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SUMMARY:Tchotchke
LOCATION:Sidney & Matilda
DESCRIPTION:Jarred Up Presents: Tchotchke + Special guests Like Pop Rocks h
 itting the tongue\, New York’s Tchotchke is classic candy-coated rock’
 n’roll. Sweet on the outside but filled with surprises once properly ing
 ested\, the three-piece have been winning over audiences with their Rundgr
 en-tinged sound and masterful harmonies since 2021. Anastasia Sanchez (voc
 als\, drums) and Eva Chambers (bass\, keys\, vocals) met in the mirror of 
 an L.A. highschool locker room in 2014—they were both fixing their bangs
 . A deep musical friendship was quickly formed\, forged on a shared love o
 f everything from vintage dolls to the Beach Boys\, and resulting in a han
 dful of bands together. Several years passed before fellow L.A. musician E
 mily Tooraen (guitar\, vocals) entered Anastasia and Eva’s orbit and eve
 rything finally clicked. Tchotchke was born. A move to the East Coast foll
 owed\, and the band started working on their first album\, produced by pow
 er-pop wunderkinds the Lemon Twigs in their Long Island childhood home. Tc
 hotchke (2022) was a full-tilt rock'n'roll gem of catchy guitar riffs\, po
 werpop piano lines and hook-heavy vocals. Tours with King Tuff\, Broncho\,
  The Gossip and The Makeup followed\, and the band found themselves crossi
 ng the U.S. and Europe throughout 2023 and 2024. With no intention of slow
 ing down\, Tchotchke found time in between the touring life to write their
  second LP. Entering the studio this time with songs fully arranged and de
 moed\, the band once again enlisted the Lemon Twigs to produce—now based
  in a Brooklyn studio aptly dubbed “The Vegetable Attic” due to the pr
 oduce warehouse located downstairs. “There’s always cabbage scattered 
 on the street\,” Eva says. The album\, Playin’ Dumb\, was recorded ove
 r the course of four seasons. Contending with the Lemon Twigs’ touring s
 chedule\, the trio would jump back into the studio whenever there was a ch
 ance\; from sweating it out above the wilting vegetables to walking on ice
  with guitars and enduring days without the heat on in order to get the pe
 rfect studio sound. The effort and intentionality paid off\, as Playin’ 
 Dumb’s 11 tracks are more sophisticated and sonically complex than their
  previous work\, leaning heavily into the band’s love of 60’s girl gro
 ups and outsider popsters like Harry Nilsson\, Dolly Mixture\, and Sparks.
  Themes on the album also became evident as months in the studio went on. 
 Particularly\, the band says they embraced their femininity on this album
 \, with the result being a sonic impression of girls hanging out and “ya
 pping\,” as they like to put it. Channeling a Shangri-Las style of conve
 rsational vocals\, the cast of characters that Tchotchke personifies in Pl
 ayin’ Dumb also embody classic girl group traits of lovelorn winners and
  losers. The band thinks of these narrators as hyper-feminine caricatures 
 of themselves\, with aspects of their personalities amplified to the point
  of high drama. On the guitar-driven first single “Did You Hear”\, the
  narrator hopes she is “the one” who can change a man for the better
 … but eventually the hopeful fantasy just fades into contempt. The blues
 y\, mid-tempo “Poor Girl\,” is an antonymously-named track about spoil
 ed brats that shows off the band’s penchant for lyrics with tongue plant
 ed firmly in cheek. On the Joey Ramone-esque title track\, a narrator lame
 nts behind a wall-of-sound arrangement that she keeps playing the “dim d
 um-dum” so that her boyfriend feels smart—even though she hates it. An
  original board game designed by Eva accompanies the vinyl release of Play
 in’ Dumb. It’s a colorful tabletop trip of girlspeak\, gossip and trut
 h or dare prompts that reflect the themes of the album\, as well as the ba
 nd’s personalities and style. £13 ADV / £16 OTD Doors - 7:00PM\n\nBole
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