Rontoms Sunday Sessions

On December 1, join us for a music video premiere and release party for fast-rising Portland hip hop artist Donte Thomas’ “OFF WHITE”, with support from King Wess. 

8pm // Free. 

Ghost Tiger (Santa Barbara, CA) The sound of Ghost Tiger is a mix of '60s girl groups, classical composition and African rhythmic influences with soulful vocals and spacious sounds that culminate in an invigorating approach to indie rock. The band released their debut EP Some Friends Feel Like Family January 13th, 2015 and is heading up the West coast on a winter tour.

Houndstooth writes electric, if their songs were pictures, they’d be William Eggleston photos - overheard stories in kodachrome speaking of sweetness and tragedy. 

Daydream Machine (Portland, OR) Daydream Machine combines the lush sounds of shoegaze and neo-psychedelia with the jutting angles and dance beats of post-punk. Layers of guitars, vocals, flute and keyboards shimmer above the driving drumbeat. The results, like magic in fairy tales and Fantasia are unpredictable.

San Francisco's Li Xi is a band mining the past for sounds from the future. They use all the elements of retro pop—warm, fuzzy guitars, analog synth leads, infectious rhythms, vocal hooks for days—to create sounds you’ve only heard in your dreams of sunlit and stormy days to come.

This is the first single off of the unreleased self-titled debut LP of Minneapolis band Carroll. Carroll plays Rontoms Sunday Sessions with Dana Buoy and Just Lions on October 5th at 8pm. No cover.

Minneapolis’ Carroll (two R’s, two L’s) was born in late 2011 when frontman Brian Hurlow started composing melancholic pop songs that caught the ear of college classmate and drummer Charlie Rudoy. The lifelong musicians clicked and moved in together to a house on Carroll Avenue, coining the psychedelic, shoegazey-pop band’s name. After guitarist Max Kulicke and bassist Charles McClung came on board for the live show, Carroll started turning heads.

Since the release of their Needs EP, they’ve become a mainstay on The Current, the Twin Cities’s triple A NPR affiliate station, and were named Best New Band by the two biggest local arts publications. In February of 2014, the band escaped the frigid Minnesota winter to Philly’s Miner Street Recordings where they cut their debut full-length in 17 days with the expertise of engineer Jonathan Low, who’s produced albums for the National, (Mr.) Twin Sister, and Local Natives. With Brian’s subdued yet distinct vocals accompanied by punctual drums and alluring riff vignettes, Carroll’s self-titled debut will leave you bewitched.