Sunday, September 22

DSP Shows Presents The Beaches live in the 9th Ward with Moscow Apartment  **SOLD OUT**

7pm Doors, 8pm Show

Tickets : General Admission Standing tickets $12.00 in advance, $15.00 day of show at Ticketfly.com, Babeville Box Office (M-F 11a-5p), or charge by phone at 877.987.6487

THE BEACHES

Toronto-based band The Beaches are glam rock and garage. They are undeniably warm and unquestionably cool. They are the girls next door and they are the life of the party.
However you break it down, The Beaches are 100% rock and roll.

Comprised of sisters Jordan and Kylie Miller (on lead vocals/bass and guitar, respectively), Eliza Enman-McDaniel on drums, and Leandra Earl on keys and guitar, the band has a natural kismet that shines through on each of their tracks and in their live performance. Their songs flow with unparalleled ease, headbangers with resonance.

Although the girls are all in their early 20s, they’ve been writing and performing together as a band for more than a decade. However, the last year has seen the band release their major label debut, tour the U.S. for the first time, headline a Canadian tour, win a London Music Award and take home the coveted 2018 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year.

Collectively best friends, each individual brings something unique to the table, yielding songs that was the fine line between a heavy-hitting gut punch and a hell of a lot of fun. In fact, according to Leandra, they sometimes have too much fun writing: “Jordan and I will sometimes get into our own zone and write our Dracula rock opera,” she says, totally serious. “The others have to get us back to working on the sound.”

Being an all-female group certainly sets them apart from the male-dominated rock world, but there’s a collective eye roll at the suggestion of being called a “girl group.” They’re excited at the prospect of inspiring other young women to join bands, but it’s not why they play. “We’re not doing this to be role models,” says Kylie. “We’re in this band because we love to play together and we love music.”

The Beaches’ love of rock and roll is obvious; with wide-spanning influences including David Bowie, The Strokes, The Rolling Stones, St. Vincent and The Pretenders, their songs translate easily to live shows, connecting with any kind of audience.

Performing is particularly important to The Beaches. “Onstage you get to let go of all your insecurities and channel a purely confident person,” says Jordan. “You get to be really free.” Eliza agrees, adding, “It can be like therapy. Sometimes you can just focus, forget the crowd is there, and just be so in the moment doing what you do best.”

The Beaches are gearing up for a special guest spot on Alternative radio darlings Passion Pit’s U.S. tour, which runs from April 30th in Tempe, Arizona, and wraps May 25th in Washington D.C. and includes two high profile shows at the recently opened Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport in New York on May 19 & 21.

The band’s first three singles have all landed in the top 5 at Alternative radio in Canada. “Money,” the first track from The Beaches’ debut album Late Show peaked at No. 2, while “T-Shirt” jumped to No. 1 and stayed locked in the top spot for an outstanding nine weeks and is still currently top 20 on the recurrent chart a year after its release. Current single “Fascination,” off their still untitled follow up album, sits comfortably in the top 10.

After two self-released EPs, The Beaches unveiled their debut album Late Show in October 2017. Late Show consists of 12 tracks and was recorded in Toronto and produced by Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of five-time Juno Award-winners Metric, and mixed by multi-Grammy Award-winner Tchad Blake (Artic Monkeys, The Black Keys, U2).

The Beaches have toured the UK, performed at Canadian festivals including Festival d’été de Québec, Osheaga and Wayhome, and opened for such acts as Eagles of Death Metal, Alvvays and several other acclaimed artists. The Beaches were also personally selected by Death From Above to accompany them on their 27-date North American tour in fall 2017.

Moscow Apartment:

Recent winners of Slaight Music’s national ‘It’s Your Shot’ songwriting contest and the grand prize of a $100,000 Artist Development contract, teenage Toronto folk-propelled duo Moscow Apartment is as instinctive as they come.

The naturally-ingrained chemistry between singers-and-songwriters Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla is evident on the five-song, self-titled EP that has earned them extensive airplay on CBC and NPR and also reflected in a performance style that has made them the darlings of the Winterfolk, Winnipeg Folk and Guelph Hillside festivals.

Currently recording an EP with six-time Grammy winner Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White) and several other notable producers for Hidden Pony Records, Moscow Apartment’s fresh, genuine and candid perspective through the window of their adolescent world speaks to the masses as only they can. Organic music at its finest.