Advance Base with Attic Friend

Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter OwenAshworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano,Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, &nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of AdvanceBase has been described as “lo-fi,” “depressed” & “weirdly uplifting.”Animal Companionship, the third & most recent “studio” album by Advance Base, was released September21, 2018 by Run For Cover Records / Orindal Records. GoldFlakePaint & Various Small Flames both listedAnimal Companionship among their favorite albums of 2018. Since then, Advance Base has released Wallof Tears & Other-Songs I Didn’t Write, a home-recorded collection of (mostly) country/Americana coversarranged for electronic instruments & Live at Home, a collection of mid-quarantine livestream concertperformances & the closest representation of an Advance Base live set commercially available. A newsingle titled ”Little Sable Point Lighthouse” was released on March 31, 2022.“It’s with no exaggeration we describe Owen Ashworth as one of the most consistent and importantsongwriters in contemporary indie music. From the earliest Casiotone For the Painfully Alone demos tomost recent Advance Base single ‘Little Sable Point Lighthouse‘, Owen has crafted a catalogue ofcharacters and circumstances with few rivals in the modern era. His is an ever evolving body of work whichstands out in its deftness and humility and empathy and care, bringing to life individuals from across thespectrum of human experience while remaining unerringly attuned to the tender, fallible heart at the centreof each.” – Various Small Flames”A Raymond Carver short story collection set to music by a Joan of Arc-era OMD” – MOJO Magazine

Chris Cohen w/ Carpenter/Cohen, The Auxiliary

Chris Cohen’s songs initially sound easy. They’re each tiny jewels that unfurl at a leisurely pace, but dig a little deeper and you’ll reach a melancholy core. His previous albums — 2012’s Overgrown Path, 2016’s As If Apart and 2019’s Self Titled — were built from lush, blurry tracks that embedded themselves in your subconscious, like they’d always been there.   Paint a Room (out July 12, 2024) is his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. If Cohen’s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone, they are newly clear and resonant here, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real time. This is Cohen communicating with friends not only through his deep understanding of groove, harmony, and hook but also with his listeners through songs that croon of our uneasy little era.   Chris was a member of Deerhoof, The Curtains, Cryptacize and Natural Dreamers before releasing music under his own name. He’s toured and/or recorded with Kurt Vile, White Magic, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Danielson, Cass McCombs, as well as produced and engineered records by Weyes Blood, Fievel Is Glauque, Gun Outfit, Sam Evian, Marina Allen, Le Ren, and many more.  

Royale Lynn – Outsiders and Outcasts Tour

Royale Lynn brings a signature blend of hard rock and country to life with fearless ambition. A small-town girl turned Nashville singer/songwriter, Lynn grew up with Avril Lavigne and Breaking Benjamin in her CD Walkman and makes music with gutsy abandon and charm. Lynn’s songs resonate with folks equally cozy at Stagecoach Festival or Sonic […]

From Indian Lakes

From Indian Lakes is the project of California-based singer/songwriter Joey Vannucchi. Growing up on 40 acres of land near Yosemite National Park, the multi-instrumentalist first gravitated toward drums, playing in various bands throughout his youth before eventually focusing on guitar and songwriting. Intricate rhythms continued to be a major feature of his thoughtful post-rock sound […]

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