Appleton’s DUSK has been on that list multiple times, but this is the year they’ll actually be playing at the festival. Dusk describes themselves as garage R&B, psychedelic country, or primitive rock. We just think they play music that makes us want to dance and sing along.
Built on the powerful vocals of keyboardist Julia Blair and bass player Amos Pitch, Dusk creates songs that meander darkly over warm beds of chiming guitars, pedal steel, and feedback. It’s a grimy, blue-collared midwestern music with oil on its hands and a hangover.
They complete a HomeGrown lineup covers the rock music spectrum from punk to folk to roots to psychedelic. We can’t wait to hear the bands, smell the corn, and feel the sun warming our cold winter bones.