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Thursday May 24 2018 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $12 Hellbent presents... The Memories members of White Fang www.facebook.com/The-Memories-321633651184829/ lo-fi funk Jimmy Whispers www.facebook.com/summerinpain/ bedroom pop lo-fi Friendless Summer www.facebook.com/friendlesssummer/ bedroom pop lo-fi The Memories -from Portland, OR/Los Angeles, CA -February 14th, 2018; Los Angeles, Calif. - - - Happy Valentine's Day! Hi, it's me, Rikky; the singer and primary lyricist of this band, The Memories! Me and Izak, my good friend and fellow songwriter in The Memories, wrote and recorded this album throughout 2015 and 2016, while we were also writing and recording the 'Royal United Song Service' album, which came out on Burger Records last Summer. This is a loose concept album based around our experiences during the first couple years living in Los Angeles (2014-2015) when there was a lot of wild stuff going on and we were constantly going out into the city to see shows and party. We have been really stoked to show you these songs and for awhile we didn't know exactly how we wanted to release the album, and now it's 2018 (almost 3 years since we started recording this album) so we decided "fuck it, let's just give it to 'em" and here it is - a musical postcard that's been sitting in our outbox for years now in your hands, just in time for Valentine's Day. We had big grand plans to release this on gatefold vinyl (which I'm sure will happen eventually) with Teryn Brown's dope ass cover artwork all over the cover, but then we wrote and released the 'Song Service' and started working on yet another album, all on top of this, so we decided that there was no time to waste. It's yours now, free online on this Bandcamp thing, ready for your speakers. I hope that's enough information; I'm writing this off the top of my head while in the Gnar Tapes office smoking kush listening to the album. Much love! XOXO - Big Rik Jimmy Whispers -from Chicago, IL -"Who is this Jimmy Whispers," you'll ask yourself the first time you hear him, whether he's leaping out at you metaphorically from your speakers or leaping out at you literally from the stage during a live performance fraught with physicality and emotion. It's a good question, who this guy is, and there's no easy answer. He's been called Chicago's "greatest new homegrown musical enigma" by the Tribune's Jessica Hopper, and a "weirdo loner" by himself. While both of those descriptions are correct, neither one's complete. He's an enigma, true, but one who sings directly from the heart about the broadest of human feelings: the need to love and be loved. Yes, he's a loner, but one who spends his free time organizing basketball tournaments to raise money for community nonprofits, and ends his concerts by mashing audience members together to slow dance to Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World." Jimmy Whispers is a walking, talking, singing, and dancing bundle of paradoxes. Greatest among them, perhaps, is his ability to transform the most seemingly basic melodies sketched out hastily with an electric organ on an iPhone voice message into such a profound racket, or how this dirty weirdo from Chicago managed to insinuate himself into the tradition of great American sentimental balladeers. His music will make you laugh and cry and dance and, unless you're terminally jaded and hardhearted, it'll make you genuinely feel something. And no matter how many times you listen you'll keep asking yourself, for a multitude of reasons, "Who is this fucking guy?" Friendless Summer -from San Francisco, CA -Friendless Summer is the solo project of Jack Brown. |
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