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Genre: Alternative/Indie Rock

Dreamer Boy – SUMMER IN AMERICA TOUR 2024 w/ Harriette + Peak 11

Lost Lake Presents Dreamer Boy – SUMMER IN AMERICA TOUR 2024 with Harriette and Peak 11 on Friday, June 21st. It’s humid and you’re going to baseball practice. You’re “listening to Big Star, lying in your car.” You’re “cutting into the country-fried / Got a lawnchair, open into the fall air.” You’re a kid under the Texas sky: “Friends come through the side door / Mail is in a pile.”   That’s what Dreamer Boy’s new slowplay / Capitol Records album, Lonestar, feels like. For his third full-length, the indie star and singer-songwriter Zach Taylor took his time—two years of searching—and it shows. Moving from Nashville to Los Angeles, Taylor found his new direction during trips out West, back East, and out again, watching the miles of the country pass by. Driving through his childhood home of Texas and visiting his grandfather’s farm three times in a year instilled a sense of connectivity to the South he’d realized he lost touch with.    “I felt myself needing to hold that as a fixture in my heart as I was going out West again,” he says. “I felt the need to attach to my spirit the tone and feeling of those places”—Texas, Alabama, Tennessee—as he started his new chapter in Hollywood. As he began to build his new life in L.A., he became increasingly soul-bound to the rootsy Americana of his youth. “That identification started to well up within me as I began sifting through emotional material that might become this next album,” he continues. “You find those things about yourself that really make you you, especially when you’re putting back together the pieces of yourself after heartbreak.”   Lonestar itself is a journey: It begins with Taylor tackling change and heartbreak on the yearning opener “Summer in America,” which wrestles with uncertainty, using American landscapes as the inspiration and backdrop for a lost soul finding his way home from a party. Ultimately, he finds his way and the record ends in contentment on the exquisite “Harmony,” with new friendships and new beginnings.    Not only has Taylor taken “a leap into new waters,” as he puts it, but his musical growth extends into his creation of a character in the tread of figures he admires, David Bowie and Tyler, the Creator (“Artists who will embody something bigger than themselves for sake of making the music feel bigger,” he says): a rodeo clown who’s made his way from Texas to Hollywood. The rodeo clown persona allows Taylor to be both theatrical and earnest, to swing between zany and heartfelt, to embody the wide spectrum of emotions expressed on Lonestar in one fell swoop.    At its heart, the record is about finding yourself. “You start off running away,” Taylor says. “You’re literally like, ‘Get me out of my parents’ house, get me out into the world.’ But then you start to run back to some of those things.” It’s about building yourself as a person in the turbulence of a breakup, which involves looking back, feeling a little lost, a little heartbroken, a little nostalgic. But, ultimately, there’s clarity—you figure out what makes you really yourself, even if it might change.    “You’re left with the music,” Taylor says, “but you’re also left with the life of making it.” – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Dana and Alden w/ Eli Torg

Lost Lake Presents Dana and Alden with Eli Torg on Friday, September 20th.Brothers Dana and Alden McWayne, along with a troupe of multi-instrumental artists, come together to create jazzy melodies with indie sounds inspired by their unconventional upbringing in Eugene, Oregon. Their debut album, Quiet Music for Young People, is an amalgamation of their childhood, melding memories of summer days spent working at an apple orchard, and rainy winter nights where they jammed at cozy jazz clubs. These retrospective moments are channeled through the lens of their wide- ranging influences, from Ahmad Jahmal to Big Thief to Bad Bunny.Alden, the younger of the two, is a drummer and recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, while Dana, the elder statesmen, is a saxophonist and organic farm inspector in Durham, NC. All ages, ticketed under 16 guests admitted with ticketed parent or guardian  

Private Island + Pink Skies w/ Cherokee Social

Lost Lake Presents Private Island and Pink Skies with Cherokee Social on Saturday, May 18th.Private Island: An approachable band from Southern California.Pink Skies, the brainchild of Bay Area born artist/producer Arieh Berl, blendspsychedelic-pop with influences ranging from Mac DeMarco, Tame Impala, and Toro yMoi. Currently based in LA, Pink Skies’ musical exploration encompasses rock, pop,R&B, and chill-wave, crafting a modern yet classic sound that resonates with audiences.The band’s kaleidoscopic live shows have found them sharing the stage across thecountry with acts such as Neil Frances, Magic City Hippies, Del Water Gap, Tim Atlas,and many more while selling out headlining shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco.Arieh’s career as an in-demand producer boasts 400M+ streams on production creditfor collaborations with artists such as 6LACK, Khalid, Saint JHN, and others, earninghim a platinum record credit for his work with 6LACK. With a focus on experimentation,Pink Skies continues to seek new ways to create something special, both in his ownbody of work and as a producer for various musical projects.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Big Dopes w/ Claire Heywood + Barbara

Lost Lake Presents Big Dopes with Claire Heywood and Barbara on Thursday, May 9th.”Tastefully fuzzy melodies … poignant and touchingly poetic lyrics. Big Dopes is one of the best Denver bands not enough people know about yet.” Tom Murphy, QUEEN CITY SOUNDS AND ART Big Dopes recalls the loose, lighthearted feel of 90s alternative and indie pop, with influences somewhere between Paul Simon, Jonathan Richman, and Pavement. Lead songwriter Eddie Schmid uses a playful, conversational baritone to sing through neuroses and inner dialogues, touching on long-distance relationships, being a houseguest, and gratitude for friends named Tom. In August 2021 the band made waves for its energetic live show at Denver’s Underground Music Showcase festival. That November the Dopes released their sophomore album, Destination Wedding, produced by Mark Anderson (Paper Bird, The Still Tide). The group completed its first tour behind the new LP, culminating in a slot opening for Tokyo Police Club at Denver’s famed Bluebird Theater and later for Colorado favorites Kiltro and Wildermiss at the Gothic Theatre. The band continued touring behind the album in April 2022. In November 2022, they teamed up with Little Trips to release a psychedelic remix of their song “Take You Anywhere.”  More new music is planned for spring 2024.  SOME MORE POTENTIALLY RELEVANT BULLET POINTS ABOUT THIS BAND official website / facebook / instagram Press kit Four-piece indie pop / 90s-ish rock influenced by Pavement, Built to Spill, and Jonathan Richman. New LP “Destination Wedding” released November 2021 (Spotify / Bandcamp); just finished our fall tour, including an opening slot for Tokyo Police Club Live sessions: TBC Recording, Miri Music interview with Westword about our new album “Captivating indie-pop earworm vignettes of American malaise and hope.” – Tom Murphy, QUEEN CITY SOUNDS AND ART Crimes Against Gratitude – one of the top 10 Colorado albums of 2019, COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO / INDIE 102.3- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

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