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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Lowertown!

Posted 02/20/2025

Lowertown, the duo of Avsha Weinberg and Olivia Osby, first met in high school math class. They sparked a friendship when Avsha looked over Olivia’s shoulder to see what music she was playing on her laptop, bonding over a shared love of Alex G and The Microphones. They traded influences,…

WVAU | Interview: Lowertown

Posted 12/13/2024

by: Franky Rodriguez Interview: Lowertown – The Strength And Fruit In Intertwined Roots Lowertown is firing on all cylinders. It’s been almost six years since Atlanta natives Avsha Weinberg and Olive Osby released their debut project, “Friends,” a playful lo-fi bedroom-pop record recorded entirely in Weinberg’s basement. Two albums, two…

Paste Magazine | Lowertown Discover a Light at the End of the Tunnel

Posted 09/20/2024

By Brittany Deitch When Olivia Osby transferred to Avsha Weinberg’s high-school in Atlanta, the pair quickly developed a friendship that would blossom into the self-aware wistfulness and empathetic lo-fi gloom that is now Lowertown. The band itself is the homemade passion project of the longtime friends’ earliest movements into the…

Stereogum | Lowertown Cover Alex G’s “Pretend”

Posted 05/25/2024

In 2020, Avshalom Weinberg of Lowertown covered Alex G’s “Remember” from his 2010 album Race. Yesterday, the indie duo shared a short rendition of Alex G’s most famous deep-cut “Pretend,” featuring some headbanging and nice harmonies. Last year, Lowertown — which comprises Weinberg and Olivia Osby — shared the EP…

Brooklyn Vegan | Wednesday played Brooklyn Steel with Hotline TNT & Lowertown

Posted 01/26/2024

After dominating year end lists with their excellent 2023 album Rat Saw God, Wednesday have commenced the 2024 leg of their tour, which hit NYC on Thursday night (1/25) for a sold out show at Brooklyn Steel. Last time they played here was back in June at the considerably smaller…

Paste Magazine | NIVA Live List Finalists From 2023: Where Are They Now?

Posted 01/17/2024

Lowertown Since Lowertown’s third album I Love To Lie was released last year, Avsha Weinberg and Olivia Osby have been working on more music that will allow them to find themselves now—along with what they feel still resonates after all these years of making music together. Today, it’s electronic. Tomorrow,…

FLOOD | Lowertown Break Down Their Era-Concluding New EP Skin of My Teeth

Posted 10/27/2023

The ascent of Atlanta-reared duo Lowertown was undeniably quick—perhaps even too quick. Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg were still teenagers when they inked a deal with Dirty Hit Records, with whom they released an EP every year since 2019 up until 2022 when they instead dropped their debut full-length I…

Stereogum | Lowertown – “Bline”

Posted 09/20/2023

By James Rettig Last year’ we named Lowertown one of the Best New Bands Of 2022 as their prickly charms coalesced on their proper full-length debut, I Love To Lie. They’ve since left Dirty Hit, the label that signed them back in 2018, and are about to put out their…