SAVE THE DATE: Stories from Storytown 4 Dec 12

Stories from Storytown is a communal evening of live music and evocative storytelling about music over the years in New York City by those who were there - artists, managers, writers, studio owners, and fans. It also includes live music from the band Storytown, hosted by Storytown’s bandleader Guy Story.

After a bit of a break, this event moves to the legendary Bitter End, NYC’s oldest rock and roll club, where too many rock and folk greats have performed to list them. Well, okay, Lady Gaga did perform the first show of the Lady Gaga and The Starlight Revue there in 2016.

Stories from Storytown 4 will be Thursday December 12, 6:30-8pm at the Bitter End. We are very excited to welcome three new storytellers: radio promotor “Serious Bob” Laul, relatively new singer/songwriter Jessica Dye, and author/journalist David Browne.

Here’s more about our storytellers:

Bob Laul started "Serious Bob Promotion" over 35 years ago, promoting Alternative artists such as Pete Shelly, Human League and The Go Go's to A.O.R. Radio when Alternative music was a dirty word to the rock radio community. Thru tenacity, hard work and dedication he shifted his style from Alternative to New Age, back to Alternative, and now, since 1992, Adult Progressive, or Triple A radio. Before getting into radio promotion, Bob was one of the co-founders of I.R.S. Records with Miles Copeland in 1979. Bob had a hand in the success of artists such as The Go Go's, Buzzcocks, Berlin and Oingo Boingo. Today, Serious Bob Promotions serves over 120 reporting stations in the USA. They take pride in working established acts (Sheryl Crow, Elle King, The Zombies, Foo Fighters) as well as breaking new and upcoming artists like Nick Waterhouse, Jesse Malin, Hollis Brown, The Verbs, and Fantastic Negrito.

Jessica Dye is from Arizona and from Ohio and from all over. She has followed the standard path for every late bloomer to music – Civil Air Patrol, Air Force ROTC, and linguistics. Her band High Waisted plays a retro-modern version of surf pop. Why, you may ask? Jessica claims that surf rock is the only kind of music she can dance to, and she wanted to “create tunes for other people with limited dancing skills”. With their sophomore album ready to debut, the band has released an interactive 360 degree music video for their track "Hey Hey" in collaboration with Refinery29, performed a live session at Nylon Magazine, Paste Magazine, as well as a stripped down set for Sofar Sounds. Lo-fi fuzzy bass, reverb drenched guitars and radiant harmonies mesh to create the melodies of your wave-crashed daydreams.

David Browne

David Browne is a senior writer at Rolling Stone and the author of biographies of the Grateful Dead, Sonic Youth, and Jeff and Tim Buckley. His most recent books are a biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, published this spring (and included in the Summer Reading issue of The New York Times in May 2019), and "Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice," a collection of the late singer's writings, journals and possessions co-edited with the Buckley Estate. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006. He was an editor at Music & Sound Output magazine and a music critic at the New York Daily News before EW. He has written articles for a variety of publications including: the New York Times, Spin, New Republic and Time. He has lived in New York City since 1978.

And as usual, Storytown will fill in with live songs, new and old. And a video. So SAVE THE DATE and bring your friends: Thursday December 12 6:30pm, The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012.

We are again proud and honored to be sponsored by the biggest and best digital spoken word service on the planet, Audible.com:

OK then, see you on December 12, we hope. Thanks for listening.