On their 2005 debut album, So Much Drama, Red Knife Lottery shouted out songs about murder and betrayal, sounding like a far younger, far thrashier version of The Pretenders. Last year they returned with “Hip Bruisers,” a seven-inch that further tempered the band’s violent punk with jazzy tones and the increasingly-soulful wails of screeching, powerhouse singer Ashley Chapman, a taste of what’s to come when they band releases their sophomore album, Soiled Soul and Rapture, later this summer.
Red Knife Lottery w/ The Bangkok Taxi Pimps and Wizard of Cause
Tonight @ Mad Planet, 9 p.m.
