Artists for the Betterment of Kids benefiting Border Kindness Bondad Frontera w/ Urban Heat (10:00), Sailor Poon (9:00) [patio]; Gus Baldwin & the Sketch (12:30am), Norman Ba$e (11:45), Lord Friday the 13th (11:00) [inside]
When: Sat., Sept. 2 2023
Artists for the Betterment of Kids benefiting Border Kindness Bondad Frontera w/ Urban Heat (10:00), Sailor Poon (9:00) [patio]; Gus Baldwin & the Sketch (12:30am), Norman Ba$e (11:45), Lord Friday the 13th (11:00) [inside]
Making “water drops” in harsh borderland terrain, operating a Children’s Empowerment Center where young asylum seekers take classes and learn modern job skills, providing gear and information to day laborers, and reuniting separated families – this is the kind of work Border Kindness does. Austin shows out big for the California-based migrant aide nonprofit with a certified all-six-of-these-bands-rule lineup: gothy post-punk uplifters Urban Heat; sax-spiked garage patriarchy torturers Sailor Poon; devilishly lovable glam punk brain melters Lord Friday the 13th; deep voice-of-the-streets wordsmith Norman BA$E; and Gus Baldwin & the Sketch, restoring the essence of teenage wildness to rock & roll.
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