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We'll be selling these beautiful prints for $20 at the show. There's only a limited amount of 50, so they are very special. However, if you want to buy the two new Imperial China and Buildings LPs as well as the poster, we'll be selling the three for $30. 

Take a look at the poster and, also, the special collector cards we're stamping with something special!

Both will be available this Saturday at the Sockets Records Showcase!

New track from DC mainstays, Imperial China. The song is a self described powder keg that rips you through two minutes fifty of post-punk bliss. The band sounds huge, with harmonic guitars amplifying the growling utterances of vocalist Brian Porter. The boys have a new album,”How We Connect”, out on January 28 through DC’s own Sockets Records

Sockets Records Showcase 2012
Black Cat Mainstage – 1811 14th Street NW DC
Saturday, January 28, 2012
9pm, $12

w/
Protect-U (Future Times Records)
Imperial China
Buildings
Cigarette

Washington, DC’s homegrown, independent record label, Sockets Records, will be throwing its annual showcase on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Black Cat Mainstage (1811 14th Street NW DC). Since late 2004, the label has documented Washington, DC’s independent music community – spanning styles between noise and experimental pop. For the third year in a row Sockets is teaming up with another pillar of the local music scene, the Black Cat, to bring a locals-only showcase including Protect-U, Imperial China, Buildings, and Cigarette.

Two of DC's most reliable live bands, Imperial China and Buildings, will be releasing records on January 28, 2012.

Here's all the info you'll need:

Little Women (Brooklyn Extreme Jazz Quartet, AUM Fidelity, Features rising star alto saxophonist Darius Jones)

Brooklyn quartet Little Women create music that blurs the line between structure and spontaneity. The group’s sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz thru pop music, punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise. Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory: splitting overtones to create ghost notes, violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking written and improvised material with equal ferocity.

Featuring an opening set from:

SCUO (Scott Clark and Scott Burton duo, Guitar and drums from Richmond, VA, Glows in the Dark)

The "Scott duo" of Scott Clark (drums) and Scott Burton (guitar) have said that they challenge themselves to write music that's simply too difficult for them to play. The effect is intriguingly precise, robotic and proggy.

We're pretty excited for you to hear the band's new album. It should be out on January 28, 2012. Stay tuned.