Midnight Snack: Child Bite on the prowl + Introducing: Disinformants

Out of your mind music for an out of your mind scenario: hell-storm quake-rock appealing to the sharp-toothed shadowed side of yourself, the one you don’t let-out until after 11 p.m. anyhow.

The word “awesome” was drained of all its actual sentimental gravity decades ago, but really, reader, what other word fits Child Bite better when I often catch myself gaping, (fearfully? admiringly?) at stage’s edge as these squirrelly, yowling, doom-groove churners stutter-step and flail and shadow-box their way around the stage with hulking amps and chipped keyboards motor-mouthing grime-wrung PunkSaw anthems of wonder and weird and why-not and what-the?

The Detroit quartet are still riding the wild wave of their eerie/erratic E.P. Monomania, (Joyful Noise), but recently they put a few songs out on a 7” five-song mini-album (Forge Again Records). Their moshy-marching “Prowl” and the drum-tumbled, guitar-shard dissonance of “Modern Torment” take up seven minutes of the 15 allotted, with Baltimore’s more seminal-hardcore-punk leaning Dope Body, blending ripped-out/ripped-up guitars, grating feedback and murky drones to self-destructively accelerative rhythms.

Witness:

Both bands are playing Woodruff’s next Tuesday night, but not until the Witching Hour. (Dave Boutette’s weekly Open Mic Night will proceed as scheduled, until 11 p.m. that night, with your opening band, Disinformants, starting thereafter). This is music to loose your shit to, you might as well be up way past your bedtime thus that you’re fucked for any feasible 8 a.m. day-job alarm clock the following morning, throw it all in on the pile and stomp right on over it, get up close, ears to the amps: “Prowl, prowl, prowl!”

A good Wednesday morning to ya!

Did I mention Disinformants? This is their first show, but Ypsi punk/rock regulars will recognize each member. Anthony “Ghost Dad” Anonymous of the now defunct JWPP is up on lead vocals and guitar, Larry Johnson (of …Err) is drumming and Jheremie Jacque (of Zombie Jesus and the Chocolate Sunshine Band) is on bass. All three came to their eureka-freakout during their time playing in a local super-group of full-throttle punk called Lizerrd, (a band considerably inspired by the Jesus Lizard).