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The Park Theatre is proud to present The Zolas, who will be returning to our stage on April 8. Opening up the night will be local favourites Hana Lu Lu and Vancouver's James Younger. 

Doors 7:30 and Show 8:00 
GA / Standing Room Only
Advance Tickets $15 at The Park Theatre, Music Trader, and online at ticketbreak.com/parktheatre 

Hot off their tour with Hollerado & PUP, the Zolas are back to blow up the Park Theatre stage.

The Zolas // 

After debuting with Tic Toc Tic in 2009, The Zolas scaled the precipice of cult status across Canada, thanks to a loyal fanbase carried over from Zach Gray (vocals, guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski’s (piano) earlier years as Lotus Child.

In “Strange Girl” a sunny guitar riff blasts into the perfect mid-‘90s summer jam, while title track “Ancient Mars” is bouncy and nostalgic, with heaping spoonfuls of Montreal and Brooklyn avant-pop. If John Lennon and Kanye West met later tonight at a hotel bar, “Escape Artist” is the song they would write. It’s these kinds of pairings that Ancient Mars is full of: The Zolas write classic pop songs and then fuck them up until the hooks have to fight to get out.

As if to offset Ancient Mars’ aesthetic diversity, the lyrics are raw and focused. The Zolas’ tumultuous songwriting captures the zeitgeist of being in your 20s, on the cusp of youth and real adulthood. In each song Gray builds a skeleton of a setting – from outer space to a college library to a Victorian jail cell – and tells stories fleshed out with the listener’s own history.

In October, The Zolas teamed up with Winnipeg’s The Liptonians to release a 7” split single “Cultured Man”, a quixotic snack in between the two full-length albums. 

Dobrzanski is the band’s on-board producer, having worked with names in indie-rock royalty like Said the Whale and We Are The City, but for Ancient Mars production duties were handed over to Chuck Brody (Phantogram, Wu-Tang), much like how 2009’s Tic Toc Tic was produced by Howard Redekopp (Mother Mother, The New Pornographers). 

Hana Lu Lu //

Hana lulu is a 3 piece indie/electronic group consisting of Chris Aquin on drums, Kevin Desjarlais on vocals and synth and Atom Dzaman on lead synthesizers. They are influenced by The Cure, New Order and have found a way to sound exciting amongst the scores of electro bands.

Since forming in 2012 Winnipeg based Hana lulu has not wasted any time. They have opened for Diamond Rings, Shout out out out out, Hollerado, played at Winnipeg's International Jazz Festival, took part in the Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition and opened for James Murphy, former front man of LCD Sound System. In the process they have earned a strong local following through the strength of their live show and have an EP release and tour planned this fall.