Greg Mendez

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7 PM – Doors
8 PM – Show

GREG MENDEZ

First Time / Alone, Greg Mendez’s new EP and first release with Dead Oceans, came together in late summer and early fall of 2023; the songs here appear in the order in which they were written, recorded straight to four-track in the small spare room of his West Philadelphia apartment. It’s a four song arc, a spectral passageway, one brief and fluid body of work that hangs together from the mournful opening of “Mountain Dew Hell” to the pitched-up vocals on “Pain Meds,” a tiny song floundering in the enormity of grief. The experience of listening through is like waking up from a half-remembered dream, a shadow in the corner of the room, a strange solitude, a temporal New York autumn with gray skies and naked trees. But while the release is sparse and spontaneous, it’s tactile and consuming, a glimpse into the beautiful, lonely worlds that live in the core of a Greg Mendez song.

22° HALO

22º halo is a recording project/band from Philadelphia. 

SOUP DREAMS

Soup Dreams began as the solo project of singer/guitarist Isaac Shalit, completing their senior recital at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. An unsteady first venture into songwriting emerged from a background in experimental music and performance art. When they moved to Philadelphia in late 2021, they became fixated on indie rock, on the power and grit of the Philly scene. With the addition of bandmates Emma Kazal (she/her, bass/vocals) , Nigel Law (he/him, drums) and Winnie Malcarney (she/her, guitar), Soup Dreams solidified into a real Rock Band. Drawing on eclectic musical influences from country to classical and united by deep emotion and frenetic energy, the band explores themes of queer and trans identity, magic and the divine, animal familiars, and the siren pull of the open road.