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Coming to the Rialto this fall, on August 8th.

LAIR (pronounced “lah-eer,” a local dialect for the Indonesian word of ‘lahir’, meaning ‘birth’ or, roughly ‘being born’) is a psych-soul/funk outfit hailing from Jatiwangi, West Java, Indonesia, a city once celebrated as the country’s largest manufacturer of clay roof tiles. Formed in 2018, LAIR’s music, lyrics, and its presentation are vivid, inherently gaudy (in a good way), and honest. The band takes a sizable chunk of inspiration from classical/traditional Panturan Tarling, a form of grassroots musical/performance art popular amongst the people of the northern coast of West and Central Java.

At the Rialto on Monday w John Doe and Exene

Tom Sloane of Mute Swan has passed away. There will be a memorial at Wooden Tooth's Congress location next Tuesday, May 7th at 6:30pm.

Born on this day in 1946: American singer, songwriter, actress and activist, Lesley Gore, who had the 1963 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'It's My Party', (which was produced by Quincy Jones). Gore composed songs for the soundtrack of the 1980 film Fame, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for ‘Out Here on My Own’, written with her brother Michael. She died on February 16, 2015, at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City, of lung cancer.

Born on this day in 1962: Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist, producer and vocalist Alain Johannes, who has worked with Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey, Chris Cornell and Arctic Monkeys. Heard here on Josh Homme's seminal, episodic Desert Sessions project.

Born on this day in 1929: Native American Shawnee rock and roll guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Link Wray, famous for his 1958 hit single 'Rumble'. Wray was credited with inventing 'fuzz' guitar after punching a hole in a speaker giving him a distorted sound. Wray is also said to have popularised "the power chord. Wray died of heart failure at his home in Copenhagen, on 5th Nov 2005 at the age of 76.