IVY ROOM PRESENTS

MON JULY 7TH

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Sucker Crush

Claire Morales

Nüxia

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7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm show

ADV TIX AVAILABLE - $15 DOOR

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IVY ROOM

860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+

Sucker Crush

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Sucker Crush is the songwriting project of Marissa Deitz, an Oakland-based composer and multi-instrumentalist. Sucker Crush plays regularly around the Bay, expanding or collapsing between sounds of shrieking rock feedback and delicate solo guitar fingerpicking with a rotating cast of talented musicians bringing the songs to life. At its core, Sucker Crush is a vessel for thoughtful, confessional lyrics about connection, isolation, plants, pets, video games, and the ever-present dread of existing in our era.

Claire Morales

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Surrounded by creatives growing up in Denton, Texas, a college town north of Dallas, Morales took to impromptu singing during family gatherings while she was young. Taught to play guitar by her father, she began performing in local coffee shops at age 13. Those singer-songwriter roots were evident on her 2015 debut, Amaranthine, but the newly released All That Wanting takes on a theatrical sweep and rock & roll edge as Morales delivers her dusky ruminating with a quaver somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush. Also a freelance graphic designer, Morales masterminded a series of music videos to accompany the album, and has busied herself with several outside musical collaborations, including a pair of Halloween-themed albums written and recorded in a month each with boyfriend Daniel Markham. 2017 also brought the Twin Peaks-inspired “Where You Are” from an EP she did with Seattle’s Jena Pyle.

Jeff Gage - Rolling Stone

Nüxia

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Nuxia is a Bay Area music artist, pianist, producer, and composer.