Cantina (NY), Shit Show (NY), Shark Week
Shark Week is Fortress Callosum's "other" house band — the one we don't talk about. You don't know us. But you're about to. We have an origin story involving menstrual synchrony, a cold warehouse of unused instruments, and a thirst for hunger. We invite you all to experience Shark Week's first public performance, which may involve enough unnecessary distortion to start a fire and/or shredding glockenspiel solos from hell, depending on how sexy the crowd is.
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Cantina is absolutely beautiful music by every measure. With richly verbed guitar, singularly pleasant progressions and musical dynamics, and delicious melody choices perfectly intoned by a voice of immense depth. It is an unexpected pleasure to have Renata Zeiguer at Fortress Callosum for a show.
https://vimeo.com/108031156
https://soundcloud.com/cantinamusic
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With just enough plucky guitar and songbird melodies to qualify as country music, combined with a judicious use of screaming, Shit Show is the most deceptively vicious band in the history of new york punk rock. Paige Johnson-Brown's lyrics are curt, spiteful, and apropos, her eyeliner is more immaculate than Dax's on prom night, and her stage energy more feverish than Avery with a megaphone. If Shit Show were an Evangelion, not even the combined powers Little Teeth could save San Francisco.
https://youtu.be/lK6M_sXghZU
https://whatashitshow.bandcamp.com/album/rough-as-shit