Photos: Hotline TNT inspire fuzzed-out bliss at Turf Club
by Darin Kamnetz and Reed Fischer
October 10, 2024
The instantly hummable, ribcage-rattling riff from “Protocol” kicked off Hotline TNT’s powder keg of a set Wednesday at Turf Club. Already turned up loud, the twin-guitar attack of frontman Will Anderson and Lucky Hunter emitted a few bars of distorted waves — and then the rhythm section arrived to push the song up a sizeable notch.
Over and over, the Brooklyn-based band with a local tie (Anderson grew up an hour east of the Twin Cities) propelled an eager audience into triumphant head-shaking, air-guitar-ing, and pit-circling with their heavy hooks. Rightfully, the set celebrated the band’s 2023 release, Cartwheel, released in late 2023 on Third Man Records to widespread acclaim (including Pitchfork’s Best New Music).
Madison-based Disq and Minneapolis-hailing Prize Horse supported the night with different flavors of satisfying noise. Prize Horse brought head-banging, sludge-toned melodies to their opening set. Then, Disq was an ever-evolving rock performance, with four different members taking turns singing lead. Eventually singer-guitarist Shannon Connor got so wrapped up in a song that he kicked off his shoes entirely.
