Wedding Dress, The Silence Kit, Gorgeous Porch @ Boot and Saddle

Wedding Dress (members of Maps And Atlases & Joan Of Arc) with The Silence Kit and Gorgeous Porch at The Boot & Saddle

WEDDING DRESS
Made up of various members of Maps & Atlases, Suns, Joan of Arc and Gypsy Blood, Wedding Dress are about as Chicago as it gets. Dreamt up as side-project / outlet for Maps & Atlases guitar player Erin Elders, songs were written between tours and slowly released during his "math-pop" band's fleeting downtime.

Wedding Dress is a distinctly other affair, it is more layered, plaintive and measured than anything in Elders' previous catalog; songs are textured narratives, instrumentation is retrained and in many ways the project stands as a perfect counter-point to the sometimes spastic Maps.

Together as a newly charged up Wedding Dress, they will release a 7 inch single and video on Arlington based label Lovitt Records (joining Chicago roster mates Pinebender and Redgrave) in March, and a full length in the Fall. The band is playing a stint of area shows in the coming months. Wedding Dress

THE SILENCE KIT
https://thesilencekit.bandcamp.com/
The Silence Kit is a Philadelphia-based post-punk band that plays textured, dark, indie rock. Inspired in equal parts by post punk, shoegaze, neo-psychedelia, avant-garde and indie rock, the band was started by singer/guitarist Patrick McCay back in 2002 as a solo recording project, eventually culminating in the first album “In Regulated Measure” (2006). “A Strange Labor,” “Dislocations” and “The Stairs” and “In Parts” EPs followed, each release garnering positive reviews from a variety of press. The lineup around McCay has always changed and continues to evolve and with each release The Silence Kit’s signature sound grows more distinct, while the songwriting and arrangements continue to grow more varied and ambitious. The band’s fourth LP entitled “Watershed” was released in April 2014 on Azteca Records / Break Even Records, and it reflects the band’s wide palette of songwriting, mood and texture. The Silence Kit

GORGEOUS PORCH
The devotional casio psych pop one man band of long time Philadelphia drummer Christopher Wood. Combining raw beastly drum beats with mod keyboards and sunny verb drenched vocals the songs are a millage of catchy dream punk, afro kraut and neo doo wop.