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Genre: Concerts

Little Stranger w/ Cory Simmons + Steady Feel

Lost Lake Presents Little Stranger with Cory Simmons and Steady Feel on Thursday, June 16th–16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardianBorn and raised in Philly, crash landed in Charleston, Kevin and John Shields are breaking intopreviously uncharted waters with their quirky indie hip-hop group, Little Stranger. BetweenJohn’s melodic singer-songwriter magnetism, Kevin’s in-your-face delivery, and an overallundeniable groove, this duo is sure to get any audience up and moving. Stylistically reminiscentof Gorillaz and Odelay-era Beck, Little Stranger delivers a fresh take on melodic hip-hop. Everytrack brings the uniqueness and strangeness that their name implies.For the past few years, the duo has perfected their live performance by playing over 100 showsper year prior to the coronavirus shutdown. The group also puts a big focus on creatingarresting visual experiences through their music videos, their own eccentric television program(LSTV), and in-house graphics. Between their out-of-the-box creative endeavors and anever-increasing arsenal of new tunes, Little Stranger is poised to make 2021 another slam dunk

Milly w/ Gleemer + Miss Betsy

Lost Lake Presents Milly with Gleemer and Miss Betsy on Sunday, June 26 — Wish Goes On soundtracks the (re)birth of a band called Milly. It is something new emerging from something old; something old from something older, made new again. In 2019, Milly hit the road with labelmates and fellow fans of fuzz, Swervedriver. At the time, their lineup was rotating consistently as Brendan Dyer, Milly’s principle songwriter, searched for permanence in the form of a live band. It was on this tour that something clicked for Dyer, who recalls the feeling as nothing short of cosmic. He remembers thinking one day, simply, “This is the band,” and so it was. Spencer Light on guitar, Yarden Erez on bass, and Zach CapittiFenton on drums, with Dyer playing guitar and singing the songs. The dynamic that burst into existence on this tour only deepened in the following months. “So much of it for me are those in-between moments,” Dyer says about the band’s blossoming friendships, “driving in the car listening to music, or being on break from rehearsal getting something to eat from Lassens.” Dyer would bring sketches of songs to the group, most of which he’d already been developing for years. “This release marks the transition from Milly as a solo project to Milly as something more unified,” Dyer explains. CapittiFenton, Erez, and Light were invited to dissect and rework his demos, a process that continued right up until the time they found themselves in rural Colorado actively recording Wish Goes On with Gleemer’s Corey Coffman. Coffman, who engineered and produced, also became involved in the songwriting process at this point, offering ideas the band would take home and play with before returning to the studio the next day. The result is five songs which complement one another artfully. By the time Dyer sings, “But it’s different now, feels like the same old town but I know it’s not” on the EP’s second track, “Denial,” it is not only a hometown that has disappeared in change, but also the sordid illusion of US supremacy as it is incessantly propagandized, especially to children — a notion which opener “Star Spangled Banner” openly unsettles. Dyer wrote “Denial” and the three songs that follow at around the same time in his life, with “Star Spangled Banner” coming significantly later, sometime after Milly’s formative tour in 2019. There is something to be said about these conversations across time, the album receding in a sense into the past even as one advances through it. Maybe it has something to do with the idea that longing, wishful thinking, and hope are always reaching both backwards and forwards. Maybe when Dyer sings that he “can’t get past denial,” he’s referring in a sense to the denial of anything but the present moment. Maybe, in the way of Alan Watts, Wish Goes On furthers the idea that “The only way to make sense out of change is to plug into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Dyer describes something to this effect when he says he’s been “trying to keep my head down and follow my path, knowing things will work out.” In the same conversation, he openly acknowledges that “even if that’s not true, it still feels helpful,” which is to say, of course, “Wish Goes On.” – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Ax and the Hatchetmen w/ With Special Guest + The Keeps

Lost Lake Presents Ax and the Hatchetmen with With Special Guest and The Keeps on Wednesday, June 15th–16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian Ax and the Hatchetmen, a seven-piece band from the Chicago suburbs is comprised of Axel Ellis (vocals/guitar), Kenny Olzewski (vocals/guitar), Sal Defilippis (vocals/guitar), Hunter Olshefke (vocals/bass), Nick Deputy (drums), Phil Pistone (trumpet), & Quinn Dolan (saxophone). They often deliver a blend of quasi-pop melodies mixed with flavors of Indie/Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Surf Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and Punk. They also like to party.

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