u+n and Bruiser present

Prison Affair & Snõõper

Doors at 7pm, all ages

Prison Affair is a musical project born in Barcelona around 2018. Lo-fi sound based on synthesized guitar riffs, forceful bass line and denatured vocals. All this supported by a tight rhythm box. In power-trio format for live shows, Adri (Brux, Psycho Tendencies) joins the drums. Prison Affair features ‘mutant Chuck Berry licks, a direct-to-board guitar sound, fast closed hi-hat drumming, and the over-the-top warble you’d want from 8-bit punk.’

Snõõper was thinking about pressure. Blair Tramel and Connor Cummins — co-masterminds of Snooper — had become fascinated by hydraulic press YouTube videos, watching object after object spin and contort before getting flattened. Their heads, too, spun from everything that had gone on during Snooper’s early years. Tramel could relate to the videos, but for the poignance of a difficult transformation, not the defeat of total compression. “There’s a sweet spot,” she says. “For a moment, push and pull create this beautiful dance.” Over the past few years, Snooper has rocketed from Nashville DIY scene stalwarts to widespread adoration in the international underground music scene. The project evolved well beyond anything Tramel and Cummins had originally imagined, and faster than they could track — resulting in disorientation as much as exhilaration. Tramel and Cummins channeled all that energy into writing new material. Their new album, Worldwide, extends directly from the festering punk the band first made their name on, but documents Snooper becoming bolder, catchier, and more confident.