thisisasides.com's 4th Anniversary Show ft: Hollis Brown w/ Lizzie & The Makers, Makeshift Lullaby and Rocky and the Pressers

Hollis Brown is a self-defined American Rock ‘n’ Roll band. Named after a Bob Dylan song
(“The Ballad of Hollis Brown”), the band was formed by Queens-natives and songwriters Mike
Montali (lead vocals/guitar) and Jonathan Bonilla (lead guitar). Both 2nd-generation
immigrants (Italian-American and Puerto Rican-American, respectively), they soon found their
musical brethren in the Mid-West, recruiting Dillon Devito (bass/vocals) and Andrew Zehnal
(drums) from Ohio, and Adam Bock (keyboard/vocals) from Missouri.
Hollis Brown made a significant splash as an independent band with the release of their
debut album “Ride On The Train” on Alive Naturalsound in 2013 (produced by Adam Landry),
garnering song and video premieres from Rolling Stone, Paste, and American Songwriter, and
music placements on MTV’s “Real World”, Showtime’s “Shameless”, and the Willem Dafoe/
Matt Dillon film “Bad Country”. They toured extensively in America and Europe, building a
fanbase on both continents. Following a memorable performance at a Lou Reed tribute
concert in NYC, Alive Naturalsound asked the band to go back into the studio to record a
tribute to the Velvet Underground’s classic album “Loaded”, as a limited-edition vinyl release
for Record Store Day 2014.
The band has now finished recording their new studio album, “3 Shots” which has been mixed
by the legendary John Agnello, and is the focus of a pre-order campaign through PledgeMusic:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/hollisbrown The album is slated for an early May 2015
release through Jullian Records.