(This show preview originally appeared in the SF Weekly.)

Did you know that John Dwyer, the guitarist and screamer for the local Coachwhips, is still seen around town sporting skintight tees and trucker caps? Did you know Dwyer is a supremely talented guitarist even if the Coachwhips’ insipid garage-punk doesn’t reflect it? Track down some discs by his former bands, Landed and Pink & Brown, in order to hear a totally unique style of guitar that can only be described as screaming, fractalized white-noise funk. Unfortunately, little of that talent is to be heard in the lo-fi indie folk of OCS  , which is Dwyer and percussionist Patrick Mullins. But at least OCS isn’t drop-dead boring like the Coachwhips; the duo just sounds bored: bored with life, with parties, with friends, with sex, with making music. However, Dwyer is captured all too briefly doing some supernifty acoustic picking on the new OCS release, 3&4: Songs About Death and Dying and Get Stoved. It’s just enough to make me scream, “STOP WASTING YOUR TALENT AND CHALLENGE YOURSELF!” Oh, well. Go see Dwyer and Mullins frustrate those expecting more when OCS plays on Sunday, May 1, at the Hemlock Tavern.