Sled Island presents: Crystal Eyes, Thunder Queens, Laughing, Baby Jey and Bad Bodies
Schedule
Sat Jun 22 2024 at 01:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Eighty-Eight Brewing Parking Lot, 2600 Portland St SE, Calgary, Alberta | Calgary, AB
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Crystal EyesLed by songwriter Erin Jenkins, Crystal Eyes weaves gleamy, dreamy aesthetics into dance-worthy tunes, creating a shoegaze playground where feminine '60s psych meets warm, stripped-down indie dream rock. Their single “Wishes” mixes '90s nostalgia with a touch of The Cure and New Order, highlighted by Jenkins's saccharine vocals and dreamy pop textures.
Thunder Queens
Teen punks Thunder Queens put the “power” in power-trio with big riffs and even bigger ideas. Across eleven tracks of non-stop buzzsaw punk rock, sludge, and indie pop, the band’s debut LP Strike One explores gen alpha existentialism with youthful feminist ferocity, like Sleater Kinney after crushing an energy drink. The kids aren’t alright – they’re ready to rage.
Laughing
Featuring members of Nap Eyes and Monomyth, Laughing is a new power-pop project that aims to bring ‘90s Seattle spirit to the masses. Debut single “Bruised” is a Superchunk-y dream of disarming lyrics awash in a landscape of jangly guitar-work. Their upcoming debut album Because It’s True drops shortly after this year’s edition of Sled Island.
Baby Jey
On Crop Circles, Baby Jey traded rustic indie instrumentation for psychedelic synths and drum machines, blazing a new path forward for their pop stylings. Lyrically – and aesthetically – the band explores Alberta’s history of unexplained cosmic phenomena and extraterrestrial activity to find their place within the universe.
Bad Bodies
Bad Bodies describes themselves as a group of “four art-punks making their R&B dreams come true.” It’s an apt description: most recent single “What’s Up” has a dream-like texture with just enough rhythm to sway your way to bliss. The band includes members of other local acts Meats, Dick Clark 5 and Governer.
About Sled Island:
Sled Island is an annual five-day independent music and arts festival in Calgary, Alberta that brings together a community of music, comedy, film and art with over 30,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.
Upon entering a festival venue, the passholder agrees to being photographed, filmed or recorded in that venue, and agrees to the publication, reproduction, distribution and broadcast of all photographs, video or other recordings of the passholder's voice or likeness without further notice or compensation in any publicity, advertisement or other publication carried-out by, or on behalf of, Sled Island and in perpetuity in any manner and media whatsoever, including print, broadcast or internet.
Everyone has the right to feel safe and included at Sled Island. All festival attendees must abide by Sled Island's safer spaces and inclusion policy and agree to the code of conduct, which can be found at SledIsland.com/SaferSpaces.
Sled Island acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
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Where is it happening?
Eighty-Eight Brewing Parking Lot, 2600 Portland St SE, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
