Advance Base & Katie Malco with James Schroeder

Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as “lo-fi,” “depressed” & “weirdly uplifting.”

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Katie Malco released her debut album, Failures, via 6131 Records (Julien Baker, Joyce Manor, Caspian) during lockdown in 2020. Failures is a coming-of-age record that, through soul-baring songwriting and gut-punch guitars, documents Malco’s adolescence; vignettes of a troubled teenage life in an abusive household, growing up and battling acute self-doubt.

Malco kicked off 2024 with a headline East Coast US tour, following a year of touring in the US, Europe, and an appearance at SXSW in 2023. With her band in tow, she appeared at a handful of UK festivals this summer, and plans to finish the year with a headline UK tour and a string of new singles. The first single, Fatal Attraction, is out now and features guest vocals from touring companion Laura Stevenson.