Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Carriers aka Curt Kiser is already synonymous with his Ohio hometown. On his 2019 debut Now Is The Time For Loving Me, Yourself & Everyone Else he was accompanied by Cincinnati icons Afghan Whigs’ John Curley and The National’s Bryan Devendorf. This fall, the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals tapped Carriers to play a set for their Monday Night Football game. Him and his dad rocked out in front of 60,000 fans. “Trust me, he shreds,” says Curt.
Major Murphy explores the beauty of destruction and renewal on their latest release, Fallout, due July 19 via Winspear. The new 8-song project follows the band’s 2021 shimmering indie rock opus, Access, which garnered praise from The FADER, Stereogum, Uncut Magazine, The Sunday Times and more for its “timeless, universal feel” and the band’s ability to “combine the looseness of 1990s indie with the precision of 1970s soft rock.” On Fallout, Major Murphy extrapolates on many of the ideas and creative practices they established during the making of Access–distilling their sonic sketches with the stirring emotional terrain around parenthood, creative life and empathy.
Sonny Falls is the song-writing project of Chicago DIY veteran Ryan Hoagie Wesley Ensley. Disarmingly personal in his presentation, Consequence of Sound once described Sonny Falls as “the sound of a songwriter struggling to assert his own agency in a world that refuses to do him any favors.” Hoagie’s writing gives voice to a depleted notion of modern Americana saturated by fortune-less upbringing, tragic devotion, and the untold losses of the opioid epidemic. These themes recur honestly and without pretension in his writing; erected as dark windows into the soul of songs that nonetheless break glass to let the sunshine in. Dire narratives are beset by a survival instinct of unrelenting optimism, and are delivered with a graceful balance of honest guitar rock and soulful self-expression. The result is that special kind of timeless indie rock. Bands like Built to Spill and Neutral Milk Hotel are strong points of reference not only because of the familiar sonic territory but because, like those bands, Sonny Falls is a project that listeners might fall in love with forever.