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AJJ / Kimya Dawson / Shellshag
Boise All-ages Movement Project proudly welcomes a bill of epic proportions:
AJJ
Kimya Dawson
Shellshag
Friday, Aug. 3rd
6:30pm doors/ 7pm show
$15
All ages!
AJJ-
For their sixth album, garbage-pop veterans AJJ chose to reinforce their strengths and leave any limp frivolities behind. They reconvened with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Xiu Xiu, Chelsea Wolfe), who oversaw 2014s sonically expansive Christmas Island, but recorded and mixed the album in a mere nine days, having arranged most of the songs during tour sound checks and down-time in the van. This made for a confident stride into more elaborate arrangements and wider dynamics while staying just as dour. They also opted, amid some sensation, for the simplified band acronym (previously Andrew Jackson Jihad). Singer Sean Bonnette told The A.V. Club that, among many reasons, the change cleared a space for new imagery and allowed their music to define them, not their band name.
As a result, their new album, The Bible 2, is their most ambitious and assured collection of scuzzy punk screeds, employing even more production heft while sparing none of the vulnerability. The albums mantra is placed right at the center: No More Shame, No More Fear, No More Dread. The Bible 2 finds the band choosing intimacy over isolation, gravity over the vacuum, the stage instead of the scene. The album is also an examination of boyhood from an adult distance, putting some of its tumult and pain to rest.
Its also the most impressive work of Bonnettes, who has honed his confessional lyrical prowess into a punk inflected mire of Trent Reznors unrestrained turmoil, Jamie Stewarts profane gallows humor and a touch of David Bermans surreal quotidian imagery.
Kimya Dawson!
Kimya Dawson is a Grammy winning, platinum selling singer songwriter most widely known for her work on the JUNO soundtrack and her former band, The Moldy Peaches. She has released 6 solo albums, including a childrens album Alphabutt. She has been featured in Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, NME, Q, AOL, etc. She has performed live on the View, at the Independent Spirit Awards, TED/Boulder, was invited to perform on Sesame Street, and also performed at the REM Tribute at Carnegie Hall.
Kimyas new solo album Thunder Thighs was self released October 18, 2011 on her own imprint Great Crap Factory. The album features guest performances from Aesop Rock, members of the Strokes, Mountain Goats, Forever Young Senior Citizen Rock and Roll Choir, Kimyas 5 year old daughter Panda, and many more.
Kimya Dawson straddles the line between precious and profound.- Rolling Stone
a veteran of the scrappy anti-folk circuit, with stream of consciousness songs that balance the caustic and the childlike- NY Times
Shellshag-
Any musician you talk to that is familiar with Shellshag regularly uses one word to describe these DIY stalwarts: Inspiring. Over the years, the duo has grown into Brooklyns answer to Dead Moon, transcending the simple label of a band and becoming an institution in their own right. They are true out-and-out lifers, in it for the long haul, and a reminder that perseverance is key in any artistic endeavor. While many of their fans were too young to have even heard about punk in the mid-90s, Jen Shagawat was already running the infamous Starcleaner Warehouse in San Francisco, an integral part of the citys independent music scene, and playing in a number of Bay Area bands. In the meantime, John Shellhead Driver was touring throughout the country with his band 50 Million and penning songs for his stripped down acoustic project, some of which would later be re-worked as Shellshag staples and crowd favorites. After meeting in the Mission in the late 90s, romance ensued, as did their music together, and the two have never parted. With each LP and every tour that has taken them across the US and back again, Shellshag have proven that they cannot only survive in a changing music industry, ethics intact, but can thrive as underground musicians without compromise.
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Location The Linen Building (View)
1402 W. Grove Street
Boise, ID 83702
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 2 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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