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Elison Jackson, Laundry Day, Henry Flower, Abraham King

The Rock Shop
Sat Apr 23 8pm Ages: 21+
Abraham KingElison JacksonHenry FlowerLaundry Day

About Elison Jackson, Laundry Day, Henry Flower, Abraham King


Elison Jackson is a garage–folk/ psychedelic rock band from New Haven, CT. The band has put out three records and several bedroom-demo mix-tapes since 2011. Their third LP, "Do Not Fear To Kill A Dead Man", was released in the fall of 2013 to critical acclaim. Featuring basement organs, haunted lyrics and Neil Young-esque guitar jams, their sound has expanded significantly from its folk roots, moving forward with a strong foundation into blues, 80's analog synth, and prog-rock.

Staying busy since their beginnings in 2010, Elison Jackson has emerged as one of the most consistent and unique bands in CT. Sharing the stage with Elvis Perkins, Akron/Family, Mystic Braves, Simone Felice and other like-minded contemporaries, the band has built a loyal following in CT and beyond. They're spending the remainder of 2015 recording and touring, and will be releasing a new EP by the year's end.

"With two solid full-length albums and a handful of EPs and singles now to their credit, Elison Jackson has established itself as one of Connecticut's most consistently interesting young bands. Their most recent LP, last fall's "Do Not Fear to Kill a Dead Man" (Telegraph Recording Company), is an assured nine-song collection of rootsy rock songs..."- Rolling Stone contributor Eric Danton, Listen Dammit

"Elison Jackson comes across as being possessed with an inherent wisdom bound by some ancient knowledge capable of evoking eerie comfort from shaking hands with the vague and wistful memories of lives past." - Drop Zone LA

"This is an experienced group of musicians and they possess one of the most polished live sounds in the Connecticut scene." -Neat Beet


Laundry Day are stoned up, fuzzed out, fun loving, grey scale, rock and roll from New Haven CT. Laundry Day released their self titled EP in April 2014 and have been touring the north east regularly along with dates across the east coast. Laundry Day is Alex Burnet, Alexa Ambrose, Sam Carlson and Kuki Kooks.


Pop music is a powerful and enchanting vapor but like any compound with a formula so simple, it can be misused and abused. Henry Flower, alias of Leopold Bloom, the Odysseus of Ulysses - one of the great intoxicating works of art, is the botanical avatar of a musician bent on formulating a better emulsion for empathy.

The Popular song undulates through the ecosystem, existing for and in response to benign mass hysteria. It feeds on human emotion yet is not itself unless the masses are in turn thirsty for it. The capillary action of Henry Flower, jangle-y music dosing the world of unknowing, floating philosophers, ebbs and flows slow-motion through us in a rapturous croon, until we move - even just a little - for he leaves us somewhat altered.

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