Win Tickets: Braids + Systems Officer @ Holocene | Complex Pop Music
September 22, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEPipeline is giving away a pair of tickets to see Braids on Sunday, September 25 and a pair of tickets to see Systems Officer on Monday, September 26. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend and which show. Winners will be drawn and emailed Friday, September 24.
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From our sponsors at Holocene:
Braids, Pepper Rabbit, Painted Palms
Sunday, September 25
8:30 p.m. | $10 | 21+
Purchase Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison Street
www.holocene.org
Oscillating between density and spaciousness, BRAIDS’ sound is not easy to define. The four members construct music which is ample and rolling, perhaps alluding to the landscapes of their youth, but filled with radical texture and startling immediacy, an influence of their more recent surroundings.
Delicate layering gives their experimental pop epics just enough breath to playfully explore the depth of ambient melody. Though BRAIDS dives into moments of deep obscurity and sonic experimentation, there remains embedded within the music the hypnosis of an unforgettable pop tune. BRAIDS has an unusually collaborative dynamic, generating all of their sweeping sounds live in a synergistic maelstrom.
More Braids Info + Systems Officer Info…
Even their name, BRAIDS, evokes a feeling of something continuous and progressive, yet lush and intertwining. It implies the interweaving of all four members’ musical ideas, favoring collective and equal input.
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Systems Officer ( Zach Smith from Pinback) w/ Phantom Works
Monday, September 26
8:30 p.m. | $10 | 21+
Purchase Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets
If ever you need evidence to combat the slacker Southern California stereotype, look no further than the few folks that make up the lion’s share of San Diego’s impressively diverse and highly successful music scene. Collectively Rob Crow, Pall Jenkins, Armistead Burwell Smith IV maintain as many as ten (count ‘em) projects simultaneously.
More impressive is the overall quality and longevity of most of these projects. Systems Officer is the solo guise of Armistead Burwell Smith IV (aka Zach Smith), the prolific multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and founding member of Pinback and Three Mile Pilot. Five years in the making, with Systems Officer, Smith has devised an uncompromised, fully realized collection of driving, deceptively complex pop songs.
September 22, 2011 at 17:39
I would love to see Braids! their album is one of my favorites this year, also it’s my 21st birthday the day of the show!
September 22, 2011 at 18:46
I’d love to go to the Braids show. What a great line up!
September 22, 2011 at 19:47
I’d love to go because I JUST discovered Pepper Rabbit and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to experience them first hand! And I’m always a fan of supporting local music! <3
September 22, 2011 at 23:42
been diggin on pinback for some time. would love to delve into this scene.
September 23, 2011 at 08:44
i love finishing the weekend with a concert. take me to see braids.
September 23, 2011 at 10:08
I downloaded their album the day it came out & actually paid for it. I mean, that has to count for something. & they are fucking the greatest. PLZ, this would make my whole month if i won tickets!
September 23, 2011 at 10:15
Started listening to Pepper Rabbit when their new album premiered on hypem. Really enjoy their sound, think it’d be a great show to see.
September 23, 2011 at 11:22
I’ve been listening to Braids a lot lately and they sound great. Would love to see them perform live.