In 2004, the apex of the Bush years, Greg Mudarri, Noah Wolf, Eric Gosselin and Dave Paige were unwinding in a Beantown basement after logging another practice session as Formosa. Mudarri, a gifted sculptor and origami artist, found a wad of Play-Doh and formed it into a clenched fist. The four musicians - who had just elected to self-release an EP of wild, progressive violin punk - suddenly had a punny name for their self-started label: Pass the Fist. But that Formosa EP never actually saw the light of day. As Wolf puts it, the band played "one chaotic, semi-disaster equipment malfunction of a show" and dissolved shortly thereafter. Mudarri moved to Tokyo, and Wolf, Gosselin and Paige relocated to Los Angeles and formed Wreck of the Zephyr, a band inspired by '90s alt-punk greats and named after a 1983 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. 

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Wreck of the Zephyr

Saturday, April l9, 10 p.m., no cover
Le Voyeur, 404 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia
360.943.5710