Name: Social Cinema - The Macks - Munk Rivers
Start: 2025-03-21T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1159 24th Street Des Moines IA 50311

xBk presents
Social Cinema - The Macks - Munk Rivers

FRIDAY, MARCH 21
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
All Ages

$15 Day Of Show

*Limited seating available on a first come, first served basis. If you require ADA accommodations please reach out to [email protected]*
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•• SOCIAL CINEMA ••
Social Cinema is a new band with over a decade of history. More accurately, Social Cinema is the latest chapter in a decade-plus friendship and artistic journey evolving alongside the people behind the music.

When three Wichita friends, Austin Engler and brothers Griffin and Logan Bush formed K*ll Vargas in 2013 as young teenagers, they couldn't have guessed that they’d all be still performing together a decade later. Along the way, the trio would cross paths with Nebraskan band, Death Cow, featuring Mari Crisler and Reed Tiwald. Between sharing bills and sleeping on each other's couches after shows while on the Midwest DIY scene grind, the three and two would become inseparably close, and eventually join forces as five in 2021, under the new name Social Cinema.

Whether it’s due to their years as touring musicians, gradually honed songwriting and stylistic ambitions from scrappy, garage-y roots, or some combination of all of the above, Social Cinema makes an immediate impression with seasoned beyond their years songwriting chops and a road-hardened work ethic and resolve to match. Since adopting the Social Cinema banner in 2021, the alternative/indie rock quintet has issued four EPs — 2022’s Causing Scenes and Repeat, Get Along, and Stay Numb in 2023 — and a number of singles highlighting the outfit’s multifaceted songcraft prowess, and has shared bills with the likes of Metric, Saint Motel, Slothrust, The Velveteers, Spiritual Cramp, Bad Bad Hats, Sego, THICK, PUP, The Macks, and more.

After releasing Stay Numb in Spring 2023, Social Cinema dropped its compilation album which is the sum of all three EP’s that they released that year, along with two new songs.Titled It’s Nice to Meet You: Singles Collection, the ten-track release continues Social Cinema’s adoption of professional studio polish, this time bringing that refinement to the direct, galvanizing punch of the band’s garage rock roots. Spanning territories that range from anthemic power-pop on the opener and title track, “When Is It Ever That Easy?,” to the groovy and grittiness of “Healer,” this latest chapter in Social Cinema’s journey is a celebration of the sounds and scenes that got each of its five members to where they are today. Whereas all of their EP’s released in 2023 showcased the quintet’s ambitions to bring its sound to new, more stylistically dynamic and fresh territories, It’s Nice to Meet You is a loud and proud assertion of the band’s DIY ethos and the wallop of its no-frills rock roots not only intact, but stronger than ever.

New Music from Social Cinema will be out to the world in the first half of 2025.

•• THE MACKS ••
At a time when pop and hip-hop have squeezed rock bands all but out of the mainstream consciousness, The Macks' sound is a throwback blend of heavy blues, classic swagger, angular indie rock and propulsive punk spirit.

Think the Rolling Stones, White Stripes, MC5 and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and you're in the right musical ballpark. (And that's a really nice ballpark.) - THE BULLETIN

•• MUNK RIVERS ••
"Munk Rivers is a 4-piece indie-rock band based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Specializing in straight-from-the-heart and thoughtful lyricism, bigger than life guitar work, and experimental production - there’s something for everyone. The project is led by brother-sister duo Charlotte and Tucker Judkins who founded the project in 2021 after moving from Webster City, Iowa to Des Moines.

Since moving to the “Big City” Munk Rivers picked up bassist Max Green and Izzy Marx from a house show and have since played some of Iowa’s premiere venues including 80/35 music festival, xBk Live, The Lift, and Capital City Pride Fest. The group also released their first two self-produced E.P’s in 2024 - which has garnered over 10,000 streams on Spotify.