Kenny Young and the Eggplants + Jim Petrie Band + Brother Jim + Tenterhooks @ The Way Station

8pm- Kenny Young and the Eggplants
Genre: Intergalactic folk-and-roll
For fans of: Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, Warren Zevon, The Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock, the Ramones, the Flaming Lips, Devo, the B-52s, Jonathan Richman, Violent Femmes, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, and Life in a Blender

Brooklyn’s inimitable Kenny Young and the Eggplants play intergalactic folk-and-roll songs about giant squirrels, scary bits of cheese, aliens, time travel, inebriated crime-solving birds, and malevolent washing machines, among other important topics. Their spaceship has frequently landed in the UK, where they won a prestigious Herald Angel Award for their performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and where one of their live radio sessions was selected for a Best of the BBC Archives series. In NYC, the Eggplants received an Honorable Mention from Pop Matters for their performance at the CMJ Festival, and they were recognized with a Special Mention in a BMI songwriting competition for their monsterpiece, “The House at Creepy Lake.” The most improbable honor for the band so far occurred in the pages of Time Magazine, where the author Alexander McCall Smith included the Eggplants in his “Short List” of favorite artistic discoveries. The Eggplants have recorded five albums, which have been played profusely on local station WFMU, and which have careened onto the Top 30 charts at various other college radio stations across North America.

“The Eggplants mix brainy, funny lyrics with a fine sense of what makes pop music wonderful.” -- Dr. Demento

“Gentle insanity with irresistible tunes” -- The Herald

“They mix the wit of Jonathan Richman with the sound of the Nico-era Velvets to create a surreal and satirical gumbo.” -- Sunday Herald

www.kennyyoungandtheeggplants.com
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/3149066/
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/they-are-immature-perhaps-...

9pm- Jim Petrie Band
Genre: Folk/Country Rock, Americana
For fans of: Gram Parsons, Jackson Browne, Ollabelle, Donna the Buffalo

Great musicianship, melodies you remember, songs you want to dance to, lyrics that say something, hearts that beat.

www.reverbnation.com/earnestmister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDy8pU_WHTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSPO1FYcsU0

10pm- Brother Jim
Genre: Americana
For fans of: John Hiatt, John Prine and Hayes Carll

Americana and Roots songwriter Jim Greene brings his band, Brother Jim, to The Way Station. Sure to be a rockin set!!

11pm- Tenterhooks
Genre: Power Pop
For fans of: Guided By Voices, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Fountains of Wayne

Tenterhooks are a fantastic guitar-driven band that’s had its roots in the NYC underground dating back to the 90s East Village noise-pop scene. The band’s bristling sound is equaled only by its melody, tight, veteran group of punks blasting out heavy doses of sugar, just the way we like it. Mix in a slight tinge of late ’70s skinny tie new wave, and you’ve got a winner.

http://tenterhooks.bandcamp.com
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