Grady Drugg & The Kabong Band, Prathloons, Toosh

Grady Drugg has made a career out of playing multiple instruments across multiple genres, being a sideman for artists such as Willi Carlisle, Dylan Earl, Dreamgirl, and Ings. They are putting out an album with the help of Tape Dad (subsidiary of Gar Hole Records, label of Nick Shoulders, Chris Acker, the Local Honeys, etc), and they, as well as their whip ass band are incredibly excited to finally bring their own music to audiences across the country.

Prathloons is the Chicago-based songwriting project of Collin Dall formed in 2018. Dall’s songwriting layers poetic, melancholic lyrics atop glacial arrangements on guitar, drums, piano, & violin. The songs reminisce on the mess of getting old, the woes of long-term relationships, & accepting that the meaning of our time on earth is simpler than we think: to love and listen, and to hope for the same in return.

Toosh makes rock music that goes elsewhere. As one time signature bends into another, Toosh only plays at structure and repetition, wistfully changing keys and tempos like bees cuddling in flowers. Grounded in twisted rhythms, tonal ambivalence, and liberatory politics, Toosh’s recurring message is— change is constant and relentless.