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Von Iva || Listen

Oh, it’s just plain nasty, you know it is — the moment that molar-chattering low end comes quaking out of your speakers, only to be stroked up by a nag-nagging synth sneer straight out of your most secret Missy Elliott–Wire tag-team fantasies. Bite your lip, lean back, and shake it deeper, ’cause it gets better, just as you knew it would. Twenty seconds onward, our diva steps in — and what a diva! Two sets of lungs, most likely. Her intro is inevitable: “She came / To party!” The full-throated bellow hurls over the bucking and bumping of the futuro–new wave rhythm. Everything elasticizes from there. Three minutes later, you light a cigarette.

And so we have “LALA,” the lead-off single from Our Own Island (Ruby Tower), the new album by local electrofunk swaggerers Von Iva. The fashion-forward trio, composed of soulful vocal powerhouse Jillian Iva and hip-loosening instrumentalists Bex and Lay Lay, straddle the border between skuzzy and sultry with sweat-inducing plunges into the intersections of gossip spit and spunk, Devo-Wire post-punk, and Timbaland gadung-a-dung-dunk. Go on now, boys and girls: surrender to the nasty. - San Francisco Bay Guardian

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Astra Heights || Listen
Little Pieces || Listen

8:30pm / $8 / 18+