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MICHELLE w/ ggwendolyn

Lost Lake Presents MICHELLE with ggwendolyn on Friday, November 8th.     MICHELLE first started because producers Julian Kaufman and Charlie Kilgore wanted to write an album celebrating their love of New York City. All 6 members of the group grew up there, and their fluorescent R&B encapsulates the best the city has to offer: the glow of neon lights bouncing off rain-slicked streets, the taste of a sticky mango purchased on a summertime Q train.   But over the last few years, the band has spent a lot of time away from home. Amid the success of 2018’s HEATWAVE, and 2022’s AFTER DINNER WE TALK DREAMS, they traveled the U.S. and Europe opening for Gus Dapperton, Arlo Parks, and Mitski, headlining their own shows, and playing festivals. It was an experience that shifted their perspective and sense of place.   While writing their new album, Songs About You Specifically, MICHELLE decided to rent out a house in Ojai, California for three weeks. They were surrounded by dry heat, lizards, the smell of ripe cactus fruit. Suddenly everything was quieter, slower. “The mornings were so nice,” Sophia D’Angelo says of this time. “We would all make coffee and journal on a picnic table outside. We would usually split up into two groups of three. Whoever finished writing first made dinner and then the other group would clean the dishes.”   The experience shifted the tone of their work. While their earlier music channeled the churning restlessness of the city, these news songs meander and expand. MICHELLE will always know how to write a delicious hook: soaring indie pop track “Mentos and Coke” oozes with intoxicating sweetness and synth pop number “Oontz” eases effortlessly into a silky groove, even as both songs detail unstable relationships. But, throughout much of the record, the band let riffs simmer and melodies drift. The distorted vocals on “Trackstar” diffuse into a starry reverie. The synth notes on “Painkiller” float by breezily as MICHELLE sing about running away from their feelings.   The months spent touring, as well as the experience of living together in Ojai, fostered new bonds between the band. “There are friends I’ve had for almost my whole life who I won’t know as intimately as I know members of this group,” Emma Lee says. “There isn’t really an opportunity for that in any other kind of relationship in your life.” The sense of trust and comfort they fostered with each other allowed them to be more candid and vulnerable in their songwriting too. “It’s so easy to write a generic love or breakup song,” Julian Kaufman says. “But many of these stories are true. We’re coming from a really honest place.”   Part of that honesty involves self-reflection. Whether they’re apologizing for being away so often on “Missing On One,” admitting to numbing their negative emotions on “Painkiller,” or lusting after someone while in a relationship on “Akira,” there is poignant bittersweetness to these songs because MICHELLE reveal their mistakes and regrets as clearly as they do their desires. It makes for textured, deeply compelling music that reveals what it means to be human: constantly yearning, chasing, loving, faltering, and restarting, in no particular order.   Without friends or loved ones to hold you accountable, to witness your life and push you to engage with its jagged and unsavory bits, it is easy to airbrush your reality. But, while making Songs About You Specifically, MICHELLE slowed down, cut out any distractions, and fostered a sense of communal closeness that necessitated honesty. They ended up with a collection of songs that feel like the truth.     All ages, ticketed under 16 guests admitted with ticketed parent or guardian

Boot Juice w/ Derek Dames Ohl + Scott Slay

Lost Lake Presents Boot Juice with Derek Dames Ohl and Scott Slay on Sunday, July 7 —  The evolution of Boot Juice has been a magnificent phenomenon to behold over the past few years. This seven-piece band from Davis has done things the old-fashioned way – earning everything they have with blood, sweat and tears shed on stages throughout the region. It’s been more sweat than anything else based on the practically inhuman volume of energy output they generate throughout the course of their relentless performances. Boot Juice defies the typical assumption that a big band with horns is sticking to the well-worn path of funk and jazz. They certainly infuse those genres into the mix. More than anything though, this is an unabashed cosmic rock band intent on taking audiences into an alternate dimension of pure freedom and dance euphoria where the outside world ceases to exist. Their three-part vocal harmonies carry major impact with intoxicating doses of soul, blues and sultry appeal. The passionate musicianship and group synergy resonates in their pure sense of joy. Drawing favorable comparisons to the sound of The California Honey Drops and the spirit of the Talking Heads, you’ll have no doubt that the refreshing originality of Boot Juice always has a firm grip on the wheel.    16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Ashes to Amber w/ Ryan Wright + Welcome Back.

Lost Lake Presents Ashes to Amber with Ryan Wright and Welcome Back. on Wednesday, September 11 —   All ages, ticketed under 16 guests admitted with ticketed parent or guardian  

John R. Miller w/ Joe’s Truck Stop + Jake Luna

Lost Lake Presents John R. Miller with Joe’s Truck Stop and Jake Luna on Friday, August 16th.   John R. Miller belongs to the rare breed of songwriters whose expansive introspection uncovers so many truths about the state of the human condition. On his new album Heat Comes Down, the West Virginia-raised, Nashville-based artist intimately narrates his sleepless nights and nostalgic daydreams, existential dread, and observations of the troubled world around him. While a number of its songs convey a certain unease, Miller endlessly imparts the kind of lovely reassurance that can only come from shared catharsis.   The follow-up to his debut Depreciated—an album hailed by SPIN for its “refreshingly raw honesty, reflectiveness, and the undeniable beauty in discovery and growth”—Heat Comes Down is a gorgeously detailed convergence of country and folk-rock.   Raised in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, Miller first started honing his singular songwriting voice as a teenager, in between playing gigs at local church halls with his various garage bands. In his late teens, he crossed paths with musicians who introduced him to traditional fiddle music, which proved to be pivotal in his growth as an artist. “My first touring group was a string band; we drove around in a Dodge Caravan for quite a few years, playing square dances and bluegrass festivals and a whole lot of bars. Part of the beauty of that music is it’s not easily commercialized – it made me realize that music is meant to be a communal act.”   All ages, ticketed under 16 guests admitted with ticketed parent or guardian.

HEYZ w/ Swampz + Droptalk

Lost Lake Presents Heyz with Swampz + Droptalk on Friday, August 23 —     Night 2 Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/56008663/heyz-wnoetika-denver-lost-lake-lounge     All ages, ticketed under 16 guests admitted with ticketed parent or guardian

HEYZ w/ Noetika + PapaJay

Lost Lake Presents Heyz with Noetika and PapaJay on Saturday, August 24 — Night 1 TIckets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/99971867/heyz-wswampz-denver-lost-lake-lounge All ages, ticketed under 16 guests admitted with ticketed parent or guardian

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