Late Show

Alcotone - 10:30

Wormburner - 9:30

The Orion Experience - 8:30

Electric Black - 7:30

"A Wormburner show has much in common with amphetamine-fueled soul revivals, if such a thing ever existed. In a world of chin-stroking art rock Radioheads and junk-addled Babyshambles stumblebums, it’s refreshing to find a band like Wormburner who so clearly believes in the power of the classic pop song to lift a room full of people clear off its foundation." - New York Press **************************

The eclectic quintet, fronted by former Kitty in the Tree singer Orion Simprini, is fresh on the scene. Having formed in January 2005 their eager excitement explodes from each track on the debut album. Their carefree, positive vibe recalls late '60s and early '70s songwriting, spiked with sweet harmonies and toe-tapping beats. If The Orion Experience doesn't make you want to leap from your chair and dance, you might want to check your pulse. For Orion, who handpicked each member of the group for their personalities, the band's camaraderie is the key element to their solid sound. "Every individual is important, but put together, they create a powerful, positive energy," Orion said of The Orion Experience, which, despite bearing his name he also calls "more of a collective than one person." With overflowing energy and bravado, The Orion Experience is ready to revive rock n roll's exuberance, and slap a smile on the face of even the most self-important indie rocker.

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The Most Punk Rock Country-Blues Chamber Orchestra On Earth “Electric Black may be one of the few to deserve being mentioned in the same breath as the enigmatic troubadour Tom Waits” (URB Magazine). Commanding the stage with melodies, and reaching for the stars with poetry, Electric Black has listened carefully to the history of music. Out of the sentiments of Howlin’ Wolf, Jimmie Rodgers, and Woody Guthrie, in conjunction with the poetic license of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, and Pablo Neruda comes a new experimental blues sound, self-proclaimed “American Gypsy Music.” The band’s self-titled debut album Electric Black will be released on June 16th and available on iTunes. It was mixed by Grammy-nominated engineer Fernando Aponte (Ryuichi Sakamoto) at the legendary Avatar Studios in Studio B. Electric Black’s work has already caught prominent attention in the past weeks, resulting in a performance on Fuse’s You Rock, Let’s Roll and write-ups from the Brooklyn Rail, Scallywag & Vagabond, URB Magazine and Glorious Noise. Wait for the album is shortened by the digital release of the singles “Our Love is Smoking” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and corresponding music videos: the first filmed by Gerald Foster and directed by Vanessa Ly and the second animated by Michael David Friend and directed by Shoja Azari. Electric Black’s album reveals a magnificent soundtrack for life and death, abandonment and indemnification, and the shared spirit to prevail over our existence. From the anthemic opening sequence of “Our Love is Smoking”, over the dark feel of “Reign The Night” to the furious concluding sound of “One More Song For The Road” the honesty, glory and passion of the album is ubiquitous. The album draws from an exceptionally wide variety of genres and eras. Whether it is Hip Hop on the third verse of “Come On Down The Road” or the use of Mozart’s aria “Dove Sono” in the bridge of “So it Goes,” the merger of genres consistently runs symbiotic and seems to flow effortlessly. “I wanted to create an album that honestly told the story of human struggle, from the grandiose to the day-to-day. An album that struck a chord with the core of the human spirit, an album that could endure,” explains frontman Johnny B.