WSLR Presents: The Slaps

5500 Saint Elmo Avenue,Chattanooga TN 37409

11 March, 2023

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The Woodshop Listening Room Presents: The Slaps Saturday, March 11th $10 Pre-Sale Tickets | $15 Day of Show Doors at 5pm | Music at 8pm *no cover until 7pm* THE SLAPS (Indie Garage Rock) VIDEO | LISTEN The Slaps is an exercise in patience that seamlessly showcases the virtues of experimentation. Composed of guitarist/vocalist Rand Kelly, bassist/vocalist Ramsey Bell, and percussionist/vocalist Josh Resing, the band’s latest collection of songs, Tomato Tree is an achievement - a document of deepening friendship and their collective and personal advancements in artistic maturity. Though the band formed out of a chance meeting at a party in 2016 during their first year of college at DePaul University, The Slaps are bound together by a spirit of pastoral music making – the notion that collaboratively using the available resources can produce stunning results. Through several years of writing and arranging, the band stresses that being patient allowed the songs to manifest in ways they wouldn’t if the process were rushed. “A lot of what contributed to timing and what it took to complete the album was unintentional – it was a matter of individual and personal circumstance,” says Kelly as he references the pandemic, a move across the country to Washington, and other factors that contributed to the length of time taken to produce the record. This reliance on grappling with context allowed the band to hone in on their ability to execute the songs in concert, which has proven to bring new fans into the fold whenever the band tours.