Hawley
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Hawley is a three-piece, Chicago-based, post-punk band fronted by singer-songwriter-guitarist Hawley Shoffner. Shoffner’s deep and growling vocals mingle with heavy guitar riffs, melodic bass lines à la Young Marble Giants, and driving drumbeats to create a sound clearly influenced by Dead Moon, Sonic Youth, and The Slits. Olivia Grace is as a pleasurable break from the norm. Whether she’s writing about candy hearts and white picket fences or cheap thrills and motels, the quirky indie pop singer-songwriter tells tales with a playful approach to the madness. VICTOR is the latest incarnation of Chicago based musician Matthew Kerstein. Largely a studio creation, VICTOR was dreamt up out of the home demos made over the summer of 2014 and the added production work of producer Bill Skibbee (producer of the Kills, Wilde Belle and Protomartyr). The songs became a blend of live home recordings and electronic studio production forming into something unexpected. The music maintains the grit and low fi energy of early rock and roll while feeling free to venture into indie, pop and electronic territory.
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