ivy room presents
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH
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THE SAM CHASE AND THE UNTRADITIONAL
VAN GOAT
CAVE CLOVE
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Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
$12 Advance / $15 Door
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IVY ROOM
860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+
THE SAM CHASE AND THE UNTRADITIONAL
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The Sam Chase has a voice like a Nun on the lam with a mouthful of cigarettes and curse words in a lonely bar, drunkenly dancing next to a broken jukebox. His songs are scribbled, not written, on lipstick and sweat stained motel bed sheets because he likes the way the ink bleeds. His guitar runs on diesel and leaks like the morning after too much Whiskey. This is a show you’ll probably want to tattoo on your body so everyone will know that you knew him before he was cool.
Hailing from the hills of San Francisco, California, Sam and his band whom he lovingly refers to as The Untraditional, take to stages all over the country with a virulent and frenetic passion which many history buffs might liken to the Norse warriors known as The Berserkers, who were known to have fought their battles with an uncontrollable, trance-like fury. Norse literature notes that they would work themselves into a rage before battle, consuming drugged foods, and dressed in nothing but their enemies blood. The Sam Chase and The Untraditional do maintain that spirit, but leave the drugged foods and enemies blood up to the discretion of the crowd.
VAN GOAT
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“Back in the ’30s and ’40s, swing was a high-energy dance music that people would dance to ’til they passed out. These days, if a band starts up with the clarinets and the ride cymbals, you’ll probably start picturing your great grandpa doing the jitterbug. Oakland’s Van Goat breathes a healthy dose of punk rock into swing by stripping it down, raw and so energetic that you’ll want to upstage your granddaddy on the dance floor.” - Good Times Santa Cruz
CAVE CLOVE
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Cave Clove is a 4-piece rock band based in Oakland, CA. The band’s sound is timeless and all their own as they seamlessly combine their shared love of 70’s and 90’s singer-songwriters with progressive rock. They are known for their robust melodies, hooks, arrangements and for their reliably soulful performances. Fronted by songwriter/vocalist Katie Colver, the past 6 years have been a collaboration between Colver, lead guitarist Brent Curriden, and bassist Alisa Saario. They were joined by drummer Harrison Murphy for their 2019 tour dates and for the making of their upcoming full-length album The Muscle and the Meaning (Spring 2022), which is undoubtedly the band’s most realized and compelling batch of songs to date. In many ways, The Muscle and the Meaning, the band’s follow up to 2019’s Dollars to Tokens EP, is like the flip-side of the same coin. Described by Glide Magazine as a collection of “psych-rock infused anthemic stunners brimming with electrifying guitars and a West Coast Americana songwriting sensibility,” Dollars to Tokens centered around the sacrifices that Colver was making to follow her dreams and her prioritization of art and adventure over health and stability. She described the EP as being about “the dance between self-sabotage and self-actualization.” The Muscle and the Meaning is about this same dance, but focuses more on the introspective process of recovery and healing.