Minor Moon w/ Full Catholic + Voulouse

Thu, Oct 10

7PM DOORS 8PM SHOW $12 ADVANCE $18 AT THE DOOR ABOUT MINOR MOON At the heart of Minor Moon’s open-ended and knotty country rock songs is an undeniably inviting lightness. While the Chicago-based songwriter and bandleader Sam Cantor writes impressionistic songs about the end of the world, they’re wrapped in such a warm blanket of lush guitars and pastoral twang that they always leave a hopeful spark. On the band’s latest LP, The Light Up Waltz, Cantor sings of the fantastical in magical traveling bands, swaying bridges, and aquamarine metamorphoses – but this sweeping sci-fi folktale is imbued with an intimacy that’s fundamentally focused on human questions about who we are and how we reinvent ourselves when everything crumbles around us. Cantor produced The Light Up Waltz, which was mixed with Dave Vettraino, and he’s joined by bassist Jason Ashworth, pedal steel player Max Subar, drummer and percussionist Sam Subar, and guitarist Chet Zenor. The album also features performances from V.V. Lightbody, Sima Cunningham, Dustin Laurenzi, Elizabeth Moen, Macie Stewart, Hunter Diamond, Lia Kohl, and Andrew Sa. Minor Moon has been consistently one of Chicago’s most thrilling live acts and here, the freewheeling immediacy of their stage show comes first, with the band often settling into a stargazing groove and never letting up. It’s persistently disarming and danceable. “This is the kind of record that I've been writing towards for a long time,” says Cantor. “This feels like a culmination for Minor Moon.” ABOUT FULL-CATHOLIC MINNEAPOLIS-based 'full catholic' is a psych collective that fell asleep and dreamed it was a folk band that dreamed it was a rock band. Their sound is built around probing social lyricism intensified by vocalist/bassist Dani Michaele, whose gut-dwelling timbre is both at times turbulent and tremulous. Adding a frenzy of guitar and synth to the mix, Lane Miller and John Caldwell weave dynamic lines through wistful atmospherics that transcend alongside the distinctive jangly rhythms crafted by drummer Des Lawrence. full catholic often explores passageways through liminal territories, where light and dark, beauty and chaos overlap. Listeners describe their music as "raw and vivid...a beautifully messy display of vulnerability" [Glide Magazine] with songwriting that “speaks to an enlightened generation forced to endure more of the same out of pure designed resignation” [The Wild is Calling]. The band's debut LP, "every dream at once," was listed by Mike Mineo of Obscure Sound in the top 20 best albums of 2022. Their second LP ""all is well"" was released the following year, with a third record coming in 2024.