In case you haven’t already caught them live or followed them here and here at the SunBreak, Seattle supergroup Walking Papers plays the Crocodile Saturday. Tickets, $10 each plus service fees, are going like the proverbial hotcakes.
Walking Papers generate a wonderfully dark, dense and catchy spell all their own, but they also merit major respect for hand-picking a truly primo pair of opening acts, both wildly divergent from the headliners. Repeat after me: Get there early.
Ballard quartet The Chasers blew the top of my head off at 2012’s West Seattle Summerfest, pounding and pile-driving like some demonic cross between Motorhead, Queens of the Stone Age, and Dick Dale. With a grandly-hair-tossing guitarist and a lead singer who can bellow with charisma to burn, they’ll open things with style.
Following The Chasers will be Atomic Bride, a Seattle outfit who’ve crafted one of this year’s most engaging listens with Dead Air. It’s a full-length that injects The Cramps’ hellacious rockabilly sound with ripsaw punk velocity and snotty vocals that suggest the B-52s with a set of heavy brass ones. Bonus points to the awesome new Chris-Cool-directed video for “DNA,” which features hotrods, Radar Hair and Records, and singer Astra and keyboardist Rachael knife-fighting in spangly skin-tight catsuits.