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7 PM – Doors
8 PM – Show
RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND
New Threats from the Soul is a masterclass in reducing the sublime to the prosaic, immensity to infinitesimally, and vice versa (the trick can only work both ways). Everything in our universe is essentially flotsam or jetsam, rubbish heaps of fragments and shards. We, especially, are jerry-rigs of bubblegum and driftwood, inconsistencies and incoherencies, dead dreams and necrophagous hopes. The record functions in parallel with Kafka’s winking dictum that there is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, just not for us. New Threats suggests that maybe, just maybe, something like redemption is possible, but only once we’re entirely emptied out and hawked in toto down at Walden Pawn.
MIKE POLIZZE
Perennial favorite Mike Polizze (Purling Hiss, Birds of Maya) cues up a second solo album for Paradise of Bachelor’s that digs into his pensive side. Polizze’s always had a songwriter’s soul underneath the deluge of damage that has swirled around his previous bands. The tender heart often peeked through the grease on Hiss records and he fully embraced the impuses on 2020’s Long Lost Solace Find. Where that record opened the door, Around Sound sees him walk through it confidently. The title track lays into a country-baked bucolic ease. Acoustics ripple over the twang and Mike’s sour mash vocals leave a lingering scent of oak and ache on the air. The new album, Around Sound, is out July 11th from Paradise of Bachelors. — Raven Sings The Blues