STRFKR w/ HOLY WAVE & HAPPY SAD FACE - MIAMI BEACH

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Starting out under the head-turning moniker Starfucker, STRFKR is an indie electro band formed by Josh Hodges, a songwriter with an aptitude for breezy hooks. The project's dance-friendly eponymous debut appeared in 2008 and led to a record deal with Polyvinyl. Amidst regular lineup changes, the group cracked the Billboard 200 with their third full-length, 2013's Miracle Mile. A spacier fifth album tempered Hodges' catchy synth pop inclinations with a soft-focus palette that incorporated acoustic guitar. Titled Future Past Life, it arrived in 2020, which also brought the instrumental outing Ambient 1. STRFKR streamlined prior melodic, groove-forward, ambient, and experimental sensibilities into the nearly hourlong alternative-dance set Parallel Realms in 2024.

In Tarot readings, the Five of Cups card signifies loss and grief. Depicting a cloaked figure with a bowed head looming over three spilled chalices while ignoring two remaining vessels, the Five of Cups is generally interpreted as representing a forlorn dwelling on the past and an inability to appreciate the positive things in the present. It was this card that struck a chord with vocalist/guitarist Ryan Fuson, member of the Austin TX subversive subterranean pop outfit Holy Wave, during a Tarot reading at the height of the pandemic. “I was really sure that the music world was finished and it seemed like internet aggression and, well, aggression in general was at an all-time high, so I was ready to stop playing music,” Fuson says. “It could be so easy to become jaded and pessimistic and I had to really decide what perspective I was going to take.” Rather than abandon music, Fuson and his compatriots chose to immerse themselves in their work. Fittingly, the Tarot card became the muse for Holy Wave’s sixth full-length album—Five of Cups. Back at the beginning of their fifteen-year career, Holy Wave leaned into a tranquil realm of psychedelia, eschewing long-form jams and guitar heroics for a dreamy pop-oriented approach. As the band evolved, the early Sgt. Peppers-meets-the-Velvets sound yielded to more sophisticated melodies and tripped-out instrumentation, effectively steering their music away from sun-bleached nostalgia to a color-saturated dimension where sounds of the past, present, and future intermingled.

Happy Sad Face are based out of Joshua Tree, CA. Their music is described as Psychedelic Pop. A project built first as the soundtrack to an award-winning film Happy Sad Face has emerged as a merger in emerging emergents, acting and reacting much like hydrogen molecules in water. Breaking onto the scene old broken and jaded Happy Sad Face approaches songwriting slowly almost too slow...like you wouldn't even think any songwriting was happening at all...but it is. With a new album set for release Winter 2024, Happy Sad Face is worried that the album will be cold out there and might need more layers. Look for Happy Sad Face on tour with STRFKR this year.

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