Sextile + Donzii

Breakeven Booking Presents

Friday, April 19th

Sextile

Donzii

Gramps

176 NW 24th St.

Miami, Florida 33127

Ages 18+
Doors 7PM

Showtime 8PM

$18 ADVANCE / $20 DAY OF SHOW

Sextile

Since emerging in 2015, Sextile have been a party-provoking force on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar. Originally formed by Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto after the pair relocated from New York to LA, Sextile released their debut album A Thousand Hands in 2015, with its Grand Canyon-sized echoes, haunted screams, and post-punk invocations, before pushing synths further down the front with 2017 effort Albeit Living.

Sextile’s taste for electronics matured on the throbbing EBM-meets-industrial pick-me-up of 2018’s 3 EP, cut from an analogue stash that included their trusted Korg MS-10 and LinnDrum, but the band put things on ice shortly after its release. Sextile guitarist, synth player, and original member Eddie Wuebben, who joined Sextile in 2015, tragically passed away in October 2019. Cameron Michel later re-joined on guitar and synths. Separately, they each turned their focus to other projects, with Scaduto on S. Product, Keehn on Panther Modern, and Michel as a visual artist. In 2022, the group reconnected and dropped their first new material in three years via the split single “Modern Weekend / Contortion” and “Crassy Mel”.

Now they return refreshed, renewed, and ready to rage with a serotonin-boosting new album, a new group dynamic, faster BPMs, and an even wilder new direction. Recorded in Yucca Valley, Push bounces and bops at the fringes of hardcore dance music, with the hallmarks of drum & bass, gabber and trance illuminating the record like glowsticks at a ‘90s Fantazia rave. Push releases on September 15, 2023 on Sacred Bones Records.

Donzii

Named after an Italian speedboat company - corrupted with an extra i - Miami's Donzii was started by vocalist Jenna Balfe and musician Dennis Fuller. Their post-punk vision is a unity of go-hard industrial bangers, darkly ambient balladry, and new takes on the funk traditions of No Wave. They have boldly taken the goth scene by storm by making them dance, laugh and have a better time than they've had since childhood.
They formed in 2015 during jam sessions at a dilapidated suburban mansion from the '70s. The Donzii galaxy has included a number of supporting musicians over the years, helping to form their poly-blend of electronics, bass guitar, '80s utopian guitar and vocalist Balfe's hauntingly spirited vocals.
Balfe's poetic lyrics spill from many inner dimensions and intentions. "A lot of my inspiration comes from wanting people to think more deeply about being able to exist in a way that is more joyful," she says. "Not in a Live Love Laugh kinda way, but in a way that encompasses the material grossness of this chaotic life cycle with a little chuckle beneath your breath. Like watching sweet little pink flowers grow atop a pile of decaying bones and compost."
In 2019 Donzii was asked by The Growlers to open for them on a US tour. They have put out a single and 2 LP's on vinyl and have not had a dull moment in years between playing iii festival every year, several iii points sponsored events, being a local favorite to many bars throughout South Florida and embarking on many short tours around the US.
Inspired by the full range of feelings on planet Earth, from the darkest corners to the sunniest days, Balfe and Fuller are allergic to trends but resolutely of the moment. Donzii is a therapeutic exercise in sincere and honest expression, a confrontation with demons, a celebration of getting lost. In many ways Donzii is not a normal band. But, as Balfe says, there is one rule of all great music that they follow: "We do it so people can dance."

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