GROUPIE, THE SHINING HOURS, SORRY DARLING, ABBIE ROPER — live event

Ashley Kossakowski (bass/vocals) submitted the Craigslist ad the same week she read Sara Marcus’s Girls To The Front, during a summer spent immersing herself in riot grrrl culture and DIY shows in NYC. The likes of Bikini Kill and The Raincoats proved all Kossakowski needed to start was heart, moxie, and something to say. It was an extremely welcome epiphany, after an adolescence spent attending emo shows in her home city of Chicago—where many of the morose, swoopy-fringed boys onstage evinced the idea that you needed to be white, male, and raised on expensive guitar lessons to form a band. Kossakowski attended so many of these shows that her mother began to refer to her as ‘groupie.’ While she eventually left Chicago, Kossakowski, a queer, first-generation child of Polish immigrants, never grew out of the nagging feeling of being on the outskirts at shows she attended. She brought this feeling forward to Johanna Healy (guitar/vocals) when they met for the first time in the fall of 2015. Healy, a long-time lover of punk music who started playing guitar as a teenager, was already a skilled songwriter. She spent her early 20s creating bedroom recordings and wanted to give her dream of playing on stage a shot. Without knowing where to start, she met various people through Craigslist over the years, but none clicked as well as with Kossakowski. Healy welcomed Kossakowski’s passionate energy and provided gentle coaching along the way. The pairing of aficionado and fan has proved to be an interesting one, and has evolved into an energetic, hard-working band. The Shining Hours are an Alt-Indie Rock band from the blaring streets of Brooklyn NY. Their music is a mix of reverb-drenched guitar riffs and a booming rhythm section, melded in a melodic swirl of raw energy, that The Blog That Celebrates Itself describes as “...something like if The Replacements joined the brats of the Arctic Monkeys and had a jam,” with relatable lyrics of which Divide and Conquer wrote, “Best of all I could make out the lyrics, and they’re good. Like, blew my mind good.” The group has been active in the New York music scene, playing at local staple venues such as Mercury Lounge, TV Eye, and Arlene’s Grocery. The Shining Hours will be releasing their second EP in the fall of 2023. Sorry Darling is Liz Wagner Biro (vocals/guitar), Steve Bailey (vocals/guitar), Jackie Land (bass), and Dan Holodak (drums). Abbie Roper and her band bois make up a four-piece indie rock/punk band based in NYC. Abbie and the bois can be found in some of NYC's classic venues playing a mix of your favorite early 2000s covers and her originals of ardor.

Starts: 2024-03-24T20:30:39Z

Ends: 2024-03-24T22:30:39Z

Where: 101 Avenue A, New York, New York 10009, United States

Price: $15.39

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