Art Attack Its previous haunts of the Starlight Ballroom, the Lost Horizon and the Stag Hotel have all given up the ghost, but the Promise Breakers collective is still ready to "stir up some action" in anticipation of All Hallow's Eve. The group of local art-scene subversives holds the multimedia Mondo Creepshow on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St., with continuous music from 7 p.m. to midnight atop stages on the main and second-floor lobbies. Music begins with C.O.A., followed by Superthrive, Cliff Diver & Six Lb. Bucket, Small Girl Boils Water, The Wilkes Project, Jeff Jones, Beauty Scene Outlaws and veteran local art-punk outfit Born Again Savages, with riff-core heavyweights The Last Season ending the evening around the witching hour.

"We're a bizarre, very eclectic neo-goth, punk-industrial power group with a touch of hip-hop and psychedelia," says Savages vocalist Tom "The Sarge" Carpenter, fancying the group a cross between the Sex Pistols, Iggy and the Stooges and a hundred other acts "with a little bit of Black Sabbath and Beastie Boys thrown in." Two months ago the quartet--rounded out by Joe DiRienzo on guitar, bassist John Thomas and Steffen Illnitzki a.k.a. Steffen Illin' on drums--laid down a half-dozen tracks at the local Independent Audio Arts studios, owned by mystical genius Jocko. "They sound stunning. {Jock's} got a great room and he knows what he's doing," Carpenter enthuses, promising that fans will get a taste of the new tunes on Saturday. (For more band updates, visit www.bornagainsavages.com.)

Musical mongrels or not, the group's most inspiring trait is its loyalty to the ideals DiRienzo espoused when he founded the Savages in 1991. "One of the things he wanted to do was form something outside the ordinary, more on the edge," Carpenter recounts. "He wanted to make something beyond the blandness of corporate-radio rock. Our ideas are bizarre, we have a weird sense of humor; we're not quite mainstream."

Aside from maximum tuneage, visual works from 21 local artists will be on both floors, with animation being screened in the Landmark's basement Walnut Room. Co-organizer Illnitzki acknowledges the vital help of Landmark executive director Denise Frisina: "If someone else was in there, there's no way this would be taking place."

As attendees of the Super Population Animation, Art and Rock Show last May at Salt City Center for the Performing Arts and its Erotic Art Show at the late Stag Hotel in July 2002 can attest, the Promise Breakers' art du jour isn't all that conventional, either. Frank Cammuso, Lee Brown Coye, Chris Ennis, Tom Huff, Chuck Westfall and Mondo Creep show poster designers J.P. Crangle and Steven Cerio will all have work on display, as well as 15 more.

"It's stuff you just don't see in the galleries," says Illnitzki, explaining that the show's billing as "lowbrow" points more toward the artists' self-deprecating aesthetic than to the quality of their pieces. "You're not going to see waterfalls and self-portraits. The art you'll see could hang in any gallery, except that a lot of it's risque or disturbing. People definitely react to it, I can tell you that. It's going to be an audio and visually stimulating evening."

Tickets are $10 at The Sound Garden, 124 Walton St.; Big Apple Music, 922 Old Liverpool Road, Liverpool; or at the Landmark's box office. For more information, call 682-8891.

--Nathan Turk