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LIKE ONLY YOU CAN: ZWAREMACHINE ON BEING A LIGHT AND MIDWESTINDUSTRIAL

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Mach Fox of Zwaremachine drops by the Back to the City duplex to discuss self-expression in their new “Be A Light” record and MidwestIndustrial, which will present a night of Industrial and EBM music also including C.Kostra, Depotek, and Grave Society on Friday, August 31st.

https://www.facebook.com/events/663667377336994/

NEWBORNS, REBIRTH, AND THE PHOENIX: IN CONVERSATION WITH LOVELY DARK

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Today Back to the City is pleased to present this career-spanning interview with Sonia and Travis Even of Lovely Dark. To complement their in-studio session, recorded back on Wednesday, June 20th and released through RIFT last week, the songwriting nucleus of Lovely Dark here join Back to the City host and curator Simon Calder to discuss how themes of birth and rebirth resurface throughout their catalog.

Back to the City is now shooting in-studio sessions at The Grotto in Uptown. We will be celebrating the new collaboration with a lunch party at Mortimers on Thursday August 30th, with live sets from Seaberg, Elle PF, Symone Smash It, and OKnice, and the premiere of “@ the Grotto” in-studio videos featuring self-evident, glow mechanics, and theyself.

https://www.facebook.com/events/187148132151721/

“LOVELY DARK” DEBUT NEW SONG “BLACKWELL” ON THE BACK TO THE CITY SESSIONS

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Photo By: Tyler Newman

Today Back to the City is pleased to present this three-song session from Lovely Dark, who – back on Wednesday, June 20th – were one of two final bands to track in-studio sessions for season 4 of the Back to the City Sessions. At the end of this month, on Thursday August 30th, Back to the City will celebrate the beginning of its fifth season with an event involving the premiere of new in-studio music videos – recorded at The Grotto – from self-evident, theyself and more:

https://www.facebook.com/events/187148132151721/

Meanwhile, here is Lovely Dark’s three-song set featuring the premier of “Black Well,” as well as live performances of “The Wheel” from their “New Born” LP and the title track of “Into The Roil”:

“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