Circle Saturday, March 30th on your calendar as The Darts make a special afternoon (4p) appearance on stage at Exile on Main Street!
You might just recognize keyboardist/vocalist, Nicole Laurenne, from her previous appearance in C-U with her former band, The Love Me Nots. She’ll be back with her raucous bandmates in The Darts to blow you away with their amazing garage sound!
FREE SHOW ($0) * EARLY SHOW (4p) * RAUCOUS SHOW (!!!)
More about the band…
With members from both Phoenix, AZ and Los Angeles, CA, THE DARTS have exploded onto the scene with a fiercely classic sound that invests deeply in late 60’s garage, with tones of horror and psychedelic rock. Live, THE DARTS hurtle out their songs with the wreck-less abandon of a freight train about to run off the rails, but thanks to their calculated musicianship, it becomes a seamless trajectory of groovin’ hooks and danceable boogie back beats.
Forming in early 2016, vocalist/keyboardist Nicole Laurenne (The Love Me Nots, Motobunny, Zero Zero) and bassist Christina Nunez (The Love Me Nots, The Madcaps) decided, following the end of their band, The Love Me Nots, to finally put together the all-girl band that they had been talking about for years. Tapping some of their favorite players for the project, like drummer Rikki Styxx (The Two Tens, The Dollyrots, Thee Outta Sites), the band quickly wrote and self-released two debut EPs back to back.
Shortly after, the band was signed to notable UK garage label, Dirty Water Records, and in 2017 released their first full length album, “Me.Ow.” to international acclaim. THE DARTS have crisscrossed both the US and Europe constantly since, playing festivals such as Sjock Fest, Roots and Roses Fest, Down At The Nightclub Fest, Relache, and Munster Looney Fest.
In June 2018, legendary label Alternative Tentacles Records, joined forces with Laurenne's newly formed American arm of Dirty Water, Dirty Water Records USA, to release THE DARTS first 7” record, “Subsonic Dream w/ Bullet”. Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys/Aternative Tentacles) even invited THE DARTS to perform at his sold out birthday show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. This added to the impressive list of bands they’ve shared the stage with in their brief existence, like The Black Lips, Electric Six, King Kahn and The Shrines, The Living End, Les Jullies, The Lords of Altamont, The Dwarves, and Turbonegro.
In October 2018, THE DARTS, now joined by Meliza Jackson (decker) on guitar, supported legendary UK punk band, The Damned, on a nation-wide tour. Now - see these vicious ladies tear the house down as they make a special visit to the Midwest. They are not to be missed!