Juan Wauters w/ Heaven’s Club & Stephen Steinbrink
Starline Social Club PresentsJuan WautersHeaven’s ClubStephen Steinbrink Live in the BallroomTues May 10 2022 – Doors @ 7pm$15adv // $20dos 18+ Juan Wauters There’s an almost mythological quality to the world of Juan Pablo Wauters. The Uruguayan-born, Jackson Heights, NY-dwelling musician is best known not for a specific musical style, but instead for the crystalline sincerity that underpins everything he does: from the heartfelt earnestness of his lyricism to the playful rituals of his live shows (singalongs, covers, races). To be a fan of his music is to be invited into the ever-expanding cast of characters that animate his work – Wauters has a knack for fostering community wherever he goes. A founding member of Queens garage act The Beets, Wauters began releasing music under his own name in 2014 with N.A.P. North American Poetry. Released on Captured Tracks, his solo debut had the same candid charm and DIY sound as his work with the Beets, but with a folk-inspired, introspective glaze that would become his signature. 2015’s Who, Me? honed in on those qualities, full of clever ruminations on the pace of day-to-day life sung in both English and his native Spanish. After the release of Who, Me? Wauters spent several years touring and travelling the world, including a long stint in Latin America — from Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, and Chile to Mexico and Puerto Rico — where he began working on his next project. Inviting local musicians to contribute to the songs he was working on, Wauters emerged with a collection steeped in the musical traditions of each country he’d visited. As a result, 2018’s La Onda De Juan Pablo and its follow-up, Introducing Juan Pablo, became his most expansive and sonically diverse records to date, tracing both his Uruguayan roots and his travellers’ spirit. Elements he’d flirted with in the past – singing in Spanish, traditional instruments like bongo drums and marimba, the collaborative spirit of his live shows – came to the forefront on these releases. Wauters’ chameleonic songwriting has continued to evolve in recent years: on his latest effort, Real Life Situations, he’s delved deeper into collaboration, teaming up with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more for experiments in hip-hop, lo-fi R&B, and deft indie folk. With some of his recording plans hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, he mined older songs, phone notes, new material, and snippets from TV and YouTube to craft an aural document of the year through his eyes. Under his care, these small moments become coordinates for the peaks and valleys of human experience, coloring the album with Wauters’ unique shade of realism. Perhaps this realism is what makes Wauters such an inimitable artist. His music has always sprung from the interplay between genre-hopping eclecticism and earnest, plain-spoken observation. Themes of loneliness, personal growth, patience, and companionship arise again and again in his work, just as they do in life. Each time though, he manages to breathe new life into them – to listen to his music is to navigate a rapidly-changing world with him in real time. His unique ability to produce that feeling – via his music, his live show, even his social media presence – ensures that no matter where his travels take him, he’ll be welcomed with open arms.
A Place To Bury Strangers w/ Glove
A Place To Bury StrangersGlove Friday May 20, 2022 @ 8pm $21 adv // $23 dos 18+ —- Fans all over the globe know: Oliver Ackermann always brings surprises. The singer and guitarist of New York City’s A Place To Bury Strangers has been delighting and astonishing his audience for close to two decades, combining post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, and avant-garde music in startling and unexpected ways. As the founder of Death By Audio, creator of signal-scrambling stomp boxes and visionary instrument effects, he’s exported that excitement and invention to other artists who plug into his gear and blow minds. In concert, A Place To Bury Strangers is nothing short of astounding — a shamanistic experience that bathes listeners in glorious sound, crazed left turns, transcendent vibrations, real-time experiments, brilliant breakthroughs. And just as many of his peers in the New York City underground seem to be slowing down and settling in, Ackermann’s creativity is accelerating. He’s launched a label of his own: Dedstrange, dedicated to advancing the work of sonic renegades worldwide. He’s also refreshed the group’s lineup, adding bassist John Fedowitz and drummer Sandra Fedowitz, and the band has never sounded more current, or more courageous, or more accessibly melodic. The Hologram EP is the first release from the new lineup — and the first on Dedstrange — and it’s no overstatement to say that the reaction has been ecstatic. Ghettoblaster wrote that the band’s racket outpaced everything to emerge from New York City in the past decade. Brooklyn Vegan praised Ackermann’s “terrific, emotive” singing, and lauded the group’s recent commitment to foregrounding its melodies and lyrics. Pitchfork, Flood, AllMusic: they’ve all lined up to call Hologram an example of the best work of a tireless band with a deep discography and an unquenchable drive to create challenging, unprecedented music. A Place To bury Strangers released their highly anticipated sixth album See Through You February 4, 2022 to on their newly formed label Dedstrange to critical acclaim.
GLITTER WIZARD w/ GLOWING BRAIN & DIESEL DUDES
**RESCHEDULED FROM 1/20/22** GLITTER WIZARD GLOWING BRAIN DIESEL DUDES Saturday April 30 2022 @ 8pm $16 adv // $18 dos
1788-L, X&G, IBARRA
1788-L X&G Ibarra Friday April 22 @ 9pm $26 adv // $31 dos 18+
SE SO NEON w/ BOYO & Laurence-Anne
SE SO NEONBOYO Laurence-Anne Friday April 8 2022 @ 7pm $36 adv // $41 dos 16+ —— SE SO NEON is a Korean band formed in Seoul in 2016. The band consists of Hwang Soyoon (vocals/guitar), Usu (drums) and Park Hyunjin (bass). They have explored their own brand of lo-fi and vintage sound ever since, with a wide spectrum of musical influences varying from blues, psychedelic rock to new wave and synth pop, all together forming an identity specific to SE SO NEON. Formed in Seoul, Korea in 2016, they debuted with the single [A Long Dream] in June 2017, and released the EP [Summer Plummage] in October of the same year, quickly becoming Korea’s leading indie music band after a year. They spent the best debut year by winning the Korean Popular Music Awards ‘Rookie of the Year’ and ‘Best Rock Song of The Year’, SE SO NEON began to make a name for themselves as they received great attention of various media. Also being invited to multiple international festivals in countries including the United States, Canada, Germany, and Taiwan, their potential not only in Korea but also on the world stage has begun to be recognized. After that, SE SO NEON, who continued to perform and appear in the media, proved their popularity once again by selling out 2,000 seats in 1 second after tickets were on sale at their solo concert [2020/NEON] in December 2019. In 2020, they were selected as a global artist of the global guitar brand Fender, and released their second EP [Nonadaptation] and single [NAN CHUN], and were selected as “Pitchfork The 35 Best Rock Albums of 2020” by the American music media Pitchfork and as “The 40 Best Rock Albums of 2020” by Paste Magazine. Since the release of the single [Jayu] in 2021, they have been consistently receiving popular acclaim both at home and abroad, and have recently been selected as the only Korean team in YouTube Music’s global artist development program “2021 Foundry” and is continuing their global activities. —- Laurence-Anne is a self-taught singer and guitarist who was a teenager when she wrote her first songs. The young woman was inspired by Feist and at first was really drawn towards the minimalist indie folk sound. Once she arrived in Montreal, she started leaning towards a more rock sound. She traded her acoustic instrument for an electric one and two years later, her first album Première Apparition was named on the long list of the prestigious Polaris Prize, and reached the top of Montréal’s university radio year-end, best-of chart for French albums. The new darling of critics and college radio performed at all of Quebec’s big festivals (Noce, FME, Frimat, FEQ, Festif) and even tested the waters in France (MaMA, Aurores Montréal) before returning home to record Accident, an EP with a touch of punk, indie-pop and tropical vibes. This astonishing, fertile sound exploration has led her to her second full-length album Musivision, due out on April 23rd via Bonsound.
The Dangerous Summer, Cory Wells, The BRKN, Giveaway
The Dangerous Summer // Cory Wells // The BRKN // Giveaway Saturday April 2, 2022 – Doors 7 // Show 8 $16 adv // $18 dos 18+
Lars Frederiksen, Joe Sib, DJ Cris Powerhouse
Lars Frederiksen Joe Sib DJ Cris Powerhouse Sunday April 3 2022 – Doors 7 // Show 8 $21 adv // $26 dos All Ages
Delta Sleep w/ Caracara & Hit Me, Harold!
Starline Social Club Presents:Delta SleepCaracaraHit Me, Harold!Friday April 1 2022 – Doors @ 7pm$16 adv // $19 dos——- Pairing unusual rhythmic structures with pop melodies, British math rock quartet Delta Sleep carved out a cult following with albums including 2018’s Ghost City. Originally from Canterbury, Kent, the quartet moved to Brighton and started playing in earnest. Comprised of Devin Yuceil (lead vocals, guitar), Glen Hodgson (vocals/guitar), Dave Jackson (vocals/bass), and Blake Mostyn (vocals, drums), Delta Sleep released their self-titled debut EP in 2010 before signing to Big Scary Monsters, which put out the follow-up Management in 2013. In 2015 the band played the post/math/noise rock Arctangent Festival, and the following year they released Twin Galaxies. For their next album, they headed to Italy to record at MAM Studios, and Ghost City was released in 2018.
Erika De Casier w/ Tama Gucci
Erika De CasierTama Gucci Tuesday March 29 2022 – Doors @ 7pm Erika de Casier is a breath of fresh air to anyone with a passion for music in all its genres, who’d bang a ‘90s jungle track and Mariah Carey in the same sitting. With hushed, pillow-soft vocals and production that references turn-of-the-millennium sounds, the Copenhagen songwriter-producer’s sound surveys the past while looking to the future. Newly signed to 4AD, her album Sensational marks a new chapter for Erika, an expansion of her sound that pushes to new creative heights.
Everything is Terrible!
Everything is Terrible! is the video and performance collective that is responsible for some of the internet’s most hilarious and bizarre videos. EIT! has posted daily re-edits for 11 years that have been culled from the mountains of dead media on the verge of abandonment by humanity. Some of their most widely shared videos include the creepy yoga farmer Yogi Ogi Dogi, the pedophile-hunting Yellow Dino, Cat Massage, Pubic Hair Dying, and of course, the demi-child-god Duane. Beyond creating what the CBC called ‘The best site ever’, Everything Is Terrible! has also collected over 24,000 Jerry Maguire VHS tapes that will one day live in a permanent pyramid in the desert. Their Jerry Maguire Video Store immersive art installation in Los Angeles was praised by The New York Times, Vice, ABC News, The Paris Review, and more. EIT!’s legion of cult-like followers drive for hours with offerings of hundreds of Jerrys to their one-of-a-kind live experiences which showcase their videos, costumes, puppets, performances, and insane worldview. They have made 7 feature length movies and their most recent, The Great Satan (2018) was called “a masterpiece’’ by both Film Threat and The Chicago Reader.