The Big Easy w/ Spirit Weak, Palamino + Dweller

7:00PM Doors // 8:00PM Show

21+

$12 in advance // $15 at the door

The Big Easy

“I want you to HEAR the room… to be SURROUNDED by the song.” So enthuses Stephen Berthomieux of his latest recordings under the moniker The Big Easy. These ten new songs, which will arrive on the new album (It’s No Secret) The Truth As Bad As The View, are living and breathing documents. Deceptively complex and strikingly immediate snapshots of someone coming to terms with their mistakes, facing up to the future, and finally learning to be comfortable.

‘Space’ is at the heart of these new compositions. In comparison to previous Big Easy outings, there is a deliberate embracing of quietness; from small moments of total silence, through hushed strumming, to barely contained simmering frustration. These glimpses between the notes draw the listener into an album that is alive. The attitude and emotions resonating in the spaces.

At its heart, the album embodies Berthomieux’s experiences as a black man in a music scene dominated by whiteness, explores the increasing awareness of pain he has been silently carrying, and uncovers underlying mental health issues that he’d always thought were just “things that other people had”.

On It’s No Secret, Berthomieux boldly asserts his identity whilst baring previously buried parts of his soul. In his own words, “It’s No Secret is my journal… a place where I can express the things that I haven’t been able to say out loud.”

Spirit Weak

South Philly Alt Punk. If Drug Church, Pup & The Menzingers walked into a bar, Spirit Weak would be the punchline.

Palamino

Over the past half-decade the Montclair, NJ, emo quartet Palamino’s sound has crystalized. When they burst onto the scene in 2019 with their self-titled LP, their sound was bright and jangly, and with each of their stopgap releases—EPs in 2020 and ‘22, a two-song single in ‘23—they’ve gotten harder to pigeonhole. Their music’s gotten darker, twistier, more atmospheric, but they still know their way around a hook, still know how to cut right to the heart of things.

Dweller

heavy alt / post hardcore* from brooklyn ny

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