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Songbyrd x U+N Booking PresentThursday September 24th
Starcleaner Reunion w/ special guest The Smashing Times
Vocalist and tambourine player Jo Roman, guitarists Pat Drummond and Neil Torman, and bassist Adam Kenter grew up in the same small town of Springfield, New Jersey. After meeting in high school, they played together in various configurations, bonding over a collective love for Brazilian psych, C86 jangle, and ’90s noise.
They chose the name Starcleaner Reunion after a 1970s children's book about magical beings that return light to the sky. They recorded their first EP, 2023’s Club Estrella, quickly, with barely a thought for production. There’s an innocence to these early, kaleidoscopic bursts of alt-rock, but also an instinctual familiarity. The band approached their next EP, 2024’s Café Life, with the intention of expanding the band’s universe.
They performed live tirelessly after Café Life, fine-tuning their material along the way. As introduced through new single “Weather Instrument,” new music from Starcleaner Reunion is their most expansive and ambitious yet, blending together poetic abstraction, recombinant collage, and sonic craftsmanship.
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The Smashing Times, psychedelic freakbeat from a Baltimore basement.
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540 Penn St NE, Washington, DC 20002, USA, United States
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