Party: 94.7 December to Remember with J. Roddy Walston and the Business

Party: 94.7 December to Remember with J. Roddy Walston and the Business

Monday, December 1

94.7 December to Remember
J. Roddy Walston and the Business
Adventure Galley
Bike Thief
BUY TICKETS
7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show
All ages welcome
$20 advance, $20 day of show

94.7 December to Remember
94/7 Alternative Portland brings another amazing lineup to the Crystal Ballroom! 94/7 Nation members will have the first chance to purchase tickets during the presale on Thursday, October 9 at 10a, so be sure to create a Nation account at www.947.fm!! These shows tend to sell out right away, but any remaining tickets will be released for sale to the general public on Saturday, October 11 at 10am.

J. Roddy Walston and the Business

J Roddy Walston and The Business is Billy Gordon (guitar, vocals); Zach Westphal (bass, vocals); Steve Colmus (drums) and J Roddy Walston (vocals, piano, guitar).

Coming out of Baltimore, MD (via Cleveland, TN) the band has hit the road with such regularity that its recorded work can seem almost an afterthought. After all, rock and roll is foremost a live medium. But the artifact J Roddy Walston and The Business created is among the most collection-worthy albums of the past decade. The widely praised Hail Mega Boys (2007), although fine in its own right, can now be seen as a rough precursor to the ten tracks of lean 'n' muscular, rollicking, unselfconscious celebration of the self-titled album that came out in July 2010 via Fairfax Recordings/Vagrant.

Recorded in a nine-day marathon session at Los Angeles' Sound City Studios and Fairfax Recordings with producer Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, The Vandals) the album features the band as close to live as possible with minimal overdubs and tweaking. No modern studio computer gadgetry was used or harmed in the process, either. It was all captured by a two-inch Scully tape machine. Augunas and guitarist Billy Gordon handled mixing duties.

Punctuated and largely based upon J Roddy Walston's barrelhouse piano, the band shifts seamlessly through jump-up shout-a-longs ("Used To Did") to low slung, gritty travelin' blues ("Use Your Language") to arena-worthy anthems ("I Don't Wanna Hear It"). J Roddy Walston and The Business function in that area where you just know you've heard these songs before. You haven't, though. What you've heard was other bands speaking a similar and somewhat forgotten language of true and very rowdy rock and roll music.

The bands regular touring has turned the band into word-of-mouth favorites. See them once and you'll tell ten friends about them. They've toured with label mates like The Hold Steady and Murder By Death, conquered SXSW, and criss crossed some of the country's favorite hometown venues.

Consequently, J Roddy Walston and The Business have been able to build an audience the old fashioned way. That is, through hard work and with an overwhelmingly giving live show reputation. Just as they had no need for computers and other instant gratification devices in the studio, they have no need for unearned hype. The fact is they've earned every bit of praise they've gotten. And even though they're too nice to admit it, they're about to get a whole lot more.

Website:
http://jroddywalstonandthebusiness.com
Bike Thief

Bike Thief is a six piece Indie Rock band from Portland, OR. They make music that is gripping and intense with soaring melodies which invokes feelings of nostalgia, hope and empathy.

"If Typhoon and The Decemberists were to form a super-band, Bike Thief would be the offspring of that band. Dressed as if they were going to prom, these locals play as if they've been together for 20 years. Their sound was unbelievably tight, playing upbeat indie-rock dance songs that when I closed my eyes I could envision hearing on 94/7. During the set I noticed the songs held a dreamlike quality, along with a drum that tromped along through the show, guiding the rhythm into something everybody could dance to." -Zack Perry of BePortland.com



Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/bikethief

Bandcamp:
http://bikethief.bandcamp.com/

Invited: Chelsea Grubbs, Donovan Farley, Rich Wise