Tim Haufe + Golden Alphabet + Marek and the Boss Chops @ The Way Station

8pm- Tim Haufe
Genre: Indie/Folk/Acoustic
For fans of: Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Daniel Rossen, Stevie Wonder

Tim Haufe is a songwriter and musician who grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY. His music is volatile, desperate, beautiful, dynamic, and full of hope. His latest self-produced album, The End of the Year (November 2012), has received critical acclaim. On stage he typically performs as a solo act, presenting an intimate and inspiring musical experience. Haufe currently lives in New York, where he is striving to establish for his music the grand reputation that it deserves.

“Tim has all the qualities one looks for in a live performance: He is in tune with the elasticity of the crowd. I could feel myself being drawn closer and closer to the music as the song went on.” -Daniel Dissinger, InStereoPress

www.timhaufe.com
timhaufe.bandcamp.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qfi82iBb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9to2sEdoqMg

9pm- Golden Alphabet
Genre: Indie Psychedelic Folk
For fans of: Modest Mouse, Cat Stevens, Bright Eyes

Mostly consistent of transplants from the desert of Tucson, Arizona, Golden Alphabet has reformed it’s live line-up here, in the center of the universe, Brooklyn, New York. Based on the song writing of singer, Tommy Cormier, Golden Alphabet stylistically changes along with Cormier’s short attention span. The band’s lyrically driven music shifts from indie folk, to psychedelic, to baroque pop.

Review of our 1st record, “A List of Our Worries”:
The album contains 10 tracks that fall under the wide-ranging category of indie rock, though there are variations in sound. After a minute-plus as a ramshackle instrumental, opening track “Visionary Quest” morphs into what sounds like a passage from a long-lost rock opera—it wouldn’t sound out of place on The Wall—with Cormier singing, “If I’m just a little boy with a stick in his eye, I’ll never be a Jesuit / I am self-deny.” After a little synth-led passage, it leads smoothly into “This Cactus Country,” a chugging little tune with a big sound (fun game: count the instruments!) and a gorgeously melancholy melody. The lyrics on the album, which are largely above-par, carry the weight of melancholy, too: “I’ve been buying into salesmanship / ‘Good job! You know, you’re really doing well’ / I wonder how long Humpty Dumpty sat there / I wonder how long before he fell.” If I had to pithily describe the overall vibe of A List of Our Worries, I’d say it’s like an indie-folk take on what Modest Mouse or Arcade Fire does (with Bright Eyes in there, too), but that’s selling it short, especially when a song like “Me Lovely,” the bulk of which resembles no one so much as the Tom Tom Club, comes on.” -Stephen Seigel, Tucson Weekly

http://goldenalphabet.com/
https://goldenalphabet.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VOVOSylts

10pm- Marek and the Boss Chops
Genre: boogie woogie, honky tonk and early rock & roll
For fans of: Hank, Fats, Chuck, Jerry Lee, Muddy

A piano pounding, vocally driven spin on the roots of rock & roll. Marek Sapieyevski (piano/vocals) leads a full throttle run through the stuff of Hank, Fats, Chuck, Jerry Lee, Muddy, and more. With Charley Layton (upright) Griffin Sherbert (drums), and special guests on saxophone or fiddle.

www.marekandthebosschops.com