TONIGHT! The Red Masque headlines The Trocadero

Philadelphia avant / heavy psychedelic / progressive rock band THE RED MASQUE headline at the Trocadero (at the Balcony) TONIGHT (June 29th).
Opening acts include Theopolis James, The Tragics, and Wynrise
8:30pm/21+/$8

Link to the facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156738757728639

Trocadero Balcony
1003 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA

The Red Masque
http://www.theredmasque.com
Please visit the band's website for downloads, videos and more.

"From Pennsylvania hails a quartet without limitations to their purposes and without shame regarding norms and dogma within new rock." -- Tarkus Magazine

"Equally stark is the blast of Philly's the Red Masque. The neo-goth/progressive band fronted by siren/painter Lynnette Shelley and multi-instrumentalist Brandon Lord Ross were always fascinating. Together since 2001, they sounded like Siouxsie meets Gong. But a new guitarist and frantic newer tunes have given their wifty complexities a blunt force by honing their femme-fronted sound to a King Crimson Thrak-era brand of bold attack. Kappow." -- A.D. Amorosi, Philly.com

"The Red Masque and their new lineup will absolutely destroy tall buildings and young minds alike. What an amazing performance & absolutely awesome songs. This new lineup has possibly some of the tightest and hippest drumming that you can still groove to in odd time signatures... Magnificent music with solid songs that deliver gold!... Avant / psych / prog meets krautrock ... Imagine Grace Slick in King Crimson at their most experimental and punishing mathrock. Hard as nails and arty too! -- John Cecil Price, Drugbunny

"In the Nu-progressive rock underground, few bands are as respected and feared as Philadelphia's The Red Masque. Without irony or kitsch, the whirlwind that is Masque ... stalks the darkness of Hammer Horror ambience and cursedly complex musicianship (think Gong meets Bauhaus) with only feedbacking noise, sound-collage clustering and the howl of vocalist Lynnette Shelley to light its way." -- Philadelphia City Paper

"The Philadelphia three piece, led by vocalist Lynnette Shelley, have a dedication to throwing rulebooks out of windows." -- The Squid's Ear

"The Red Masque provides a sense of color and drama missing from most other modern progressive rock bands." -- Paul Williams, of space rock band Quarkspace

"Unfortunately: it's all too seldom that an American rock band will come on to the scene, seemingly out of nowhere, to shake things up on some sort of musical level. Fortunately: we DO have The Red Masque, who have a penchant to do exactly that." -- Dave Kerman, president ReR USA