Unlikely Alibi, The Green Room Rockers, The Forthrights
Poster designed by Todd Roth
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Unlikely Alibi
The Green Room Rockers (West Lafayette IN)
The Forthrights (Brooklyn NY)
10PM
$4
About Unlikely Alibi:
Updating the sound of the 70s London streets that helped inspire The Police, Elvis Costello, and The Clash, Unlikely Alibi looks to bring a change of direction into todays music scene. With searing guitars and screamy-singy vocals predominating todays mainstream rock, and a new genre name popping up everyday, Unlikely Alibi simply gives you organ and guitar driven power pop with a twist of reggae. Piecing together parts of Indianas hardest working, and most popular bands the members collectively have sold thousands of CDs, and played hundreds of shows through-out the United States. Their proven on-stage experience has given the members the opportunity to open up for artists such as Ben Folds, The Foo Fighters, Eve 6, Train, and The Urge. Also, ska greats The Skatalites, The Slackers, and King Django. That is the pedigree from which this band comes, and the benchmark they intend to surpass.
About The Green Room Rockers
If you are ever in the backwoods on the southern fringe of Lafayette, Indiana, you may hear a sound rustling through the trees. This sound is the Hoosier Homegrown, a mix of love and obsession that’s manifested itself off the banks of the Wabash River. A little ways off of US 231, 7 men have built a shrine to their common love of Reggae, Soul, and American roots music away from the civilized world. There they hone their craft day and night mixing modern and vintage sounds of Jamaica and America while always looking back to the late 60’s for inspiration. They keep to themselves, more interested in the sound of soul than the eye of the camera, but every now and again one might catch them filling bars and clubs around the Midwest with their sound. It is told that if the Pabst is cold and the moon is full, a spell falls over all those who experience their live show making feet move and sweat drip. Catch a glimpse of this modern oddity as they emerge for the first time to wander across the country.
