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Sunday · August 9 · 08:00PMAbout the Event
Toadies–The Charmer
Toadies return with The Charmer, their long-awaited eighth studio album and most personaland visceral work to date. One of the last recordings by late, legendary producerSteve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey etc.), record captures the Texas foursome live in the studio bottling their raw, Southern-tinged grunge with unfiltered immediacy.
Formed in Fort Worth in 1989, Toadies marry the band’s love for the Pixies and Talking Heads to the old-school country, ZZ Top, and classic rock they all grew up on. It’s a sound intoxicatingbut uneasy, cathartic yet always searching. Frontman Vaden ToddLewis channels years of self-reflection intoThe Charmer, a concept born from pandemic isolation and a reckoning with self-doubt.Released via Austin’s pioneeringSpaceflight Records (The Sword, Die Spitz, HeartlessBastards),the world’s first nonprofit label,The Charmerembodies true creative freedom: madeon their own terms, withSteve Albinitheir dream producer.
The Charmeris the most defiantly“Toadies” Toadies album yet.
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Local H is known for their blistering live shows and for pioneering thetwo-man band set-up–frontmanScott Lucas covers both guitar andbass through an extra pick up in his guitar and drummer RyanHarding pounds out the rest of the sound. While they have earnedpraise in the past for their catalog of clever concept albums, Local Hhave forgone a singulartheme on their most recent album–Hey,Killer (out April 2015 on G&P Records)–turning out a non-stop blastof straight-up, hooky, guitar-heavy rock songs–each one catchierthan the last. The band’s discography includes seven other studioalbums, alive album, and a bunch of EPs and “Straight Outta Zion,” aBlu-ray concert video (release date 8/12/16).Local H’s widely praised 1998 concept album Pack Up the Catsearned a spot in SPIN magazine’s top 20 albums of that year. Theband was named “Chicagoans of the Year” by the Chicago Tribunefor their 2008 break-up album, 12 Angry Months, more than a decadeafter their breakthrough hit “Bound for the Floor” ruled the ModernRock charts. In 2015, Local H celebrated the 25th anniversary of theirfirst show and released a career-spanning coffee table book, Local H:Twenty-Five Years of Skin In The Game. Earlier this year, they re-issued their 1996 album, As Good As Dead, on vinyl for the first time.Local H is currently on tour with Metallica while they continue torelentlessly tour the world
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