BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:157469@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260715T155514Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/friendship-charlotte-cornfield-w -more-eaze-at-assembly-kingston-ny/ SUMMARY:Friendship &\; Charlotte Cornfield w/ More Eaze at Assembly - Ki ngston\, NY DESCRIPTION:https://www.tixr.com/groups/assembly/events/friendship-charlott e-cornfield-198864\n\nCHARLOTTE CORNFIELD\n\nHurts Like Hell\, Toronto son gwriter Charlotte Cornfield’s March 27\, 2026 Merge Records debut\, is t he most open-hearted\, full-voiced album of her career and the first she ’s recorded since the birth of her daughter in 2023. Decamping to Philip Weinrobe’s Sugar Mountain studio in Brooklyn\, New York in January 2025 \, Cornfield was joined by Palehound’s El Kempner (guitar/vocals)\, Lake Street Drive’s Bridget Kearney (bass/vocals)\, Adam Brisbin (guitar/ped al steel)\, and Sean Mullins (drums). She and Weinrobe then recruited Feis t\, Buck Meek\, Christian Lee Hutson and Maia Friedman to sing on the albu m. “Every musician involved was a dream collaborator\,” Cornfield says . These ten songs are at once a reaffirmation of Cornfield standing among the great singer-songwriters of her generation and the first articulation of her future\, whatever uncertainty and love it may bring.\n\nFRIENDSHIP\ n\nAn album for sleeping and waking\, walking and driving\, hunting and fi shing\, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in e levators\, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up\, Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records\, the band’s historically capacious d efinition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads\, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section\, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum so lo\, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement and was fro nted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts throug h eleven murky\, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substan ce and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a drea m\, Caveman Wakes Up belongs equally to the conscious and subconscious min d\, fraught with background\, steeped in reference and experimentation\, d elivered casually and as a dire warning\, dedicated\, above all\, to music ’s creative Soul.\n\nOver the years\, dedication has paid off. Friendshi p has become a kind of reverse supergroup\, wherein the band itself and ea ch individual member are located centrally in an increasingly prominent sc ene of young folk and country musicians and songwriters. Drummer Michael C ormier O’Leary leads the instrumental collective Hour and\, along with b assist Jon Samuels\, runs Dear Life Records\, home to friends and peers wh o count Friendship as a major influence including MJ Lenderman\, Florry\, and Fust. (Samuels also plays lead guitar in MJ Lenderman and the Wind). G uitarist Peter Gill’s band 2nd Grade records prolifically. Wriggins bega n writing the songs of Caveman Wakes Up on a downtuned classical guitar of Lenderman’s and finished on a barely tuned piano in an apartment he sha red with Sadurn’s G DeGroot.\n\nIn the summer of 2023\, Wriggins had jus t left the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where his love for poetry and mistru st for the academic poetry world grew in tandem. A relationship fell apart \, and Wriggins crashed for several weeks at Lenderman and Wednesday’s K arly Hartzman’s home in North Carolina\, where he recorded the first dem os of “Resident Evil\,” “All Over the World\,” and “Love Vape. ” Wriggins returned to Philadelphia\, and the band got to work on new id eas\, finally tracking the album in five days with engineer Jeff Ziegler ( Mary Lattimore\, War on Drugs). Wriggins recorded vocals with Love the Str anger engineer Bradford Kreiger\, and organ\, violin (Jason Calhoun)\, and flute (Adelyn Strei) were recorded by Lucas Knapp in a West Philadelphia church.\n\nLyrically\, Caveman Wakes Up covers familiar Friendship ground —the sacred is profaned and the profane sanctified. On “All Over the W orld\,” a landscaper “[feels] the beating heart of God/ laying down a roll of sod.” Characters complain about work and marvel at love. Here\, however\, we get Wriggins’ first real confrontation with depression\, in “Hollow Skulls\,” “All Over the World\,” and “Resident Evil\, ” where the soul wages its perpetual war against darkness and stagnation . It often loses. The verses of “Hollow Skulls” are punctuated by pass ages of musical emptiness\, a single suspended chord\, and brushes on a sn are drum. When Wriggins complains about a roommate\, shouting\, “Who’s that shithead in my living room/ playing Resident Evil\,” it’s abunda ntly clear there is no roommate\, that the evil resides within.\n\nCaveman Wakes Up showcases Friendship’s particular genius for visionary arrange ment\, indebted equally across generations to the folk-rock canon of Neil Young\, Joni Mitchell\, and Emmylou Harris\, to indie stalwarts like Yo La Tengo and Merge labelmates Lambchop\, to contemporaries like Lomelda and ML Buch. Several of the songs employ fade-outs\, jokingly referred to in t he lyrics of “Love Vape\,” and there are other elements lifted from Mo town and ’70s ballads: locked-in drum patterns\, bass intervals\, sentim ental string arrangements. Each reference is pushed past genre\, swirling and repeating\, into something new and squarely belonging to the Friendshi p sound. On “Free Association\,” “Artex\,” and “Wildwood in Janu ary\,” the groove is established so that other sounds can come and go se amlessly\; Mellotron patches\, piano flurries and stabs\, and clean guitar melodies\, teeming textures disguised in unity. As a work of music produc tion\, Caveman Wakes Up is Friendship’s most advanced yet\, another test ament to the band’s devotion and care.\nA droning chord calms nerves. A surreal poem moves us not because it’s familiar but because it grows\, s tirs up the stagnant waters. A sizzle in the brain stem. Negative capabili ty. Caveman Wakes Up is dreamy\, luscious new growth for a band that has b ecome an increasingly verdant oasis in the crescent of indie country civil ization. Sure to excite and mystify\, to continue growing\, to cause new l ife. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://kingstonhappenings.org/wp-content/upload s/2026/07/friendship-charlotte-cornfield.jpg CATEGORIES:@Featured,Music,Nightlife and entertainment LOCATION:Assembly\, 236 Wall St. 3rd Floor\, KINGSTON\, NY\, 12401\, United States GEO:41.931738;-74.018648 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=236 Wall St. 3rd Floor\, KI NGSTON\, NY\, 12401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Assembly:ge o:41.931738,-74.018648 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR