Critically Acclaimed Waxahatchee to Play Exclusive White Eagle Hall Show

Fresh off high-profile performances as the opening act for the New Pornographers Spring tour, Waxahatchee now headlines their own show in a more personal and intimate setting when this critically acclaimed band plays White Eagle Hall in Jersey City.

The White Eagle Hall gig is the only announced New York/New Jersey gig on the band's current tour. This indie rock / folk project was formed by Katie Crutchfield in 2010, after the dissolution of P.S. Elliot, the pop punk band where she played with her twin sister Allison. The band is named after Katie's home town, Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama and provides a fresh forum for her melodic compositions and indelible lyrics about love and loss. As Pitchfork declares, she is "a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous."

About the first album by Waxahatchee, American Weekend, New York Times music critic, Jon Caramanica, writes: "...an audacious, sometimes harrowing record, a true open wound. Katie sings emphatically and unsteadily about dying relationships, often accompanied only by her own guitar, with slightly loose strings that hit like an indictment, each and every time."

In July of this year, Katie released Out in the Storm - produced by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr./Sonic Youth) - which chronicles the end of a relationship. The album has also received widespread critical praise, including none other than the 'Dean' of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau: "Here be the tunefully bish-bash nonstop document of a breakup recollected in tranquility-only she's not tranquil, she's pissed and makes something of it."

Opening for Waxahatchee is Ought, the Montreal-based, post-punk emo quartet of whom Allmusic says "... " taking heavy cues from their city's thriving scene of underground politics, loft parties, and D.I.Y. culture... the band melded unlikely influences from both high-energy mid-'90s emo bands and airy, early college rock acts like the Feelies and Talking Heads."

Originally constructed in 1910, the newly restorEd White Eagle Hall is an impressive new venue for arts and entertainment, including concerts, theater, performances and other events in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. White Eagle Hall features complete food & beverage service, with two bars on the mezzanine level and one on the balcony level. The restoration enhanced the intimacy and charm of this historic venue while adding the latest in sound and lighting technology, creating a distinctive and memorable audience experience.

Waxahatchee (Opener: Ought)
Sunday Nov 5
Doors: 7:00/Show: 8:00
White Eagle Hall
335-337 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 03720

To purchase tickets, visit: www.WhiteEagleHallJC.com

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