The Velveteers

Doors at 7:00pm
Front Room
$15 Advance/$20 Day of Show

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All ages show. Check entry requirements at https://theslowdown.com/All-Ages and https://www.theslowdown.com/covid-19/

About The Velveteers
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Growing up in Boulder, Demi Demitro rebelled through her guitar, practicing up to nine hours a day and neglecting schoolwork to develop a playing style that is heavy but agile, theatrical but nuanced, grounded in rock history but wholly idiosyncratic. With Baby Pottersmith and Jonny Fig playing on a conjoined set, the band developed a reputation for their rip-roaring performances. Clips of the band’s live shows and DIY videos made it back to Dan Auerbach, who invited them to his studio in Nashville to produce Nightmare Daydream.

“I instantly dug them,” says Auerbach. “They’re amazing live, and their videos are so creative. And they just sound so powerful. Any time you doubletrack drums on a record, it’s going to sound so heavy. Then you put that together with this baritone guitar player who is so unique, and it’s so bombastic. There’s nothing like them.”

Demitro recalls writing “Charmer And The Snake” with Auerbach and recording it in the first few takes: “It was sort of a synergy moment where we all got in the room together and just started playing.” Pottersmith adds: “It’s about certain types of older guys in music scenes who think they are charming and all that but are just lizards trying to take advantage of you. They think they can manipulate you to get what they want by saying a bunch of nonsense but all the while you are aware of their true intentions and just watch as they talk themselves deep into a ditch of delusions.”

Nightmare Daydream finds The Velveteers stripping down rock and roll to its most primal elements—the riff, the rhythm, the snarl—and rebuilding it in their own image. “We don’t want to sound like a band from a different time,” says Demitro. “We want to sound like a band that’s right here right now—in this very moment.”

About JACK
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“What do you get when you mix Paul Simon, Weezer and Green Day in a blender? JACK. On the road as a touring musician since he was 14, the Omaha-born artist comes out swinging on his debut album Sad Songs in C Major. Written and produced with 5x Grammy nominated producer/engineer Rick Carson of Make Believe Studio, Sad Songs’ raw storytelling deftly explores and excavates the highs and lows of what it means to be (and choose to stay) alive. JACK’s instantly memorable voice shines amidst a genre-defying blend of folk-punk and grunge-pop throughout the record. With a sound so heartfelt and easy to hum too, it’s only a matter of time before he’s big on the internet.

About Cope Acidic
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Noisy (and sometimes spacey) post-hardcore from Omaha.