Spend the weekend with Absent Minds

Published 5:00 am Friday, May 24, 2013

Hey all you punks! Hope you’re all pumped up for punk-rock weekend with Absent Minds and Tuck and Roll!

The former is a fun band out of Portland that incorporates plenty of cello into its punk and plenty of DIY into its style. The result is ragged, urgent and catchy, with occasional hints of orchestral elegance. A new album, “The Misery of Correcting Past Mistakes,” is due out soon.

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The latter, Tuck and Roll, is one of Bend’s best bands when all its members are in town. And this summer, they are; frontman Sam Fisher is living here for the next few months after spending the past couple years in Grants Pass. His three band mates have been here all along, and they hope to record an album this summer. That’d be great news for fans of Tuck and Roll’s bouncy, nasally pop-punk.

Both bands will play together tonight (at Bend’s Horned Hand) and Saturday night (at Big T’s in Redmond). Tonight, they’ll be joined by Actors Killed Lincoln, an Eastern European-flavored folk-punk band out of Reno, Nev. On Saturday, local hot-rod punks High Desert Hooligans round out the bill.

Absent Minds, Tuck and Roll and Actors Killed Lincoln; 8 tonight; $5; The Horned Hand, 507 N.W. Colorado Ave., Bend; www.facebook .com/thehornedhand.

Absent Minds, Tuck and Roll and High Desert Hooligans; 8 p.m. Saturday; $3; Big T’s, 413 S.W. Glacier Ave., Redmond; 541-504-3864.

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