BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:00b733d1-8ae5-4f0c-897d-c9c1f4c35498@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T050948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T220000 SUMMARY:The BONES of J.R. Jones - w/ Chris Kasper DESCRIPTION:$22 advanced\, $25 day of show General Admission (Standing) - Doors open at 7PM https://thebonesofjrjones.com/ Growing up\, Jonathon Linaberry was obsessed with the radio. “I remember sitting there at nigh t\, glued to the boombox\, cassette player ready to record whenever my f avorite songs came on\,” he recalls. “There was something so thrilling a bout it\, something romantic that I think we’ve lost now that everything ’s available at our fingertips. I wanted to find a way to get back to th at place\, to recapture those feelings of excitement and anticipation an d possibility.” Linaberry does precisely that on Radio Waves\, his sixth studio album as The Bones Of J.R. Jones. Recorded in Toronto with produ cer Robbie Lackritz (Feist\, Bahamas)\, the collection is moody and hypn otic\, steeped in the sonic landscape of the ’80s and ’90s as it excavat es the past with equal parts nostalgia and curiosity. The arrangements a re utterly entrancing here\, built on the tension between acoustic instr uments and retro synthesizers\, and Linaberry’s performances are raw and visceral\, at times aching in their vulnerability. Put it all together and you’ve got a poignant exploration of memory and longing delivered by a relentless searcher\, a revelatory work of personal reflection steepe d in the endless beauty\, pain\, and chaos of youth. “I’ve never really resonated with the idea of ‘the good old days\,’” Linaberry reflects. “Y our understanding of the past and your relationship with it change as yo u get older\, and I’ve always been more interested in the evolution of t hose feelings than in wearing any kind of rose-colored glasses.” Born an d raised in central New York\, Linaberry got his start playing in hardco re and punk bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax\, who documented rural American blues\, folk\, and gospel mus icians throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Inspired by the unvarnished honest y of those vintage performances\, Linaberry launched The Bones of J.R. J ones in 2012 and\, operating as a fully independent artist\, began relea sing a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs that would land his songs in a slew of films and television shows (including True Detective \, Suits\, Daredevil\, Longmire\, and Graceland) and lead to countless t ours across the US and Europe (including stops everywhere from Telluride Blues to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass). Along the way\, Linaberry also sha red bills with the likes of The Wallflowers\, G. Love\, and The Devil Ma kes Three\, soundtracked an Amazon commercial helmed by Oscar-winning di rector Taika Waititi\, and earned praise from Billboard\, American Songw riter\, Under the Radar\, and more. “After a dozen years of touring and recording\, I found myself getting burnt out by the constant barrage of new music that’s out there\,” Linaberry reflects. “In some ways\, it’s g reat to have that kind of access\, but it can also be numbing\, and I fo und myself missing what it felt like to have an album change your life\, to listen to your cassette of Born In The USA so many times you have to wind the tape back up with a pencil.” Linaberry set out to tap back int o that magic on Radio Waves\, writing songs steeped in the sounds and st ories of his own coming of age. He tuned out the modern world in favor o f stark\, lo-fi demos built around fingerpicked guitars and old school e lectronics\, and when it came time to record the album\, he leaned into working with an outside producer for the first time\, traveling to Canad a for two ten-day sessions at Lackritz’s studio. “A lot of these songs s tarted on a drum machine\, which was very intentional\,” Linaberry expla ins. “I wanted to focus on simplicity\, on stripping tracks back to thei r most essential elements so that the melody and the vocals could shine. ” The result is an almost primal sound\, familiar yet uneasy\, like a me mory hanging perpetually just out of reach. “These songs live in the nig ht—the endless kind\, where you get in your car just to drive and listen to music\, to feel like you’re going somewhere even if you’re not\,” Li naberry says. “It’s the sound of a kitchen heavy with the leftover heat of an August day and a table crowded with drinks\, of arguments and firs t loves and first heartbreaks\, of not living up to your potential\, of breaking promises\, of being human.” Take a listen to album opener “Car Crash” and you’ll understand exactly what he means. Tender and hazy\, th e track offers up a bittersweet embrace of life’s imperfections\, findin g meaning and connection in our shared flaws and shortcomings. “I want y our whole heart\,” Linaberry professes\, “even the broken parts.” Like m uch of the record\, it’s insistent yet understated\, as much a celebrati on as it is a confession. The sensuous “Savages” revels in the reckless abandon of young adulthood\, while the spare “Heart Attack” stares disap pointment directly in the face\, and the piercing “Shameless” works its way through a lifetime of what ifs. “Our lives are an endless series of revolving doors\,” Linaberry reflects. “Even the smallest decisions can change our entire trajectory. What kind of arrogant fool doesn’t look ba ck and wonder?” That sense of lostness\, of uncertainty as to who we are and where we belong turns up throughout the record. The blistering “Dri ve” devours itself from the inside out in the tedious solitude of the ro ad\; “The Devil” grapples with identity\, intimacy\, and dependence\; an d the breezy “Catching You” wonders what we were ever trying to prove wi th all the debaucherous nights and bad decisions of youth. “I think so m any of us live in the past because it’s easier to face than the future\, ” Linaberry explains. “But I’m not interested in going back. I’m interes ted in understanding the feelings and experiences that made us who we ar e: the passion and the hunger\, the faults and the failures\, the hopes and the fears. Truth be told\, those feelings never really go away. They ’re all still out there\, floating in the ether\, drifting through etern ity on an endless sea of radio waves. All you have to do is tune in. htt ps://www.chriskasper.com/ Chris Kasper is the kind of artist you stumble onto late at night and wonder how you hadn't heard him before. Blending folk\, blues\, soul\, and roots rock\, the Philadelphia-based songwrite r creates music that feels both timeless and deeply personal. With warm vocals\, groove-driven guitar work\, and lyrics shaped by years on the r oad\, his songs carry the kind of lived-in honesty that's becoming harde r to find. Kasper's music has earned national airplay on SiriusXM\, and he's shared stages with artists like Amos Lee\, G. Love\, and The Wood B rothers. But it's the songwriting itself that leaves the strongest impre ssion: soulful\, unhurried\, and instantly familiar. If you're drawn to artists like Gregory Alan Isakov\, Ray LaMontagne\, or Nathaniel Ratliff \, Chris Kasper's raw roots sound and road-worn storytelling will feel r ight at home. 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