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Crosstown Arts presents “A Lifting of the Veil”: A Winter Solstice Celebration with The Pop Ritual, with Corrina Repp in the Green Room.
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Doors at 7 p.m. | Show at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20 | $15 in advance
Forming in Memphis, Tennessee, in the late summer of 2014, The Pop Ritual employed an influence of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry’s industrial determination with the psyche-pop sensibilities of Massive Attack to release their first demo—Weak Species—in 2015. The next year was spent establishing live modes locally and on the road in tandem with writing 2017’s Perinde ac Cadaver—a 50-minute self-released endeavor to harness industrial aggression and ambient dynamics.
At the end of 2019, the trio worked with Portuguese/Memphis label Thisco Records (home of such legendary artists as Jarboe and Merzbow) to release It Sheds Again—a 6-track dive into industrial psyche-punk that details evolution amid solipsistic self-destruction both socially and personally. The album has been reviewed as being an “industrial punk cataclysm” with a “rich and grandiose production” [Destroy//Exist 2020].
In light of a canceled US tour, The Pop Ritual spent the pandemic making progress in new material as well as re-interpretations of their previous works. 2022 includes a return to touring, the release of new singles, and a live retrospective in celebration of the Winter Solstice.
The Pop Ritual in their current form is Colin Wilson, Scott Nivens, and Michelle Karl with special guest Aaron Rude.
Corrina Repp
Critically acclaimed guitarist and singer/songwriter Corrina Repp is has recently landed in Memphis from LA, but she came up in Portland, Oregon, in the late ‘90s, carving out a space as she developed her sound. (A sometime actress too, she’s also known for a recurring role on Portlandia.) Her first two solo works, now out of print, came out at the tail end of that decade, with four more released in the 2000s: I Take On Your Days (2001) and It’s Only the Future (2004) on Hush Records, The Absent and the Distant (2006) and The Pattern of Electricity (2015) on Caldo Verde Records. In between those, Corrina focused on the experimental indie rock band Tu Fawning, exploring and honing her skills in a quartet setting. The latter half of the 2010s brought Corrina back into the solo world with her 2015 album. She followed that up in 2018 with How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All on Jealous Butcher Records, also home to Island.
