EMILY ROBB WEST COAST TOUR!
Thurs 2/22 - Yucca Valley, CA @ Joshua Tree Retreat Center w/ The Rubber Snake Charmers, Sister John Angela and Alma Sangre
Fri 2/23 - LA @ Permanent Roadhouse Patio w/ The Renderers and Dream_Mega
Sat 2/24 - San Francisco @ Make-Out Room w/ Bill Orcutt, Famous Mammals, DJ Tom Lax (Siltbreeze) EARLY SHOW 6-10pm
Sun 2/25 - Oakland, CA @ First Church of the Buzzard -- Emily Robb & ?!? duo, S*Glass and Zebra Secrets
Mon 2/26 - Sacramento, CA @ V Street House w/ San Kazakgascar duo and Donald Beaman
Tues 2/27 - Arcata, CA @ the Miniplex w/ Winter Band
Wed 2/28 - Portland, OR @ Th’ Fixin’ To w/ Lavender Flu and Bob Desaulniers (Lithics)
Thurs 2/29 - Seattle, WA @ Vera Project w/ Blessed Blood, A.F. Jones
Fri 3/1 - Olympia, WA @ Le Voyeur w/ Debt Rag, The Moving Pictures, James Mead
Emily Robb is a Philadelphia based musician most known for her solo guitar works as well as her contributions to bands such as Astute Palate, Louie Louie and Lantern. Fall of 2023 saw her second solo release, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Company (named to Bandcamp’s Best Experimental Music of 2023 list by Marc Masters), a follow up to 2021’s How To Moonwalk, both on the Petty Bunco label and both beloved in the underground. Emily’s playing is rooted in rock ‘n’ roll but flies freely into perpetually uncharted territories. It surges within its own stratosphere, expressing a range of emotions occurring simultaneously or by taking abrupt turns. She utilizes distortion, warmth, tension and familiarity. Her playing is a ride - a sermon in the House of Guitar - with brief evocations of The Velvet Underground, Henry Flynt, and Tetuzi Akiyama’s Don’t Forget To Boogie.
Emily will be touring the west coast as a duo accompanied by keyboardist Richie Charles of Watery Love and Astute Palate.
"As if to underscore the primacy of the electric guitar in the evening’s entertainment, the Mdou Moctar show opened with a set by Emily Robb, a Philadelphia musician whose raucous solo instrumentals ranged through 20th-century guitar history from raga-rock string-bending to a Chuck Berry-style vamp that expanded into a wall of sound.” - Washington Post
"There’s no shortage of squall on Emily Robb’s new album, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection. It’s a guitar pageant! One listen and you’ll hear Charley Patton amidst the buzz, his primitive blues lurking in the cacophony. Pull those impulses forward 40 years and you’ll hear familiar sounds that take you right to the early Velvets. - Dusted Magazine