Tonight, (Friday) The Pour House hosts three crucial Raleigh bands on one ticket. The Bleeding Hearts headline. These seventies-punkesque rockers just released their second LP in May, nothin’ on but the radio.
Rounding out the bill are Raleigh’s favorite guitar-drum duo, The Loners, and Goner whose recent album, Rock ‘N’ Roll Always Forgets, is available here.
The Independent’s Grayson Currin on tonight’s show:
This bill collects three Raleigh rock favorites: The Bleeding Hearts harnesses four decades of vinyl references into polished but hulking two-guitar paeans that meet somewhere between Mott the Hoople and Cheap Trick. Despite its scantily clad cover, the band’s second album, Nothin’ On but the Radio, showcases a more mature, balanced approach from Sam Madison, its braggadocio-belted frontman. The Loners inspires envy with only a guitar and a drumkit, Eddie Taylor and Chris Jones pushing and pulling against anthems of rebellion-spiked nostalgia. And Goner, better than ever on its new third album, writes with equal parts wanderlust and pragmatism, its key-led vistas stretching ahead like faded Springsteen sunsets.
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