Paint It Black, The Loved Ones, Shook Ones & Sinking Ships April 22, 2006

Cost: 7adv/8dos
Tickets: ticketweb

After establishing a melody driven edge to today's punk in Lifetime, and re-configuring it in Kid Dynamite, the tested-and-approved duo of Dan Yemin and Dave Wagenschutz now offer their most distilled, aggressive approach as Paint It Black. Yemin "steps to the mic," conveying the intensely personal (try a brush with death) as well as the overtly political ("womb envy?"). Armed with the largesse of experience, the band isn't afraid to dispose with the guarded irony and get with the threatening urgency of a beautifully written "fuck you" song.

Official Website: http://www.theparadox.org/site/