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Friday Oct 25

THE MAKE-UP

TARAKA (of PRINCE RAMA)

LIGHT BEAMS

DJ BABY ALCATRAZ

$20 Adv/ $22 DOS / Doors at 8:00

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The Make-Up is a Washington, DC group that helped re-defined underground music in the middle and late 1990s with their peculiar and incendiary blend of gospel, garage and yeh-yeh music. Known for their dynamic and interactive live presence at hundreds of shows across 5 continents, the group also recorded 7 LPs, 14 singles and EPs and and collaborated on films, videos, pamphlets, and happenings. They toured extensively as a headliner and with groups such as Royal Trux, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Lung Leg, Harry Pussy, and many others. The group was widely copied and precipitated and inspired a wave of "garage" imitators in the 21st century who often had commercial success but lacked the spark, character, nuance of the originals.