Tuesday August 1 * 7pm * ALL AGES * TICKETS

Samuel Locke Ward & Bob Bucko Jr. Duo (IA, Kill Rock Stars)

Samuel Locke Ward is a veteran avant-pop songwriter, home taper and comic zine maker.  He has released over 60+ records both as a solo recording artist as well as recordings with bands and collaborators such as Miracles Of God, Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward, BBJR + SLW, Boundless Relaxation and SLW cc Watt.  

Starting in the late 1990’s Locke Ward began a prolific home taping habit that has created an immense catalog of music starting out in the era of self released cassettes and moving on to CD, CD-R and vinyl. The albums often found Locke Ward singing and playing all of the instruments himself as well as collaborating with a wide variety of musicians. His most recent album is “Thrift Store Gtr Gold” which was released on Orb Tapes.

In 2020 Locke Ward began a long distance home taper band with Mike Watt renowned punk bassist of Minutemen and fIREHOSE. In 2022 SLW cc Watt released the “Real Manic Time” LP on the Personal Archives label as well as the 45 song cassette tape EP “Let’s Build A Logjam”. In July of 2023 they released their 3rd album “Purple Pie Plow” on the Kill Rock Stars label.

SLW also has an ongoing collaboration band with noise pop legend Jad Fair of Half Japanese simply titled Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward.
Their first critically acclaimed album; “Happy Hearts” came out on Kill Rock Stars in February of 2023.

https://pocp.co/happy-hearts
https://publicdisplaypr.com/epk/slwccwatt.html
https://samuellockeward.bandcamp.com

Sutras
https://tristanwelch.bandcamp.com

rrrunningdoggg
A new solo project of Joshua David Hoffman