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July 26 2013 9:30PM -- doors at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $10 in advance / $12 at the door The Orange Peels www.theorangepeels.com/ Alternative / Indie / Pop Vela Eyes www.facebook.com/velaeyes alternative rock indie pop post-punk psychedelic rock shoegaze The Corner Laughers cornerlaughers.com/ Folk Rock / Indie / Powerpop The Orange Peels The Orange Peels is a Northern California band formed in 1994 known for its ability to melodically evoke images and atmospheres of life on the West Coast. The group uses standard rock instrumentation to produce soundscapes that are at once sweeping and jarring, giving them a unique place between orchestral pop, rock and indie-pop. Though the band's lineup has changed with each successive album, founding members Allen Clapp and Jill Pries have been the nucleus. In fact, dramatic upheavals in membership have ensured the band never releases albums more frequently than four years apart. The group currently features Clapp, Pries, Gabriel Coan and John Moremen. On May 14, 2013, The Orange Peels will release their fifth album, “Sun Moon.” The band is teaming up with record labels Minty Fresh and Mystery Lawn Music as well as distribution partner Redeye for the release. But let’s not forget who else partnered with us to make this all happen. With the help of our friends, families and fans through Kickstarter, we’re bringing it to you on CD, digital formats, and beautiful, audiophile vinyl. - Vela Eyes With a patchwork of influences (Siouxie and the Banshees, Echo & the Bunnyman, Sonic Youth, Led Zeppelin, New Order and My Bloody Valentine) and by fusing elements of post punk, shoe gaze and psych rock, Vela Eyes produces an ethereal and aggressive soundscape. The band is lyrically inspired by fantasies of love, and the beauty of empowerment. Ian Zazueta - Guitar, Programming. Florie Maschmeyer - Vocals, Synth. Nate Higley - Bass, Vocals. Julia Johari - Guitar, Synth, Vocals. Jef Pauly - Drums. Vela Eyes is comprised of members of Delle Vellum, The Paradise Boys, The Snake the Cross the Crown (Equal Vision), and New Diplomat (Dan the Automator). The band started as a side project between guitarist Ian Zazueta and front woman Florie Maschmeyer. Bassist Nate Higley was quickly added to the fold, introducing Julia Johari as a second keyboard player, guitarist and background vocalist. The four of them wrote a batch of songs and by September landed Jef Pauly as drummer. The Corner Laughers Members: Karla Kane- Vocals/Ukulele; Angela Silletto- Guitar; Khoi Huynh- Bass/Backing vocals; Charlie Crabtree- Drums; KC Bowman - guitar, vocals Sounds Like: Belle and Sebastian, Kirsty MacColl, XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, The Ditty Bops The band is led by singer/ukulele player Karla Kane, with bassist Khoi Huynh, drummer Charlie Crabtree, and guitarists KC Bowman and co-founder Angela Silletto, who made the poignant decision to leave the band midway through the recording of the album to pursue a new path, away from her native California. Their sound defies pigeonholes but has been compared to that of Kirsty MacColl, XTC and, despite some sunshine-pop tendencies, the “rainy melancholia” of Camera Obscura (Magnet Magazine). Produced by Allen Clapp (The Orange Peels), Poppy Seeds also features collaborations with power-pop legend Mike Viola (Candy Butchers) and psych-pop expat Anton Barbeau. The record boasts liner notes by best-selling novelist Wesley Stace (folk-rocker John Wesley Harding), who ponders, “Who is immune to the charms of airy female vocals and the ukulele, with lyrics full of pith (but not vinegar)? Nobody. The moment I turn on Poppy Seeds, I remember that sugar is sweet.” Front and center are heavenly vocals, jangly guitars, delicate ukes, a thunderous rhythm section and Clapp’s trademark crystalline production, but present too are violins and woodwinds, a full handbell choir, and the sounds of loose-leaf tea, anti-depressant bottles and even crickets. Since the release of the critically acclaimed Ultraviolet Garden, called a “nigh-on-perfect fusion of bubblegum-sweet tunefulness and clever, subtly barbed lyrics” (Icon Magazine) and “simply wonderful” (PopMatters), The Corner Laughers have received international radio airplay and reviews; had multiple songs in national retail campaigns; toured the UK twice and performed both locally and abroad with artists including Viola, Three Minute Tease (Barbeau, with Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe of The Soft Boys), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), Martin Newell, Sophie Madeleine, Tristen, and The Moore Brothers. Called by one reviewer a “Wrecking Crew in miniature” due to their ongoing work with Mystery Lawn Music label mates Allen Clapp and His Orchestra, Agony Aunts and others, The Corner Laughers go a step beyond their previous output with Poppy Seeds, down a king’s highway lined with shadows and sunlight, like the colorful, bittersweet pageantry of a Day of the Dead parade. Fresh from the fields of Mystery Lawn Music, Bay Area indie-poppers The Corner Laughers invite listeners to gather in their summer-solstice 2012 release Poppy Seeds. The record is a shimmering love letter to the Golden State, offering the clever wordplay, magical melodies and heartbreaking harmonies fans and critics have come to expect from the group while breaking new ground in focus, depth and texture.. |
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