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SOLD OUT!! KEXP Presents: The Maldoggies Family Christmas!! The Maldives, The Moondoggies, Widower
Fri, 14 Dec, 9:00 PM PST
Doors open
8:00 PM PST
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5213 Ballard Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107
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Description
In the great Northwest, The Maldives are more than a band, they are an institution. With a history that goes back more than a decade (their friendships considerably longer), they have brought their cultivated brand of American rock to avid crowds across the country, gracing the stages at SXSW, CMJ, Capitol Hill Block Party, Sasquatch, and Bumbershoot.
Their newest venture, "Mad Lives," is melodically a lushly layered, psych-folk, poly-rhythmic rock adventure through personal mythos, space, and time. It is a concept record that tells the story of a man who fell in love with the sun, is dropped to the sea, and goes blind staring at the sun, trying to find the love that was once there. A collaboration with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Rose Windows), and featuring Eyvind Kang (Lou Reed, Blonde Redhead, Bill Frisell) on strings, "Mad Lives" is a bold step into a new, even more cinematic, musical terrain for the band, driving deeper into the heart of love, loss, and how time gets away from us.
The group's previous work includes their debut full-length, 2009’s Americana-tinged "Listen to the Thunder" (produced by Grammy Award-winner Kory Kruckenberg), and "Muscle for the Wing" (Spark & Shine), a fist-pumping, rock and roll exploration of ballads and anthems, with producer Shawn Simmons (The Head and the Heart, Lemolo, Kithkin) at the helm.
Lead singer/songwriter Jason Dodson’s songs reveal characters set in a widescreen frame, scenes from real life that often portray victims of the heart and casualties to the beast that is circumstance.
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Age Limit
21+
Pop
The Maldives
The Maldives
Pop
In the great Northwest, The Maldives are more than a band, they are an institution. With a history that goes back more than a decade (their friendships considerably longer), they have brought their cultivated brand of American rock to avid crowds across the country, gracing the stages at SXSW, CMJ, Capitol Hill Block Party, Sasquatch, and Bumbershoot.
Their newest venture, "Mad Lives," is melodically a lushly layered, psych-folk, poly-rhythmic rock adventure through personal mythos, space, and time. It is a concept record that tells the story of a man who fell in love with the sun, is dropped to the sea, and goes blind staring at the sun, trying to find the love that was once there. A collaboration with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Rose Windows), and featuring Eyvind Kang (Lou Reed, Blonde Redhead, Bill Frisell) on strings, "Mad Lives" is a bold step into a new, even more cinematic, musical terrain for the band, driving deeper into the heart of love, loss, and how time gets away from us.
The group's previous work includes their debut full-length, 2009’s Americana-tinged "Listen to the Thunder" (produced by Grammy Award-winner Kory Kruckenberg), and "Muscle for the Wing" (Spark & Shine), a fist-pumping, rock and roll exploration of ballads and anthems, with producer Shawn Simmons (The Head and the Heart, Lemolo, Kithkin) at the helm.
Lead singer/songwriter Jason Dodson’s songs reveal characters set in a widescreen frame, scenes from real life that often portray victims of the heart and casualties to the beast that is circumstance.
Alternative Country
The Moondoggies
The Moondoggies
Alternative Country
Rooted in folk-rock and woodsy Americana, the Moondoggies take influences from such vocally inclined groups as the Byrds, the Band, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Although hailing from Seattle, seeds for the band's formation were planted in nearby Everett, Washington, where they formed a teenaged band while attending Cascade High School. The students discovered their talent for three-part vocal harmonies, and when Murphy returned from a summer-long stay in Alaska in 2005, the four friends reconvened in Seattle to form the Moondoggies. Taking up residence at a local dive bar named the Blue Moon Tavern, the Moondoggies honed their craft and soon netted a contract with Hardly Art, an imprint of Seattle's own Sub Pop Records. Don't Be a Stranger, the band's woozy debut, appeared in 2008, with the mature Tidelands following in October 2010. Third album Adios I'm a Ghost, released in 2013 and aided by the addition of multi-instrumentalist Jon Pontrello to the band, fell somewhere between the two in sound and tone.
Alternative Rock
Widower
Widower
Alternative Rock
New Jersey native, Seattle staple, and on and off again New Yorker, Kevin Large has been making music under the WIDOWER moniker for over a decade. Large’s lyrically driven songwriting can be categorized in the all-encompassing camp of indie/folk rock, which he more accurately describes as ‘sad dad rock’ for those whose only “children” are memories of the friends, loves, and lives we spent our youth both chasing and running from.
WIDOWER’s latest release ‘Baby We Were’ was recorded over a couple of years beginning February of 2017 at a cabin on the edge of Lake Cle Elum in central Washington. Large continued working on it in various places around the country including New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle. He eventually found some semblance of sense that rarely comes from seemingly endless sessions, with help from producer and collaborator Sam Miller. The album features dozens of dear friends from said cities including members of The Head and The Heart, as well as musicians that perform with Katy Perry, Mark Lanegan and more. ‘Baby We Were’, with it’s Frankenstein-esque origin really came to life when it was exquisitely mixed by Yuuki Matthews of The Shins.
Large’s reverence for Springsteen and 80's English rock is self-evident throughout the entire album. ‘Baby We Were’ is the sonic embodiment of warm, sullen summer nights and distant shore memories of a seventeen year old ‘Garden State Steinbeck’ wanna-be bringing dates to a cemetery in the 1990s.