Come enjoy an evening of music with sets from Honey Made (headliner), Big Sky Collective and Blue Tongue. Doors open at 7:30 PM, and advance tickets cost $12 and tickets at the door will cost $15. This is an all ages show!
Thirty-five years a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, 30 years in Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band, 50 years with Neil Young: Nils Lofgren is as: celebrated for his collaborations as for his own work. Now add to the list Lou Reed. Convened by famed producer Bob Ezrin, the pair co-wrote songs in the late Seventies, six of which anchor Blue With Lou, Lofgren’s 15th studio album.: “We watched a football game in his apartment,” says the guitarist from a hotel room in Telluride, where he’s prepping for a new Crazy Horse album. “We talked about writing casually well into the night, and came up with this initial idea before we’d get together in a loft and slog it out.”: Instead, Reed called Lofgren a month later and dictated 13 sets of lyrics he’d written to the music on a cassette the latter left him.: “He felt three right away fit [1979’s] The Bells and wanted to use them,” recounts Lofgren. “Me and Bob were thrilled. We had close to a full album of my songs, so we just picked the three that most fit the album we were making [Nils]. I picked two that I loved after that: ‘Life,’ which is on my Damaged Goods album, and ‘Driftin’ Man’ was on my Breakaway Angel album.”: The other five remained in the vault until Lofgren resurrected them, along with The Bells’ “City Lights,” for the new Blue With Lou.: “I always thought Lou should sing these, but then when we lost him, I still felt they needed to be heard. It fell on me, and I got it done. Now I feel like all 13 songs have finally been shared.”
Like an amped-up Angelo Badalamenti score, Japan’s Mono shifts guitar-heavy soundscapes between shadow and dawn through the sustain and suspension of equal measures majesty and woe. The mostly instrumental quartet evokes grand Mogwai-ian gestures both understated and overcharged. On “Breathe,” from 10th full-length Nowhere Now Here, bassist Tamaki Kunishi lulls listeners with croons and whispers before the storm.
Thursdays, 7pm, Fri., April 12, 8pm, Sat., April 20, 8pm, Fri., April 26, 8pm, Sat., May 4, 8pm, Fri., May 10, 8pm, Fri., May 24, 8pm, Fri., June 7, 8pm, Fri., June 21, 8pm, Fri., July 5, 8pm and Fri., July 19, 8pm