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21oct6:30 pmGarbageVersion 2.0 20th Anniversary Tour6:30 pm Lincoln Theatre

21oct7:00 pmBig Thiefw/ The Range Of Light Wilderness, .michael.7:00 pm 9:30 Club

Event Details

The trails that Brooklyn’s Big Thief—Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums)—take us down on Capacity, the band’s highly anticipated second record, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls.

After last year’s stunning Masterpiece, Capacity was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion. They are peopled and unpeopled, spooked and soothed, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multifacted women and deal with the complicated matters of identity — at once dangerous and curious, though never unbelievable. Lenker shows us the gentle side of being ripped open. Tricked into love, done in and then witnessing the second act of pulling oneself back together to prepare for it to all happen again, but this time to a sturdier soul, one who is going to take the punches better than ever before and deal some jabs and roundhouses of their own.

The album is thick with raw, un-doctored beauty: most of the songs on Capacity were played for the first time in the studio and were recorded the same day. “There is a darker darkness and a lighter light on this album,” Lenker explains. “The songs search for a deeper level of self-acceptance, to embrace the world within and without. I think Masterpiece began that process, as a reaction from inside the pain, whereas I feel Capacity examines the pain from the outside.”

Time

(Sunday) 7:00 pm

Location

9:30 Club

815 V ST NW, Washington, DC 20001

Cost

$20

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22oct6:30 pmGarbagew/ Rituals of Mine - Version 2.0 20th Anniversary Tour (First Night Sold Out! Second Night Added!)6:30 pm Lincoln Theatre

22oct7:00 pmGallantw/ Jamila Woods7:00 pm 9:30 Club

23oct7:00 pmWe Were Promised Jetpacksw/ Hurry Up7:00 pm 9:30 Club

24oct7:00 pmJeremy Zuckerw/ JOAN7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

24oct7:00 pmHippo Campusw/ The Districts7:00 pm 9:30 Club

Event Details

Hippo Campus is band from St. Paul, Minnesota. Formed in 2013, prior to graduating from performing arts high school, the band started on a break out trajectory following a series of talked-about performances at SXSW, which was immediately followed by their network television debut on Conan. They’ve since risen to the forefront of their genre on the backs of relentless touring and the strength of their debut album ‘landmark’.

In October 2017, the band released their self-produced EP ‘warm glow’ as an ode to loyalty and self-preservation. “We had tunes that didn’t fit on ‘landmark’ but took on a life of their own. The project became about the support we couldn’t find as individuals but discovered as an entity.”

The band has been working on their second full length studio album since March of 2018.

There’s something strange that happens when you’re in the back of a van going 70 mph down an interstate highway at least ten hours from home. The back of that van becomes a home. The rest of the world turns dim and hazy. The only concrete thing you have is a trunk converted into a makeshift bed and your three best friends occupied with headphones or a book. Even when conversation is slim, the mere presence of these people brings a peace thought to be attainable only by blood.

The warm glow EP, the latest release from Minneapolis indie pop quartet Hippo Campus, unexpectedly became an ode to that relationship. When the present becomes uncertain, we cling to what brings purpose: each other.

“This being the first record that we self produced, we aimed to capitalize on our love and respect for each other as people and musicians. We built this band as four boys in a room discovering what adulthood meant; putting our trust in each other to define what that might be,” says singer/guitarist Jake Luppen. “A project must grow and evolve, at times pulling its creators apart. It’s necessary however, in an almost therapeutic way, to return to what has always been sacred.”

So it’s no surprise that the interplay between the four members of Hippo Campus has never been more rich than it is on warm glow, a three-song EP that perfectly encapsulates what makes this band so special. Pop melodies sit atop thoughtful compositions like the surprise match of verse and chorus on the effortlessly catchy “baseball.” Guitars work up a finger-tapped frenzy on “traveler” only to give way to a piano-led back half that builds to a horizon-sized climax. Meanwhile, the woozy, twilit lilt of the EP’s namesake “warm glow” is a communal, heartfelt sendoff for a release that belies its brief runtime. It’s a condensed and perfect coda to the band’s debut landmark, which came six months prior.

And with the one-two punch of landmark and warm glow, the band’s time in the back of a van, cultivating a new home is only increasing. From the mainstages of Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, to headline dates in some of the nation’s biggest rooms, Hippo Campus continues their ascent one gig, one release, and one 70mph drive at a time.