THE CLAUDETTES
Six albums into their lauded career, the Claudettes continue to put a fascinating new spin on American roots music. Blues and R&B are laced with punk spirit and film-noir moods to create the band's singular "garage cabaret" sound. The Claudettes have earned worldwide acclaim wi..
THE CLAUDETTES
Six albums into their lauded career, the Claudettes continue to put a fascinating new spin on American roots music. Blues and R&B are laced with punk spirit and film-noir moods to create the band's singular "garage cabaret" sound. The Claudettes have earned worldwide acclaim with their recordings and concerts that are equal parts heart, musicianship and theatrical flair. Force-of-nature vocalist Rachel Williams (who dominates the stage like a glam-rock rebirth of Annie Lennox) and renowned pianist/songwriter Johnny Iguana join the positively heroic rhythm section of Zach Verdoorn (bass, guitar, vocals) and Michael Caskey (drums). Outside the Claudettes, Iguana has toured with Junior Wells and Otis Rush, played on many Grammy-nominated albums and recorded with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Derek Trucks, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Johnny Winter and more. Johnny is also composer of the score for the Emmy-winning smash FX/Hulu series "The Bear" and has released two albums under his own name on the illustrious American blues/jazz label Delmark Records.
“Chicago's original recipe band…The Claudettes' sonic playing field is the blues and everything after, all tastefully and artfully blended together….Perhaps the band’s greatest super power: songwriting.”—NPR Music
“A skewed cabaret band of blues, jazz and rockabilly…a sensibility that feels equal parts James Dean and David Lynch.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Holy Mackerel…I hear so many levels of what I consider amazing creativity…I hear touches of Jerry Lee Lewis at his most manic…of cinema…of multiple genres wrapping around one another…These guys are the B-movies of the music world—maybe not understood now, but in the future, the kings and queens of the universe!”—Frank Gutch Jr., No Depression
"The Claudettes Go Out! shows the band’s mastery of every era of American music, from the roots of the blues to today’s modern pop….the Claudettes pen standards for a new generation."—J. Poet, Rock & Roll Globe
Tour dates, photos, videos and more on the Claudettes website: http://theclaudettes.com/
The Claudettes on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wCV9oTulGa7JgMODOn34b?si=luSxhdv8TpW6l5RdtruaWQ
https://www.facebook.com/TheClaudettes/
https://twitter.com/theclaudettes
https://www.instagram.com/the_claudettes/
The Claudettes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuKbNgXi2gR_7f3f1vTu_pW6m8dE9OE0C
SUN STEREO
Sun Stereo delivers a full sensory explosion incorporating a hybridization of organic and electronic elements blended with circus-esque performance art, orchestral strings, and a funk your face off horn section delivering a message of acceptance, hope, and love. In the last 10 years they have developed a fierce following and established themselves as a must see live show, reminiscent of a wedding reception on acid (sans the chicken dance.) They also have performed tribute sets for special festival sets as The Beatles(Gentlemen of the Road Tour/Summer Camp 2012-2015), The Doors(Summer Camp 2016), and The Flaming Lips (Summer Camp 2018). They have performed at numerous festivals, including Mumford & Sons Gentlemen of the Road Tours in Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, 10+ years at Summer Camp Music Festival, North Coast Music Festival, Mountain Music Festival, Peoria Blues and Heritage Festival, The Taste of Randolph Street, The Werkout Festival, Navy Pier, Shoefest, Pygmalion Festival, SOHO Music Festival, Illiac Music Festival, Merchant Street Music Festival, Dixon Petunia Festival, Down on the Farm, Urbana Sweetcorn Festival, and Taste of Champaign. They have shared the stage with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, The Wood Brothers, Here Come the Mummies, Andy Frasco & the UN, EOTO, Keller Williams, The Werks, The Apache Relay, Waydown Wanderers, The Main Squeeze, This Must Be the Band, UV Hippo, Those Darlins, Henhouse Prowlers. Euforquestra, Jon Wayne and the Pain, J.C. and the Uptown Sound, Digital Tape Machine, and Mike Dillon Band (Primus).
CALEY CONWAY
THE CLAUDETTESSix albums into their lauded career, the Claudettes continue to put a fascinating new spin on American roots music. Blues and R&B are laced with punk spirit and film-noir moods to create the band's singular "garage cabaret" sound. The Claudettes have earned worldwide acclaim with their recordings and concerts that are equal parts heart, musicianship and theatrical flair. Force-of-nature vocalist Rachel Williams (who dominates the stage like a glam-rock rebirth of Annie Lennox) and renowned pianist/songwriter Johnny Iguana join the positively heroic rhythm section of Zach Verdoorn (bass, guitar, vocals) and Michael Caskey (drums). Outside the Claudettes, Iguana has toured with Junior Wells and Otis Rush, played on many Grammy-nominated albums and recorded with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Derek Trucks, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Johnny Winter and more. Johnny is also composer of the score for the Emmy-winning smash FX/Hulu series "The Bear" and has released two albums under his own name on the illustrious American blues/jazz label Delmark Records.
“Chicago's original recipe band…The Claudettes' sonic playing field is the blues and everything after, all tastefully and artfully blended together….Perhaps the band’s greatest super power: songwriting.”—NPR Music
“A skewed cabaret band of blues, jazz and rockabilly…a sensibility that feels equal parts James Dean and David Lynch.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Holy Mackerel…I hear so many levels of what I consider amazing creativity…I hear touches of Jerry Lee Lewis at his most manic…of cinema…of multiple genres wrapping around one another…These guys are the B-movies of the music world—maybe not understood now, but in the future, the kings and queens of the universe!”—Frank Gutch Jr., No Depression
"The Claudettes Go Out! shows the band’s mastery of every era of American music, from the roots of the blues to today’s modern pop….the Claudettes pen standards for a new generation."—J. Poet, Rock & Roll Globe
Tour dates, photos, videos and more on the Claudettes website: http://theclaudettes.com/
The Claudettes on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wCV9oTulGa7JgMODOn34b?si=luSxhdv8TpW6l5RdtruaWQ
https://www.facebook.com/TheClaudettes/
https://twitter.com/theclaudettes
https://www.instagram.com/the_claudettes/
The Claudettes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuKbNgXi2gR_7f3f1vTu_pW6m8dE9OE0C
SUN STEREOSun Stereo delivers a full sensory explosion incorporating a hybridization of organic and electronic elements blended with circus-esque performance art, orchestral strings, and a funk your face off horn section delivering a message of acceptance, hope, and love. In the last 10 years they have developed a fierce following and established themselves as a must see live show, reminiscent of a wedding reception on acid (sans the chicken dance.) They also have performed tribute sets for special festival sets as The Beatles(Gentlemen of the Road Tour/Summer Camp 2012-2015), The Doors(Summer Camp 2016), and The Flaming Lips (Summer Camp 2018). They have performed at numerous festivals, including Mumford & Sons Gentlemen of the Road Tours in Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, 10+ years at Summer Camp Music Festival, North Coast Music Festival, Mountain Music Festival, Peoria Blues and Heritage Festival, The Taste of Randolph Street, The Werkout Festival, Navy Pier, Shoefest, Pygmalion Festival, SOHO Music Festival, Illiac Music Festival, Merchant Street Music Festival, Dixon Petunia Festival, Down on the Farm, Urbana Sweetcorn Festival, and Taste of Champaign. They have shared the stage with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, The Wood Brothers, Here Come the Mummies, Andy Frasco & the UN, EOTO, Keller Williams, The Werks, The Apache Relay, Waydown Wanderers, The Main Squeeze, This Must Be the Band, UV Hippo, Those Darlins, Henhouse Prowlers. Euforquestra, Jon Wayne and the Pain, J.C. and the Uptown Sound, Digital Tape Machine, and Mike Dillon Band (Primus).
CALEY CONWAY
Caley Conway is a Milwaukee-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a trailblazer of the Midwest music community who has toured widely and shared stages with such heavy hitters as Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. In her first full-length release since 2019's 'Surrounded Middle,' Conway brings us 'Partner' (out now on Crutch of Memory Enterprises), a keen examination of love, co-dependence, and the struggle to maintain one's autonomy as half of a pair.
“Songs that can be intimate and unflinching, or dreamy and enigmatic, and never once pat and predictable.” -Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Impeccably produced, beautifully sung, and full of revelatory songs. Every song is worth your energy and effort to unspool and tangle yourself in."
-Trilobite Polka Review
