Surf Curse is the indie rock recording project of Los Angeles based songwriters Nick
Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck. Seeing Surf Curse live has become a right of passage for
disaffected adolescence in the South-West while Rattigan and Rubeck have spent their
formatives years between Las Vegas, Reno, and Los Angeles. Their new
record, Heaven Surrounds You, is a coming of age epic, inspired by the many cult films
they’ve cherished through out their young adulthood that are referenced across the
album’s tracklist. Surf Curse’s songwriting and instrumental orchestration has matured
on their third full length LP, adding layers of polish to their traditionally rough and
visceral sound. Rattigan and Rubeck worked with veteran indie producer Jarvis
Taveniere, carefully crafting a their most lush and vulnerable record to date, during the
fall of 2018. Heaven Surrounds You, satisfies the energy and passion that old fans
would expect from a Surf Curse record, but expands the band’s songwriting to envelope
new audiences into their cinematic sound. - via Grandstand Media
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​"I’m a 19-year-old Dominican Armenian-American music photographer from Dorchester, Massachusetts. I shoot local bands
and independent bands who are come to the city. I also shoot for a few publications, BostonHassle.com and whatthekidswant.com 
I started music photography in December 2018. I still have much to learn, even though I love the stuff I am making. I
can see where I can improve and I’m willing to evolve and change as I get older. Photography, especially music
photography, is a great escape for me and all the negative aspects of my life. It helps me be creative in the worst times.
It helps me feel electrified when I may feel hopeless. That’s what I love about music photography, wanting to go the
​shows of some of my favorite musicians but also capturing a moment that will live on forever is pretty exhilarating experience."

IG:  @therealalxsan

Dirty Penni Fest was a long awaited event thrown by Dirty Laundry TV & Penniback Records. It's annual show took place at the Echo & Echoplex. It was an amazingly memorable kick-start to the Summer, bringing the local Los Angeles music scene together. The night was full of love, support, and a lot of stage diving.

Creating / existing in intimate moments of space and color / in discovery of grief / and relearning of light. Pilar Violet is a multi media artist and photographer currently based out of Portland, Oregon - landing wherever the next plane, car, or train takes her. Lately she’s been twirling through dance floors and photo pits shooting friends and musicians, throwing shows with her art collective, HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE, and chasing butterflies.

IG @glitterrtrash / @highcapacitymag
pilarvioletpennell.com

Creating / existing in intimate moments of space and color / in discovery of grief / and relearning of light. Pilar Violet is a multi media artist and photographer currently based out of Portland, Oregon - landing wherever the next plane, car, or train takes her. Lately she’s been twirling through dance floors and photo pits shooting friends and musicians, throwing shows with her art collective, HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE, and chasing butterflies.

IG @glitterrtrash / @highcapacitymag
pilarvioletpennell.co

"After releasing new tracks over the past eight weeks, Kim Petras’ highly
anticipated Clarity project is now out worldwide, which she announced via Instagram.
'Kim has been releasing a new single every week for the past 8 weeks,
taking her fans on a journey through to the latest stone
​cold banger, Icy', her press release states." - inquisitr.com

IG: @m.haight

   Evelyn Del Cid-Salazar is a 23 year old photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She enjoys capturing candid moments that tell a story. Her dream is to travel the world and document it through photos and videos. She works as a composite technician, building airplane parts for F-35 military jets. In her free time she enjoys fishing, creating videos for her YouTube channel, adventures with friends, and hanging out with her blue heeler and bearded dragon. 

IG: @takenbyevelyn + exelynnn

​Creating / existing in intimate moments of space and color / in discovery of grief / and relearning of light. Pilar Violet is a multi media artist and photographer currently based out of Portland, Oregon - landing wherever the next plane, car, or train takes her. Lately she’s been twirling through dance floors and photo pits shooting friends and musicians, throwing shows with her art collective, HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE, and chasing butterflies.

IG @glitterrtrash / @highcapacitymag
pilarvioletpennell.com

Cherry Glazerr, now a three-piece with Clementine Creevy, drummer Tabor Allen and bassist Livvy Bennett, headlines FIGFest on June 7. They released their explosive full-length album Apocalipstick on Inauguration Day in 2017. Apocalipstick sizzled with Creevy’s confidence, vision and fiercely idiosyncratic personality. The new album, Stuffed & Ready, announces Creevy as a songwriter newly tempered and strengthened by coming to terms with her own uncertainty confusion and anger. It’s her go-for-broke honesty that gives Stuffed & Ready its power and gravity. “I am telling my story of how I feel and where I am in life,” she says. "I’m exploring my own self-doubt. I’m confused about what happiness is and I’m searching for my place in the world. With Apocalipstick, I was an over-confident teenager trying to solve the world’s problems. With Stuffed & Ready, I’m a much more weary and perhaps cynical woman who believes you need to figure your own self out first. " - via FIGFest
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A little about Scott Free: "A fan of punk rock rock and DIY music. I also like shooting drag queens, kings, and other artists. I only like shooting mostly small DIY and punk venues in LA and surrounding So Cal. I go out a lot, 4 nights a week. I am always looking for new bands to see, new places to hang out and to meet artists. I also work as a wardrobe stylist in the music business - styling bands and working on music videos."

Instagram: @ogscottfree

​   Samantha Simmons is a photographer from San Diego, California exploring and documenting life as she sees it. Whether it’s the underground music scene or constructing a reality rooted in nostalgia through film, she wants to encourage people to feel all they’re capable through the art they consume.

​IG: @beachsidecemetery

   Creating / existing in intimate moments of space and color / in discovery of grief / and relearning of light. Pilar Violet is a multi media artist and photographer currently based out of Portland, Oregon - landing wherever the next plane, car, or train takes her. Lately she’s been twirling through dance floors and photo pits shooting friends and musicians, throwing shows with her art collective, HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE, and chasing butterflies.


IG @glitterrtrash / @highcapacitymag
pilarvioletpennell.com

   Pilar Violet Pennell is an artist and film photographer creating in moments of intimate space and color. Much of her recent work from her photo journal, By Midnight, captures those moments from a raw and dark space. ​
​   She uses self portraiture as a method of exploring and healing wounds, and deconstructing learned preconceptions of the body and mind. She works primarily in 35mm, and has just relocated from NYC to Portland, Oregon.

Instagram: @glitterrtrash 
pilarvioletpennell.com

​   A little about Scott Free: A fan of punk rock rock and DIY music. I also like shooting drag queens, kings, and other artists. I only like shooting mostly small DIY and punk venues in LA and surrounding So Cal. I go out a lot, 4 nights a week. I am always looking for new bands to see, new places to hang out and to meet artists. I also work as a wardrobe stylist in the music business - styling bands and working on music videos. 

Instagram: @ogscottfree

​   Kalynn Barnum is a live music photographer from South Louisiana now living in Los Angeles. She loves sharing and promoting the artistic works her friends are doing through her chosen medium of photography.

IG & Twitter: @ohheyitskalynn

Matthew Hoang is a Bay Area based photographer. Matthew enjoys shooting live music by local and established acts.
IG: @matts.hues
matthewhoang.com

At Slims on April 27th, 2019

    Like so many acts before them in their position, when it came time for the daunting task of beginning to write their third album, Brisbane, Australia quartet Last Dinosaurs were at a crossroads.
The huge success of their previous two efforts, 2012’s In A Million Years (Top 10 Australian ARIA Chart), and 2015’s Wellness had established them as stalwarts of the international indie rock scene and “arguably Australia’s greatest indie-pop export” – The Music. Selling out shows across Australia as well as huge headlining tours and festival plays across the UK and Europe, Southeast Asia and South Africa, Last Dinosaurs also supported international acts such as Foals, Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party and Foster the People and made appearances at festivals, including Splendour In The Grass, Laneway, Falls Festival and Field Day to name a few...
But where to go to next? The answer: start from scratch.
So they packed what was essentially a mini studio (one mic, one interface, speakers, a computer and a few instruments) and travelled to the isolated town of Arita, Japan. The band’s principal songwriters, Sean and Lachlan Caskey, are of Japanese heritage, so in some ways this was a pilgrimage to find their roots, and yet once there, it dawned on them quickly that the place itself was completely foreign.
Their resulting mind-set from that isolation and their humble, DIY recording set up lead the band to strip back their production to the bare-essentials, and let the natural beauty of their song writing rise to the surface.
Soon, inspiration began to flood in from everywhere. Sean delved into his personal life and began exploring the emotions and life moments he and the band had experienced in the whirlwind few years since they broke onto the scene with their debut record more than half a decade earlier.
Meanwhile, Lachlan Caskey, who had previously focused solely on his incredible guitar playing, began to find his own song writing voice, and would eventually pen half the album’s tracks.
This Caskey/Caskey combination became that elusive third album titled Yumeno Garden, released in fall 2018, an exercise in the duo rediscovering their roots, as well as pushing themselves into whole new realms.
The first single, “Dominos” opened the door for the return of big guitar riffs, a major element of their early sound that was largely missing on Wellness. The song’s lyrics were penned after a difficult year for Sean that felt full of anxiety and misadventures, the words a reflection on the concerning lack of control he felt over that time, which he compared to the paralysing effects of vertigo.
Second single, “Eleven”, has already been earmarked as a future classic of the band, thanks to the irresistibility of the swirling guitars, boom-boom-bap drumming, and Sean’s dynamic vocal performance recalling Discovery-era Daft Punk one moment, before diving to his lower register and delivering a vintage Julian Casablancas (The Strokes). It’s subtly emotional, slightly jagged, and slathered in a beautifully distorted sheen.
Both “Dominos” and “Eleven” gained high rotation playlisting on world renowned radio station Triple J and lead to a sold out national single tour in Australia.
December 2018 found the release of the third single, “Bass God”. Sean explains, “The song is lyrically about looking within for direction and guidance instead of to a higher power, but it originated by a strange day dream I had about the bass god, a tall, long haired, colourful faced-painted bass rock god playing all the epic bass lines that united everyone in a euphoric trance.”
Last Dinosaurs finished off a huge 2018 playing Shakafest, Beach Life Festival and New Years’ Eve On The Hill. 2019 is set to be even bigger - kick started with a show at the Australian Open in January, then onto their sold out Yumeno Garden album tour in March, which has sold into multiple rooms due to huge demand. From there the world is their oyster, with Last Dinosaurs set to make their U.S. debut on an already sold out fun of dates, including two nights in San Francisco, three nights in Los Angeles, four nights in New York City and three nights in Chicago - an incredible feat, for the first time in a new market.

YUMENO GARDEN
“A raw, minimalistic sound.” – Beat
“Last Dinosaurs are establishing a direct line to their audience... they’re having much more
fun as a band now, unified in their vision for this record and for the future.” – Pedestrian “The Brisbane indie-pop group dive straight into the six-string haven for 'Eleven', and mine a
particularly rich indie rock vein.” – triple j ““Arguably Australia's greatest indie-pop export.” – The Music “The band are one of the best in the biz.” – Pilerats

For additional information on Last Dinosaurs, please contact The Syndicate:
PR – Brendan Bourke – brendan@thesyn.com • Brittany O’Connell – Brittany.oconnell@thesyn.com
Radio – Jerry Rubino – rubino@thesyn.com 
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​IG: @lastdinosaurs
Twitter: @lastdinosaurs
facebook.com/lastdinosaurs
lastdinosaurs.com

.... Some more from us about Daise...
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Matthew Hoang is a Bay Area based photographer. Matthew enjoys shooting live music by local and established acts.
IG: @matts.hues
matthewhoang.com

   "Standing side stage, I hear the words “I’m Hannah” ring out harmoniously alongside the cheers of hundreds of fans. I could feel my heartbeat in my veins; I left the show unfurling before me and for a moment existed instead within a memory where I’d heard this same song at a show SWMRS played over a year and a half earlier. It was one of those strange moments we all experience at some point or another where we’re reminded of where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. I was standing in the midst of my heroes, camera strapped to my chest, and I couldn’t stop thinking about who I was when I had first seen this song live. SWMRS sound tracked a monumental time in my life, a time I spent discovering who I was and what mattered to me. This simple song stirred within me a nostalgia about how significantly I’d grown in adjacency to this band who’ve played a large role in the person I’ve become. From fostering a hopeful anger to the injustice occurring around me, to giving me a voice and shoulder to cry on in the face of unexpected heartbreak, SWMRS has provided a cathartic release to each emotion I’ve suffered through and triumphed over in my adolescent life. I was confronted with a beacon of hope standing before these young men as they performed song after song, reminding me of the power of human emotion and the potential for change through commitment and intentionality. As I was shown two years ago when I saw them perform for the first time, and as I was reminded last night, SWMRS is not just a band. They’re a part of a larger movement dedicated to encouraging political consciousness and self-awareness within today’s youth; they’re committed to invigorating an indescribable and lasting feeling within their audiences that induces respect for every other human being standing beside you in a theatre bleeding the red blood of equality and transcendent love. Their set ended, and I could feel inside that something had changed. I believe we all exited that theatre in a different state than how we’d entered it, it was different from all other shows I’d shot before and quite possibly all other shows I will shoot after." - Sarah

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   Samantha Simmons is a photographer from San Diego, California exploring and documenting life as she sees it. Whether it’s the underground music scene or constructing a reality rooted in nostalgia through film, she wants to encourage people to feel all they’re capable through the art they consume.

​IG: @beachsidecemetery