TROUBADOUR PRESENTS::
Filligar
Red Arrow Messenger, All Wrong and the Plans Change
Troubadour
Wed, August 25, 2010
Doors open 7:30 pm
$10.00 - $12.00
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Doors open 7:30 pm
$10.00 - $12.00
Note: DJ Ace Bitch will be spinning in between sets
Filligar - (Set time: 10:30 PM)
Hailing from Chicago, young rock & roll quartet Filligar takes to the road this summer armed with their latest LP entitled The Nerve. The record captures the live-show energy that has attracted the attention of Performer Magazine and audiences from coast to coast. Blogs and print media are buzzing:
"FILLIGAR ROCKS SUMMERFEST--Milwaukee. Hours before Eric Clapton and Roger Daltry took the Summerfest stage, a young, up and coming rock quartet was wowing an enthusiastic audience at the U.S. Cellular Stage. Filligar is a Midwest-based band steeped in classic rock. Although they are young, they have a great sense of rock and roll heritage"-- George Mallett, TMJ Channel 4 News, MSNBC
"[This] four piece could grow into something massively cool." -- Jed Gottlieb, The Boston Herald
"The band's best release to date"-- Richard Milne, WXRT Chicago
"Filligar has made a monster of a modern album... this may prove to be one of the year's best releases from a breakout act." -- Ryan Spaulding, RSL Blog
"This is pure, rock music... A perfect soundtrack to your summer exploits" --Indie 69 Blog
"On the same caliber as The Black Keys" -- Frank Eybsen, Audio Muffin Blog
"Listening to the album is akin to flipping through the AM radio of the 70s, an album to blast as you drive on some skinny highway through our nation’s heartland. So yeah, this isn’t an indie album. It’s a rock album. It's an American rock album. It’s ambitious (14 tracks, hour-run-time), it’s bombastic, and it’s shooting for the big dogs." --The New Orleans Indie Rock Collective Blog
"FILLIGAR ROCKS SUMMERFEST--Milwaukee. Hours before Eric Clapton and Roger Daltry took the Summerfest stage, a young, up and coming rock quartet was wowing an enthusiastic audience at the U.S. Cellular Stage. Filligar is a Midwest-based band steeped in classic rock. Although they are young, they have a great sense of rock and roll heritage"-- George Mallett, TMJ Channel 4 News, MSNBC
"[This] four piece could grow into something massively cool." -- Jed Gottlieb, The Boston Herald
"The band's best release to date"-- Richard Milne, WXRT Chicago
"Filligar has made a monster of a modern album... this may prove to be one of the year's best releases from a breakout act." -- Ryan Spaulding, RSL Blog
"This is pure, rock music... A perfect soundtrack to your summer exploits" --Indie 69 Blog
"On the same caliber as The Black Keys" -- Frank Eybsen, Audio Muffin Blog
"Listening to the album is akin to flipping through the AM radio of the 70s, an album to blast as you drive on some skinny highway through our nation’s heartland. So yeah, this isn’t an indie album. It’s a rock album. It's an American rock album. It’s ambitious (14 tracks, hour-run-time), it’s bombastic, and it’s shooting for the big dogs." --The New Orleans Indie Rock Collective Blog
Red Arrow Messenger - (Set time: 9:30 PM)
All Wrong and the Plans Change - (Set time: 8:30 PM)
“I’m Like Whatever”, the forthcoming debut album, was a handmade record, with drummer Amy Wood doing a large part of the engineering, along with her father John Wood (engineer/producer) on borrowed time, late at night after bands had left their studio for the day. Having a producer as a father, Amy is the studio rat that began on pots and pans, then moved from filling in for sessions to playing in Los Angeles clubs at 14 years old.
Singer Kassia Conway, self taught, gravitated towards the bass because it was the closest she could get to the drums and the microphone at the same time. She'd spent years curating art galleries in New York and Los Angeles, finally moving to dedicate herself to her own work.
“I’m Like Whatever” has a charm to it; a simple ’what you see is what you get’ realness to the songs, and it’s full of humility and a sense of humor. No outfits, nothing cute. The record is charged by an early ‘90’s DIY spirit, the place where so many of their influences originated.
Singer Kassia Conway, self taught, gravitated towards the bass because it was the closest she could get to the drums and the microphone at the same time. She'd spent years curating art galleries in New York and Los Angeles, finally moving to dedicate herself to her own work.
“I’m Like Whatever” has a charm to it; a simple ’what you see is what you get’ realness to the songs, and it’s full of humility and a sense of humor. No outfits, nothing cute. The record is charged by an early ‘90’s DIY spirit, the place where so many of their influences originated.