Folk meets punk—sometimes in the same song—at this opposites-attract-style bill at Long Beach’s Federal Bar. Leather Tramp do gentle but Feist-y indie-folk, despite a name that sounds like a band who’d be opening for the Dolls or the Cramps in late '70s NYC, and Black Lab and the Banjo deliver a bit more rustic take on the same plaid-and-flannel vibe. Heartless Folk are faking you out with that name—they’re actually a golden-era-style East Bay punk band a la Crimpshrine—and they’ve got reinforcements in One High Five, who do a jittery sort of pop-punk with a little Jello Biafra-n theatricality. And the Humble Hooligans are built on Pogues-y swagger (and Pogues covers) and will surely provide a common bond to this bill—everyone likes a drink and a singalong, right?
Wed., Aug. 13, 8 p.m., 2014
