.Free Throw in San Jose

The Nashville emo-punk band Free Throw is back with their fifth album, Lessons That We Swear to Keep. It’s as hard-charging, emotional and laced with Pokémon references as ever. A whole track called “Cinnabar Island” somehow becomes an existentialist meditation for lead singer Cory Castro (It’s really setting in/just how small I really am/descending and diving). Since 2012, the five-piece band has been pulling off unlikely feats, merging their favorite pop culture touchstones—often video games and TV shows of early-aughts glory—with the darkest depths of their psyches. Screaming these themes atop crashing drums and overdriven guitars just works.

Free Throw

Fri, 8pm, $22/adv, $25/door

Ritz, San Jose

“Spacer’s Choice” – Free Throw
Addie Mahmassanihttps://www.addiemahmassani.com/
Addie Mahmassani is a poet based in Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and is currently an MFA student in creative writing at San Jose State University. There, she is a Teaching Associate as well as the lead poetry editor of Reed Magazine, California's oldest literary journal. She also surfs, sings and loves a part-sheepdog named Lou.

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