Jan 23 @ Cafe Nine in New Haven, CT - an IRS event with Louder Joy (Boston), Waste World
"Tight ...like... stockings on a horse"
- Bumble non-date
"Easily one of the most sizzling bands east of the Housatonic"
- Drummer's neighbor
Discount Fireworks is an exercise in auditory interdependence. Jeff Maleri (bass) and Ben Myers (drums) resuscitate and evolve melodies that have long haunted Joe Sepi. Sepi offers heart on his sleeve vocals and a signature post-punk, no wave guitar sensibility. Maleri’s bass stylings are soulful, blues-infused and entrancing. Myers' post-rock pounding percussion tethers his bandmates. What emerges is a trio that effortlessly travels time signatures and invites negative space. What emerges is a kind of cerebral rock that feels both familiar and new.
Members have shared bills with Mission of Burma, Modest Mouse, Deerhoof, Built to Spill, Richard Lloyd, Grant Hart, The Thermals, Pile, Speedy Ortiz, SAVAK and more...
RIYL Parquet Courts, Pere Ubu, Guided By Voices, Wipers, Built to Spill, Kinks, Flaming Lips, Les Savy Fav, Husker Du, PUP, Pavement, Wire, KARP, Naked Raygun, Dinosaur Jr, Metz, Sonic Youth, Danielson, Spoon, Hot Snakes, Gang of Four, Cardiacs
Nov 8 @ Cafe Nine in New Haven, CT - with Pond View, Sailboat
Oct 11 @ Three Sheets in New Haven, CT - with Creatures, Fatal Film, My Fellow
Sep 27 @ Green Growler in Croton-on-Hudson, NY - with All My Friends, Yours and Mine, Polish John
Jul 20 @ PRFBBQ in Chicago, IL - with so many other amazing bands...
Jul 18 @ TBD in Pittsburgh, PA - with Giovanni Orsini, and more TBD Canceled while we onboard a new drummer!
Jul 14 @ Three Sheets in New Haven, CT - acoustic show with The Human Fund Canceled while we onboard a new drummer!
Jul 6 @ Green Growler in Croton-on-Hudson, NY - with Armedalite Rifles, Buoy George Canceled while we onboard a new drummer!
May 19 @ The Beeracks in East Haven, CT - with Egg, Cat Crash, and 73 other bands as a part of CT Rocks! Fest '24
May 17 @ 33 Golden in New London, CT (We canceled due to illness) - with Chaser Eight, The Button Downs, Double The Dial as a part of CT Rocks! Fest '24
Apr 4 @ NOLO in New Haven, CT - with Minus Points, Shed Life, Cafe Pizzaria
Apr 1 @ Cafe Nine in New Haven, CT - with Sunnyside Social Club, Ambulance Chasers, People's Club Punk Rock, Bill Saunders
Feb 23 @ Scottish Dave's Pub in Clinton, CT - with SAVAK, Perennial
Nov 17 @ Red Cross in Northampton, MA - with Lupo Citta, Taxidermists, Killer Motorcycle
Nov 16 @ Cafe Nine in New Haven, CT - with Lupo Citta, Nervous City
Oct 12 @ Three Sheets in New Haven, CT - with Mike Brandon Band
Thank you. Please come again.
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