Shiner

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Some bands are famous entirely among other bands, and this is one of the clearest examples — a Kansas City group whose records got passed around by musicians throughout the late nineties while almost nobody else noticed, then became the reference point for a whole strain of heavy melodic rock that came after. They broke up, stayed broken up for the better part of two decades, and reformed to find that the reputation had grown enormously in their absence. The sound is dense and precise, guitars stacked into something closer to architecture than to riffing. Crowds for this skew heavily toward people who play in bands themselves, which makes for an unusually attentive room. High desert saloon, Wednesday, doors at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Reputation built entirely by word of mouth between musicians is a slow way to build an audience and a durable one.