**Jess Cornelius with Grace Vonderkuhn at MilkBoy**

**Saturday, August 10, 2024**

**7:30 PM Doors | 8:30 PM Show**

**21+**

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Please Note: MilkBoy’s stage is located on the 2nd floor and is standing room only. All patrons must be able to walk the flight of steps in order to enter the venue, as there is no elevator in the building.

**About Jess Cornelius**

*https://www.jesscornelius.com/*

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux. On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING (Tender Loving Empire, 2024), the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness.

Where Cornelius’ 2020 debut Distance found her untethered moving across continents and entering a solo career after a long stint fronting the Australian band Teeth &amp; Tongue, this LP has the songwriter firmly established in her California home but no less at a crossroads. Over 10 intricate and immediate songs, she grapples with squaring global crises and insecurities with the transformations and responsibilities in her life. It’s searching indie rock that’s as biting as it is comforting. 

Jess Cornelius was born and raised in New Zealand before moving to Melbourne, Australia, where she released three critically acclaimed albums as Teeth &amp; Tongue and received nominations for the Australian Music Prize and a J-Award. After relocating to Los Angeles,

Cornelius released her 2020 album Distance (the first under her own name) which garnered praise and attention across the US, Australia, and the UK. Pitchfork called her “funny, self-effacing, and honest,” The Guardian praised the album’s “21st century amalgam of Karen Dalton’s folk and 70s jam band Americana \[with\] flashes of 80s pop-blues and Californian grunge,” and MOJO (UK) gave it 4/5, citing the album’s “gritty emotional territory that Cornelius surveys with her potent vocals.”

Though there's an undercurrent of fear and a fear of loss on CARE/TAKING, it still feels hopeful and grounded. “I had access to more self-belief in my life,” says Cornelius. &quot;With age, you get better at seeing what you actually have and be grateful for it. I still write about relationships and their complexities with this weird and dark layer but there's more of a sense of joy now.” Navigating these oppositional feelings proved to be creatively significant: she demoed songs at home and had the foundations of nearly 20 tracks sketched out. With these promising ideas, she enlisted producer and multi-instrumentalist Mikal Cronin—an L.A. indie rock mainstay who performs with Ty Segall—to help winnow down the material. The lush arrangements throughout the LP, which feature glistening keys and saxophone, all thread the needle between being knotty and brooding to breezy and stunning. Her melodies careen into unexpected places but they’re all anchored with a keen sense of timelessness. 

Cornelius has toured in the US with Ty Segall, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and Islands; performed at Treefort, SXSW and Huichica US festivals; and Falls, Laneway and Meredith festivals in Australia and NZ.

**About Grace Vonderkuhn**

*https://www.gracevonderkuhn.net/*

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux. On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING (Tender Loving Empire, 2024), the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness. Where Cornelius’ 2020 debut Distance found her untethered moving across continents and entering a solo career after a long stint fronting the Australian band Teeth & Tongue, this LP has the songwriter firmly established in her California home but no less at a crossroads. Over 10 intricate and immediate songs, she grapples with squaring global crises and insecurities with the transformations and responsibilities in her life. It’s searching indie rock that’s as biting as it is comforting.

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