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Show at 8

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Tickets are non-refundable

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Poliça are an American electronic music band from Minneapolis, formed in 2011. The band currently consists of Channy Leaneagh (vocals, lyrics), Drew Christopherson (drums) and Ben Ivascu (drums), and ), Alex Nutter (electronics). In 2022 Chris Bierden, Poliça’s beloved bass player and beautiful harmony vocalist was diagnosed with brain cancer. Chris is a phenomenally strong and brilliant human and we are all continuously inspired by the fight he is waging against the cruel toll of Glioblastoma.

The band has toured the WORLD since 2011 and released 5 LPS, 2 EPS, and a few singles here, there, and everywhere. New music arrives Spring of 2025. Poliça reliably delivers enchanting performances and inspiring music when there are things to be said. With new music in the works, the future remains uncertain and exciting.

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Kareem Rahma’s Tiny Gun

When Kareem Rahma started making music a few years ago, the intention was little more than trying to turn bits into bangers.

Working with producer Tyler McCauley (a co-worker at the ill-fated VICE Media venture) songs like “Michael Barbaro” and “Meticulous Vibe” became prompt-as-songwriting exercises. Collaborating in a recently post-pandemic world, Tyler and Kareem just wanted to make music for the hell of it. And because it was fun.

Kareem, best known for his online creations Subway Takes and Keep The Meter Running with millions of views, spent his 30s building a career in comedy, while Tyler had already spent the good part of a decade making music in the NYC indie trenches. Bringing in drummer Dale Eisinger, previously of New York noise titans YVETTE, to flesh out the punky satire “Really Rich Parents,” it became clear that the project might be in need of a proper band. With a debut show booked at legendary NYC venue Baby’s All Right, Tyler pulled from a deep bench of Brooklyn staples, tapping guitarist Joe Tirabassi of indie heroes Darlings and bassist Matt Morello of the legendary noise-rock act Mr. Dream to round out the lineup. And so Tiny Gun was born.

Though the supergroup — billed as Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun — has become a regular fixture of the NYC club scene at venues like Union Pool, Addison Pest Control, Pyramid Club, and more, only a handful of singles have been released with the band on record. Tracks like the Gang of Four-indebted “Entertainment,” the Velvety cheeseburger ode “Juicy Lucy,” and the Brit-pop banger “Meet Me Halfway” (featuring vocals from NYC favorite Melody English), the band’s tracks still felt referential and tongue-in-cheek, even while developing an urgent, swinging style akin to the Modern Lovers or Television.

With their debut studio EP, No Worries If Not, the quintet comes into its own with a new powerful set of dynamics, personality, and cohesion. The EP’s four propulsive new songs shed the bits and knowing winks of songs past in favor of shredding guitar solos, incisive lyrical wit, galloping drums, and a new take on an old classic: a New York rock record unlike anything else being made right now — without losing that centrifugal joy. Fuck it: Tiny Gun is here to party.

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Marijuana Deathsquads

marijuana deathsquads is a gang first, and a band second. the gang has a somewhat unified philosophy on music and the devastating future marijuana wars, but no real dogma of any kind outside of those two areas. and nobody is ever really in or out of the gang. you might be a member of marijuana deathsquads.

marijuana deathsquads is like a porcupine with a soft, rainbow underbelly that tastes like really good pizza if you lick it. to do so requires that you carefully navigate the lsd coated quills pointing every which way that explode in all directions every few minutes. whoa. that one just hit you in the eyeball. you are going to want to get somebody to take a look at that or it might get infected….

the nuclei of marijuana deathsquads is producer ryan olson and vocalist isaac gale. the rest is all speculation mostly. stef alexander (p.o.s.) might be in marijuana deathsquads. this one time mds backed him for a performance at coachella. people seemed to enjoy that. poliça drummers ben ivascu and drew christopherson might be in mds. mark mcgee might be in mds. he is super handsome. Channy leaneagh of poliça, jesus lizard’s david yow, bon iver’s justin vernon, chavez man matt sweeney, and many many more have possibly, theoretically, participated in marijuana deathsquads at various times.