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Thursday October 9 2025  8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $17 in advance / $20 at the door Shilpa Ray shilparay.net americana country punk soul SWISS. instagram.com/swiss_get_it alt-pop Talking Ghosts instagram.com/talkingghostsband dark gothic indie rock Shilpa Ray -from Brooklyn, NY -Shilpa Ray is a wailing, fire breathing Cyclops. She tornadoes everything in her path: small towns, big cities, and children’s dreams. One of her fans commented on a YouTube video, “If there’s a heaven, I want God to hire Shilpa Ray to sing the list of my sins.” Within a few hours, she had a day job working for Saint Peter. Ray has ripped off all the greats—The Gun Club, Tom Waits, The Doors— and recently pulled off a triple rip: ripping off Nina Simone ripping off Screamin’ Jay Hawkins ripping off the Devil. Shilpa Ray released her album 'Teenage and Torture' in 2011 on Knitting Factory Records and found her biggest fan in Nick Cave, who started telling music journalists she was his favorite current band. Cave brought her on tour as support for a few 'Grinderman' dates, recorded the Wiel/Brecht song “Pirate Jenny” with her for Hal Wilner’s 'Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys II', and then hired her to sing backup on his Spring 2013 'Bad Seeds' tour as well as main support for their Fall 2013 UK and Europe tour in order to promote her 4-song EP 'It’s All Self Fellatio' -- released on Cave's record label Bad Seed LTD. She has also served as main support for Man Man and Acid Mother’s Temple as well as the opening act for Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, and A Place to Bury Strangers. SWISS. -from San Francisco. CA -San Francisco, CA-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Christine McCann had just finished her last album as part of the shoegaze rock band Columba Livia, and she was going through it. “I was beaten up, very depressed and feeling catharsis with heavy music all because of a stupid ol’ break up… I wanted to switch it up as I was getting out of that funk and create music that you could dance to, music with a touch of pop. What resulted is SWISS: a guitar-driven sonic pivot born from pop sensibilities and pulsing with fresh energy. SWISS gleams with an eclectic sound that pulls from the swagger of early Arctic Monkeys, the confessional sprawl of Angel Olsen or Courtney Barnett, and the cheeky, left-field spirit of Caroline Rose. And while McCann’s heavy-rock past lingers in the occasional haze of distortion, SWISS leans into movement—a shift from the heavy-hearted to the dancefloor-ready. McCann began composing songs from the first moment she picked up a guitar. While working in a pizza shop with a collection of artists in Los Angeles, the spark to create hit her all at once. “We would play guitar on my rooftop in Venice,” she recalls. “I knew a couple chords but I just immediately started writing songs everyday. It poured out, and it was relatively easy and I didn’t want it to stop.” Hundreds of miles and a handful of years later McCann as SWISS has played notable San Francisco venues such as Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, and The Independent, opening for bands such as Les Savy Fav, A Beacon School, and Foxtails Brigade. After working with co-producer and engineer Isaac Civitello, SWISS plans to release their debut EP in Summer 2025. Be on the lookout for the EP and catch SWISS at a concert near you. Talking Ghosts -from Merced, CA -Talking Ghosts craft the kind of curious, cinematic music that feels beamed in from a forgotten corner of the underworld. The five-piece conjures ghost-folk, surf goth, and garage psych into something shadowy and surprisingly danceable — weaving songs from the echoes of what haunts them. Their debut album, I’m Here Always — due in 2026 — pulses with raw rhythm and spectral melodies, the kind that linger long after the record ends. The band is led by Awahnichi (the creative moniker of RC), a songwriter of Ahwahneechee / Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation descent whose lyricism flickers between memory, folklore and fever dream. The spark? A late-night desert drive and a text to longtime collaborators: “Dark party music. 100% dance. A little tribal. Like if Jim Henson and Vincent Price had a baby in the go-go ’60s. Gore Pop?” With that, Talking Ghosts took form. Joined by Vanessa Hofmann (vocals/keys), Brian Strong (bass), Joey Neves (drums), and Nicole Butticci-Weston (keys/vocals), the group builds their sound on eerie hooks, layered percussion, and flickers of beauty in decay. Think The Mystery Lights but tribal, Timber Timbre in a California heat wave, or early Grizzly Bear with a Ouija board. With I’m Here Always, Talking Ghosts don’t mourn the past — they plug it in and turn it loose. |
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