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Dee Pop

When drummer Dee Pop last stalked the streets of Buffalo, he was studying art at UB, poking around with the early Hallwalls crew, and performing in bands like The Good (with Bernie Kugel and Vincent Gallo) and The Secrets, one of the city’s first punk bands. After re-locating to New York, he gained fame in underground circles for his work with seminal no wave act The Bush Tetras, which, with songs like “Too Many Creeps” and “Can’t Be Funky,” pioneered the marriage of dance rhythms and dissonant rock-guitar copied by recent hipster faves like !!! and LCD Soundsystem. In addition to occasional reunions with The Bush Tetras, Pop today performs in a variety of avant-jazz and mutant rock groups and curates the “Freestyle Jazz/Avant Garde Musics/Deformed Blues” series at CBGB's Lounge. In the spirit of that undertaking, Pop’s new group Radio I-Ching plays Soundlab, with the Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit, this Friday (Aug. 4), 9pm.