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“BACK TO THE CITY @ THE GROTTO” PRESENTS: SEABERG LIVE IN-STUDIO + SEABERG LIVE @ ICEHOUSE

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Seaberg will be performing at the Thursday 8/30 launch party for “Back to the City @ the Grotto,” a new series of in-studio sessions which began with 26 BATS’ in-studio session last week and continues with Seaberg’s session at The Grotto today. This session was curated, filmed, and video-edited by Simon Calder and recorded and mixed by Jason Faye at The Grotto. Other upcoming Sessions at The Grotto include self-evident and theyself, videos from which will be premiered at the launch event at Mortimers on Thursday August 30th.

Seaberg performed thee songs in their session:

  1. Clarity
  2. Time Currency
  3. Fallin’

The Back to the City video crew also shot Seaberg’s entire set at this month’s “Femme Fatale” Icehouse show, which Back to the City curator and host Simon Calder briefly discusses with Taylor Seaberg in this one minute interview (a full-length, full band interview will be recorded and released in August):

Here’s “Medusa,” one of the songs shot by Back to the City and edited by Taylor Seaberg at the “Femme Fatale” show:

Seaberg’s next live performance will be at the launch party for “Back to the City @ The Grotto” – with Symone Smah It, OkNice and more TBA –  on Thursday August 30th at Mortimer’s Bar. https://www.facebook.com/events/187148132151721/?ti=icl

BACK TO THE CITY PRESENTS: 26 BATS! LIVE IN-STUDIO @ THE GROTTO

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Photo credit: Tyler Newman

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Ahead of their performance at Back to the City’s benefit show for Lauren Smythe this Thursday and following front-person Bailey Cogan’s recent BTTC interview, 26 BATS! swooped by “The Grotto” for this first BTTC Session at that location.

Here they are performing three previously-unreleased originals:

  1. Call Me Daddy
  2. Do What You Do
  3. Satin Blu

Catch 26 BATS! with host Mark Mallman, Tacky Annie, DJ Rowsheen, Undoers, The Teddy Holidays (duo), Dirt Train’s Tucker Jensen, Regional Dialect, Pelham, Ernest Rhodes, Cole Premo, Robin Viele, I AM TIGER, Doc Jefferson, and Chuck Cannon at Mortimer’s benefit concert for Lauren Smythe this Thursday.

Benefit show for Lauren Smythe: https://www.facebook.com/events/184787858862607/

Interview with Bailey Cogan:
http://riftmagazine.com/2018/07/09/26-minutes-with-26-bats-bailey-cogan-on-the-7-26-bttc-benefit-for-lauren-smythe/

Lauren Smythe GoFundMe Page: https://www.gofundme.com/2usn2u-help-lauren-heal

 

Event – Single Release Show Tonight at The Varsity Theater – Glowing Bora York

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After a 3 year hiatus during which both babies and songs were birthed, Bora York are releasing their latest single “Glowing” tonight at The Varsity Theater. The track reverberates with the expressive harmonies of married artists Rebekah and Chris Bartels, who penned a dream of an unconditional pop song about unconditional love. [Read more…] about Event – Single Release Show Tonight at The Varsity Theater – Glowing Bora York

TALKING ABOUT SINGING ABOUT DANCING WITH DEMONS with TACKY ANNIE: 7/26 BTTC BENEFIT SHOW INTERVIEW

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Engaged couple Rachelle LaNae and Andrew Frederick are the song-writing nucleus of high-energy indie pop group Tacky Annie, who will be perform alongside 26 BATS!, Gabriel Rodreick’s Undoers, DJ Rowsheen, host Mark Mallman, and 10 regulars from J.T. Viele’s acclaimed OpenMic MPLS at Mortimer’s Benefit for Lauren Smythe on Thursday July 27th. In this video interview with Back to the City host and curator Simon Calder, Frederick and LaNae discuss how they first began performing LaNae’s singer-songwriter material in contexts like Viele’s OpenMic MPLS, where they first met fellow songwriter Lauren Smythe, for whom they are playing this benefit show. After the couple collaboratively composed “Renegade Energy,” a dance-inducing song about dancing, for a ballet company, Tacky Annie was born. To the soundtrack of their debut record, “The Little Album,” LaNae and Frederick recount the Tacky Annie story so far.

https://www.facebook.com/events/184787858862607/

Video – Witch Watch – Seconds

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Witch Watch, indie alt-rock, a little angsty with a fresh sound. Let hope the prison line from this song was metaphorical, but possibly it wasn’t. Not a wall of sound, or as much reverb as full-on shoegaze, but you can hear it in there. There are twenty songs in their ambitious double album, I haven’t gotten through all of them, but what I have heard so far I like.

https://www.facebook.com/witchwatch/