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Moonshine Bandits, the California duo of Dusty 'Tex' Dahlgren and Brett 'Bird' Brooks, are back with their new album Pour Decisions. The duo continues to champion their signature sound of backwoods bravado, country soul, keg-thumping beats, and hip-hop fusion. Pour Decisions is the grittiest, most spirited, and distinctly grassroots release of their sixteen-year campaign of musical badassery.

"Let's face it, our fans love to party and so do we. With the amount of partying we all do, poor decisions can be made," said Big Tex with a chuckle, referring to the inspiration behind the album title. "We flipped it to 'Pour Decisions' to coincide with our new Bucked Up Whiskey brand. Now you can make the right 'Pour Decision' when you choose to pour a shot of our whiskey. Cheers!"

Pour Decisions takes its inspiration from the struggles and successes of America's extraordinary era when dreams were being made while hunting for that elusive precious gem.

"This album is nothing like our past albums because we wanted to level up from the songwriting to the recording. We really stepped up our game in singing and songwriting on this project and it shows," said Bird about the new sonic direction. "The overall sound of the album is big and has a lot of energy. We used more live instrumentation than ever before, we even had a choir come in and sing on a track, everything was meant to sound bigger when we created these songs. I think the fans will see we all stepped up our game."

Big Tex adds, "We didn't cut any corners. In the past, we would have to worry about touring or timelines, but we're finally in a spot in our career that if we can 'dream it', then we can make it happen. We weren't rushed, and we had the finances to do whatever we wanted on this album. We took our time with this and made sure to put the cherry on top of each song."

Pour Decisions features tracks like "I'm A Rebel," "I'm A Problem," "Silhouettes In The Sun," "Chasing Ghost," and "Can't Take My Hometown." The album showcases the Moonshine Bandits' signature style, with the tracks taking listeners on a journey filled with good, bad, and even some ugly experiences. Thematically, Pour Decisions pays homage not only to the band's career journey but also, and profoundly, "a journey about the people we have come in contact with. The people that inspire our songs."

The album is an ode to the brick-and-mortar, mom-and-pop's, local friends, and corner watering holes that provided the foundation of everyday life, culture, and economics in America. Pour Decisions features 15-tracks that continue to show Moonshine Bandits paving their own lane. There aren't stops or boundaries, and with Pour Decisions, they prove that they still live by their code.

This is a genre-bending album from the featured guests to the sound and displays the band's versatility with some special guests. Weed kingpin Afroman joins the group on "Roof Back" to fire it up for the West Coast, Josh Todd of Buckcherry unleashes some crossover rock fury on "Wild," and then American pride crashes head-on with hip-hop swagger on "I'm A Problem" featuring Canadian Juno Award-winning rapper Madchild. Somehow, it all comes together in one musical Molotov cocktail that Moonshine Bandits provide the spark for.

"We are very grateful to all of these super stars to take time out of their schedule to be part of an album that we truly believe in. We got wide variety of guest from Adam Calhoun to Krizz Kaliko, to Demun Jones, Brandon Hartt to help us bring out all the different influences. It feels like and old-school rap record where guys like E-40 or Tech N9ne would just have their friends jump on the album with them. This album is a stacked lineup of all-stars."

Since their formation in Los Banos, California, in 2003, the Moonshine Bandits have continued a campaign of crossover genre-bending musical mayhem that appeals to the eclectic, color-outside-the-lines tastes of listeners. Their musical style has always been full-throttle and in your face. Just like the rumrunners, bootleggers, smugglers, and outlaws of old -- the Moonshine Bandits provide a supply of goods for the demand, defying the mandates and trends of mainstream pop-culture.

Pour Decisions is rebellious, anti-establishment, and a little bit symbolic of an elusive time when there actually was Honor among thieves. For the Moonshine Bandits, Pour Decisions is a lesson learned from experience, and it's their way of doing things.]]>
Moonshine Bandits, the California duo of Dusty 'Tex' Dahlgren and Brett 'Bird' Brooks, are back with their new album Pour Decisions. The duo continues to champion their signature sound of backwoods bravado, country soul, keg-thumping beats, and hip-hop fusion. Pour Decisions is the grittiest, most spirited, and distinctly grassroots release of their sixteen-year campaign of musical badassery.

"Let's face it, our fans love to party and so do we. With the amount of partying we all do, poor decisions can be made," said Big Tex with a chuckle, referring to the inspiration behind the album title. "We flipped it to 'Pour Decisions' to coincide with our new Bucked Up Whiskey brand. Now you can make the right 'Pour Decision' when you choose to pour a shot of our whiskey. Cheers!"

Pour Decisions takes its inspiration from the struggles and successes of America's extraordinary era when dreams were being made while hunting for that elusive precious gem.

"This album is nothing like our past albums because we wanted to level up from the songwriting to the recording. We really stepped up our game in singing and songwriting on this project and it shows," said Bird about the new sonic direction. "The overall sound of the album is big and has a lot of energy. We used more live instrumentation than ever before, we even had a choir come in and sing on a track, everything was meant to sound bigger when we created these songs. I think the fans will see we all stepped up our game."

Big Tex adds, "We didn't cut any corners. In the past, we would have to worry about touring or timelines, but we're finally in a spot in our career that if we can 'dream it', then we can make it happen. We weren't rushed, and we had the finances to do whatever we wanted on this album. We took our time with this and made sure to put the cherry on top of each song."

Pour Decisions features tracks like "I'm A Rebel," "I'm A Problem," "Silhouettes In The Sun," "Chasing Ghost," and "Can't Take My Hometown." The album showcases the Moonshine Bandits' signature style, with the tracks taking listeners on a journey filled with good, bad, and even some ugly experiences. Thematically, Pour Decisions pays homage not only to the band's career journey but also, and profoundly, "a journey about the people we have come in contact with. The people that inspire our songs."

The album is an ode to the brick-and-mortar, mom-and-pop's, local friends, and corner watering holes that provided the foundation of everyday life, culture, and economics in America. Pour Decisions features 15-tracks that continue to show Moonshine Bandits paving their own lane. There aren't stops or boundaries, and with Pour Decisions, they prove that they still live by their code.

This is a genre-bending album from the featured guests to the sound and displays the band's versatility with some special guests. Weed kingpin Afroman joins the group on "Roof Back" to fire it up for the West Coast, Josh Todd of Buckcherry unleashes some crossover rock fury on "Wild," and then American pride crashes head-on with hip-hop swagger on "I'm A Problem" featuring Canadian Juno Award-winning rapper Madchild. Somehow, it all comes together in one musical Molotov cocktail that Moonshine Bandits provide the spark for.

"We are very grateful to all of these super stars to take time out of their schedule to be part of an album that we truly believe in. We got wide variety of guest from Adam Calhoun to Krizz Kaliko, to Demun Jones, Brandon Hartt to help us bring out all the different influences. It feels like and old-school rap record where guys like E-40 or Tech N9ne would just have their friends jump on the album with them. This album is a stacked lineup of all-stars."

Since their formation in Los Banos, California, in 2003, the Moonshine Bandits have continued a campaign of crossover genre-bending musical mayhem that appeals to the eclectic, color-outside-the-lines tastes of listeners. Their musical style has always been full-throttle and in your face. Just like the rumrunners, bootleggers, smugglers, and outlaws of old -- the Moonshine Bandits provide a supply of goods for the demand, defying the mandates and trends of mainstream pop-culture.

Pour Decisions is rebellious, anti-establishment, and a little bit symbolic of an elusive time when there actually was Honor among thieves. For the Moonshine Bandits, Pour Decisions is a lesson learned from experience, and it's their way of doing things.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/337/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 1775908800
Throwing Muses released their new album 'Moonlight Concessions' in 2025 via Fire Records. The album follows their acclaimed 'Sun Racket' from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery. 'Moonlight Concessions' goes back to basics, a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin Hersh's pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements, a collection of snippets from everyday life writ large - think Raymond Carver Short Cuts, overheard conversations, recounted happenings and telling one-liners, all sewed together to illustrate the times as they slowly mature, fully peppered with original Muses' vim and vigour. Following a string of packed shows across Europe in Spring and Summer 2025, These shows are Throwing Muses' first U.S. appearances in over a decade.

With nearly 40 years of Muses-history behind her, Kristin Hersh continues to be one of the most compelling voices in American rock -- a fiercely original songwriter and a magnetic live performer.]]>
Throwing Muses released their new album 'Moonlight Concessions' in 2025 via Fire Records. The album follows their acclaimed 'Sun Racket' from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery. 'Moonlight Concessions' goes back to basics, a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin Hersh's pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements, a collection of snippets from everyday life writ large - think Raymond Carver Short Cuts, overheard conversations, recounted happenings and telling one-liners, all sewed together to illustrate the times as they slowly mature, fully peppered with original Muses' vim and vigour. Following a string of packed shows across Europe in Spring and Summer 2025, These shows are Throwing Muses' first U.S. appearances in over a decade.

With nearly 40 years of Muses-history behind her, Kristin Hersh continues to be one of the most compelling voices in American rock -- a fiercely original songwriter and a magnetic live performer.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/405/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1775937600
Born and raised in the Bama clay, these boys are as southern as they come. Taught how to bend a string and break a heart by Skynyrd and Hank, brothers James and Frank Ford along with their hometown friends Andrew Davis and Ben Crain formed the southern rock band known as Them Dirty Roses. Piling into an RV with their belongings, their instruments, and all the whiskey they could carry (in the cooler), they made their way from Gadsden, AL to Nashville, TN. All living all under one roof, Them Dirty Roses are a living example of the quintessential rock and roll American Dream. Their live show calls for a shot of whiskey and a 2 for 1 special -- BUT what that really means is you better be ready to throw back 12 for 6 and shake it with Them Dirty Roses.]]>
Born and raised in the Bama clay, these boys are as southern as they come. Taught how to bend a string and break a heart by Skynyrd and Hank, brothers James and Frank Ford along with their hometown friends Andrew Davis and Ben Crain formed the southern rock band known as Them Dirty Roses. Piling into an RV with their belongings, their instruments, and all the whiskey they could carry (in the cooler), they made their way from Gadsden, AL to Nashville, TN. All living all under one roof, Them Dirty Roses are a living example of the quintessential rock and roll American Dream. Their live show calls for a shot of whiskey and a 2 for 1 special -- BUT what that really means is you better be ready to throw back 12 for 6 and shake it with Them Dirty Roses.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/340/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776024000
The Silos began as a musical force in 1985 with the release of their first album "About Her Steps" along with a series of gigs in their hometown neighborhood, the East Village of New York City. They were part of New York's post-punk '80s scene and played Indie Rock, Alt-Rock, Alt-Country, and Americana before any critics coined those terms. Heralded at their outset by Rolling Stone as "America's Best New Band," the resilient Silos mix punk, roots, rock, and sage art-damaged truth telling. Salas-Humara's narratives take on the weight of attentive, convincing poetry and wry wordplay. The Silos have created a sound that's hard to pin down - "The band's austere style inflects the astringent twang of The Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons," offered The New York Times. Their latest effort and 12th studio album "Family" was released in 2022 and work has begun on a new album to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2025. There will also be series of live albums released in 2025 that span the 40 years of the band on the road.]]>
The Silos began as a musical force in 1985 with the release of their first album "About Her Steps" along with a series of gigs in their hometown neighborhood, the East Village of New York City. They were part of New York's post-punk '80s scene and played Indie Rock, Alt-Rock, Alt-Country, and Americana before any critics coined those terms. Heralded at their outset by Rolling Stone as "America's Best New Band," the resilient Silos mix punk, roots, rock, and sage art-damaged truth telling. Salas-Humara's narratives take on the weight of attentive, convincing poetry and wry wordplay. The Silos have created a sound that's hard to pin down - "The band's austere style inflects the astringent twang of The Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons," offered The New York Times. Their latest effort and 12th studio album "Family" was released in 2022 and work has begun on a new album to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2025. There will also be series of live albums released in 2025 that span the 40 years of the band on the road.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/342/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776196800
ALASH are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What distinguishes this group from earlier generations of Tuvan throat singers is the subtle infusion of modern influences into their traditional music. One can find complex harmonies, western instruments, and contemporary song forms in Alash's music, but its overall sound and spirit remain decidedly Tuvan.

Trained in traditional Tuvan music since childhood, the Alash musicians studied at Kyzyl Arts College just as Tuva was beginning to open up to the West. They formed a traditional ensemble and won multiple awards for traditional throat singing
in international xöömei competitions, both as an ensemble and as individuals. At the same time, they paid close attention to new trends coming out of the West. They have borrowed newideas that mesh well with the sound and feel of traditional
Tuvan music, but they have never sacrificed the integrity of their own heritage in an effort to make their music more hip.

Alash first toured the U.S. under the sponsorship of the OpenWorld Leadership program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then they have returned many times, to the delight of American audiences. The Washington Post described their music as "utterly stunning," quipping that after the performance"audience members picked their jaws up off the floor."

Alash enjoys collaborating with musicians of all stripes. Since their early partnership with the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, they have joined forces with musicians across the spectrum--from country to classical to jazz to beatboxing. Alash appeared as guest artists on Béla Fleck & the Flecktones' Grammy-winning holiday CD Jingle All the Way (2008). They joined Chicago's innovative Fifth House Ensemble in a groundbreaking concert series called Sonic Meditations, and later were part of a "global jam band" which recorded the soundtrack for the video game The Pathless. Most recently, Bady-Dorzhu Ondar teamed up with beatboxer Shodekeh in a live recording of original Tuvan songs filtered through the creative artistry of hip hop musicians.

Beyond performing, Alash has a passion for teaching and promoting understanding between cultures. Their tours often include workshops in which they introduce Tuvan music to students in primary, middle and high schools, colleges, universities, and music conservatories. Children as young as 8 and 9 have learned to throat-sing. One inspired student exclaimed, "Alash opened my eyes to a whole new world!"]]>
ALASH are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What distinguishes this group from earlier generations of Tuvan throat singers is the subtle infusion of modern influences into their traditional music. One can find complex harmonies, western instruments, and contemporary song forms in Alash's music, but its overall sound and spirit remain decidedly Tuvan.

Trained in traditional Tuvan music since childhood, the Alash musicians studied at Kyzyl Arts College just as Tuva was beginning to open up to the West. They formed a traditional ensemble and won multiple awards for traditional throat singing
in international xöömei competitions, both as an ensemble and as individuals. At the same time, they paid close attention to new trends coming out of the West. They have borrowed newideas that mesh well with the sound and feel of traditional
Tuvan music, but they have never sacrificed the integrity of their own heritage in an effort to make their music more hip.

Alash first toured the U.S. under the sponsorship of the OpenWorld Leadership program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then they have returned many times, to the delight of American audiences. The Washington Post described their music as "utterly stunning," quipping that after the performance"audience members picked their jaws up off the floor."

Alash enjoys collaborating with musicians of all stripes. Since their early partnership with the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, they have joined forces with musicians across the spectrum--from country to classical to jazz to beatboxing. Alash appeared as guest artists on Béla Fleck & the Flecktones' Grammy-winning holiday CD Jingle All the Way (2008). They joined Chicago's innovative Fifth House Ensemble in a groundbreaking concert series called Sonic Meditations, and later were part of a "global jam band" which recorded the soundtrack for the video game The Pathless. Most recently, Bady-Dorzhu Ondar teamed up with beatboxer Shodekeh in a live recording of original Tuvan songs filtered through the creative artistry of hip hop musicians.

Beyond performing, Alash has a passion for teaching and promoting understanding between cultures. Their tours often include workshops in which they introduce Tuvan music to students in primary, middle and high schools, colleges, universities, and music conservatories. Children as young as 8 and 9 have learned to throat-sing. One inspired student exclaimed, "Alash opened my eyes to a whole new world!"]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/346/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776283200
British-American trio Raynes formed when Mat Charley and Joe Berger, both born and raised in North Dakota, came across a video of UK native Mark Race on Instagram and fell in love--first with his face, then with his voice. After a few messages and phone calls, Mark was on a plane to the US to start a band (a few months later, he had the flight number tattooed on his arm).

Since then, Raynes has signed with Sony Music Publishing and released six singles and four EPs, drawing hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners and tens of millions of streams and earning press in Billboard and People. They've performed at BottleRock Festival and in clubs, concert halls, and amphitheaters across the US and the UK, developing a reputation as a high-energy live act.

In 2025, Raynes' rendition of "I Want You to Want Me" was featured in an episode of Love Is Blind on Netflix.

Known for their intricate vocal harmonies and unique instrumentation as well as their poetic lyrics, Raynes has yet to come up with a good answer as to what genre their music falls under. With all three members coming from different musical backgrounds, the boys combine their diverse influences to form a group that draws inspiration from around the globe, incorporating elements of folk, rock, and chamber pop with Celtic and world music to create a wholly original--and difficult to categorize--sound.]]>
British-American trio Raynes formed when Mat Charley and Joe Berger, both born and raised in North Dakota, came across a video of UK native Mark Race on Instagram and fell in love--first with his face, then with his voice. After a few messages and phone calls, Mark was on a plane to the US to start a band (a few months later, he had the flight number tattooed on his arm).

Since then, Raynes has signed with Sony Music Publishing and released six singles and four EPs, drawing hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners and tens of millions of streams and earning press in Billboard and People. They've performed at BottleRock Festival and in clubs, concert halls, and amphitheaters across the US and the UK, developing a reputation as a high-energy live act.

In 2025, Raynes' rendition of "I Want You to Want Me" was featured in an episode of Love Is Blind on Netflix.

Known for their intricate vocal harmonies and unique instrumentation as well as their poetic lyrics, Raynes has yet to come up with a good answer as to what genre their music falls under. With all three members coming from different musical backgrounds, the boys combine their diverse influences to form a group that draws inspiration from around the globe, incorporating elements of folk, rock, and chamber pop with Celtic and world music to create a wholly original--and difficult to categorize--sound.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/393/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776456000
For over 20 years Shattered, Milwaukee's premier Rolling Stones cover band, has delivered the sound, vibe and energy of The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. From clubs and private parties to the biggest music festivals, the lads are commited to preserving the legacy of The Rolling Stones and sharing their music with generations of fans. Let's spend the night together!]]>
For over 20 years Shattered, Milwaukee's premier Rolling Stones cover band, has delivered the sound, vibe and energy of The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. From clubs and private parties to the biggest music festivals, the lads are commited to preserving the legacy of The Rolling Stones and sharing their music with generations of fans. Let's spend the night together!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/389/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776542400
Oceanic is a versatile indie pop band based in Charlotte, NC. Heavily influenced by a number of genres, they aim to create original music with diversity that enables the listener to see the world in a new way. They've already seen many milestone successes in their career including millions of streams, over 20 Spotify editorial playlist placements, shared stages with bands like COIN & Vacation Manor, noteworthy press coverage, sold-out headline shows of up to 300, a slot on Lovin' Life Festival this summer (alongside Noah Kahan, Post Malone, Stevie Nicks, Maggie Rogers, Dominic Fike & more), and many other wins.

The band is comprised of three core members: Nathan, Jacob, and Sam. Nathan is the lyricist and lead singer, Jacob styles the song with electric guitar, Sam plays bass and arranges the music; all members contribute ideas and personality to the arrangement.

Even before Oceanic was formed, each member of the band was well-versed in performing arts. The band works together during shows to create a high-enthusiasm experience focused on personality, musical interest, and artistic visual effects.]]>
Oceanic is a versatile indie pop band based in Charlotte, NC. Heavily influenced by a number of genres, they aim to create original music with diversity that enables the listener to see the world in a new way. They've already seen many milestone successes in their career including millions of streams, over 20 Spotify editorial playlist placements, shared stages with bands like COIN & Vacation Manor, noteworthy press coverage, sold-out headline shows of up to 300, a slot on Lovin' Life Festival this summer (alongside Noah Kahan, Post Malone, Stevie Nicks, Maggie Rogers, Dominic Fike & more), and many other wins.

The band is comprised of three core members: Nathan, Jacob, and Sam. Nathan is the lyricist and lead singer, Jacob styles the song with electric guitar, Sam plays bass and arranges the music; all members contribute ideas and personality to the arrangement.

Even before Oceanic was formed, each member of the band was well-versed in performing arts. The band works together during shows to create a high-enthusiasm experience focused on personality, musical interest, and artistic visual effects.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/402/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776628800
Shara Nova has released six chamber-pop albums under the moniker My Brightest Diamond; her newest album, entitled Fight the Real Terror, was released in September 2024. Shara was an original member of the Broadway show Illinoise, directed by Tony Award winner (2024) Justin Peck and co-written by Jackie Sibblies Drury.

She has composed works for choirs such as The Crossing, Conspirare, Roomful of Teeth, iSing Youth Choir, Detroit Women's Chorus, and The Detroit Opera's educational touring company, as well as for the yMusic chamber ensemble, Oregon Symphony, Aarhus Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among others. Her 2022 album The Blue Hour, co-composed with Sarah Kirkland Snider, Angélica Négron, Caroline Shaw, and Rachel Grimes, was listed in NPR's Top 10 Albums of the Year.

Nova is a 3-time Grammy nominee (2023), an Opera America Discovery Grant awardee (2024), a Kresge Arts fellow (2012), a Carolina Performing Arts Creative Futures fellow (2018--2021), a United States Artists fellow (2015), and a Knights Grant recipient (2018, 2024).]]>
Shara Nova has released six chamber-pop albums under the moniker My Brightest Diamond; her newest album, entitled Fight the Real Terror, was released in September 2024. Shara was an original member of the Broadway show Illinoise, directed by Tony Award winner (2024) Justin Peck and co-written by Jackie Sibblies Drury.

She has composed works for choirs such as The Crossing, Conspirare, Roomful of Teeth, iSing Youth Choir, Detroit Women's Chorus, and The Detroit Opera's educational touring company, as well as for the yMusic chamber ensemble, Oregon Symphony, Aarhus Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among others. Her 2022 album The Blue Hour, co-composed with Sarah Kirkland Snider, Angélica Négron, Caroline Shaw, and Rachel Grimes, was listed in NPR's Top 10 Albums of the Year.

Nova is a 3-time Grammy nominee (2023), an Opera America Discovery Grant awardee (2024), a Kresge Arts fellow (2012), a Carolina Performing Arts Creative Futures fellow (2018--2021), a United States Artists fellow (2015), and a Knights Grant recipient (2018, 2024).]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/329/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1776974400
Stick Men is a powerhouse progressive rock trio featuring legendary musicians Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter. With a combined experience of over 100 million records sold worldwide, this supergroup brings unparalleled musicianship and innovation to every performance.

Tony Levin, renowned for his work with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson, is one of the most recorded bass players in music history. His mastery of the Chapman Stick, from which the band takes its name, allows him to cover both bass and guitar parts simultaneously.

Pat Mastelotto, drummer extraordinaire, is known for his tenure with King Crimson and chart-topping success with Mr. Mister. His unique setup combines acoustic drums with electronic elements, creating a rich tapestry of rhythms and textures.

Markus Reuter rounds out the trio with his self-designed touch-style guitar, pushing the boundaries of what's possible on a stringed instrument. His innovative approach complements the group's progressive sound.

Stick Men's music defies easy categorization, blending elements of Art Rock, Progressive Rock, and at times Progressive Meta. Their live shows are a testament to their improvisational prowess, featuring extended jams that showcase each member's virtuosity. The band also pays homage to their King Crimson roots by performing select pieces from that legendary group's catalog.

Stick Men continues to evolve and push the boundaries of progressive rock. Their unique instrumentation and combined centuries of experience make for an unforgettable live experience that will captivate audiences and leave them in awe of the trio's musical mastery.]]>
Stick Men is a powerhouse progressive rock trio featuring legendary musicians Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter. With a combined experience of over 100 million records sold worldwide, this supergroup brings unparalleled musicianship and innovation to every performance.

Tony Levin, renowned for his work with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson, is one of the most recorded bass players in music history. His mastery of the Chapman Stick, from which the band takes its name, allows him to cover both bass and guitar parts simultaneously.

Pat Mastelotto, drummer extraordinaire, is known for his tenure with King Crimson and chart-topping success with Mr. Mister. His unique setup combines acoustic drums with electronic elements, creating a rich tapestry of rhythms and textures.

Markus Reuter rounds out the trio with his self-designed touch-style guitar, pushing the boundaries of what's possible on a stringed instrument. His innovative approach complements the group's progressive sound.

Stick Men's music defies easy categorization, blending elements of Art Rock, Progressive Rock, and at times Progressive Meta. Their live shows are a testament to their improvisational prowess, featuring extended jams that showcase each member's virtuosity. The band also pays homage to their King Crimson roots by performing select pieces from that legendary group's catalog.

Stick Men continues to evolve and push the boundaries of progressive rock. Their unique instrumentation and combined centuries of experience make for an unforgettable live experience that will captivate audiences and leave them in awe of the trio's musical mastery.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/347/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777060800
As the U.S. based progressive rock phenomenon Pavlov's Dog nears the half century mark of its history, this most curious of legends continues to astound its loyal fans with some of the most unique music ever conceived in its genre. Rumors and tall tales abound throughout its storied career, and that of its leader singer/composer David Surkamp.

Founded in 1973 as a quartet consisting of David, bassist Rick Stockton, violinist Siegfried Carver & drummer Mike Safron, the band was duly signed to ABC Records to the then unheard of sum of $500,000. With industry expectations through the roof, Pavlov's Dog delivered one of the most brilliantly confounding debuts of all time with its initial release "Pampered Menial." To say the album left journalists sometimes speechless, sometimes tongue-tied, would be a gross understatement. To put it simply, no one had ever heard anything like the incredible songs and vocal performances of this singular effort. Songs including "Julia," "Late November" & "Of Once & Future Kings" remain concert highlights decades after their release.

The foundations of mystery developed throughout the following few years. Concert performances with acts including ELO, Arrowsmith, Kraftwerk, Nektar and Blue Oyster Cult met rave reviews. Soon upcoming giants, including Heart, Thin Lizzy, Bob Seger and Journey, found themselves opening shows for Pavlov's Dog. Still, American radio found the band's one of a kind brilliance an uncomfortable fit in the era of the dreaded corporate rock formula.

During the recording of the band's third album, David had reached the breaking point. Unhappy with the ego fits & chaos of the other band members, the bard left his band behind and journeyed to the great northwest scene of Seattle where he continued to explore his unique musical vision. Combining his talents with former Fairport Convention vocalist Ian Matthews, the two friends delivered an exhilarating pair of albums under the banner "Hi-Fi." Those two efforts remain valued collectors items in knowing circles.

Pavlov's Dog reappeared briefly for the release of 1990's "Lost In America," and then came together for its 30th anniversary reunion concert in the group's hometown of Saint Louis. Inspired by duo performances with his wife Sara, and the addition of world class soloist Abbie Steiling on electric violin, the ensemble returned to the concert stage with Pavlov's Dog turning out electrifying sets in its own grand tradition throughout Europe. The band's initial return culminated in a breathtaking performance in front of 54,000 fans at the Arrowrock Festival in Holland.

Not content to rely solely on its classic albums, Pavlov's Dog has continued to expand its vision with an unrivaled bevy of new album releases, including two concert albums "Live & Unleashed" and

"Housebroken." More importantly, David has composed two extraordinary collections of songs on studio released masterpieces "Echo & Boo" and "Prodigal Dreamer." In addition, all the original albums have been rereleased with bonus tracks courtesy of Rockville Records.

The rest is yet to come.....................!!!!]]>
As the U.S. based progressive rock phenomenon Pavlov's Dog nears the half century mark of its history, this most curious of legends continues to astound its loyal fans with some of the most unique music ever conceived in its genre. Rumors and tall tales abound throughout its storied career, and that of its leader singer/composer David Surkamp.

Founded in 1973 as a quartet consisting of David, bassist Rick Stockton, violinist Siegfried Carver & drummer Mike Safron, the band was duly signed to ABC Records to the then unheard of sum of $500,000. With industry expectations through the roof, Pavlov's Dog delivered one of the most brilliantly confounding debuts of all time with its initial release "Pampered Menial." To say the album left journalists sometimes speechless, sometimes tongue-tied, would be a gross understatement. To put it simply, no one had ever heard anything like the incredible songs and vocal performances of this singular effort. Songs including "Julia," "Late November" & "Of Once & Future Kings" remain concert highlights decades after their release.

The foundations of mystery developed throughout the following few years. Concert performances with acts including ELO, Arrowsmith, Kraftwerk, Nektar and Blue Oyster Cult met rave reviews. Soon upcoming giants, including Heart, Thin Lizzy, Bob Seger and Journey, found themselves opening shows for Pavlov's Dog. Still, American radio found the band's one of a kind brilliance an uncomfortable fit in the era of the dreaded corporate rock formula.

During the recording of the band's third album, David had reached the breaking point. Unhappy with the ego fits & chaos of the other band members, the bard left his band behind and journeyed to the great northwest scene of Seattle where he continued to explore his unique musical vision. Combining his talents with former Fairport Convention vocalist Ian Matthews, the two friends delivered an exhilarating pair of albums under the banner "Hi-Fi." Those two efforts remain valued collectors items in knowing circles.

Pavlov's Dog reappeared briefly for the release of 1990's "Lost In America," and then came together for its 30th anniversary reunion concert in the group's hometown of Saint Louis. Inspired by duo performances with his wife Sara, and the addition of world class soloist Abbie Steiling on electric violin, the ensemble returned to the concert stage with Pavlov's Dog turning out electrifying sets in its own grand tradition throughout Europe. The band's initial return culminated in a breathtaking performance in front of 54,000 fans at the Arrowrock Festival in Holland.

Not content to rely solely on its classic albums, Pavlov's Dog has continued to expand its vision with an unrivaled bevy of new album releases, including two concert albums "Live & Unleashed" and

"Housebroken." More importantly, David has composed two extraordinary collections of songs on studio released masterpieces "Echo & Boo" and "Prodigal Dreamer." In addition, all the original albums have been rereleased with bonus tracks courtesy of Rockville Records.

The rest is yet to come.....................!!!!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/355/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777147200
Please welcome Jed & Company back to Shank Hall for their second time! Madison, Wisconsin's hard-ripping' Grateful Dead tribute band aims to steal the face right off your head with high-level jamming, unique setlists, soulful vocals and fresh takes on the catalogue. We had such a blast last year, let's blow the roof off again Milwaukee!]]>
Please welcome Jed & Company back to Shank Hall for their second time! Madison, Wisconsin's hard-ripping' Grateful Dead tribute band aims to steal the face right off your head with high-level jamming, unique setlists, soulful vocals and fresh takes on the catalogue. We had such a blast last year, let's blow the roof off again Milwaukee!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/521/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000 1777212000
See Pat's documentary at the Milwaukee Film Festival at the Oriental Theatre at 11:00am, then head over afterwards for a live show!

Pat McCurdy is a singer/song writer from Wisconsin. He tours the mid-western part of the USA, his shows usually consisting of just him and his guitar. While the majority of his audience is made up of a college-age crowd, McCurdy manages to appeal to a large number of people of all ages with his interactive shows. Performing well over 300 shows a year, his large catalog of original songs (nearly 600 and growing) covers a variety of topics such as lost loves, politics, family vacations, the joys of Asian cuisine, and the sex organs of long-dead French Emperors.

Classifying McCurdy's style has long been a problem since he tends to follow wherever his muse takes him. Many of his songs could be classified as rock/pop, though he's been known to wander into folk, jazz, country and even Gilbert and Sullivan. Whatever style he chooses, his songs often include memorable lyrics.]]>
See Pat's documentary at the Milwaukee Film Festival at the Oriental Theatre at 11:00am, then head over afterwards for a live show!

Pat McCurdy is a singer/song writer from Wisconsin. He tours the mid-western part of the USA, his shows usually consisting of just him and his guitar. While the majority of his audience is made up of a college-age crowd, McCurdy manages to appeal to a large number of people of all ages with his interactive shows. Performing well over 300 shows a year, his large catalog of original songs (nearly 600 and growing) covers a variety of topics such as lost loves, politics, family vacations, the joys of Asian cuisine, and the sex organs of long-dead French Emperors.

Classifying McCurdy's style has long been a problem since he tends to follow wherever his muse takes him. Many of his songs could be classified as rock/pop, though he's been known to wander into folk, jazz, country and even Gilbert and Sullivan. Whatever style he chooses, his songs often include memorable lyrics.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/378/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777233600
James McMurtry released The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy on June 20th via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album in four years. It follows his 2021 acclaimed new West debut, The Horses and the Hounds, which UnCut Magazine said "lifts storytelling-in-song to meticulous new levels" and Pitchfork awarded an 8.0, saying "James McMurtry stands out even among the Lone Star State's finest songwriters..." The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy features appearances by Sarah Jarosz, Charlie Sexton, Bonnie Whitmore, Bukka Allen and more, alongside his trusted backing band, THE MARTIAL LAW REVIEW, Tim Holt on guitar and accordion, Cornbread on bass and Daren Hess on drums.

As varied as they are, McMurtry's new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family's past: a rough pencil sketch by Ken Kesey that serves as the album cover, the hallucinations experienced by his father, the legendary writer Larry McMurtry, an old poem by a family friend. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that have elements of Americana but sound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same breath, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy adds a new chapter to a long career that has young songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence.]]>
James McMurtry released The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy on June 20th via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album in four years. It follows his 2021 acclaimed new West debut, The Horses and the Hounds, which UnCut Magazine said "lifts storytelling-in-song to meticulous new levels" and Pitchfork awarded an 8.0, saying "James McMurtry stands out even among the Lone Star State's finest songwriters..." The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy features appearances by Sarah Jarosz, Charlie Sexton, Bonnie Whitmore, Bukka Allen and more, alongside his trusted backing band, THE MARTIAL LAW REVIEW, Tim Holt on guitar and accordion, Cornbread on bass and Daren Hess on drums.

As varied as they are, McMurtry's new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family's past: a rough pencil sketch by Ken Kesey that serves as the album cover, the hallucinations experienced by his father, the legendary writer Larry McMurtry, an old poem by a family friend. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that have elements of Americana but sound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same breath, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy adds a new chapter to a long career that has young songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/273/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777492800
Firebrand blues guitarist Chris Duarte dropped his sophomore album, Texas Sugar Strat Magik, in 1994, and it sold an excess of 100,000 units. It was a big success for a modern blues album. Duarte went onto win the highly coveted "Best New Talent" in Guitar Player's Reader's Poll, and he finished fourth in the magazine's "Best Blues Guitarist" category, behind legends Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and B.B. King. He would go on to issue a string of critically-acclaimed blues, blues-rock albums, and experimental fusion-tinged albums. In the ensuing years, Duarte would also maintain an in-demand touring schedule both as a solo artist and as a sideman.

Throughout it all, fans have hungered for the ferocious blues stylist to dig into some Texas blues with his own unmistakable magic. For his 15th album, his first since 2014, he does just that: The Austin, Texas blues guitar slinger teems up with Texas Sugar Strat Magik producer-guitarist Dennis Herring for the first time in 22 years. The resulting album, the gritty and sexy Ain't Giving Up, out September 2022 on Mascot Records, isn't a calculated return to roots affair, though. Recorded live on the studio floor with vintage gear and with minimal overdubs, this is a raw and revved-up showcase for the blues virtuoso's jaw-dropping chops; his mastery of the elusive Texas shuffle; and his deep love and commitment to the blues.

"I planted my flag with Strat Magik, and on this album I am pushing the music forward. I've explored lots of different facets of my playing, but this album says, 'I'm here, and I'm not giving up on blues or my career,'" Duarte says. He continues: "And I'm not playing it safe, either--the solos were all tracked live."

Duarte has been known for his physical and athletic playing style--he often plays so hard his fingers bleed while he's onstage (there are photos to prove this legend). Because of this fiery dedication, many fans and critics have playfully referred to his music as "punk blues" or "rockin' blues." "My style is super aggressive and physical," Duarte affirms. "These days I'm a bit older, but I still put as much heart into my playing as I ever did--I still love playing."

The guitarist, singer, and songwriter came up as a force to be reckoned with in the 1990s Austin, Texas roots and blues scene. He rose to prominence in the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughan's passing, and was noted for his muscular playing style; his jazz and rock n' roll-infused blues solos; and his command of the Texas blues tradition. Because of these soulfully virtuosic qualities, Duarte was often compared to the beloved modern blues icon, SRV. "I wish I was the whiz people think I am," he says with a good-natured laugh. "Whatever skills I have, have taken years to gain--I practice a lot." He continues: "I still want to be great and make my mark. I listen to SRV, Jimmie Vaughan, and others, and I always get inspired to carry on the Texas blues tradition."

Since those early days, Duarte has carved his own niche through a series of beloved blues-flavored albums, and a calendar of more than 150 dates a year which includes performances billed as Chris Duarte and as The Chris Duarte Group. In both of these contexts, Duarte has headlined major festivals and clubs throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. A series of explosive North Carolina shows were filmed for the PBS television show, The PBS Project. Apart from his solo career, Duarte has performed with Julie Burrell, Diana Cantu, Bobby Mack, Tracy Conover, Indigenous, Omar & the Howlers, and the Americana band Beth Lee & The Breakups. Incidentally, Beth is Duarte's girlfriend, and she co-wrote many tracks on Ain't Giving Up.

Reunited with Herring who produced his best-selling record, Duarte instantly found a lot hadn't changed with the two men. "There's more grey hair and creases in our faces," Duarte says with a chuckle. "But we have that same music connection we had years ago. Dennis's approach is to capture raw emotion, and, because of this, he records literally everything, even snippets between songs." Duarte continues: "I brought my guitar with me when we tracked vocals, and he said I didn't need it--the guitar parts were all done. He used the solos I played on the fly during the basic sessions. They were fun, off-the-cuff, and the tone and grooves were great. I was really dialed in."

Ain't Giving Up siphons from the same spirit as Texas Sugar, but the new album is definitely its own monster. The album was tracked live as a trio with Texas Sugar drummer Brannen Temple, but it also features a rhythm machine with some raw, looped beat patterns Duarte plays over, much like the same funky groove stylings as on J.J. Cale's iconic 1971 album Naturally. "This album explores a wider spectrum of musicality," shares Duarte. "I love Muddy Water and Howlin' Wolf, but also feel like it's part of me to introduce some unexpected influences. For this album, I didn't feel scared to explore beyond hard driving blues. I view this as expanding on the format that I love."

Ain't Giving Up is intimate and gritty, but it also boasts pristine fidelity, as if we the listener are in the studio with Duarte and his buddies. The album opens with a bang on the super-charged Allman Brother-style riffy blues-rocker, "Nobody But You." He follows this up, swaggering into some Fresh-era Sly and Family Stone-style funk. On "Can Opener" Duarte digs into a slinky Texas shuffle conjuring the instrumental magic of classic Freddie King.

With "Gimme Your Love" and the title track, Duarte conjures Jimmy Reed with some breezy, blues shuffles, each song is fitted with little tags and musical motifs that make these musical forms truly Chris Duarte songs. Duarte flexes some rockabilly chops on "Look What U Made Me Do" and slips into a Stones-y hip-shaking groove on "The Real Low Down." Ain't Giving Up concludes with a tour de force on slow blues of "Weak Days" which features some tasty Albert King-style stinging leads, and a heavy Zeppelin-esque musical interlude.

Ain't Giving Up is a reset for Duarte that shows his resilience and his undiminished love of the blues. "I am so grateful to be signed to Provogue and to work with Dennis again--it's been a dream come true," Duarte enthuses. "I have been so fortunate to play music and do my thing for almost 30 years, and I couldn't ask for a better life."]]>
Firebrand blues guitarist Chris Duarte dropped his sophomore album, Texas Sugar Strat Magik, in 1994, and it sold an excess of 100,000 units. It was a big success for a modern blues album. Duarte went onto win the highly coveted "Best New Talent" in Guitar Player's Reader's Poll, and he finished fourth in the magazine's "Best Blues Guitarist" category, behind legends Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and B.B. King. He would go on to issue a string of critically-acclaimed blues, blues-rock albums, and experimental fusion-tinged albums. In the ensuing years, Duarte would also maintain an in-demand touring schedule both as a solo artist and as a sideman.

Throughout it all, fans have hungered for the ferocious blues stylist to dig into some Texas blues with his own unmistakable magic. For his 15th album, his first since 2014, he does just that: The Austin, Texas blues guitar slinger teems up with Texas Sugar Strat Magik producer-guitarist Dennis Herring for the first time in 22 years. The resulting album, the gritty and sexy Ain't Giving Up, out September 2022 on Mascot Records, isn't a calculated return to roots affair, though. Recorded live on the studio floor with vintage gear and with minimal overdubs, this is a raw and revved-up showcase for the blues virtuoso's jaw-dropping chops; his mastery of the elusive Texas shuffle; and his deep love and commitment to the blues.

"I planted my flag with Strat Magik, and on this album I am pushing the music forward. I've explored lots of different facets of my playing, but this album says, 'I'm here, and I'm not giving up on blues or my career,'" Duarte says. He continues: "And I'm not playing it safe, either--the solos were all tracked live."

Duarte has been known for his physical and athletic playing style--he often plays so hard his fingers bleed while he's onstage (there are photos to prove this legend). Because of this fiery dedication, many fans and critics have playfully referred to his music as "punk blues" or "rockin' blues." "My style is super aggressive and physical," Duarte affirms. "These days I'm a bit older, but I still put as much heart into my playing as I ever did--I still love playing."

The guitarist, singer, and songwriter came up as a force to be reckoned with in the 1990s Austin, Texas roots and blues scene. He rose to prominence in the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughan's passing, and was noted for his muscular playing style; his jazz and rock n' roll-infused blues solos; and his command of the Texas blues tradition. Because of these soulfully virtuosic qualities, Duarte was often compared to the beloved modern blues icon, SRV. "I wish I was the whiz people think I am," he says with a good-natured laugh. "Whatever skills I have, have taken years to gain--I practice a lot." He continues: "I still want to be great and make my mark. I listen to SRV, Jimmie Vaughan, and others, and I always get inspired to carry on the Texas blues tradition."

Since those early days, Duarte has carved his own niche through a series of beloved blues-flavored albums, and a calendar of more than 150 dates a year which includes performances billed as Chris Duarte and as The Chris Duarte Group. In both of these contexts, Duarte has headlined major festivals and clubs throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. A series of explosive North Carolina shows were filmed for the PBS television show, The PBS Project. Apart from his solo career, Duarte has performed with Julie Burrell, Diana Cantu, Bobby Mack, Tracy Conover, Indigenous, Omar & the Howlers, and the Americana band Beth Lee & The Breakups. Incidentally, Beth is Duarte's girlfriend, and she co-wrote many tracks on Ain't Giving Up.

Reunited with Herring who produced his best-selling record, Duarte instantly found a lot hadn't changed with the two men. "There's more grey hair and creases in our faces," Duarte says with a chuckle. "But we have that same music connection we had years ago. Dennis's approach is to capture raw emotion, and, because of this, he records literally everything, even snippets between songs." Duarte continues: "I brought my guitar with me when we tracked vocals, and he said I didn't need it--the guitar parts were all done. He used the solos I played on the fly during the basic sessions. They were fun, off-the-cuff, and the tone and grooves were great. I was really dialed in."

Ain't Giving Up siphons from the same spirit as Texas Sugar, but the new album is definitely its own monster. The album was tracked live as a trio with Texas Sugar drummer Brannen Temple, but it also features a rhythm machine with some raw, looped beat patterns Duarte plays over, much like the same funky groove stylings as on J.J. Cale's iconic 1971 album Naturally. "This album explores a wider spectrum of musicality," shares Duarte. "I love Muddy Water and Howlin' Wolf, but also feel like it's part of me to introduce some unexpected influences. For this album, I didn't feel scared to explore beyond hard driving blues. I view this as expanding on the format that I love."

Ain't Giving Up is intimate and gritty, but it also boasts pristine fidelity, as if we the listener are in the studio with Duarte and his buddies. The album opens with a bang on the super-charged Allman Brother-style riffy blues-rocker, "Nobody But You." He follows this up, swaggering into some Fresh-era Sly and Family Stone-style funk. On "Can Opener" Duarte digs into a slinky Texas shuffle conjuring the instrumental magic of classic Freddie King.

With "Gimme Your Love" and the title track, Duarte conjures Jimmy Reed with some breezy, blues shuffles, each song is fitted with little tags and musical motifs that make these musical forms truly Chris Duarte songs. Duarte flexes some rockabilly chops on "Look What U Made Me Do" and slips into a Stones-y hip-shaking groove on "The Real Low Down." Ain't Giving Up concludes with a tour de force on slow blues of "Weak Days" which features some tasty Albert King-style stinging leads, and a heavy Zeppelin-esque musical interlude.

Ain't Giving Up is a reset for Duarte that shows his resilience and his undiminished love of the blues. "I am so grateful to be signed to Provogue and to work with Dennis again--it's been a dream come true," Duarte enthuses. "I have been so fortunate to play music and do my thing for almost 30 years, and I couldn't ask for a better life."]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/401/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777579200
After 15 years on the road with Dalton & the Sheriffs, Brian Scully is bringing his Built from the Bar Up solo acoustic sing-a-long show across the country. Featuring cover versions of barroom classics spanning country, rock and pop music -- not to mention a few classic Dalton tunes -- the show brings non-stop music across a three-hour revue of the songs that built Dalton & the Sheriffs.]]>
After 15 years on the road with Dalton & the Sheriffs, Brian Scully is bringing his Built from the Bar Up solo acoustic sing-a-long show across the country. Featuring cover versions of barroom classics spanning country, rock and pop music -- not to mention a few classic Dalton tunes -- the show brings non-stop music across a three-hour revue of the songs that built Dalton & the Sheriffs.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/192/ Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777665600
Electric Six. The band that put out an album a year for what seemed like 666 years. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another E6 record on Metropolis Records. Mayans based their calendar on Electric Six. Flocks of migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small time criminals were sentenced to four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behavior. In a business so fickle, so unreliable, so difficult to navigate...the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year...

....until there wasn't.

Five years has gone by since the last Electric Six offering and we've heard the chatter. "Electric Six just doesn't have it anymore." "Electric Six has really let me down." "Gotye will have an album before Electric Six does."

As we all know...talk is cheap. And bullshit walks. And now there's a new goddamn Electric Six record ready to go and it's good, Jack. Real good.

Behold Turquoise is here, the long awaited studio album return of Electric Six!!! Perhaps the catchiest, brightest album in their catalog, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole.

The recording of Turquoise began in January of 2020, but you know, something distracted us for a couple of years shortly after starting the record. The pandemic tacked a bit of time onto the schedule of this project and Electric Six certainly felt the need to tap into the collective feelings of the time in tracks like "Panic! Panic!" and the title track "Turquoise".

The overall vibe of Turquoise ranges from the infectious pop of "Take Me To The Sugar" and "Staten Island Ass Squad", to the heavy rock of "Child Of Hunger" and "Skywriting", to the Springsteeny goodness of "Units of Time". Electric Six is a band for all tastes, all times and all sizes.

The pandemic slowed us all down and ripped time into shreds. It forced Electric Six to take a little time to look at itself in the mirror. And who did Electric Six see staring back? The answer? It saw Electric Six. It saw Turquoise. When a band finally makes an album this exciting, it doesn't need to do anything else anymore anytime soon ever again.

But it will.....Electric Six can never die. And we are still the band that does one album a year....if you re-define "year". Which we do.]]>
Electric Six. The band that put out an album a year for what seemed like 666 years. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another E6 record on Metropolis Records. Mayans based their calendar on Electric Six. Flocks of migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small time criminals were sentenced to four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behavior. In a business so fickle, so unreliable, so difficult to navigate...the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year...

....until there wasn't.

Five years has gone by since the last Electric Six offering and we've heard the chatter. "Electric Six just doesn't have it anymore." "Electric Six has really let me down." "Gotye will have an album before Electric Six does."

As we all know...talk is cheap. And bullshit walks. And now there's a new goddamn Electric Six record ready to go and it's good, Jack. Real good.

Behold Turquoise is here, the long awaited studio album return of Electric Six!!! Perhaps the catchiest, brightest album in their catalog, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole.

The recording of Turquoise began in January of 2020, but you know, something distracted us for a couple of years shortly after starting the record. The pandemic tacked a bit of time onto the schedule of this project and Electric Six certainly felt the need to tap into the collective feelings of the time in tracks like "Panic! Panic!" and the title track "Turquoise".

The overall vibe of Turquoise ranges from the infectious pop of "Take Me To The Sugar" and "Staten Island Ass Squad", to the heavy rock of "Child Of Hunger" and "Skywriting", to the Springsteeny goodness of "Units of Time". Electric Six is a band for all tastes, all times and all sizes.

The pandemic slowed us all down and ripped time into shreds. It forced Electric Six to take a little time to look at itself in the mirror. And who did Electric Six see staring back? The answer? It saw Electric Six. It saw Turquoise. When a band finally makes an album this exciting, it doesn't need to do anything else anymore anytime soon ever again.

But it will.....Electric Six can never die. And we are still the band that does one album a year....if you re-define "year". Which we do.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/325/ Sat, 02 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777752000
Seaside Zoo is a Madison-based Grateful Dead tribute band formed in 2019. Composed of eight members, Seaside Zoo covers everything from the 60's Pigpen songs to the late 80's ballads. This group is sure to keep even the pickiest of Dead Heads dancing all night.

Wisconsin's quirky Grateful Dead tribute band, dishing out sun-soaked melodies, fuzzy guitars, and lyrics that wander from beachside daydreams to urban zoo chaos--dontcha know, it's like a surfboard crashed into a punk bar brawl. Their live sets are a wild ride of infectious hooks and zero pretension, perfect for chuggin' PBR's while you sway, stomp, or just lose your mind. Catch these zoo animals unleashed, ya betcha--it's a party that roars louder than a lion with a hangover.]]>
Seaside Zoo is a Madison-based Grateful Dead tribute band formed in 2019. Composed of eight members, Seaside Zoo covers everything from the 60's Pigpen songs to the late 80's ballads. This group is sure to keep even the pickiest of Dead Heads dancing all night.

Wisconsin's quirky Grateful Dead tribute band, dishing out sun-soaked melodies, fuzzy guitars, and lyrics that wander from beachside daydreams to urban zoo chaos--dontcha know, it's like a surfboard crashed into a punk bar brawl. Their live sets are a wild ride of infectious hooks and zero pretension, perfect for chuggin' PBR's while you sway, stomp, or just lose your mind. Catch these zoo animals unleashed, ya betcha--it's a party that roars louder than a lion with a hangover.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/437/ Sun, 03 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1777838400
Gold record and Billboard #1 with Struggle Jennings on "God We Need You Now", Caitlynne Curtis is a Nashville singer songwriter whose powerhouse voice and candid songwriting bridge modern country and soulful storytelling. Her new album digs into faith, heartbreak and the raw everyday life struggles, carried by big hooks and amazing stories. Raised in a small town and road tested onstage, Curtis writes songs for late night drives and full rooms and has earned both critical attention and a devoted fan base.]]>
Gold record and Billboard #1 with Struggle Jennings on "God We Need You Now", Caitlynne Curtis is a Nashville singer songwriter whose powerhouse voice and candid songwriting bridge modern country and soulful storytelling. Her new album digs into faith, heartbreak and the raw everyday life struggles, carried by big hooks and amazing stories. Raised in a small town and road tested onstage, Curtis writes songs for late night drives and full rooms and has earned both critical attention and a devoted fan base.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/349/ Wed, 06 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778097600
Multiple award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader Tommy Castro is a California-based blues and rock powerhouse. For over four decades, he's captivated audiences with his soul-drenched vocals, searing guitar work, and high-energy live shows. As frontman of the telepathically tight and wildly raucous Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, he's released 17 albums that span a wide stylistic range--from horn-driven R&B and hot-blooded soul to gritty, stripped-down rock and electric blues.

With his latest and eighth Alligator Records release, Closer To The Bone, Castro returns to his roots, delivering what he calls "a real blues record, the way they would have made them back in the day." Produced by guitar master Christoffer "Kid" Andersen at San Jose's Greaseland Studio, the album is Castro's rawest and most direct blues effort to date.

The album features standout originals like Ain't Worth The Heartache, Can't Catch A Break, and Crazy Woman Blues, alongside deep-cut covers of songs by Castro's friends and influences--Johnny Nitro, Magic Slim, Ron Thompson, Chris Cain, and more. Guest appearances include Rick Estrin, Billy Branch, Deanna Bogart, Chris Cain, Jim Pugh, and gospel harmonies from The Sons Of The Soul Revivers.

Born in San Jose in 1955, Castro picked up the guitar at age 10 and was inspired by icons like Elvin Bishop, Taj Mahal, and Mike Bloomfield. He absorbed everything from Ike & Tina Turner to John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy, developing a uniquely uplifting and soulful style rooted in blues, R&B, and funk. After early stints with Bay Area bands including NiteCryand The Dynatones, Castro formed the first Tommy Castro Band in 1992.

Castro's career took off when his band became the house band on NBC's Comedy Showcase, airing after Saturday Night Live. He soon built a reputation as a must-see live act, touring relentlessly and releasing acclaimed albums with Blind Pig, Telarc, 33rd Street, and eventually Alligator Records, where his 2009 debut Hard Believer marked a new chapter of critical and commercial success.

Notable releases include The Devil You Know (2014), Stompin' Ground (2017), Killin' It - Live (2019), and A Bluesman Came To Town (2021), which AllMusic hailed as "a towering achievement."

Castro is one of the most decorated artists in contemporary blues, winning 10 Blues Music Awards, including four B.B. King Entertainer of the Year honors--the genre's highest accolade. His no-frills, 150-shows-a-year approach has earned him a fiercely loyal fanbase and praise from legends like Joe Bonamassa, who says, "Tommy has always been top of the heap among blues guitar players. He always puts on a great show."

With Closer To The Bone, Tommy Castro strips it all back to deliver an album brimming with grit, fire, and authenticity. "This is the deeper blues side of me," says Castro. "With these songs, I am at my most authentic."]]>
Multiple award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader Tommy Castro is a California-based blues and rock powerhouse. For over four decades, he's captivated audiences with his soul-drenched vocals, searing guitar work, and high-energy live shows. As frontman of the telepathically tight and wildly raucous Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, he's released 17 albums that span a wide stylistic range--from horn-driven R&B and hot-blooded soul to gritty, stripped-down rock and electric blues.

With his latest and eighth Alligator Records release, Closer To The Bone, Castro returns to his roots, delivering what he calls "a real blues record, the way they would have made them back in the day." Produced by guitar master Christoffer "Kid" Andersen at San Jose's Greaseland Studio, the album is Castro's rawest and most direct blues effort to date.

The album features standout originals like Ain't Worth The Heartache, Can't Catch A Break, and Crazy Woman Blues, alongside deep-cut covers of songs by Castro's friends and influences--Johnny Nitro, Magic Slim, Ron Thompson, Chris Cain, and more. Guest appearances include Rick Estrin, Billy Branch, Deanna Bogart, Chris Cain, Jim Pugh, and gospel harmonies from The Sons Of The Soul Revivers.

Born in San Jose in 1955, Castro picked up the guitar at age 10 and was inspired by icons like Elvin Bishop, Taj Mahal, and Mike Bloomfield. He absorbed everything from Ike & Tina Turner to John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy, developing a uniquely uplifting and soulful style rooted in blues, R&B, and funk. After early stints with Bay Area bands including NiteCryand The Dynatones, Castro formed the first Tommy Castro Band in 1992.

Castro's career took off when his band became the house band on NBC's Comedy Showcase, airing after Saturday Night Live. He soon built a reputation as a must-see live act, touring relentlessly and releasing acclaimed albums with Blind Pig, Telarc, 33rd Street, and eventually Alligator Records, where his 2009 debut Hard Believer marked a new chapter of critical and commercial success.

Notable releases include The Devil You Know (2014), Stompin' Ground (2017), Killin' It - Live (2019), and A Bluesman Came To Town (2021), which AllMusic hailed as "a towering achievement."

Castro is one of the most decorated artists in contemporary blues, winning 10 Blues Music Awards, including four B.B. King Entertainer of the Year honors--the genre's highest accolade. His no-frills, 150-shows-a-year approach has earned him a fiercely loyal fanbase and praise from legends like Joe Bonamassa, who says, "Tommy has always been top of the heap among blues guitar players. He always puts on a great show."

With Closer To The Bone, Tommy Castro strips it all back to deliver an album brimming with grit, fire, and authenticity. "This is the deeper blues side of me," says Castro. "With these songs, I am at my most authentic."]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/368/ Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778184000
John PayCheck, son of country music legend Johnny PayCheck, embodies tradition while forging his own path in the industry. He grew up surrounded by legends, with music ingrained in his everyday life. John's musical journey began humbly as a roadie, where he learned about the business while traveling with his father.

Two major events diverted him from music temporarily: his father's passing in 2003 led him to explore other passions in firefighting and technology, and the events of 9/11 spurred him to serve his country as an Army aviator. John still serves as a Reserve Army Officer in Europe. Despite his hiatus, music remained a constant thread in his life, drawing him back after 20 years.

As a combat veteran, farmer, and devoted family man, John's return to music was fueled by industry support and the encouragement of fellow country music legacy kids. A CMA member and BMI songwriter, his first single "Lone Stars" charted on radio, a significant milestone in his career. With a unique vocal style and deep-rooted appreciation for classic country, he continues his family's legacy while embracing the genre's evolution. As the next generation of PayCheck emerges, John stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of country music and the profound bond with his father.

"I have worked hard at everything I've ever done. Even still, I know I'm lucky and fortunate. I want to make the folks who have helped me along the way proud. I want to bring honor to my family, and make certain that those who love my music are happy to say they are a John PayCheck fan." - John PayCheck]]>
John PayCheck, son of country music legend Johnny PayCheck, embodies tradition while forging his own path in the industry. He grew up surrounded by legends, with music ingrained in his everyday life. John's musical journey began humbly as a roadie, where he learned about the business while traveling with his father.

Two major events diverted him from music temporarily: his father's passing in 2003 led him to explore other passions in firefighting and technology, and the events of 9/11 spurred him to serve his country as an Army aviator. John still serves as a Reserve Army Officer in Europe. Despite his hiatus, music remained a constant thread in his life, drawing him back after 20 years.

As a combat veteran, farmer, and devoted family man, John's return to music was fueled by industry support and the encouragement of fellow country music legacy kids. A CMA member and BMI songwriter, his first single "Lone Stars" charted on radio, a significant milestone in his career. With a unique vocal style and deep-rooted appreciation for classic country, he continues his family's legacy while embracing the genre's evolution. As the next generation of PayCheck emerges, John stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of country music and the profound bond with his father.

"I have worked hard at everything I've ever done. Even still, I know I'm lucky and fortunate. I want to make the folks who have helped me along the way proud. I want to bring honor to my family, and make certain that those who love my music are happy to say they are a John PayCheck fan." - John PayCheck]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/392/ Fri, 08 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778270400
Pat McCurdy is a singer/song writer from Wisconsin. He tours the mid-western part of the USA, his shows usually consisting of just him and his guitar. While the majority of his audience is made up of a college-age crowd, McCurdy manages to appeal to a large number of people of all ages with his interactive shows. Performing well over 300 shows a year, his large catalog of original songs (nearly 600 and growing) covers a variety of topics such as lost loves, politics, family vacations, the joys of Asian cuisine, and the sex organs of long-dead French Emperors.

Classifying McCurdy's style has long been a problem since he tends to follow wherever his muse takes him. Many of his songs could be classified as rock/pop, though he's been known to wander into folk, jazz, country and even Gilbert and Sullivan. Whatever style he chooses, his songs often include memorable lyrics.]]>
Pat McCurdy is a singer/song writer from Wisconsin. He tours the mid-western part of the USA, his shows usually consisting of just him and his guitar. While the majority of his audience is made up of a college-age crowd, McCurdy manages to appeal to a large number of people of all ages with his interactive shows. Performing well over 300 shows a year, his large catalog of original songs (nearly 600 and growing) covers a variety of topics such as lost loves, politics, family vacations, the joys of Asian cuisine, and the sex organs of long-dead French Emperors.

Classifying McCurdy's style has long been a problem since he tends to follow wherever his muse takes him. Many of his songs could be classified as rock/pop, though he's been known to wander into folk, jazz, country and even Gilbert and Sullivan. Whatever style he chooses, his songs often include memorable lyrics.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/195/ Sat, 09 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778356800
Liverpool sextet Red Rum Club continue their upward curve, charging into 2025 with relentless momentum and a sound that's become unmistakably their own -- bold, brass-fueled, and bursting with ambition. With their signature "Mariachi Merseybeat" drawing fans from Merseyside to Mexico, the band are showing no signs of slowing down.

Following a huge start to the year -- including UK arena and European tour dates with The Wombats, the year continued at pace with major festival performances at Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Tramlines, and YNOT - the band also progressed to play their biggest ever local headline show at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool where 11,000 fans celebrated the band's meteoric rise.

In September, the band had their second top ten album with BUCK (Modern Sky UK) and received recognition from the 'Official Charts' with a special award. Described as "a rebellious, high-energy evolution that shatters expectations and redefines their sound," BUCK captures Red Rum Club stepping into their boldest era yet. Additionally, the band also signed a licensing deal with New York based label AVENUE A which is currently promoting the album throughout North, Central and South America.

Live shows remain the heartbeat of Red Rum Club. To mark the release of BUCK, the band embarked on a major UK headline sold out tour (September 24th to October 9th) and played to thousands of fans across the country. Without a chance to take breath, the band then embarked on their biggest North American tour to date, joining The Wombats (October 14th to November 15th), building on their fast-growing US fanbase.

Red Rum Club remain one of the UK's most exciting and authentic live acts -- a band with stories to tell, hooks to spare, and a brass section that could blow the roof off any venue.]]>
Liverpool sextet Red Rum Club continue their upward curve, charging into 2025 with relentless momentum and a sound that's become unmistakably their own -- bold, brass-fueled, and bursting with ambition. With their signature "Mariachi Merseybeat" drawing fans from Merseyside to Mexico, the band are showing no signs of slowing down.

Following a huge start to the year -- including UK arena and European tour dates with The Wombats, the year continued at pace with major festival performances at Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Tramlines, and YNOT - the band also progressed to play their biggest ever local headline show at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool where 11,000 fans celebrated the band's meteoric rise.

In September, the band had their second top ten album with BUCK (Modern Sky UK) and received recognition from the 'Official Charts' with a special award. Described as "a rebellious, high-energy evolution that shatters expectations and redefines their sound," BUCK captures Red Rum Club stepping into their boldest era yet. Additionally, the band also signed a licensing deal with New York based label AVENUE A which is currently promoting the album throughout North, Central and South America.

Live shows remain the heartbeat of Red Rum Club. To mark the release of BUCK, the band embarked on a major UK headline sold out tour (September 24th to October 9th) and played to thousands of fans across the country. Without a chance to take breath, the band then embarked on their biggest North American tour to date, joining The Wombats (October 14th to November 15th), building on their fast-growing US fanbase.

Red Rum Club remain one of the UK's most exciting and authentic live acts -- a band with stories to tell, hooks to spare, and a brass section that could blow the roof off any venue.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/522/ Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778788800
Born and raised on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, Indigenous front man Mato Nanji (Ma-TOE NON-gee) dedicates his latest release Time Is Coming (on Blues Bureau International) to the indigenous youth and all young people on the indigenous reservations.

Mato Nanji's father, the late Greg Zephier, Sr., was a well-known and highly respected spiritual advisor and spokesperson for the International Indian Treaty Council. In addition to this leadership role, he was an accomplished musician and a member of the musical group, The Vanishing Americans. Formed by Greg and his brothers in the '60's, The Vanishing Americans toured nationally and shared bills with such legends as Bonnie Raitt. Besides being heavily influenced by the music his father and uncles were making, Mato was exposed to Greg's vast collection of blues records by legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King. Consequently, Mato embraced and began utilizing his own musical talent at a young age. With the experience, love and wisdom of their father to guide them, Mato, his brother, sister and cousin formed the band Indigenous while in their late teens.

After much time invested in practicing and building a following, they began touring extensively across the country. In 1998, they released their award winning debut album Things We Do. The title track's video, directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), won the American Indian Film Festival Award and was shown at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Indigenous' music caught the attention of blues icon B.B. King and the young band was invited to play on his annual B.B. King's Blues Tour in 1999. Sadly, Mr. Zephier would pass away before seeing his children receive this great honor.

With momentum gaining, Indigenous' 2000 sophomore release, Circle, was produced and arranged by Stevie Ray Vaughan's longtime friend and collaborator, the late Doyle Bramhall, Sr. Three more cds; Fistful of Dirt (2002), Indigenous (2003) and Long Way Home (2005) would follow before the 2006 decision by the siblings to 'disband' and pursue their own musical paths but Mato carried on with the Indigenous band name. "Playing with my family for 10 years was a lot of fun, but it was time to grow and keep moving forward."

Mato continued touring and in 2006 released Chasing The Sun. Two of the cd's songs, "Come On Home" and "Leaving", were featured on the hit Discovery Channel show The Deadliest Catch. "Come on Home" was also featured on FX's Sons of Anarchy.

On 2008's Broken Lands, an intensely personal record, Mato and Leah, his lyricist and wife, pay tribute to his Native heritage. The album decries the poverty, isolation and reality of life on the reservation with "Place I Know." The album gains its title from the line, "all is lost in these broken lands."

Of The Acoustic Sessions (released in 2010), Mato commented, "It's a collection of some of my favorite songs that celebrate 10 years of releasing albums. Every song that I have ever written began with the acoustic guitar, so it only felt natural to create an acoustic album."

Indigenous featuring Mato Nanji (2012) would mark Nanji's debut on the Blues Bureau International label and the beginning of his collaboration with noted producer, Mike Varney. Joining Mato on the disc's opening track "Free Yourself, Free Your Mind" is the soulful Jonny Lang. On it, the two guitar-masters trade vocals and guitar solos. It's truly a blues lover's 'match made in heaven'.

In addition to his Indigenous 'day job', Mato Nanji has been a member of the critically acclaimed Experience Hendrix Tour since 2002. Playing alongside original Jimi Hendrix band members Billy Cox and the late Mitch Mitchell, the tour roster includes some of today's blues greats including Buddy Guy, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon (Double Trouble), Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, and Robert Randolph.

Once the 2012 Experience Hendrix Tour concluded, Mato and fellow EHT tour mates David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) would collaborate and release the hard-driving, psychedelic blues-infused 3 Skulls and the Truth (Blues Bureau International) disc. The album's no-holds barred setting is the ideal foundation for the three veteran axemen to simply 'let it fly'.

February 2013 would bring the Mato Nanji-inspired release from trance-blues artist Otis Taylor, My World Is Gone (Telarc). Mato and Otis explore the plight of the American Indian people in a lightning bolt of musical creativity and social commentary. "Mato inspired the entire direction of this album," says Taylor. "We were talking about history backstage at a Jimi Hendrix tribute concert he had just played, and, in reference to his people, the Native American Nakota Nation, he said 'My world is gone.' The simplicity and honesty of those four words was so heavy, I know what I had to write about."

"My dad was my favorite musician so he really influenced me a lot with everything. I just felt it was time to pay tribute to him and his band," says Nanji. That tribute, Vanishing Americans, was released on May 21, 2013 and promptly found its place on iTunes Top 10 Blues Chart. Blues Rock Review (6/5/13) said: "each song is brought together with heavy and powerful guitar riffs akin to those of Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix, while bellowing, raspy vocals turn a talented guitarist's vision into a relatable song for many, just as any praiseworthy blues album should."

"Mato continues to refine his guitar and vocal vocabularies with each new release and is also expanding his songwriting skills with his wife Leah," said producer Mike Varney of Time Is Coming (May 2014). From the infectious opening track of "Grey Skies"; the Soundgarden/Rage Against the Machine influenced "Won't Be Around No More"; and the gut-wrenching blues of "Don't Know What To Do", and at all points in between, Mato Nanji "tears at his guitar strings, bending and shaking them to within an inch of their life, it is clear that he is no mere copyist. He is a genuine virtuoso..." (Rhys Williams, bluesblastmagazine.com 5/14).

Ultimately, Mato dedicates Time Is Coming, to the Indigenous youth and all young people on the Indigenous reservations. Of the song says Nanji; "still to this day, the struggle continues to just live in peace. Growing up here on the reservation I've seen a lot of broken families...broken homes. I feel our families' "Tiospaye" are the core of what makes us who we are. Now family and its meaning is not as strong as it used to be for our people...almost non-existent. So I send my heart and soul out to the indigenous children having a tough time in their lives and in their homes. This record is inspired by them and made in their honor. I hope for the best for all. Tomorrow is another day."

The Plateros, a three piece award winning family band from the Navajo Nation in Tohajiilee, New Mexico consider Mato Nanji and Indigenous one of their greatest musical influences.

Levi and The Plateros played their first show, a festival in Bird Springs, AZ in December 2004, and by April 2005, they would find themselves onstage performing at the largest PowWow in the world, The Gathering of Nations. Lead guitarist Levi, with his natural born talent, slid across the stage with power chords and screaming blues that amazed the packed crowd. He was just 13 years old.

In the years to follow, Levi, along with his cousins Douglas Platero on drums and Bronson Begay on bass would receive numerous nominations for native music and video awards, and their cd Hang On would take home a win for Best Blues Album at the 2009 New Mexico Music Awards.

In 2012, they joined Indigenous for The Kinship Tour, with The Plateros opening the double bill. They would join Mato for blistering encores that would bring the proverbial house down.

Touring in support of Time Is Coming in the summer of 2014, Mato Nanji would once again call on Levi, Douglas and Bronson to hit the road with him. This time, though, would be different. They would be onstage as Indigenous' rhythm section; Mato and Levi trading leads and solos while Bronson and Douglas provided the strong, stable rhythmic foundation that allowed the two guitarists to 'tear it up'.

As the band made its way across the east coast, the after show buzz was audible. The incendiary chemistry of Mato Nanji, Levi Platero, Bronson Begay and Douglas Platero innate.

They are Indigenous.]]>
Born and raised on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, Indigenous front man Mato Nanji (Ma-TOE NON-gee) dedicates his latest release Time Is Coming (on Blues Bureau International) to the indigenous youth and all young people on the indigenous reservations.

Mato Nanji's father, the late Greg Zephier, Sr., was a well-known and highly respected spiritual advisor and spokesperson for the International Indian Treaty Council. In addition to this leadership role, he was an accomplished musician and a member of the musical group, The Vanishing Americans. Formed by Greg and his brothers in the '60's, The Vanishing Americans toured nationally and shared bills with such legends as Bonnie Raitt. Besides being heavily influenced by the music his father and uncles were making, Mato was exposed to Greg's vast collection of blues records by legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King. Consequently, Mato embraced and began utilizing his own musical talent at a young age. With the experience, love and wisdom of their father to guide them, Mato, his brother, sister and cousin formed the band Indigenous while in their late teens.

After much time invested in practicing and building a following, they began touring extensively across the country. In 1998, they released their award winning debut album Things We Do. The title track's video, directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), won the American Indian Film Festival Award and was shown at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Indigenous' music caught the attention of blues icon B.B. King and the young band was invited to play on his annual B.B. King's Blues Tour in 1999. Sadly, Mr. Zephier would pass away before seeing his children receive this great honor.

With momentum gaining, Indigenous' 2000 sophomore release, Circle, was produced and arranged by Stevie Ray Vaughan's longtime friend and collaborator, the late Doyle Bramhall, Sr. Three more cds; Fistful of Dirt (2002), Indigenous (2003) and Long Way Home (2005) would follow before the 2006 decision by the siblings to 'disband' and pursue their own musical paths but Mato carried on with the Indigenous band name. "Playing with my family for 10 years was a lot of fun, but it was time to grow and keep moving forward."

Mato continued touring and in 2006 released Chasing The Sun. Two of the cd's songs, "Come On Home" and "Leaving", were featured on the hit Discovery Channel show The Deadliest Catch. "Come on Home" was also featured on FX's Sons of Anarchy.

On 2008's Broken Lands, an intensely personal record, Mato and Leah, his lyricist and wife, pay tribute to his Native heritage. The album decries the poverty, isolation and reality of life on the reservation with "Place I Know." The album gains its title from the line, "all is lost in these broken lands."

Of The Acoustic Sessions (released in 2010), Mato commented, "It's a collection of some of my favorite songs that celebrate 10 years of releasing albums. Every song that I have ever written began with the acoustic guitar, so it only felt natural to create an acoustic album."

Indigenous featuring Mato Nanji (2012) would mark Nanji's debut on the Blues Bureau International label and the beginning of his collaboration with noted producer, Mike Varney. Joining Mato on the disc's opening track "Free Yourself, Free Your Mind" is the soulful Jonny Lang. On it, the two guitar-masters trade vocals and guitar solos. It's truly a blues lover's 'match made in heaven'.

In addition to his Indigenous 'day job', Mato Nanji has been a member of the critically acclaimed Experience Hendrix Tour since 2002. Playing alongside original Jimi Hendrix band members Billy Cox and the late Mitch Mitchell, the tour roster includes some of today's blues greats including Buddy Guy, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon (Double Trouble), Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, and Robert Randolph.

Once the 2012 Experience Hendrix Tour concluded, Mato and fellow EHT tour mates David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) would collaborate and release the hard-driving, psychedelic blues-infused 3 Skulls and the Truth (Blues Bureau International) disc. The album's no-holds barred setting is the ideal foundation for the three veteran axemen to simply 'let it fly'.

February 2013 would bring the Mato Nanji-inspired release from trance-blues artist Otis Taylor, My World Is Gone (Telarc). Mato and Otis explore the plight of the American Indian people in a lightning bolt of musical creativity and social commentary. "Mato inspired the entire direction of this album," says Taylor. "We were talking about history backstage at a Jimi Hendrix tribute concert he had just played, and, in reference to his people, the Native American Nakota Nation, he said 'My world is gone.' The simplicity and honesty of those four words was so heavy, I know what I had to write about."

"My dad was my favorite musician so he really influenced me a lot with everything. I just felt it was time to pay tribute to him and his band," says Nanji. That tribute, Vanishing Americans, was released on May 21, 2013 and promptly found its place on iTunes Top 10 Blues Chart. Blues Rock Review (6/5/13) said: "each song is brought together with heavy and powerful guitar riffs akin to those of Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix, while bellowing, raspy vocals turn a talented guitarist's vision into a relatable song for many, just as any praiseworthy blues album should."

"Mato continues to refine his guitar and vocal vocabularies with each new release and is also expanding his songwriting skills with his wife Leah," said producer Mike Varney of Time Is Coming (May 2014). From the infectious opening track of "Grey Skies"; the Soundgarden/Rage Against the Machine influenced "Won't Be Around No More"; and the gut-wrenching blues of "Don't Know What To Do", and at all points in between, Mato Nanji "tears at his guitar strings, bending and shaking them to within an inch of their life, it is clear that he is no mere copyist. He is a genuine virtuoso..." (Rhys Williams, bluesblastmagazine.com 5/14).

Ultimately, Mato dedicates Time Is Coming, to the Indigenous youth and all young people on the Indigenous reservations. Of the song says Nanji; "still to this day, the struggle continues to just live in peace. Growing up here on the reservation I've seen a lot of broken families...broken homes. I feel our families' "Tiospaye" are the core of what makes us who we are. Now family and its meaning is not as strong as it used to be for our people...almost non-existent. So I send my heart and soul out to the indigenous children having a tough time in their lives and in their homes. This record is inspired by them and made in their honor. I hope for the best for all. Tomorrow is another day."

The Plateros, a three piece award winning family band from the Navajo Nation in Tohajiilee, New Mexico consider Mato Nanji and Indigenous one of their greatest musical influences.

Levi and The Plateros played their first show, a festival in Bird Springs, AZ in December 2004, and by April 2005, they would find themselves onstage performing at the largest PowWow in the world, The Gathering of Nations. Lead guitarist Levi, with his natural born talent, slid across the stage with power chords and screaming blues that amazed the packed crowd. He was just 13 years old.

In the years to follow, Levi, along with his cousins Douglas Platero on drums and Bronson Begay on bass would receive numerous nominations for native music and video awards, and their cd Hang On would take home a win for Best Blues Album at the 2009 New Mexico Music Awards.

In 2012, they joined Indigenous for The Kinship Tour, with The Plateros opening the double bill. They would join Mato for blistering encores that would bring the proverbial house down.

Touring in support of Time Is Coming in the summer of 2014, Mato Nanji would once again call on Levi, Douglas and Bronson to hit the road with him. This time, though, would be different. They would be onstage as Indigenous' rhythm section; Mato and Levi trading leads and solos while Bronson and Douglas provided the strong, stable rhythmic foundation that allowed the two guitarists to 'tear it up'.

As the band made its way across the east coast, the after show buzz was audible. The incendiary chemistry of Mato Nanji, Levi Platero, Bronson Begay and Douglas Platero innate.

They are Indigenous.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/508/ Fri, 15 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778875200
Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound are the latest in Fresh Venerable. Benefitting from years of unassuming and understated hipness, they bring forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that sits comfortably with soulful sounds the world over.

Intricate but free-swinging, explosive yet intimate, fresh and green as grass.

Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest), the streets (and 45's) of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk & blues of his youth coupled with early, teeth-cutting experience in the verbal hotbeds of the coffeehouse scene, Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture.

Tomorrow Sound are an elite crew of offhand adepts who bring plenty of their own wood to the fire. Drummer Reggie Bordeaux, casts his nets with a mystifying subtlety bringing his own fleet-footed refinement and grease. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Jennings, lends his bandleader the luxury of implying a much larger ensemble with his multi-hued contributions on keys and reeds. Bassist Mike Fredrickson (a distinguished singer-songwriter in his own right) anchors and prods with the best of them.

Paul Cebar cut his teeth musically in the coffeehouse folk scene of the mid-'70s in Milwaukee. First paying gigs took place in late '76 with an emphasis on solo recasting of small combo jump-blues and other early R&B. Upon graduation from New College in Sarasota, Florida, with a thesis addressing rhythm & blues varieties featuring a hearty emphasis on Louis Jordan and Buddy Johnson, Cebar dedicated himself to trodding the boards in earnest and spent substantial amounts of time testing the waters out New York way while exploring band dynamics with a soul and New Orleans-minded crew called the R&B Cadets back home. The Cadets ranged about from 1980 to 1986 and featured the grand original tunes of John Sieger alongside the winning assortment of B sides and obscurities that were the fruits of Cebar's research. Concurrently, he kept alive the spark of his solo work with a small group which came to be known as The Milwaukeeans. Throughout the early 80s, this combo featured Rip Tenor on tenor sax, Alan Anderson on upright bass, Robyn Pluer on vocals and Paul on acoustic guitar and vocals, and drew most of its repertoire from '30s, '40s and '50s jazz and R&B.

With the demise of the Cadets in mid-1986, Cebar and Pluer, Tenor and Anderson welcomed drummer Randy Baugher and early Cadet saxophonist/vocalist Juli Wood to a new dance-floor fortified version of The Milwaukeeans which reflected Paul's ongoing and deepening fascination with African, Latin American and Caribbean rhythm & blues analogues. Rambling about the Midwest for the remainder of the '80s with occasional forays east and south, The Milwaukeeans began to rely more and more upon the original material that began to emerge in the aftermath of years of interpolation and grappling with favorites.

The first studio album, "That Unhinged Thing," which was culled from a number of years of recording, finally saw the light of day in 1993. It sparked a wider itinerary in the touring department, with initial forays to the west coast and Canada, as well as returns to the east and south. Following the release of the record and six months of touring, founding member and estimable vocalist Robyn Pluer left the band to attend to le private life.

Rebuffing the command of the record label, Shanachie, that he add a female vocalist, Cebar and cohorts ventured forth into the storm without a label umbrella for what turned into two years of enthusiastic touring with much attendant hand-wringing. Finally, they landed on the shores of a little label that could (for a while), Don't Records, a Milwaukee-based, heart-driven indie. In the summer of '95, they set about making "Upstroke for the Downfolk," while upon its release in the fall of that year began to make inroads at adult album alternative radio outlets nationwide. The single "Didn't Leave Me No Ladder" ushered the fellows to a new level of visibility and the vans rolled on.

A six-song EP, "I Can't Dance For You," followed in the spring of '96 and was superseded by "The Get-Go," a full-length recording released in the fall of '97. Radio support was more sporadic, though the fan corps kept growing. But halfway through '98, Don't's distributor declared bankruptcy and its inventory was impounded. With its merchandise out of reach, Don't found it increasingly difficult and ultimately impossible to carry on.

In 2001, 151/2 years into the dance band incarnation of The Milwaukeeans, the fellows presented, "Suchamuch",a long-requested live album recorded at Martyr's in Chicago and continued to offer their multifarious wares to all and sundry. The present day incarnation of Tomorrow Sound took shape with the arrival (8 years back) of bassist, Mike Fredrickson, joining 22-year veterans Reggie Bordeaux on drums and Bob Jennings on saxophones and keyboards.

The peripatetic pageant continues unabated with renewed focus on "the song" in the context of the increasingly forceful rhythmic exploration that is at the heart of Cebar's quest. Stripping back to 4 pieces has opened up space for the understated command of Bob Jennings' keyboard and saxophonic thinking. Field Marshall Cebar's pithy guitar musing comes to the fore building upon the muscular rhythmic lattice laid by Reggie and Mike. With an ever-deepening appreciation for the funk and the polyglot rhythmic conception that is their trademark, Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound said More! More! More! in 2004. Way to thrive in 2005! Dipped their wicks in 2006, Partied like '11 in 2007, and have their wild heads on straight in 2008. Fine fine Fine into 2009! funked it again and again and again and again in '10, made like 2107 in '11, and have packed up the worry they shelved in '12, incorporated the added vim they were flirtin' with in '13 and are full-on sportin' A-team in '18.

Presently spreading the word with their gangling, headlong and insouciant record,"FINE RUDE THING", Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound want and need you to come on out and help them get down.

Many musicians have graced the stage with Paul in the course of the aforementioned wander. He'd like to thank them all again for the loving spirit they brought to bear on the music. A partial list would include: Rip Tenor, Alan Anderson, Robin Pluer, Guy Hoffman, Juli Wood, Randy Baugher, Peter Roller, Tony Jarvis, Greg Tardy, Mac Perkins, Paul Scher, Michael Kashou, Michael Walls, Ethan Bender,Patrick Patterson, Romero Beverly and the present day crew, Bob Jennings, Reggie Bordeaux,and Mike Fredrickson. Viva le Musicianers!!!!!!!]]>
Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound are the latest in Fresh Venerable. Benefitting from years of unassuming and understated hipness, they bring forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that sits comfortably with soulful sounds the world over.

Intricate but free-swinging, explosive yet intimate, fresh and green as grass.

Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest), the streets (and 45's) of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk & blues of his youth coupled with early, teeth-cutting experience in the verbal hotbeds of the coffeehouse scene, Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture.

Tomorrow Sound are an elite crew of offhand adepts who bring plenty of their own wood to the fire. Drummer Reggie Bordeaux, casts his nets with a mystifying subtlety bringing his own fleet-footed refinement and grease. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Jennings, lends his bandleader the luxury of implying a much larger ensemble with his multi-hued contributions on keys and reeds. Bassist Mike Fredrickson (a distinguished singer-songwriter in his own right) anchors and prods with the best of them.

Paul Cebar cut his teeth musically in the coffeehouse folk scene of the mid-'70s in Milwaukee. First paying gigs took place in late '76 with an emphasis on solo recasting of small combo jump-blues and other early R&B. Upon graduation from New College in Sarasota, Florida, with a thesis addressing rhythm & blues varieties featuring a hearty emphasis on Louis Jordan and Buddy Johnson, Cebar dedicated himself to trodding the boards in earnest and spent substantial amounts of time testing the waters out New York way while exploring band dynamics with a soul and New Orleans-minded crew called the R&B Cadets back home. The Cadets ranged about from 1980 to 1986 and featured the grand original tunes of John Sieger alongside the winning assortment of B sides and obscurities that were the fruits of Cebar's research. Concurrently, he kept alive the spark of his solo work with a small group which came to be known as The Milwaukeeans. Throughout the early 80s, this combo featured Rip Tenor on tenor sax, Alan Anderson on upright bass, Robyn Pluer on vocals and Paul on acoustic guitar and vocals, and drew most of its repertoire from '30s, '40s and '50s jazz and R&B.

With the demise of the Cadets in mid-1986, Cebar and Pluer, Tenor and Anderson welcomed drummer Randy Baugher and early Cadet saxophonist/vocalist Juli Wood to a new dance-floor fortified version of The Milwaukeeans which reflected Paul's ongoing and deepening fascination with African, Latin American and Caribbean rhythm & blues analogues. Rambling about the Midwest for the remainder of the '80s with occasional forays east and south, The Milwaukeeans began to rely more and more upon the original material that began to emerge in the aftermath of years of interpolation and grappling with favorites.

The first studio album, "That Unhinged Thing," which was culled from a number of years of recording, finally saw the light of day in 1993. It sparked a wider itinerary in the touring department, with initial forays to the west coast and Canada, as well as returns to the east and south. Following the release of the record and six months of touring, founding member and estimable vocalist Robyn Pluer left the band to attend to le private life.

Rebuffing the command of the record label, Shanachie, that he add a female vocalist, Cebar and cohorts ventured forth into the storm without a label umbrella for what turned into two years of enthusiastic touring with much attendant hand-wringing. Finally, they landed on the shores of a little label that could (for a while), Don't Records, a Milwaukee-based, heart-driven indie. In the summer of '95, they set about making "Upstroke for the Downfolk," while upon its release in the fall of that year began to make inroads at adult album alternative radio outlets nationwide. The single "Didn't Leave Me No Ladder" ushered the fellows to a new level of visibility and the vans rolled on.

A six-song EP, "I Can't Dance For You," followed in the spring of '96 and was superseded by "The Get-Go," a full-length recording released in the fall of '97. Radio support was more sporadic, though the fan corps kept growing. But halfway through '98, Don't's distributor declared bankruptcy and its inventory was impounded. With its merchandise out of reach, Don't found it increasingly difficult and ultimately impossible to carry on.

In 2001, 151/2 years into the dance band incarnation of The Milwaukeeans, the fellows presented, "Suchamuch",a long-requested live album recorded at Martyr's in Chicago and continued to offer their multifarious wares to all and sundry. The present day incarnation of Tomorrow Sound took shape with the arrival (8 years back) of bassist, Mike Fredrickson, joining 22-year veterans Reggie Bordeaux on drums and Bob Jennings on saxophones and keyboards.

The peripatetic pageant continues unabated with renewed focus on "the song" in the context of the increasingly forceful rhythmic exploration that is at the heart of Cebar's quest. Stripping back to 4 pieces has opened up space for the understated command of Bob Jennings' keyboard and saxophonic thinking. Field Marshall Cebar's pithy guitar musing comes to the fore building upon the muscular rhythmic lattice laid by Reggie and Mike. With an ever-deepening appreciation for the funk and the polyglot rhythmic conception that is their trademark, Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound said More! More! More! in 2004. Way to thrive in 2005! Dipped their wicks in 2006, Partied like '11 in 2007, and have their wild heads on straight in 2008. Fine fine Fine into 2009! funked it again and again and again and again in '10, made like 2107 in '11, and have packed up the worry they shelved in '12, incorporated the added vim they were flirtin' with in '13 and are full-on sportin' A-team in '18.

Presently spreading the word with their gangling, headlong and insouciant record,"FINE RUDE THING", Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound want and need you to come on out and help them get down.

Many musicians have graced the stage with Paul in the course of the aforementioned wander. He'd like to thank them all again for the loving spirit they brought to bear on the music. A partial list would include: Rip Tenor, Alan Anderson, Robin Pluer, Guy Hoffman, Juli Wood, Randy Baugher, Peter Roller, Tony Jarvis, Greg Tardy, Mac Perkins, Paul Scher, Michael Kashou, Michael Walls, Ethan Bender,Patrick Patterson, Romero Beverly and the present day crew, Bob Jennings, Reggie Bordeaux,and Mike Fredrickson. Viva le Musicianers!!!!!!!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/460/ Sat, 16 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1778961600
Last month Uncle Lucius released Live from Ear Studio. Recorded live to tape at Ear Studio in Austin, TX the record features select singles from their latest LP Like It's The Last One Left plus three covers: "Bertha" by the Grateful Dead; "Shadow People," a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers staple and "Just To Satisfy You" made popular by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson.

Uncle Lucius has long been known for their unique blend of roots rock & roll and country soul. Since adding heavyweights Doug Strahan (guitar) and Drew Scherger (bass) to the fold, the band has expanded its palette, exploring new musical landscapes and reveling in the power that comes from following sonic avenues, without prejudice, wherever they lead. The results onstage speak for themselves.

During the years following the band's farewell tour in 2018, their audience continued to organically grow, highlighted by the placement of their song "Keep the Wolves Away" in an episode of Yellowstone and its subsequent RIAA gold and platinum certifications. After a few years on hiatus -- with a fresh outlook and a deep well of new ideas -- the band members began to shake off their collective rust and blueprint songs that mirrored their career and current status, hitting on themes of resolve and resilience. The band released their first album in 8 years Like It's The Last One Left last December via Thirty Tigers / Boo Clap Records. Since their comeback the band has toured consistently around the world and recently the 2nd single from Like It's The Last One Left, "All The Angelenos," hit #5 on the Texas Radio Charts.]]>
Last month Uncle Lucius released Live from Ear Studio. Recorded live to tape at Ear Studio in Austin, TX the record features select singles from their latest LP Like It's The Last One Left plus three covers: "Bertha" by the Grateful Dead; "Shadow People," a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers staple and "Just To Satisfy You" made popular by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson.

Uncle Lucius has long been known for their unique blend of roots rock & roll and country soul. Since adding heavyweights Doug Strahan (guitar) and Drew Scherger (bass) to the fold, the band has expanded its palette, exploring new musical landscapes and reveling in the power that comes from following sonic avenues, without prejudice, wherever they lead. The results onstage speak for themselves.

During the years following the band's farewell tour in 2018, their audience continued to organically grow, highlighted by the placement of their song "Keep the Wolves Away" in an episode of Yellowstone and its subsequent RIAA gold and platinum certifications. After a few years on hiatus -- with a fresh outlook and a deep well of new ideas -- the band members began to shake off their collective rust and blueprint songs that mirrored their career and current status, hitting on themes of resolve and resilience. The band released their first album in 8 years Like It's The Last One Left last December via Thirty Tigers / Boo Clap Records. Since their comeback the band has toured consistently around the world and recently the 2nd single from Like It's The Last One Left, "All The Angelenos," hit #5 on the Texas Radio Charts.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/469/ Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1779220800
Phil Manzanera is one of the UK's best-known musicians and record producers, having shot to prominence in the early '70s as the lead guitarist with the seminal band, Roxy Music. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading guitarists and record producers, combining his live playing with writing and producing new music. He was awarded the OBE in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours list: 'musician and producer. For services to music.'

In the Autumn of 2022 Roxy Music celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 10 date critically acclaimed tour of the US, followed by three dates in the UK: the triumphant 'victory' lap with original members, Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson and Phil, culminated in a sell-out concert at London's O2 Arena. In 2023 Phil and Andy Mackay released their avant-rock album, AMPM, featuring Paul Thompson, followed by three London gigs in 2024. In September 2025 AMPM SOHO LIVE will be released.

In March 2024 Phil self-published 'Revolución to Roxy' his compelling memoir and during this year is giving a series of book talks, from Hay Festival, Cartagena to the Cat Club in Pontefract. November 2024 saw the release on Universal Records of '50 Years of Music' an 11 CD box-set with a 100 page book.

During the global pandemic Phil reconnected with his old friend, New Zealand legend,Tim Finn, and together they wrote and produced two stunning albums, 2021's 'Caught by the Heart' and 2022's 'The Ghost of Santiago.'

Manzanera, born to a British father and Colombian mother, has always taken a global approach to his music making, collaborating with musicians from South and Latin America, South Africa, Cuba and continental Europe. In 2018 he was part of South Africa's The Liberation Project and toured with them in Italy in the Summer of 2019. In 2018, at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Manzanera teamed up with Roxy bandmate, Andy Mackay in a Roxymphony concert: orchestral arrangements of Roxy songs.

Over the last four years he has co-produced Pink Floyd's 'The Endless River', which was a global hit, achieving No 1 in over 20 countries, he released, 'The Sound of Blue', his own autobiographical album, co-produced David Gilmour's 2015 album, 'Rattle That Lock', which again topped the charts in 12 countries: he toured with Gilmour in the UK, Europe and South America. In 2015 he was Maestro Concertatore of La Notte della Taranta, Italy's largest free festival. He also took part in 'Sunshine of Your Love' a tribute concert to his friend, Jack Bruce.

Phil's musical influence stretches far and wide, but even he was taken by surprise when his guitar riff from 1978's K-Scope was sampled by Jay Z and Kanye West and became the Grammy winning smash hit 'No Church in the Wild' the first track on their multi-million selling album, 'Watch The Throne'.

Manzanera is now in his fifth decade as a professional musician. He joined Roxy Music in 1972, aged 21, as lead guitarist -- the line-up at this time was Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Paul Thompson and Andy Mackay. Roxy's rise was meteoric, with the band being hailed as the stylistic influence of the early 1970's. During the next 12 years, until 1983 when the band members went on a 'long break', Roxy Music released a series of international best selling albums, achieving ten UK top ten albums and touring extensively throughout the world. The 18 year hiatus ended in 2001 with a critically acclaimed, sellout 52-date world tour. In the summer of 2003 Roxy played 10 dates in the US followed by 13 European gigs in 2004, including performing at Live 8 in Berlin. Summer 2010 saw Roxy Music thrilling fans at Festivals in the UK, Europe and Japan, which was followed by a Winter UK tour, and dates in Australia and New Zealand. In 2019 Roxy Music was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performing live at the ceremony.

As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley and Creme, Nico (Velvet Underground) and John Wetton (King Crimson, Asia). He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno, Tim Finn, Robert Wyatt and David Gilmour. Manzanera co-wrote Pink Floyd's single 'One Slip'from their 1988 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' album.In the world of Rock en Español Manzanera has also produced seminal albums for Draco Rosa ,Enrique Bunbury, Héroes del Silencio Aterciopelados, Paralamas do Sucesso and Fito Paez.

Phil Manzanera has his state of the art Gallery Studios in West London. Artists that have recorded there include Robert Wyatt, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Hot Chip, David Gilmour, Annie Lennox, Paul Weller, Kevin Ayers, and Chrissie Hynde.]]>
Phil Manzanera is one of the UK's best-known musicians and record producers, having shot to prominence in the early '70s as the lead guitarist with the seminal band, Roxy Music. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading guitarists and record producers, combining his live playing with writing and producing new music. He was awarded the OBE in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours list: 'musician and producer. For services to music.'

In the Autumn of 2022 Roxy Music celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 10 date critically acclaimed tour of the US, followed by three dates in the UK: the triumphant 'victory' lap with original members, Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson and Phil, culminated in a sell-out concert at London's O2 Arena. In 2023 Phil and Andy Mackay released their avant-rock album, AMPM, featuring Paul Thompson, followed by three London gigs in 2024. In September 2025 AMPM SOHO LIVE will be released.

In March 2024 Phil self-published 'Revolución to Roxy' his compelling memoir and during this year is giving a series of book talks, from Hay Festival, Cartagena to the Cat Club in Pontefract. November 2024 saw the release on Universal Records of '50 Years of Music' an 11 CD box-set with a 100 page book.

During the global pandemic Phil reconnected with his old friend, New Zealand legend,Tim Finn, and together they wrote and produced two stunning albums, 2021's 'Caught by the Heart' and 2022's 'The Ghost of Santiago.'

Manzanera, born to a British father and Colombian mother, has always taken a global approach to his music making, collaborating with musicians from South and Latin America, South Africa, Cuba and continental Europe. In 2018 he was part of South Africa's The Liberation Project and toured with them in Italy in the Summer of 2019. In 2018, at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Manzanera teamed up with Roxy bandmate, Andy Mackay in a Roxymphony concert: orchestral arrangements of Roxy songs.

Over the last four years he has co-produced Pink Floyd's 'The Endless River', which was a global hit, achieving No 1 in over 20 countries, he released, 'The Sound of Blue', his own autobiographical album, co-produced David Gilmour's 2015 album, 'Rattle That Lock', which again topped the charts in 12 countries: he toured with Gilmour in the UK, Europe and South America. In 2015 he was Maestro Concertatore of La Notte della Taranta, Italy's largest free festival. He also took part in 'Sunshine of Your Love' a tribute concert to his friend, Jack Bruce.

Phil's musical influence stretches far and wide, but even he was taken by surprise when his guitar riff from 1978's K-Scope was sampled by Jay Z and Kanye West and became the Grammy winning smash hit 'No Church in the Wild' the first track on their multi-million selling album, 'Watch The Throne'.

Manzanera is now in his fifth decade as a professional musician. He joined Roxy Music in 1972, aged 21, as lead guitarist -- the line-up at this time was Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Paul Thompson and Andy Mackay. Roxy's rise was meteoric, with the band being hailed as the stylistic influence of the early 1970's. During the next 12 years, until 1983 when the band members went on a 'long break', Roxy Music released a series of international best selling albums, achieving ten UK top ten albums and touring extensively throughout the world. The 18 year hiatus ended in 2001 with a critically acclaimed, sellout 52-date world tour. In the summer of 2003 Roxy played 10 dates in the US followed by 13 European gigs in 2004, including performing at Live 8 in Berlin. Summer 2010 saw Roxy Music thrilling fans at Festivals in the UK, Europe and Japan, which was followed by a Winter UK tour, and dates in Australia and New Zealand. In 2019 Roxy Music was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performing live at the ceremony.

As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley and Creme, Nico (Velvet Underground) and John Wetton (King Crimson, Asia). He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno, Tim Finn, Robert Wyatt and David Gilmour. Manzanera co-wrote Pink Floyd's single 'One Slip'from their 1988 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' album.In the world of Rock en Español Manzanera has also produced seminal albums for Draco Rosa ,Enrique Bunbury, Héroes del Silencio Aterciopelados, Paralamas do Sucesso and Fito Paez.

Phil Manzanera has his state of the art Gallery Studios in West London. Artists that have recorded there include Robert Wyatt, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Hot Chip, David Gilmour, Annie Lennox, Paul Weller, Kevin Ayers, and Chrissie Hynde.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/451/ Fri, 22 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1779480000
"I want my songs to be heard and experienced, not just listened to," says cliché-defying, internationally beloved Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon. With his richly detailed, truth-telling original songs, blistering, inventive guitar work and impassioned vocals, Cannon is on the cutting edge of today's contemporary blues scene and is known as one of the genre's most creative artists. His sound is inspired by his heroes, including Hound Dog Taylor, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Albert King, Son Seals and Jimi Hendrix. On his third Alligator Records album, Shut Up And Play!, Cannon blazes his own path with 11 emotionally-charged originals. From serious to humorous, his imaginative songs are fueled by his powerful, cathartic guitar solos and his soulfully authoritative voice.

Shut Up And Play!, co-produced by Cannon and Alligator president Bruce Iglauer, finds Cannon, a former Chicago Transit Authority bus driver, delivering timeless stories of common experiences, often unfolding in uncommon ways. His passionate and focused guitar playing sets his lyrics ablaze. From the first radio single, the unassailable I Hate Love, to the gospel-inspired, autobiographical Had To Go Through It To Get To It, to the slow-burning, reflective Guilty, to the deeply personal Message To My Daughter, Shut Up And Play! tackles the gamut of human emotions. Song subjects range from the heartbreak of lost love, to the humor of daily life, to the pain of feeling invisible in today's society, all as seen through Cannon's wide-open eyes.

Shut Up And Play! is bookended by two of Cannon's most striking compositions, both a mirror of the times. The opener, the exuberantly performed blues scorcher Can't Fix The World, shines a light on hypocrisy and duplicity, while unleashing dynamic, memorable guitar solos echoing the intensity of the vocals. The closer, Shut Up And Play!, takes a deep look inside, as Cannon vents his anger at being told to keep his opinions about the world to himself. As the defiant vocals command attention, Cannon's frustrations pour into every note. Chicago's New City declared, "Toronzo Cannon spins the innate human capacity of misery and regret into a kind of furious ecstasy."

"I write what I know, what I feel," Cannon says, "I like to put myself in the shoes of the subjects of my songs. This record is about the things going on in my life since 2019--it's a document of what I've seen and been through, but the stories are universal. And it's my way to get past negative things and keep my own sanity. Listen to the lyrics. I am a Black man in America. These are NOT protest songs. I try to create honest, common sense understanding with my songs."

Toronzo Cannon was born in Chicago on February 14, 1968, and grew up in the shadows of the notoriously tough Robert Taylor Homes. Theresa's Lounge, one of the city's most famous South Side blues clubs, was close by. As a child, Cannon would stand on the sidewalk outside the club's door, soaking up the live blues pouring out, while trying to sneak a glance inside at larger-than-life bluesmen like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He also heard plenty of blues records growing up in his grandfather's home, and listened to soul, R&B and contemporary rock on the radio.

Cannon's sister gifted him his first guitar at age 22, and his natural talent enabled him to quickly master the instrument. Although his initial focus was reggae, he found himself increasingly drawn to the blues. "It was dormant in me. But when I started playing the blues, I found my voice and the blues came pouring out." He absorbed sounds, styles and licks from Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, Lil' Ed Williams and others. Although influenced by many, Cannon's biting, stinging guitar sound is all his own.

From 1996 through 2002, Cannon played as a sideman for Tommy McCracken, Wayne Baker Brooks, L.V. Banks and Joanna Connor. But he was determined to prove himself. In 2001, while continuing to work as a hired-gun guitarist, he formed his own band, The Cannonball Express. By 2003, he was working exclusively as a band leader. His first three albums--2007's My Woman (self-released), 2011's Leaving Mood (Delmark) and 2013's Blues Music Award-nominated John The Conqueror Root (Delmark)--document his rise from new kid on the block to promising up-and-comer.

Cannon fulfilled that promise with the 2016 release of his Alligator Records debut, The Chicago Way, with his maturity as an artist on full display. The album was hailed as the emergence of one of the most electrifying bluesmen to burst onto the international stage in decades. The groundbreaking 2019 follow-up, The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, built upon the foundation he'd laid, creating and defining his vision of contemporary blues. Local, national and international media all took notice. CNN filmed Cannon leading a tour of Chicago blues clubs and then broadcast the piece around the world. Local Chicago television station WGN won an EMMY award for their piece on Chicago's new blues master. England's tastemaker MOJO magazine declared The Chicago Way the #1 Blues Album Of 2016, and The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp as the #2 Blues Album Of 2019.

Cannon has been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, and, as his fan base expands, so do his friendships with famous musicians. Gary Clark, Jr. declared, "Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up," and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, "Toronzo's a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality."

Cannon has performed at clubs and festivals at major cities all over the U.S. and continues to bring his music directly to his fans. He's toured Canada, the UK, made his way across Europe and even to Japan. He has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, bringing tens of thousands of his fellow Chicagoans to their feet. His live performances unfailingly earn him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic new fans. "Listen to a master bluesman at work," declared the UK's Blues & Rhythm magazine. "This is modern blues at its creative best."

Now, with Shut Up And Play! Toronzo Cannon delivers his songs with purpose and passion. "It's not about the solos," says the man whose blazing guitar work continues to impress, "it's about the songs. People get used to everyday life, so it's easy to miss the things around them. I know the problems of Chicago, the hardships. I write about those things. But I love my city, warts and all. I grew up here. It molded me and gave me the people and places I know and love. And it produced the Chicago blues giants that came here from down south. I'm proud to be from Chicago and to be able to stand on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."

All the attention he's received only makes Cannon more focused. "I feel like I've become an ambassador for Chicago blues. People expect a lot from me," he says. "But it's good, because I'm forced to keep upping my game." And like all the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his life's calling. "You don't choose the blues," he says. "The blues chooses you."]]>
"I want my songs to be heard and experienced, not just listened to," says cliché-defying, internationally beloved Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon. With his richly detailed, truth-telling original songs, blistering, inventive guitar work and impassioned vocals, Cannon is on the cutting edge of today's contemporary blues scene and is known as one of the genre's most creative artists. His sound is inspired by his heroes, including Hound Dog Taylor, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Albert King, Son Seals and Jimi Hendrix. On his third Alligator Records album, Shut Up And Play!, Cannon blazes his own path with 11 emotionally-charged originals. From serious to humorous, his imaginative songs are fueled by his powerful, cathartic guitar solos and his soulfully authoritative voice.

Shut Up And Play!, co-produced by Cannon and Alligator president Bruce Iglauer, finds Cannon, a former Chicago Transit Authority bus driver, delivering timeless stories of common experiences, often unfolding in uncommon ways. His passionate and focused guitar playing sets his lyrics ablaze. From the first radio single, the unassailable I Hate Love, to the gospel-inspired, autobiographical Had To Go Through It To Get To It, to the slow-burning, reflective Guilty, to the deeply personal Message To My Daughter, Shut Up And Play! tackles the gamut of human emotions. Song subjects range from the heartbreak of lost love, to the humor of daily life, to the pain of feeling invisible in today's society, all as seen through Cannon's wide-open eyes.

Shut Up And Play! is bookended by two of Cannon's most striking compositions, both a mirror of the times. The opener, the exuberantly performed blues scorcher Can't Fix The World, shines a light on hypocrisy and duplicity, while unleashing dynamic, memorable guitar solos echoing the intensity of the vocals. The closer, Shut Up And Play!, takes a deep look inside, as Cannon vents his anger at being told to keep his opinions about the world to himself. As the defiant vocals command attention, Cannon's frustrations pour into every note. Chicago's New City declared, "Toronzo Cannon spins the innate human capacity of misery and regret into a kind of furious ecstasy."

"I write what I know, what I feel," Cannon says, "I like to put myself in the shoes of the subjects of my songs. This record is about the things going on in my life since 2019--it's a document of what I've seen and been through, but the stories are universal. And it's my way to get past negative things and keep my own sanity. Listen to the lyrics. I am a Black man in America. These are NOT protest songs. I try to create honest, common sense understanding with my songs."

Toronzo Cannon was born in Chicago on February 14, 1968, and grew up in the shadows of the notoriously tough Robert Taylor Homes. Theresa's Lounge, one of the city's most famous South Side blues clubs, was close by. As a child, Cannon would stand on the sidewalk outside the club's door, soaking up the live blues pouring out, while trying to sneak a glance inside at larger-than-life bluesmen like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He also heard plenty of blues records growing up in his grandfather's home, and listened to soul, R&B and contemporary rock on the radio.

Cannon's sister gifted him his first guitar at age 22, and his natural talent enabled him to quickly master the instrument. Although his initial focus was reggae, he found himself increasingly drawn to the blues. "It was dormant in me. But when I started playing the blues, I found my voice and the blues came pouring out." He absorbed sounds, styles and licks from Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, Lil' Ed Williams and others. Although influenced by many, Cannon's biting, stinging guitar sound is all his own.

From 1996 through 2002, Cannon played as a sideman for Tommy McCracken, Wayne Baker Brooks, L.V. Banks and Joanna Connor. But he was determined to prove himself. In 2001, while continuing to work as a hired-gun guitarist, he formed his own band, The Cannonball Express. By 2003, he was working exclusively as a band leader. His first three albums--2007's My Woman (self-released), 2011's Leaving Mood (Delmark) and 2013's Blues Music Award-nominated John The Conqueror Root (Delmark)--document his rise from new kid on the block to promising up-and-comer.

Cannon fulfilled that promise with the 2016 release of his Alligator Records debut, The Chicago Way, with his maturity as an artist on full display. The album was hailed as the emergence of one of the most electrifying bluesmen to burst onto the international stage in decades. The groundbreaking 2019 follow-up, The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, built upon the foundation he'd laid, creating and defining his vision of contemporary blues. Local, national and international media all took notice. CNN filmed Cannon leading a tour of Chicago blues clubs and then broadcast the piece around the world. Local Chicago television station WGN won an EMMY award for their piece on Chicago's new blues master. England's tastemaker MOJO magazine declared The Chicago Way the #1 Blues Album Of 2016, and The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp as the #2 Blues Album Of 2019.

Cannon has been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, and, as his fan base expands, so do his friendships with famous musicians. Gary Clark, Jr. declared, "Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up," and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, "Toronzo's a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality."

Cannon has performed at clubs and festivals at major cities all over the U.S. and continues to bring his music directly to his fans. He's toured Canada, the UK, made his way across Europe and even to Japan. He has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, bringing tens of thousands of his fellow Chicagoans to their feet. His live performances unfailingly earn him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic new fans. "Listen to a master bluesman at work," declared the UK's Blues & Rhythm magazine. "This is modern blues at its creative best."

Now, with Shut Up And Play! Toronzo Cannon delivers his songs with purpose and passion. "It's not about the solos," says the man whose blazing guitar work continues to impress, "it's about the songs. People get used to everyday life, so it's easy to miss the things around them. I know the problems of Chicago, the hardships. I write about those things. But I love my city, warts and all. I grew up here. It molded me and gave me the people and places I know and love. And it produced the Chicago blues giants that came here from down south. I'm proud to be from Chicago and to be able to stand on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."

All the attention he's received only makes Cannon more focused. "I feel like I've become an ambassador for Chicago blues. People expect a lot from me," he says. "But it's good, because I'm forced to keep upping my game." And like all the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his life's calling. "You don't choose the blues," he says. "The blues chooses you."]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/128/ Sat, 23 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1779566400
This concert was originally planned for January 10th of 2026.
The Packers were in the playoffs, and in Wisconsin you don't mess with that:) (plus some of us wanted to watch). Nobody knew that Bob Weir would pass that night. As so to honor him, we offer "One for Bobby": a night of Grateful Dead in tribute to this man's legacy.

Mike & Friends is a party band that plays an eclectic mixture of Grateful Dead and cover songs from an eclectic mix of artists and original music composed by Scieszinski.

Mike Scieszinski is notable for fronting Wisconsin's favorite Phish Tribute: PHUN. (PhishPHUN.com) He has fronted Mike & Friends on the side for nearly 10 years.

Supporting Mike & Friends will be Door County folk duo Wagon Roots who will open the show, and solo virtuoso guitarist Chip Cruz who will play between sets.

All tickets from the January 10th date will be honored.]]>
This concert was originally planned for January 10th of 2026.
The Packers were in the playoffs, and in Wisconsin you don't mess with that:) (plus some of us wanted to watch). Nobody knew that Bob Weir would pass that night. As so to honor him, we offer "One for Bobby": a night of Grateful Dead in tribute to this man's legacy.

Mike & Friends is a party band that plays an eclectic mixture of Grateful Dead and cover songs from an eclectic mix of artists and original music composed by Scieszinski.

Mike Scieszinski is notable for fronting Wisconsin's favorite Phish Tribute: PHUN. (PhishPHUN.com) He has fronted Mike & Friends on the side for nearly 10 years.

Supporting Mike & Friends will be Door County folk duo Wagon Roots who will open the show, and solo virtuoso guitarist Chip Cruz who will play between sets.

All tickets from the January 10th date will be honored.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/440/ Sun, 24 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1779652800
Stereotyped early in his career as the quintessential angry young man, Graham Parker was one of the most celebrated singer/songwriters to emerge from England's pub rock scene in the early '70s.

His band Graham Parker and The Rumour, originally his backing band of pub rock all-stars, began their career with their debut Howlin' Wind in 1976 which led to a cult-like following of devoted fans.

After delivering Squeezing Out Sparks in 1979, which was a smash with critics and won him a larger audience in the United States, Parker courted a crossover career with solo projects such as 1982's Another Grey Area and 1985's Steady Nerves and he has been touring solo ever since.

Parker unexpectedly reunited his original backing band The Rumour in 2011, in part due to the intervention of longtime fan and filmmaker Judd Apatow, who made the group a plot point in his film This Is Forty. After appearing in the movie, the group recorded an album of new material, Three Chords Good, which arrived in November 2012.

Parker and The Rumour took advantage of their new place in the spotlight by touring America and the UK, but shortly thereafter The Rumour reunion came to an end.

Parker has been touring his solo acoustic show since 2017, and recently had a new song, Love Comes, placed in the Judd Apatow produced and directed HBO show Crashing.]]>
Stereotyped early in his career as the quintessential angry young man, Graham Parker was one of the most celebrated singer/songwriters to emerge from England's pub rock scene in the early '70s.

His band Graham Parker and The Rumour, originally his backing band of pub rock all-stars, began their career with their debut Howlin' Wind in 1976 which led to a cult-like following of devoted fans.

After delivering Squeezing Out Sparks in 1979, which was a smash with critics and won him a larger audience in the United States, Parker courted a crossover career with solo projects such as 1982's Another Grey Area and 1985's Steady Nerves and he has been touring solo ever since.

Parker unexpectedly reunited his original backing band The Rumour in 2011, in part due to the intervention of longtime fan and filmmaker Judd Apatow, who made the group a plot point in his film This Is Forty. After appearing in the movie, the group recorded an album of new material, Three Chords Good, which arrived in November 2012.

Parker and The Rumour took advantage of their new place in the spotlight by touring America and the UK, but shortly thereafter The Rumour reunion came to an end.

Parker has been touring his solo acoustic show since 2017, and recently had a new song, Love Comes, placed in the Judd Apatow produced and directed HBO show Crashing.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/500/ Fri, 29 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1780084800
Make It Real is the premier tribute to the music of Scorpions! With their electrifying guitar solos, powerful drum beats, and captivating stage presence, Make it Real brings the iconic sound of Scorpions to life. Blending classic hits with the energy of live performances, Make it Real delivers an unforgettable experience that resonates with both long-time Scorpions fans and new fans alike!]]>
Make It Real is the premier tribute to the music of Scorpions! With their electrifying guitar solos, powerful drum beats, and captivating stage presence, Make it Real brings the iconic sound of Scorpions to life. Blending classic hits with the energy of live performances, Make it Real delivers an unforgettable experience that resonates with both long-time Scorpions fans and new fans alike!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/135/ Sat, 30 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1780171200
Milwaukee native Singer/Songwriter Brian Lee Wurch gives an astounding performance of David Bowie with The Spiders From Mars with an ALLSTAR Group!!]]>
Milwaukee native Singer/Songwriter Brian Lee Wurch gives an astounding performance of David Bowie with The Spiders From Mars with an ALLSTAR Group!!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/435/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1780603200
Joseph Arthur is an American singer/ songwriter who is also recognized for his qualities as a painter. He paints live on stage creating loops with his guitar and voice (a technique he pioneered in the 90s and has since been widely adopted).

Spotted by Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel, in 1996, the artist now has fifteen albums and several EPs to his credit. He's also at the origin of several bands: The Lonely Astronauts, Fistful Mercy which he founded with Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison, RNDM with Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, Arthur Buck with Peter Buck and most recently Silverlites with Rich Robinson, Peter Buck and Barrett Martin.

Joseph has enjoyed much success in the past on triple A radio with songs like Honey And The Moon (also featured in the OC and American Pie) And His song "In the Sun" which was covered by singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M and Chris Martin of Coldplay, as well as by Peter Gabriel and was featured in the movie 'Saved'.

Joseph Arthur on stage defies simple description who with his guitar, pedals, drum pads, keyboards and mics, builds live productions of swirling compositions which gives stripped-down pieces a kind of improvised orchestration that is unlike anyone else. Joseph Arthur draws his inspiration from a wide range of artists ranging from Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Nick Drake to Nirvana, the clash and early hip hop. The finesse of the compositions and the richness of the orchestrations make Joseph Arthur one of the best American songwriters of the XXI century.

His new album with Peter Buck called Arthur Buck 2 is coming out October 2025. And his new solo album will be released early in 2026, the first single 'Rise' is a return to the magical strength of the strongest work of his past. Written the day Neil Peart (RUSH) died, it's an uplifting homage to living a life of inspiration and celebration of the potential of all of our dreams.]]>
Joseph Arthur is an American singer/ songwriter who is also recognized for his qualities as a painter. He paints live on stage creating loops with his guitar and voice (a technique he pioneered in the 90s and has since been widely adopted).

Spotted by Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel, in 1996, the artist now has fifteen albums and several EPs to his credit. He's also at the origin of several bands: The Lonely Astronauts, Fistful Mercy which he founded with Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison, RNDM with Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, Arthur Buck with Peter Buck and most recently Silverlites with Rich Robinson, Peter Buck and Barrett Martin.

Joseph has enjoyed much success in the past on triple A radio with songs like Honey And The Moon (also featured in the OC and American Pie) And His song "In the Sun" which was covered by singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M and Chris Martin of Coldplay, as well as by Peter Gabriel and was featured in the movie 'Saved'.

Joseph Arthur on stage defies simple description who with his guitar, pedals, drum pads, keyboards and mics, builds live productions of swirling compositions which gives stripped-down pieces a kind of improvised orchestration that is unlike anyone else. Joseph Arthur draws his inspiration from a wide range of artists ranging from Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Nick Drake to Nirvana, the clash and early hip hop. The finesse of the compositions and the richness of the orchestrations make Joseph Arthur one of the best American songwriters of the XXI century.

His new album with Peter Buck called Arthur Buck 2 is coming out October 2025. And his new solo album will be released early in 2026, the first single 'Rise' is a return to the magical strength of the strongest work of his past. Written the day Neil Peart (RUSH) died, it's an uplifting homage to living a life of inspiration and celebration of the potential of all of our dreams.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/444/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1780689600
In Lloyd, Kentucky, on U.S. 23, there's a sign on the Country Music Highway dedicated to renowned fiddler JASON CARTER. It was placed there because of his other accomplishments--the Grammy awards, the worldwide tours, and the many other accolades he's earned through his music. But for Carter, joining the legendary names honored on that stretch of highway just might mean the most. "There's a certain sound that's up there that you just don't hear anywhere else," he says. "I think that played a big part in how I sound today."

True to those Kentucky roots, Carter continues to pour all he has back into bluegrass. For thirty years, he has been the fiddle player for the Del McCoury Band--the most awarded group in bluegrass history. He's won three Grammy awards, including 2018's "Best Bluegrass Album" with the Travelin' McCourys, of which he is a founding member. And he's taken home five IBMAs for "Fiddle Player of the Year," a staggering number that isn't quite so crazy once you realize just how many bluegrass greats have turned to Carter for collaboration.

As a fiddler, Carter has been featured on albums by Steve Earle, Ricky Skaggs, Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Asleep at the Wheel, and many more, all in addition to his tireless touring and recording with Del as well as the Travelin' McCourys. On Carter's forthcoming solo album, Lowdown Hoedown, listeners may recognize instrumental contributions from such legends as Jerry Douglas or Sam Bush alongside vocals from young trailblazers like Sarah Jarosz or Billy Strings. This time, though, Carter is singing lead.

The album's namesake track, a good-time duet with longtime friend Dierks Bentley, plays on Carter's dexterity on the fiddle with an flashy solo--while also showcasing his charisma as a frontman and vocalist. "Good Things Happen," a Jamie Hartford number with vocal harmonies from Aoife O'Donovan, marks the kind of tender moment fit for a first dance or sweet serenade. But Lowdown Hoedown has its somber side, too.

"Dust Bowl Dream," a wistful narrative about a depression-era farmer, builds on its slow pace and vivid lyrical imagery with powerful harmonies from Sarah Jarosz and twin fiddles from Carter and fellow IBMA-winning fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes. The John Hartford tune "Six O'Clock Train" marks a slower, more ominous moment, calling in vocal harmonies and guitar from Billy Strings.

Scattered across the album, too, are hints of the influences that have shaped Carter's sound throughout his life. A guitar player since childhood and a fiddler since 15 (the age when he swore that someday he'd play in the Del McCoury Band), Carter inherited his love for bluegrass from his father, a musician himself, and grew up playing at jams, festivals, and campgrounds across Kentucky. After he graduated high school, he took his talent as a fiddler on the road professionally: first with the Goins Brothers, then at 19 with the Del McCoury Band, and later with the Travelin' McCourys.

In the decades since, he's seen the bluegrass community evolve and expand. "The bluegrass fans, they're pretty loyal," he says, noting that he's found a similar kinship sharing stages with jam bands like Phish and Leftover Salmon, too. "They stick behind you, they're there for you." Carter mirrors that loyalty with his own--loyalty to his craft, loyalty to the road, and loyalty to the career path he's dreamt of since childhood. With Lowdown Hoedown, Carter shares the fruits of decades' worth of on-the-road experience, spectacular musical sensibility, and genuine excitement for what bluegrass can be.]]>
In Lloyd, Kentucky, on U.S. 23, there's a sign on the Country Music Highway dedicated to renowned fiddler JASON CARTER. It was placed there because of his other accomplishments--the Grammy awards, the worldwide tours, and the many other accolades he's earned through his music. But for Carter, joining the legendary names honored on that stretch of highway just might mean the most. "There's a certain sound that's up there that you just don't hear anywhere else," he says. "I think that played a big part in how I sound today."

True to those Kentucky roots, Carter continues to pour all he has back into bluegrass. For thirty years, he has been the fiddle player for the Del McCoury Band--the most awarded group in bluegrass history. He's won three Grammy awards, including 2018's "Best Bluegrass Album" with the Travelin' McCourys, of which he is a founding member. And he's taken home five IBMAs for "Fiddle Player of the Year," a staggering number that isn't quite so crazy once you realize just how many bluegrass greats have turned to Carter for collaboration.

As a fiddler, Carter has been featured on albums by Steve Earle, Ricky Skaggs, Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Asleep at the Wheel, and many more, all in addition to his tireless touring and recording with Del as well as the Travelin' McCourys. On Carter's forthcoming solo album, Lowdown Hoedown, listeners may recognize instrumental contributions from such legends as Jerry Douglas or Sam Bush alongside vocals from young trailblazers like Sarah Jarosz or Billy Strings. This time, though, Carter is singing lead.

The album's namesake track, a good-time duet with longtime friend Dierks Bentley, plays on Carter's dexterity on the fiddle with an flashy solo--while also showcasing his charisma as a frontman and vocalist. "Good Things Happen," a Jamie Hartford number with vocal harmonies from Aoife O'Donovan, marks the kind of tender moment fit for a first dance or sweet serenade. But Lowdown Hoedown has its somber side, too.

"Dust Bowl Dream," a wistful narrative about a depression-era farmer, builds on its slow pace and vivid lyrical imagery with powerful harmonies from Sarah Jarosz and twin fiddles from Carter and fellow IBMA-winning fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes. The John Hartford tune "Six O'Clock Train" marks a slower, more ominous moment, calling in vocal harmonies and guitar from Billy Strings.

Scattered across the album, too, are hints of the influences that have shaped Carter's sound throughout his life. A guitar player since childhood and a fiddler since 15 (the age when he swore that someday he'd play in the Del McCoury Band), Carter inherited his love for bluegrass from his father, a musician himself, and grew up playing at jams, festivals, and campgrounds across Kentucky. After he graduated high school, he took his talent as a fiddler on the road professionally: first with the Goins Brothers, then at 19 with the Del McCoury Band, and later with the Travelin' McCourys.

In the decades since, he's seen the bluegrass community evolve and expand. "The bluegrass fans, they're pretty loyal," he says, noting that he's found a similar kinship sharing stages with jam bands like Phish and Leftover Salmon, too. "They stick behind you, they're there for you." Carter mirrors that loyalty with his own--loyalty to his craft, loyalty to the road, and loyalty to the career path he's dreamt of since childhood. With Lowdown Hoedown, Carter shares the fruits of decades' worth of on-the-road experience, spectacular musical sensibility, and genuine excitement for what bluegrass can be.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/479/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1780776000
Rave through the night, but keep the puppet sleeping!

Will you survive the night?!

Best FNAF themed outfits and cosplays win prizes!

FNAF DJ Set playing FNAF classics]]>
Rave through the night, but keep the puppet sleeping!

Will you survive the night?!

Best FNAF themed outfits and cosplays win prizes!

FNAF DJ Set playing FNAF classics]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/363/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1781208000
Griffin House is an American singer-songwriter and storyteller. Touring and making records for over 20 years, House has a discography that includes over 13 albums. His debut record "Lost and Found" (2004) was featured on CBS Sunday Morning by music critic and then VP MTV/VH1, Bill Flanagan, who named House one of the best emerging singer-songwriters of our time.

After forging a loyal fan base through years of grassroots touring as an opener for acts such as John Mellencamp and the Cranberries, House broke through as a national headliner in 2009 with an appearance on Late Night with Craig Ferguson and the release of his underground hit "The Guy That Says Goodbye to You is Out of His Mind."

The music documentary "Rising Star," released on Amazon Prime in 2019, chronicles House's journey through the music business, as he attempts to balance the challenges of life as a traveling modern-day troubadour with marriage, fatherhood and sobriety.

House's music has been featured on prime time television shows such One Tree Hill, Rescue Me, Party of Five, and Everwood, and reviewed in magazines such as Paste, No Depression and Rolling Stone. American Songwriter writes "if you want to be blown away by raw talent, look no further than Griffin House."]]>
Griffin House is an American singer-songwriter and storyteller. Touring and making records for over 20 years, House has a discography that includes over 13 albums. His debut record "Lost and Found" (2004) was featured on CBS Sunday Morning by music critic and then VP MTV/VH1, Bill Flanagan, who named House one of the best emerging singer-songwriters of our time.

After forging a loyal fan base through years of grassroots touring as an opener for acts such as John Mellencamp and the Cranberries, House broke through as a national headliner in 2009 with an appearance on Late Night with Craig Ferguson and the release of his underground hit "The Guy That Says Goodbye to You is Out of His Mind."

The music documentary "Rising Star," released on Amazon Prime in 2019, chronicles House's journey through the music business, as he attempts to balance the challenges of life as a traveling modern-day troubadour with marriage, fatherhood and sobriety.

House's music has been featured on prime time television shows such One Tree Hill, Rescue Me, Party of Five, and Everwood, and reviewed in magazines such as Paste, No Depression and Rolling Stone. American Songwriter writes "if you want to be blown away by raw talent, look no further than Griffin House."]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/198/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1781294400
Zoltan Kaszas is a Hungarian-born, award-winning stand-up comedian known for his sharp, observational humor. Kaszas, who The Atlantic called a "breakout star," has been featured on several SiriusXM comedy channels, Laughs on Fox, Netflix Is a Joke, Scotland's Fringe Festival and headlines comedy clubs and theaters across the country. It was his riff on why cats are better than dogs that brought viral fame, racking up over 68 million views with The Guardian's (UK) calling it one of the "ten funniest things I've seen on the Internet." Kaszas has two Dry Bar standup specials and four independent standup specials on YouTube: Modern Male, White Lies, Honorary Jones and his most recent, London Fog. His ability to take relatable experiences and turn them into hilarious stories has earned him both critical acclaim and a loyal following.]]>
Zoltan Kaszas is a Hungarian-born, award-winning stand-up comedian known for his sharp, observational humor. Kaszas, who The Atlantic called a "breakout star," has been featured on several SiriusXM comedy channels, Laughs on Fox, Netflix Is a Joke, Scotland's Fringe Festival and headlines comedy clubs and theaters across the country. It was his riff on why cats are better than dogs that brought viral fame, racking up over 68 million views with The Guardian's (UK) calling it one of the "ten funniest things I've seen on the Internet." Kaszas has two Dry Bar standup specials and four independent standup specials on YouTube: Modern Male, White Lies, Honorary Jones and his most recent, London Fog. His ability to take relatable experiences and turn them into hilarious stories has earned him both critical acclaim and a loyal following.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/201/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1781380800
Zoltan Kaszas is a Hungarian-born, award-winning stand-up comedian known for his sharp, observational humor. Kaszas, who The Atlantic called a "breakout star," has been featured on several SiriusXM comedy channels, Laughs on Fox, Netflix Is a Joke, Scotland's Fringe Festival and headlines comedy clubs and theaters across the country. It was his riff on why cats are better than dogs that brought viral fame, racking up over 68 million views with The Guardian's (UK) calling it one of the "ten funniest things I've seen on the Internet." Kaszas has two Dry Bar standup specials and four independent standup specials on YouTube: Modern Male, White Lies, Honorary Jones and his most recent, London Fog. His ability to take relatable experiences and turn them into hilarious stories has earned him both critical acclaim and a loyal following.]]>
Zoltan Kaszas is a Hungarian-born, award-winning stand-up comedian known for his sharp, observational humor. Kaszas, who The Atlantic called a "breakout star," has been featured on several SiriusXM comedy channels, Laughs on Fox, Netflix Is a Joke, Scotland's Fringe Festival and headlines comedy clubs and theaters across the country. It was his riff on why cats are better than dogs that brought viral fame, racking up over 68 million views with The Guardian's (UK) calling it one of the "ten funniest things I've seen on the Internet." Kaszas has two Dry Bar standup specials and four independent standup specials on YouTube: Modern Male, White Lies, Honorary Jones and his most recent, London Fog. His ability to take relatable experiences and turn them into hilarious stories has earned him both critical acclaim and a loyal following.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/471/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 1781438400
12pm - 3pm
Food provided
Cash bar

Featuring music from Rippey's radio show "Get On Up"]]>
12pm - 3pm
Food provided
Cash bar

Featuring music from Rippey's radio show "Get On Up"]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/462/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1781812800
Dylan LeBlanc is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who often finds himself flirting with the edge -- or "dancing on a razor," as he calls it -- as it is all he has ever known. A verdict vagabond since he was a little boy tossed between Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, LeBlanc thrives on the precipice, never staying in one place for too long. It is that nomadic spirit that drew him not only to a life as a touring musician, but also to the beast that titles his newest record: 'Coyote.'

LeBlanc says he has always related to the insatiable, scavenging nature of the wily coyote. Much like the animal, LeBlanc is a wanderer who knows when to trust his instincts, musically and otherwise. It is a spiritual kinship that runs deep, but he credits one particularly hair-raising face-to-face instance with solidifying his bond with the animal.

LeBlanc was in Austin, Texas, climbing the face of a 100-foot cliff, gambling with Mother Nature's good graces as he pulled himself up by tree branches. Once he reached the top, all that laid ahead of him was a lush treeline. There was a breath of stillness, then the sound of a thunderous rustling that drew closer and closer to him. In a blink, LeBlanc watched as a frenzied raccoon came speeding out of the treeline, trailed by an animal that stopped and stared at him with striking intensity: a coyote.

"We're looking at each other dead in the eyes...and I'm saying -- out loud -- 'If it's you or me, I am going to kick you off the side of this cliff. I'm not going down.' It was intense, this human-animal moment," LeBlanc recalls. "I've never forgotten that... he was just trying to survive and so was I."

'Coyote' is LeBlanc's first self-produced release, boasting a cherry-picked lineup of what he calls "killer session players," such as drummer Fred Eltringham (Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow), pianist Jim "Moose" Brown (Bob Seger), and bass player Seth Kaufman (Lana Del Rey). Though 'Coyote' covers familiar ground for LeBlanc of living on the edge of danger and its many consequences, the record is both autobiographical and a concept album built around the character of Coyote, a man on the run.

The story of 'Coyote' progresses linearly, opening with the dizzyingly declarative, strings-heavy title track which details Coyote's arrival and quick departure as he crosses the border and gets involved with drug cartels. The trouble builds and dark waters rise until track six, "No Promises Broken," a soaring, against-all-odds love song that marks when Coyote meets a girl, and his luck begins to change for the better. The song tells of how love heals, and places emphasis on lovers remaining open while maintaining their own freedoms, as LeBlanc believes that true devotion does not equal possession. He says that though both Coyote and his love each faced adversity, the hand of destiny put them on the same path and bound them together before they ever met:

"'No Promises Broken' is an honest love song about two people who come from the same troubled past, and fate intertwines them together. It's about acknowledging that there will be hard times ahead, but vowing to stick it out without making promises to each other that they know they can't keep."

"Wicked Kind" delves into Coyote's addiction and warns of ever-present temptation looming on the horizon, and the restraint it takes for him to look away. The LP closes with "The Outside," the title of which LeBlanc says is meant to be literal, as Coyote is outside of prison walls at last. With boundless slide guitar and skittish keys, it paints a haunting, desert highway vignette of Coyote fighting off lingering ghosts that breed a hesitance so potent that Coyote has to adjust his perspective and remind himself that he is free -- the fight is over.

LeBlanc has seen shades of a life not unlike the character of Coyote. He, too, strayed from the straight and narrow and sparred with managing anger in his adolescence. Just as the brutal truth of "Hate" describes that the most gnarled parts of Coyote were molded by his harrowing experiences, it is something LeBlanc feels is universal, as hate does not discriminate.

"I went to school with people from all walks of life. We were different, but we thought, 'We're all poor,' so we're all in the same boat. We all grew up in chaos. It was the '90s in Louisiana on the border of Texas... that air was thick, man. Sink or swim type of mentality."

LeBlanc is the first to warmly acknowledge his rough edges and tendency to chest-up to conflict, both the result of the volatility and instability of his youth. Now, no longer a boy who always had to be on alert and ready to defend himself, LeBlanc recognizes that his roots do not define or limit the man he is today. The cover art of a coyote wounded by arrows reflects just that, symbolizing LeBlanc's resilience through what he has experienced:

"The coyote is still upright, even though he's full of arrows, even though he has been shot at and wounded many times. He still keeps going in defiance of everything that has been thrown at him. You can't get an arrow out completely. You can break one side of it off, but the arrow is still there... there's still a scar. It becomes a part of you... of your identity."

Considering the distinct wisdom and lifetimes in his voice, it is no surprise that LeBlanc has known hardships, but he is a shining example of what beauty comes from perseverance. LeBlanc's tenacity has paid off in spades, leading him to a record deal with ATO Records, releasing the critically acclaimed 'Renegade' in 2019, and now 'Coyote,' which LeBlanc says is "the record he has always wanted to make."

Now in his thirties with a fiancé and a daughter he adores, LeBlanc is the closest he has ever been to the man he has always strived to be. With endearing candor, he confesses he is still learning to be less hot-headed and more gentle; but he doesn't think about dying every day, like he used to. LeBlanc credits fatherhood for the perspective he has now on what matters, and his key concern is remaining devoted to those he loves most. Though far removed from a perilous life like Coyote's, LeBlanc admits he still feels as if he is dancing on a razor's edge all the same. The goodness he is surrounded by only gives him more to lose, with each glimmer carrying an asterisk of fear. One misstep and he worries that it all could vanish, but the lionhearted LeBlanc seems to forget he once unnerved even a wild coyote with his eyes alone.]]>
Dylan LeBlanc is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who often finds himself flirting with the edge -- or "dancing on a razor," as he calls it -- as it is all he has ever known. A verdict vagabond since he was a little boy tossed between Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, LeBlanc thrives on the precipice, never staying in one place for too long. It is that nomadic spirit that drew him not only to a life as a touring musician, but also to the beast that titles his newest record: 'Coyote.'

LeBlanc says he has always related to the insatiable, scavenging nature of the wily coyote. Much like the animal, LeBlanc is a wanderer who knows when to trust his instincts, musically and otherwise. It is a spiritual kinship that runs deep, but he credits one particularly hair-raising face-to-face instance with solidifying his bond with the animal.

LeBlanc was in Austin, Texas, climbing the face of a 100-foot cliff, gambling with Mother Nature's good graces as he pulled himself up by tree branches. Once he reached the top, all that laid ahead of him was a lush treeline. There was a breath of stillness, then the sound of a thunderous rustling that drew closer and closer to him. In a blink, LeBlanc watched as a frenzied raccoon came speeding out of the treeline, trailed by an animal that stopped and stared at him with striking intensity: a coyote.

"We're looking at each other dead in the eyes...and I'm saying -- out loud -- 'If it's you or me, I am going to kick you off the side of this cliff. I'm not going down.' It was intense, this human-animal moment," LeBlanc recalls. "I've never forgotten that... he was just trying to survive and so was I."

'Coyote' is LeBlanc's first self-produced release, boasting a cherry-picked lineup of what he calls "killer session players," such as drummer Fred Eltringham (Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow), pianist Jim "Moose" Brown (Bob Seger), and bass player Seth Kaufman (Lana Del Rey). Though 'Coyote' covers familiar ground for LeBlanc of living on the edge of danger and its many consequences, the record is both autobiographical and a concept album built around the character of Coyote, a man on the run.

The story of 'Coyote' progresses linearly, opening with the dizzyingly declarative, strings-heavy title track which details Coyote's arrival and quick departure as he crosses the border and gets involved with drug cartels. The trouble builds and dark waters rise until track six, "No Promises Broken," a soaring, against-all-odds love song that marks when Coyote meets a girl, and his luck begins to change for the better. The song tells of how love heals, and places emphasis on lovers remaining open while maintaining their own freedoms, as LeBlanc believes that true devotion does not equal possession. He says that though both Coyote and his love each faced adversity, the hand of destiny put them on the same path and bound them together before they ever met:

"'No Promises Broken' is an honest love song about two people who come from the same troubled past, and fate intertwines them together. It's about acknowledging that there will be hard times ahead, but vowing to stick it out without making promises to each other that they know they can't keep."

"Wicked Kind" delves into Coyote's addiction and warns of ever-present temptation looming on the horizon, and the restraint it takes for him to look away. The LP closes with "The Outside," the title of which LeBlanc says is meant to be literal, as Coyote is outside of prison walls at last. With boundless slide guitar and skittish keys, it paints a haunting, desert highway vignette of Coyote fighting off lingering ghosts that breed a hesitance so potent that Coyote has to adjust his perspective and remind himself that he is free -- the fight is over.

LeBlanc has seen shades of a life not unlike the character of Coyote. He, too, strayed from the straight and narrow and sparred with managing anger in his adolescence. Just as the brutal truth of "Hate" describes that the most gnarled parts of Coyote were molded by his harrowing experiences, it is something LeBlanc feels is universal, as hate does not discriminate.

"I went to school with people from all walks of life. We were different, but we thought, 'We're all poor,' so we're all in the same boat. We all grew up in chaos. It was the '90s in Louisiana on the border of Texas... that air was thick, man. Sink or swim type of mentality."

LeBlanc is the first to warmly acknowledge his rough edges and tendency to chest-up to conflict, both the result of the volatility and instability of his youth. Now, no longer a boy who always had to be on alert and ready to defend himself, LeBlanc recognizes that his roots do not define or limit the man he is today. The cover art of a coyote wounded by arrows reflects just that, symbolizing LeBlanc's resilience through what he has experienced:

"The coyote is still upright, even though he's full of arrows, even though he has been shot at and wounded many times. He still keeps going in defiance of everything that has been thrown at him. You can't get an arrow out completely. You can break one side of it off, but the arrow is still there... there's still a scar. It becomes a part of you... of your identity."

Considering the distinct wisdom and lifetimes in his voice, it is no surprise that LeBlanc has known hardships, but he is a shining example of what beauty comes from perseverance. LeBlanc's tenacity has paid off in spades, leading him to a record deal with ATO Records, releasing the critically acclaimed 'Renegade' in 2019, and now 'Coyote,' which LeBlanc says is "the record he has always wanted to make."

Now in his thirties with a fiancé and a daughter he adores, LeBlanc is the closest he has ever been to the man he has always strived to be. With endearing candor, he confesses he is still learning to be less hot-headed and more gentle; but he doesn't think about dying every day, like he used to. LeBlanc credits fatherhood for the perspective he has now on what matters, and his key concern is remaining devoted to those he loves most. Though far removed from a perilous life like Coyote's, LeBlanc admits he still feels as if he is dancing on a razor's edge all the same. The goodness he is surrounded by only gives him more to lose, with each glimmer carrying an asterisk of fear. One misstep and he worries that it all could vanish, but the lionhearted LeBlanc seems to forget he once unnerved even a wild coyote with his eyes alone.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/513/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1781899200
Dan Bern is a captivating live performer who has enthralled a loyal and ever-growing fan base in the US and Europe since the mid '90s. His songs range from deeply moving to wildly imaginative and hilarious, often within the same song.

He has been compared favorably to the great masters of songwriting, such as Guthrie, Dylan, Costello. Though he draws from the great American tradition of songwriting, there is something deeply unique and compelling that make you want to get to know the man behind the songs.

He conjures incredibly specific imagery like in a painting. Though he may turn to cynicism and political satire at times, the beauty of his work is that he is able to imagine better worlds, revealing a deep capacity for empathy and optimism. Bern connects with his audiences skillfully and directly, weaving the topical and local in with the more universal themes. He has written for many films and TV shows, and has made more than thirty albums.

"If you ever read the name "Dan Bern" give yourself a treat and go see him. He's been one of my favourite songwriters and musicians for the past 25 years. His songs are a mix of thought provoking lyrics and a wonderful dry wit. You'll have a great night out! -- Roger Daltrey]]>
Dan Bern is a captivating live performer who has enthralled a loyal and ever-growing fan base in the US and Europe since the mid '90s. His songs range from deeply moving to wildly imaginative and hilarious, often within the same song.

He has been compared favorably to the great masters of songwriting, such as Guthrie, Dylan, Costello. Though he draws from the great American tradition of songwriting, there is something deeply unique and compelling that make you want to get to know the man behind the songs.

He conjures incredibly specific imagery like in a painting. Though he may turn to cynicism and political satire at times, the beauty of his work is that he is able to imagine better worlds, revealing a deep capacity for empathy and optimism. Bern connects with his audiences skillfully and directly, weaving the topical and local in with the more universal themes. He has written for many films and TV shows, and has made more than thirty albums.

"If you ever read the name "Dan Bern" give yourself a treat and go see him. He's been one of my favourite songwriters and musicians for the past 25 years. His songs are a mix of thought provoking lyrics and a wonderful dry wit. You'll have a great night out! -- Roger Daltrey]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/505/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1782158400
Jesca Hoop's Long Wave Home spills with hope for a broken world. The seventh solo album from the California-born, Manchester-based songwriter took shape amidst a period of both personal and geopolitical upheaval: a web of schisms that seemed to reflect one another as they unfolded. It is the first album Hoop produced by herself, and it marks both a fresh start and a deepening of her extensive, multifaceted discography. Across the record's rich and sumptuous tracks, Hoop deeply considers what it is that people owe to each other: in individual relationships, in community, and as witnesses to the broader world. These days run thick with terror. Long Wave Home sinks into it and surfaces anew with a nimble, inquisitive spirit.

At the end of 2024, Hoop began mapping out what would become Long Wave Home with a focus on her own independence as an artist and working musician. "I shed a lot of superfluous roles and structures wherever I was making too many compromises," she says. "With that blank slate, I started to write."

The songs, at first, came slowly. Hoop's life moved at an even keel, and she struggled to find points of tension that might serve as the basis for new music. "If life doesn't present you with a change, how do you grow?" she asks. Then, in 2025, change came for her. Some of Hoop's most trusted relationships began to shift considerably. "My writing opened up. I had more tension than I knew what to do with, and plenty to explore about human relationships," Hoop says. "I was able to engage by just recording what I was seeing around me."

As the songs on Long Wave Home grew from this generative state, Hoop made the choice to produce the album herself. "I really had to commit and do what my hero would do," she says, referring to Joni Mitchell and her storied artistic independence. In the past, Hoop had worked with a roster of seasoned, brilliant producers: John Parish (PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman); Tony Berg (Taylor Swift, boygenius); and Blake Mills, (Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes). Hoop learned from all of these partnerships. As she embarked on her seventh album, she was ready to apply that knowledge from the cockpit.

Hoop recorded Long Wave Home in studios around the United Kingdom. She asked her collaborator Jesse D. Vernon to arrange accompaniments for her songs, then set out in a camper van to meet session musicians and begin tracking. Her travels took her to The Shed in London, Empire Sound on the Isle of Wight, and J&J Studios in Bristol. Throughout the process, she worked closely with engineers Tim Thomas (Bright Eyes, British Sea Power) and Leo Abrahams (Belle & Sebastian, Frightened Rabbit) to foster the sound she envisioned for the album.

Under her careful hand, a populous, dynamic sound emerged. These songs about relationships hold relationality at their bones, from the rolling tuned percussion on "Now the Ash" to the call and response among brass, piano, guitar, and voice on "Adam." "Listen to me, I'm your witness / And I believe in who you are," Hoop sings on "Love is Salvation" as horns swell around her, tall enough to serve as sanctuary walls.

Hoop stares into darkness with equal warmth and precision. With "Designer Citizen," she takes a sardonic edge to questions of nationality and belonging as she sings about observing American political instability from her home across the ocean. On "Signal to Noise," Hoop reflects on an overwhelming media landscape that seeks to prevent political momentum from accreting among like-minded people: "If revolution can be sparked by a feeling / Turn up the system, point the finger, send them reeling," she sings, her voice cradled by gentle backing vocals. And the driving, mournful "Playground" bears witness to the children whose playground has been reduced to rubble, then poses the question: Where does the trauma go?

"'Playground' was the quickest song I ever wrote. It usually takes me about a month to write a song, and I wrote this song in two days after watching Netenyahu give a press conference," says Hoop. "I had such clarity on what I was seeing, and an inarguable statement that I could deliver in a song."

The political landscape and the interpersonal landscape flow into one another, and to be a conscious inhabitant of both requires us to question ourselves. What do we owe to one another, and how do we deliver it? Where are our efforts most sorely needed, and how do we arrive there? Hoop's songs remind us that evolution necessitates scrutiny: a searing gaze fixed on both the outer world and the inner self.

"I don't draw the line between a love song and a political song," she notes. "To me, it's all about being here. All of these songs are love songs, and in one way or the next, they're all protest songs, too."

The album settles with a delicate and powerful title track whose atmosphere hangs heavy with the resonance of its commingling instruments. With "Long Wave Home," Hoop wraps warm arms around the empty skeleton of isolation and blankets you. There is strength in solidarity, in the bare recognition that we all yearn for connection. "You're not alone," she sings. "Long waves are carrying you all the way home." Somewhere there is a shore. Somewhere there is a receiver. Somewhere, and it isn't as far away as it seems, the ocean waters break on solid ground, the static is tuned to a song, and the heart burns bright again, like pulsing lights atop distant radio towers.]]>
Jesca Hoop's Long Wave Home spills with hope for a broken world. The seventh solo album from the California-born, Manchester-based songwriter took shape amidst a period of both personal and geopolitical upheaval: a web of schisms that seemed to reflect one another as they unfolded. It is the first album Hoop produced by herself, and it marks both a fresh start and a deepening of her extensive, multifaceted discography. Across the record's rich and sumptuous tracks, Hoop deeply considers what it is that people owe to each other: in individual relationships, in community, and as witnesses to the broader world. These days run thick with terror. Long Wave Home sinks into it and surfaces anew with a nimble, inquisitive spirit.

At the end of 2024, Hoop began mapping out what would become Long Wave Home with a focus on her own independence as an artist and working musician. "I shed a lot of superfluous roles and structures wherever I was making too many compromises," she says. "With that blank slate, I started to write."

The songs, at first, came slowly. Hoop's life moved at an even keel, and she struggled to find points of tension that might serve as the basis for new music. "If life doesn't present you with a change, how do you grow?" she asks. Then, in 2025, change came for her. Some of Hoop's most trusted relationships began to shift considerably. "My writing opened up. I had more tension than I knew what to do with, and plenty to explore about human relationships," Hoop says. "I was able to engage by just recording what I was seeing around me."

As the songs on Long Wave Home grew from this generative state, Hoop made the choice to produce the album herself. "I really had to commit and do what my hero would do," she says, referring to Joni Mitchell and her storied artistic independence. In the past, Hoop had worked with a roster of seasoned, brilliant producers: John Parish (PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman); Tony Berg (Taylor Swift, boygenius); and Blake Mills, (Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes). Hoop learned from all of these partnerships. As she embarked on her seventh album, she was ready to apply that knowledge from the cockpit.

Hoop recorded Long Wave Home in studios around the United Kingdom. She asked her collaborator Jesse D. Vernon to arrange accompaniments for her songs, then set out in a camper van to meet session musicians and begin tracking. Her travels took her to The Shed in London, Empire Sound on the Isle of Wight, and J&J Studios in Bristol. Throughout the process, she worked closely with engineers Tim Thomas (Bright Eyes, British Sea Power) and Leo Abrahams (Belle & Sebastian, Frightened Rabbit) to foster the sound she envisioned for the album.

Under her careful hand, a populous, dynamic sound emerged. These songs about relationships hold relationality at their bones, from the rolling tuned percussion on "Now the Ash" to the call and response among brass, piano, guitar, and voice on "Adam." "Listen to me, I'm your witness / And I believe in who you are," Hoop sings on "Love is Salvation" as horns swell around her, tall enough to serve as sanctuary walls.

Hoop stares into darkness with equal warmth and precision. With "Designer Citizen," she takes a sardonic edge to questions of nationality and belonging as she sings about observing American political instability from her home across the ocean. On "Signal to Noise," Hoop reflects on an overwhelming media landscape that seeks to prevent political momentum from accreting among like-minded people: "If revolution can be sparked by a feeling / Turn up the system, point the finger, send them reeling," she sings, her voice cradled by gentle backing vocals. And the driving, mournful "Playground" bears witness to the children whose playground has been reduced to rubble, then poses the question: Where does the trauma go?

"'Playground' was the quickest song I ever wrote. It usually takes me about a month to write a song, and I wrote this song in two days after watching Netenyahu give a press conference," says Hoop. "I had such clarity on what I was seeing, and an inarguable statement that I could deliver in a song."

The political landscape and the interpersonal landscape flow into one another, and to be a conscious inhabitant of both requires us to question ourselves. What do we owe to one another, and how do we deliver it? Where are our efforts most sorely needed, and how do we arrive there? Hoop's songs remind us that evolution necessitates scrutiny: a searing gaze fixed on both the outer world and the inner self.

"I don't draw the line between a love song and a political song," she notes. "To me, it's all about being here. All of these songs are love songs, and in one way or the next, they're all protest songs, too."

The album settles with a delicate and powerful title track whose atmosphere hangs heavy with the resonance of its commingling instruments. With "Long Wave Home," Hoop wraps warm arms around the empty skeleton of isolation and blankets you. There is strength in solidarity, in the bare recognition that we all yearn for connection. "You're not alone," she sings. "Long waves are carrying you all the way home." Somewhere there is a shore. Somewhere there is a receiver. Somewhere, and it isn't as far away as it seems, the ocean waters break on solid ground, the static is tuned to a song, and the heart burns bright again, like pulsing lights atop distant radio towers.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/446/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1782331200
In a world where there are no more heroes, the Fleshtones walk the earth like Roman gods.

It's Getting Late (...and More Songs About Werewolves) is a smash that could have dropped at any point in The Fleshtones' epic career -- it is an outburst, and a celebration of the SUPER ROCK sound. Unlike their contemporaries, they have not dialed down the tempos to compensate for osteoporosis, they have not lost anything on their fastball, and continue to throw it for strikes. The hardest working band in garage rock has never sounded better, and now you see why they've been your favorite band's favorite band for decades.

Since their inception in 1976 in Queens, New York, and their sweaty, boozy gestation at legendary venues such as CBGB, Max's Kansas City, and the storied Club 57-- recently feted at the Museum of Modern Art, where their proto-video underground film "Soul City" was unspooled for art stars, glitterati, and a raft of punk rockers who managed to get past the front gate -- they have perpetrated their proprietary brand of SUPER ROCK, a frenetic amalgam of garage punk and soul, punctuated by the big beat and unleashed with the spectacular show business majesty which has kept them on the road for over forty years, adored by audiences whose love for them borders on religious fervor.

The Fleshtones' SUPER ROCK sound literally defines American Beat Music, and they have delivered their message with evangelistic passion, always skirting the edges of the mainstream without pandering to any obvious fad or trend. They have appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand TV show; charismatic frontman Peter Zaremba was a host on MTV's original late-night alternative broadcast The Cutting Edge; and they were the last band to publicly perform at the World Trade Center's Windows on the World, a society gig by any standard. Always true to their school, they have flags planted in the old world and the new -- they appeared with Andy Warhol on his short-lived talk show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes, and throughout the mid-1980s they regularly played at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A in New York's storied East Village, and were instrumental in helping to start Wigstock, the drag queen festival that has become an outrageously vibrant part of the New York City experience.

Never as obviously demented nor self-consciously "psycho" as the Cramps (with whom they shared a rehearsal space in 1977), the Fleshtones could also be found after dark basking in the sick blue light of their television sets, watching late-night horror movies and basking in the weirdness of America, while simultaneously soaking up the on-stage outrages of the Rat Pack, Little Richard, and the Rolling Stones, honing their own live show into an explosive, frenzied manifesto of rock'n'roll gone right.

They routinely tour Spain, where fans make pilgrimages to their shows, and they are equally heralded in Scandinavia, in Italy, and in France, where they have toured incessantly. All over the world -- and especially in New York City, the most fickle of towns -- younger bands look up to the Fleshtones for lessons in suave stagecraft and unforced enthusiasm. They bring the brio of Chuck Berry and James Brown, with whom they have shared the stage with many times, and the true spirit of CBGB.

In fact, they are the only band who played at CBGB in 1976 to have never taken a significant break from recording or performing since, and their line-up has been remarkably stable, anchored by Zaremba -- wildly swinging, funny, uncompromised, and confident, he is equal parts Dean Martin, Mick Jagger, and Count Dracula -- and SUPER ROCK guitarist Keith Streng, who seemingly flies through the air. They are backed by one of the most solid rhythm sections in the world, the decidedly Charlie Watts less-is-more-but-do-it-with-panache drumming of Bill Milhizer, who's held the chair for forty years, and newcomer Ken Fox on bass, who has served for a mere thirty. Previously, those spots had been filled my luminary mercenaries with pedigree, including Clem Burke from Blondie on drums, and Fred Smith (Television) and Andy Shernoff (the Dictators) on bass, testimony to the Fleshtones OG punk rock roots and authenticity in a world run over by poseurs and off-the-rack frauds.

The Fleshtones were always oddly evolved in a plasma pool of retrograde wannabes -- this is a band that promises a party of the least-juvenile sort. And that is why they have proudly worn the SUPER ROCK title since they came howling and gyrating out of the gate. They are the rare thing, like the Grand Canyon -- no matter how great you have been told they are, when you finally get to see them for yourself, it is actually much better than any hype.

Evel Knievel once told me that "American hero" is the shortest lived of all professions. The Fleshtones are here to tell everyone he was wrong. The Fleshtones stand tall as the last real thing in America.]]>
In a world where there are no more heroes, the Fleshtones walk the earth like Roman gods.

It's Getting Late (...and More Songs About Werewolves) is a smash that could have dropped at any point in The Fleshtones' epic career -- it is an outburst, and a celebration of the SUPER ROCK sound. Unlike their contemporaries, they have not dialed down the tempos to compensate for osteoporosis, they have not lost anything on their fastball, and continue to throw it for strikes. The hardest working band in garage rock has never sounded better, and now you see why they've been your favorite band's favorite band for decades.

Since their inception in 1976 in Queens, New York, and their sweaty, boozy gestation at legendary venues such as CBGB, Max's Kansas City, and the storied Club 57-- recently feted at the Museum of Modern Art, where their proto-video underground film "Soul City" was unspooled for art stars, glitterati, and a raft of punk rockers who managed to get past the front gate -- they have perpetrated their proprietary brand of SUPER ROCK, a frenetic amalgam of garage punk and soul, punctuated by the big beat and unleashed with the spectacular show business majesty which has kept them on the road for over forty years, adored by audiences whose love for them borders on religious fervor.

The Fleshtones' SUPER ROCK sound literally defines American Beat Music, and they have delivered their message with evangelistic passion, always skirting the edges of the mainstream without pandering to any obvious fad or trend. They have appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand TV show; charismatic frontman Peter Zaremba was a host on MTV's original late-night alternative broadcast The Cutting Edge; and they were the last band to publicly perform at the World Trade Center's Windows on the World, a society gig by any standard. Always true to their school, they have flags planted in the old world and the new -- they appeared with Andy Warhol on his short-lived talk show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes, and throughout the mid-1980s they regularly played at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A in New York's storied East Village, and were instrumental in helping to start Wigstock, the drag queen festival that has become an outrageously vibrant part of the New York City experience.

Never as obviously demented nor self-consciously "psycho" as the Cramps (with whom they shared a rehearsal space in 1977), the Fleshtones could also be found after dark basking in the sick blue light of their television sets, watching late-night horror movies and basking in the weirdness of America, while simultaneously soaking up the on-stage outrages of the Rat Pack, Little Richard, and the Rolling Stones, honing their own live show into an explosive, frenzied manifesto of rock'n'roll gone right.

They routinely tour Spain, where fans make pilgrimages to their shows, and they are equally heralded in Scandinavia, in Italy, and in France, where they have toured incessantly. All over the world -- and especially in New York City, the most fickle of towns -- younger bands look up to the Fleshtones for lessons in suave stagecraft and unforced enthusiasm. They bring the brio of Chuck Berry and James Brown, with whom they have shared the stage with many times, and the true spirit of CBGB.

In fact, they are the only band who played at CBGB in 1976 to have never taken a significant break from recording or performing since, and their line-up has been remarkably stable, anchored by Zaremba -- wildly swinging, funny, uncompromised, and confident, he is equal parts Dean Martin, Mick Jagger, and Count Dracula -- and SUPER ROCK guitarist Keith Streng, who seemingly flies through the air. They are backed by one of the most solid rhythm sections in the world, the decidedly Charlie Watts less-is-more-but-do-it-with-panache drumming of Bill Milhizer, who's held the chair for forty years, and newcomer Ken Fox on bass, who has served for a mere thirty. Previously, those spots had been filled my luminary mercenaries with pedigree, including Clem Burke from Blondie on drums, and Fred Smith (Television) and Andy Shernoff (the Dictators) on bass, testimony to the Fleshtones OG punk rock roots and authenticity in a world run over by poseurs and off-the-rack frauds.

The Fleshtones were always oddly evolved in a plasma pool of retrograde wannabes -- this is a band that promises a party of the least-juvenile sort. And that is why they have proudly worn the SUPER ROCK title since they came howling and gyrating out of the gate. They are the rare thing, like the Grand Canyon -- no matter how great you have been told they are, when you finally get to see them for yourself, it is actually much better than any hype.

Evel Knievel once told me that "American hero" is the shortest lived of all professions. The Fleshtones are here to tell everyone he was wrong. The Fleshtones stand tall as the last real thing in America.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/474/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1782504000
Kuarantine is the world's BEST non make-up, 80's KISS Kover band! They first debuted in May 2020 with the release of No No No, which reached #25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts. They now have three more TOP 20 hits in Silver Spoon (#20), Good Girl Gone Bad (#11), and Turn On The Night (#17)! The band tours regularly, bringing their high-octane rock n roll party to thousands of fans across North America, including opening for KISS themselves at the Kiss Kruise- Landlocked In Vegas extravaganza in November of 2025!

Frontman and lead singer Chris Jericho has surrounded himself with a group of top-notch touring musicians for Kuarantine. Kent Slucher has been the powerhouse behind the kit for country music sensation Luke Bryan for the past 14 years, from small clubs to headlining stadiums and amphitheaters. Joe McGinness is a rising country singer and guitarist who has shared the stage with artists such as Old Dominion, Florida Georgia Line, and Granger Smith, and is also a member of KLASSIK '78, a digital tribute to 1970s KISS. KLASSIK '78's Latest Album, "Phantoms, reached #1 on the iTunes rock charts in 2022. Bassist PJ Farley rose to fame in the New Jersey-based gold-selling rock band Trixter, who toured with KISS, Poison, and Scorpions before writing and recording two solo albums and eventually joining Fozzy in 2020. Charlie Parra, who hails from Lima, Peru, is a global rock guitar YouTube sensation, boasting nearly a million followers and over 176 million views on his channel.]]>
Kuarantine is the world's BEST non make-up, 80's KISS Kover band! They first debuted in May 2020 with the release of No No No, which reached #25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts. They now have three more TOP 20 hits in Silver Spoon (#20), Good Girl Gone Bad (#11), and Turn On The Night (#17)! The band tours regularly, bringing their high-octane rock n roll party to thousands of fans across North America, including opening for KISS themselves at the Kiss Kruise- Landlocked In Vegas extravaganza in November of 2025!

Frontman and lead singer Chris Jericho has surrounded himself with a group of top-notch touring musicians for Kuarantine. Kent Slucher has been the powerhouse behind the kit for country music sensation Luke Bryan for the past 14 years, from small clubs to headlining stadiums and amphitheaters. Joe McGinness is a rising country singer and guitarist who has shared the stage with artists such as Old Dominion, Florida Georgia Line, and Granger Smith, and is also a member of KLASSIK '78, a digital tribute to 1970s KISS. KLASSIK '78's Latest Album, "Phantoms, reached #1 on the iTunes rock charts in 2022. Bassist PJ Farley rose to fame in the New Jersey-based gold-selling rock band Trixter, who toured with KISS, Poison, and Scorpions before writing and recording two solo albums and eventually joining Fozzy in 2020. Charlie Parra, who hails from Lima, Peru, is a global rock guitar YouTube sensation, boasting nearly a million followers and over 176 million views on his channel.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/532/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1782676800
Featuring legendary drummer Omar Hakim (Weather Report, Bowie, Sting, Madonna) Rachel Z (Peter Gabriel, Steps Ahead, Wayne Shorter) Ozmosys, and the Rock N' Roll Collective

The Generations Deconstructed Tour is a dynamic, multi-faceted live music experience that bridges generations and genres. The show features the Rock N'Roll Collective (ages 13-18) performing iconic classic tunes in their original, high-energy form, while Ozmosys reimagines those same songs through a bold and sophisticated jazz lens.

Audiences will hear familiar hits transformed in real time--moving from faithful renditions to inventive, genre-bending interpretations--showcasing the deep musicality, creativity, and interplay between these exceptional artists.

This unique concert experience celebrates both the timelessness of great music and the limitless possibilities of reinterpretation.

⚡ Two bands.
⚡ Two completely different takes.
⚡ One unforgettable night.

This isn't just a show--it's a musical conversation across generations, styles, and imagination.

Feel the originals. Experience the transformation.

The Rock N' Roll Collective is a powerhouse group of exceptionally talented young musicians between the ages of 13 and 18. Designed for students who have outgrown traditional music education programs like School of Rock, the Collective offers a professional-level environment where emerging artists can develop their craft and gain real-world performance experience.]]>
Featuring legendary drummer Omar Hakim (Weather Report, Bowie, Sting, Madonna) Rachel Z (Peter Gabriel, Steps Ahead, Wayne Shorter) Ozmosys, and the Rock N' Roll Collective

The Generations Deconstructed Tour is a dynamic, multi-faceted live music experience that bridges generations and genres. The show features the Rock N'Roll Collective (ages 13-18) performing iconic classic tunes in their original, high-energy form, while Ozmosys reimagines those same songs through a bold and sophisticated jazz lens.

Audiences will hear familiar hits transformed in real time--moving from faithful renditions to inventive, genre-bending interpretations--showcasing the deep musicality, creativity, and interplay between these exceptional artists.

This unique concert experience celebrates both the timelessness of great music and the limitless possibilities of reinterpretation.

⚡ Two bands.
⚡ Two completely different takes.
⚡ One unforgettable night.

This isn't just a show--it's a musical conversation across generations, styles, and imagination.

Feel the originals. Experience the transformation.

The Rock N' Roll Collective is a powerhouse group of exceptionally talented young musicians between the ages of 13 and 18. Designed for students who have outgrown traditional music education programs like School of Rock, the Collective offers a professional-level environment where emerging artists can develop their craft and gain real-world performance experience.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/400/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1783800000
Since 2012, MCAmy (Amy Sumpter), MagRock (Maggie Tomasek), Ken D (Kendra Stevens) and DJ ENRG (Erica Reid) have been rhyming the rhyme well in honor of the greatest musical group of all time.

To celebrate the spirit of Adam "MCA" Yauch and the legacy of the Beastie Boys, our shows are a place where people of all ages, races, genders and sexualities (in other words, "all lifestyles, sizes, shapes and forms") can come together and have a great time.]]>
Since 2012, MCAmy (Amy Sumpter), MagRock (Maggie Tomasek), Ken D (Kendra Stevens) and DJ ENRG (Erica Reid) have been rhyming the rhyme well in honor of the greatest musical group of all time.

To celebrate the spirit of Adam "MCA" Yauch and the legacy of the Beastie Boys, our shows are a place where people of all ages, races, genders and sexualities (in other words, "all lifestyles, sizes, shapes and forms") can come together and have a great time.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/489/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1784059200
Drivin N Cryin is an enduring American rock band whose roots-forward sound and uncompromising spirit have made them a vital force since forming in Atlanta, Georgia in 1985. Blending Southern rock grit, folk storytelling, and hard-charging rock & roll, the band built a reputation early on as a must-see live act and a songwriter's band with depth far beyond trends.

Led by singer-songwriter Kevn Kinney and anchored by bassist Tim Nielsen and drummer Dave Johnson, Drivin N Cryin broke through nationally with a run of influential albums that helped define late-'80s and early-'90s American rock. Songs like "Fly Me Courageous," "Honeysuckle Blue," "Straight to Hell," "Build a Fire," and "Scarred But Smarter" became staples of rock and AAA radio, with Fly Me Courageous earning Gold certification and remaining a cornerstone of the band's catalog.

While they emerged during the MTV era, Drivin N Cryin never disappeared. Over four decades, they've remained a consistently touring, recording band -- releasing new music, evolving their sound, and cultivating a loyal, multigenerational audience. Their influence extends well beyond their own recordings; "Straight to Hell" found new life through covers and collaborations that introduced the song to entirely new audiences.

The band's stature is reflected in both peer respect and formal recognition, including induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, as well as Kinney's induction into the Milwaukee Music Hall of Fame. Touring history includes shared stages with artists spanning multiple eras and genres, The Who, Hootie & The Blowfish, The Black Crowes, ZZ Top, Soul Asylum, Blackberry Smoke, The Marshall Tucker Band, Jason Isbell, along with recent appearances on destination events like Rock Boat, Outlaw Country Cruise, and Moon Crush.

Their latest album, Crushing Flowers, marks a deliberate return to the band's core. Stripped back to the original three-piece, the record favors clarity, chemistry, and feel over excess -- a confident, back-to-basics statement from a band that knows exactly who it is. Rather than chasing nostalgia or novelty, Crushing Flowers reinforces what has always set Drivin N Cryin apart: honest songs, emotional weight, and the unmistakable sound of a band still fully engaged in the work.

Nearly forty years in, Drivin N Cryin remains a living, breathing American rock band -- not a revival act, not a footnote, but a continuing story still being written.]]>
Drivin N Cryin is an enduring American rock band whose roots-forward sound and uncompromising spirit have made them a vital force since forming in Atlanta, Georgia in 1985. Blending Southern rock grit, folk storytelling, and hard-charging rock & roll, the band built a reputation early on as a must-see live act and a songwriter's band with depth far beyond trends.

Led by singer-songwriter Kevn Kinney and anchored by bassist Tim Nielsen and drummer Dave Johnson, Drivin N Cryin broke through nationally with a run of influential albums that helped define late-'80s and early-'90s American rock. Songs like "Fly Me Courageous," "Honeysuckle Blue," "Straight to Hell," "Build a Fire," and "Scarred But Smarter" became staples of rock and AAA radio, with Fly Me Courageous earning Gold certification and remaining a cornerstone of the band's catalog.

While they emerged during the MTV era, Drivin N Cryin never disappeared. Over four decades, they've remained a consistently touring, recording band -- releasing new music, evolving their sound, and cultivating a loyal, multigenerational audience. Their influence extends well beyond their own recordings; "Straight to Hell" found new life through covers and collaborations that introduced the song to entirely new audiences.

The band's stature is reflected in both peer respect and formal recognition, including induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, as well as Kinney's induction into the Milwaukee Music Hall of Fame. Touring history includes shared stages with artists spanning multiple eras and genres, The Who, Hootie & The Blowfish, The Black Crowes, ZZ Top, Soul Asylum, Blackberry Smoke, The Marshall Tucker Band, Jason Isbell, along with recent appearances on destination events like Rock Boat, Outlaw Country Cruise, and Moon Crush.

Their latest album, Crushing Flowers, marks a deliberate return to the band's core. Stripped back to the original three-piece, the record favors clarity, chemistry, and feel over excess -- a confident, back-to-basics statement from a band that knows exactly who it is. Rather than chasing nostalgia or novelty, Crushing Flowers reinforces what has always set Drivin N Cryin apart: honest songs, emotional weight, and the unmistakable sound of a band still fully engaged in the work.

Nearly forty years in, Drivin N Cryin remains a living, breathing American rock band -- not a revival act, not a footnote, but a continuing story still being written.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/419/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1784404800
GRUNGER is a dynamic grunge tribute band dedicated to honoring the Grunge Big 4 and more, while capturing the raw energy and iconic sound of 90s grunge and alternative rock music. Formed by a group of passionate musicians who share a deep love for this influential genre, GRUNGER delivers an electrifying experience that transports audiences back to the golden era of grunge.

GRUNGER brings to life the unforgettable hits of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and an array of other grunge and alt-rock luminaries. The band's attention to detail and commitment to authenticity ensures that every performance is a captivating journey through the soul-stirring melodies and gritty lyrics that defined a generation.

Comprised of seasoned musicians, GRUNGER boasts a lineup that is as solid as it is talented. Matt Smith leads with his impressive vocal range and ability to master even the most challenging grunge anthems. Aaron Koeppen's mastery of the lead guitar adds depth and intensity to the band's sound. Tony Paletti's bass skills and backing vocals provide a solid foundation that resonates with the spirit of grunge. Tee Jay's thunderous drumming drives the band's pulsating rhythm, elevating each performance to new heights.

Join us on this exhilarating journey as GRUNGER pays homage to the grunge legends and takes you on a musical ride through the heart and soul of the 90s. Get ready to rock with GRUNGER-where nostalgia meets the present, and the spirit of grunge lives on!!]]>
GRUNGER is a dynamic grunge tribute band dedicated to honoring the Grunge Big 4 and more, while capturing the raw energy and iconic sound of 90s grunge and alternative rock music. Formed by a group of passionate musicians who share a deep love for this influential genre, GRUNGER delivers an electrifying experience that transports audiences back to the golden era of grunge.

GRUNGER brings to life the unforgettable hits of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and an array of other grunge and alt-rock luminaries. The band's attention to detail and commitment to authenticity ensures that every performance is a captivating journey through the soul-stirring melodies and gritty lyrics that defined a generation.

Comprised of seasoned musicians, GRUNGER boasts a lineup that is as solid as it is talented. Matt Smith leads with his impressive vocal range and ability to master even the most challenging grunge anthems. Aaron Koeppen's mastery of the lead guitar adds depth and intensity to the band's sound. Tony Paletti's bass skills and backing vocals provide a solid foundation that resonates with the spirit of grunge. Tee Jay's thunderous drumming drives the band's pulsating rhythm, elevating each performance to new heights.

Join us on this exhilarating journey as GRUNGER pays homage to the grunge legends and takes you on a musical ride through the heart and soul of the 90s. Get ready to rock with GRUNGER-where nostalgia meets the present, and the spirit of grunge lives on!!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/482/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1785009600
This is not a phase. It's a ritual. We don't mosh, we beg.

Dob in someone who Sleep Token has in a Chokehold for your chance to win a $100 bar tab!

Spinning non-stop Sleep Token tracks for you to worship for 3 hours.

BEST SLEEP TOKEN 'FIT WINS A VOUCHER!]]>
This is not a phase. It's a ritual. We don't mosh, we beg.

Dob in someone who Sleep Token has in a Chokehold for your chance to win a $100 bar tab!

Spinning non-stop Sleep Token tracks for you to worship for 3 hours.

BEST SLEEP TOKEN 'FIT WINS A VOUCHER!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/494/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1785614400
Not everyone understands what it's like to lose everything and piece your life back together. It is a universal fight for emotional survival, navigating the wreckage of broken relationships, wrestling with mental health, and finding the resilience to keep going. With their latest album, White Flag Down, Nashville's A Thousand Horses have paved that exact road with thunderous guitars and cinematic choruses.

Telling the most personal story the band has ever put to tape, the record explores divorce, recovery, and the journey of healing. Instead of pulling back into acoustic melancholy, the band turned the amplifiers up. Fusing their signature rock storytelling with 90s-inspired guitar anthems, tracks like "Dead Man Walking" and the Aaron Gillespie collaboration "Shadows" push the group deeper into modern rock territory while keeping their Southern grit intact.

To capture this sonic shift, frontman Michael Hobby, guitarist Bill Satcher, and bassist Graham DeLoach expanded their lineup to include drummer Nathan Sexton and guitarist Adam Browder. The result is a bold reinvention for the Platinum-certified band behind the global breakout hit "Smoke." Today, A Thousand Horses make the kind of music that reminds you exactly why rock still matters, loud, honest, and raw.]]>
Not everyone understands what it's like to lose everything and piece your life back together. It is a universal fight for emotional survival, navigating the wreckage of broken relationships, wrestling with mental health, and finding the resilience to keep going. With their latest album, White Flag Down, Nashville's A Thousand Horses have paved that exact road with thunderous guitars and cinematic choruses.

Telling the most personal story the band has ever put to tape, the record explores divorce, recovery, and the journey of healing. Instead of pulling back into acoustic melancholy, the band turned the amplifiers up. Fusing their signature rock storytelling with 90s-inspired guitar anthems, tracks like "Dead Man Walking" and the Aaron Gillespie collaboration "Shadows" push the group deeper into modern rock territory while keeping their Southern grit intact.

To capture this sonic shift, frontman Michael Hobby, guitarist Bill Satcher, and bassist Graham DeLoach expanded their lineup to include drummer Nathan Sexton and guitarist Adam Browder. The result is a bold reinvention for the Platinum-certified band behind the global breakout hit "Smoke." Today, A Thousand Horses make the kind of music that reminds you exactly why rock still matters, loud, honest, and raw.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/490/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1785960000
Since forming in 1988 in Southern California, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys have become one of the world's most beloved Americana/Roots acts, drawing from the deep musical waters that flow just beneath the surface of Rock & Roll's fertile soil. A childhood passion for Country, Doo-Wop, and Rhythm & Blues 45s led Sandy (born Robert Williams) to pursue a singing career as a teenager, beginning a life in music that continues decades later. And as his personal record collection continues to grow (75,000 and counting), so does the depth of the musical influences that stream through his songwriting and singing style. A critically acclaimed tribute to Tex-Mex hero Freddy Fender, released at the beginning of the 2020 lockdown, points the way forward for Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys as they continue on a path of musical growth. After nearly 35 years on the road, and more than two dozen releases to their credit, they remain key figures on the ever-changing Americana circuit, both on record and in live appearances.]]>
Since forming in 1988 in Southern California, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys have become one of the world's most beloved Americana/Roots acts, drawing from the deep musical waters that flow just beneath the surface of Rock & Roll's fertile soil. A childhood passion for Country, Doo-Wop, and Rhythm & Blues 45s led Sandy (born Robert Williams) to pursue a singing career as a teenager, beginning a life in music that continues decades later. And as his personal record collection continues to grow (75,000 and counting), so does the depth of the musical influences that stream through his songwriting and singing style. A critically acclaimed tribute to Tex-Mex hero Freddy Fender, released at the beginning of the 2020 lockdown, points the way forward for Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys as they continue on a path of musical growth. After nearly 35 years on the road, and more than two dozen releases to their credit, they remain key figures on the ever-changing Americana circuit, both on record and in live appearances.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/381/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1786564800
For a handful of summers about 30 years ago, tourists who wandered into a large dancehall in Stanley, Idaho, witnessed a family tradition finding new life. Young and old sat shoulder-to-shoulder, taking a break from the town's mountain hikes and river campgrounds to take in Muzzie Braun and the Boys--a local family band who'd made it to the Grand Ole Opry, effortlessly spouted cowboy poetry and Western swing at gatherings around the country, and featured Muzzie's four young sons--precocious boys with rock-and-roll futures.

"There were kids running around, people dancing," says Micky Braun, the youngest brother who first climbed on stage to join the family when he was about five years-old. "Gary and I'd get up and play a couple of songs, then we'd get off and the older brothers would stay up and play a couple more. It's pretty funny, looking back on it." He laughs a little, then adds, still smiling, "That's how we got started playing."

The Braun brothers never stopped. Big brothers Cody and Willy started Reckless Kelly, and Micky and Gary left Idaho for Austin and started Micky and the Motorcars, a road-dogging favorite whose nonstop tour for the last 17 years has defined not just the lives of the brothers, but also shaped Austin's roots-rock resurgence that has played out over the last two decades. With their anticipated new album Long Time Comin', the Motorcars cement their place as elder statesmen of that alt-country scene who have managed to master that ever-elusive blend of artistic familiarity and surprise.

"I hope people take the time to hear the album as a whole, and I hope they like it," Gary says from his home in Austin. "I think this one is a little bit better." He pauses and laughs as he drawls, "So I hope they like it a little more."

For the Motorcars, the question is never really whether to tour but where to play next. Gary--who handles guitar, mandolin, harmonica, harmonies, and occasionally lead vocals--and Micky, lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist, are joined in the Motorcars by Andy Carrell on bass, Bobby Paugh on drums and percussion, and new bandmate Pablo Trujillo on guitar. The combination of familiar and fresh players has reinvigorated the Motorcars' live show, which buzzes through a low-key rock-and-roll rapture built on grooves and the Brauns' signature harmonies.

A mix of new and old also shaped the Long Time Comin' recording process. Produced by Keith Gattis, the 11-song album relied in part on Gattis' go-to Nashville studio players--a first for the Motorcars. "It still sounds like Micky and the Motorcars, but it was fun working with different guys who we'd never worked with before," Micky says. "They've been Keith's band for 15 years. He can say, 'Give me a shuffle with a boom-chuck,' and they know what he's talking about."

The band isn't the only change on Long Time Comin'. Gary, who has always contributed a song or two to Motorcar records, wrote or co-wrote six of the album's tracks and sings every tune he penned. "I don't think I decided to really write more--I think I just got better at it and worked a little harder at it the past couple of years," Gary says. "In the past, I just let Micky do it because he was good at it. It was easy for me not to do it."

Micky loves the shift. "It's almost a split album between the two of us on lead vocal--very different from our normal," he says. "I think our fans will enjoy it. They always love the songs Gary sings live. They always want him to sing more."

The album kicks off with the ambling "Road to You." Written by Micky and Courtney Patton, the rollicking singalong is classic Motorcars and an ideal welcome mat for the collection. Sauntering "Rodeo Girl" swings and punches up the pace, before "Alone Again Tonight"--a Gary track written with Gattis--watches loneliness with empathetic ache.

Several tracks take note of the universal search for comfort--even when it's not the stuff of fairytales or even particularly dignified. Over crunchy guitars, "Stranger Tonight" captures an evening's quest for no-strings companionship. "It was an idea I had just watching people at bars--that lonely girl I saw time and time again but with a different set of glasses, over and over," Gary says. "It seems like everybody can relate to that--out looking for something new that doesn't have to be love."

Sweet and sad, "Break My Heart," another track penned by Gary with Jeff Crosby, looks back after the end of a relationship. "You're not mad anymore but you're thankful of the good times," Gary says. "It's also about finding yourself again. It's a moving-on song." Quiet and sparse, the Gary-penned "Run into You" details a longing to cross paths with an ex-lover who's moved on with heartbreaking clarity.

Anchored by crying B-3 organ, "Hold This Town Together" explores the struggle to enjoy what once was easy after the loss of someone who'll never come back. After years of trying, Micky wrote the song for Mark, a friend and the Motorcars' first bassist, who passed away. "Hold This Town," written by Micky and Jeff Crosby, muses over the hometown faces and places that never change. "There are the same people at the same bars, the same people working at the grocery stores," Micky says, then adds with a laugh, "It's kind of a depressing party song." Another Jeff Crosby-Micky collaboration, "Thank My Mother's God" pays beautiful tribute to moms and their devotion to their black sheep, running wild.

Two album standouts stand tall: "Lions of Kandahar," written by Gary alone, and the title track, which Micky penned with master songwriter Bruce Robison. Over instrumentation that evokes the tense hum of Middle Eastern military activity, "Lions of Kandahar" follows a deployment from a first-person perspective. The result is jarring, compelling, and deeply human--a breathtaking piece of songwriting that took five years to complete. Winsome "Long Time Comin'" is an ode to the satisfaction of patience and perseverance rewarded in different forms--a stunning tapestry that also reflects the road to the album itself.

Guitars and songs at the ready, Micky and Gary hope most of all that their sprawling cross-continental fanbase connect with Long Time Comin', a collection four years in the making. "If you can put your heart on your sleeve and say it, it's the best medicine for people," Micky says, reflecting on the album. "They can lock into it and enjoy the ride."]]>
For a handful of summers about 30 years ago, tourists who wandered into a large dancehall in Stanley, Idaho, witnessed a family tradition finding new life. Young and old sat shoulder-to-shoulder, taking a break from the town's mountain hikes and river campgrounds to take in Muzzie Braun and the Boys--a local family band who'd made it to the Grand Ole Opry, effortlessly spouted cowboy poetry and Western swing at gatherings around the country, and featured Muzzie's four young sons--precocious boys with rock-and-roll futures.

"There were kids running around, people dancing," says Micky Braun, the youngest brother who first climbed on stage to join the family when he was about five years-old. "Gary and I'd get up and play a couple of songs, then we'd get off and the older brothers would stay up and play a couple more. It's pretty funny, looking back on it." He laughs a little, then adds, still smiling, "That's how we got started playing."

The Braun brothers never stopped. Big brothers Cody and Willy started Reckless Kelly, and Micky and Gary left Idaho for Austin and started Micky and the Motorcars, a road-dogging favorite whose nonstop tour for the last 17 years has defined not just the lives of the brothers, but also shaped Austin's roots-rock resurgence that has played out over the last two decades. With their anticipated new album Long Time Comin', the Motorcars cement their place as elder statesmen of that alt-country scene who have managed to master that ever-elusive blend of artistic familiarity and surprise.

"I hope people take the time to hear the album as a whole, and I hope they like it," Gary says from his home in Austin. "I think this one is a little bit better." He pauses and laughs as he drawls, "So I hope they like it a little more."

For the Motorcars, the question is never really whether to tour but where to play next. Gary--who handles guitar, mandolin, harmonica, harmonies, and occasionally lead vocals--and Micky, lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist, are joined in the Motorcars by Andy Carrell on bass, Bobby Paugh on drums and percussion, and new bandmate Pablo Trujillo on guitar. The combination of familiar and fresh players has reinvigorated the Motorcars' live show, which buzzes through a low-key rock-and-roll rapture built on grooves and the Brauns' signature harmonies.

A mix of new and old also shaped the Long Time Comin' recording process. Produced by Keith Gattis, the 11-song album relied in part on Gattis' go-to Nashville studio players--a first for the Motorcars. "It still sounds like Micky and the Motorcars, but it was fun working with different guys who we'd never worked with before," Micky says. "They've been Keith's band for 15 years. He can say, 'Give me a shuffle with a boom-chuck,' and they know what he's talking about."

The band isn't the only change on Long Time Comin'. Gary, who has always contributed a song or two to Motorcar records, wrote or co-wrote six of the album's tracks and sings every tune he penned. "I don't think I decided to really write more--I think I just got better at it and worked a little harder at it the past couple of years," Gary says. "In the past, I just let Micky do it because he was good at it. It was easy for me not to do it."

Micky loves the shift. "It's almost a split album between the two of us on lead vocal--very different from our normal," he says. "I think our fans will enjoy it. They always love the songs Gary sings live. They always want him to sing more."

The album kicks off with the ambling "Road to You." Written by Micky and Courtney Patton, the rollicking singalong is classic Motorcars and an ideal welcome mat for the collection. Sauntering "Rodeo Girl" swings and punches up the pace, before "Alone Again Tonight"--a Gary track written with Gattis--watches loneliness with empathetic ache.

Several tracks take note of the universal search for comfort--even when it's not the stuff of fairytales or even particularly dignified. Over crunchy guitars, "Stranger Tonight" captures an evening's quest for no-strings companionship. "It was an idea I had just watching people at bars--that lonely girl I saw time and time again but with a different set of glasses, over and over," Gary says. "It seems like everybody can relate to that--out looking for something new that doesn't have to be love."

Sweet and sad, "Break My Heart," another track penned by Gary with Jeff Crosby, looks back after the end of a relationship. "You're not mad anymore but you're thankful of the good times," Gary says. "It's also about finding yourself again. It's a moving-on song." Quiet and sparse, the Gary-penned "Run into You" details a longing to cross paths with an ex-lover who's moved on with heartbreaking clarity.

Anchored by crying B-3 organ, "Hold This Town Together" explores the struggle to enjoy what once was easy after the loss of someone who'll never come back. After years of trying, Micky wrote the song for Mark, a friend and the Motorcars' first bassist, who passed away. "Hold This Town," written by Micky and Jeff Crosby, muses over the hometown faces and places that never change. "There are the same people at the same bars, the same people working at the grocery stores," Micky says, then adds with a laugh, "It's kind of a depressing party song." Another Jeff Crosby-Micky collaboration, "Thank My Mother's God" pays beautiful tribute to moms and their devotion to their black sheep, running wild.

Two album standouts stand tall: "Lions of Kandahar," written by Gary alone, and the title track, which Micky penned with master songwriter Bruce Robison. Over instrumentation that evokes the tense hum of Middle Eastern military activity, "Lions of Kandahar" follows a deployment from a first-person perspective. The result is jarring, compelling, and deeply human--a breathtaking piece of songwriting that took five years to complete. Winsome "Long Time Comin'" is an ode to the satisfaction of patience and perseverance rewarded in different forms--a stunning tapestry that also reflects the road to the album itself.

Guitars and songs at the ready, Micky and Gary hope most of all that their sprawling cross-continental fanbase connect with Long Time Comin', a collection four years in the making. "If you can put your heart on your sleeve and say it, it's the best medicine for people," Micky says, reflecting on the album. "They can lock into it and enjoy the ride."]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/414/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1787428800
Rap J is an artist born and raised in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. At the age of six years old, he started freestyling and discovered his passion for hip hop. Born with cerebral palsy, Rap J uses music to express himself and showcase that the condition does not define him. His musical influences include Michael Jackson, Biggie, and Tyler, The Creator. Rap J has had the privilege of playing Summerfest, Bronzeville Fest, 2023 WAMI Awards, Shank Hall, Anodyne, and Drunken Cobra, and each show has reinforced his passion for music and connecting with audiences.The rapper has also been featured on CBS 58, Fox 6, WISN 12, TMJ4, Miwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherd Express, and Spectrum News. Rap J's biggest goal is to give hope through music and prove that any dream is attainable with the right mindset!]]>
Rap J is an artist born and raised in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. At the age of six years old, he started freestyling and discovered his passion for hip hop. Born with cerebral palsy, Rap J uses music to express himself and showcase that the condition does not define him. His musical influences include Michael Jackson, Biggie, and Tyler, The Creator. Rap J has had the privilege of playing Summerfest, Bronzeville Fest, 2023 WAMI Awards, Shank Hall, Anodyne, and Drunken Cobra, and each show has reinforced his passion for music and connecting with audiences.The rapper has also been featured on CBS 58, Fox 6, WISN 12, TMJ4, Miwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherd Express, and Spectrum News. Rap J's biggest goal is to give hope through music and prove that any dream is attainable with the right mindset!]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/181/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1789243200
A good rule of thumb when going to a Mindy Smith concert, bring a hanky, a tissue or an extra sleeve. Your tear ducts don't know the difference between laughing tears and crying tears and you'll likely be doing both. "Humor is how I compensate for singing so many sad tunes back-to-back," says Smith.

Mindy Smith is a Long Island-born, Americana award winning, Dove nominated, Nashville based singer-songwriter with a clear and honest passion for Americana, jazz, pop, rock, blues, and folk. As a recording artist, she has sold over 750k albums and singles and amassed over 175 million streams to date. She has played some of the most prestigious festivals in the world including Cambridge Folk Festival, Maverick Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, MerleFest, Austin City Limits, South by Southwest, Bonnaroo and more. Smith has also appeared on The Grand Ole Opry over 20 times.

Her original songs have been recorded and released by the likes of Alison Krauss, Lee Ann Womack, Faith Hill and most recently Danny Burns ft Sam Bush. Mindy has performed with and toured alongside the likes of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, John Prine (US AND UK Tour), Nickel Creek (US Tour), and Mary Chapin Carpenter (US Tour. Most recently, Smith was the featured vocalist on Kenny Chesney's charting single, "Better Boat". Says Chesney, "if you just close your eyes and listen to her voice -- I'm speaking for me --she brings calm, she brings a sense that it's all going to be all right. [T]o me, when I hear her voice, it's like an angel, her voice is so--what's the word?--'genreless.' It's bigger than all of us."]]>
A good rule of thumb when going to a Mindy Smith concert, bring a hanky, a tissue or an extra sleeve. Your tear ducts don't know the difference between laughing tears and crying tears and you'll likely be doing both. "Humor is how I compensate for singing so many sad tunes back-to-back," says Smith.

Mindy Smith is a Long Island-born, Americana award winning, Dove nominated, Nashville based singer-songwriter with a clear and honest passion for Americana, jazz, pop, rock, blues, and folk. As a recording artist, she has sold over 750k albums and singles and amassed over 175 million streams to date. She has played some of the most prestigious festivals in the world including Cambridge Folk Festival, Maverick Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, MerleFest, Austin City Limits, South by Southwest, Bonnaroo and more. Smith has also appeared on The Grand Ole Opry over 20 times.

Her original songs have been recorded and released by the likes of Alison Krauss, Lee Ann Womack, Faith Hill and most recently Danny Burns ft Sam Bush. Mindy has performed with and toured alongside the likes of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, John Prine (US AND UK Tour), Nickel Creek (US Tour), and Mary Chapin Carpenter (US Tour. Most recently, Smith was the featured vocalist on Kenny Chesney's charting single, "Better Boat". Says Chesney, "if you just close your eyes and listen to her voice -- I'm speaking for me --she brings calm, she brings a sense that it's all going to be all right. [T]o me, when I hear her voice, it's like an angel, her voice is so--what's the word?--'genreless.' It's bigger than all of us."]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/430/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1791144000
"I've been trying to remind myself recently that today can be a good day," gnash tells Apple Music. "It's up to me to say, 'Okay, I feel weird and I'm going to change that.'" That message of self-acceptance goes to the heart of what the Los Angeles singer/songwriter/producer is all about: vulnerability, resilience, and a happy-sad clash of emotions represented in the crying smiley face on his merch. Born Garrett Charles Nash in 1993, the L.A. native grew up on a diet of Fall Out Boy and Jack Johnson. He started DJing at 13, playing hip-hop at high-school dances, then began producing cover versions of songs like O.T. Genasis' "CoCo," flipping boisterous rap choruses into a wistful emo croon. Out of that mix of influences--topped by Ben Gibbard's Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, his chief inspirations--came gnash's unmistakable style. Fusing skeletal hip-hop beats with pensive piano melodies and a guileless tenor, his sound arrived fully formed on his 2015 debut EP, U, which he recorded in his parents' garage in the aftermath of a painful breakup. Later that year, he turned his attention to finding himself on the Me EP, and in 2016 broke through in a major way with the Olivia O'Brien collaboration "i hate u, i love u," a characteristically ambivalent ballad that anchored his us EP. Since then, across unplugged pop, minimalist R&B, and clean-lined pop-punk, his voice has kept getting smoother and his melodies sharper. But the sparkle in his eye hasn't faded.]]>
"I've been trying to remind myself recently that today can be a good day," gnash tells Apple Music. "It's up to me to say, 'Okay, I feel weird and I'm going to change that.'" That message of self-acceptance goes to the heart of what the Los Angeles singer/songwriter/producer is all about: vulnerability, resilience, and a happy-sad clash of emotions represented in the crying smiley face on his merch. Born Garrett Charles Nash in 1993, the L.A. native grew up on a diet of Fall Out Boy and Jack Johnson. He started DJing at 13, playing hip-hop at high-school dances, then began producing cover versions of songs like O.T. Genasis' "CoCo," flipping boisterous rap choruses into a wistful emo croon. Out of that mix of influences--topped by Ben Gibbard's Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, his chief inspirations--came gnash's unmistakable style. Fusing skeletal hip-hop beats with pensive piano melodies and a guileless tenor, his sound arrived fully formed on his 2015 debut EP, U, which he recorded in his parents' garage in the aftermath of a painful breakup. Later that year, he turned his attention to finding himself on the Me EP, and in 2016 broke through in a major way with the Olivia O'Brien collaboration "i hate u, i love u," a characteristically ambivalent ballad that anchored his us EP. Since then, across unplugged pop, minimalist R&B, and clean-lined pop-punk, his voice has kept getting smoother and his melodies sharper. But the sparkle in his eye hasn't faded.]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/411/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1792353600
"Here's to life!" Fans around the world can be found singing the chorus of the Roger Clyne-penned fan favorite "Mekong" and toasting their glasses in unison to celebrate life through rock-n-roll. But the inspiration for the song dates back to the time Roger went to Taipei, Taiwan, as a college student to teach English during the day and busk with his guitar at night for money.

Today, as Clyne prepares to record his 11th studio album, he continues to transform his life experiences, inspirations, observations and his own muses into timeless music. And whether he's wearing his Converse high tops, boots or sandals, Clyne's blend of punk rock, country-western and mariachi influences have made him, drummer PH Naffah, guitarist Jim Dalton and bassist Nick Scropos -- collectively known as Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers -- one of America's best live rock-n-roll bands.

Starting with the seminal Tempe quartet, The Refreshments, Clyne and Naffah put the fun in rock during the 90s grunge era with a sense of humor. They also started what would become a trademark sound on all future albums by adding mariachi horns, something Clyne was influenced by while in college studying Cultural Anthropology with an ethnography study of mariachis during a three month immersion stay with a local family in Ensenada, Mexico.

The Refreshments' debut album, "Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy," became a cult classic. It produced the alternative radio hit "Banditos" which also had significant airplay on MTV and earned The Freshies an appearance on The Conan O'Brien Show. Clyne then penned and performed the theme song for the Mike Judge animated TV series, King of Hill. In 2017, Here's to Life: The story of The Refreshments, was released. The feature-length documentary was a hit with fans and critics alike.

Changes within their record label and internal band issues resulted in Clyne and Naffah going on a vision quest of sorts in the Whetstone Mountains near the Clyne Ranch in Southeastern Arizona. It was there that Clyne found inspiration in the rolling hills and the jukeboxes of small town taverns that still played Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash -- music he had shed from his youth in favor of bands like Camper Van Beethoven & They Might Be Giants. But after reconnecting with those old country records, Clyne and Naffah wrote and recorded under a new moniker what would become Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers' debut album, "Honky Tonk Union."

The album was the perfect combination of classic rock and twang, and fans immediately connected with it. Their independent release, "Honky Tonk Union," debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's internet sales chart in 1999 prompting a call from a Billboard exec to their Manager demanding, " Who the hell is Roger Clyne and why is he #1 on my chart?!" beating out much better known artists.

RCPM released eight more albums that landed in the top ten of Billboard's Internet Sales Chart, including a No. 1 debut for their third album, "Americano!" -- all without the backing of a major record label and while flying under the radar of commercial radio.

In 2019, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers were inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, joining the likes of fellow Arizona legends Alice Cooper, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt and Waylon Jennings.

Later that fall, RCPM was invited by a man who, like Roger, also knows a little something about tequila and throwing big parties in Mexico. The band headlined Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina on the eve of Hagar's weekend birthday celebration.

Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have curated their own annual music festival, Circus Mexicus, in the sleepy beach town of Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, which draws thousands of fans from around the world. The festival not only has a major impact on the local economy, but charity events hosted by the band and fans alike help raise money for a local orphanage, support local youth sports and help feed shelter animals.

Clyne not only sings about life in the border-lands, he also produces his own ultra-premium spirit, Mexican Moonshine Tequila (soon to be re-named Canción Tequila). Owned by the entire band, it was the official tequila at the Arizona Diamondbacks Chase stadium in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Started in 2011, the award-winning spirit is distributed in multiple states as well as Sonora, Mexico.

Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have toured all over the US and achieved a faithful following through hard work and great music. They have done this all while being independent, without the safety net of a label or a label's radio promotion department. Dubbed "The Springsteen of the Southwest," by the Asbury Park Press. The band delivers exciting live performances that garner declarations like the one from emcee Jay Peterman of the Seinfeld TV show at Alice Cooper's annual Christmas Pudding event, "Young man, you light that stage a-flame!"]]>
"Here's to life!" Fans around the world can be found singing the chorus of the Roger Clyne-penned fan favorite "Mekong" and toasting their glasses in unison to celebrate life through rock-n-roll. But the inspiration for the song dates back to the time Roger went to Taipei, Taiwan, as a college student to teach English during the day and busk with his guitar at night for money.

Today, as Clyne prepares to record his 11th studio album, he continues to transform his life experiences, inspirations, observations and his own muses into timeless music. And whether he's wearing his Converse high tops, boots or sandals, Clyne's blend of punk rock, country-western and mariachi influences have made him, drummer PH Naffah, guitarist Jim Dalton and bassist Nick Scropos -- collectively known as Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers -- one of America's best live rock-n-roll bands.

Starting with the seminal Tempe quartet, The Refreshments, Clyne and Naffah put the fun in rock during the 90s grunge era with a sense of humor. They also started what would become a trademark sound on all future albums by adding mariachi horns, something Clyne was influenced by while in college studying Cultural Anthropology with an ethnography study of mariachis during a three month immersion stay with a local family in Ensenada, Mexico.

The Refreshments' debut album, "Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy," became a cult classic. It produced the alternative radio hit "Banditos" which also had significant airplay on MTV and earned The Freshies an appearance on The Conan O'Brien Show. Clyne then penned and performed the theme song for the Mike Judge animated TV series, King of Hill. In 2017, Here's to Life: The story of The Refreshments, was released. The feature-length documentary was a hit with fans and critics alike.

Changes within their record label and internal band issues resulted in Clyne and Naffah going on a vision quest of sorts in the Whetstone Mountains near the Clyne Ranch in Southeastern Arizona. It was there that Clyne found inspiration in the rolling hills and the jukeboxes of small town taverns that still played Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash -- music he had shed from his youth in favor of bands like Camper Van Beethoven & They Might Be Giants. But after reconnecting with those old country records, Clyne and Naffah wrote and recorded under a new moniker what would become Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers' debut album, "Honky Tonk Union."

The album was the perfect combination of classic rock and twang, and fans immediately connected with it. Their independent release, "Honky Tonk Union," debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's internet sales chart in 1999 prompting a call from a Billboard exec to their Manager demanding, " Who the hell is Roger Clyne and why is he #1 on my chart?!" beating out much better known artists.

RCPM released eight more albums that landed in the top ten of Billboard's Internet Sales Chart, including a No. 1 debut for their third album, "Americano!" -- all without the backing of a major record label and while flying under the radar of commercial radio.

In 2019, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers were inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, joining the likes of fellow Arizona legends Alice Cooper, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt and Waylon Jennings.

Later that fall, RCPM was invited by a man who, like Roger, also knows a little something about tequila and throwing big parties in Mexico. The band headlined Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina on the eve of Hagar's weekend birthday celebration.

Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have curated their own annual music festival, Circus Mexicus, in the sleepy beach town of Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, which draws thousands of fans from around the world. The festival not only has a major impact on the local economy, but charity events hosted by the band and fans alike help raise money for a local orphanage, support local youth sports and help feed shelter animals.

Clyne not only sings about life in the border-lands, he also produces his own ultra-premium spirit, Mexican Moonshine Tequila (soon to be re-named Canción Tequila). Owned by the entire band, it was the official tequila at the Arizona Diamondbacks Chase stadium in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Started in 2011, the award-winning spirit is distributed in multiple states as well as Sonora, Mexico.

Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have toured all over the US and achieved a faithful following through hard work and great music. They have done this all while being independent, without the safety net of a label or a label's radio promotion department. Dubbed "The Springsteen of the Southwest," by the Asbury Park Press. The band delivers exciting live performances that garner declarations like the one from emcee Jay Peterman of the Seinfeld TV show at Alice Cooper's annual Christmas Pudding event, "Young man, you light that stage a-flame!"]]> https://shankhall.com/shows/457/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 1793217600
Do not Miss ANGEL on their farewell tour.

The band features original members PUNKY MEADOWS & FRANK DIMINO along with Members Danny Farrow, Charlie Calv, Billy Orrico, and Tommy "T-BONE" Caradonna!

This night will include all of the classics!

TOWER, CAN YOU FEEL IT, DON'T LEAVE ME LONELY, ROCK N ROLLERS, AIN'T GONNA EAT OUT MY HEART ANYMORE, and many many others.

Dressed in white and employing a dazzling mix of glam rock, hard rock, and progressive rock, Angel's over-the-top stage shows, made them one of the more colorful arena rock bands of the mid-'70s and early '80s. Discovered by Kiss bass player Gene Simmons, the group issued their eponymous debut album in 1975, which hewed closer to prog rock than the glam pop that would inform future endeavors like On Earth as It Is in Heaven (1977) White Hot (1978) which had a top 40 hit with "I Ain't Gonna Eat out My Heart Anymore" and Sinful (1979).

ANGEL'S Two most recent studio albums "RISEN" and "Once Upon a Time" Both charted on multiple Billboard Charts as well landing Number 1 SALES for CD and Vinyl on AMAZON.

Both albums opened to Rave reviews and were in the top 5 albums of the year by GOLDMINE MAGAZINE featuring songs "Tell Me Why", and "The Torch" in the top 3 songs by GOLDMINE MAGAZINE.

Featuring Starz, who is an American hard rock and power pop band from New Jersey. The band has a lasting cult following and has been cited as a major influence by major bands.]]>
Do not Miss ANGEL on their farewell tour.

The band features original members PUNKY MEADOWS & FRANK DIMINO along with Members Danny Farrow, Charlie Calv, Billy Orrico, and Tommy "T-BONE" Caradonna!

This night will include all of the classics!

TOWER, CAN YOU FEEL IT, DON'T LEAVE ME LONELY, ROCK N ROLLERS, AIN'T GONNA EAT OUT MY HEART ANYMORE, and many many others.

Dressed in white and employing a dazzling mix of glam rock, hard rock, and progressive rock, Angel's over-the-top stage shows, made them one of the more colorful arena rock bands of the mid-'70s and early '80s. Discovered by Kiss bass player Gene Simmons, the group issued their eponymous debut album in 1975, which hewed closer to prog rock than the glam pop that would inform future endeavors like On Earth as It Is in Heaven (1977) White Hot (1978) which had a top 40 hit with "I Ain't Gonna Eat out My Heart Anymore" and Sinful (1979).

ANGEL'S Two most recent studio albums "RISEN" and "Once Upon a Time" Both charted on multiple Billboard Charts as well landing Number 1 SALES for CD and Vinyl on AMAZON.

Both albums opened to Rave reviews and were in the top 5 albums of the year by GOLDMINE MAGAZINE featuring songs "Tell Me Why", and "The Torch" in the top 3 songs by GOLDMINE MAGAZINE.

Featuring Starz, who is an American hard rock and power pop band from New Jersey. The band has a lasting cult following and has been cited as a major influence by major bands.]]>