It’s been 40 years since legendary Bay Area punk pioneers Flipper kicked off their highly individualistic career—garnering praise from critics around the country and influencing future rock legends as diverse as Kurt Cobain, Moby and The Melvins. Veterans of the old school San Francisco rock scene, these post-punk trendsetters are celebrating their anniversary by hitting the road with The Jesus Lizard vocalist David Yow and bassist Rachel Thoele for a Northern California tour. San Jose punk icons Ribzy and Salinas punk band Infirmities share the bill for this show.

Flipper
Thu, 8pm, $25
The Ritz, San Jose

Quietly tucked away in downtown Mountain View, the Dana Street Roasting Company puts on wild, high energy shows a couple times a month. One of the defining characteristics of the shows has always been the variety of styles present on any given bill—punk rock, hip hop and folk bands regularly share a same bill on a typical night at the DSRC. There are, however, exceptions to this rule, like on Sunday, October 21, which will be a night filled with nothing but Doom Metal.

That doesn’t mean there won’t be diversity between acts. The lineup includes every different shade of doom metal and ear-drum bleeding heavy-alternative metal there is. Headlining are Qumram Orphics, which features former members Hans Keller. They play eerie, electro-metal druid drones, which are sure to freak everyone out. Also on the bill are Silly Creature, a Santa Cruz instrumental prog-metal, math-rock group; Dark Earth, a San Jose stoner metal band that channel the sounds of early Black Sabbath; and Sewer Thug, a weird one man sludge-metal outfit, who takes inspiration from early Flipper.

Doom Metal night at the Dana Street Roasting Company is on Sunday October 21st at 6:30pm. The show is only $3.