MADELINE KENNEY (AS NEIL YOUNG)
THE JAGGED LITTLE PILLS (ALANIS MORISETTE COVERS)
DITCH WEED ROLLERS (KATSY PLINE DOES OLD-SCHOOL COUNTRY COVERS)
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Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
$15 Advance* / $18 Day of Show
21+
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MADELINE KENNEY
Oakland's Madeline Kenney bounds toward the unknown on her iridescent third album, Sucker's Lunch, the follow-up to 2018's critically acclaimed Perfect Shapes. The songs swell and lament, expanding the idea of a love song into something more grounded in self-awareness and philosophy than blind devotion. Her sonic world is that of colorful harmonies, dramatic lyrics, and thick layers of guitar.
Kenney has a history of fostering collaborative recording and touring relationships. Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) and Kenney first collaborated on Perfect Shapes in 2018, and they teamed up again for Sucker's Lunch. Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi produced Kenney's Signals EP and debut record Night Night At The First Landing, putting both out on his label, Company Records. Kenney has also lent vocals on multiple Toro y Moi projects, including 2017's Boo Boo. In 2019 she released the split EP, The Sisters / Helpless in collaboration with Flock of Dimes (Wasner's solo project).
With every project Kenney pursues, she continues to shine in her ability to speak the strange, ambiguous, impossible truths -- and Sucker's Lunch is no exception.
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THE JAGGED LITTLE PILLS (Alanis Morisette covers)
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DITCH WEED ROLLERS (Katsy Pline does old-school country covers)
Katsy Pline is a singer and guitarist living in Berkeley, CA.. Drawing from the melancholic yearning of early country and folk, Katsy's heartbreak ballads spin tales of apocalypse, beauty and loss amidst the ruin of the present. Her five piece band re-imagines the lush orchestration of the Nashville sound with otherworldly synthesizers, glitched-out B-bender guitars and yodeling harmonies that gesture towards new territories for cosmic American music.
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More about Madeline Kenney: At the end of the day, Oakland-based Madeline Kenney just wants to be surprised. An artist with a rare openness to exploration and an appetite for the novel, her pursuit of music wasn't always a foregone conclusion, though she's played piano her whole life. Hers is a path peppered with diversions, in the sense that she lets herself be amused. She's studied neuroscience, been a dancer, a baker, a visual artist, and yes, a musician, but even that role comes with nearly too many hyphenates to count. But rather than existing as offshoot paths, her many selves are always entangled, encouraging one another. All of it shows up in the songs.
To chart the trajectory of her career from the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Night Night at The First Landing in 2017 to her now fourth studio release, A New Reality Mind, is to witness a simultaneous evolution and unfurling--her creative precision curing as her musical palette becomes evermore unrestricted and prismatic, stretching to contain the curiosity of her roving mind.
This voraciousness shows up everywhere in her work, from the layered sonic tensions in her music, to the seemingly endless roster of musicians she's collaborated with. Since releasing Night Night (which was co-produced with Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi), she's shared music near annually, including albums Perfect Shapes (2018) and Sucker's Lunch (2020), which were both co-produced with Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak / Flock of Dimes), with whom Kenney also released split EP The Sisters / Helpless (2019). Sucker's Lunch also featured a cameo from Kurt Wagner, of the perennial cult-favorite Lambchop. Meanwhile, Kenney also finds time to collaborate beyond her own project--she's lent vocals to multiple Toro y Moi projects, co-produced records with artists such as A.O. Gerber, and directed music videos for Hand Habits, Boy Scouts, and Olivia Kaplan.
Her newest release sees Kenney at the height of her personal creative power. Produced and recorded alone in her basement, the songs on A New Reality Mind pulse with the vibrance of a fiercely inquisitive mind. They're the result of Kenney's penchant for wonder and an invitation to look at the world through her continually-searching lens.
MADELINE KENNEY (AS NEIL YOUNG)
THE JAGGED LITTLE PILLS (ALANIS MORISETTE COVERS)
DITCH WEED ROLLERS (KATSY PLINE DOES OLD-SCHOOL COUNTRY COVERS)
~~~
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
$15 Advance* / $18 Day of Show
21+
~~~
MADELINE KENNEY
Oakland's Madeline Kenney bounds toward the unknown on her iridescent third album, Sucker's Lunch, the follow-up to 2018's critically acclaimed Perfect Shapes. The songs swell and lament, expanding the idea of a love song into something more grounded in self-awareness and philosophy than blind devotion. Her sonic world is that of colorful harmonies, dramatic lyrics, and thick layers of guitar.
Kenney has a history of fostering collaborative recording and touring relationships. Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) and Kenney first collaborated on Perfect Shapes in 2018, and they teamed up again for Sucker's Lunch. Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi produced Kenney's Signals EP and debut record Night Night At The First Landing, putting both out on his label, Company Records. Kenney has also lent vocals on multiple Toro y Moi projects, including 2017's Boo Boo. In 2019 she released the split EP, The Sisters / Helpless in collaboration with Flock of Dimes (Wasner's solo project).
With every project Kenney pursues, she continues to shine in her ability to speak the strange, ambiguous, impossible truths -- and Sucker's Lunch is no exception.
~~~
THE JAGGED LITTLE PILLS (Alanis Morisette covers)
~~~
DITCH WEED ROLLERS (Katsy Pline does old-school country covers)
Katsy Pline is a singer and guitarist living in Berkeley, CA.. Drawing from the melancholic yearning of early country and folk, Katsy's heartbreak ballads spin tales of apocalypse, beauty and loss amidst the ruin of the present. Her five piece band re-imagines the lush orchestration of the Nashville sound with otherworldly synthesizers, glitched-out B-bender guitars and yodeling harmonies that gesture towards new territories for cosmic American music.
~~~~~~~~~
More about Madeline Kenney: At the end of the day, Oakland-based Madeline Kenney just wants to be surprised. An artist with a rare openness to exploration and an appetite for the novel, her pursuit of music wasn't always a foregone conclusion, though she's played piano her whole life. Hers is a path peppered with diversions, in the sense that she lets herself be amused. She's studied neuroscience, been a dancer, a baker, a visual artist, and yes, a musician, but even that role comes with nearly too many hyphenates to count. But rather than existing as offshoot paths, her many selves are always entangled, encouraging one another. All of it shows up in the songs.
To chart the trajectory of her career from the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Night Night at The First Landing in 2017 to her now fourth studio release, A New Reality Mind, is to witness a simultaneous evolution and unfurling--her creative precision curing as her musical palette becomes evermore unrestricted and prismatic, stretching to contain the curiosity of her roving mind.
This voraciousness shows up everywhere in her work, from the layered sonic tensions in her music, to the seemingly endless roster of musicians she's collaborated with. Since releasing Night Night (which was co-produced with Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi), she's shared music near annually, including albums Perfect Shapes (2018) and Sucker's Lunch (2020), which were both co-produced with Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak / Flock of Dimes), with whom Kenney also released split EP The Sisters / Helpless (2019). Sucker's Lunch also featured a cameo from Kurt Wagner, of the perennial cult-favorite Lambchop. Meanwhile, Kenney also finds time to collaborate beyond her own project--she's lent vocals to multiple Toro y Moi projects, co-produced records with artists such as A.O. Gerber, and directed music videos for Hand Habits, Boy Scouts, and Olivia Kaplan.
Her newest release sees Kenney at the height of her personal creative power. Produced and recorded alone in her basement, the songs on A New Reality Mind pulse with the vibrance of a fiercely inquisitive mind. They're the result of Kenney's penchant for wonder and an invitation to look at the world through her continually-searching lens.
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