Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith w/ Rachika Nayar
Starline Social Club and Live Nation PresentKAITLYN AURELIA SMITHRACHIKA NAYARLive in the BallroomFriday December 9, 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$20 adv // $22.50 dos18+—————— Since the release of her 2017 LP The Kid, American composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has focused her energy in several directions. She founded Touchtheplants, a multidisciplinary creative environment for projects including her modular synth work Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga and the first volumes in her instrumental Electronic Series (Abstractions, 2018) and pocket-sized poetry books on the practice of listening within. She’s continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body’s relationship to sound and color. In advance of new music, Smith begins 2020 with the announcement of her signing to Ghostly International and a tour supporting Caribou through the US and Europe Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s formative years were spent communing with nature on Orcas Island in the northwest region of Washington state, a place she describes as “one of the most magical and peaceful places I have ever been.” Though she wouldn’t begin experimenting with modular synthesis for years, her creative work is infused with and inspired by the vitality and serenity of Orcas. Smith left to attend Berklee College of Music, where she studied composition and sound engineering, initially focusing on her voice before switching to classical guitar and piano. She employed the skills she refined in college in her indie-folk band Ever Isles, but a fateful encounter with a neighbor who lent her a Buchla 100 synthesizer had a profound effect on her. She explains “I got so distracted and enamored with the process of making sounds with it that I abandoned the next Ever Isles album.” Starting with rhythmic patterns and melodic pulses, she began sculpting lush and exciting worlds of sound. What began as a curious excursion soon became a fully forged path. 2015 saw the release of Smith’s full-length, Euclid, a playful and wide-eyed album that spurred from her experiments in writing music for geometric shapes while at the San Francisco Conservatory. A clear step forward from the nebulousness of her previous output, Euclid drew acclaim from all reaches of the experimental music world and cleared a path for Smith’s successive longform work under her birth name. Little more than a year later Smith returned with her wonderstruck psychedelic breakthrough EARS to universal praise in the spring of 2016. Pitchfork called EARS “rich and rewarding” remarking aptly that Smith “focuses on a narrow band of feeling – wonder, curiosity, disorientation, bliss – and constructs a gleaming sonic world to house them.” The site included both EARS, and Smith’s collaboration with longtime influence Suzanne Ciani, Sunergy, as two of the top twenty experimental albums of the year, while other outlets including NPR, SPIN, and Rolling Stone sung similar best-of-the-year praises. In addition to her collaboration with Ciani that year Smith teamed with Mark Pritchard for Absolut’s remix series, toured with fellow sonic-adventurists Animal Collective, and soundtracked Google’s incredible virtual tour series The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks.
Puppet w/ MNYS
Starline Social Club PresentsPUPPETMNYSLive in the Crystal CavernSunday August 21, 2022 – Doors @ 6:30pm$13 adv // $15 dos18+———————-
DURRY w/ Good People Collective
Starline Social Club PresentsDURRYGOOD PEOPLE COLLECTIVELive in the Crystal Cavern at Starline Social ClubMonday September 19 2022 – Doors @ 7pm$13 adv // $16 dosAll Ages————————-Formed in 2020 in the depths of the pandemic, quarantined siblings Austin and Taryn Durry joined forces to make music together for the very first time. In 2021 their careers were launched by their tiktok viral track Who’s Laughing Now. Quickly gaining notoriety on social media and beyond, Durry is poised and ready to take on the music scene with their unique brand of Nostalgic Indie-Rock.
Helen St. MixR Presents: Heaping Teaspoon & Luhtakizz
Helen St. MixR Presents: HEAPING TEASPOON LUHTAKIZZ Hosted By: Vinyl Richie on the 1’s and 2’s Live in the Crystal CavernSaturday July 16, 2022 – Doors @ 8pmFree – Slide Thru ——————————- After two seasons of online broadcasts, Helen St. MixR is back with live events! Join us for an evening of live music featuring Heaping Teaspoon and Luhtakizz. Heaping Teaspoon is a 6-piece high energy groove machine from San Diego, CA. The group was established in 2020 following a convergence of musicians representing a wide array of local San Diego music scenes. They draw from diverse musical backgrounds and influences, including funk, reggae, hip-hop, soul, jazz, and blues. Luhtakizz is a R’n’B group from Richmond, California.. members include Vocalist Dejoni Desai, Guitarist Ryan Schaeffer, Pianist Mikey Mcghee, Drummer Genesis Ruben, and Bassist Jeremy Zacca.. Their sound melds a mixture of flavors drawing their soul from influences in RnB, Gospel, and Rock.. Let’s say a bit of Pop/Rock’s(KANDii GiiRL) music also. Desai aka Mistah Luhtakizz brings life to his music with impressive vocal finesse and energy. The members have played all over the Bay Area at numerous venues. Some out of state, while others have had the pleasure of performing out of the country. Their show’s will consist of many classic songs from different generations, as well the group’s original material. We hope you enjoy the show and we’re excited to bring to you Luhtakizz The Band!!! Helen St. MixR is a collaborative platform supporting freedom of expression, music, food, art, and artists of all kinds. Community based. Community inspired.
Monobloco w/ Allex Costa
Earshot Entertainment and Nativa Productions Present:MONOBLOCOALLEX COSTALive in the BallroomSaturday July 9, 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$47.50 ADV // $300 VIP18+————–
Jhariah w/ Jaidon
Slang Church PresentsJHARIAHJAIDONLive in the Crystal CavernFri August 12 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$13 adv // $16 dosAll Ages—————–Genre is not so much a box to be confined in as it is a bag of tricks for Bronx-based musician/animator Jhariah Clare to pull from. The multi-disciplinary artist has a compulsion for writing larger than life songs, stacked high with strings, horns, keys, and broadway-esque vocal arrangements. So attendees of his live show may be surprised to see him hit the stage with no band in sight – just his drummer and musical collaborator Cole Raser seamlessly transitioning from hard-hitting rock cuts to complex swings fit for a Harlem jazz club. That chameleon-like musicality is exactly what makes the two of them such a fitting duo. Jhariah and Cole met through mutual friends at Pratt Institute, studying 2D animation and film, respectively. They quickly hit it off and before long, Jhariah’s solo project became a duo. The two of them function more like a pair of one-man-bands than two parts of a whole. Both emerging from a generation of increasingly self-sufficient independent musicians, this two-piece “band” takes that DIY attitude to heart.
COCHISE w/ BigNumbaNine
Starline Social Club PresentsCOCHISEBIGNUMBANINELive in the BallroomThursday October 13, 2022 – Doors @ 7pm$22 adv // $25 dos // $87 VIP Meet & GreetAll Ages—————
Oakadelic Wednesdays: Live Funk Soul & R&B in the Crystal Cavern
Oakadelic Wednesdays Wednesday nights in the Crystal Cavern 10pm // No Cover —– Oakadelic Wednesdays is a weekly live funk, soul, R&B and hip hop jam session at the center of Oakland’s live music scene. As a staple of the east bay, it has brought community together for more than 10 years. With a rotating cast of players each week in the houseband, and with a jam session to follow, it keeps people dancing and communing every time.
Oakadelic Wednesdays: Live Funk Soul & R&B in the Crystal Cavern
Oakadelic Wednesdays Wednesday nights in the Crystal Cavern 10pm // No Cover —– Oakadelic Wednesdays is a weekly live funk, soul, R&B and hip hop jam session at the center of Oakland’s live music scene. As a staple of the east bay, it has brought community together for more than 10 years. With a rotating cast of players each week in the houseband, and with a jam session to follow, it keeps people dancing and communing every time.
Oakadelic Wednesdays: Live Funk Soul & R&B in the Crystal Cavern
Oakadelic Wednesdays Wednesday nights in the Crystal Cavern 10pm // No Cover —– Oakadelic Wednesdays is a weekly live funk, soul, R&B and hip hop jam session at the center of Oakland’s live music scene. As a staple of the east bay, it has brought community together for more than 10 years. With a rotating cast of players each week in the houseband, and with a jam session to follow, it keeps people dancing and communing every time.