Chanel Beads

with More Eaze

doors at 7pm, all ages

Chanel Beads — the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers — announces his debut album, Your Day Will Come. Your Day Will Come marks Lavers’ arrival as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless.

Like the night sky itself, the world of My Light, My Destroyer is always expanding. Cassandra Jenkins' third full-length cracks open the promise of reaching the edge of the new, with a wider sonic palette than ever before — encompassing guitar-driven indie rock, new age, sophistipop, and jazz. At the center of it all is Jenkins' curiosity towards the quarks and quasars that make up her universe, as she blends field recordings with poetic lyricism that is at turns allusive, humorous, devastating and confessional — an alchemical gesture that further deepens the richness of My Light, My Destroyer's 13 songs.

Jenkins suffuses My Light, My Destroyer with an easy confidence, which betrays the simple truth that the road here was not without difficulty. Referring to the 2021 breakout An Overview on Phenomenal Nature as her "intended swan song," she explains that she was prepared to hang it up when it came to touring and releasing her own music. "I was channeling what I knew in that moment — feeling lost," Jenkins recalls. "When that record came out, and people started to respond to what I had written, my plans to quit were foiled in the most unexpected, heartening, and generous way. Ready or not, it reinvigorated me."

Immediately upon finishing two years of touring An Overview, Jenkins approached recording a follow-up, only to find that capturing the creative spark while "running on fumes" was tough. "I was coming from a place of burn out and depletion, and in the months following the session, I struggled to accept that I didn't like the record I had just made. It felt uninspired," she confesses, "so I started over." With her closest musical co-conspirators reassembled, and producer, engineer, and mixer Andrew Lappin (L'Rain, Slauson Malone 1) behind the board, Jenkins set the prior sessions aside and began constructing My Light, My Destroyer from its ashes: "When we listened back in the control room that first day, I could see a space on my record shelf start to open up, because the songs were finding their home in real time. That spark informed the blueprint for the rest of the album, and its completion was propelled by a newfound momentum."

Jeremy Bradley Early & Dan Higgs, live at Songbyrd

Jeremy Bradley Earl is a NY-based visual artist and musician in the psychedelic folk rock band Woods. With a new solo EP on the way this is his first recorded music under his own name and first solo tour outside of Woods.

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Daniel Higgs, interdimensional song-seamstress and corpse-dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the harbor city of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millennium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hindrance of collaborative influence.

Freak Slug

with Huron John

Doors at 7pm, all ages

Freak Slug- A visual artist and painter as well as an unconventional, self-taught songwriter and musician, everything that fuels the creative output of Manchester’s Xenya Genovese, AKA Freak Slug, is about raw, authentic, sometimes weird but always totally true self-expression. She’s not one to sugar coat things; “I’m a lot, so it’s a lot to show who I am because some people might not like it,” she accepts. But in amongst the mix of an introverted extrovert, self described “avoidant” Leo rising, lives the sort of musician who can do nostalgic, ‘90s influenced and dreamy as well as eccentric and experimental. Down there, picking through the curious mix of sounds and feelings, lives Freak Slug.

Huron John evolves. A 24-year-old multimedia artist from Chicago, Illinois now based in Nashville, Tennessee, Huron provides a new layer of definition to the “do-it-yourself” indie standard. Entirely producing, writing, and engineering a now multi-album discography, the project’s genre-defying sounds proudly shapeshift into a rainbow-spectrum of moods and flavors. Using a wholesomely grassroots approach to independently amass over 35 million listens worldwide, they have carefully supplemented album rollouts with a multimedia angle including physical art books, interactive experiences, and most recently a full-length film premiered in theaters across select cities. Utilizing a ‘mystery-ridden online persona’ (-MTV) and a ‘day-tripper sound that delivers glitch juxtaposed with groove’ (-Ones To Watch), a mesmerizing melting-pot of alternative, electronic & sound-collage are delivered with ease.

Still House Plants

with Aunt Katrina (mem feeble little horse, snail mail)

and Albert & Christian

7pm, all ages

Still House Plants are a UK-based three-piece collective made up of Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, Finlay
Clark and David Kennedy. From a minimalist approach of guitar, drums and vocals they bridge
elements of sampling, slow core, and repetition to make music with a melting pop heart. 

YHWH Nailgun

with Babybaby_Explores

Doors at 7pm, all ages

YHWH Nailgun is a luminary four-person experimental rock project based in NYC, made up of artists Zack Borzone (vocals), Saguiv Rosenstock (guitar), Jack Tobias (synth + electronics), and Sam Pickard (drums). Their music is a visceral blend of styles that reaches toward an absolute essence.

Cameron Winter- live at 2640 Space 

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm

All ages

About Cameron Winter: 
While on a grueling, year-long tour with his band Geese, Cameron Winter recorded the bulk of his debut solo album in a succession of hotel room closets, singing into the built-in microphone on his MacBook. Staying awake for several days at a time to keep up with his band’s non-stop schedule, Winter’s newest work recalls creative mania in the depths of night. 
   
Cameron Winter puts forth a hallucinatory combination of dreamlike imagery and crepuscular haze – not surprising, considering that the music was created while the Geese frontman was under the near-constant influence of, in his own words, “a crazy amount of extra-strength antihistamines and crushed up wellbutrin.” Winter purports that the inspiration for his first solo effort was supplied entirely by listening to 1967’s Songs of Leonard Cohen “maybe over two-hundred times” while hospitalized with double-mononucleosis. Upon listening to Heavy Metal’s patient arrangements, warm production and hypnagogic lyricism, it’s clear that the spirit of the greats has indeed rubbed off on the young singer-songwriter.