If you live somewhere in England (and I’m not going to try to act like I know the geography over there, even though my brother lives in Durham) you have a rare opportunity to catch one of San Francisco’s best local bands: Enablers. Their last record, End Note, was released on Neurot Recordings and has all the power and majesty you would expect from a label that also puts out Isis and Oxbow. But Enablers are more nuanced than loud. Sure, they roil and scream around lead talker Pete Simonelli but since Simonelli doesn’t sing they have to hold back a bit for fear of burying him under a sonic avalanche. Simonelli tells stories of broken hearts, broken heads and baseball. What Simonelli does may well be called spoken word but what the band as a whole does is all rock. Try to check ‘em out if you’re able and tell Simonelli that Pete Funk says, “get hot”.

The Dates:

MAY 30: Swindon w/ Oxbow at The Victoria
MAY 31: Derby at Victoria Inn
JUNE 1: Liverpool at Heaven and Hell
JUNE 2: Exeter at Cave Club
JUNE 3: London at Barden’s Budoir
JUNE 4: Manchester w/Acid Mother’s Temple at Klondyke Club
JUNE 5: Brighton at Freebutt