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It’s always a bummer to see a crucial member of a great band move on. This weekend, local fuzz-rockers Radar Eyes will say farewell to drummer and founding member Shelley Zawadzki. The split comes on good terms—Zawadzki is a brand-new mom, and it turns out that juggling parenting and punk rock isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Zawadzki and singer/guitarists Anthony Cozzi and Nathan Lueking formed Radar Eyes in late 2007, and their melodic blend of shoegaze, psych, and garage immediately caught the city’s attention, with their first official full-length eventually coming out on HoZac Records in early 2012. After six years of drumming in the band, which is like an eon in punk years, Zawadzki will be playing her final show with Radar Eyes on Sat 9/14 at 8 PM (I can’t post the DIY venue’s info here, but the event is easily Googleable). San Francisco’s Wrong Words (Trouble in Mind Records) will be headlining the show.
