Moe's Alley presents a monster of a show with the Swingin' Utters and from Austin, Texas the Riverboat Gamblers playing their breakout record Something To Crow About in its entirety! Special guests Tess & The Details open the show.

Friday, January 5th
Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
$25 in advance / $27 day of the show
21+

SWINGIN' UTTERS
While its origin story has gone through more reboots than Batman, Superman and Spider-Man combined, punk rock has been a  consistent presence on the musical landscape for more than 40 years. You might be surprised to know, however, that the Swingin’ Utters have been around for nearly as long —the band celebrated their 30th anniversary with a greatest-hits collection last year.  Hell, this Bay Area street-punk band is so well-respected among their peers, there’s even a whole tribute compilation dedicated to  their extensive catalog, including covers by the likes of Dropkick Murphys, Fucked Up and Teenage Bottlerocket.

RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS
If The Riverboat Gamblers had had the good sense to die young, they’d be famous by now. Hailing from Austin by way of Denton, the Texas Power Punk 5 piece are almost an institution. Their fiery garage punk has spanned nearly two decades and has spread the world over. People from countries worldwide, aliens from universe-wide, spirit entities from dimensions unknown, would all come to whatever dirty dive club The Gamblers were playing to watch the band collectively impale themselves on the sharpened stake of Rock and Roll. Raucous and unpredictable live shows have become the stuff of legend as injury and blood took center stage, sometimes overshadowing the absolute brilliance of the songs themselves. With iron clad bubble gum pop, emotionally and philosophically informed by trucker speed and free clinic waiting rooms, Riverboat Gamblers have the rare ability to combine a Cheap Trick-ian love of hooks, gang vocals that would make a good skinhead weep, and a pathos and self-lacerating wit that, if one was able to look beyond the band literally kicking the holes in a venue ceiling, was on par with any more congratulated “smart” band.

But God is fickle. The Gamblers didn’t die as advertised. Everybody wanted them to be the Johnny Thunders Party Bus or whatever cliche narrative was most desired deep in the fair-weather fan’s heart. But the Gamblers, a bunch of Misfit toys formed in the Denton house show scene, recognize no master or silly pit boss. When they were expected to stay fast, they slowed down, got real odd and sad. Now they’re expected to mature and they’re saying, “actually, no thanks.” 

TESS & THE DETAILS
Tess & The Details are a female-fronted punk rock band from San Francisco, California featuring Tess Stevens on lead vocals/guitar, Gideon Berger on drums, Dustin Galecki on lead guitar, and Lawrence Hood on bass. The details are signed to double helix records in the u.s. and engineer records in the u.k.