Thu 8/22 @ 8:30PM
Singer/guitarist Max Stern is a member of punk rockers Signals Midwest. He also has a band called Meridian in which he, his brother Jake, and “a rotating cast of characters” play a different kind of music. Banjos are involved.
Meridian is releasing a vinyl LP, Aging Truths, at a show at the Grog Shop, where they’ll be playing as a full-five piece band.
Stern explains the genesis of the record on the band’s Bandcamp page, where you can preview the album.
“I’ve spent the majority of my musical lifetime playing in punk rock bands, and continue to do so to this day. The songs that comprise this record didn’t fit in anything else I had going, so other than occasional living-room solo acoustic shows, they didn’t exist anywhere except in the form of tinny laptop-microphone demos. After several years of resolving (and then failing) to make a real record every few months, I finally managed to get it together in March of 2012.
Aging Truths is a collection of songs that were written from 2008-2011. Most of these songs were initially recorded on an internal laptop microphone perched on a beer-stained table in a cold Cleveland Heights apartment throughout that four-year period.”
They’ll be joined at the Grog Shop by two other bands that are basically one-man projects: Northeast Ohio’s American War, the project of the Sidekicks guitarist Matthew Scheuerman, and Seattle-based Asian Man recording act the Exquisites, the brainchild of singer/songwriter Jason Clackley.
Admission is $8.
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