Indie electronica musician, Scott Currie (also known as Kuri), has returned to tackle themes of transformation with his latest album I Love You, You’re Welcome. Written and produced during the pandemic, he called upon a few friends to help him fill out the sound space with backing vocals to help offset the reigning feelings of isolation.
“I missed singing songs with people,” says Currie, who has assembled a quartet to perform the new material live. After too much time with his own thoughts, he decided, “I want to create songs that are meant to be sung communally.”
With tinges of Bon Iver The National, and Brian Eno scattered throughout the album, it’s a collection of song that are all deeply introspective. Through expansive, echoing soundscapes, he wanders with a calming tone in a voice that could pass for a lullaby. Inside of that dream-like state, he grapples with “fearing transformation, fighting transformation, accepting transformation, and embracing transformation. He states that “I was writing these songs to a past self, realizing that I’ve been living in a way that is hidden and not fully authentic or fulfilling. It’s not all nice transitions. Sometimes it’s looking at unhealthy things.”
When it comes to the title, irony abounded as Kuri toyed with the phrasing while the world changed before his eyes. “I Love You, You’re Welcome was the title before I wrote a single piece of music,” he says. “It was initially meant to be a funny jab at how we often subconsciously expect praise in return for something that should be given freely. But during the pandemic, I started relating to the phrase very differently. I was writing these songs almost as a farewell to a past self. The change in me came from a place of love for my former self, and so the title transformed into meaning, ‘I love us and where we’ve been, but it’s time for us to step into something new.”
I Love You, You’re Welcome is available now on major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Find opening track “Collider” and more excellent music on the Alchemical Records Multigenre Mixture playlist on Spotify.
Charlie Maybee is a dancer, musician, educator, and writer based in Charleston, South Carolina who currently teaches with the Dance Program at the College of Charleston. His primary work as an artist is with his performing collective, Polymath Performance Project, through which he makes interdisciplinary performance art that centers tap dance as the primary medium of expression and research. He also currently plays rhythm guitar for the Charleston-based punk band, Anergy, and releases music as a solo artist under the name Nox Eterna.
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By this point in his life, Foghat founding drummer Roger Earl has visited quite a few doctors. But what may be surprising is that the percussionist, 77, is quick to point out that many of the medical professionals who have worked on him also enjoy rocking out.
“Nearly all the doctors and surgeons I know, they all play something: trumpet, sax, violin, guitar,” Earl said recently. “There’s not too many drummers that are surgeons, there’s probably a good reason for that!”
Earl half-jokingly invites his surgeon-rockers to join him and the other members of Foghat onstage at the Fillmore in Silver Spring March 9, where they will be headlining the Rock and Roll for Children Foundation benefit for the Children’s Inn at NIH. Earl, the only original member of Foghat still in the band, will be banging the skins behind guitarist Bryan Bassett and other members Scott Holt and Rodney O’Quinn. “Slow Ride,” the band’s 1975 megahit, is all but assured to be on the setlist, along with tunes from Foghat’s most recent record, “Sonic Mojo.”
When D.C. venues were ready to reopen after COVID-19, indie pop duo GLOSSER was ready to perform. The two, Riley Fanning and Corbin Sheehan, formed the band pre-COVID out of a shared aesthetic vision and passion for music storytelling.
Their first album *DOWNER* was released in January 2023, however they have decided to release a deluxe version exactly one year later containing four new tracks – two remixes, a reimagined song, and a cover – that they are hoping will give it a second life and allow them to continue performing around the area.
The band explains that they have spent many shows opening for touring bands that traveled through D.C. “We made music and then venues started to open again,” Sheehan says. Rather than having the “typical grungy” D.C. band experience, they uniquely went straight to club shows.
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