Matt Duncan + Air Chrysalis
Jonny Craig: Keep My Secrets
Jonny CraigZanzabar – Louisville, KY March 29, 2023Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm
D’Funk & the Grease Monkeys, TrapKingKai, Daycruise
D’Funk & the Grease Monkeys, TrapKingKai, DaycruiseMarch 19, 2023Zanzabar – Louisville, KY Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm If Darlingside’s first album, Birds Say (2015), focused on the past through nostalgia, and their second, Extralife (2018), contemplated uncertain futures, Fish Pond Fish stands firmly in the present, looking at what’s here, now. The band has created a natural history in song—taking us into gardens, almond groves, orchard rows, down to the ocean floor and under stars. Darlingside has long been praised for their harmonies and intelligent songwriting, described by NPR as “exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque folk-pop,” and their dynamic presence (crowded tightly together onstage) have made them a live-performance favorite. But this album showcases their broader storytelling abilities: nature is a looking glass, the songs suggest, with tracks like Ocean Bed, Green + Evergreen, Mountain + Sea, and Crystal Caving making metaphors of their titles. An experience of nature is an experience of self; an experience of self is one of natural change cut and complemented by stasis. The band started studio recording Fish Pond Fish in late 2019, when they moved into Tarquin Studios—the residential studio of Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National). Living and working together brought them to their very early years under one roof in Hadley, Massachusetts, which had seeded the origins of their intimate collaboration. At Katis’s suggestion, many components of the initial demos were preserved as layers in the produced tracks to retain the spirit of the initial recordings, resulting in a collection of songs that is simultaneously the most bedroom-tracked and production-heavy full-length album that the band has yet released.
Daisychain, Lavacado, Nowhere Fast
Daisychain, Lavacado, Nowhere FastZanzabar – Louisville, KY Monday, April 3rd, 2023Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm21+
Boa Boys w/ Turbonut + Rosario
Boa w/ Turbonut + RosarioZanzabar – Louisville, KY February 18th, 2023Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm18+
Deerhoof w/ Shark Sandwich
Deerhoofw/ Shark Sandwich ZanzabarJuly11, 2023Doors: 7PMShow: 8PM18+
Turbo Nut Release Show w/ Shit Fire & Lux
Turbo Nut Album Release w/ Shit Fire & Lux All AgesZanzabar – Louisville, KY January 14, 2023Doors at 6pmShow at 7pm
Al Olender w/ Ahna Ell
Al Olender w/ Ahna EllZanzabar – Louisville, KY February 23, 2023Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm
Jordy Searcy
Jordy Searcy w/ William Hinson + Phillip Vo Zanzabar – Louisville, KY May 2nd, 2023$15 ADV / $20 DOSDoors 7PM / Show 8PM
Darlingside w/ Molly Parden
Darlingside Molly PardenMarch 18th, 2023Zanzabar – Louisville, KY Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm If Darlingside’s first album, Birds Say (2015), focused on the past through nostalgia, and their second, Extralife (2018), contemplated uncertain futures, Fish Pond Fish stands firmly in the present, looking at what’s here, now. The band has created a natural history in song—taking us into gardens, almond groves, orchard rows, down to the ocean floor and under stars. Darlingside has long been praised for their harmonies and intelligent songwriting, described by NPR as “exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque folk-pop,” and their dynamic presence (crowded tightly together onstage) have made them a live-performance favorite. But this album showcases their broader storytelling abilities: nature is a looking glass, the songs suggest, with tracks like Ocean Bed, Green + Evergreen, Mountain + Sea, and Crystal Caving making metaphors of their titles. An experience of nature is an experience of self; an experience of self is one of natural change cut and complemented by stasis. The band started studio recording Fish Pond Fish in late 2019, when they moved into Tarquin Studios—the residential studio of Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National). Living and working together brought them to their very early years under one roof in Hadley, Massachusetts, which had seeded the origins of their intimate collaboration. At Katis’s suggestion, many components of the initial demos were preserved as layers in the produced tracks to retain the spirit of the initial recordings, resulting in a collection of songs that is simultaneously the most bedroom-tracked and production-heavy full-length album that the band has yet released.
