Kicksie • Doubter • Chapped Lips • The Stinkeyes
Tue 08/22/23
6:00PM
All Ages
music
$12 ADV // $14 DOS
Show Lineup
Kicksie
(Toronto, Canada)
Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
Kicksie—the project of Toronto 22-year old Giuliana Mormile (she/they)—began with rapid-fire Bandcamp uploads in early 2018. Since then, their warm, incisive brand of electro-tinged emo-pop has evolved and blossomed while still orbiting around Giuliana’s base layers of brazen honesty and melodic magic tricks. Giuliana’s also been self-recording each release via her home studio Bedhead Records, emerging each time having yet again pivoted Kicksie’s sound into fresh territory. August 2020 saw the release of All My Friends, Kicksie’s fourth full-length album, which saw Giuliana intertwine her melodic charms with past dreams of joining the ranks of 2000s radio punks. A summer sleeper hit, the album was reissued by buzzing U.S. label Get Better Records and Ontario’s Blacktop Records. Kicksie will be returning this spring courtesy of new label home Counter Intuitive Records, sure to join the roster’s all-star bench of indie-pop firestarters. – James Cassar
Doubter
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Punk
Turn up your fucking headphones. Turn on the TV. Kick it through the fucking door. Because corporate ass America is trying to take over, and we won’t fucking let them. Milwaukee, WI
Chapped Lips
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie
Chapped Lips is a four-piece alternative rock band based in Milwaukee (originally from Sheboygan). Power pop, funk, blues, and punk all get thrown into a high-voltage blender. FFO The Strokes, Foxygen, Stephen Malkmus.
The Stinkeyes
(WI)
Genre: Punk
Self-proclaimed skunk punks, The Stinkeyes hail from the depressed Midwest. The trio cultivates the spirit of wit, grit, and confronting shit. They embody an energetic blend of garage rock and punk by juxtaposing humor and hell-raisin’. Through sass, wordplay, and aggression, their attitude exposes stinky stances. The group oozes opposition to injustice and is hellbent on leaving their scent.