Baroness
**RESCHEDULED FROM JANUARY 30th** Baroness Each online ticket order will receive a link via email to vote for the songs in Baroness’ setlist for this show. All votes must be submitted no later than 8 days prior to performance date. Grammy-nominated exploratory rock band Baroness return with their most ambitious work to date, fifth album Gold & Grey. Set for release on the band’s own Abraxan Hymns, Gold & Grey spills triumphantly past genre barriers, their anthemic alt-metal hooks ricocheting between the circuitous twists of prog and jazz, the moody swirls of space-rock and noise, and the hypnotic pulses of trip-hop and 20th Century minimalism.
Lala Lala, Elton Aura
Lala Lala “I want total freedom, total possibility, total acceptance. I want to fall in love with the rock. ”That’s how Lillie West describes the theme of “DIVER,” the song she calls the thesis of Lala Lala’s third record, I Want The Door To Open. The rock in question is a reference to Sisyphus, the mythical figure doomed by the gods to forever push a boulder up from the depths of hell. To West, it is the perfect metaphor for “the labor of living, of figuring out who you are, what’s wrong with you, what’s right with you,” she says. “I think it’s easy to feel like we keep making the same mistakes over and over again, that we never learn, that we’re Sisyphus; but time is actually a spiral that we move up. The key is falling in love with the labor of walking up the mountain.” Elton Aura Elton Aura is a Chicago born rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer. Growing up in the Fox Valley suburbs, he was raised in a family of pastors which developed his spiritual sensibility in both his approach to music and life. Elton’s musical career was seeded when he was a little one singing in his church choir, influenced by gospel music. As his roots expanded, so did his musical tastes. By the time he was in high school, he discovered Motown soul, funk, and rap which prompted him to write, sing, rap, & record on his own. By the time he was seventeen, he created a band called, “The Art of Cool” mixing hip hop, funk, rock, and r&b.In 2013, Elton moved to Chicago and joined a community with upcoming musicians and artists which led to collaborations with some of Chicago’s most promising talent. In 2017, Elton recorded two EP’s “Sunshower” and “Side Eye” with artists, the Burns Twins and Bedows. In 2018, he followed up with a debut solo project, “Elevated EP” featuring his hit single, “Callin”. With his music on the rise, Elton supported Chicago rapper & activist, Noname on her 2019 North American “Room 25 Tour”. His songs have aired on Showtime original series, “The Chi” and Amazon Prime’s, “Selah and the Spades”. https://www.instagram.com/elton.aura https://twitter.com/eltonaura https://www.facebook.com/EltonAura/
La Marisoul y Son California w/ Las Mariposas del Alma (Acoustic Set)
Starline Social Club PresentsLa Marisoul y Son CaliforniaLas Mariposas del Alma (acoustic set) Friday March 11 2022 @ 8pm$20 adv // $25 dos18+ —- La Marisoul y Son California Is a group of southern California-based traditional Mexican folk artists whose goal is to celebrate the diversity of styles within son Jarocho and Mexican folk music. They share a deep respect and love for this genre. After years of cultivating deep roots in this traditional art form in Veracruz, the group has decided to come together to create new interpretations and original music based on traditional and contemporary art forms. La Marisoul Hernandez, Federico Zuniga, Victor Murillo, and Jorge Herrera stem from rich Mexican musical traditions rooted in California and Mexico. The love they share for their culture and community is evident in their passionate and soulful interpretations of Son and Cancion Mexicana
DeVotchKa w/ Barrio Manouche
Starline Social Club PresentsDeVotchKaBarrio ManoucheFriday March 18 2022 – Doors @ 8pm$30 adv // $35 dos18+——– A cross-pollination of numerous influences, including cabaret, spaghetti Westerns, norteño, punk, and the immigrant dance music of Eastern Europe, Colorado-based quartet DeVotchKa, formed in Denver by multi-instrumentalists Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion), Jeanie Schroder (sousaphone, bass) and percussionist Shawn King, emerged as unlikely indie heroes in the mid-2000s infusing modern indie music with a global flavor. They found widespread success in 2006 with their Grammy-nominated soundtrack to the hit indie film Little Miss Sunshine. Signing with revered indie, Anti-, the band delivered A Mad and Faithful Telling in early 2008, reaching the number nine slot on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. A lengthy world tour followed, including stops at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Bumbershoot. After doing more soundtrack work, this time for the 2009 comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, the group returned to the studio for 2011’s moody and triumphant 100 Lovers. Embarking on another world tour, they collaborated with the Colorado Symphony on the 2012 concert album Live with the Colorado Symphony. Over the next several years, Urata became increasingly involved in his own film composition career, scoring movies like Crazy Stupid Love, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Paddington, and the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Meanwhile, the band regrouped for a lengthy recording session, eventually returning in 2018 with their sixth album, This Night Falls Forever, this time via Concord Records.
Spirit of the Beehive, Deeper
Spirit of the Beehive: Ever since SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE released their self-titled debut in 2014, they’ve developed a reputation for being your favorite band’s favorite band. Theirs is the music of immersion, of confrontation, the kind that makes a listener stop and wonder, “How are they even doing that?” And as the years wear on, that sense of bafflement has made room for SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE to quietly but steadily ascend, with their most recent album, 2018’s Hypnic Jerks, leaving them poised on the precipice of wider recognition. Deeper: Deeper’s Origins date back to 2014 when prior to releasing any material an abrupt line-up change left the Chicago based band looking for a new direction. Singer and guitarist Nic Gohl along with drummer Shiraz Bhatti threw out all of their old songs and brought on bassist Drew McBride to round out the lineup. The subsequent demos leaned on intricate guitar interplay, direct “of the times” vocals and a spirit that speaks to the band’s collective place in this pit of endless internet.
Kossisko w/ Seb Torgus & Joe Wax
Kossisko When Kossisko first burst onto the scene as 100s — a slick-talking, perm-wearing rapper in the lineage of Too $hort and Snoop Dogg — his charisma was immediately captivating. The pimp rapper pesona, and the ’70s-inspired aesthetic, that the Berkeley-born artist refined on 2012’s Ice Cold Perm and 2014’s IVRY earned him a cult fan base that clung to his every gamed-laced word. But, in the midst of this success, he began to feel boxed in and disconnected from the role he’d created. “I hit a ceiling and I couldn’t express myself how I wanted to,” he says now. “I didn’t want to be playing a character.” In 2015, Kossisko set out on a divergent course, adopting his given first name as his moniker and exploring other influences that ranged from Prince to Marilyn Manson. “I never say never but I didn’t think I was ever going to rap again,” he remembers. “You burn out on that and it’s like, ‘Now what?’ There’s so many other aspects of yourself that you’ve never explored or ever felt comfortable enough to explore.” His early work as Kossisko were trial-and-error experiments from an artist still processing where he’d been and where he wanted to go. A creative breakthrough came when he met his producer Cole MGN, a fellow Bay Area native who previously worked with Beck, Ariel Pink, Dam-Funk, and more. They began searching for the best way to bring together all of Kossisko’s disparate musical stylings into a mixture that felt true to the highs and the lows, the ego and the vulnerability, that he’d been trying to set to music. For the 25-year-old, that meant a return to rapping. “Rediscovering how I would even rap again and approach some of these subjects was a big ass hurdle,” Kossisko says. “It was therapeutic to get to that point.” The result of their work over the past two years is Low, a collection of songs that show both the depths of Kossisko’s psyche and the commanding range of his vocal abilities. More than anything, the project feels like a natural combination of everything that got him to this point, all his influences and inclinations shining through to create something completely his own. “It took awhile for me to figure out how to incorporate all the parts of myself” he says. “I don’t feel like I had to filter anything. It’s just me and where I’m at right now.” Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm 18+
Touché Amoré, vein.fm, Gleemer, Thirdface
TOUCHÉ AMORÉ SPRING TOUR 2022 w/special guests vein.fm Gleemer ThirdfaceAges 18+
SUMAC w/ Blood Spore & Zachary Watkins
SUMAC w/ Blood Spore & Zachary Watkins Tuesday March 8 2022 $18adv // $20dos 18+ — The seed of SUMAC was planted somewhere around the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011, sown upon the smoldering ashes of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner’s former band ISIS. Turner had seen his prior project reach full fruition over the span of thirteen years, and it had reached the end of its lifecycle. ISIS had come to define an entire genre of architecturally meticulous and sonically nuanced metal, but at some point all the corners had been mapped, all the fortifications constructed. There was nothing left to build. Turner continued his musical path contributing to the deconstructed panoramic soundscapes of Mamiffer, the misanthropic crowd-baiting sludge of Old Man Gloom, the exploratory electrical whirr of House Of Low Culture, and a slew of studio projects running the gamut from slow-crawling minimalist pop (Jodis), to fiery d-beat punk (Split Cranium). In the midst of all these endeavors however, Turner tended to another venture, one that germinated slowly, its DNA already charted but its flesh still to develop. SUMAC finally began to bloom in 2012 when Turner caught a set by Vancouver’s raging crust band Baptists. Drummer Nick Yacyshyn stormed through the songs, supplementing the band’s blitzkrieg energy with dexterous idiosyncratic fills and modulating drum patterns. Turner realized the rhythmic underpinning had been found, and shortly thereafter made contact with Yacyshyn. With this duo now comprising the core of SUMAC, the band developed quickly. Their debut album sprouted from a set of carefully composed guitar demos, a string of intensive days holed up in the forests of Vashon Island for writing and rehearsals, and a quick recording session booked while the songs were still growing. Turner recruited Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, Botch) to fill in on bass duties, hammering out the low-end lurch and cementing the foundation to the songs. The Deal was born. With SUMAC, noting the members’ prior accomplishments isn’t an indirect excuse for The Deal’s existence; it’s a road map through the briar of their jagged labyrinthine compositions. Across the span of the album’s six songs, SUMAC takes multiple turns through unexpected territories: textural hums, math-metal, harsh noise, Caspar Brötzmann-inspired free-jazz. But all roads lead to a destination that epitomizes the members’ passionate dedication to heavy multi-deminsional music—bludgeoning riffs, tension-building structures, disorienting seismic shifts in tone, timbre, and tempo. If there was a simple way to summarize The Deal, it’s that it’s an incredibly smart and emotionally sophisticated record, which may initially appear as a single minded brutish assault. SUMAC is not suited for cursory listening.
Heart Attack Man, Covey, Arm’s Length, Blood Root
Heart Attack Man Covey Arm’s Length Blood Root Doors 6 // Show 7 – 16+
IGLOOGHOST w/ BABii
IGLOOGHOST Irish producer Seamus Malliagh makes extremely giddy, hyperkinetic electronic music as Iglooghost, throwing juke/footwork, anime, IDM, hip-hop, and pop into a blender and hitting infinity. The restlessly creative artist’s tracks are extremely dense, fast-moving, and cartoonish, loaded with complex beats, high-pitched voices, and rapid-fire samples. While this sounds like it could easily end up being a nauseating sugar rush, his tracks have an advanced pop sensibility and focus that keep them both exciting and memorable, and they never come close to sounding predictable or conventional.