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Friday May 15
2020 TBA The
Small Crush show is postponing and will be rescheduled, exact date as
yet unknown. Your
tickets will be transferred to the new date automatically unless
you request a refund, which you can do at any time. Once it is
rescheduled, we will let you know the new date, and you will still have
one more opportunity at that time to request a refund if you cannot
make the new date.
Friday May 15
2020
 8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• ALL AGES $13 in advance / $15 at the door Small Crush www.facebook.com/smallcrushh/ alternative indie Aan aansound.com/ heavy-pop-tender-grunge Juicebumps juicebumpsonline.com/ post-punk Small Crush -from Oakland, CA -Small Crush formed when lead-singer, songwriter, and bassist Logan Hammon felt that her band wasn’t giving her enough freedom to write her own songs. She stole the lead-guitarist Jackson Felton, knocked on the drummer Will Scherer's door down the street and started a new project out of their garage. The trio, what was to become Small Crush, started making music inspired from Hammon’s voice memos and titled from a self-professed “inability to crush on someone for a long time, so lots of little crushes.” Not long after the band’s genesis, Hammon and Felton recruited rhythm guitarist Thomas DeBourbon and started playing house shows, coffee shops, and small venues. The effect of Hammon’s virtuosic lyrical introversion over playful riffs evokes Frankie Cosmos and Waxahatchee. The music seems to be derived from many small crushes, evoking a sincere and intense conviction too often lost in adulthood. -Berkeley B side magazine Aan Vocals, Guitar / Bud Wilson Bass, Synth, Vocals / Travis Leipzig Keys, Vocals / Andy Lawson Guitar / Eddie Bond Drums / Dana Valatka -from Portland, OR -Aan (short for "Amor ad nauseam") is a psychedelic-pop group from Portland, Oregon. On record, the heart of the group is songwriter/frontman Bud Wilson, and live they come together as an explosive five-piece ensemble. Wilson lives on a small farm several miles outside of town in a small house, surrounded by ducks, chickens, coyotes and trees, where he writes most of his songs. Although the end result is a long aural drive from anything resembling the countryside, the music retains the sincerity of that familial place – a feeling of home – a home that Wilson invites the world into through his new album, Losing My Shadow, out this spring on Fresh Selects. Pastoral stomping grounds aside, Aan’s music puts forth a gritty, progressive, searing sonic boom of sound that might just be the exact wake-up call the current indie climate needs. Never one for taking the beaten path, Wilson opened himself up and dove head-first through the thicket when writing this latest offering. The album finds the singer/multi-instrumentalist parsing through his inner-most thoughts, feelings, and vices after the sudden passing of his father two years ago. At perhaps its most wrenching moments, the album deals with Wilson attempting to understand his mother’s perspective in this new world, without her partner for the first time. A therapeutic exercise as much as it is an exorcism, his all-too-personal storytelling reckons with the demons that often find their way in when one is living with grief, and how important it can be to cast them out before they consume the soul. Taking a more personal approach on this album than on Aan's previous, more band-oriented records – this time out, Bud locked himself in a studio with producer/musician, Cameron Spies (Radiation City, Reptaliens, The Saxophones) for months on end, working together to build up, then deconstruct and re-tool these songs over and over, until they each reached their most vital and essential form. Once the lightning was officially in the bottle, Aan teamed up with Portland's own Fresh Selects for the new album's release. Being a label more known for their introduction of groundbreaking artists in the worlds of modern R&B and beat music (SiR, Mndsgn, Charlotte Dos Santos, and Kadhja Bonet – to name a few) than they are for straight-forward rock acts, this partnership was an adventurous one for both parties alike, which seemed only right given the album's exploratory and daring resolve. Juicebumps Parker Richard - Guitar + Vox Luca McGrath - Bass Narsai Malik - Drums -from San Francisco, CA -San Francisco’s favorite hard to listen to spank-rock band: Juicebumps! They excrete a signature blend of hot garbage & Vaseline that goes down thick and leaves you hankering for less. |