Low Points and the Exbats
The Exbats specialize in a Saturday morning cartoon sound drenched in pop culture references, which carry over to titles, lyrics, sleeve art, and video promos. Their debut album, A Guide to the Health Issues Affecting Rescue Hens, was named after a book they discovered from Googling “Exbats,” while the title of their sophomore release, I Got the Hots for Charlie Watts, references the ancient drummer of the Rolling Stones. The latter effort, released in January, has already yielded Spotify party faves like “Kill Yr Boyfriend,” named after a Grant Morrison comic book, and “Mr. Bucky,” a perverted ode to adolescent sex comedies.
Young drummer-singer Inez McLain, not yet old enough to drink in most bars that book them, was supposedly christened by her Monkees-fan mom after a nickname for Mike Nesmith (a Monkees album is briefly seen in their video for “Iolaus,” paying tribute to the Kevin Sorbo TV series). Her dad, singer-guitarist Ken Mclain, clearly shares her love of cultural kitsch, and it helps that he seems to have no problem standing next to his daughter onstage as she screams into the mic “I wanna fuck Mr. Bucky, and you do too, don’t lie it, wouldn’t be yucky at all.”
The bill includes Bit Maps and Pony Death Ride. “It’s our first show with a drummer [Mike Kamoo] in seven years, and only our second time ever,” says Joe MacAskill of PDR’s rare full-band set. “We’ll start with a couple ukulele ditties, then launch into our punk stuff, songs we’ve never played live. We’ll play ‘Let Me Tell You ‘Bout My Bike,’ the song we recorded last year with the Schizophonics and Jason Hanna; they’ll all be joining us onstage for that number. And we’ll debut a new song called ‘Crispin Glover, Be My Lover.’” Also expect tracks from their most recent full-length, Cat Sounds, such as “Your Cats Are Crap” and “Grumpy Cat (Ain’t All That).”
Sample music:
| Song | Artist |
|---|---|
| Everything On-Demand | Bit Maps |
| Enough With the Beatles | Pony Death Ride |
| I'm A Cat Guy | Pony Death Ride |
| I think my boyfriend's gay for Morrissey | Pony Death Ride |
| Let Me Tell You 'Bout My Bike | Pony Death Ride |
| Shut Up, Ted Nugent is Talking | Pony Death Ride |
