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Wednesday July 6 2016 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $12 Kyle Craft www.facebook.com/kylecraftmusic/ singer-songwriter - rock and roll Fever Charm www.facebook.com/fevercharmband/ Alternative/Rock/Indie El Gato Dice www.facebook.com/elgatodice/ indie Kyle Craft Kyle Craft- Guitar, Haven Multz- Drums, Daniel Talmadge- Piano Jeremy Padot- Guitar, Ben Steinmetz- Organ, Mayhaw Hoons- Bass -from Portland, OR -Kyle Craft grew up in a tiny Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi, where he spent most of his time catching alligators and rattlesnakes instead of playing football or picking up the guitar. He’s not the born product of a musical family, and bands never came through town–it was only a chance trip to K-Mart that gave him his first album, a David Bowie hits compilation that helped inspire him eventually to channel his innate feral energy into songwriting and rock and roll. That self-made talent drives every note of Dolls of Highland, Craft’s exhilarating, fearless solo debut. “This album is the dark corner of a bar,” he says. “It’s that feeling at the end of the night when you’re confronted with ‘now what?’” Craft knows the feeling well–Dolls began to take shape when everything he took for granted was suddenly over, including an eight-year relationship. “All of a sudden I was left with just me for the first time in my adult life,” he says. He decided to get himself and the music he’d been working on far away from the ghosts of his home in Shreveport, Louisiana, to make a new life for himself in Portland, Oregon, living under a friend’s pool table while he demoed new songs and started to tackle his own question about what came next. Dolls of Highland crashes open with “Eye of a Hurricane,” a whirlwind of ragtime piano and Craft’s dynamic, enthralling vocals. He calls it a “jealous song,” stirred up by the memories of an ill-fated crush and a drama of “weird little connections, a spider web of what the fuck?” The swinging, resonant “Lady of the Ark” is also tied up in that web, “a very incestuous song,” says Craft. “It’s about these messed up relationships, maybe involving me, maybe revolving around me.” Most of the characters and atmospheres on the album come from in and around Shreveport, where Craft briefly returned while recording the album for an intensely productive reckoning with his past. He stayed in a friend’s laundry room in the Highland neighborhood, where he recorded the whole album in two months on a home studio rig. “I dedicated the album to Shreveport and called it Dolls of Highland for all the girls and ghosts in town who influenced it so strongly.” Craft eventually returned to Portland where Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of The Helio Sequence helped refine and mix the album to move it from its DIY beginnings to a more fully realized work. Craft played most of the instruments on the album, but the recorded songs transmit the power of his live performance. “It’s just letting go,” says Craft. “I think it’s just all about feeling it in your chest.” And then there’s Craft’s unforgettable voice–”I’m fully aware that I have a very abrasive, very loud voice, but Bob Dylan is the one that taught me to embrace that,” says Craft. “I stray away from him from time to time, but always come back. I don’t want to come off as antique, but I also don’t want to be afraid of paying homage to the stuff I’ve always loved.” Fever Charm Arieh Berl // Theo Quayle // Yianni AP // JT Gagarin -from Oakland, CA -Fever Charm is a group of Oakland, CA natives, who create a unique Rock/Indie-pop crossover with a California beach vibe. Fever Charm’s live performances are always filled with high energy, crowd-engag- ing vibes consisting of loud guitars, beach balls flying through the air, crowd surfing, and the occasional instrument smash. Their music combines timeless pop sensibility with California surfy-garage rock, reminiscent of acts such as Grouplove and Cage the Elephant. More recently, the band has moved to the iconic artist community of Silver Lake, CA to pursue music full time. Ari will complete the move this May upon graduation. Fever Charm spent the winter of 2015 writing and recording their next EP, and has plans to return to playing live and continuing to write and record in the Los Angeles area beginning early summer 2016. El Gato Dice David- Vocals Guitars, Bob- Percussion Uğur- Bass, Live: Nyika- vocals -from San Francisco, CA -SF Indie duo Dave and Bob moved on from a previous project together (Disbelievers) and rounded out the edges a little. In 2013 Ugur Pece joined as full time bass player. . Dave's Cleveland roots had him in the surf-wonders Jet Potato and shoegaze champions Still Life. Bob cut his chops in the NC college scene, hobnobbing with pals from Archers of Loaf, etc. The two met on the west coast in 2004 and decided to bring that rustbelt meets college Appalachia sound to the big big city. And it works. Add Ugur's world view (honed at his days at Stanford) and you get a truly refined but gritty set of songs. You won't hear a million groups in SF that sound like El Gato Dice, but you will hear an eclectic mix of songs...some simply as duos, some trios, some as a five-piece. The format is not what's important. It's the way the sound makes you feel and move. And it's a manic kind of melancholy! It's Death Cab versus the Smiths. And the winner is..the audience! But don't take my word for it. Check out 2010's critically acclaimed Uno, and watch for summer 2014's epic-in-the-making Dos. Recorded in Berkeley. Grooved too worldwide. |
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