Heavy Lag celebrate their LP Release at The Broadway with Rebuilder, Sadlands, and Five Hundred Bucks
7:00PM Doors // 8:00PM Show
21+
$12 adv // $15 dos
Heavy Lag
dirt pop from brooklyn, ny
Rebuilder
Rebuilder is Sal Ellington (vocals, guitar), Craig Stanton (vocals/guitar), Daniel Carswell (bass), Brandon Phillips (drums/guitars), Harley Cox (drums)
6 times nominated for Best Punk Band In Boston by Boston Music Awards
“Rebuilder need to get on the road with some of skate-punk and pop-punk’s great masters, like the Descendents and NOFX. Their one-two punch of two lead vocalists and straight barre-chord punk is catchy as hell, and deserves to be heard by the masses.” – Do 617
“Loud, fast, pop punk with attitude.” – Daykamp Music
“Rebuilder are the best kind of in-between from hardcore punk and early 90’s skate punk. Bigass hooks, singalong choruses, gritty palm-muted guitars…go do a kickflip, break your wrist, and go to a Rebuilder show in your cast. That’s how it should be.” – Adam Parshall Allston Pudding
“A killer punk screed needn’t exceed two minutes. Economical and phenomenal.” – Jed Gottlieb Boston Herald
Sadlands
Five Hundred Bucks
Five Hundred Bucks is a Philadelphia band whose members have played in bands such as The Holy Mess, Captain, We’re Sinking, TeenAgers, Seagulls—and the list goes on. In fact, just as the project started taking shape, Jeff Riddle, the songwriter behind Five Hundred Bucks, was asked to take part in another creative project altogether: a movie called Uncle Peckerhead and its soundtrack. Maybe it’s this reason that $500, the band’s first full-length, feels so narrative, full of characters and conflicts—stories that Riddle sings about both his own experience and experiences of those around him. There’s a sepia, Americana tone that tints the the punk-rock restlessness on $500—a warbling organ solo here, a bluesy guitar lick there, stripes of acoustic guitar—and only serves to darken the already dirty the edges of this album. “The record, on a whole, has an air of gleeful nihilism,” says Riddle, “or dare I even say optimistic nihilism to it, whatever the hell that means. There’s a lot of ‘I really want to give up or quit, but I don’t know what the hell else I would do so I might as well stick with it,' which is a sentiment that I’ve felt when it comes to music or just even life in general.” It’s this vulnerability that makes Five Hundred Bucks’s music feel so honest and relatable—and why $500 feels so refreshing in an era where appearances seem so important. Better still is knowing that this album, which already stems from a lush vine of creativity, will likely cultivate even more rich, meaningful music in one way or another.
