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Monday, June 6
The Electric Factory
Philly, Pennsylvania
Years & Years were formed in 2010 in London. The trio’s synth pop sound first gained exposure when the single Traps was released on Kitsuné Music in 2013. The group’s second EP, Real, came out in February 2014 and with some impressive live dates under their belts, the trio announced they had signed a deal with Polydor.
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CENTAURUS
Monday, June 6
Mercury Lounge
New York City, New York
Centaurus crafts their sound from an unexpected range of influence giving this Brooklyn-based band their genre ambiguous sound. Mieka Jewett and Al Carpenito formed the project in 2014 seeking a musical outlet as a hobby. One year later, they proudly yet humbly released their self titled debut album Centaurus.
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MOTHERS
Tuesday, June 7
Terminal West
Atlanta, Georgia
Mothers began in 2013 as the solo project of Athens, Georgia-based visual artist Kristine Leschper while she studied printmaking at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Now a quartet, their debut album ‘When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired,’ released via Grand Jury Music and Wichita Recordings, has earned the young band high praise from the press, including from NPR Music (‘First Listen’).
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CHICANO BATMAN
Wednesday, June 8
Aisle 5
Atlanta, Georgia
Chicano Batman is your sonic outlet from monotony back into the soul. Ethnomusicologists in their own right, Chicano Batman are students of rhythm, globe trotting on a quest to reclaim and represent the musical roots of their past generations. Following a run of dates opening for Jack White on his Lazaretto tour, the band blew away fans at last year’s Coachella before hitting the road with Alabama Shakes. Along the way, the quartet’s Latin-psych-slow-jam soul with a pinch of surf-rock cumbia has been highlighted by everyone from Rolling Stone, LA Times, Entertainment Weekly and Paste to The New York Times, Under The Radar and Noisey.
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IBEYI
Wednesday, June 8
Terminal West
Atlanta, Georgia
Lisa and Naomi Diaz are the daughters of the late Cuban percussionist Anga Diaz. Naomi plays percussive instruments, the Cajon and the Batas, while Lisa plays piano. Together the twins have learned the songs of their father’s culture, Yoruba. Yoruba travelled from West Africa to Cuba with slavery in the 1700s. The Yoruba people have the highest twinning rate in the World, and twins occupy an important position within Yoruba culture. Ibeyi is pronounced “ee-bey-ee” and translates as “Twins” in Yoruban.
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SON LITTLE
Thursday, June 9
The Bowery Ballroom
New York City, New York
Pulling inspiration from the color wheel diaspora of American music, Son Little draws from a deep well, using different buckets to visit and revisit, finding flourishes to add to the core of his songs. There, at the end of “Doctor’s In,” is a roving banjo; there, at the start of “Go Blue Blood Red,” is a keyboard riff culled from a kid’s Blue Man Group keyboard; there, in “Carbon,” is an electric Howlin’ Wolf stomp and start. For Son Little, studio time is a joy, where every good idea leads to four more.
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FLOWERS
Saturday, June 11
Rough Trade NYC
Brooklyn, New York
Flowers has been acclaimed as one of the best indie bands for 2015. What began as a simple recording project between friends for their debut album “Careers” has now morphed into something one would of never expected. Drew Citron has speared headed this project into a full time touring band armed with tight musicians all gathered from some of the top bands around her musical community in Brooklyn. Where the first album took on a very 90’s Breeders influence, this sophomore album “The Blue Swell” still has strong 90’s roots, yet sounds more in the vain of a female fronted Teenage Fanclub with jangly guitars and poppy lyrics that won.
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TUNJI IGE & MICHAEL CHRISTMAS
Saturday, June 11
The Loft
Atlanta, Georgia
Born in Pennsylvania to Nigerian parents, Tunji was exposed to music in its rawest form at a young age. Tunji‘s first interactions with music came in the form of his parents’ music, including artists like Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti. At age 14, Tunji started taking his own music seriously – putting to use a laptop, a sampler, and a vast record collection. Since joining the creative collective Brain Bandits two years later, Tunji has been developing his sound and carefully building a plan for bringing his vision to the world. With the release of his self-produced debut The Love Project, Tunji saw hundreds of thousands of plays and critical acclaim from music magazines like Pitchfork, Noisey and Fader, and most importantly – love from fans.
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INTO IT. OVER IT.
Sunday, June 12
Rough Trade NYC
Brooklyn, New York
Evan Weiss has spent much of the last eight years preoccupied with place. Recording under the name Into It. Over It., Weiss has already dedicated an entire album to the American city (Twelve Towns), in addition to writing countless songs named after geographical positions both general (“A New North-Side Air,” “Connecticut Steps”) and painstakingly specific (“Midnight: Carroll Street,” the entirety of a split LP with Koji named after five small Chicago neighborhoods). In fact, if you were to quickly run through the track listings for his entire discography, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single release that fails to make this connection explicit in some way. Even a cassette- only covers EP manages to include The One AM Radio’s “Ghost on the East Coast.” And that’s just the song titles.
That the emergence of Into It. Over It. and its subsequent fixation with “spatial exploration” — the name of a song on Intersections, if you’re keeping count — seems to neatly coincide with Evan’s move to Chicago in 2008 is more conspicuous than coincidental. We tend to think more about place when we’re feeling displaced.
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