Howlin Rain in San Diego | Wed. Jan. 16 at The Casbah

HOWLIN RAIN
To Headline THE CASBAH In SAN DIEGO, CA
On WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16

Latest Album 'THE ALLIGATOR BRIDE'
Out Now On SILVER CURRENT RECORDS

Watch/Share Official Video "MISSOURI"

Hear/Share "THE WILD BOYS"

Hear/Share "ALLIGATOR BRIDE"

"...Howlin Rain's music has never felt so anthemic." - NPR MUSIC

"...classic rock in the most pastoral, sun-soaked ‘70s sense, with traces of Springsteen at his most gospel, Creedence at their grooviest, Free and American Beauty." - UNCUT

"...a thundering exultation." - ROLLING STONE

"With 'The Alligator Bride,' more than previous Howlin’ Rain albums, the breadth of the band’s scope shines in streaming color." - DUSTED


Who:
HOWLIN RAIN
w/ special guests, Garcia Peoples + MONARCH

When:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16
Doors: 8:30pm | Show: 9:30pm 

Where:
THE CASBAH
2501 Kettner Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101

Tickets:
$15
21 & Over
more info

About:

Howlin Rain is riding a wave of acclaim behind their latest studio album, 'The Alligator Bride,' which by numerous accounts was deemed one of summer 2018's most essential underground rock records. Its release was followed by a cross-country U.S. tour that presented founding member Ethan Miller's long-standing outfit as energized and epic as they've been in years.  The Oakland-based band returns to the road at the top of 2019 with a West Coast tour that stops at The Casbah in San Diego, CA on Wednesday, January 16 for a headline performance.

In Ethan's own words: "We're back on the road with Howlin Rain; deeper exploration of our catalog with the peak-form 'Alligator Bride' band—city after city of murder motels, an ocean of Pabst captured in tallboys in bottomless colored tubs, SM57 on the bass not DI puuuleeeeeze, espresso after espresso after espresso, capturing the world on the road via trusty Holga toy camera, the snowy mountain pass of the northern I5, the joy, exhaustion and heady spiritual cocktail of grinding work and wanderlust as one. Tally HO!"

HOWLIN RAIN
On The Road...

Dec. 29 - Petaluma, CA - Mystic Theatre *  
Jan. 9 - Vancouver, BC - The Astoria
Jan. 10 - Bellingham, WA - The Firefly Lounge #
Jan. 11 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern ~
Jan. 12 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir **
Jan. 13 - Bend, OR - Volcanic Theatre Pub ^
Jan. 14 - Reno, NV - Loving Cup ^
Jan. 15 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow's ^
Jan. 16 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah +
Jan. 17 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo ^
Jan. 18 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Atrium ^
Jan. 19 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^^

* w/ Whiskerman 
# w/ Garcia Peoples + Supermissive
~ w/ Garcia Peoples + The Kingdom Boogie Band
** w/ Garcia Peoples + Pushy
^ w/ Garcia Peoples
+ w/ Garcia Peoples + MONARCH
^^ w/ Garcia Peoples + Scott Law & Ross James' Cosmic Twang


More on HOWLIN RAIN & 'THE ALLIGATOR BRIDE'

For 'The Alligator Bride,' Miller and company drew inspiration from classic rock formations such as The Grateful Dead's 'Europe '72,' Mountain Bus' 1974 burner 'Sundance,' and Free's masterpiece of atmospheric, minimalist blues, 1969's 'Fire and Water.' However, Ethan particularly attributes the magic captured across the album's seven tracks to the vibe of the Mansion studio in San Francisco; the same space that gave birth to modern garage-psych classics by Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and Mikal Cronin. Howlin Rain tracked the record there over three days, playing live to tape and cutting the material in first and second takes. The result is a set of wide-eyed, ragged and unapologetic rock 'n' roll.

From the first notes of opening track "Rainbow Trout," Miller's guitar choogles out an inescapable riff, a sly reference to the sky spirits of Norman Greenbaum and ZZ Top. The riff unabashedly grounds 'The Alligator Bride' in the classics, but reaches for the stars. Daniel Cervantes' bottleneck slide guitar eases into place along with Miller's tuneful-yet-ravaged lead vocals, followed by Jeff McElroy's bass and Justin Smith's charging drums. Title track "Alligator Bride" soon crashes the gates like Crazy Horse in all their ragged glory, telling a carnivalesque tale of American splendor, a parade of creatures across time and space. Writing about the song, NPR Music raved: "Howlin Rain's music has never felt so anthemic." While final track "Coming Down" slow-burns its way through eight minutes of indestructible twin guitars, blazing to a heroic, acid-damaged finish.

Since their debut in 2006, Oakland, California's Howlin Rain have seen as many highs, lows, and wild adventures as any great American rock band. They've performed to worldwide audiences, enlisted a megastar producer and label, moved on from said megastar producer and label, and ultimately embraced a DIY spirit. The ensemble is led by singer/guitarist/lead howler Ethan Miller who at any given moment pivots between several projects, each a different facet of his sun-scorched California vision. From the pastoral psych jams of his celebrated Sub Pop band Heron Oblivion, to the scuzz punk freakouts of Feral Ohms, to the sprawling, analog ambience of The Odyssey Cult, to his various books of poetry, Miller cuts a renaissance figure in madman's garb, howling at the moon and cranking out handmade masterpieces. With his imprint, Silver Current Records, he oversees all curation, recording, graphic design and distribution.

"We're in a vortex of futuristic events," ruminates Miller. "At this present moment, we can still remember the way the train whistle sounded in the middle of the night, rolling through the dark on the outskirts of town. An old America before we walked on the moon, before TV, cell phones, and the internet. 'The Alligator Bride' is about standing in the eye of that tornado of time—between the past and the present—in America."

It's a fitting vision for the band: torn between eras, an epic perspective on what's come before and what lies ahead, woven into a cosmic tapestry of riffs, rhymes, and resonant frequencies. 

Out Now on Silver Current Records 
on color and black vinyl editions, CD, cassette and digital

http://www.howlinrain.com
http://www.silvercurrentrecords.com
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