Cleveland’s Venus Flytraps Throw a Party at the Happy Dog to Celebrate Their Debut Album

Fri 6/8 @ 10PM

Cleveland’s Venus Flytraps, featuring Vondrella Raygun on vocals, Kelly Venus on guitar, Aubrey O’Blivion of bass and Mike Hood on drums, is nothing if not ambitious. A mash-up of garage rock, psychedelia rock and good ol’ ’50s rock ‘n’ roll. They say they aim to sound like “Little Richard screaming ‘A Wop Bop A Loo Bop’ with a mouthful of LSD 25” and say that they “dove deep into the black magick spells captured in forgotten vinyl artifacts; rumbling voodoo rhythms, psychedelic fuzz guitar and over the top vocals.”

Do they succeed? Well, a good time to find out is when they introduce their first full-length album Night of the Venus Flytraps at a release show at the Happy Dog in Gordon Square.

The evening also includes an all-vinyl dance party with DJ Ricky Hell, drag performances by Chicago drag queens Discord Addams and Gidget Vzon Addams and a performance by Truman Freeman, who produces brief snippets of chaotic, lo-fi noise.

Admission is $5.

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Cleveland, OH 44102

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