Genre: Folk

Saturday 02/22/25The Crocodile Presents:THE DEAD TONGUES$22 ADV / $25 DOS8:30pm Doors 21+https://thedeadtongues.bandcamp.com/Across the last 15 years, Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues has emerged as one of modern folks most distinct voices. As idiosyncratic and spectral as the songs have sometimes been, Gustafson has always tied his visions and verses to the kinds of hooks you tuck away like talismans, pulled out in case of emergency. Dust, Unsung Passage, Desert: The Dead Tongues albums remain some of the more compelling and curious works in their field on this side of a century. The latest edition to The Dead Tongues catalog, the song-centric and magnetic Body of Light and the discursive and wonderfully elliptical I Am a Cloud, is 16 complete tunes split across interweaving and disparate albums.

Tractor Presents: Tommy Prine w/ guestsFriday March 21stDoors 8:3021+$20adv/$25doshttps://www.tommyprine.com/Tommy Prines debut album This Far South (June 2023) was not only a long-awaited introduction but a testimony to Prines 20s and the loss, love, and growth that has defined them. Co-produced by a close friend and kindred musical spirit, Ruston Kelly, and beloved Nashville engineer and producer, Gena Johnson, the album is rich and dynamic from cathartic jams to nostalgic storytelling. Celebrating the albums first year, Tommy is releasing a deluxe version of the record on June 21, 2024 – featuring reimagined versions, a special guest and a brand new song.Releasing my debut album changed so much in my life. The only things that stayed the same were my family, my pets, and my friends. Everything else changed drastically. Ive had a few moments that felt like the point of no return, releasing the album being one of them. Not in a scary way, just in a way that there is no taking back art that you put out into the world. Once it has affected one other person, it has already begun its own life and will in turn change the creators life.Tommy learned to play guitar by watching his father, mimicking the ways his fingers moved, he inadvertently developed his own singular style. Prine sonically brings together a colorful patchwork of musical influences spanning Gillian Welch, Outkast, Bon Iver, the Strokes and more. Lyrically, Tommy explores existential questions and emotional experiences in his music.

Saturday 10/29/22The Crocodile Presents:SONS OF THE EASTw/ Diana DeMuth$17 ADV / $20 DOS8:30pm doors / 9:00pm show21+ Australian band Sons of the East are an under-the-radar success story, racking up millions of streams and selling out shows across Europe and Australia without ever straying from their independent roots. And like their musical heroes, they built that impressive following through their incredible and energetic live shows, paired with a serious handful of exceptional original songs.So far the band has racked up more than 160 million streams on Spotify, 12 million streams on Apple Music and 40 million Youtube plays from around the world. They plan to use this budding global audience to launch the next stage of their career in 2022, as they head to Europe in July for a run of summer festivals, before an extensive international debut album tour from August onward.Thank God for Sons Of The East… unshakeable calm and smooth tempos… harmonies woven tighter than DNA strands… dare I call it Australia-cana? – Sam Jackson, AU ReviewWhat we like about this band is their Australian twist and contemporary take on the more traditional Folk music style… But ultimately what really makes this band shine is their stage presence (they are a must see live) – Vinyl Gardenhttps://www.sonsoftheeast.com/Restless and ready to pave her own way, Diana DeMuth has burst onto the singer-songwriter scene with a breathtaking voice and arresting perspective about life, love and self-discovery. Her debut album Misadventure was released independently in 2020 to critical acclaim. Shortly after that she sang a featured duet with Lumineers frontman Wesley Schultz on his debut solo album Vignettes which reached #1 on Billboard Vinyl Charts. Most recently Diana sang backgrounds on the The Lumineers chart-topping album Brightside. DeMuth, a proud LGBTQ daughter of the Massachusetts coast, brings her songs to life in powerful and cathartic live performances supporting the likes of The Lumineers, Mellisa Etheridge, Jade Bird, Amos Lee, The Felice Brothers, and Michael Franti.https://www.dianademuth.com/ A euphoric must-listen. Rolling Stone Diana opened up for us on the last Lumineers Tour. Listen to her music – her voice will haunt you.Wesley Schultz / The Lumineers

Friday 03/18/22The Crocodile Presents:NATALIE BERGMAN+ Opener$16ADV / $18 DOS9pm Doors21+ Mercy is Natalie Bergmans debut, a self-produced solo album recorded in the strangest of times, during a personal period of profound sadness and reinvention. Its startling, and often beautiful — a rush to the edge of the cliff, with an unflinching look belowRecorded at her brothers home studio in Los Angeles, CA, Bergman has already had a lengthy, successful career as one half of the brother-sister duo Wild Belle, but this is the first time she wrote and played all the material.This record absolutely pulses with redemptive power; it is replenishing and original, and deeply cathartic. And before we go any further, you should know that this is kind of a gospel record.Bergman comes to this material naturally. Her first musical loves were church songs, especially the sing-song-y, repetitive hymns. Ive always written songs about Jesus, she says. Im not afraid of it; this album is my take on gospel music. Her voice really works the upper registers in a manner occasionally similar to 1930s blues vocalists, or perhaps Badu. But theres nothing retro about the way she multi-tracks her voice and self-harmonizes in sweet, lofty chords.It should also be said — Natalie made this record because she absolutely had to.The music of Mercy began to germinate a few months after she lost her father in a wrong-way, head-on collision. He and her stepmother were killed by a drunk driver. Shortly after, Natalie visited a monastery in the southwestern desert, and there she began to embark on this album.Loosely, we can draw parallels to the more avant garde Christian expressions which sprung up in the wake of the Jesus movement — particularly with 1973s otherworldly record of original devotional songs, Fire of Gods Love (reissued in 2018 by Wyrd War) by the ethereal-voiced Sister Irene OConnor. But Bergman is no nun, and her music is far more sensual than OConnors.The first song I wrote on Mercy was Home At Last, she says. It is the best song I have ever written. I sing a lot about home on this record. Believing in that place has been my greatest consolation. I had an urgency and desperation to know that my father was there. His sudden death was a whirling chaos that assaulted my mind. This album provided me with my only hope for coming back to life myself. Gospel music brings hope. It is the good news; its exemplary. It can bring you truth. It can keep you alive. These songs have kind of written themselves, and they rely on me to sing them.Natalie Bergman made one of the first great albums of 2021.Clock Out Lounge Covid-19 Vaccination Policy:We require vaccination and proof in the form of your vaccination card or a photo of your card, matching your name and birthdate. If unable to provide or if unvaccinated, we require proof of a negative Covid-19 test, from within 48 hours of entry to the event Masks are required while indoors regardless of vaccine status. You may remove your mask while actively consuming a beverage, but we ask that you promply reapply your mask and continue to wear it throughout the performance.

Clock Out Lounge Covid-19 Vaccination Policy:We require vaccination and proof in the form of your vaccination card or a photo of your card, matching your name and birthdate. If unable to provide or if un-vaccinated, we require proof of negative Covid-19 test, from within 48 hours of entry to event.