Josh Joplin Group with Valley Lodge
City Winery NYC presents Josh Joplin Group with Valley Lodge live on Saturday, October 3rd, at 7:00 PM!
Time Out London calls Josh Joplin's show “
…a must-see.”
If last year’s sold out show is any indication, order your tickets immediately for Josh Joplin Group's return to City Winery, NYC Saturday, October 3rd at 7pm. Josh’'ll be fresh from the studio where he will just be finishing up the 15th album of his career. What could that mean for him in 2027 when it's released?
A quick Google search of numerology suggests it may be an enchanting, even seductive record, chock-full of songs “resounding with creative composite vibrations that bring about transmuted works of emotional intensity…” Who knows! But unlike NUMBER 6 and NUMBER 13, which are both real trash numbers, number 15 is a classy integer, symbolizing the finer things in life — like, you guessed it, the pinnacle of distinction, City Winery! Mmm, now that’s Mont Blanc!
Joplin has earned critical praise from Spin, Time Out NY/London, American Songwriter, Paste, Magnet, Vanity Fair, and NPR, to name a few. His song “Blue Skies Again,” recorded by Jessica Lea Mayfield, has been downloaded over a million times, while his 2001 radio hit “Camera One”has perennially found new audiences from fans of Scrubs as a featured song in Season 1, and shoppers who discover it wandering the cramped aisles of Zabars, too hungry to make healthy decisions and ready to pop off at the next person who hits them with their basket.
Legendary artist manager Russell Carter (Matthew Sweet, Indigo Girls) says of Josh Joplin: “I am willing to bet Josh has written a bad song, but I can tell you I have never heard one.”
Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr — produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff (known for his work on Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Folklore) — lands somewhere between a concept album and a sonic scrapbook. Geoffrey Himes (Washington Post/Paste) says of it, “I think it’s Joplin’s best work.” Spin called it “a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works… but with the musical and lyrical layers of the older, wiser musician Joplin has become.”
Valley Lodge is the best rock band basically. You might know them from their wildly popular song "Go," which serves as the theme song to HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."
Anyway, the band is comprised of singer and guitar player Dave Hill (the internationally renown comedian and writer who has also been a member of Cobra Verde, Sons of Elvis, Walter Schreifels Band, Diamondsnake, and some others too), drummer Rob Pfeiffer (Sense Field), guitar player and singer Phil Costello (Tragedy, Satanicide, Diamondsnake), and bass player man Eddie Eyeball (2 Skinnee J's, Gordon Gano, and more!) Guitar player and founding member John Kimbrough (Walt Mink, Teen Judge, Tenacious D) provides additional rock heat and spiritual guidance via his Los Angeles bunker.
They sound kind of like Cheap Trick, T. Rex, Big Star, Raspberries, Thin Lizzy, Matthew Sweet, Slade, the Kinks, and probably a bunch of other stuff too. It's power pop meets pop rock meets your best friend's parents going out of town when you are sixteen and think that they won't notice if you threw a pool party. Oh, and it's 1978 and you are hooked on glue.
Valley Lodge has recorded three albums and are currently recording their fourth incredible album. When not recording hot rock albums, the band has found time to tour Japan, where they are considered geniuses, and also serve as the house band for Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Additionally, the band's music has appeared in such popular television programs as "Raising Hope," "Cougar Town," "Camp," and more.
It is worth noting that all of these programs have been cancelled. Valley Lodge's music has also been featured in television commercials for GMC Trucks and Sonic, the popular hamburger restaurant, an incident that has left the members of the band rich beyond their wildest dreams. Valley Lodge puts on public displays of their patented live rock assault several times a year.
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