Urgent Message Music Launch Party!

Saturday, February 25, 2023, 6:00 pm until 12:00 am
We're celebrating the launch of Urgent Message Music with this crazy lineup: Horse Jumper of Love, They Are Gutting, A Body of Water, Computerwife, Robber Robber, Pet Fox, and Dari Bay ! Get after it!

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Saturday, February 25th

Shea Theater

Turners Falls

Doors: 5.30

Show 6:00 PM - 12

$18 ADV / $22 Door

Horse Jumper of Love

Horse Jumper of Love’s music was praised by Stereogum as a “delightfully distorted mess of energy,” the band’s sound is absorbing and urgently hypnotic, with songs that develop at a glacial pace, progressing forward with almost imperceptible momentum to carve deep canyons and valleys through walls of solid rock.

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They Are Gutting A Body Of Water (TAGABOW)

Cryptic lyrics, shadowy shoegaze, and a crushing sadness are elements of They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, the fascinating Philly experimental indie outfit. “I’m big on things being really strange and mysterious to the point where it doesn’t exactly make sense in a literal way,” TAGABOW said in an interview. “Sometimes a song means something, or sometimes it means nothing at all. Sometimes it’s just bullshit.”

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Computerwife

Computerwife is the alternative solo project of NYC-based musician Addie Warncke. A little chaotic, a little silly, and always very sensitive, Computerwife absorbs the city as it affects memories of home and spits it back out onto her songs and productions about her experiences with change.

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Robber Robber

Burlington VT’s Robber Robber (fka Guy Ferrari) are purveyors of slimy, cerebral post-gunk, soaked in the deadliest poisons and deep fried in diesel fuel. The bass is like a broken transmission, the guitars like a bucket of loose bolts, the drums ready to rattle the lugs right off the hub. Pair that with scorching vocal delivery, and you’ve got the whole bitch.

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Pet Fox

Pet Fox is a Boston indie rock trio lineup has logged time in bands Ovlov and Palehound. Their third full-length, A Face In Your Life's lead single “Checked Out” says Theo Harlett:

"Is roughly about living in a capitalist society, where people are so willing to help out so long as they can benefit from it. The idea of “checked off, checked out” is that someone can quite literally have a checklist that, once fulfilled, they can disregard and “check out,” so to speak. There are so many people that do not give a damn about you until they realize that you hold some sort of worth that is valuable or cool to them."

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Exciting News for A Happening IV: Leviathan

Cloudgaze and Eggtooth Productions are thrilled to announce that we have received a generous grant from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice to support our 2024 Immersive Arts Festival, “A Happening IV: Leviathan.”

This festival will transform the Shea Theater into an exploration of theme, hosting installations, music, theatrical performances, and movement pieces, featuring the collective contributions of over 30 local artists. Audiences will experience otherworldly environments and narratives inspired by folklore, fairy tales, horror motifs, American literature, and the mythos of the Old Testament, all of which delve into the central question guiding the festival: "What does it mean to encounter something greater than yourself and to be consumed by it?" Through this theme, we explore how a community reemerges and imagines itself after destruction and transformation.

With the support of the Markham-Nathan Fund, we are excited to create an event that complicates perspectives and fosters meaningful dialogue. We are grateful for this partnership and for the work of the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice.

Thanks to the Mass Cultural Council for their vital support this year.We'd also like to thank the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts for their support in the form of a Flexible Funding grant. We couldn't do this work without you!