Bask with channls at MilkBoy
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM
21+
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About Bask
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Psychedelic rockers have wrangled with the laws of spacetime since time immemorial, but for Bask, the past half decade has felt like falling through a prolonged series of black holes. Before the pandemic knocked 2020 for a loop, the band were all set to traverse North America's dusty ol' trail with kindred spirits Elder. Flash forward roughly four years and they were fixing to tour Europe when another disaster struck their idyllic mountain town. The climb to reach album number four wound up taking one hell of a trip. But on The Turning, Bask bring Heavy Americana to a whole new dimension. "The past five years have been challenging for all of us", the band says. "So seeing this album finally come to light is therapeutic. The Turning is Bask at our finest. It's our most cohesive and heartfelt effort, an ode to our mountain home in the sky". For as long as they've been together, Bask have called Asheville, North Carolina home. Drummer Scott Middleton and axeman Ray Worth were already jamming up a storm, when in 2013, they tag teamed with bassist Jesse Van Note and vocalist/guitarist Zeb Wright after the two arrived in The Land of the Sky. "We've been a band longer than we've been with our spouses", Van Note acknowledges with a gold-toothed smile of appreciation. And yet, after 12 years in the same city, Bask still sound of their own time and place. Sharing bills with High on Fire, Black Tusk and Weedeater has led some metal archivists to peg them as stoners, though it was clear right away that these trailblazers were carved from a different neck of the woods.
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About channls
channls doesn’t need a singer to tell you how to feel. The songs do that on their own. One minute you’re in your head staring at the ceiling, the next you’re ready to throw a chair through it. It’s the kind of music that hits you where words usually fail.
Formed in 2023 by Jay Yachetta and Steven Rosplock—veterans of progressive outfit Phantasm—channls is completed by two fixtures of the Philly music underground: bassist Vini King (In the Presence of Wolves) and guitarist Jace Miller (Alright Junior). In a move that borders on poetic irony, the band boasts three frontmen in a project where vocals are conspicuously absent. For channls, silence isn’t an omission—it’s liberation. “I’ve always been able to express a feeling more clearly through my guitar than having to translate it into words. ” explains Rosplock, whose background in film composition bleeds into the group’s cinematic arrangements.
Rooted in post-rock but unafraid of distortion-drenched aggression, channls lives in the liminal space between beauty and brutality. Think Russian Circles with the brashness of The Jesus Lizard, or Tool and boiled down to their rawest musical nerve. This is not post-rock to fall asleep to. This is a score for whatever storm you’re weathering.
channls’ debut EP is slated for release in 2025, and it promises to be a visceral offering for those who like their ambiance with a side of existential catharsis.
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