Vulcan AfterTunes Concert Series

Sunday, October 28
Matt Pond PA with guest Jesca Hoop
Show starts 3 pm, gates open at 1 pm

Admission at the gate $8, children 4 & under and VPF Members - FREE

Mark your calendars... this is the FINAL Vulcan AfterTunes concert of 2007!  Kick back, relax and end your weekend at Vulcan Park and Museum with cool tunes, fresh brews (including Sam Adams) and sweet views!

Sunday, October 28:  Matt Pond PA
Named "One of the 10 Artists to Watch in 2006" by Rolling Stone Magazine
Matt Pond isn't looking for trouble, but he won't back down from a good fight – the most recent being his latest album, Last Light. If this were an action flick, we'd open on a vigilant Pond, wresting the steering wheel from anyone who wishes to drive him off a cliff. See, this is the first time he's accepted a lead role – that of Producer – and it may just be his best yet. It goes something like this:

We flashback to 2004: After the release of Emblems, Pond's body is found, in song, behind a hotel. Now, three years later with Last Light, he's kicked the coffin wide open. As incongruous as a eulogy at a baptism, Last Light is the absurdity that blankets our grandest efforts, along with the undeniable instinct that is survival – a field of paranoia and a flood of self-medication that, somehow, remains fertile. Musically, it displays Pond's newly formed reverence for those who are English (Pulp, Blur, Idle Race) as well as a lasting dedication to those who are timeless (Elliott Smith, The Kinks and Neil Young) – thus revealing the connected distances between soaring strings, feedback and a solo acoustic guitar.

It all begins with the title track – a grinding, rollicking preamble to the journey before us, and the fear that comes with it. Riding a lively swell of chaos – sounding not unlike Spiritualized getting, well, spiritual in Appalachia –  "People Have a Way" follows as a pulsing denouncement of apathy. Mirror-house regard meets familiar themes of nature and changing seasons in the sweetly-strummed, piano-littered "Locate the Pieces," while the gliding force of "Honestly" takes a swing at disbelief as a forceful string arrangement chops unremitting at the space around it. Close on its tail is the redolent "Taught to Look Away" – a waltz-like duet (co-starring Neko Case) that questions the opposing act of belief. Elsewhere, warm feelings of despair thread throughout the jaunty handclaps of "Sunlight," driving guitars of "Basement Parties" and ephemeral reflection of "Until the East Coast Ends." "The Crush" and "Giving It All Away" explore the cathartic release of frustration while angular guitars jab under precisely delivered lyrics. Finally, the trip concludes with the sparing desire of "It's Not So Bad At All"– a gentle, self-reassuring mantra of simple hope.

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View photos from previous Vulcan AfterTunes at al.com. 

Lawn chairs & blankets are strongly encouraged. No pets or outside alcohol allowed. Cash bar (featuring Sam Adams and other beers and wine) plus snacks from Planet Smoothie Five Points.  SMOKE FREE ENVIRONMENT. RAIN OR SHINE! 

Limited parking, carpooling encouraged.  Additional parking across Valley Avenue at Jefferson County Board of Education - shuttle provided.

Official Vulcan AfterTunes after-party at Bottle Tree with happy hour drink prices, $2 PBR tallboys, and $1 off appetizers!

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