Bri Dominique + Dolphin Group + The Curls

Bri Dominique:

Linktree w/ all streaming links:

https://linktr.ee/Bridominique

Bio:

"Bri Dominique is a multi-instrumental songstress originally from Westchester, New York. She currently lives in the Pittsburgh area where she studies music therapy and composes as well, mainly in orchestral form. Through experimental songwriting and raw exploration of ideas, Bri Dominique continues to evolve into different interests constantly. While exploring electronic, baroque pop, alternative and soul genres, Bri stays true to her roots in classical performance, mainly on viola."

-Bri Dominique

Dolphin Group:

Bandcamp:

https://dolphingroup.bandcamp.com/

Linktree w/ all streaming links:

https://linktr.ee/DolphinGroup

Bio:

"Born out of the collaboration between childhood friends, Dolphin Group is an upbeat and exciting project inspired by the unique energy of 80’s synth-pop music, but with a modern and aquatic update.

Residing in their hometown of Chattanooga, TN, every note of Dolphin Group is intricately recorded in their home, Dolphin Studios, which features vintage and modern synthesizers, guitars, basses, and drums acquired over the years. Lyrically, the songs evoke parallel and colorful realities, untethered to humanity. Sonically, they conjure a hidden dance party on the beach.

'Dolphin Group delivers a fresh take on 80’s pop with infectious grooves and a beautifully crafted, energizing sound.' - Eve Maret"

The Curls:

Bandcamp:

https://thecurls.bandcamp.com/

Linktree w/ all streaming links:

https://linktr.ee/spiritualmick420

Bio:

"Call it “Curls Just Wanna Have Fun”: on the newest Curls LP Smothered & Covered, “Spiritual” Mick Fansler and his psycho-delic troubadours lay it all on the table. The members, now spread out between Chicago, Athens, GA, and Wyoming meld their eccentric backgrounds together to produce the sound of this mangy, utterly unique new LP.

The band’s funky singles and singular music videos gained them fans throughout the U.S. and catapulted them to the stage at Pitchfork Music Festival in 2018, but their sound has expanded since their 2019 LP Bounce House, becoming more limber and jammy. Their goofy spirit has grown complicated, insular; their playfulness has gained a political and artistically fruitful angst. This newest LP is a concept album, an LSD-soaked shrug to a world overridden with capitalist corruption and violence. As Mick sings on lead single “No Money, No Fun,” “no one’s making any money, no one’s having any fun.” The song that follows it, “Stiff Lightning,” consists of the repeated mantra “I live in the world.” The way they say it, it might not be a good thing.

But the Curls’ struggle is our benefit; they suffer for us. They have found a way to translate COVID-era social displacement into a joyful, communal sound. Album centerpiece “Chickens” turns a stoned-out breakdown – key lyric “I can’t believe / I can’t even read” – into a technicolor epic, a la King Crimson soundtracking a Rugrats episode. Their world is ours: iPhone screen-headaches, overly potent weed gummies, weird Joe Biden clips. But their musical palette is ambitious, fun, groovy. The combination of these elements provides something major, potentially essential, to the millennial spirit.

Mick and The Curls will soldier on, regardless of the world’s indifference; I’ve seen them tour Canadian dive bars in the dead of winter. Their spirit of irreverence is resilient. Their music provides a blueprint for a new path forward, in which the trolls and the Bernie Bros and the jam-banders and the acid casualties march together, lock-step, 4/4, 118bpm. I’ll follow them to the gates of CGI Hell." - Matthew Danger Lippman.

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