Support: TBA
Saturday May 24th 2025
Neck of the Woods 406 Clement St San Francisco, CA 94118
$15 in adv $18 at the door
Doors at 7:30pm
ALL AGES
Sat May 24 2025
7:30 PM Doors
$19.00
All Ages
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Silas Short performs LUSHLAND for the first time - his debut album arrives April 25 on Stones Throw. LUSHLAND documents Silas’ experiences of starting over. In 2021, a defining loss inspired Silas to take a leap in search of new possibilities. He packed up his car and left Chicago, the first place he was able to call home after his mother passed. Physically, he moved to Los Angeles; spiritually and emotionally, he journeyed to a place called Lushland. If Lushland is an imagined refuge where Silas confronts his emotions without fear, LUSHLAND maps those feelings onto music.
Silas Short(Stones Throw Records)
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Silas Short
Indie Pop
Silas Short has lived many lives. His debut album LUSHLAND is a passionate record of processing change as he journeys through highs, lows, and powerful self-acceptance. To craft LUSHLAND’s rich sound, Short drew inspiration from Soulquarians-era R&B, Erykah Badu’s falsetto storytelling on Mama’s Gun, and D’Angelo’s butter-smooth singing and instrumentation on Voodoo. While vintage R&B and funk are key influences, they’re not the only ones; Silas cites artists like Bob Marley and The Smiths as inspirations. (Cementing the reggae connection, Short recently recorded a cover of The Uniques’ “My Conversation,” featured in Jesse Eisenberg’s 2024 award-winning film A Real Pain.)
Growing up in Milwaukee, Silas played guitar in a gospel band, jammed with his father and brother at home, and practiced the saxophone while working in the booth of the Thanks-A-Lot parking lot. At 19, he moved to Chicago, where he sneaked in guitar practice during slow shifts at Music Go Round. In the Windy City, Short worked at a BDSM-themed haunted house before joining a group of fellow musicians who travelled the country on a school bus, playing from town to town atop its yellow roof.
Though Chicago life had been a whirlwind, Silas moved across the country with a firm sense of purpose: he would immerse himself in LA’s thriving music scene and the community around his new label, Stones Throw. “When my world changed before the move, I desperately needed that sense of confidence back,” Silas says. “The culture shock of LA alone was enough to inspire a record, but ultimately being here I really felt like I had something to prove.”
In Los Angeles, he ad-libbed vocals in the studio until he found the words and sounds that captured the concepts in his head. Collaborators helped execute his vision. Silas’ longtime inspiration, the neo-soul legend James Poyser of The Roots and Soulquarians (Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, Ms. Lauryn Hill) plays piano on “ILIKEU”; Luke Titus lays down drums on three tracks, and Peanut Butter Wolf scratches on “WOLF’S BLESSING”, which includes a Charizma sample. LUSHLAND was co-produced by Ryan James Carr (Usher, Cordae) and mixed by six-time Grammy Award-winner Cole M.G.N.
$19.00 All Ages
Silas Short performs LUSHLAND for the first time - his debut album arrives April 25 on Stones Throw. LUSHLAND documents Silas’ experiences of starting over. In 2021, a defining loss inspired Silas to take a leap in search of new possibilities. He packed up his car and left Chicago, the first place he was able to call home after his mother passed. Physically, he moved to Los Angeles; spiritually and emotionally, he journeyed to a place called Lushland. If Lushland is an imagined refuge where Silas confronts his emotions without fear, LUSHLAND maps those feelings onto music.
Support: TBA
Saturday May 24th 2025
Neck of the Woods 406 Clement St San Francisco, CA 94118
$15 in adv $18 at the door
Doors at 7:30pm
ALL AGES
Silas Short
Indie Pop
Silas Short has lived many lives. His debut album LUSHLAND is a passionate record of processing change as he journeys through highs, lows, and powerful self-acceptance. To craft LUSHLAND’s rich sound, Short drew inspiration from Soulquarians-era R&B, Erykah Badu’s falsetto storytelling on Mama’s Gun, and D’Angelo’s butter-smooth singing and instrumentation on Voodoo. While vintage R&B and funk are key influences, they’re not the only ones; Silas cites artists like Bob Marley and The Smiths as inspirations. (Cementing the reggae connection, Short recently recorded a cover of The Uniques’ “My Conversation,” featured in Jesse Eisenberg’s 2024 award-winning film A Real Pain.)
Growing up in Milwaukee, Silas played guitar in a gospel band, jammed with his father and brother at home, and practiced the saxophone while working in the booth of the Thanks-A-Lot parking lot. At 19, he moved to Chicago, where he sneaked in guitar practice during slow shifts at Music Go Round. In the Windy City, Short worked at a BDSM-themed haunted house before joining a group of fellow musicians who travelled the country on a school bus, playing from town to town atop its yellow roof.
Though Chicago life had been a whirlwind, Silas moved across the country with a firm sense of purpose: he would immerse himself in LA’s thriving music scene and the community around his new label, Stones Throw. “When my world changed before the move, I desperately needed that sense of confidence back,” Silas says. “The culture shock of LA alone was enough to inspire a record, but ultimately being here I really felt like I had something to prove.”
In Los Angeles, he ad-libbed vocals in the studio until he found the words and sounds that captured the concepts in his head. Collaborators helped execute his vision. Silas’ longtime inspiration, the neo-soul legend James Poyser of The Roots and Soulquarians (Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, Ms. Lauryn Hill) plays piano on “ILIKEU”; Luke Titus lays down drums on three tracks, and Peanut Butter Wolf scratches on “WOLF’S BLESSING”, which includes a Charizma sample. LUSHLAND was co-produced by Ryan James Carr (Usher, Cordae) and mixed by six-time Grammy Award-winner Cole M.G.N.
Growing up in Milwaukee, Silas played guitar in a gospel band, jammed with his father and brother at home, and practiced the saxophone while working in the booth of the Thanks-A-Lot parking lot. At 19, he moved to Chicago, where he sneaked in guitar practice during slow shifts at Music Go Round. In the Windy City, Short worked at a BDSM-themed haunted house before joining a group of fellow musicians who travelled the country on a school bus, playing from town to town atop its yellow roof.
Though Chicago life had been a whirlwind, Silas moved across the country with a firm sense of purpose: he would immerse himself in LA’s thriving music scene and the community around his new label, Stones Throw. “When my world changed before the move, I desperately needed that sense of confidence back,” Silas says. “The culture shock of LA alone was enough to inspire a record, but ultimately being here I really felt like I had something to prove.”
In Los Angeles, he ad-libbed vocals in the studio until he found the words and sounds that captured the concepts in his head. Collaborators helped execute his vision. Silas’ longtime inspiration, the neo-soul legend James Poyser of The Roots and Soulquarians (Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, Ms. Lauryn Hill) plays piano on “ILIKEU”; Luke Titus lays down drums on three tracks, and Peanut Butter Wolf scratches on “WOLF’S BLESSING”, which includes a Charizma sample. LUSHLAND was co-produced by Ryan James Carr (Usher, Cordae) and mixed by six-time Grammy Award-winner Cole M.G.N.
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