Rock Tuesdays Officially Kicks Off

Galloway based rock band, is taking up residency in Stone Harbor this summer as it puts the finishing touches on its first record.

To help jump start its recent opening, the Stone Harbor Bar and Grill will be hosting live music on Tuesday nights and has hired Resident Stone—currently under contract with New York-based label, Goldheart Records—as the house band. 

Tuesday night marked the first installment of “Rock Tuesdays,” according to Resident Stone’s manager Ava Holly Lewis.

“We’re hoping that this place [will] be to Resident Stone what the Stone Pony was to Bruce Springsteen,” said Lewis.  “We’re actually commissioning an artist to [paint] names of the bands that play with Resident Stone for more than three times. We’re going to have their names put up on the wall in the back room.”

While the bill featured five very different bands, the entire evening took on a distinctly retro feel, from the opening band “Fame and Fortune” playing pop covers from the 90s to Resident Stone front man Rob Dief’s torn baggy jeans, aviator sunglasses and warbling Axl Rose-style vocals.

“[The bands] brought out a nice little cross section of people,” Lewis said. She said it “mixed it up a little bit.

While the band seemed to be a great fit for the venue, Dief said Resident Stone’s sound is built for a larger performance space.

“That’s all we care about: sounding the best we can,” said Dief. We do our best “with the little amount of space.”

We need “an arena,” he added playfully.

The band has just come off a two-month-long mini-tour, and is now running to and from New York City for recording sessions, which frequently last all night, according to rhythm guitarist, Rebel Somers.

 The album is expected to release in the beginning of the fall.