Silent Planet
Left of the Dial
A night of covers with Left of the Dial (The Replacements) and Surfer Rosa (The Pixies)
The Arcadian Wild – Make It Out Alive Tour
The Arcadian Wild is an indie folk/pop group from Nashville, TN, led by songwriters Isaac Horn, Lincoln Mick and Bailey Warren, The Arcadian Wild confidently inhabits and explores an intersection of genre, blending the traditional with the contemporary. Combining elements of confessional pop, folk, progressive bluegrass, and formal vocal music, The Arcadian Wild offer up songs of invitation; calls to come and see, to find refuge and rest, to journey and wonder, to laugh and cry, to share joy and community and sing along.
Ranch Hands Cowboylesque: A Not So Silent Night
Ranch Hands Cowboylesque follows the journey of one ranch hand trying to gain his confidence back after heartbreak. With the help of his fellow Ranch Hands, and the audience he just might be able to get back in the saddle! Enjoy a one hour and thirty minute show featuring comedy, choreographed dancing, even vocal performances from your country music classics….oh and shirtless cowboys!
From Ashes to New – Reflections Tour 2027
By late 2023, From Ashes to New was at a creative crossroads. The group wrapped up demos for 16 songs for what was to be its fifth studio album. However, instead of sprinting towards the finish line and completing the record, the band decided to scrap those demo sessions. “For a year, it was just like, ‘This is terrible,’” From Ashes to New frontman Matt Brandyberry says. “And then we threw it all in the trash.” The process went against everything From Ashes to New did before. Usually, they’d have a set number of songs they’d go into the studio with, record those songs, and maybe have one or two leftover. Scrapping a session and mainly starting anew (they kept two songs) was liberating. For years, From Ashes to New has captured the hearts and minds of music listeners worldwide. The band’s streaming figures are in the billions, they have successfully sold out tours, and they have performed alongside some of the biggest names in rock. Yet even so, something wasn’t working, and it forced them to dig deep creatively. Rather than being compared to others, From Ashes to New collectively wanted to forge its own path, creating a sound distinctly its own. As Brandyberry says, it was time for the Pennsylvania natives to make music that would stretch beyond their comfortable radio rock appeal. The band’s previous album, 2023’s Blackout, was a step in getting there and one that the band is proud of. However, this time around, From Ashes to New has loftier expectations and goals. “I wanted to take what we are good at and push it even further,” Brandyberry says. “That was the process for this whole record.” When From Ashes to New scrapped those sessions, the band collectively knew they had to make something that remained true to their traditional sound, yet broadened the tent to capture the ears and focus of a fresh audience. In this case, it means furthering the sound into alt-metal. Once From Ashes to New had its Eureka moment, the group sat down and had the most successful sessions of its career. Tearing through a five-week tracking process, the newly armed confidence is clear throughout the songs that will encompass its next album, titled Reflections. Making an album unlike any they’ve done before helped keep their perspective fresh. Thematically, Reflections explores two distinct themes: heaven and hell, while taking a deep look inside oneself. The album revolves around the idea of falling from grace and trying to reach a place in life that feels like you’ve made it, only to be dragged right back down to a purgatory where that state is the present. “One of the things that we learned in the past is that if we had an idea that was on the nose, we would try to color it differently to make it seem a little bit more heady,” Brandyberry says. “We did that and failed. I think it’s better to let people know we’re right there with them and feel the same way. Just because we have a cool job doesn’t mean that life isn’t hard.” Following a successful stint returning to past glories at the Warped Tour in 2025, From Ashes to New is ready to unleash Reflections to the world. With a heavy batch of tour dates slated ahead of the album’s April release, From Ashes to New will be busy not just introducing a new body of work, but a new sense of being.
The Samples
Formed in 1987 in Boulder, Colorado, The Samples quickly rose to national prominence, launching their first tour in 1988 and establishing a signature sound that seamlessly blends reggae, rock and folk. With a career spanning nearly four decades, the band has cultivated a lasting legacy, drawing fans in with their infectious rhythms and deeply introspective songs, releasing over 20 albums across both independent and major labels, earning placements in films, documentaries, Netflix series, and MSNBC election coverage. At the center of it all is lead singer and frontman Sean Kelly, whose steady presence has remained the driving force behind The Samples, preserving the heart and integrity of the music. Known for his distinctive high voice and deeply expressive songwriting, Kelly has a rare ability to capture stories, emotion, and the human experience in a way that resonates across generations. His work possesses an evocative, timeless quality continuing to captivate both long time fans and new listeners alike.
Orialus Album Release Show
Willi Carlisle – Golden Dragon Buffet Tour
With a heavy-duty catalog of new material for a career first double album, The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Willi Carlisle and reaches new heights with the added accelerant of first time producer Tyler Childers. In an all-time DIY effort, Childers and his band convened to a makeshift home studio nestled in the Bywater District of New Orleans for two weeks to cut 17 tracks that expand Carlisle’s sonic scrapbook and capture the off-kilter characters living in his songs. “I think this one goes to outer space,” says Carlisle. “I think this is the widest range of influences that I’ve ever had. It touches on funk, it touches on Americana, Cajun, oldtime, and experimental music.” With Childers’ band behind him, Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both familiar and new, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their head. “It feels like getting drunk at the Civil War reenactment, or cruising at the cattle auction, or doing molly at the square dance,” says Carlisle. “It’s the first time I’ve ever used synthesizers and double electric guitars. There’s also more fretless 19th century style banjo on it than any record I’ve ever made.” Exploration aside, Carlisle’s mission as a folksinger largely remains the same – documenting the stories and struggles of the people and balancing the humor and hope of existence. “I want to make a universal folk music. Songs for all kinds of weirdos,” says Carlisle. “With the idea that there is nobody that doesn’t have folk songs and everyone deserves folk songs. I want to write songs that prove the old weird America didn’t go anywhere, that we are living and dying for it everyday. I believe there’s noble work to do in that context. That if we feel despair, we don’t need to because there’s so much good work to do.” A top candidate for encapsulating the energy of The Universal Bubba, “Gas Station”is a driving recollection of life on the road with a sing-along chorus. Created largely on the fly and beginning with Childers’ jokingly referring to a knife-fight, the end result was Carlisle’s only co-write with his producer on the record. “We sat in a circle with pen, paper, instruments,” says Carlisle, “Tyler suggested, ‘goodle days’ instead of ‘good old days.’ We kept shaping verses, agreeing that my choruses were working. Suddenly I realized, this was a co-write! But the red light was already on. We were co-writing and recording at the same time. Wild as hell.” Of the anarchist anthem “The Master’s Hammer”, Childers wanted a pure, essential folk song ringing out with harmonica, banjo and three part harmonies. ”I was trying to boil my ideology down into something I can sing for my friends,” says Carlisle. The title tracks sprawl gloriously in two parts, giving praise to do-it-yourselfers that corral the cosmos into being. Carlisle sings for “booty shaking rock and rollers” and “small town hellraisers” and “unofficial mayors” the world over. Taking on a project of this size with Tyler Childers as debut producer requires hard work, camaraderie and supreme self confidence. Undeterred by the challenge and grounded in his beliefs, Carlisle has proved that it really does “take a Universal Bubba doin’ it for themselves.”
River City Rejects
Jon Spencer
For over forty years, Jon Spencer has been an innovative force in the independent music scene. An acclaimed live performer, he has amassed a dizzying, disruptive discography as the leader of Pussy Galore, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash, and Jon Spencer & the HITmakers, as well as with Boss Hog, The Honeymoon Killers, Gibson Brothers, and Taxidermy Girls. His numerous collaborations include working with Steve Albini, Add N To X, Nicole Atkins, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bomb The Bass, R.L. Burnside, James Chance, Coldcut, Chuck D, Dan The Automator, Jim Dickinson, DJ Shadow, Einsturzende Neubauten, Guitar Wolf, GZA, David Holmes, Japanese Popstars, Dr. John, Calvin Johnson, Steve Jordan, Khan, Moby, Money Mark, The Muffs, The North Mississippi All Stars, Princess Superstar, Puffy Ami Yumi, The Sadies, Nancy Sinatra, Solex, Solomon Burke, Speedball Baby, Rufus Thomas, UNKLE, Unloved, Andre Williams, and Bernie Worrell. His production credits include: Cheater Slicks, Demolition Doll Rods, Experimental Tropic Blues Band, Perrosky, Mike Edison, Jesper Munk, Sunshine & The Rain, The Bobby Lees, and recently the Grammy-nominated Death Wish Blues album by Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton.