Angela Perley w/ Nik Westman and Erica Blinn

Sat. Aug 13, 2016 at 8:45pm EDT
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Angela Perley w/ Nik Westman and Erica Blinn

Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons with Nik Westman and Erica Blinn


Doors are at 8 PM. Show is at 8:45 PM.


Tickets are $10 in advance, and $12 at the door.


Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons


There is something magnetic, vulnerable, dangerous, and electric about Angela Perley that has been causing a lot of buzz around the artist and her band The Howlin’ Moons lately. Demure and quiet off stage, the performer usually shocks people when she tells them she is the lead singer in a band. “Putting on a show is my way of being heard, I guess,” says Perley. Growing up in small town Ohio, Perley spent years as an observant wallflower engrossing herself in poetry, literature, people, and films. “I am a storyteller at heart, always have been. I get a lot of inspiration from relationships, surroundings, poetry, and old movies. Music for me is a way to express feelings I can’t get out any other way, and when I hit the stage with the band I can turn up and let go.” Perley’s band features longtime friends Billy Zehnal and Chris Connor on bass and lead guitar and Jeff Martin on drums. Since their incarnation in 2009, the band has released four EPs (Black Cat, Yellow Moon, Fireside, and Nowhere is Now Here) and one album (Hey Kid) on Vital Music USA. The group’s latest release and debut album, Hey Kid (Jan 2014), has been catching praise in the U.S. and the UK from tastemakers including American Songwriter Magazine, Magnet Magazine, PopDose, Americana UK, Maverick Magazine and more and has been gaining steady grassroots radio play in both the U.S. and Europe. The group’s explosive single, “Hurricane” was featured on ABC during the USC vs. UCLA football game in November and their new record reached number six on the EuroAmericana charts in March of 2014. Perley has earned comparisons to everyone from Patsy Cline to Joan Jett and her range of delicate reverbladen crooners to grit- fused rock anthems have made more and more listeners take notice. The band’s live shows rumble with swaggering basslines and guitar riffs and Perley’s soulful delivery and charismatic stage presence create a memorable experience for audiences eager to listen.


Andrew Leahey & the Homestead


American rock & roll. It's a genre that's thrived for more than 50 years, fueled by a long line of true believers — from Buddy Holly to Tom Petty to Bruce Springsteen — with electric guitars in their hands and stages beneath their feet.


Andrew Leahey & the Homestead are part of that loud, lively tradition. Led by singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist Andrew Leahey, the band makes modern music for roots-rockers and pop fans alike, mixing super-sized hooks with ringing guitar chords, Hammond organ, and stacked vocal harmonies. It's music that nods to the past while still pushing forward, finding new life in a sound that's been blasting out of car stereos ever since the invention of FM radio. Rolling Stone calls Leahey's sound "heartland rock." Billboard calls it "southern-fried rock/soul." The songwriter himself just calls it rock & roll.


On Skyline in Central Time, Leahey sings about life and love in the American South. Produced by Wilco co-founder Ken Coomer (who also plays drums on all 11 songs), the album was largely written in the aftermath of an emergency brain operation that left Leahey in recovery for months.


"We had just spent the entire summer touring across the country, then I got home and couldn't hear anything in my right ear," remembers Leahey, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly after returning to his Nashville home. "I was passing out in parking lots. I was suffering from migraines every day. The neurosurgeon gave me the diagnosis and explained that if I didn't have brain surgery, I would lose my hearing, my balance, the ability to control my face, and potentially my life."


Leahey's surgery took 12 hours. Recovery took much, much longer. Unable to tour for several months, he picked up the guitar and wrote a new batch of songs about what it felt like to be alive. These were rock & roll anthems, rooted in melodies that were built for the highway and the heartland. As soon as he recovered, that's exactly where Leahey took them, hitting the road with new tunes, new scars, and a renewed drive to make the most of his time here. New fans took notice — including Grammy-winning producer Ken Coomer, who had played drums for Uncle Tupelo and Wilco before rebranding himself as a studio head. In less than two weeks, the pair recorded Skyline in Central Time at Coomer's studio in East Nashville, reaching out to friends like Jill Andrews (who contributes harmony vocals to "When the Hinges Give," a standout song about maintaining a marriage through a near-death experience) for help.


"I wanted this record to be raw and real," says Leahey, a multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to handling lead vocals, also plays guitar and piano on Skyline in Central Time. "I wrote the songs myself. I recorded them with my own band. I could've hired a group of Nashville sideman to come record with me instead, and it would've sounded good — but it wouldn't have sounded like the Homestead. This is a real snapshot of what I went through, and who I went through it with."


A fiercely independent artist who spent a half-decade booking his own shows, managing his own band and promoting his own music, Skyline in Central Time marks Andrew Leahey & the Homestead's first release in partnership with Thirty Tigers, the Nashville-based company responsible for award-winning albums by Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Lucinda Williams and the Avett Brothers.


Erica Blinn


ERICA BLINN CONSTRUCTS AMERICAN ROCK SONGS ONE EARNEST MELODY AT A TIME. SHE FORCES MIDWESTERN AIR THROUGH BEAT-UP HARMONICAS AND HAMMERS OUT HONEST WORDS THAT STRETCH AND TWIST THROUGH HER TUNES. SHE BENDS THE RULES OF THE BLUES AND KNOCKS DOWN THE WALLS OF POP MUSIC TO CREATE BLUE COLLAR MUSIC THAT EVERYONE CAN STAND UP FOR AND BE PROUD OF.


Lovers In The Dust features producer/engineer Mike Landolt (Maroon 5, Blues Traveler, OAR) as well as guitarist Andy Harrison, and guests Ruf Records artist Devon Allman, and First Of Three Records artist Aaron Lee Tasjan. “I like to think of this album as having a little something for everybody,” says Blinn, “It definitely has the rockers but it also has some more intimate songs as well as a couple of just plain fun ones that reach towards a more pop sound.”


 

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