Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m.
The Redstone Room, 129 Main Street, Davenport IA
Serving as concert headliners in the venue's “'90s Alternative Night,” the folk-punk musicians of Brett Newski & the No Tomorrow play Davenport's Redstone Room on November 2, with New Noise magazine saying of the band's Milwaukee-based frontman, “He manages to come off as vulnerable (without all that emo baggage), extremely witty ('D.I.Y.' is one of the finest songs ever written about the realities of playing a show), and smart without pretention.”
A self-described musical nomad who has played more than 1,200 shows on every continent except Antarctica, Newski, in 2011, toured Southeast Asia alone for six months until completing his first solo LP In Between Exits. The album was written and recorded in budget hostels and apartments across Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Korea, and the Philippines – Newski coined it the “Homeless in Asia Tour” – and the artist performed 30 shows in unconventional venues including Couchsurfer Apartments, a Vietnamese convenience store, an underground Korean record shop, and residential rooftops in Hong Kong while also playing club shows. In 2012, Newski completed a 20-date tour across South Africa in support of In Between Exits, and the same year formed the band Brett Newski & the Corruption in Vietnam with British drummer Mean Matt Green and Canadian bassist Jeffro Ganter (Vancouver, Canada), with the touring trio eventually releasing the 2013 abum Tiny Victories.
Newski released his second solo album American Folk Armageddon in 2014, a critical hit praised by Hybrid magazine for Newski's “excellent guitar playing, brilliant arrangements, and wickedly sharp lyrics.” The musician, that year, toured extensively in support of the release – sharing tours with Pete Donnelly and Carter Hulsey in the United States and Jon Shaban in South Africa – and has more recently been supporting acts that have included Violent Femmes, PIXIES, Chuck Ragan, and New Pornographers. Newski is also famed, or perhaps notorious, as the first band headliner to be kicked out of a Walmart for playing an illegal show, which happened while shooting a music video this past June. Writing on his BrettNewski.com blog, the artist, with tongue in cheek, called it “a sad day for rock 'n' roll.”
Joining Brett Newski & the No Tomorrow at the Redstone Room's November 2 “'90s Alternative Night” are the Weezer tribute band Pleezer and opening act Indiana Solo, and admission to the 7:30 p.m. concert is $10-12. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org.
