The Hellblinki Sextet
Columbia Art Bar
09-06-08
The Hellblinki Sextet

Perhaps best described as a punk-rock Three Penny Opera, Asheville’s Hellblinki Sextet plays what it calls "simple music for difficult people." What you should take that to mean, reader, is that the odd cabaret-rock of The Hellblinki Sextet evokes Gogol Bordello, Tom Waits, The Minutemen, Kurt Weill and Sesame Street in equal measure, creating an extrasensory experience that’s been described, perhaps most astutely, as the "soundtrack to hell." Sure, Ozzy might have introduced evil into rock ‘n’ roll, but The Hellblinki Sextet has never made the prospect of eternal damnation sound like so much fun. Lamb Handler and New York Disco Villians open. P. Wall
Art Bar: 9 p.m., $3; 929-0198, artbarsc.com.
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