Ithaca Underground presents:
YOUNG WIDOWS (Temporary Residence : Louisville, KY)
PYGMY LUSH (ex-Pg. 99 : Lovitt/Robotic Empire : Sterling, VA)
SUMMER PEOPLE (Low Light : Bing/Syr/Ith, NY)
OAK & BONE (Hex Records : Syracuse, NY)
Saturday, April 21st
Community School of Music & Art
3rd Floor Hall
330 E State / MLK Jr St
Ithaca, NY 14850
8PM All Ages
$10 adv / $14 dos
Join us for a special Record Store Day event at CSMA!
Presale tickets are online now via http://ithacaunderground.ticketleap.com/young-widows/ and will be sold at Angry Mom Records and other locations tba.
YOUNG WIDOWS:
http://www.youngwidows.net/
http://vimeo.com/22248209
Oh, how they've come a long way. Formed in 2006, Young Widows originally drew favorable comparisons to the 90s heyday of cacophonous noise-rock. Five years and three albums later, "In and Out of Youth and Lightness" finds the band digging much deeper and further back for inspiration. With their sprawling post-punk blasts shining cracks of lights through pitch black neo-noir fever dreams, Young Widows have clearly become a more sinister and thought-provoking beast.
"Youth and Lightness" was produced by the band and Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket) at The Funeral Home in their hometown of Louisville, KY. The musical palette remains fundamentally the same – singer-guitarist Evan Patterson's cavernous, warped blues riffs weighted by Nick Thieneman's earth-shaking bass and drummer Jeremy McMonigle's sturdy, shifting rhythms – but the augmented instrumentation and choral vocals lifts them to incredible new heights. With lyrical themes of emotional despair and domestic dissolution leading to inevitable catharsis, Youth and Lightness finds Patterson rising from his personal hell with a level of wisdom and maturity that most aggressive bands will never know.
With a depth and ambition well beyond their years, Young Widows have stepped out of the shadows of their influences to become one of America's more interesting and spirited underground rock bands. In and Out of Youth and Lightness is an unquestionable breakthrough for the band and an inspiring force in the canon of heavy music.
plus special guest...
PYGMY LUSH
http://www.myspace.com/pygmylush
Pygmy Lush, whose members have cut their teeth in some of Northern Virginia's most influential hardcore bands of the last decade including Pg.99, Majority Rule, Malady, City of Caterpillar and Crestfallen, return to Ithaca!
Pygmy Lush started life in the spring of '05 on the very day Malady and Mannequin broke up. Their first LP ‘Bitter River’ (Robotic Empire), was noise-punk tracks mixed in with some of the quieter songs.
Those more restrained songs, which had at first been an aside, began to overtake the set. Mike Taylor explains, "We liked the quiet stuff so much that we decided that our next plan was to write an entire quiet album." The sound suited them just fine.
"Mount Hope" followed in 2008 and 2011 saw the release of the absolutely stunning "Old Friends".
This 3rd LP found a home via Lovitt Records and showcased the fruits of PL labor with subtly lush aoustic strums, beautiful vocal harmonies, pianos, keyboards, and swelling ambient noise - but all from that spot of hardcore veterans. "Mount Hope" is a wonderful listen but, as we found last year when we had them out at The Space with Des Ark, these songs are meant to be played live. Life & beauty showcased in purse sound.
SUMMER PEOPLE
http://teamwork.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/SUMMERPEOPLE
Since their inception in 2008, Summer People have been steadily on the rise. First came "Good Problems". Then some line-up shuffling. Then "Teamwork" hit in 2011 and the band has been leveling up ever since – several subsequent tours with the likes of HotChaCha, Porches, Zlam Dunk; their “Do It” split 12” with HotChaCha, “Teamwork” received the vinyl treatment, SXSW… more tours, more good vibes.
The music itself defies conventional pigeonholing, but sounds right at home the first time you hear it. Rowdy folk, flecked with a familiar modern punk influence but, in the end, the delivery is almost more something out of Nick Cave’s pages of ideas.
Enough yapping though. Let the music and your own mind make the connections. Stream SP’s entire discography above.
OAK & BONE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ptdi8l0i8s
Grooving stoner metal and fuzzed-out punk jams anchored by an overpowering bass overload and reverbed out guitar leads. Don't miss this rare Ithaca performance of Syracuse's heavy lords!