GOON
We always think we have a plan. We will walk into a situation with a purpose and an idea, only to find that life has other things in store for us. Goon frontman and creative mastermind, Kenny Becker, had a record’s worth of new songs ready to record, studio time booked, and a vision for how it would all play out. But weeks into the recording, life hit him like a lightning bolt in the form of the sudden dissolution of his marriage and his subsequent psychic spiral. Blindsided by heartbreak, the music Becker had written for the record began to take on new meaning. What had come from joy was now something closer to agony. In the friction of that moment, Becker pushed his band—and his songwriting—into stranger territory. Facing down the pain and disappointment of life, the band created a masterpiece with their new album, Dream 3. Goon began in 2015 as singer and multi-instrumentalist, Kenny Becker’s, solo project, releasing a compilation of his best home recordings, the 2016 EP Dusk of Punk. With a full band in tow, Goon released the band’s first full-length, 2019’s Heaven is Humming on Partisan Records. Becker recruited a new band—Andy Polito on drums, Dillon Peralta on guitar, and Tamara Simons on bass—and recorded the self-released Paint By Numbers 1. A second LP, Hour of Green Evening, soon followed, as well as another EP, Red Ladder, in 2022. To support Hour of Green Evening, Goon hit the road hard, touring and playing shows with Built to Spill, Jadu Heart, Slow Pulp, Teethe, Squirrel Flower, and many others. In the midst of all this, the band signed with Philadelphia label Born Losers and began recording their next LP with Claire Morison at Wild Horizon Sound in Los Angeles. Dream 3 melds the intimate, lo-fi stylings of Goon with the live-band sound of Hour of Green Evening; a veteran band exploring every aspect of their sound, pushing themselves into new musical and emotional realms. The result is an often darker, more introspective album, built on personal loss and the chaotic crumbling of the outside world, without losing Goon’s signature sense of strangeness and wonder. Weaving lyrics about personal and ecological collapse with references to baseball, aliens, and Tony Soprano, the record expands Goon’s sound while holding close to the core identity of the band. Dream 3 offers an exquisitely crafted sonic world, one full of heartbreak and pain, but also brimming with color and life, the hope of better days to come. Dream 3 is a startling progression for Goon, a record filled with pain and heartbreak, yes, but healing as well. For all the imagery of death and decay, it’s also suffused with light—“lace light,” “half light,” “light through an orb weaver,” “morning light,” “microwave light, “flashlight,” “sunlight.” It’s the light that makes things happen, causes plants to grow, sets the world alive. And it’s in the light we find ourselves changing, in our fiercest struggles and in our quiet moments, always on the verge of becoming something new again. Dream 3, with its pain and troubled beginning, is a testament to the slow work of the light cutting through even the darkest places.
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House of Harm
House of Harm is post punk from Boston. https://houseofharm.bandcamp.com Sculpture Club is DTX Nü Wave/Jangle Punk. https://sculptureclub.bandcamp.com
Austin Snell
Austin Snell Meet & Greet Package Includes: One general admission ticket Early entry into the venue Exclusive meet & greet with Austin Snell Personal photograph & autograph opportunity with Austin Snell Access to a preshow acoustic performance Official meet & greet laminate; autographed by Austin Snell Discount on general merchandise Priority merchandise shopping Limited availability
Ecydiasist Entrance: A Student Showcase
AGES 21+ VIP Ticket includes a guaranteed table seat in front of the stage. Limited quantities available. Come see the inaugural student showcase for NE School of Tease, Nebraska’s premier burlesque and variety school, on Sunday, July 13th at 7pm. Students will be revealing all of their hard work from their individual solos to showcasing the skills that the group classes have to offer. Don’t miss your chance to see talenting de-robing in front of you or peep behind the curtain for what the school has to offer! Raffle prizes and other fun await you as well! 🙂
Luke Severeid Headline Comedy ft. Zach Peterson
AGES 21+ LUKE SEVEREID is a hill hiking, metal music loving stand-up comedian based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Luke’s “comedy” has been described as insightfully idiotic, enthusiastically explosive and Louder than I thought it would be(AKA unmedicated ADD in action). He was recently a semi finalist in the San Francisco & Seattle Comedy International Comedy Competition and was a winner of Best Comedy Film at HUMPFEST He’s loud and silly and is looking forward to making you laugh.
Acid Mothers Temple
Acid Mothers Temple – The sprawling universe that is Acid Mothers Temple was formed in 1995 by Kawabata Makoto. Originally titled the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, the music group is a soul-collective and encompasses musicians, dancers, artists, farmers, channellers, ex-yakuza, mermaid researchers and professional vagrants, the collective has always had at its core a dedication to improvised music. Now with a history of over two decades, and a discography of over one hundred releases (which is not to mention the numerous solo and side-project releases which encompass everything from drone, acid-folk, acapella, to minimalist composition) the group show no signs of relenting in the pace of their creative energy! https://acidmotherstemples.bandcamp.com/ The Macks – Portland based garage rock / prog rock / rock n roll https://themacks.bandcamp.com/
Wake Sessions
Wake Sessions is from Omaha, NE. Mixing electronic and rock sounds together. A sound that fans of all genres can enjoy.