FREEZE!

Hawaii's own Pepper have been percolating the soundscape since 1996, bringing the cool winds and hot rocks of the islands to the world with their solid guitar playing, tight drumming, and innovative mix of reggae, metal, rock, dub, and hip-hop.
Imagine yourself under a bridge, standing under a great highway, landscape a mess of browns, tans, and heat, the sun beating down on everything around it, the ground waving and rising skyward, reclaimed by the tyrannical force of rays and ultraviolet burning its surroundings to an egg-frying desolation. Hearing a small sound, you look left, look right, and creep forwards, the heat radiating, you break into sweat, already gasping for breath, and drag yourself forward, out of your urban burrow, burning, stinging, coughing, desert winds pounding your face, sand like swarms of mineral fleas enveloping you. You fight, you trudge forwards, and just as your last ounce of perspiration trickles from your brow and it seems the red skyward beast will claim you forever, your consciousness is shaken into immediacy by a roar, a clap, and the sensation of raindrops on your face. Instantly cooled, thrown into a glorious trance, relief washes over you and you look up to the sky, laughing. Music pours upward from the freshly soaked soil.

That's what Pepper sounds like.



Pepper @ Emo's, Saturday October 18th, TIX ONSALE AUG 16TH