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Atomic Bride and The Chasers Bolster Walking Papers Show Saturday

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.