Caroline Rose

This event is 17 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 17 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund. Ticket Fee includes 1% City Amusement Tax.
Fishtailing across a trimmed sod lawn, the parking lot of a box-store strip mall, a fast food drive-thru----it's a hyperreal Americana fantasy that calls Caroline Rose (she/they) home on Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall. The release doubles as the debut of SUCK records, the LA based artist's own imprint---a fitting next form for an enigmatic musician whose work resists settling into one shape. Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall stretches the ordinary into the uncanny. The record pairs sharply observed, memoiristic songwriting with expansive guitar textures that render the everyday with violent clarity and mythic scale. Beneath its melodic sweep and signature hooks runs a current of violence and American dream leakage. It's Ennio Morricone with an AR15: surf guitars, spaghetti westerns, and suburban dread colliding until they become their own sharp vernacular. Reality is unstable, so we'll keep telling stories---and for Rose, the sinister slickness of the everyday grows a new head. Working with producer John Congleton, Rose built the record through humor, layering, and instinct rather than polish. Songs like , "rdquo" -> Conversations with Shiv," , "rdquo" -> Goddamn Train," and , "rdquo" -> Everything in its Right Place" were recorded in studio for the first time, with sessions that prized first impulses over perfection. The result is panoramic but never precious---songs that feel meticulously constructed while always threatening to mutate. Over the last six years, Rose's music has evolved alongside their work organizing around stronger labor protections and collective bargaining rights for musicians and crews. Creative and political practice have increasingly become the same project as Rose's career has taken on its hyper-independent form. Those concerns echo throughout Gentling the Horse. Its landscapes are populated by inherited systems that feel absurd yet inescapable, where humor becomes a survival tactic and satire reveals the quiet violence embedded in everyday American life.

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