Ready to rock it up after
spending last weekend cooped up with your family? Well, if you are, one option
to consider might be the ace bill of garage rock by Virginia quartet the
Ar-Kaics and Beacon-based Benny Trokan augmented with a reading by author Lucy
Sante that will take over Tubby’s on December 7.
The Ar-Kaics hail from
Richmond and make a moody garage rock sound that, to these ragged ears, recalls
another cool Southern outfit: Atlanta’s late, great Rock-a-Teens. See the
World on Fire, the group’s first new album in six years, was recorded in singer
Johnny Ward’s bedroom and bears torchy touches of acts like the Reigning Sound,
the Black Lips, and Neil Young.
Trokan is well known as
an in-demand soul and rock bassist; he currently performs in indie luminaries
Spoon, and previously he served with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Lee
Fields and the Expressions, the Jay Vons, Reigning Sound, Charles Bradley and
Extraordinaires, and Robbers on High Street. With the new Do You Still Think
of Me on Daptone Records, he makes his solo debut. Revered writer Lucy
Sante is the author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and
the recent I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition. She will
read from the new Six Sermons for Bob Dylan.
The Ar-Kaics, Benny
Trokan, and Lucy Sante will appear at Tubby’s in Kingston on December 7 at 7pm. DJs Pete Pop and Phast Phreddie Patterson will spin rare and rocking 45s before and between sets. Tickets are
$18.80.
This article appears in November 2024.
