"Groundhog Day 2" starts @ 8:30pm, don't be late!🦫♻️

Cytrus 8:30-9:40pm
The Whags 10:00-11:45pm
Big Jam 'till late

2.2 Friday (Jam / Rock / Funk)
Nectar & The PBJ Present:
"Groundhog Day 2"
featuring
THE WHAGS & CYTRUS
$15adv / $20dos
8pm doors
8:30pm show
21+

Nectar Lounge
412 N 36th St
www.nectarlounge.com

The Whags are a five piece Americana Jam band from Seattle, WA. In 2023 the group released their debut album Routine for Now and celebrated with a packed house at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern. The songs featured on this album are a delightful flyover of The Whags landscape. Tracked in early 2022 at Avast Studios with Adam Burd (Fleet Foxes, The Dip, Car Seat Headrest), they highlight the vibrant energy and nimble-eared expansions of their live performance as well as their collaborative song writing process. The album went on to receive airplay on independent radio stations across the western US, including local giant KEXP, and enmeshed the group firmly in the Modern Jam scene.

In the world of music, the term “fusion” tends to raise eyebrows. Yet, the sonic explorers of Seattle octuplet Cytrus have spent the last three years crafting a debut that draws deftly from a broad melodic palette, melding distinct stylistic threads into a cohesive creative voice. Relax, and the grooves will flow through your soul. Concentrate, and you’ll find yourself tumbling through an immaculately constructed alternate reality when melody and rhythm dance hand in hand through spacetime. 

Shaped by Jared Squires (guitar/vocals), Luke Nevills (bass/keys), Brandon Hailey (saxophone), Owen Mayo (keys/guitar), Trevor Church (drums), Alex Dean (synth/keys), Sean Connelly (vocals/keys), and Connor Merritt (aux percussion), Cytrus mines psychedelic funk, disco, electronic, rock, soul, hip-hop. Flowing through kaleidoscopic transitions, the band’s juicy synths and brass-powered grooves coalesce into an undeniable, hypnotic wall of sound.

Cytrus began when two Everett, WA bands found themselves mixing in the same shared rehearsal space. Finding they shared an ethos and approach to songcraft, Bunk Foss & HopSol merged, and Cytrus was born. The songs on Concentrate arose organically; some grew from sketches crafted by subgroups with the band where were then expanded upon in a full band setting. Others began as purely improvised sessions with the full octet which were later arranged. Yet all ultimately come from the conflux of individuality and collaboration.