SISTER HAZEL
SISTER HAZELFRI JULY 22w/SOUTHERLANDCHRIS HOLLYDOORS 6 | SHOW 7Combining elements of folk, jangle pop, post-grunge, and south-of-the-Mason-Dixon-Line classic rock, Sister Hazel’s earworm melodies, tight harmonies, and upbeat D.I.Y. aesthetic helped make the Florida-based group a fixture on the alternative charts in the 1990s and early 2000s. Emerging in 1993, the band found success in 1997 with the release of their sophomore effort, Somewhere More Familiar, which went platinum on the strength of the single “All for You,” Sister Hazel’s biggest hit to date. Subsequent LPs like 2000’s Fortress and 2009’s Release also saw a modicum of chart success, and in 2016 the band issued its first country album, Lighter in the Dark. They continued to find favor on the country charts with the EPs Water, Wind, and Fire, which were compiled on 2020’s full-length Elements.
GRUNGE POINT NIGHT 2 w/ ANGRY CHAIR | BADMOTORFINGER
WELCOME TO GRUNGE POINTANGRY CHAIRBADMOTORFINGERSAT JUNE 11DOORS 7 | SHOW 82 DAY GRUNGE PASS
THE GLORIOUS SONS
THE GLORIOUS SONSTHU JUNE 2DOORS 6 | SHOW 730w/ BROTHER ELSEYFrom their very start, The Glorious Sons have achieved the near impossible by sounding both familiar and unprecedented, offering a bold new idea of what it means to be a rock’n’roll band in the modern era. Fronted by brothers Brett and Jay Emmons, the Kingston, ON-based quintet have resolutely manifested all of rock ‘roll’s most positive principles–creativity and adventure, energy and expression, unbridled individuality and spirit of community. The past decade saw the band unleash three remarkable studio albums fueled by immense ambition and strikingly emotive songcraft, their stadium-sized hooks ringing out with an ardent, impassioned spirit that earned them two #1 Rock airplay smashes in the US and thirteenconsecutivetop10 Rock radio hits in Canada. “I truly believe that, to use the old cliché, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, “says lead singer-songwriter Brett Emmons. “It’s not just a sound anymore. It’s more of an attitude, a freedom of expression that people will always believe in.”
THE REVIVAL w/ PAUL THORN & FRIENDS TWO DAY PASS
CHARLIE DOG & FRIENDS w/ PURPLE HOUSE
CHARLIE DOG AND FRIENDSFRI MAY 6W/ PURPLE HOUSEDOORS 6 | SHOW 7FREE W/ RSVP FOOD BY KRIS COCINA KITCHENHIGH POINT’S FAVORITE PARTY BAND.
THE REVIVAL w/ PAUL THORN & FRIENDS
THE REVIVAL PAUL THORN & FRIENDS7/9 – w/ ABBY BRYANT & THE ECHOES // ROOKS & RAVEN7/10 – w/ BLUE DOGS // GOODFELLERS Some years ago I happened to see Paul Thorn performing on an outdoor stage at a street festival in the heart of a small Mississippi town. Suddenly, in mid song, Thorn stopped playing and looked down at the upturned, sugar-splattered face of a fan on the front row. “I sure would like me a funnel cake,” Thorn announced. The crowd exploded with laughter. By the end of the next song, someone in the audience had responded, and soon Thorn was happily munching on the doughy confection. And that, dear people, is one more shining example of how Paul Thorn is able to breathe in the air around him, everyday and commonplace, and exhale something original and often side-splitting funny. It’s a kind of genius, and it’s there plain to see, in his music, his art and through his performances, which not only showcase his chops as a singer-songwriter, but as a pitch-perfect improv comic. His audiences love it. And they come back for more because no two Paul Thorn performances are alike. For further confirmation of this, check out Thorn’s YouTube videos, though I warn you. You will find yourself a long time in this rabbit hole. We live in a world where the terms “artist” and “genius” have been rendered meaningless through overuse. To use either in describing Thorn, though, is not overreach. Pick up any of his dozen or so CDs. The evidence is plain to see. Just listen. The scenery of Thorn’s rural South is changing. The trailer parks, gravel roads around Tupelo and high school beauty queens flicker in the rear-view mirror. Two years ago, Thorn returned to his early gospel roots with the release of “Don’t Let the Devil Ride.”
THE REVIVAL w/ PAUL THORN & FRIENDS
THE REVIVAL PAUL THORN & FRIENDS7/9 – w/ ABBY BRYANT & THE ECHOES // ROOKS & RAVEN7/10 – w/ BLUE DOGS // GOODFELLERS Some years ago I happened to see Paul Thorn performing on an outdoor stage at a street festival in the heart of a small Mississippi town. Suddenly, in mid song, Thorn stopped playing and looked down at the upturned, sugar-splattered face of a fan on the front row. “I sure would like me a funnel cake,” Thorn announced. The crowd exploded with laughter. By the end of the next song, someone in the audience had responded, and soon Thorn was happily munching on the doughy confection. And that, dear people, is one more shining example of how Paul Thorn is able to breathe in the air around him, everyday and commonplace, and exhale something original and often side-splitting funny. It’s a kind of genius, and it’s there plain to see, in his music, his art and through his performances, which not only showcase his chops as a singer-songwriter, but as a pitch-perfect improv comic. His audiences love it. And they come back for more because no two Paul Thorn performances are alike. For further confirmation of this, check out Thorn’s YouTube videos, though I warn you. You will find yourself a long time in this rabbit hole. We live in a world where the terms “artist” and “genius” have been rendered meaningless through overuse. To use either in describing Thorn, though, is not overreach. Pick up any of his dozen or so CDs. The evidence is plain to see. Just listen. The scenery of Thorn’s rural South is changing. The trailer parks, gravel roads around Tupelo and high school beauty queens flicker in the rear-view mirror. Two years ago, Thorn returned to his early gospel roots with the release of “Don’t Let the Devil Ride.”
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD
FOLLOW YOUR HEART TOURMICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEADw/ ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTWED AUG 17DOORS 6 SHOW 7.30Michael Frantiis a globally recognized musician, humanitarian, activist, and award-winning filmmaker revered for his high-energy live shows, inspiring music, devotion to health and wellness, worldwide philanthropic efforts and the power of optimism. Throughout his multi-decade career, Franti has earned threeBillboardNo. 1’s with triumphantly hopeful hits“Sound of Sunshine,”“Say Hey (I Love You)” and “I Got You,” as well as six Top 30 Hot AC singles, nine Top 25 AAA Singles and threeBillboardTop 5 Rock Albums. “I Got You,” lead single from his latest albumWork Hard And Be Nice,marked Franti’s first No. 1 in nearly 10 years and landed on NPR’s “Most Popular Songs of 2020,” while the music video boasts over 1.3million views since its release. Michael Franti & Spearhead’s latest single “Good Day For A Good Day” is available everywhere, with plans to release his 12thstudio album in the Summer of 2022.
POSTPONED – CRACKER
CRACKERFRI JULY 8DOORS 6 // SHOW 7w/ CLAY HOWARD & THE SILVER ALERTSCHRIS HOLLY Cracker‘s tenth studio effort, the double-album entitled Berkeley To Bakersfield, finds this uniquely American band traversing two different sides of the California landscape – the northern Bay area and further down-state in Bakersfield. Despite being less than a five-hour drive from city to city, musically, these two regions couldn’t be further apart from one another. In the late ‘70s and ‘80s a harder-edged style of rock music emerged from the Bay area, while Bakersfield is renowned for its own iconic twangy country music popularized, most famously, by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Yet despite these differences, they are both elements that Cracker’s two cofounders, David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, have embraced to some degree on nearly every one of their studio albums over the last two decades. On Berkeley To Bakersfield, however, instead of integrating these two genres together within one disc, they’ve neatly compartmentalized them onto their own respective regionally-titled LPs.
HINDER
HINDERTHU JUNE 9 W/ NO RESOLVE & WE RISE TO FALLDOORS 6 | SHOW 7 Hinder began crafting cocky, raucous post-grunge in the early 2000s, when Oklahoma City residents Joe Garvey and drummer Cody Hanson found Austin Winkler singing cover songs at a college party. The three formed the nucleus of Hinder, and the group started landing local gigs opening for such bands as Theory of a Deadman. Lineup changes brought guitarist Mark King and bassist Mike Rodden into the fold, and the quintet signed with Universal after issuing a self-released EP. Their 2005 full-length debut, Extreme Behavior, became one of the year’s most popular albums, climbing to triple-platinum status and sending “Lips of an Angel” to number three on the singles charts. Hinder returned several years later with a second batch of party anthems entitled Take It to the Limit. All American Nightmare arrived in 2010, followed by Welcome to the Freakshow, the group’s fourth studio album, in 2012. Winkler left Hinder in 2013. Jared Weeks filled in for a tour and then the band tested Nolan Neal before settling on Marshal Dutton in 2015. His first album with the band was When the Smoke Clears. Following the 2016 release of an acoustic EP called Stripped, Hinder released their sixth LP, The Reign, in August of 2017.