Matinee Sundays with Pig Lightning & Zonk

Matinee Sundays with Pig Lightning & Zonk

Pig Lightning - After playing together in various projects and living together for a while, Ben Gallagher and Robin Chestnut formed Pig Lightning as an outlet for all of their more deranged musical tendencies. They play a 60/40 mix of mind melting original compositions and deeply demented pop covers. Their sonic landscape is rich and bizarre, and their rhythms are precarious and challenging

There’s nothing better to get your week started that a bit of Zonk! The New Mexico duo, guitarist Paul DeHaven and drummer Robin Chestnut, pound through five free rock rippers with the sonics set to singe. The pieces here waver from a few minutes to longform freakouts, each finding DeHaven’s muscular riffs sparring with Chestnut’s 60 pound pummel. Where some of the cuts here are built to quicken the pulse from the moment they crack, mid-point mind melt “B” finds…