Spooky sounds emanated from Cafe Nine Saturday night. Instead of sending shivers up spines, it kept a crowd smiling and shuffling from side to side for a nonstop hour.
The sounds came from Messer Chups (roughly,“knife lollipops”), a garage surf-rock band based in St. Petersburg, Russia. The monster-movie-inspired guitar-bass-drum trio, the latest iteration of a band formed in 1998, played the Crown Street club fresh off the West Coast first leg of a U.S. tour.
