BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sunvalley Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sunvalley Events X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Boise BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:190796@sunvalley DTSTAMP:20260625T034353Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20260228T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20260228T213000 SUMMARY:Argyros Presents Silversun Pickups Tenterhooks Tour DESCRIPTION:Silversun Pickups’ sixth album Physical Thrills came together as a serendipitous accident during a dark time. The LA band began 2020 by touring in support of their record released the previous year\, Widow’s W eeds. But the pandemic halted those plans\, with the members including guit arist and singer Brian Aubert\, bassist Nikki Monninger\, drummer Christoph er Guanlao\, and keyboardist Joe Lester\, finding themselves stuck at home. In that resting period\, Aubert wasn’t focused on Silversun Pickups\; in stead\, he channeled his energy into taking care of his son\, Nico\, while his wife Tracy worked.\\n\\nBut as much as his focus initially shifted from the band\, he couldn’t escape the new melodies germinating in his head. “I would sneak off and start writing these songs\, and I didn’t know wh at they’re for because I didn’t really think about Silversun on any lev el. I was just doing it to keep myself calm and keep myself company\,” sa ys Aubert. The songs were so different from what he’d previously written for Silversun Pickups that he initially thought he was writing a musical. T here were “dream shanties\,” gentler vocals\, horror-inspired sounds\, and other exciting new elements coming to mind.\\n\\nThe band finally was a ble to gather in person for a live-streamed acoustic performance on Hallowe en for The Dark Zone Network’s virtual music festival Queen Mary\, and it was there that Aubert revealed the new material to his bandmates. They rea dily embraced the new direction—and so did producer Butch Vig. The band r eunited with Vig\, who first worked with Silversun Pickups on Widow’s Wee ds\, recording the record at the famed producer and Garbage member’s home .\\n\\nWhen Aubert first reached out to Vig\, he wasn’t sure if the band was making an EP or a full record\; Widow’s Weeds was still fresh for Sil versun Pickups. But once Aubert made plans to visit Vig and play him what h e had\, the music began pouring out. He immediately began recording with Vi g\, later having the rest of the band join.\\n\\nOnce the band began workin g on Physical Thrills together\, they made some of Silversun Pickups’ mos t stunning songs yet. The record doesn’t depart drastically from the soun d the band’s fans know and love\, but rather enhances it with previously- unexplored fixtures at play.\\n\\nPhysical Thrills was colored by the pande mic\, but isn’t meant to be solemn\; instead\, Aubert explores his own co mfort in the temporary\, newfound isolation. There’s a juxtaposition of p layfulness with angst from having so much time to process untapped emotions . That’s something that comes through in the album’s instrumentation\, too\, with wide-ranging sounds that transform according to the weight of th e lyrics.\\n\\nThere are tracks with shoegaze-infused distorted synths and guitar\, like opener “Stillness (Way Beyond)”\; bouncy\, pop-tinged dan ceable tunes (“Empty Nest\,” “Hereafter (Way After)”)\; pared-down ballads (“Alone On A Hill”)\; and a collection of “dream shanties\, as Aubert refers to them.\\n\\nThe titles of those shanties call back to “Dream At Tempo 119” off the band’s 2006 debut record\, Carnavas\, ty ing the band’s beginnings with the current\, evolved iteration of Silvers un Pickups. But\, this time\, the instrumentation matches the lyrics. Auber t forgoes the heavy guitars to instead create magical lullabies: “Dream A t Tempo 050\,” “Dream At Tempo 310\,” and “Dream At Tempo 150.” E ach carries a secret code in the title with numbers personal to Aubert.\\n\ \nWith such an exploratory record\, the band members felt free to traverse new ground. Guanlao\, who usually shies away from fills on drums\, took ins piration from The Beatles documentary Get Back\, throwing some into Physica l Thrills\, influenced by Ringo Starr’s work on Let It Be. Whereas for Mo nninger\, this record allowed her to showcase her vocals at the forefront m ore than in previous work. Joe also took a larger role in composition on th is record\, writing the piano part for “We Won’t Come Out\,” which be came the backbone for the song.\\n\\nThe making of Physical Thrills also al lowed for whimsical moments\, including Aubert creating a distinct tapping noise by incorporating the sound of drumsticks hitting Vig’s Grammy in Hidden Moon\,” and playfully pelting balloons at Monninger while she pla yed “Hereafter (Way After)” on bass to create less tension.\\n\\nWhile this record features such an eclectic mix of melodies\, each song is interc onnected with each other\, meant to be experienced as a whole body of work. “All of our records are designed for people who want to listen to them a ll the way through and hopefully stick around with it\,” says Aubert. “ After a while\, maybe you’ll catch on to the little things—not just the [pattern of] the dream songs\, but maybe you’ll hear that\, and you’ll hear a melody from the first song in the last song. There are crossover th ings happening.”\\n\\nLester says\, “Physical Thrills is exactly the re cord that we wanted to make\, which I’m really stoked about because somet imes you look back and think\, ‘Well\, that’s maybe not exactly how we would have done it’ when you go back and listen to it years later.’ But I feel really proud of this one. I think the songs that Nikki sings on are like the best ones we’ve done for her to sing on. The lyrics are better than they’ve ever been.”\\n\\nMonninger adds\, “We’ve been together for twenty-two years\; it’s really interesting that we still love doing this. We know that we’re fortunate to still be together after all these y ears\, seeking out the silver lining. I feel like we still have many more t hings to say\, and we’re so happy with how this album turned out.”\\nSi lversun Pickups’ sixth album Physical Thrills came together as a serendip itous accident during a dark time. The LA band began 2020 by touring in sup port of their record released the previous year\, Widow’s Weeds. But the pandemic halted those plans\, with the members including guitarist and sing er Brian Aubert\, bassist Nikki Monninger\, drummer Christopher Guanlao\, a nd keyboardist Joe Lester\, finding themselves stuck at home. In that resti ng period\, Aubert wasn’t focused on Silversun Pickups\; instead\, he cha nneled his energy into taking care of his son\, Nico\, while his wife Tracy worked.\\n\\nBut as much as his focus initially shifted from the band\, he couldn’t escape the new melodies germinating in his head. “I would sne ak off and start writing these songs\, and I didn’t know what they’re f or because I didn’t really think about Silversun on any level. I was just doing it to keep myself calm and keep myself company\,” says Aubert. The songs were so different from what he’d previously written for Silversun Pickups that he initially thought he was writing a musical. There were “d ream shanties\,” gentler vocals\, horror-inspired sounds\, and other exci ting new elements coming to mind.\\n\\nThe band finally was able to gather in person for a live-streamed acoustic performance on Halloween for The Dar k Zone Network’s virtual music festival Queen Mary\, and it was there tha t Aubert revealed the new material to his bandmates. They readily embraced the new direction—and so did producer Butch Vig. The band reunited with V ig\, who first worked with Silversun Pickups on Widow’s Weeds\, recording the record at the famed producer and Garbage member’s home.\\n\\nWhen Au bert first reached out to Vig\, he wasn’t sure if the band was making an EP or a full record\; Widow’s Weeds was still fresh for Silversun Pickups . But once Aubert made plans to visit Vig and play him what he had\, the mu sic began pouring out. He immediately began recording with Vig\, later havi ng the rest of the band join.\\n\\nOnce the band began working on Physical Thrills together\, they made some of Silversun Pickups’ most stunning son gs yet. The record doesn’t depart drastically from the sound the band’s fans know and love\, but rather enhances it with previously-unexplored fix tures at play.\\n\\nPhysical Thrills was colored by the pandemic\, but isn t meant to be solemn\; instead\, Aubert explores his own comfort in the t emporary\, newfound isolation. There’s a juxtaposition of playfulness wit h angst from having so much time to process untapped emotions. That’s som ething that comes through in the album’s instrumentation\, too\, with wid e-ranging sounds that transform according to the weight of the lyrics.\\n\\ nThere are tracks with shoegaze-infused distorted synths and guitar\, like opener “Stillness (Way Beyond)”\; bouncy\, pop-tinged danceable tunes ( “Empty Nest\,” “Hereafter (Way After)”)\; pared-down ballads (“Al one On A Hill”)\; and a collection of “dream shanties\,” as Aubert re fers to them.\\n\\nThe titles of those shanties call back to “Dream At Te mpo 119” off the band’s 2006 debut record\, Carnavas\, tying the band s beginnings with the current\, evolved iteration of Silversun Pickups. Bu t\, this time\, the instrumentation matches the lyrics. Aubert forgoes the heavy guitars to instead create magical lullabies: “Dream At Tempo 050\, “Dream At Tempo 310\,” and “Dream At Tempo 150.” Each carries a secret code in the title with numbers personal to Aubert.\\n\\nWith such an exploratory record\, the band members felt free to traverse new ground. Gu anlao\, who usually shies away from fills on drums\, took inspiration from The Beatles documentary Get Back\, throwing some into Physical Thrills\, in fluenced by Ringo Starr’s work on Let It Be. Whereas for Monninger\, this record allowed her to showcase her vocals at the forefront more than in pr evious work. Joe also took a larger role in composition on this record\, wr iting the piano part for “We Won’t Come Out\,” which became the backb one for the song.\\n\\nThe making of Physical Thrills also allowed for whim sical moments\, including Aubert creating a distinct tapping noise by incor porating the sound of drumsticks hitting Vig’s Grammy in “Hidden Moon\, ” and playfully pelting balloons at Monninger while she played “Hereaft er (Way After)” on bass to create less tension.\\n\\nWhile this record fe atures such an eclectic mix of melodies\, each song is interconnected with each other\, meant to be experienced as a whole body of work. “All of our records are designed for people who want to listen to them all the way thr ough and hopefully stick around with it\,” says Aubert. “After a while\ , maybe you’ll catch on to the little things—not just the [pattern of] the dream songs\, but maybe you’ll hear that\, and you’ll hear a melody from the first song in the last song. There are crossover things happening .”\\n\\nLester says\, “Physical Thrills is exactly the record that we w anted to make\, which I’m really stoked about because sometimes you look back and think\, ‘Well\, that’s maybe not exactly how we would have don e it’ when you go back and listen to it years later.’ But I feel really proud of this one. I think the songs that Nikki sings on are like the best ones we’ve done for her to sing on. The lyrics are better than they’ve ever been.”\\n\\nMonninger adds\, “We’ve been together for twenty-tw o years\; it’s really interesting that we still love doing this. We know that we’re fortunate to still be together after all these years\, seeking out the silver lining. I feel like we still have many more things to say\, and we’re so happy with how this album turned out.” LOCATION:120 S Main St\, Ketchum\, ID\, 83340\, United States URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/argyros-presents-silversun-pickups-te nterhooks-tour/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR