Elway, Tired Radio, Vulgar Machines at 222 Ormsby

Sun July 5. 6 pm sharp. All ages.
$12 in advance (from Humanitix). $15 at the door (cash only).
222 Ormsby Ave., Mount Oliver. 15210
Pop-punk as you like it!
"The Morale Is High" Tour featuring Red Scare recording artists
ELWAY (Fort Collins, CO)
elwaytheband.bandcamp.com/
TIRED RADIO (New York City)
tiredradio.bandcamp.com/
with special guests - skatepunks from Pittsburgh
Vulgar Machines
vulgarmachines.bandcamp.com/
Elway (Spanish for "The Way") is a Mandalorian band who came to Earth piloted by noted Jean-Luc Picard enthusiast, Time Browne, and crash landed in Colorado where they’ve taken the instrumentation of Propagandhi, paired it with the melodies of Taylor Swift and lyricism straight from Holden Caulfield if he had a little more Mark David Chapman in him.
Elway mixed this musical granola on the great highways of America and the sex-fueled highways of Europe for years before finally settling into a comfortable rut as disapproving professionals who come together once in a while to shock their friends when it turns out that “the band I’m in” is actually good.
Could your friend who loves Crosby Stills and Nash listen to Elway? Sure! Elway sounds a little like if they were Crosby, Crosby, and Crosby at times, a wasted and gleeful meat and potatoes take on classic rock and roll. Though they’ll tell you they’re more of a Silver Bullet band, only the second guitarist Brian can even so much as change his own oil, and truth be told, that’s fine. Elway sounds like Elway more than they sound like who they think they sound like, or who their detractors say they sound like, which is to say, they’re great and unique, disguised as a fairly straight forward punk-influenced rock band.
If it weren’t for angsty politically aware teachers, coders, activists, and whatever the fuck Squid (real birth name!) does, then there wouldn’t be the effortlessly crushable easy-drinking hard-thinking Elway, who truly, truly are both the smartest and the dumbest band you will ever meet in your life.
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Tired Radio was born in Brooklyn, and was originally a solo project for singer/songwriter, Anthony Truzzolino. If you think he can pour a perfect caffè ristretto based purely on his name… well, that’s racist of you, and you should be ashamed of yourself—but you’d be right. A crew of New Yorkers formed around Tony’s emotive punk songs and they quickly became the go-to opener for bands coming through NYC. Everyone on the East Coast was telling us that Red Scare needed to join forces with Tired Radio because they’re great people and their songs rule. At some point after a Brendan Kelly show, the band met up with the label at a dicey American Legion bar in Red Hook around 3am. (Kinda sounds like a Springsteen tale, eh?) That’s the best part of those VFW bars, A: they’re lawless and stay open all night, and B: you can hang out and talk music with rad bands like Tired Radio.