[back to events page]	The Kinetic Stereokids, Oh My God, Judah Johnson, and Army/Navy Friday, August 30 Doors at 7:30 pm, $7 cover The Kinetic Stereokids Nurtured sickly from the industrial wastelands of Flint, MI, the Kinetic Stereokids are an experimental rock quartet that have few, if any contemporaries. Their style synthesizes avant-garde methods of composition with pop sensibilities to create rhythmic, captivating soundscapes. Their sound merges the raw, relentless guitar dynamics of Sonic Youth with the melodic and lyrical suicidal-pop of Elliott Smith. The final and crucial ingredient that formulates the KSK sound is their uncanny sense of rhythm. Derived from the poignant hip-hop of DJ Shadow and the tribal funk of Can, the Kinetic Stereokids are suckers for phat beats. Their arsenal of instruments can include (at any given time) anything from minor-scale tuned pots to demented tape loops to typewriters. The Kinetic Stereokids have the ability to carry the listener through entrancing worlds of intimate darkness, while maintaining the playful vigor of improv and casting aside any art-rock pretension. Oh My God Chicago art-rock trio oh my god is an organ-drums-voice (and occasional bass guitar) rock band with no antecedent. This is no Jimmy Smith organ trio; so what is it? Husker Du meets Kraftwerk? The Doors meets the Minutemen? Freddy Mercury meets Groove Holmes at CBGBs? It's hard to pin down--the trio threw together rock, punk, pop and their own distinct oddities. No guitars and Marshal stacks here--they've been co-opted by the organ-and-Leslie combo and its blasting bursts of gorgeous tube distortion. Oh my god generate as much energy as any wall-of-guitar band around. Judah Johnson www.judahjohnson.com