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Wednesday
August 20 2014 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $10 in advance / $12 at the door DWNTWN www.dwntwnmusic.com/ Indie Pop Should We Run shouldwerun.com/ Indie Haunt Pale Blue Dot soundcloud.com/pbdofoakland space-disco,bliss-disco DWNTWN Jamie Leffler, Robert Cepeda, Chris Sanchez, and Dan Vanchieri. -From Los Angeles, California. -Following a breakup between Jamie Leffler and Robert Cepeda's brother, DWNTWN was born out of a heartbroken lark back in 2010. Over the course of four years, Leffler and Cepeda went from recording folk experiments into their iPhones, to making resplendent indie-pop that sounds as warm and intoxicating as the city they both call home. The band has grown from shy bedroom recordists and reluctant performers into a formidable pop outfit. Their heartfelt daydreams are distilled into pitch-perfect 3-minute confections, the perfect music for late-night makeouts, winsome self-reflection, or better yet- endless sun-filled drives with the top down. Should We Run Krishan Abeyatunge, Katie Jay Baer, Dante Sesin, Rich DiBenedetto, Genevieve Walker, Rahi Kumar, and Sam Van Diest. -From San Francisco, California. -Existential indie rock with a strong emphasis on lyrical content and emotional intensity. Emotive, evocative, earnest and edge, Should We Run is a band that will pull at your cardiac and guts for the sake of catharsis and transmutation. Pale Blue Dot -Pale Blue Dot is the brainchild of Oakland’s own Adam Myatt, a key affiliate of the Mapzzz crew and a tireless Oakland music man who has put in countless hours as one-half of James & Evander and served as a key member of Hoodcats, Empty Pockets, and a host of other projects. With Mapzzz EP19, Myatt debuts his latest synthy concoction, enlisting the aid of guitarist Jonny Latimer and bassist Andrew Macy (both of which are noteworthy Bay Area musicians in their own right) to craft spiraling pieces of space-age disco-pop as Pale Blue Dot. The EP’s two original tracks are fun and lighthearted instrumentals, but don’t let the playful melodies fool you—these are dense and engrossing tracks that gradually lead the listener from driving disco beats to stoney synthscapes with an understated ease. -The East Bay trio known as Pale Blue Dot does not necessarily self-identify as a “supergroup,” but I went there anyway. Comprised of members of James & Evander, The Aimless Never Miss, and B. Hamilton, what else would you call it? “There may be a few Bay Area music nerds who know our other bands, but we’d hardly call it a supergroup,” says Adam Myatt, also of James & Evander. “We’re three somewhat-like-minded musicians/friends from Oakland, who met playing shows in various bands together, and like to think of this current project as Carl Sagan-inspired disco.” You read that right, folks: “Carl Sagan-inspired disco.” So now would probably be a good time to hit you with Pale Blue Dot’s first track. Here’s “Voyage”, which does indeed ride a disco-ish beat, but there’s so much more here to like – crystalline guitar lines, spacey synths (hence the Carl Sagan, I’m guessing), and a grooving, bouncy bass line. “We’re hoping people are drawn into our groovitational pull" .Pale Blue Dot. |
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