Knitting Factory Entertainment is pleased to present JAMES SUPERCAVE with OWENSTONE, NKOSI, and DRUGS IN THE ALLEY at The Federal Underground in Long Beach. The show is 18+ and tickets are $10: http://goo.gl/98qC6G. Doors open at 7pm and show starts at 8pm.
Opaque in an age of Internet transparency, James Supercave's approach to pop stardom is a bit less visible and a little more strange. Beyond the fragmentary web presence, the pixel personality, the blogger hearsay-to know James Supercave is to listen to the music. Supercave assumes the pop idiom, filling its dimensions (drums, synth, guitar, bass, vocals) while continually charting its fringes. The result: modern eccentricities thrown Pollock-like against psych pop-a sound that is cerebral in lyric and muscular in command of beat and groove. Whether in winking jabs at corporations, or in frustration anthems angled at the internet native, James Supercave offers an uncompromising mirror to life's edges: the smooth, the rough-hewn, the odd-angled. James Supercave, the pixelated face of many, offers urgency to preserve the human in it all. After sharing stages with Future Islands, Warpaint, Chet Faker, and Jungle, James Supercave partnered with Fairfax Recordings for their debut LP, Better Strange, which was released in February 2016 to rave reviews. KCRW praises the band as “masters of the odd angles and off-kilter pop melodies that are littered throughout their record, turning unlikely musical directions into indie gold.”
