Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Dazzling Killmen  Point Line Plane Quid Quo   Fri May 15th 8:30 doors 21+  $22adv/$25dos  https://dazzlingkillmen.bandcamp.com/music In 1994, Dazzling Killmen, a quartet from the St. Louis area named after a line inanobscure, grotesque 1963 short story by Lucas Samaras, put out a record called Face of Collapse,their second and final full-length. By the following year, they had broken up. Face of Collapseis a milestone for underground extreme rock in the '90s and should be experienced by fans of everything from Slint to the Dillinger Escape Plan to Rush .In fact, there would be no Converge, Today is the Day or Dillinger Escape plan without this essential blueprint. As former Rolling Stone senior editor Hank Shteamer wrote ,“No other music that I know of candeliver what this [music] delivers, either emotionally—its specific combination of creeping dread, frantic anxiety and seething rage—or sonically: The grand, gothic power chords at the  outset, sounding like some horror-movie overture. The thresher-like riff that follows, and then, the onset of one of the greatest sequences of aggressive rock music I’ve ever heard: a sort of hypnotic death waltz...broken up by racing, scampering full-band interludes and giving way to a deranged, writhing climax—with the guitars stabbing at oblique angles over the rhythm section’s lockstep convulsions—that feels at once vise-tight and completely unhinged. When the whole band kicks into the next break neck triplet riff, the effect is one of complete information overload. ”For the first time in 30 years, you’re going to be able to hear this music live. https://pointlineplane.bandcamp.com/album/smoke-signals Between 2002 and 2005 Portland synth/punk duo Point Line Plane played 150 shows across the US. Vocalist/keyboardist Joshua Blanchard (Major Hex) and drummer Nathan Carson (Witch Mountain) initially honed their near-telepathic live skills in destructively short 20-minute concert performances. By the time they’d derezzed, their discography included two studio albums, the soundtrack score for a documentary film about haunted houses, plus a slew of comp tracks and singles. The band made its name by creating noise music with pop hooks. As electro continued to fizzle out and screamy dance-punk/neo-no wave enjoyed a brief spike of popularity, kids and college radio DJ’s took note of PLP’s eclectic and original style, often contrasting the sound to other innovators like Liars, Ex-Models, and Lightning Bolt. Actual comparisons were hard to draw, however; reviews in print and online found writers grasping for metaphors rather than listing influences. Now, Point Line Plane is rebooting.  2026 will see the original duo resume activity after having powered down 22 years ago with a slate of Northwest gigs planned in support of their SKiN GRAFT Records labelmates Dazzling Killmen—plus a special appearance at the celebrated Caterwaul Fest! https://quidquo.bandcamp.com/music