If you're into former scene
kings Diego Paulo and robots, you'll probably want to be at Mojo Main, 270 East Main St., Newark on Saturday March 16.
But don’t show up expecting
to see the recently defunct Paulo, the story of which sounds like the winding tale of some early-’90s alt-country outfit. The band formed a few years ago out
of the ashes of Bellefonte, which featured brothers Tyler Doherty (vocals/guitars) and
Zachary Humenik (vocals/guitars) . They then went on to form Paulo, which also
featured singer Katie Dill and bassist Sam Nobles and dominated the local music
scene (about 15 consecutive issues of The News Journal’s 55 Hours featured
something about Diego Paulo, a world record, I believe).
Well Paulo recently splintered as
well, and now Humenik and Nobles have reemerged with Travel Songs, which
started out as a video project capturing world music. Humenik traveled to four
different continents, used all kinds of world instruments, got caught up in the
Arab Spring, set up a studio in Tunis and recorded “The Matadors LP,” which features
bro Doherty and Nobles and led to the formation of Travel Songs, went to back
in Los Angeles to record an EP, and then toured with Travel Songs to Thailand,
Cambodia, Loas, and Vietnam.
Sounds just like the charmingly
convoluted story of Uncle Tupelo, right? Kind of. Sort of. Not really.
Instead of bossa nova or world
music, what the new crew – which also features new members George Murphy and
Tyler Holloway - has come up with is a brand of folk-pop reflecting some of the
sounds Humenik might have heard around the globe.
Oh, yeah, the robots. They would
come in the form of ferocious local rock act Robot House, which in addition to
muscle shirts also supports “friends, drinks, love, loud sounds, dancing,
foolishness and endangered animals.”
Check em out at a recent show at the Home Grown Cafe here:
Saturday’s show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 at
www.ticketfly.com.
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