CapCity Presents:The Slaps + hemlock
Saturday February 8th, 2025
All Ages Welcome
Doors at 7pm
Show at 7:30pm
$17 Advance or $20 DOS
The Slaps:
As proven on their strange and beautiful new album Mudglimmer, the looming specter of artistic oblivion pushed The Slaps to lean into their idiosyncrasies: snaking rhythms, complicatedly interlocking guitar riffs, grubby yet alluring poetry, and homespun post-modern Americana sing-alongs all surge with a free-wheeling improvisatory verve informed by free jazz. It’s a stunning DIY comeback story, a doubling-down on avant-garde impulses that pays immediate dividends. Spontaneous composition and earnest, threadbare folk collide on Mudglimmer. It’s a marvel of influential synthesis, evoking Slint’s comfortability with ominous tension (“Mudglimmer”), Tortoise’s slinky push-pull grooves (“Filthy Sex Manuevers”), Waxahatchee’s slice-of-life Americana gems (“Flip”), elliptical funk-punk a la The Minutemen (“Forward”), minimal grunge-pop in the vein of Sebadoh (“King”) and so much more. Mudglimmer, in short, rips. Faced with existential threats, The Slaps reconfigured and reenergized — finding purpose, not in reaching for a brass ring, but in becoming fully, unashamedly, their own wonderfully confounding thing.
https://www.outermostagency.com/the-slaps
hemlock
hemlock is the swamp-raised "phone-fi” alt-folk project of multi-disciplinary creative force Carolina Chauffe and various rotating collaborators, currently anchored between Chicago, Austin, and Louisiana, but more often on the road.
Their most recent album ‘444’ – self-released in October 2024 – is a "best of, so far" of an ongoing song-a-day-for-a-month project, with its 12 carefully chosen tracks recaptured, rearranged, and reimagined in eager collaboration with an all-star Chicago cast.
This is means-to-an-end modern-day folk art for the open-hearted. Eager, intentionally imperfect, prolific.
Doggedly DIY, Chauffe is an avid documenter, an amateur archivist, and a believer in magic, with a discography spanning hundreds of songs in half a decade, including their independently released debut full-band LP 'talk soon' (2022), and 6 months' worth of aforementioned phone-recorded song-a-day collections (2019-present), among other works.
In addition to hemlock, Carolina has toured in Merce Lemon (2023), Babehoven (2022), Fran (2023), and is a long-time member of TX band Little Mazarn.
They are a gatherer, a neighbor, and a hopeful for a free Palestine, for a free tomorrow for all. They will be a road dog for as long as they can, and make music for as long as they live.
Remainders
MEET THE BAND
In the time before the pandemic, there were five. In the aftermath, three remained. Nobody died, they just couldn't hang. Like a phoenix from the ashes, the three REMAINDERS rose. They took their 60's pop and 90's alt influences and channeled them through synthesizers and drum machines to become what you see before you. These sonic alchemists met in university - Michael and Ryan have degrees in music, but Cosmo's degree is in math because he's a nerd. Over the years they have played at a variety of venues across Washington State, including Chateau Ste. Michelle, The Columbia City Theater, High Dive, Chop Suey, and El Corazon. Their music was also featured in the film "The Space Between" (2017) and were invited to play at the Carmel International Film Festival for the film's debut. Remainders discography includes a six track EP, with more on the way.
Event Venue
Wild Man Brewing Gastropub, 414 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA 98501-1109, United States,Olympia, Washington
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