Live In The Atrium: Spooky Mansion

(San Francisco, CA) - Spooky Mansion is the musical project of Bay Area-bred singer/songwriter Grayson Converse. Cruising between Northern and Southern California since 2015, Spooky Mansion’s tunes combine garage & psychedelic rock with high energy, breezy surf vibes to create an easygoing West Coast melodic marriage. Converse writes songs that combine nostalgic rock & roll energy with hints of country, jazz, and rock, all coming together into one big dance party. The group has been touring the United States over the last few years, playing with such notable names as Natalia LaFourcade and Cafe Tacuba. Spooky Mansion’s live show is a high energy, raucous affair, with long time players Rob Mills, Marty Reising and Braden Lyle all backing up Converse’s rickety rasp and yelpy vocals. The quartet’s most recent album, The Curse, was released independently in 2021 and “captures the Los Angeles-based band’s infectious grooviness,” according to American Songwriter. Spooky Mansion are currently recording a new album, due to be released in 2024.

Dubbed by a friend as "cushy bedroom psychedelic bossanova" Getaway Dogs is the brainchild of Brazilian-Californian songwriter Kai Killion. With influences ranging from Tropicália to psych and indie rock, hip-hop, soul, and jazz, the band began as a solo project but quickly evolved into something of a collective since its conception in 2013. Various musicians of different backgrounds have passed through what Killion refers to as the "revolving door," each lending their experiences to the projects' unique, malleable sound. After two and a half years of hard work, Getaway Dogs released its debut record, Lost In The Ebb in August 2016, drawing significant attention from industry blogs like Magnet Magazine: "Getaway Dogs inhabit their own starry eyed universe, drifting along to the tropical pulsation of big bossanova guitars, shimmering intergalactic keyboards, somnambulant vocals, whispered percussion and buoyant melodies. With a small coterie of like-minded souls, Killion made a record full of dreamy, late-night psychedelia that spins a calm, soothing spell." (J. Poet, Magnet Magazine) Getaway Dogs' current lineup consists of Kai Killion (guitars/vocals), Andrew Dreher (bass), and Andrew Hawes (drums/percussion)