Coming Up: Roky Moon & BOLT! Releases Their New Album, This Saturday

Not super-duper-long notice, I know, but it’s worth mentioning either way — this coming Saturday, July 30th, glam-theater-art-rock dudes/dudettes Roky Moon & BOLT! will be at Fitzgerald’s, rocking their hearts out for the album release show for new full-length American Honey, out on ZenHill Records.

The band was kind enough to send a copy of the album our way, and holy shit is it good. I was a little nervous at first, I’ll admit, because a number of the songs they recorded for this release already exist in recorded form somewhere, but for Honey they’ve taken each and every song and cranked it up to 12, even the songs I’ve heard many, many times before. Plus, the new songs — “Unhinge the Youth,” in particular — knock me down flat. Look on over here for a full review…

Naturally, they’re not doing this thing solo, but are instead dragging along a big bunch of supremely-talented friends, including murkily wonderful Appalachia-pop outfit {listenlisten}, Latin-inflected prog-rockers {Tax the Wolf}, fuzzed-out beach band {Young Girls}, and hard-to-categorize By the End of Tonight spinoff {sIngs}, all of whom are well worth checking out in their own right.

The madness starts at 8PM, and it’s all just a measly $6. I was at their tour kickoff at The Mink a while back, btw, and I have to say, it was one hell of a show. I’m betting Saturday’s even wilder.