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Supermajor, The LoveHowl

The Rock Shop
Fri May 29 8pm Ages: 21+
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About Supermajor, The LoveHowl


"If Fellini had made beach movies, Supermajor would have been their elegiac, enchanted house band. “Cemetery Eyes” is an anthem pouring out from and then somehow all around the dashboard of some convertible that went off a too-sharp curve on the Pacific Coast Highway in 1966 and never returned to Earth, picking up alien angel doo-wops and Eno buzzes from the ether and the future along with its irresistible elysian guitar jingle and synth fizz while it was in the air with no interference. “Your Drift Is a Drug” has that motorcycle-kickstart rhythm, recoiling on itself as it chews up distance, wrapped up in sensations torn away from the disappearing landscape. Happier yet still wiser, Supermajor are pop prophets and sibyls who haunt a collective hit parade without ever having had to die, as rock and roll never does, because they know that youth only passes from soul to soul. There is no more radio but there’s still ritual, and Adam Swiderski’s headlining songs are testaments of movie-star confidence and morality-play caution while Brooke Tarnoff’s and Sarah Engelke’s are séances of ’70s arena-diva sorrow and transcendence, “I See You Clearing” a prayer for hearts put back together from each others’ pieces and “Shotgun” the proto-punk hall of fame B-side. Everything converges for “A Little Piece of the Sun,” the kind of half-album-length epic that whole societies of counterculture would collect around. Supermajor makes the music of the flattened spheres, orbiting eternally on black tracks and then shooting you into the day each time the needle has to lift off." -Adam McGovern http://mcgovernix.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/off-the-chart/


The LoveHowl is a Brooklyn based band bringing back the soul in Rock n Roll. A project which developed from singer-songwriter Amy Sheehan's solo material the group has morphed into a gutsy rock act. NY native drummer Jonathan Vergara joined Amy and lead guitar player Alex Sherba on the recording of Sheehan's pop-rock EP Insane Concoction in 2010. Bassist/violinist Jonah Durning-Hammond joined the band following his move from the Delta in 2012. The particular combo of the friendly foursome has proven to produce just the right combination of dirty blues licks, occasional pop hooks and a taste of 70s rock reminiscent of Big Brother and the Holding Company. They are not afraid of Motown inspired ballads or worshipping Purple Rain (or Haze for that matter). Half of their hearts are living in a time capsule but it sure makes for something delicious.

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