The rescheduled dates for the two postponed shows are Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia on Wednesday September 10th and Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City on Friday September 12th.
Purchased tickets for the original shows are valid for these dates.
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Everything Tom Brown turns his hand to hits just that little bit different, a fact proven by the sample heavy Americana shuffle of this year’s Lone Striker debut. Switching back to his Teenage Tom Petties hat, new single Hotmail launches forthcoming album Rally The Tropes in explosive style.
Bursting out of the traps on a fuzzed-out bed of raucous riffing and hollered earworm intensity, Hotmail is a jangle-punk bop for the ages. Returning to a full band set-up following last year’s largely solo self-titled cassette, this latest cut sees Teenage Tom Petties’ raw garage energy burn through in breathless fashion. Essential.
Teenage Tom Petties are: Tom Brown (vocals, guitar), Jim Quinn (bass), Galen Richmond (guitars), James Brown (guitars), Jeff Hamm (drums).
Rally The Tropes releases 24th October via Safe Suburban Home (UK) and Repeating Cloud (US). Pre-order here.
Wild Mountain Mystics – California
Wild Mountain Mystics are Rick & Lisa. Since 2013, they have been a sought-after presence on the California roots music scene. Their audience includes skilled instrumentalists, hipsters, and enthusiastic music lovers, both young and old, across the generational divide. Their audiences are collectively charmed by the joyful spirit and the remarkable diversity of their music.
Their life experience and talent have been faithfully captured on their debut release, Fire & Honey. The album was produced by Ed Tree and Wild Mountain Mystics, and is being released on 8/1/2025 by L.A.’s Americana-roots champions, Blackbird Record Label. The album is a warm blend of folk, rock, country, and blues, filled with fine songcraft, instrumental distinction, and front-porch intimacy that engages as it inspires in a way that echoes the best of Appalachian folk informed by Woodstock Nation-inspired classic rock.
Following the release of their old timey folk style cover of The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” in December of 2024, the second single is “If You Can Bluff,” a rowdy good timin’ Piedmont style blues song with a strong mountain country flavor. With tight vocal harmonies between Lisa & Rick, the song’s message is one of hope and faith in a life that comes around when we “feel our way to the light of day” and we “find the truth in forbidden fruit.” After all, the song maintains, “no matter what your hand, if you can bluff you ain’t lost yet.”
According to veteran singer-songwriter Steve Noonan, (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band classic “Buy for Me the Rain”): “In my 58 years of performing – and my many years of inviting friends to join me on stage – these two were my finest discovery. No one else even came close.”
The duo’s love of music is a passionate, luminous spirit that is alive in every song and shines with joy enough to bring a smile to your face and a dance step to your feet. They are two gifted songwriters, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists, and have opened for artists as diverse as A.J. Croce, David Lindley, Joel Rafael, and Frankie Avalon.
Wild Mountain Mystics’ story is about native Californians whose talents emerged from diverse musical backgrounds. The songs flow between them with a chemistry that is wildly organic as they open the listener to the heart of their music.
Lisa has been immersed in music throughout her life. She has walked a rainbow’s arc of experience from concert stages to dark Gypsy taverns.
In childhood, her mother poured a love of the artistry and joy of music into her 12 children. From this early experience, Lisa grew into a gifted vocalist and an accomplished instrumentalist on guitar, mandolin, bass, violin, and piano, as well as a variety of ethnic instruments including the tamburitza family. She also plays bandura, folk harp, recorder, frula, tin whistle, and a variety of other instruments.
She performed internationally with orchestras, earned degrees in music, and grew into a teacher, conductor, opera singer, and classical choral composer. She has a breadth of experience that has found her jamming with a wide variety of musicians, from multiple genres. She has also performed at the Hollywood Bowl as a choral vocalist for The Chieftans, as well as for the Olympic Arts Festival, under the direction of Christopher Hogwood. With her discipline and experience grew a gentle grace and passionate love for all genres of music.
Rick’s musically driven spiritual story has been about the calling of a journeyman and explorer of America’s musical & cultural terrain. Rick was born in San Diego and raised in Lakewood, Santa Maria, and Buena Park, California. He recalls the subtle influence of his grandmother, whose roots were in the mountains of West Virginia. She brought a down-to-earth sensibility to his childhood. Musically, Hank Williams and the Beatles were the other great influences of his early years and beyond. He learned to play drums at an early age and played in the orchestra and marching band throughout junior high and high school. In junior high he learned to play guitar and piano. This led him to experience playing in various local bands.
His musical journey continued into adulthood with an interlude of eight years in the U.S. Navy. During his time of service, he continued to write songs and play guitar. It was while out at sea that he learned to fix broken guitar strings, a practice he continued for years.
Following his discharge, he resumed playing drums and guitar in a series of groups, including a country rock band, Full Throttle, whose drummer, Freddie Edwards (Charlie Daniels Band) described Rick as “the best guitarist I’ve ever played with.” While a member of a Monrovia jam band, Shantytown, he met Lisa, which led to the birth of Wild Mountain Mystics. The rest of the story of Wild Mountain Mystics is still unfolding through their tangible musical unity and celebration. With the upcoming release of Fire & Honey, and the single, “If You Can Bluff,” they continue to write the story of their journey into the soul of American music.
All songs recorded at The Treehouse by Ed Tree | Produced by Ed Tree and Wild Mountain Mystics | Mixed by Ed Tree with interference from Wild Mountain Mystics | Mastered by Mark Dann | Rick-Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums | Lisa- Vocals, Mandolin, Keyboard | Chad Watson- Bass “If You Can Bluff”, “Hanging on a Star”, “What Our Love Can Do”, “Just Lay It Down” | Ed Tree- Bass “Love Takes Over The Night” , “May We All Meet Again”, Electric Guitars, Handclaps “All You Need Is Love” | Marty Axelrod-Keyboards, Sitar “All You Need Is Love” | Debra Dobkin- Drums and Percussion “All You Need is Love”, Percussion “May We All Meet Again” | Jime Van Booven-Bass “All You Need is Love” | Chorus Vocals “All You Need is Love” -Severin Browne, John Stowers, Raspin Stuwart | Chorus Vocals “May We All Meet Again”- Marty Axelrod, Chauncey Bowers, Deborah Presley Brando, Severin Browne, Corrina Carter, Lisa Johnson, Coddy Nuckols, Pat Quinn, Dolly Ramirez, J.J. Schoch and Nikola Simikic.
Thank You Kim and Wild Mountain Mystics.
Website https://wildmountainmystics.com/
Wild Mountain Mystics – California
Wild Mountain Mystics are Rick & Lisa. Since 2013, they have been a sought-after presence on the California roots music scene. Their audience includes skilled instrumentalists, hipsters, and enthusiastic music lovers, both young and old, across the generational divide. Their audiences are collectively charmed by the joyful spirit and the remarkable diversity of their music.
Their life experience and talent have been faithfully captured on their debut release, Fire & Honey. The album was produced by Ed Tree and Wild Mountain Mystics, and is being released on 8/1/2025 by L.A.’s Americana-roots champions, Blackbird Record Label. The album is a warm blend of folk, rock, country, and blues, filled with fine songcraft, instrumental distinction, and front-porch intimacy that engages as it inspires in a way that echoes the best of Appalachian folk informed by Woodstock Nation-inspired classic rock.
Following the release of their old timey folk style cover of The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” in December of 2024, the second single is “If You Can Bluff,” a rowdy good timin’ Piedmont style blues song with a strong mountain country flavor. With tight vocal harmonies between Lisa & Rick, the song’s message is one of hope and faith in a life that comes around when we “feel our way to the light of day” and we “find the truth in forbidden fruit.” After all, the song maintains, “no matter what your hand, if you can bluff you ain’t lost yet.”
According to veteran singer-songwriter Steve Noonan, (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band classic “Buy for Me the Rain”): “In my 58 years of performing – and my many years of inviting friends to join me on stage – these two were my finest discovery. No one else even came close.”
The duo’s love of music is a passionate, luminous spirit that is alive in every song and shines with joy enough to bring a smile to your face and a dance step to your feet. They are two gifted songwriters, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists, and have opened for artists as diverse as A.J. Croce, David Lindley, Joel Rafael, and Frankie Avalon.
Wild Mountain Mystics’ story is about native Californians whose talents emerged from diverse musical backgrounds. The songs flow between them with a chemistry that is wildly organic as they open the listener to the heart of their music.
Lisa has been immersed in music throughout her life. She has walked a rainbow’s arc of experience from concert stages to dark Gypsy taverns.
In childhood, her mother poured a love of the artistry and joy of music into her 12 children. From this early experience, Lisa grew into a gifted vocalist and an accomplished instrumentalist on guitar, mandolin, bass, violin, and piano, as well as a variety of ethnic instruments including the tamburitza family. She also plays bandura, folk harp, recorder, frula, tin whistle, and a variety of other instruments.
She performed internationally with orchestras, earned degrees in music, and grew into a teacher, conductor, opera singer, and classical choral composer. She has a breadth of experience that has found her jamming with a wide variety of musicians, from multiple genres. She has also performed at the Hollywood Bowl as a choral vocalist for The Chieftans, as well as for the Olympic Arts Festival, under the direction of Christopher Hogwood. With her discipline and experience grew a gentle grace and passionate love for all genres of music.
Rick’s musically driven spiritual story has been about the calling of a journeyman and explorer of America’s musical & cultural terrain. Rick was born in San Diego and raised in Lakewood, Santa Maria, and Buena Park, California. He recalls the subtle influence of his grandmother, whose roots were in the mountains of West Virginia. She brought a down-to-earth sensibility to his childhood. Musically, Hank Williams and the Beatles were the other great influences of his early years and beyond. He learned to play drums at an early age and played in the orchestra and marching band throughout junior high and high school. In junior high he learned to play guitar and piano. This led him to experience playing in various local bands.
His musical journey continued into adulthood with an interlude of eight years in the U.S. Navy. During his time of service, he continued to write songs and play guitar. It was while out at sea that he learned to fix broken guitar strings, a practice he continued for years.
Following his discharge, he resumed playing drums and guitar in a series of groups, including a country rock band, Full Throttle, whose drummer, Freddie Edwards (Charlie Daniels Band) described Rick as “the best guitarist I’ve ever played with.” While a member of a Monrovia jam band, Shantytown, he met Lisa, which led to the birth of Wild Mountain Mystics. The rest of the story of Wild Mountain Mystics is still unfolding through their tangible musical unity and celebration. With the upcoming release of Fire & Honey, and the single, “If You Can Bluff,” they continue to write the story of their journey into the soul of American music.
All songs recorded at The Treehouse by Ed Tree | Produced by Ed Tree and Wild Mountain Mystics | Mixed by Ed Tree with interference from Wild Mountain Mystics | Mastered by Mark Dann | Rick-Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums | Lisa- Vocals, Mandolin, Keyboard | Chad Watson- Bass “If You Can Bluff”, “Hanging on a Star”, “What Our Love Can Do”, “Just Lay It Down” | Ed Tree- Bass “Love Takes Over The Night” , “May We All Meet Again”, Electric Guitars, Handclaps “All You Need Is Love” | Marty Axelrod-Keyboards, Sitar “All You Need Is Love” | Debra Dobkin- Drums and Percussion “All You Need is Love”, Percussion “May We All Meet Again” | Jime Van Booven-Bass “All You Need is Love” | Chorus Vocals “All You Need is Love” -Severin Browne, John Stowers, Raspin Stuwart | Chorus Vocals “May We All Meet Again”- Marty Axelrod, Chauncey Bowers, Deborah Presley Brando, Severin Browne, Corrina Carter, Lisa Johnson, Coddy Nuckols, Pat Quinn, Dolly Ramirez, J.J. Schoch and Nikola Simikic.
Thank You Kim and Wild Mountain Mystics.
Website https://wildmountainmystics.com/
If you can feel a deep rumbling through your walls and floors it could be an earthquake but just as easily it could be that someone in your immediate vicinity is spinning “Rambler’s Axe” (This Charming Man Records), the new release from German sludge/doom/stoner metal titans PIECE. If its the former find yourself a sturdy and safe place to shelter, if it’s the latter do exactly the same thing….. both are powerful forces of nature.
© 2025 Frazer Jones
If you can feel a deep rumbling through your walls and floors it could be an earthquake but just as easily it could be that someone in your immediate vicinity is spinning “Rambler’s Axe” (This Charming Man Records), the new release from German sludge/doom/stoner metal titans PIECE. If its the former find yourself a sturdy and safe place to shelter, if it’s the latter do exactly the same thing….. both are powerful forces of nature.
© 2025 Frazer Jones
Our band started one Friday night in late 1964 literally in a garage in Vestavia, Alabama when I (Froggy) was singing while two friends were playing the drums and the guitar. The three of us attended Berry High School. The drummer’s cousin, Craig Gardner stopped by to show off his new Oldsmobile 442 and he listened to us perform a tune or two. The next day Craig called me and said that he and a few guys from Shades Valley High School were starting a band and asked if I was interested in being the lead singer. Of course, I said yes.
My neighbor was Ray Edwards, the lead singer with The Knights and the first time I saw them perform I resolved to one day do the same. This was my chance! So, the following weekend, Froggy and the Gremlins band was born in Mike Shields living room and the first song we learned was a cover of the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”.
Members in the photo at top:
Mike Shields – electric organ
John McClusky – drums
Bill Thomason – lead singer
Pat ? – lead guitar
Craig Gardner – bass
Before long, Pat dropped out and was replaced by lead guitarist Jerry Meadows.
After learning a set list of about 25 songs we hit the road and were very popular locally in Birmingham and North Alabama. Venues consisted of many fraternity parties at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and in Birmingham, and teenage dances and sock-hops at local National Guard Armories around northern Alabama. We were invited to a Battle of the Bands at the Huntsville coliseum and placed third. WBRC-TV in Birmingham televised a weekly Battle of the Bands and we were matched against the late, great Rooster Gallagher and the Townsmen who I believe eventually won the entire competition later that year.
Pizitz Department Store in downtown Birmingham would hold regular dances and Go-Go demonstrations in the teen clothing section which was a brilliant marketing idea since it drew hundreds of teens (and their mothers) to the store. We played these events several times and once opened for The Swingin’ Medallions there.
Over time as all the other bands were adding horns and reeds, we added:
Bill Roberts – alto sax
Mark Stevens – trumpet
I was also a trumpet player so we had a full, solid sound and were consistent with what was popular at the time. Also, we dropped the “Froggy” and were just “The Gremlins” to project a more contemporary and professional image.
Jerry Meadows was a song writer so like practically every other band on this site, the time came for our rite of passage in Ed Boutwell’s studio at an old church on 2nd Avenue North in Avondale. We created an eight-song demo tape of six cover songs and two songs that Jerry had composed. One was titled “Summer Girl” and the other one I do not remember. We had no money to afford a record press so we hawked the reel-to-reel demo tape around to several radio stations with favorable results but of course there was no air time since there was no vinyl to play.
Finally, in the fall of 1966 most everyone was leaving for various colleges around the state. I, on the other hand having primarily been interested in dedicating most of my time to The Gremlins rather than to high school academics, was shipped off to military school at Lyman Ward Military Academy in south Alabama. Thus, The Gremlins band officially came to an end.
Over the years, I saw Mike Shields occasionally at church and later heard he moved to Carmel, California and became an artist. I also occasionally saw Bill Roberts at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa when we were both students there. Ironically, John McClusky was the drummer for String and the Beans when they played at my High School senior military ball. He eventually became a lawyer in the Birmingham area. I lost touch with Jerry Meadows, Craig Gardner and Mark Stevens after our last gig in the late summer of 1966.
Regrettably, as the years passed and my focus turned to college, kids and careers, my copy of the demo tape disappeared. Several years ago, I reached out to Mark Harrelson at Boutwell Studios right after they moved to their beautiful new facility on Central Avenue in Homewood. He told me that had I been a year earlier they probably would have had the master tape but that after all those years they had finally purged the old archives in the latest move.
What an exciting time it was to be a teenager and part of the incredible ‘60’s music scene. Music has remained a big part of my family and these days even one of my college-aged grandsons is carrying on the tradition with a country music solo act.
Bill Thomason, September 2025
