Black Pus + Ryan Sawyer + Skimask + Lair + Bugs & Rats

Brian Chippendale headlines at DBA with his solo project, Black Pus. We know the Lightning Bolt drum dynamo’s been doing his masked-spaz act for a good, long while now, but take him for granted at your peril: He’s still one of the rock underground’s most visceral, galvanizing instrumentalists, and as you can hear on the latest Black Pus record, All My Relations on Thrill Jockey, he’s becoming increasingly adept at channeling his percussion-and-voice freak-outs into twisted little pop gems.