This is a 21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego. Born out of the mid-2000s skate scene, The Jack Moves (Zee & Teddy) are a product of an illustrious period of downtown NYC. While playing around on the MPC, their curiosity soon evolved into a musical adventure that found the duo in a very different downtown: Newark, New Jersey. Across their self-titled debut & sophomore effort (Free Money), The Jack Moves captured the duality of the city, translated into sweet Jersey soul, with an artful narrative. They’ve shared festival stages, toured, and opened shows for the likes of Erykah Badu, Ben Harper, King Krule, The Internet, Madlib, Smino, Thee Sacred Souls, and others... evidence of the diversity of their sound. They take a cinematic approach to the song making, each tune a vignette, where they get deeper into character to deliver essential parts of a new story… The Jack Moves, traveling soul troubadours that they are, packed up their songs and took them down to Adan jodorowsky’s studio in Mexico City. The Newark New Jersey duo, in their relentless travels through the new  millennium,  have always had one eye in the rear view mirror. At times slow and low with the raw emotion of 70s soul, other times finessing curves with the polish of 80s R&B hooks , and then perhaps pulling up to the poppingest  joint with the swagger of 90s street bounce—but once they got going, their journey  was always  fearlessly futuristic free soul. Across three albums—the self titled ,The Jack Moves (2015), Free Money (2018), and Cruiserweight (2022)—Zee Desmondes and Teddy Powell created a musical itinerary you can almost taste,  where skate culture  and classic slow jams not only collide but make fresh & sweet potions for the soul. Now, with Love Machine, they’ve taken those ingredients further into that blender, blurring the line between what was and what’s next and  making funky soul  marmalade and sweet electric jelly. This latest spiritual  journey took them to Mexico, where they teamed up with sonic shaman  Adan Jodorowsky (yes .. that surrealistic  lineage) —who is also an Everloving Records  labelmate who first connected with the band when covering their song “You’re Gonna Miss Me” for the label’s 20th anniversary cultural exchange compilation. The Mexico City  sessions at his studio were drenched in humid cinematics, setting the stage for an album that doesn’t just nod to the past but reconstructs it from the ground up. Mixed in France by Jack Lahana before making its way back to the U.S. for a summer release, Love Machine takes everything The Jack Moves do best—silky falsettos, deep grooves, undeniable hooks—and throws a few unexpected punches. Leading the charge is the absolutely mesmerizing  Biggest Creep in America, which drops April 25. We’ve all felt it—had love in the palm of our hands and let it slip away. One wrong move, one misstep, and suddenly you’re on the outside looking in. The Jack Moves capture that moment of regret with a slow-burning groove that aches in all the right places. From Newark to Mexico, from France to the airwaves, The Jack Moves are on the move. The deck has been shuffled, the bets are placed. You can play it safe or go all in—but either way, the house always wins. Presented by Soda. This is a 21+ event