Red Barn

BJ Warshaw, Dan Friel


Sarah Lipstate

Hampshie College's Red Barn was pretty bumpin last night - a decent amount of people for the free Parts & Labor, Bunnies, Eric Hnatow, Grey Skull, Ampere show. Parts & Labor was pretty great. It has become apparent that I don't know any of their songs well enough, that's for sure. Their drummer Joe Wong was bonkers, and they generally sounded awesome.

Before them was Bunnies, who carried a Melvins sludginess, at times swelling to something more upbeat. Eric Hnatow got his groove on before them with usual antics in tow: spasms of sweaty convulsions, a rope light, a beard.

Grey Skull was devestatingly loud and piercing, blurting out gagged back-of-throat nonsense sounds between intermittent cataclysmic barrages of feedback. I pray that a majority of the audience had earplugs in for their set because I didn't and I wanted to leave.