Gary's Dream / Raybody / Storey Littleton
Wed, 16 Jul 2025
8:00 - 10:30 PM (EDT)
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Gary’s Dream has spent the past few years tending to the earth on a farm in Catskill, NY, while quietly writing their sparkling and hypnotic debut record, “Pretty Blue”.
Founded by Vive Tilson (vocals, bass, violin) and Ryan Surrano (guitar), and joined by Wesley Harper (keys) and Shelby Surrano (drums), they consider the album to be a ‘draining of the wound’. It explores real experiences they had during the strange time between post-adolescence and pre-adulthood, with all of its infatuation and heartbreak.
The record tells the story of how they each sank to the bottom of it and learned to swim back out again. Their music explores dark and cavernous emotions investigating sadness and processing anger, longing and disappointment. It speaks to the listener like the current of water; its flow pushes and pulls you to attention.
With influences ranging from Nina Simone and classical choral music to The Smashing Pumpkins, Modest Mouse and Galaxy 500, their sound is a liminal hybrid grounded by strong emotion, like stars crashing into one another.
https://www.garysdream.com/
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Raybody (fka Katy Rea) writes classic singer-songwriter shit that gets weird. Her voice is endlessly dynamic—at once cinematic and confessional, tough in its nurturing. Backed by Andrew Forman and Ethan Kogan, the trio moves between extremes. Her bandmates—jazz-trained and steeped in NYC’s experimental and indie rock scenes—interpret her songs with a range that’s both crushing and soaring. It’s the sound of a woman at work: a bit maniacal, but warm.
Katy is currently engineering her second full-length LP out of her studio in Brooklyn.
https://www.garysdream.com/
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Raybody (fka Katy Rea) writes classic singer-songwriter shit that gets weird. Her voice is endlessly dynamic—at once cinematic and confessional, tough in its nurturing. Backed by Andrew Forman and Ethan Kogan, the trio moves between extremes. Her bandmates—jazz-trained and steeped in NYC’s experimental and indie rock scenes—interpret her songs with a range that’s both crushing and soaring. It’s the sound of a woman at work: a bit maniacal, but warm.
Katy is currently engineering her second full-length LP out of her studio in Brooklyn.
“Puddle” evokes shades of both indie rock and Raybody’s orchestral inspirations, building atop stately guitar chords with lush and meticulously crafted arrangements. She gradually fills the mix with swirls of woodwinds, strings, and layered vocal harmonies, incorporating hints of jazzy dissonance alongside sprawling full-band crescendos. The results shine with the warm orchestral beauty of Raybody’s previous work but they also brim with a newfound energy, moving effortlessly between jazzy grooves, cinematic drama, and airy folk confessionals.
- Under the Radar, Caleb Campbell
https://raybody.bandcamp.com/
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Storey Littleton is from Woodstock NY. Her band M0NOGAMY combined folk-rock with dark lyrics and bursts of noise, and became a New York live staple. "At a Diner" is her debut solo single, and the title track of her forthcoming 10 song album, which she coproduced with Lee Falco (Clairo) & Tara Jane O’Neil. Featured musicians include Mikaela Davis, Jocie Adams (Arc Iris), Jon Catfish Delorme (The Nude Party), Macky Bowman (the Bobby Lees), Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell (Ida).
Early reviews describe:
"softly dazzling tracks that trace the composure and collapse of fantasy, the harnessing of anger and agency." - Dylan Tupper Rupert
"bruising lyrics and irresistible melodicism" - Matthew Danger Lippman
"unsettling yet inspiring and alluring, complex and realized in a fit of charm, whipsmart razor sharp wit, epic sadness and a disturbing sense of danger brilliance and beauty" - Dexter Bunk
She is currently touring with Ida, playing guitar & keyboards, and performing "At a Diner".
https://storeylittleton.com/
She is currently touring with Ida, playing guitar & keyboards, and performing "At a Diner".
https://storeylittleton.com/