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Thursday June 16
People
Under the Stairs
Los Angeles based People Under The Stairs, Double K (Michael
Turner) and Thes One (Christopher Portugal) are the most successful
fully independent hip hop duo in the history of Hip-Hop. Since their
initial full length release in 1998, People Under The Stairs have
performed more than a thousand sold out shows, festivals and world tours
spanning 6 continents and 40 countries.
with special guest:
Count
Bass D
8pm
Friday June 17
Kingsley
Flood
Coming out of Boston, Kingsley Flood knows “Americana” music isn’t a
cliché world of cabins, hollers and ’shine—but songs about ordinary
people’s challenges set to tunes that resonate. Meshing the personal
and the political with a fiery sound (call it “city-country”), Kingsley
Flood draws as much from Woody Guthrie and the Band as it does Joe
Strummer and the Replacements.
with special guests:
Ugly Purple Sweater
The Future Laureates
830pm
Saturday June 18
The Naked And Famous
“Young Blood” went on to platinum sales in New Zealand and by March 2011
was also certified Gold in Australia. The song won the group the
prestigious
APRA Silver Scroll songwriting
award in New Zealand for 2010 and in early 2011 the international
accolades began to follow as the The Naked And Famous collected the
Philip Hall Radar Award at the Shockwaves
NME awards in London. Previous
winners of this fresh talent award from
NME have been Drums, Glasvegas and
The Big Pink.
with special guest:
Young Empires
Monday June 20
Chad VanGaalen
While VanGaalen's three previous records were made in a cramped
basement studio, a move to a larger recording room offered space to
develop and refine his sound. Fresh from producing the critically-lauded
Public Strain album by Women, VanGaalen decided to avoid the
comfort of working on previous ground, and apply some of the recording
techniques and sonic ideas that emerged from those sessions. For the
first time, multi-tracked and often overdriven guitar is the instrument
at the center of the songs, which are often Spartan and free of the
melodic details that embellished previous albums. With this focus on
guitar, combined with a beloved vintage tape machine determining the
sound, VanGaalen moved towards a leaner, no-frills approach-one that
more closely resembles the music that influenced him as a teenager,
while continuing the arc laid out in his previous work.
with special guest
Nat Baldwin
Tuesday June 21
White Denim
White Denim (now a four-piece)
have never been less than terrific, but as they move further from the
garage and embrace their real love – early ’70s Americana – they defy
all probability. This time it’s a fondness for the wiggy jam-band sound
of Lowell George’s Little Feat that’s channelled through wiry
post-hardcore and the triumphant yet finickity bits of post-rock. It’s a
breathless fusion played at dumbfounding speed and gives rise to a
sound we’ll call math-boogie. - NME
with special guests:
Mazes
The Static Jacks