American Culture, Midwife, Disappearer, and Black Mold U.S.A. @ Copeka

AMERICAN CULTURE

American Culture is an indie band led by singer-guitarist Chris Adolph, with a tendency to move across genre and style boundaries without staying put in one spot for long. In broad strokes, their music is a loose combination of garage, psychedelic, and jangly pop, played with a lo-fi approach and a strict DIY attitude. That said, one can hear bluesy overtones or snippets of dub or krautrock style tones in individual songs. Pretty much anything that feels raw and gritty, at times even grimy, eventually finds its way into their work. Their sonic palette and stylistic elasticity echoes the underground scene of the early days of modern rock, with all the scrappy creativity, sense of spontaneity, and healthy skepticism about genre norms one associates with that period.

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MIDWIFE

Midwife is the project of Madeline Johnston, a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the last decade+ developing her sound and community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved/infamous DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. She has released three albums with The Flenser, most recently, Luminol (2021), which received National and International acclaim. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a crowd of hundreds. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as “Heaven Metal,” AKA emotional music about devastation: catharsis. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.

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