Event Listing - Clubs, Music

Sun Nov 8

Exene Cervenka (X & The Knitters) / Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag) and Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks) @ Slim's

Tel. 4152550333
Email Exene Cervenka (X & The Knitters) / Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag) and Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks) @ Slim's
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Location	Date and Time
Slim's 333 11th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 map cross street: between Folsom & Harrison district: SoMa	Sun Nov 8 (Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:00pm)

Description

The foundation of the best punk rock, the music that lasts and remains relevant, isn’t self-destructive anger or smash the state bravado, but a sense of alienation and dislocation. The longing of the outsider. No band epitomized the burst of creativity and energy in this essential awareness better than X and their singer and co-lyricist Exene Cervenka. And even though the expressions of fiery emotions and actions of youth fade or moderate, the search for a roadmap through the desolation persists, and it is why Exene’s distinctive lyricism still resonates.

"Somewhere Gone," Exene’s first solo album since 1991, is a sometimes dreamy but always intimate, circuitous passage through folk and country; subdued, but no less edgy. Invoking other artists who travel easily between the worlds of words and music like Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, Exene’s lyrics and immediately recognizable, simultaneously fragile and totemic vocals carry all the passion of X without all the loud.