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Saturday June 25
2022  8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• 21 AND OVER $15 The Builders and the Butchers www.thebuildersandthebutchers.com/ folk rock Sore Thumb www.facebook.com/SoreThumbCa indie-pop-grunge Banzai Cliff www.banzaicliff.com/ lo-fi garage pop The Builders and the Butchers -from Portland, OR -Portland-based folk rock band, The Builders and the Butchers, announce their forthcoming album, The Spark, due out May 19th. The band’s fifth LP will be released on Badman Recordings Co, which will be their third release with the label. Their last album was hailed by Consequence of Sound, who said, “The Builders and the Butchers make records the way the bards used to pass on stories. They’re poetic and captivating, and do to songwriting what Clint Eastwood does to movies,” and this new record follows the same, narrative-driven path. With glowing album and show reviews coming from Pitchfork and The Wall Street Journal, among others, their brand of folk-rock is best served live. Audiences can look forward to lively performances, where fourth wall is broken and the audience is able to participate in call and response sing-a-longs. Sometimes the band will hand out instruments for fans to play, and they’ll even get down off stage to perform right on the floor. The Builders and The Butchers formed in 2005. Ryan Sollee fronts the band, sings and plays guitar, joined by Willy Kunkle (bass, guitar, vocals, percussion), Justin Baeir (drums, backup vocals, percussion) and Harvey Tumbleson (mandolin, banjo, guitar, vocals, percussion). The Portland-based band gained a strong following after years of playing anywhere and everywhere across the city. They quickly grew to become one of the most exciting live bands in Portland and throughout the Pacific Northwest. The band toured throughout the US and Europe from 2007-2012, playing music festivals, such as Sasquatch and Lollapalooza, and acting as support for Portugal. The Man, Heartless Bastards, Amanda Palmer and Murder By Death. To support their forthcoming release, The Spark, the band will be playing their first US and European tour in multiple years. This new album features a wider array of sounds and shorter, hard hitting songs, while remaining a Builders’ record at heart. The process of creating The Spark was the longest of any Builders’ record to date. They spent the last five years writing the music and a year mixing. With several band members living out of state (Justin in Colorado, Willy in Malta, Harvey in Washington and Ryan and Ray in Portland), many parts were recorded remotely. Drums and much of the electric guitar were recorded at Revolver Studios and the rest was laid down piece-by-piece and mixed by Edgar McCrae at his home studio. Influences for the record range from Tom Waits to The White Stripes. Sore Thumb -from East Bay, CA -"To call the Bay Area’s Sore Thumb surf rock would be a restrictive oversimplification. While the beginning half of their debut LP An Album By… is straight-up, 60s inspired, reverb-drenched rock, the record moves on from that pretty quickly. A few of the middle tracks, like “No Right, No Wrong” and “Meltdown,” explore darker undertones and move deeper into the territory of alternative rock. However, like a rubber band snapping back into shape, the sunny, surfy rock that Southern California has grown to love returns in “That’s Why” (streaming below) and remains throughout the end of the track list. This LP is also accompanied by a visual album that is streaming on the band’s YouTube. Currently, the LP is available for free download for anyone who attends a show or connects with the band on Facebook. - Lilly Milman" Banzai Cliff -from Oakland, CA -Banzai Cliff is Nicky Koch, joined by producer and multi-instrumentalist David Ulrich. Nicky is half Chamorro and grew up on his mother’s home island of Saipan, near Guam. Technically it’s a US protectorate formerly colonized by Japan and Germany before it but let’s not get in the weeds here. Banzai Cliff was one of Nicky’s favorite places to visit on the island–a beautiful cliffside WWII monument, perched on the Pacific. But it’s also a super sad place. Heavy with history, as they say. Nicky and Davey wrote Hypothetical Love, Banzai Cliff’s first album, in homage to heavy histories. Yes, there is a song about Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, they wanted to make an emotional and drivey song about their favorite movie, deal with it. But Hypothetical Love’s themes touch on love, family, anxiety, ex-girlfriends, and lost friends, all while spanning the punkier side of ‘80s pop. |
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