Shadow Monster w/ The Big Easy, Palamino + Genuine Connection

7:00PM Doors // 8:00PM Show

21+

$12 in advance // $15 at the door

Shadow Monster is frontwoman and guitarist Gillian Visco’s alter ego and title of her dejected grunge pop project with longtime drummer and collaborator John Swanson. Visco screams and sighs into the abyss of grief in hopes of transforming that pain into bliss through catchy choruses and heartbreakingly relatable lyrics about the immense weight of being human on planet earth. In live shows, Nikki Sisti (THICK) and Denim Casimir (TVOD) round out the trio with booming, fuzzy basslines adding to the vibrant wall of sound best enjoyed with your local dive bar’s beer and shot combo.

“I want you to HEAR the room... to be SURROUNDED by the song.” So enthuses Stephen Berthomieux of his latest recordings under the moniker The Big Easy. These ten new songs,which will arrive on the new album (It’s No Secret) The Truth As Bad As The View, are living and breathing documents. Deceptively complex and strikingly immediate snapshots of someone coming to terms with their mistakes, facing up to the future, and finally learning to be comfortable.‘Space’ is at the heart of these new compositions. In comparison to previous Big Easy outings,there is a deliberate embracing of quietness; from small moments of total silence, through hushed strumming, to barely contained simmering frustration. These glimpses between the notes draw the listener into an album that is alive. The attitude and emotions resonating in the spaces. At its heart, the album embodies Berthomieux’s experiences as a black man in a music scene dominated by whiteness, explores the increasing awareness of pain he has been silently carrying, and uncovers underlying mental health issues that he’d always thought were just “things that other people had”.On It’s No Secret, Berthomieux boldly asserts his identity whilst baring previously buried parts of his soul. In his own words, “It’s No Secret is like my journal... a place where I can express thethings that I haven’t been able to say out loud.”

Over the past half-decade the Montclair, NJ, emo quartet Palamino’s sound has crystalized. When they burst onto the scene in 2019 with their self-titled LP, their sound was bright and jangly, and with each of their stopgap releases—EPs in 2020 and ‘22, a two-song single in ‘23—they’ve gotten harder to pigeonhole. Their music’s gotten darker, twistier, more atmospheric, but they still know their way around a hook, still know how to cut right to the heart of things. When they released their newest album, ‘A Simple Lesson in Human Body Language’ in January of 2024, it was a sign of how the new sound will form. A sign that it’s only the beginning.

‘A Simple Lesson’ is not just the sum of its parts or the sum of their past work; it’s an extension as much as a culmination. “Nothing happens to fit perfect quite like this,” goes one lyric towards the denouement of “Here Again,” and it feels true—A Simple Lesson in Human Body Language is the only album Palamino could’ve written right now, and it’s also one only Palamino could’ve written.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Broadway, 1272 Broadway, Brooklyn, United States