Von Wildenhaus, Claire Tucker with Bill Patton, Brian Straw, and Aaron Semer
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Von Wildenhaus is vocalist Billie Bloom, guitarist Ben von Wildenhaus, Aaron Harmonson on bass and synths, guitarist Caleb Thompson, Jon Sampson on sax, and Andru Creature on rhythm and contraption.
We all spent our 20s in Bellingham, WA playing and hanging in the punk and dive bar scene. We’re old friends and still feel most comfortable with each other over others. We play big places like Triple Door and the Crocodile but we stick to the dark corners.
Spin called our music “meditative anti-shredding” and New York Daily called it “guitar noir.” Andru calls is “easy listening for demons.” Billie thinks we play familiar sounding tunes that tend toward chaos – chaos being a comfortable place for us. Ben says it sounds either like Omar Khorshid covering The Carpenters or like Linda Ronstadt strangling Michael McDonald. Jon and Caleb and Aaron are probably huddled around Jon’s sax case quietly playing a hand of 3 Card.