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DESCRIPTION: $22 (adv)\, $24 $32 17+ Sign-up to receive exclusive pre-sale
  info here: Venue Pre-Sale: 5/31 at 5PM Public On-Sale: 6/2 at 10AM Whitne
 y make casually melancholic music that combines the wounded drawl of Towne
 s Van Zandt\, the rambunctious energy of Jim Ford\, the stoned affability 
 of Bobby Charles\, the American otherworldliness of The Band\, and the sla
 ck groove of early Pavement. Their debut\,Light Upon the Lake\, is due in 
 June on Secretly Canadian\, and it marks the culmination of a short\, but 
 incredibly intense\, creative period for the band. To say that Whitney is 
 more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement. Formed 
 from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich\
 , the band itself is something bigger\, something visionary\, something ne
 ither of them could have accomplished alone. The band itself is something 
 bigger\, something visionary\, something neither of them could have accomp
 lished alone.Whitney was born from a series of laidback early-morning song
 writing sessions during one of the harshest winters in Chicago history\, a
 fter Ehrlich and Kakacek reconnected - first as roommates splitting rent i
 n a small Chicago apartment and later as musical collaborators passing the
  guitar and the lyrics sheet back and forth. The duo wrote frankly about t
 he break-ups they were enduring and the breakdowns they were trying to avo
 id. Each served as the other's most brutal critic and most sympathetic con
 fessor\, a sounding board for the hard truths that were finding their way 
 into new songs like "No Woman" and "Follow\," a eulogy for Ehrlich's grand
 father.The analog recording methods\, the same as used by their forebearer
 s\, allowed them to concentrate on the songs themselves and create moments
  that would be powerful and unrepeatable."We didn't have enough tracks to 
 record ten takes of a guitar part and choose the best one later. Whatever 
 we put down is all we had. That really makes you as a musician focus on th
 e performance." The sessions were loose\, with room for improvisation and 
 new ideas\, as the band expanded from that central duo into a dynamic sext
 et (septet if you count their trusty soundman). And that's what you hear -
  Whitney is the sound of that songwriting duo expanding their group and de
 livering the sound of a band at their freest\, their loosest\, their giddi
 est.Classic and modern at the same time\, they revel in concrete details\,
  evocative turns of phrase\, and thorny emotions that don't have exact nam
 es. These ten songs onLight Upon the Lakesound like they could have been w
 ritten at any time in the last fifty years. Ehrlich and Kakacek emerge as 
 imaginative and insightful songwriting partners\, impressive in their scop
 e and restraint as they mold classic rock lyricism into new and personal s
 hapes without sound revivalist or retro. "There's a lot of true feeling be
 hind these songs\," says Ehrlich. "We wanted them to have a part of our pe
 rsonalities in them. We wanted the songs to have soul." Tickets:
DTSTAMP:20260522T131848
LOCATION:Thalia Hall
SUMMARY:Whitney with Kevin Devine - Official Lollapalooza Aftershow presen
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