Advance Base & Katie Malco with James Schroeder
Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as “lo-fi,” “depressed” & “weirdly uplifting.”
The Dirty Nil
with Grumpster and Bug Bath If there’s one rule people should follow when approaching the DIRTY NIL, it’s this: Never tell them how to rock‘n’roll. Ontario’s Juno Award winning trio is a finely tuned rock machine that is at its best when the members are pursuing their penchant for thrashy riffs, bashed out drums, and levels-to-the-max volume. And on their fourth album, Free Rein to Passions, the band followed their instincts down to the note to produce their most authentic work to date. *** GRUMPSTER is a garage punk band from Oakland, California. The group consists of Donnie Walsh (he/him) on bass and vocals, Noel Agante (he/him) on drums and Lalo Gonzalez Deetz (he/him) on guitar. *** “BUG BATH is big guitar music from Reno, Nevada. Taking cues from bands like Archers of Loaf and Superdrag, to Jimmy Eat World and Teenage Fanclub; BUG BATH takes a noisy and feedback laden wall-of-sound approach to the grey area between emo, power-pop, indie-rock, and hardcore. Formed as trio in 2018, the group now performs as a revolving door sextet, drawing in players from across the west-coast DIY community. Their debut album “(bug bath)” was released august of 2022 on their own label, Egg Wash Recordings. In 2023 BUG BATH began working with underground metal and experimental taste-making label Transylvanian Recordings to release their 2024 EP, “World of Fools”. BUG BATH has toured with Absinthe Father, Just Friends, and Sun Spots; and shared the stage with Jimmy Eat World, Yellowcard, Mom Jeans., Mannequin Pussy, Angel Du$t, Tony Molina, Scowl, and countless others.”
Brother Ali
BROTHER ALI is a highly respected Hip Hop artist, speaker, and community leader from Minneapolis, MN. His two-decade resume includes eight critically-acclaimed albums, mentorships with iconic Hip Hop legends Chuck D and Rakim, and performances on late night shows with Jimmy Fallon and Conan O’Brien. His provocative and uplifting brand of Hip Hop has earned him coveted press features like Rolling Stone’s 40th anniversary edition and Source Magazine’s “Hip Hop Quotables”, while his outspoken social justice message has landed him on government watch lists. He’s also lectured at universities from Princeton to Stanford and delivered the keynote address at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. When he’s not rocking the mic at Coachella or being arrested for civil disobedience in support of marginalized communities, BROTHER ALI travels the world learning and teaching Islamic Spirituality under some of today’s most renowned teachers. In addition to leading worship services and classes, he co-founded The Gemali Project, an organization that helps Muslim converts and spiritual seekers access the beauty of the Islamic tradition. BROTHER ALI recently launched The Travelers Podcast from his new home in Istanbul, exploring life’s journey with cultural, spiritual, and thought leaders from across the globe.
Sorry Mom
Sorry Mom is a new york based queer punk band! They like to hang out and play music and shoot hoops. They’ve shared the court with the likes of ajj and two members of The Front Bottoms. Their new single “But I’m a Quarterback” is out now on Hopeless Records.
Escuela Grind
with for your health and Wisdom & War Through punishingly short, and dynamic songs, ESCUELA GRIND delivers politically charged lyrics inspired by modern anxieties, unrest, and the roots of Hardcore Punk, Grindcore, and Power Violence. While members Katerina Economou, Jesse Fuentes (Kill the Client, Creator|Destroyer), Jason Balthazar Eldridge (Hearse), and Kris Morash (Your Brain on Drugs) span from different parts of the United States; the band has been based in Upstate New York and Western Massachusetts since its first shows in 2016.
Swallow The Sun
with special guests Harakiri For The Sky, Ghost Bath and Snakes of Russia More than two decades of despair, beauty, and heartache have not only shaped but fueled Finnish melancholy torchbearers, the chart-topping and two-time Finnish Grammy nominated SWALLOW THE SUN. Formed in Jyväskylä in 2000, the quintet has enjoyed numerous fan-lauded music videos (10+ million YouTube views) and streaming dominance (50+ million Spotify plays), while also embarking on a four-continent, 900-show run throughout their 23-year career. The new album, Shining, however, is the group’s first step on the new path to the unknown. —- Mӕre – a malicious folk entity that creeps up on sleeping people’s chests during the night and instils breathlessness and anxiety. It is this state of diffused terror and paralysis that has been enshrined in HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’s music ever since their 2012 debut album. With M.S.‘s captivating guitar melodies and J.J.‘s lyrics, ridden with trauma, delirium and loss, their unique mixture of black metal and post rock creates an inescapable maelstrom of shattering screams and sudden acoustic guitar interludes. —- GHOSTBATH writes and creates under the assumption that music is an extension of one’s own soul. They journey through the sorrow and sadness that all lives experience, but leave a glimmer of hope. They portray both deep anguish and angelic soundscapes that are sure to leave an impression on the listener. —- Los Angeles’s Joseph Holiday makes dark, moody, end-of-the-world modular music as SNAKES OF RUSSIA. He masterfully weaves together his modular rig with samples and real world instrumentation.
Bokr Tov Album Release
with Geno Beach and Bad Self Portraits
Dusk
with Visual Learner, Velvet, Velvet and Wedding (Solo Set) Out of a cornfield eden at the northern tip of Lake Winnebago comes Wisconsin’s Dusk, a unique country rock ’n’ roll group that blends their rural roots and love for 60s and 70s soul. Formed in 2014, the band has been a favorite of midwest and east coast stages, sharing bills and tours with the likes of Sheer Mag, Screaming Females, and Reigning Sound. The outfit is six strong, each a song-er, sing-er, and multi-instrumentalist in their own right. Julia Blair’s tender howl floats atop the flurry of voices, fingers mincing the keys of her Wurlitzer piano. Ryley Crowe works the pedal steel guitar, gracefully gliding across the bandscape like a horse on ice. Tyler Ditter grips his electric guitar as a knight his sword, falling any vine or villain in his path. Bill Grasley is second-to-none guitar, an intelligent player who can kick back or blast off, his drape of hair prepared for either. Behind the kit is Amos Pitsch, whose hands draw melody from each drum like tufts pulled from carnival cotton candy. Ridley Tankersley is there too with a bass guitar, scrounging up the loose change from the green room couch.
Mariee Siou
Mariee Siou has been a fixture in the Neo-folk scene since her 2007 debut “Faces in the Rocks”—now acclaimed as a cult classic in the indie music world. She is revered for her delicate finger picking and poetic mysticism, often drawing, as from the ether, immense feeling through a voice of soft potency and otherworldly wordsmithing. She is known as a healing singer and as being a visionary artist, channeling and transmitting medicinal qualities through her music. Mariee Siou has extensively toured Europe and the US, and opened for acclaimed artists like Mazzy Star, Buffy St. Marie, Bert Jansch, Brightblack Morning Light, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and Joanna Newsom.
Kal Marks
with NightoSphere, Missouri Executive Order 44, Nowhere, and Western Haikus
