About This Event

Minimum Age:

18+

Doors Open:

7:00pm

Show Time:

7:30pm

w/ John Kruth

Gordon Gano, co-founder of and songwriter for alt-rock monoliths The Violent Femmes returns to the scene he helped spawn with Under the Sun, their debut record scheduled for a September 15th release by Yep Roc Records. Film-scoring brothers and Bogmen members Brendan and Billy Ryan join Gano for Gordon Gano & The Ryans' first collaboration and Gordon’s first non-Femmes front man release. Gano’s influence on alternative music is immeasurable and his latest work is sure to remind the music world of the force and presence with which he originally stormed onto the scene in 1983, paving the way for the commercial explosion of alternative music a decade later. Gano’s signature emotionalism is present in full force on razor-edged ballads like title track ‘Under the Sun’ and the gorgeously unfurling ‘Still Suddenly Here.’ Tense propulsion underpin ‘Wave and Water’ and ‘Man in the Sand.’ His most cohesive collaboration yet, Under the Sun marks the beginning of a promising partnership with the Ryans and the return of a musical heavyweight.

The history of Gordon Gano and The Ryan Brothers starts in the cafés, pubs and laundromats of New York’s West Village. The Ryans' would write and record ideas in their home studio, often with Gano’s voice in mind, then would drop off the recordings in Gano’s mailbox. Gano, a prolific songwriter and poet, would put his ideas to the Ryans' music and the result is a brand new, large body of work.

GanoRyan have recorded twenty-two of those songs. Most of these songs were recorded at the The Carriage House in Stamford, Connecticut, a well-known musician's haven which has hosted many artists, including Sonny Rollins and Ozzy Osbourne, and is where the Pixies legendary "Doolittle" album was recorded. The trio brought in Warren Bruleigh, who has produced Louise Attaque, Sixteen Horsepower, Gano’s solo album, Hitting The Ground, and co-produced several Violent Femmes albums. Frank Ferrer (Guns N' Roses, Psychedelic Furs) played drums, and Lonnie Hillyer (Maggie’s Dream, Bernie Worell) played bass. Phil Palazzolo (The New Pornographers, Neko Case) engineered and mixed.