June 2024 Staff Picks at The Camel Featuring:

BAND NAME

Staff Picks is a quarterly residency here at The Camel where we get to feature some of the staff's favorite locals! We pick the bands and give them 4 sundays in a row to build out the best bills they can muster so you all can't make the excuse that you're too busy. These are acts we love and believe in so make sure you make it out at least one Sunday night this month to check out BAND NAME!...Or maybe two, trust us, they rip!

June 2024 Staff Pick Strawberry Moon

w/ Shagwuf

Girlspit

Sunday, June 2nd, 2024

Doors at 7, Musica at 8

$12 ADV, $15 DOS

Strawberry Moon

powerhouse punk from richmond va

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Shagwüf

"Shagwüf’s first full-length album unleashes heavy psychedelic blues on the ears of an unsuspecting public. There is a lot to unwrap here. The dense musicality suggests a mastery of instruments. Mood and tempo change quickly within songs courtesy of drummer Pablo Olivieri, which define the swampy atmosphere. The lyrics suggest a primal, violent undercurrent. “Run O’ Bad Luck” begins almost as a self-empowering dance track before vocalist Pete Stallings turns to the listener to snarl questioningly, “How does it feel to be someone else’s meal?” “Fight Like a Girl,” with bassist Sally Rose on lead vocals, exhibits the best attributes of a top-notch Kim Deal-fronted Pixies song, one-upping Julius Caesar with the refrain, “She came, she saw, she broke my jaw.” The garage energy blazes toward “Cassolette,” the five-minute churning typhoon at the album’s center. Once there, all instruments explore the parameters of their existence with many a noodle. Sally Rose and Sweet Pete complement each other’s vocals throughout. In spite of the intensity, the songs have a strong throughline of humor as well, one necessary to sell the charming couplet, “Ridin' my cheetah chariot / I feed my cheetahs on baby carrots.' ” -Whurk Magazine

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Girlspit

Gay space synth punk from Richmond, VA.

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