Join us for an amazing night with Violet Palms, and special guests: badcandy.
Violet Palms combines early 2000s nostalgia and modern influences to create tight, direct rock music that is honest, occasionally goofy, and - because they can't help themselves - funky.
Birthed from late night songwriting sessions between two longtime friends, the power of the dimly-lit kitchen table inspired Marcus Truschinski and Ben Feiner to share their music with friends, who were naturally added to complement the sound. Long time local music maker and engineer, Michael Mertens hopped back on the kit after years of playing guitar and Tim Gittings, actor and advocate, brought the funk on bass. Craig Benzine, Driftless Pony Club singer/guitarist, YouTube star and Marcus’s best friend from elementary school completed the band by playing off of Ben’s chugging guitar work to create a synchronized and dueling attack. Violet Palms took the stage for the first time in early 2022, enjoying immediate success in the local scene.
After one sold out performance at the local haunt, they found that they had more tip money than expected, as well as more than enough original music, so they focused on the obvious move: recording an album. Blast House Studios and engineer Dustin Sisson in Madison, WI were recommended by friends, and, embracing the band motto, "don't think about it too much", recording sessions were booked, and in only a few short months, Compassion Fatigue emerged fully formed and ready to climb inside your head and take a seat in your favorite easy chair.
We’ll start our show with badcandy. The local Chicago “post-garage-rock” band have been slowly releasing track after track, each containing the same vitriol as someone who is fed up with having their heart broken. As both vocalist and guitarist for the band, Alex Subak has achieved a high level of raw emotion in her lyrics that any person who has experienced a bad relationship could relate to. Their single “Dare You” released in February of 2020, captures just that.
The lyrics, motivated by a person reaching a rageful limit, are amplified by the tasty guitar solos and musical stylings of the rest of the band. Subak, alongside Mike Vinopal, Todd Gutner and Matt Walters have taken the rock genre and revived it like many other bands out there. But badcandy is unique in the sense that they combine all facets of the genre, including the post-rock you would listen to after a bad day in high school. However, there is a nostalgia about their sound as if you were taken back to the 90s and exposed to the heart-accelerating, heart pumping stylings of Nirvana. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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