{"id":427388,"date":"2025-12-05T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:04:23","slug":"snocaps-dazzle-los-angeles-fans-with-new-music-and-nostalgic-hits-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427388\/","title":{"rendered":"Snocaps dazzle Los Angeles fans with new music and nostalgic hits \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a little over a month since Alabama-born twins Allison and Katie Crutchfield surprise-released their first album together since 2011, while simultaneously revealing their supergroup Snocaps.<\/p>\n<p>The project reunited the sisters from their last group, P.S. Eliot, with the support of MJ Lenderman, known for his solo work and as part of the rock outfit Wednesday, along with Brad Cook, whose impressive production credits include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2020\/01\/24\/brandi-carlile-cuts-loose-at-hollywood-palladium-during-pre-grammy-awards-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandi Carlile<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/general-news\/20120415\/bon-iver-proves-to-be-sparkling-opening-act-for-radiohead-at-coachella-music-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bon Iver,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2017\/06\/22\/how-cannibalism-and-brutality-fuel-bad-batch-director-ana-lily-amirpours-love-letter-to-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suki Waterhouse<\/a>, and The Menzingers, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Crutchfield sisters are strong, introspective songwriters who channel poetic lyrics through their operatic voices. When paired with their creative musical instrumentation, they deliver visceral emotions like a dagger to the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Katie\u2019s country-tinged project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2022\/09\/07\/how-waxahatchees-katie-crutchfield-embraced-her-roots-in-country-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waxahatchee<\/a>, gained notoriety with her 2020 album \u201cSaint Cloud,\u201d on which Cook also contributed to production. Her 2024 album, \u201cTigers Blood,\u201d earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Americana Album, her first nomination at the awards. Allison has also stayed busy, staying true to her DIY punk rock roots, performing with Swearin\u2019, who disbanded but later reunited, and as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>Witnessing the twins share the stage at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Dec. 4 for the first night of two was a delight from start to finish. In addition to performing the Snocaps self-tilted release in full, fans were treated to P.S. Eliot, Waxahatchee and Allison Crutchfield throwbacks.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider\">\n<li data-index=\"1\" class=\"mng-ge mng-gallery-active\" id=\"mng-ge-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB4_aacd5f.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"2\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snocaps perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB6_8288ef.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB6_8288ef.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Snocaps perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"3\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snocaps perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB3_b353ff.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB3_b353ff.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Snocaps perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"4\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB10_7983b9.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB10_7983b9.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"5\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB9_92ce80.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB9_92ce80.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"6\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB8_e6934d-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-SNOCAPS-1206-KB8_e6934d-1.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>Snocaps with twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield perform at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the show, Katie Crutchfield teased the mashup on her <a href=\"https:\/\/katiecrutchfield.substack.com\/p\/threw-a-tepid-punch-and-ran?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1972431&amp;post_id=178002552&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=2hlrd&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a>, posting about the short six-night tour that Snocaps would embark on, featuring double stops in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. In her post, she said she wanted to give fans a chance to know what they would get if they attended any of the shows. She said that she and Allison were intentional about each opening act, venue and setlist.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote that the tour would feature Allison Crutchfield\u2019s music, P.S. Eliot hits, Waxahatchee songs from the first four albums, but not anything from the last five years and in press materials stated \u201cSnocaps will play this handful of shows at the end of 2025 and then put the project on ice for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful to see it all coming to fruition, and it\u2019s feeling really warm and fuzzy and nostalgic,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe old is feeling new, the songs I wrote when I was 19 that once cringed me out way too much to revisit are sounding fresh and sweet and good again. This project, in all its enmeshment and entanglement with family, friendship, and frequent collaboration, admittedly feels ripe for recurrence. We\u2019ll see!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Slippers opened for the evening, Snocaps took the stage and immediately delved into their self-titled work with \u201cCoast,\u201d \u201cWasteland,\u201d and \u201cBrand New City,\u201d one of the album\u2019s pop gems full of jangly guitars and cheery vocals. There was something special and intimate about listening to the Crutchfield sisters perform this album live in its entirety, where the twins each penned almost an equal share of the songs: Allison wrote seven, and Katie took on six.<\/p>\n<p>Allison wears her heart on her sleeve, one that appears to be wrinkled with grief in songs like \u201cHeathcliff,\u201d where a decaying relationship simmers enough smoke to signal its final days. Then there are songs like \u201cYou in Rehab,\u201d which tackles the subject of addiction, something that Katie has spoken about overcoming in her own life, and a struggle <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordamerican.org\/oa-now\/on-the-road-with-waxahatchee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that their youngest sister<\/a> is working on overcoming. Listening to and watching Allison sing, \u201cCan\u2019t imagine you getting better\/but I never give up\/I watch myself split in two\/One loves me\/And the other loves you,\u201d with Katie providing backup vocals, is a display of heartwrenching sibling camaraderie at its finest.<\/p>\n<p>Katie\u2019s songwriting has evolved so much since the early days of Waxahatchee, when lyrics were often anchored in self-inflicted harm, a theme that has since been replaced by a healing optimism, thanks in part to her sobriety.<\/p>\n<p>This can also be heard in her last two albums, as well as in this new Snocaps chapter, with songs like \u201cAngel Wings,\u201d where she sings, \u201cOpaque in my heart\u2019s break\/I leave space there for you to fill it.\u201d Now that\u2019s not to say that, Katie\u2019s new sanguine nature is finite, she still experiences doubts and somberness which can be heard in \u201cI Don\u2019t Want To\u201d where she sings, \u201cAm I healing in the shade \/ This shadow\u2019s with me everyday \/ It obscures everything I say \/ I\u2019m pure of heart, this darkness ricochets \/ Run fast with no direction \/ I\u2019ve spilled out heavy with no protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were some great moments in the performance, including hearing nostalgic P.S. Eliot tracks sprinkled throughout the setlist, such as \u201cShitty and Tragic\u201d and \u201cIncoherent Love Songs,\u201d a song Katie said their prior iteration of the group hadn\u2019t played live before. As promised, the performance also featured music from the sisters\u2019 respective solo projects, including Waxahatchee\u2019s \u201cSilver\u201d and \u201cCoast to Coast,\u201d as well as Swearin\u2019s \u201cDust in the Gold Sack\u201d and \u201cMovie Star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The night\u2019s encore, which Katie told the audience is different for each show, began with Waxahatchee\u2019s \u201cBrass Beam\u201d and Allison\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Ever Want To Leave California,\u201d a song she dedicated to Los Angeles. The final songs of the night featured P.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cTennessee\u201d and \u201cLike How You Are,\u201d where MJ Lenderman jumped on guitar, and Allison filled in on drums.<\/p>\n<p>Whether fans have been there since day one of the Ackleys, Katie and Allison Crutchfield\u2019s first band at 15, or their feminist indie punk days of P.S. Eliot, or their solo careers, Snocaps is the latest chapter in the lives of the musicians that welcomes listeners to appreciate the present and take a gander through the past catalogues that inform it. Over the past 20 years, they\u2019ve worked with different artists and producers, lived on opposite coasts, and persevered through difficult circumstances. Seeing them return to each other on stage, smiling and laughing together, might be a healing force found only in a home built by siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Whether fans discovered the Crutchfield twins in their first teenage band, the Ackleys, followed their feminist indie-punk era in P.S. Eliot, or came to love their solo projects, Snocaps feels like the newest chapter in a story two decades in the making. Over the years, they\u2019ve worked with different collaborators, lived on opposite coasts, and weathered their own difficult seasons. Watching them return to each other onstage, smiling and laughing, captures a rare ease that comes from years of growing up and growing apart, together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a little over a month since Alabama-born twins Allison and Katie Crutchfield surprise-released their first album&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,6080,5337,14539,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-427388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-county","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-music-concerts","15":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115669231362363785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}