Stafford;
Brooklyn, NY
Michael.Gelberg@gmail.com

“ A Brooklyn band breaking the mold…that offers something refreshing to the music scene” - Huffington Post

“A glowing tapestry of mesmeric vocals and guitars” - Consequence of Sound

Arc Waves releases their first full length studio album ‘the sound the circle’  and their first release on Campers’ Rule Records on November 17, 2017.  Formed in 2013,  the original quartet's 2014 first self-titled EP gave nods to early 4AD and Factory Records. Since then Arc Waves dream pop sound has developed with equal measure guitars and synths into a darker, dreamier indie rock.  Arc Waves is Elaine Lachica (vocal, synths, guitar, bass), Brandon Jaffe (lead guitar), Mike Hodges (drums, drum programming) and Joe Beach (bass, synths, vocal).  The album was recorded and mixed by Gabe Wax (Beirut, Palehound) at Rare Book Room Studios in Brooklyn (War on Drugs, Deerhunter, Wye Oak) and mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering.

Must have jazz chops! Assholes need not apply.

Pop dance with elements of electronic and old school disco with a modern twist. Check out Thursday's Dream video on Youtube
https://youtu.be/zHN4A3bSgAc

Nick Watt is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter based in Brooklyn. His lyric-driven songs tell stories of people from many walks of life. With musical stylings that draw on blues from his native St. Louis to the jazz of his current home of New York, he creates grooves that support the songs’ narratives. 

Nick’s songwriting celebrates the complicated nature of the human condition and views it – even the messier bits - as something to be embraced rather than to be fought.  The title of his upcoming first full album “Don’t Blame the Mirror” (2021) is part of a quote by 19th century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol that goes “Don’t blame the mirror if your face is askew.” The characters in the songs run the gamut: they try and fail, execute and hesitate, rebel and conform, become numb and fall in love. 

Nick released his first EP “Where Serious People Joke” in 2012 during a three-year stint of living in St. Petersburg, Russia. After moving to New York in 2015, he released two more five-track collections: “Alpha Beta Polis” in 2016 and “Elephant Wondering” in 2019. Around this time of playing in venues around New York, he met fellow songwriter Melody Stolpp and the two formed what became alt-country pop band Sweetbreads. Nick performs his songs and collaborates with other musicians in the New York City area.

Inquiries: Nickwattmusic@gmail.com

formerly "truant", half of @sleep300

brooklyn by way of pittsburgh
techno by way of house

hi at salem dot io

past shows:

October 13 @ Hot Mass (Pittsburgh)
with Akua and Doxa
DM for details

September 27 @ TBA
Move In vol. 3
DM for details

September 24 @ Jupiter Disco
FBJ & Friends
https://www.facebook.com/events/976976085836582/

September 22 @ Tilt 
Booty Camp 2018
https://www.facebook.com/events/250732248964962/

August 12 @ Jupiter Disco
FBJ: Su Baykal / Salem Hilal / malex / Arnav
https://www.facebook.com/events/1211430635663426/

July 4 @ Mood Ring
That Thing Tonight
https://dimseniya.bandcamp.com/album/dimseniya

May 11 @ H0l0
Kindergarten
as @sleep300
https://www.facebook.com/events/2148176055404316/

May 10 @ TBA
Move In
Message for details

March 21 @ H0l0
Large Adult Crew
w/ Shraf, Lewd Mila, Fitness
https://www.facebook.com/events/1792629297713133/

February 14 @ Jupiter Disco
Viberz Valentines
with See Other, Ashlyn Ace, aTripp
https://www.facebook.com/events/1214292212036438/

February 14 @ Jupiter Disco
Viberz Valentines
with See Other, Ashlyn Ace, aTripp
https://www.facebook.com/events/1214292212036438/

January 27 @ Mercury Lounge
Crushed 
with Katie Rex, vveiss, Xiorro
https://www.facebook.com/events/162129621079825/

November 11 @ H0L0
Eyeballs
dm for details

November 10 @ H0L0
Benefit for Relief (live)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1767054560267766/

October 31 @ bossa nova
as @sleep300
Techno Support Group Halloween
https://www.facebook.com/events/524975314517665/

October 29 @ bossa nova
as @sleep300
Distant Signal Halloween
https://www.facebook.com/events/139297143464774/

September 19 @ newtown radio
as @sleep300
Distant Signal Radio

August 5 @ kinfolk
Yaeji x Kitchin pres. Curry In No Hurry
https://www.facebook.com/events/330905057337806

August 1 @ bossa nova
with Lychee  / Rob Seurat / A.M.D.
https://www.facebook.com/events/841763129331177/

February 18th @ secret location
with Will Martin / John Barera
dm for details

January 27th @ The Ready Room (Knockdown Center)
with Malory / Well Being / Fitness
https://www.facebook.com/events/1880144322253737/

December 16th @ Sunnyvale 
with Isn't Ours / Fine Touch / Ben Kruse
https://www.facebook.com/events/342742082757017/

Cop Doctor is following