WOODWARD THEATER PRESENTS:
Event: KING BUFFALO w/ REZN and THE HARLEQUINS
Date: Friday, January 19
Time: 7 doors, 8 show
Venue: The Woodward Theater | 1404 Main St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 | (513) 345-7981 | news@woodwardtheater.com
Admission: starting at $15.75 advance / $20 day of show
Ages: 16+
Information / Tickets: https://www.woodwardtheater.com/shows/king-buffalo-w-rezn-and-harlequins
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/589074316582113
* $2 off any sandwich across the street at MOTR on day of show with proof of purchase *
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About KING BUFFALO
King Buffalo is the trio of vocalist/guitarist Sean McVay, bassist Dan Reynolds, and drummer Scott Donaldson. Since forming in 2013, the self-proclaimed "heavy psych" band has made its name via 4 Full-lengths, 4EPs, and tours with Clutch, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, All Them Witches, The Sword, and Elder.
King Buffalo will issue their fifth full-length, Regenerator, on Sept. 2, 2022, as a self-release in North America and through Stickman Records in Europe. Preorders will be available on June 10th via http://kingbuffalo.bigcartel.com.
Written and recorded by the band with mixing and engineering by Sean McVay and mastering by Bernie Matthews, the seven-song outing is the third in King Buffalo’s stated ‘pandemic trilogy,’ following Two of 2021’s Best Albums in The Burden of Restlessness and Acheron.
Both of those albums – like 2018’s Longing to Be the Mountain, 2016’s debut, Orion, and the various EPs and other offerings they’ve made over the last eight years – made bold declarations about who King Buffalo are as a band, and Regenerator is no different. As McVay, Reynolds and Donaldson continue to explore the outer reaches of modern psychedelic songcraft, melding progressive rhythms, drifting atmospheres and accompanying surges of electricity, the new collection only further establishes them as one of the brightest lights shining in underground rock today.
As the third of three, Regenerator seems inherently to tie together the two LPs most immediately before it, and as King Buffalo unfold the leadoff title-track across nine and half minutes, it becomes clear just how truly they have marked out their own sonic presence. The later melodic highlight “Mammoth” – with McVay’s most confident vocal yet – shimmers with hope that somehow doesn’t come across as desperate, and as “Hours” engages classic space rock and the closing “Firmament” summarizes the first, second and third series installments, the final chapter of this trilogy becomes the essential cornerstone of King Buffalo’s work to-date.
The band returned to live activity late last year, touring alongside Clutch and more recently a full North American spring tour with Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. By the time Regenerator arrives, they will have completed a UK and European headlining tour with festival appearances in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium and Denmark.
CHECK OUT this video of King Buffalo "Live at Burning Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOOqLARAMhY
CHECK OUT this official video for “Mammoth”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWxQswU-I0
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About REZN:
For the uninitiated, the music churned out by Chicago quartet REZN manages to convey both crushing mass and cosmic weightlessness. The seed for the band’s megaton riffs and psychedelic journeys was planted when guitarist Rob McWilliams and bassist Phil Cangelosi began jamming together at age twelve in the DC commuter town of Leesburg, Virginia. They relocated to Chicago in 2015, recruited local sound engineer Patrick Dunn to bash on the drums, and, after playing just three shows together, set about recording their debut album — the molten amp worship service, Let It Burn. They invited their friend Spencer Ouellette into the studio to round out their bottom-heavy sound with the hum-and-squall of modular synth, and the added textural component immediately became a key facet to their sound.
The band’s 2018 sophomore album Calm Black Water created an aqueous atmosphere of molasses-thick guitar-and-bass punishments with soaring minor key vocal melodies, but Ouellette further pushed the dreamscape envelope by supplementing the synth duties with blissed out saxophone passages. REZN’s 2020 offering Chaotic Divine continued their melding of gargantuan heaviness and lysergic calm, as well as the band’s penchant for tying the music to a new visual landscape. Here it became apparent that their use of saxophone was more than just a cameo, letting the instrument’s richness shine confidently in the spotlight throughout the record. It’s yet another device in REZN’s sonic arsenal that makes classifying their sound into a genre even more challenging.
With Solace, REZN once again blurs the boundaries of their psych and doom labels by exploring more delicate and introspective emotions in the lyrics and instrumentation, using the feeling of empty space to build into towering moments of maximalist density. The appearance of piano, flute, and acoustic guitar are intricately woven throughout the record, and their dynamic range seems expanded even at the heavy end with odd time signatures and thicker, more colossal walls of sound built by the rhythm section.
“This was the first time we were able to immerse ourselves 24/7 in the studio,” says guitarist and vocalist Rob McWilliams, “and it was essential in giving us the headspace to take risks with the songs. After a week straight of recording for twelve+ hours every day, you start to go crazy in a good way. We wanted it to push us into new territories musically, but also transform the record into something much bigger than what we initially envisioned.”
CHECK OUT this official for "Wake": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7NVsj-_oyE
CHECK OUT this official for "Wake": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7NVsj-_oyE
About THE HARLEQUINS:
After 17 years in the rock & roll trenches, The Harlequins have emerged as bonafide scene veterans—enduring anti-heroes of the American garage-psych underground. Founded in 2007, the intrepid Cincinnati power trio—Michael Oliva on guitar & vocals, Alex Stenard on bass and Robert Stamler on drums—made its bones alongside contemporaries such as the Black Lips, Gringo Star, La Luz and Thee Oh Sees. They’ve since been celebrated by publications including Vice, The AV Club, Exclaim! and Performer, and have also shared bills with Ty Segall, Bass Drum of Death, The Courettes, Cherry Glazzer, Kurt Vile, Deerhoof, Tobacco, Ride and Kikagaku Moyo.
The Harlequins’ aptly named new record, TIME—their seventh full-length—is a diligently honed yet effortlessly flowing sonic journey recorded across the span of five years. Listening, you can envision the record sprouting from a single seed, green shoots bolting skyward in time lapse, a vibrant bouquet of flowers blossoming brilliantly, then wilting and drying up, their crumbling petals scattered on the breeze.
The process repeats in reverse, and then forward again in an infinite loop, time slipping back and forth against the blackness of space to a soundtrack of shimmering tremolo guitars, spring-loaded bass and frenetic drums, all shot through with quivering acid-drenched harmonies.
Though for once, their psychedelia has ventured outside the echo chamber, the reverb has been wrung out so the sound reflects the clarity of the comedown more than the chaos of the trip’s peak.
The process repeats in reverse, and then forward again in an infinite loop, time slipping back and forth against the blackness of space to a soundtrack of shimmering tremolo guitars, spring-loaded bass and frenetic drums, all shot through with quivering acid-drenched harmonies.
Though for once, their psychedelia has ventured outside the echo chamber, the reverb has been wrung out so the sound reflects the clarity of the comedown more than the chaos of the trip’s peak.
CHECK OUT this official video for “Return Home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrb3waXFHc
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MORE ABOUT:
KING BUFFALO:
https://kingbuffalo.com/
https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-burning-man
https://www.facebook.com/kingbuffaloband
REZN:
https://www.rezn.band/
https://www.instagram.com/rezzzn
https://www.facebook.com/reznband
THE HARLEQUINS:https://www.facebook.com/TheHarlequinsMusic/
https://theharlequins.bandcamp.com/
https://Instagram.com/theharlequinsmusic
https://linktr.ee/theharlequinsmusic
THE WOODWARD THEATER:
http://www.woodwardtheater.com, info@woodwardtheater.com