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Ground Control Touring

Marika Hackman

It’s amazing how the floodgates open when you shut out all the internal and external noise around you, stop pandering to stereotype, cease listening to your anxieties, and no longer feel like you have to fit inside the compartment society has built for you. ‘I’m Not Your Man’, the second album from Marika Hackman, begins with an impromptu hearty laugh. It’s not the sound of silliness, it’s the sound of liberation, spontaneity and collective joy. Skype-ing from one of the many East London bedrooms she’s called home over the past year, she peels a piece of tape off her laptop’s webcam. “I watched Black Mirror once,” she says in fine spirits. The 24-year-old is feeling more herself than ever. Life isn’t necessarily funnier or happier, but when there’s cause for a joke or a conversation or a big ballsy statement, she’s not holding back any more.

“I used to be…

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Welcome awakebutstillinbed To The Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 08/14/2018

Ground Control Touring is delighted to welcome awakebutstillinbed to our touring roster! Formed in 2017, awakebutstillinbed emerge from San Jose screaming out for connection and meaning, their music “a vivid rendering of a life spent standing on a precipice.” Absib’s debut What People Call Low Self-Esteem Is Just Seeing Yourself The Way Others See You is an album about being…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes The Messthetics

Posted 08/09/2018

We’re thrilled to announce The Messthetics as the newest addition to the Ground Control Touring roster! The last time drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally were in a band together, they were the rhythmic architects for Fugazi, an organization whose decade and a half of disciplined progressivism provided a necessary bridge between the zenith of late-punk expression and everything…

WHY? Joins the Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 08/06/2018

We are thrilled to announce WHY? as the latest addition to the Ground Control Touring roster. Led by Cincinnati rapper and singer Yoni Wolf, the group has crafted multifarious, melodic experimental music since its formation in 2004. Having released five studio albums, most recently with last year’s Moh Lhean, 2018 sees the 10-year revisitation of the band’s seminal and much-celebrated…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Sen Morimoto

Posted 08/01/2018

Ground Control Touring is excited to welcome Sen Morimoto to our touring roster! A multi-instrumentalist composer and songwriter born in Kyoto, Japan, Sen is currently based in Chicago. He moved to Massachusetts at a young age where he began a life-long study of jazz saxophone. Horn in hand, Morimoto cut his teeth as a songwriter in the DIY hip-hop community…

Valley Maker Is The Newest Addition To The Ground Control Touring Roster

Posted 07/26/2018

We are thrilled to have Valley Maker as part of the Ground Control Touring roster! On Valley Maker’s second full-length album, Rhododendron, songwriter Austin Crane sings about movement – from one kind of belief to another, from place to place, through time. This new record from Crane, a Seattle-based musician and PhD student in Human Geography, reflects both the rootedness…

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