Sun Jul 20 2025
7:00 PM (Doors 6:30 PM)
$0.00
All Ages
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Burgerwolf Presents
FREE SHOW: TRB / PARADISE VULTURES / HUBBA HUBBA / THE CLAES HENRY SORENSSON EXPERIENCE
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TRB is an American rock band led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tom Relling. Born in Los Angeles and raised in St. Louis, Tom first emerged on the San Francisco music scene in 2012 and gained local attention as bandleader and slide guitarist in “swamp-funk” outfit Hibbity Dibbity, whose achievements include numerous releases, opening for Vulfpeck, Robert Randolph, Monophonics, The Family Stone, and an appearance at Bottlerock Music Festival in 2017. In following years, Tom developed a reputation as a prolific recording artist. He has released music through several different projects, notably proto-metal “apocalypse rock” trio TONG, psych folk alter-ego Holographic Flower, and collaborations with an array of fellow Bay Area artists ranging from country songwriter Eric Long, funk-rock jam band Sweet Plot, bluegrass quartet Late for the Train, and countless others. Tom is also a touring member of San Francisco rock heavyweights, The Stone Foxes.
Tom formed TRB with the help of Alex Dang-Lozano (drums) Will Durkee (bass, vocals) and Eric Long (pedal steel) and hit the road, touring California consistently throughout 2022 and 2023, all the while building the live act into a high-energy rock n’ roll powerhouse. With the release of his self-titled album in 2022, Tom honed his throwback rock n’ roll style and sound, taking cues from songwriters like Marshall Crenshaw and Rockpile-era Nick Lowe. -
Shaped by an earnest punch in the face, LA rock trio Paradise Vultures have hip-thrust the scene with a humble swagger and slow-burn reflection. Helmed by Tommy Senter (lead vox/bass) the band has gone through a few iterations since 2017 but finally settled in as a familial three-piece in 2022.
Not trying to defy convention, Paradise Vultures still manage to shift their devious sonic current by convection. While filled to the brim with seductive self-awareness that often meets muscular-but-never-entirely-cocky riffage, they grab you by the throat only to then serenade.
Thematically, Paradise Vultures run the same gamut of emotion as any artist would growing up in this city: love, loss, grief, and existential crisis. Though, it can be a lot more fun to be subsumed under the simpler blanket of sex drugs & daddy issues. With influences ranging from Queens of the Stone Age, ABBA, Nick Cave and Pink Floyd, the band lean into comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable. Their debut full-length “Born to Lose” was written in the lead up to, and immediate aftermath of the passing of Senter’s aunt. So, candid heartbreak reigns over the lyrical candor and resounding cynicism.
Senter’s prowling bass lines give moody ballast to a batch of rock songs sounding occasionally theatrical, sometimes brutish, one part ramshackle fun house, and two parts impassioned grit between pearly teeth. Often-shirtless drummer Matty Barreca is the dynamic backbone of this sensitive beast with pocket deeper than the Mariana Trench.
Following rowdy performances around LA (including a sold-out Viper Room), the release of a grisly new music video for “Love is a Cancer” and an album release, Paradise Vultures circle and land together, scavenging the best bits from the still-meaty remains of moody desert rock.
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In 1976, Hubba Hubba recorded their seminal hunk rock album, "The Birth of Hunk Rock," and then mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth. Though band has never been found, the album was recently rediscovered, and is finally seeing a proper release, spearheaded by the lead single, "Hyannis (Cocaine O'clock)" -- out now. Crank up the hunk rock, baby, it's Hubba Hubba time.
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