Indie 102.3 presents Black Belt Eagle Scout w/ Gartener + Claire Glass
Indie 102.3 Presents Black Belt Eagle Scout with Gartener and Claire Glass at Lost Lake on Friday, June 2nd.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Whitehall w/ Mainland Break + Blankslate
Lost Lake Presents Whitehall with Mainland Break and Blankslate on Wednesday, November 1st.Whitehall is an indie rock four-piece from Charleston, SC. They merge a dancey demeanor with an insatiable desire for more out of life, making for an incredibly energetic and heart opening live experience. When they aren’t shotgunning La Croix, Whitehall tours the east coast.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Sweeping Promises w/ The Tammy Shine + Cheap Perfume
Convulse Records Presents Sweeping Promises with The Tammy Shine and Cheap Perfume on Saturday, September 9 — For more than a half century, underground music revolutionaries have taken a whack at the mundane mainstream like a piñata. England punks spat “NO FUTURE” at germ-free adolescents. Ohio new wavers devolutionized mankind with whips. Athens art school students chomped at hero worship. MetroCard-carrying riot grrrls rebirthed the bomp with a gasoline gut. In 2020, Sweeping Promises read our pandemic minds with Hunger for a Way Out. In 2023, they return with a new message: Good Living Is Coming For You. At first glance, this nouveau wave slogan offers hope wrapped around relief. At first listen, we realize this may actually be a warning. Darker still, a threat.A band famous for their unfussy, monolithic anthems, Sweeping Promises elegantly ravage us again with another future classic. They return as a fist of velvet rose petals roaring inside a compact wrecking ball. Gone is the Boston brutalist ambience of their subterranean concrete laboratory and the revelatory single mic recording technique. In its place, a retired and resplendent nude painting studio in Lawrence, Kansas, bathed in light with high ceilings and hardwood floors. Guided once again by their surrounding architecture, a reverb-rich space remains the defining element at the heart of their highly stylized sound. A watery ghost from the golden age of art-punk now wields sharper knives and more microphones.If the mood of HFAWO was hungry, GLICFY is RAVENOUS. In 2023, appetite is addressed in new ways: Power struggles are aired in “Eraser,” restraints are broken in “You Shatter,” anguished exclamations sting in “Good Living Is Coming for You.” The taboo subject of aging is (s)heroically dragged out into the open. Every line is delivered with such joyous, soaring layers that each punch lands like a chef’s kiss.Sweeping Promises are Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug. A chance meeting in Arkansas led to a decade of playing in an eclectic assortment of projects together. Their relentless practice made perfect. Bass playing Lira is an emotive bolt of thunderous energy with the iconic blast of a girl group rolled into one robust throat. Caufield is an intentional guitar player and drummer. No note or hit is extraneous. Together they are meticulous sound engineers, using space as a key ingredient to their distinct sound. Controlling every aspect of their craft, from the first note they write together, all the way through to the final mastering process, each record is an unspoiled fingerprint unique to their dynamic chemistry.Written before the pandemic, Hunger for a Way Out was released on Feel It Records in the summer of 2020. These songs drip with the anxious urgency of a commanding live performance yet their gauzy production transports us like the fading memory of a favorite song. This distorted sense of time resonated with thousands of quarantined listeners who turned the album into a life-saving floatation device and most beloved album of the year. This is when Feel It Records (North America) and Sub Pop (everywhere else) joined forces to divide/unite and conquer; beginning with the 2021 single “Pain Without a Touch” and now carrying through to Good Living Is Coming For You.The pandemic went on to trigger an absurd chain of events for Sweeping Promises. Under financial strain, Mondal and Schnug uprooted their lives. They surrendered their studio in Cambridge to take refuge with family in Texas. They completed over 50 demos between their Austin bathroom and a Marfa abode, but feeling unsatisfied, they sought another fresh start. When a disused church in Ohio proved too difficult to rehab, they ultimately found lasting inspiration in Kansas. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Katie Toupin w/ Julian Fulco Perron + Jr. Rabbit
Lost Lake Presents Katie Toupin with Julian Fulco Perron and Jr. Rabbit on Friday, June 23 — After the impressive success of her previous band Houndmouth, Katie Toupin’s career as a solo artist is beaming. Co-writer and key performer on #1 song, “Sedona” with over 100,000,000 streams on Spotify, Katie Toupin is proving she has only just begun. “Freed from the gingham-checked restraints of Houndmouth, Toupin displays more range and greater depth on her solo debut, Magnetic Moves” – Paste Magazine.Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Katie ventured to Austin, Texas to create an eclectic, yet cohesive record. “Magnetic Moves” (written, arranged, and produced by Katie Toupin) is a mixture of throwback odes and modern sonics brought to life by the thoughtful arrangements of multi-instrumentalist Scott Davis (Hayes Carl, Band of Heathens). George Harrison-esk rifs never feel out of place over the tastefully placed synthesizers on songs like “Real Love” and “Back In Time”. Angela Miller and Lauren Marie (Black Pumas) offer soulful backup parts onalbum highlight, “Someone To you” as well as “Lost Sometimes” and “In Your Dreams”. The title track, “Magnetic Moves” received extensive radio play across the United States. Katie brings the album to life with vivacious and interactive live performances. American Songwriter said, “based on this evidence, (Toupin) is clearly ready for her shot in the spotlight.”- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
waveform* w/ They are Gutting a Body of Water + Teethe
Lost Lake Presents waveform* with They are Gutting a Body of Water and Teethe on Wednesday, July 19 –On Last Room, the third album from the Connecticut-based waveform*,,there’s a purposeful hollowness. It’s a record you canfall into, a collection of music that’s unafraid to venture into emotion, exploring the gaping distance that develops in somerelationships, the constant confusion that accompanies self-discovery, andthe darkness that accompanies abandonment.Nothing is said outright on Last Room. There’s no declaration of material certainty that allows you to fully discover every secretor moment of meaning on this recording, but the duo comprised of Jarett Denner and Dan Poppa intended it to be that way.They want you to step into their cavernous auditory journey, to lose yourself in a state of wandering as you find your own story,creating a personal narrative gleaned from their collection of mysteries.Recorded on a laptop in Jarett’s bedroom, the album comes with a discernible feeling of intimacy. Despite their close proximityto one another, Jarett and Dan chose to complete much of the album apart, exchanging ideas and finishing bits of musicthrough email. Theytraded off responsibilities, one focusing on a song’s structure, while another considered the emotionaldetails and coloring.”Hello Goodbye” is the only of the album’s singles that waveform* considers to be collaborative, as the two worked on ittogether before it was recorded. It’s also among the record’s most poignant and reflective, a back-and-forth of admitted uneaseplaced between continued pleas for someone to stay are set against lush, light guitar. Its final moments are one of admittance,as a repetition lyrical confession (“I can’t relax at all”) is left to linger.That same rare moment of confession is also etched within the charge of “Blue Disaster.” It’s a track that sways between twoenergies, trading out an electric beginning and a calamitous conclusion for the occasional quiet that punctuates devastatinglyhonest lyrics: “I was on a tightrope all the time/had a blue disaster but it’s fine/there was something i was reaching for/butthat’s no more.”Formed while still in high school, waveform* was created out of the pair’s mutual appreciation for music. Over the last fewyears, waveform* has continued to grow, attributing an increasing interest in fans to an era dominated by Internet discoveryand streaming. A sound comparable to Melania Kol,Alex G., Title Fight, Have a Nice Life, and Teen Suicide, the band has alsoperformed live with Strange Ranger, Beach Bunny, Pince Daddy and the Hyena, and Lomelda. Their previous releases–Shooting Star and Library–were released in 2018 and 2019. Last Room, released in 2020, is being rereleased through Run forCover Records.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
TR44NZPYLE w/ THA KOLLECTIV, Sara Flows + Saridae
Lost Lake Presents TR44NZPYLE with THA KOLLECTIV, Sara Flows and Saridae on Thursday, July 13th.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Elf Power w/ The Tammy Shine (of Dressy Bessy)
Lost Lake Presents Elf Power with The Tammy Shine (of Dressy Bessy) on Wednesday, June 21st. “Artificial countrysides” is the term Elf Power coined to describe the gray zones where the natural world collides with the creeping encroachment of the digital realm, where the balance between real and simulated can shift from one minute to the next. Artificial Countrysides is also the name of the Athens, Ga., band’s new album, their first since 2017 and their first for Yep Roc. It’s a collection of 12 spellbinding psych-laced songs that blur the line between traditional and futuristic while seeking to make sense of our relationship to each. The idea behind the name of the album has a more concrete application, too. “That title also describes the songwriting process, of world-building or creating an artificial landscape within a song,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Rieger says. He and his Elf Power bandmates — drummer Peter Alvanos and guitarist Dave Wrathgabar, with contributions from keyboard player Laura Carter — have created some of the band’s most expansive musical terrain yet. Artificial Countrysides pushes Elf Power’s music in unexpected directions that accentuate the psych-rock sound the band has been honing for close to 30 years. Along with a blend of fuzz-tone electric and layered acoustic guitars, Moog keyboards and lively drums, the group experimented with the sounds of marimba, Mellotron, harpsichord, synth bass and distorted drum machine loops, all topped with melodies that echo in your head long after the music stops. The effect is electrifying, on songs that are unmistakably from Elf Power, yet muscular and propulsive in a distinctive new way. The juxtaposition comes to vivid life on first single “The Gas Inside the Tank.” The song pairs organ and woozy slide guitar with synth bass and the sound of a gurgling Moog for an effect at once disorienting and enveloping, as Rieger imagines a post-apocalyptic world full of deserted cities where people have resorted to siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles. On the second single, album opener “Undigested Parts,” Rieger doubles his vibrant vocal melody with an unsettling whisper as he ponders how unprocessed events and emotions can erupt at unexpected times, pushed along by a dense blanket of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal keyboards and a mix of live and programmed drums. Elf Power is nearly always working on new music, and the dozen songs on Artificial Countrysides were among 20 or so that began taking shape not long after the group released 2017’s Twitching in Time. Though the band made some of the new album at The Glow studio in Athens, pandemic considerations meant the musicians often recorded their parts by themselves at home. Fortunately, they were in no hurry. In fact, Artificial Countrysides makes a persuasive case that Elf Power is at its most creative when the musicians work without time constraints. After all, if songwriting is about building your own world, the clocks can run on whatever time you want. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Flamingos in the Tree w/ Silver Cup
Lost Lake Presents Flamingos in the Tree and Silver Cup on Monday, July 31 –(Reno, NV) – Multi-platform virality & editorial playlisting has thrust the basement-pop band’s debut LP sunsets that i had w u to the ears of unsuspecting listeners. Locally, they’re hard to ignore – the four stick out like a sore thumb in a city that’s praised metal and punk for decades. Arguably, that’s why they’re geared for success; it’s hard to resist rooting for the elephant in the room, or rather, the Flamingos in the Tree.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Shady Oaks w/ Weary Bones, Fern Roberts + The Picture Tour
Lost Lake Presents Shady Oaks with Weary Bones, Fern Roberts and The Picture Tour on Friday, May 19th. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Blue Rain Boots w/ Sunfish + Robot Tennis Club
Lost Lake Presents Blue Rain Boots with Sunfish and Robot Tennis Club on Wednesday, May 3rd. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
