Name: Casino Hearts w/ So Totally at PhilaMOCA
Start: 2025-04-10T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-10T22:00:00-04:00
Location: PhilaMOCA

$Casino Hearts w\/ So Totally at PhilaMOCA$ CASINO HEARTS
Based in Los Angeles, Casino Hearts are Forrest Holter, Nick Minor, and Jacob Rubeck. Rubeck and Minor originally formed the band in Reno in 2013 releasing a number of albums and becoming a staple of the local music scene. When Rubeck moved to Los Angeles, the band went on an indefinite hiatus with hopes to someday make music together again. In 2021, Minor moved to Los Angeles and the two members recruited Holter who would add a pop and electronic sensibility to the band’s indie rock sound ushering the band into a new era. Influenced by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Björk, Broadcast and Cocteau Twins, Casino Hearts debut EP, Lose Your Halo, is a sonic quilt of dream pop, distorted guitars and trance-like beats anchored by Holter’s ethereal gossamer voice. The band will release their second EP, ‘A Walk in The Grass’ in early March. It’s safe to say Casino Hearts have found their final form.
SO TOTALLY
Philadelphia’s So Totally are a portrait of utmost devotion. Since 2015, the band has humbly studied their surroundings and themselves, perfecting a sound present on 2016’s A Cheap Close-Up of Heaven, and 2019’s In The Shape Of. Shimmering guitars sit underneath lush vocals that concurrently embed themselves in a listener’s subconscious, haunting them with heavy mood and nostalgia for 90’s rock groups. These releases brought So Totally to the point of singular focus on drafting a third album, Double Your Relaxation, while in quarantine in 2020. Lyrically and thematically, Double Your Relaxation explores where influence and “hypnosis” exist in life, specifically in environment, media, relationships, and self, bouncing between perspectives of witnessing, interacting with, and contributing to illusion and how that ultimately affects our idea of identity. The moody and surreal nature of the songs lends itself appropriately to the shoegaze/heavy indie style of So Totally, making them a perfect addition to the canon of the genre. Double Your Relaxation is out now and is available through North Carolina’s Tiny Engines, their first with the label.