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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Portraits of Past
Posted 03/19/2025
Portraits Of Past prefers to be called a hardcore band, though many other adjectives and sub-genres have been leveled at them over the 30 years since these five childhood friends initially called it quits. After many years of pent-up demand from listeners old and new, the darkly melodic, explosive, and reluctantly “legendary” five-piece originally from the San Francisco Bay Area…
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Ground Control Touring Welcomes she’s green
Posted 03/19/2025
Likened to a soft summer rain, she’s green is a Minneapolis-based dream-inducer composed of vocalist Zofia Smith, guitarists Liam Armstrong and Raines Lucas, bassist Teddy Nordvold, and drummer Kevin Seebeck. The band has played many shows throughout the Midwest and East Coast, sharing bills with acts such as Hotline TNT, Glixen, Friko, and more. The Star Tribune recommends bringing “earplugs…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Prostitute
Posted 03/13/2025
Formed in 2020 in Dearborn, Michigan, Prostitute is an experimental post-punk and Arab rock band. Born out of the isolation of the COVID-19 lockdown, the band’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, was written in the midst of global and personal turmoil, capturing the zeitgeist of a world unraveling. A loose concept record, it chronicles the rise and fall of a doomed…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes claire rousay!
Posted 03/12/2025
claire rousay is a Canadian-American musician, composer, and artist currently living in Los Angeles. rousay’s work operates in genre-spanning fashion; she is primarily known for composing highly emotive whisper-quiet musical works that heavily forefront music concrete and sound design elements like haptic sound and field recordings. These avant garde elements are often paired with strings, piano, and electronic melodies and…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Alex Amen!
Posted 03/10/2025
Alex Amen is a twenty-five-year-old artist and songwriter from Texas. At eightee, Alex moved from Texas to California to study filmmaking. After one semester he dropped out and moved onto the “Dittman Family Commune”, a historic commune with ties to the anti war, civil rights, and psychedelic countercultural movements of the mid-60’s. It was here that he formed his first…