Social Cinema / Munk Rivers / Cavendish

xBk presents
Social Cinema
w/ Munk Rivers and Cavendish

Tuesday, May 28
Doors: 6pm | Show: 7pm

All Ages

Tickets: $12 ADV/ $16 DoS (+ Fees)

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ADD ON OPTIONS
(does not include tickets for the show):

Option 1: Floor High Top Table: $50 (+ Fees)

Option 2: Mezzanine Lower Deck High Top Table:  $50 (+ Fees)

Option 3: Mezzanine Upper Deck High Top Table: $40 (+ Fees)

Exclusive reserved seating is offered for this event. Please note that the Reserved Table Add-On does not include a general admission ticket; therefore, each person must have their own general admission ticket for entry. To ensure your group sits together, we recommend reserving a table. Tables can comfortably accommodate up to four individuals. For the remaining tables, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis

*Limited seating available on a first come, first served basis. If you require ADA accommodations please reach out to info@xbklive.com*

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Social Cinema is a new band with over a decade of history. More accurately, Social Cinema is the latest chapter in a decade-plus friendship and artistic journey evolving alongside the people behind the music. 

When three Wichita friends, Austin Engler and brothers Griffin and Logan Bush formed Kill Vargas in 2013 as young teenagers, they couldn't have guessed that they’d all be still performing together a decade later. Along the way, the trio would cross paths with Nebraskan band, Death Cow, featuring Mari Crisler and Reed Tiwald. Between sharing bills and sleeping on each other's couches after shows while on the Midwest DIY scene grind, the three and two would become inseparably close, and eventually join forces as five in 2021, under the new name Social Cinema.

Whether it’s due to their years as touring musicians, gradually honed songwriting and stylistic ambitions from scrappy, garage-y roots, or some combination of all of the above, Social Cinema makes an immediate impression with seasoned beyond their years songwriting chops and a road-hardened work ethic and resolve to match. Since adopting the Social Cinema banner in 2021, the alternative/indie rock quintet has issued four EPs — 2022’s Causing Scenes and Repeat, Get Along, and Stay Numb in 2023 — and a number of singles highlighting the outfit’s multifaceted songcraft prowess, and has shared bills with the likes of Metric, Saint Motel, Bad Bad Hats and more. 

After releasing Stay Numb in Spring 2023, Social Cinema dropped its compilation album which is the sum of all three EP’s that they have released over this past year along with two new songs.Titled It’s Nice to Meet You: Singles Collection, the ten-track release continues Social Cinema’s adoption of professional studio polish, this time bringing that refinement to the direct, galvanizing punch of the band’s garage rock roots. Spanning territories that range from anthemic power-pop on the opener and title track, “When Is It Ever That Easy?,” to the groovy and grittiness of “Healer,” this latest chapter in Social Cinema’s journey is a celebration of the sounds and scenes that got each of its five members to where they are today. Whereas all of their EP’s released in 2023 showcased the quintet’s ambitions to bring its sound to new, more stylistically dynamic and fresh territories, It’s Nice to Meet You is a loud and proud assertion of the band’s DIY ethos and the wallop of its no-frills rock roots not only intact, but stronger than ever.
Munk River is an indie yearn-core band out of Des Moines, Iowa.
Cavendish is what happens when two longtime musical friends simultaneously ride a wave of 80s nostalgia and media consumption around Halloween. With mutual roots tracing back to Des Moines-based indie rock band, Ariias, Erik Tarr (who is still a member of said band) and Adam Slade (who has been involved in numerous musical projects since then) are no strangers to collaboratively forging ethereal, layered, and compositionally complex songs. Drawing influence from multiple genres and artists, some of whom include but are not limited to Drab Majesty, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, New Order, Hundredth and Djo, Cavendish seeks to provide a unique multi-genre fusion of synthwave, darkwave, indie rock and trip hop to the listeners' ears with their latest flavor of musical inspiration. 
With Tarr on co-lead vocals, guitar, and keyboards, and Slade on co-lead vocals, drums, and keyboards, Cavendish defies the notion that electronica can't feature guitars or live drums, with the intention of blurring the line between real and virtual instruments and rejecting the false dichotomy between the two.
Cavendish is currently in the process of recording their debut 4-track EP, which they are hoping to release sometime this year.