Thotcrime ~ Cocojoey ~ Zombieshark! ~ The Civil War in France

**All shows 21+—valid ID required**

Doors: 7:00 PM

Show: 7:30 PM

Thotcrime
The usual pitfalls and tribulations of getting a group of people into a room to write and record an album do not apply here. With members hailing from Champaign-Urbana, IL, Philadelphia, PA and Nottingham, UK, THOTCRIME’s approach to crafting their brand of Cybergrind is an embrace of technological advances and DIY collaboration via Discord servers, instant messengers and online community. Their latest release, D1G1T14L_DR1FT, the follow up to 2020’s ønyøurcømputer, sees THOTCRIME continue to gleefully abandon genre convention in favour of boundless individuality and invention. They cohesively blend together disparate influences from 100 Gecs to The Locust. D1G1T4L_DR1FT finds the international act steadfastly embracing exultation and conquering all that stands in their way. Tracks such as Tweet This! and Critical Codependence (featuring diana starshine) bubble enthusiastically with hyperpop-isms amongst grind and emphatic declarations of triumph in the face of modern day adversity – be that the relentlessly ill-disposed and cynical news cycle we all find ourselves plugged into, pervasive anxieties or interpersonal turbulence – whilst tracks such as the opening This Isn’t Foundation, Now Give Me Your Skin Please? and Central Dogma play to THOTCRIME’s more caustic hardcore and metallic edges with dizzying results. THOTCRIME’s prolific output to date has seen the band generate a buzz in online music communities and garner praise from Bandcamp Daily in the publication’s profile on the burgeoning cybergrind movement at large. This June the band will be together in person for the first time as they hit the road to play shows on the East Coast and in the MidWest. They are taking their friend and burgeoning hyper pop/cybergrind act Cocojoey for support. New single “A Better Kind of Shot” comes out 5/12. “We’re extremely excited to be performing together as a full unit for the very first time. When K and I started this project all the way back in 2019, I don’t think either of us expected we’d be able to do something like this. And being able to bring Cocojoey along with us on this run is really cool, their music is so fun and they bring such a great energy in their live performance.”
https://thtcrime.bandcamp.com/

Cocojoey
https://cocojoey.bandcamp.com/

Zombieshark!
https://zombieshark.bandcamp.com/

The Civil War in France
https://thecivilwarinfrance.bandcamp.com/