Day three of the increasingly influential local underground music festival Gonerfest is without a doubt the biggest in terms of numbers, with sixteen acts scheduled to perform at the event’s two official venues, and several unofficial/guerrilla-style Gonerfest shows going on all over Midtown to boot (which has, incidentally, been the case throughout the weekend).
Officially speaking, the multi-stage “afternoon rock blowout” at Murphy’s gets rolling at 1 p.m. with what might be the best single-show line-up at this year’s Gonerfest, including up-and-coming local punks Manatees, “King” Louie Bankston‘s latest project Missing Monuments, and lo-fi Australian rockers Kitchen’s Floor. But for my money, the highlights of this bill are local noise-punks True Sons Of Thunder and second generation gospel-blues practitioner Reverend John Wilkins.
For those still uninitiated: True Sons Of Thunder’s live show can be a complete mess, with goofball stage antics abound and the band itself always too loud and teetering on the edge of control . . . which is what makes the band great. True Sons Of Thunder is one of those groups that can steal any show it plays by sheer, skull-crushing force.
