., blends indie rock with punk and, occasionally, folk sounds. Fans know Ted Leo and the Pharmacists for lyrics that are often political in nature.

Opening the show are New Jersey-based rockers Screaming Females and Tallahassee favorites Holiday Shores.

Ted Leo on Myspace