Duck Club Presents

THELMA AND THE SLEAZE

with J. Graves and Mall Goth Moths

Thursday, May 4th

at NEUROLUX

$12 adv / $15 door

7:00pm doors / 8:00pm show

21+ (valid ID required)

Thelma and The Sleaze

Thelma and The Sleaze is an all female, queer, southern-rock and roll band. Established in 2010 by lead singer and guitarist LG in Nashville, TN. Has opened for Eagles Of Death Metal, Charles Bradley, Brittany Howard, Shovels & Rope, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Habibi, The Coathangers

J. Graves

J. Graves is setting out to pioneer something different, with bandleader Jessa Graves squeezing together a tightly packed ball of anger, grief, and acceptance in her latest album Fortress of Fun – an outpouring of wild fury and plaintive sadness with a dark, angular sound.

Big new ideas abound, not just musically, but conceptually, too. COVID’s onset in March 2020 forced musicians worldwide to adapt creatively to the impending digital-only era, so it’s rare to see true innovation in an otherwise saturated market, but J. Graves have come up with a captivating idea: a “choose your own adventure” album.​

Wanting to do something with a little more depth that would engage audiences creatively while welcoming listeners into their experience, the idea was borne from finding a choose-your-own-adventure book in a sci-fi themed studio during the recording process of previous album Deathbed. Early 2020 was tough for the band; like many artists, their built-up momentum was quickly shuttered by COVID’s insurgence. So, in mid-2020, the band went on a getaway to the coast, and the house they were staying in – lit up at night next to the dark ocean – became known as their “fortress of fun,” a title that seems immediately at odds with the album’s often-dark undertones, but one that nonetheless suits Graves’s fight to stay in the light.

In that sense, the album exists in two states: the first a mournful and mysterious effort that parses waves of difficult emotions; the second a lush, eclectic undertaking that puts listeners and viewers at the forefront of the band’s collective imagination. Each song from the album comes with a video, through which viewer/listeners can make choices that will lead to further interactive videos. Though the songs are, thematically and contextually, fully distinct from their choose-your-own-adventure video counterparts, the emotion remains raw and real, and J. Graves, with the help of mixer/producer Sylvia Massy, has fine-tuned their sound like never before into something simultaneously painful and buoyant.

J. Graves is Aaron MacDonald (drums), Kelly Clifton (bass), and Jessa Graves (guitar, vocals).

Mail Goth Moths

Mall Goth Moths are a spooky rock trio based in Boise, Idaho. They combine the sounds of Alice Cooper, Les Claypool, Frank Zappa, Black Sabbath and Bikini Kill. Their hobbies include following lamps, applying eyeliner and summoning souls of the damned for game night.