KEXP & Tunnel Records present:
Vinelands Live at the 4 Star
KEXP's Local Music Showcase & Live Radio Broadcast Series
Vinelands is a cross-genre exploration of music of the Bay Area and Northern California, hosted by Kelley Stoltz and Gabriel Lopez, airing Saturday nights 6-9 PM Pacific on 92.7 FM and live streaming via KEXP.ORG. For one night only, they will broadcast live from the 4 Star, featuring live on-air and on-stage performances from Salami Rose Joe Louis and Galore.
Salami Rose Joe Louis
Salami Rose Joe Louis aka Lindsay Olsen is a genre traveler multi-instrumentalist female producer and a signee to Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder label. She produces and records pretty much exclusively on her beloved Roland MV8800, nicknamed “Funfunfun”. Her debut record with Brainfeeder in 2019, “Zdenka 2080”, is a critically acclaimed, conceptual sci-fi epic that earned an Album of the Year nomination at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards. Since then, she has toured the world supporting genre-bending luminaries Flying Lotus, The Cinematic Orchestra, Toro y Moi, TuneYards, Clairo, and MNDSGN. Her 2023 album “Akousmatikous” is a follow-up sci-fi odyssey to “Zdenka 2080” that blends emotional intensity with sonic experimentation. Her storytelling attempts to confront and explore a range of subjects such as climate change, the power of imagery, propaganda, depression, societal greed, isolation, and the trappings of societal conditioning. Recent collaborations include a feature on Toro y Moi's “Mahal”, a remix for Hiatus Kaiyote, and the 2024 collab album extravaganza “Sarah” with legendary Philadelphian – Flanafi. 2024 also yielded a spellbinding live EP – “Salami Live at 2131 North Kacey Street” – reinterpreting some of her classic songs with a dynamic quartet, capturing the energetic intensity and improvisational magic of their joined sounds together. With her innovative production style and captivating live shows, Salami Rose Joe Louis continues to push the boundaries of alternative/electronic/jazz music.
Galore
With multiple songwriters and vocalists, sinuous intersecting harmonies and an intensely communal creative process, Galore — bassist Ava Rosen, guitarist Griffin Jones, guitarist Ainsley Wagoner, and drummer Hannah Smith — embodies the spirit of a true musical collective.
Dirt was collaboratively produced by Galore, Jason Kick, and Simi Sohota, recorded and mixed by Jason Kick at Santo Studios and Tunnel Vision in Oakland, California over the course of 2024. The band took their time to write songs, craft sonic moments, and build an album that mixes Galore’s intensely catchy pop melodies, with dynamic layers of fuzzed and jangly guitars, warm wurlitzers, sound effects, layers of uniquely-Galore vocal harmonies (counter melodies in themselves), over the steady rhythm section of drummer Smith and bassist Rosen, with a groove that pushes forward, drawing the melodies into momentum that flows through the whole album. Dirt draws on their multitude of influences, touched on, like throwing a nod to all the colors in sound, but making a painting of your own. Or digging in the dirt, uncovering something new or finding creative connections in the collaborative process of recording an album. Through their process of creating in such a synergetic fashion, Galore is a band that always reminds us all that we are not alone, and that we can find comfort or a lift in the face of despair through collective catharsis, channeling hope.
DOORS at 6:00 PM | MUSIC at 6:30 PM