June 2024 Staff Picks at The Camel Featuring:

Strawberry Moon

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 beleive in so make sure you make it out at least one Sunday night this month to check out Strawberry Moon!...Or maybe two, trust us, they rip!

June 2024 Staff Pick Strawberry Moon

w/ Slomo Sapians

Double Blind

Sunflower'd

Sunday, June 9th, 2024

Doors at 7, Music at 8

$12 ADV, $15 DOS

Strawberry Moon

powerhouse punk from richmond va

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Slomo Sapians

Slomo Sapiens originated back in 2016 when lead guitarist & frontman Ceallaigh Manaaki moved across the planet from New Zealand to America. If you believe in horoscopes, ghosts, and fairy tales, you might think it was fate that Ceallaigh met Greg Geiger (bass) and Jon Pritchard (drums) within his first week in Philadelphia. The three piece dropped their debut EP Hot Milk in 2018 as a concise thesis on Psych, Garage, and Sludge Rock.

As the band evolved, they dug deeper into a psychedelic abyss and crafted their first LP Cabin Fever Dreams. The aptly titled record’s release coincidentally paired with the entire world shutting down for the first time in March of 2020. With no end in sight, the band couldn’t help but feel that fate had played a dirty trick on them this time. The darkest moments on CFD highlight the horrors of isolation with references to Kenneth Anger & Allister Crowley while pulling musical influence from The Cramps & The 13th Floor Elevators.

Since then, the boys explored their Stoner Metal alter egos on Sl​ö​mos Vol 1 in 2021 and joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Michael Sanzo (Dawn Drapes, XIXIX) to expand their presence in Philadelphia’s prolific and infinite music scene.

The band is currently putting the final touches on their sophomore album The Holy Babble and are set to release the first single ‘Tongues II’ on September 8th, 2023.

Double Blind

Sunflower'd

The Indie rock Band know as “Sunflower’d” blends elements of psychedelic rock and alt rock to pluck intuitive and vulnerable strings of todays youth. Based out of RVA Sunflower’d displays a rawness in the mundanity. Sensitive, strong, and introspective is what you’ll find with the Sunflower’d experience.