Spring 2017 Launch Party: FORTH WANDERERS w/ OVERCOATS

The Spring 2017 Launch Party is this Friday, February 17th in Schine Underground with performances by Forth Wanderers and Overcoats! The show is 18+ and tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office ($3 SU & ESF students/$5 General Public).

Forth Wanderers are five friends from Montclair, New Jersey. Together they make some of the most powerfully intimate and emotive indie-rock music you’re likely to hear. Comprised of singer Ava Trilling, guitarists Ben Guterl and Duke Greene, bassist Noah Schifrin and drummer Zach Lorelli, despite all being under the age of 21, the group have been prolifically forging musical creations from the bedrooms of their Garden State township since 2013. Forth Wanderers have been building a loyal fanbase plucked from disparate scenes, drawing comparisons from everyone from Built To Spill and Pavement to Mac Demarco and Weezer. It’s fair to say that with the new EP ’Slop’ the band are truly arriving on the international scene.

Overcoats is the New York-based female duo of Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. Their debut album YOUNG captures a sound rich in minimalism and melody: songs of connection and tension, on the depths of love and challenges of family. YOUNG is about a transformation: the passage into womanhood, sung through the shared experience of two best friends. Elion and Mitchell were drawn to each other when they first met in 2011, finding connection in their diverse love of music and an immediate closeness that verges on sisterhood. Their meeting was transformative emotionally as well as creatively. Both halves of Overcoats describe the first time hearing each other sing as an epiphany: the harmony of their voices leading to personal, individual discovery. This bond forms the foundation of Overcoats, and it fills the ecosystem of YOUNG with its stunning sound and sentiment.

In other exciting news, this will be the first semester in 6 years that WERW will be broadcasted onto AM airwaves, so be sure to tune in throughout the season! You can read up more about this exciting news here.

We can't wait to see you on Friday!