The Arcadian Wild – Make It Out Alive Tour
The Arcadian Wild is an indie folk/pop group from Nashville, TN, led by songwriters Isaac Horn, Lincoln Mick and Bailey Warren, The Arcadian Wild confidently inhabits and explores an intersection of genre, blending the traditional with the contemporary. Combining elements of confessional pop, folk, progressive bluegrass, and formal vocal music, The Arcadian Wild offer up songs of invitation; calls to come and see, to find refuge and rest, to journey and wonder, to laugh and cry, to share joy and community and sing along.
Willi Carlisle – Golden Dragon Buffet Tour
With a heavy-duty catalog of new material for a career first double album, The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Willi Carlisle and reaches new heights with the added accelerant of first time producer Tyler Childers. In an all-time DIY effort, Childers and his band convened to a makeshift home studio nestled in the Bywater District of New Orleans for two weeks to cut 17 tracks that expand Carlisle’s sonic scrapbook and capture the off-kilter characters living in his songs. “I think this one goes to outer space,” says Carlisle. “I think this is the widest range of influences that I’ve ever had. It touches on funk, it touches on Americana, Cajun, oldtime, and experimental music.” With Childers’ band behind him, Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both familiar and new, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their head. “It feels like getting drunk at the Civil War reenactment, or cruising at the cattle auction, or doing molly at the square dance,” says Carlisle. “It’s the first time I’ve ever used synthesizers and double electric guitars. There’s also more fretless 19th century style banjo on it than any record I’ve ever made.” Exploration aside, Carlisle’s mission as a folksinger largely remains the same – documenting the stories and struggles of the people and balancing the humor and hope of existence. “I want to make a universal folk music. Songs for all kinds of weirdos,” says Carlisle. “With the idea that there is nobody that doesn’t have folk songs and everyone deserves folk songs. I want to write songs that prove the old weird America didn’t go anywhere, that we are living and dying for it everyday. I believe there’s noble work to do in that context. That if we feel despair, we don’t need to because there’s so much good work to do.” A top candidate for encapsulating the energy of The Universal Bubba, “Gas Station”is a driving recollection of life on the road with a sing-along chorus. Created largely on the fly and beginning with Childers’ jokingly referring to a knife-fight, the end result was Carlisle’s only co-write with his producer on the record. “We sat in a circle with pen, paper, instruments,” says Carlisle, “Tyler suggested, ‘goodle days’ instead of ‘good old days.’ We kept shaping verses, agreeing that my choruses were working. Suddenly I realized, this was a co-write! But the red light was already on. We were co-writing and recording at the same time. Wild as hell.” Of the anarchist anthem “The Master’s Hammer”, Childers wanted a pure, essential folk song ringing out with harmonica, banjo and three part harmonies. ”I was trying to boil my ideology down into something I can sing for my friends,” says Carlisle. The title tracks sprawl gloriously in two parts, giving praise to do-it-yourselfers that corral the cosmos into being. Carlisle sings for “booty shaking rock and rollers” and “small town hellraisers” and “unofficial mayors” the world over. Taking on a project of this size with Tyler Childers as debut producer requires hard work, camaraderie and supreme self confidence. Undeterred by the challenge and grounded in his beliefs, Carlisle has proved that it really does “take a Universal Bubba doin’ it for themselves.”
Public Figure
Public Figure was formed in February of 2019 by bassist Dolan Delano along with some of his good friends. After a few personnel changes Public Figure curated their final lineup in February of 2024. This consisted of adding drummer John Faist and guitar player Robert (RJ) Klingsporn. These two were long time bandmates together in another Omaha based band. Lastly they found Roger Slatten via a Reddit post on r/Omaha titled “Where my singers at?”. One week before their first show with the new lineup Roger’s house (the bands practice space) was hit by and EF-4 tornado while Roger was home, nearly claiming his life. The band came together closer than ever and played the show the next week despite the odds. Since then they have had the opportunity to tour across the country in over 18 states. Sharing the stage with acts such as Fuel, Boys Like Girls, Good Terms, and Out in Front. They have no plans of slowing down and continue to tour and build their base all as far as they can reach. — CAPTURE THIS HAS CAPTURED HEARTS AND MINDS ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH THEIR RELATABLE AND AUTHENTIC LYRICS, ENCOURAGING EVERYONE TO BE THEIR BEAUTIFUL, VULNERABLE SELVES. “WE WRITE ABOUT REAL-LIFE EVENTS THAT STEM AROUND HEARTACHE, LOVE, SELF-GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT. “MUSICALLY WE TAKE PIECES OF SONGS FROM SOME OF OUR FAVORITE ARTISTS AND TRY TO RECREATE IT WITH OUR OWN POP PUNK STYLE.” TAKING INSPIRATION FROM ARTISTS SUCH AS DEMI LOVATO, MAYDAY PARADE, PARAMORE AND EVANESCENCE THE BAND WEAVES LIFE AND EMOTION INTO THEIR TAPESTRIES OF MELODY WITH A LOVE RARELY VIEWED ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE ROCK SCENE. THE BAND HAS ALREADY MADE MONUMENTAL STRIDES IN STANDING OUT FROM THE CROWD. CRUSHING COMPETITION FROM OVER 100 SONG SUBMISSIONS VOTED BY RADIO PANELISTS AND RADIO LISTENERS, CT TOOK HOME FIRST IN THE HOMETOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS COMPETITION HOSTED BY KTCL 93.3, MAKING THEM A “TOP ALTERNATIVE BAND IN COLORADO.” CAPTURE THIS HAS SINCE BROUGHT THEIR ENERGETIC STAGE PRESENCE TO A GROWING NUMBER OF FANS THROUGH SHARING THE STAGE WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS WET LEG, BOB MOSES, A DAY TO REMEMBER, JIMMY EAT WORLD, GIRLFRIENDS, PLAIN WHITE TEES, 3OH3!, THE SPILL CANVAS, ANDY GRAMMER, AND KNOX. LED BY POWERHOUSE VOCALIST LEAH AND WITH ALEX ON THE DRUMS, ANDREW ON THE GUITAR, AND ZACH ON THE BASS, CAPTURE THIS IS QUICKLY RISING TO BECOME ONE OF THE LEADING GROUPS OF BOTH THE DENVER PUNK SCENE AND A CENTRAL ANCHOR OF THEIR COMMUNITY. DON’T LISTEN TO THOSE WHO SAY PUNK ENDED TWO DECADES AGO; FOR THESE FOUR, THE SHOW IS JUST BEGINNING.
Benn Sieff and a Murder of Crows
Join us for an eclectic night of original music featuring Benn Sieff, Jerry Kuhn, Sawyer Martin, and Erika Hall-Sieff — with special guests Absence + Alchemy and Satellite Junction. Benn Sieff’s is known for his musical groups “Silicon Bomb”, “Nightmare”, “Bennie and the Gents” (Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards Best Cover Band), “The Abducted,” and “The Brainfathers.” He has performed in theater productions as Frankfurter in “The Rocky Horror Show” (Fonda McGuire Award, Omaha Community Playhouse), Johnny Cash in “Ring of Fire”, “Calendar Girls”, and Carmen Miranda in “Christmas with the Crawfords”.
Raddletrap EP Release
Harrison Gordon
Patrick Wolf – Tour of The Beast
Patrick Wolf released his first E.P. at the age of 19, a groundbreaking debut of classical, folk, and electronic music that set the pace for a stellar decade, releasing seven self-produced and solely written albums and performing multiple laps around the globe on tour, amassing an ever-growing and dedicated, spellbound audience. A viola, piano, dulcimer, harp, lyre, and tenor guitar player, Patrick’s decade of critically acclaimed work, touring, joining Patti Smith’s band, collaborations with Florence Welch, Marianne Faithful, Angelo Badalamenti, and rapid, stellar ascent led to a sudden retreat from the industry where a decade of personal trial ended with a renaissance and reconnection with his work and vocation, documented in a feature film biopic documentary slated for release at the end of this year, executive produced by Tilda Swinton. Last year, he released his seventh album “Crying the Neck”, an end-of-summer folkloric odyssey set in the landscape at the end of the East of England where Wolf lives and works. The album’s success brought him back to his North American audiences; for his first tour in over 13 years, he embarked on a ten-week tour driving himself from east to west coast, where he discovered not only his fanbase had been waiting all that time, but a brand new one had grown in his absence in the States. The success of last year’s tour brings Patrick back to North America this year with “The Tour of the Beast”, this time an extensive East to West coast and back again routing with a coinciding 7” single and release campaign, launching two new songs to the States and ringing in the next era of Patrick Wolf. The first, a bombastic harpsichord banger and outsider anthem “The Beast”, partly inspired by conversations had in the meet-and-greets of last year’s tour and a hymn of solace, initially written as a response to Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus”, a lyre and vocal lullaby called “The Laughing Dove”.
Emma Ruth Rundle
Greg Freeman
Porch Light
Minneapolis five-piece Porch Light’s year ahead has a collection of big, unabashed rock tunes, full of riffs that announce themselves and choruses that reach and grab. All of them are songs meant to be played on stage, by five people without bells or whistles. It’s an approach that’s taken them far — the five-piece have reached over a million monthly Spotify listeners and sold-out headline shows across the country before their debut project hit the market. They are all over this year’s festival circuit playing Summerfest, Yacht Club, Hinterland, Lollapalooza and Shaky Knees. They also are setting out on the road this. Fall for the ‘Hush Tour’, spanning across 30+ dates including shows at the Troubadour, Bowery Ballroom and more.