Gig Alert: Bird Streets at Mercury Lounge 10/30

Courtesy: Conqueroo

Wed. Oct. 30 •NEW YORK CITY• Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston Street.
Showtime: 10 p.m.
Tickets: $10 - $12
Info: http://bit.ly/2piAysH
Tickets: https://ticketf.ly/2OxluSO

Brooklyn-based musician John Brodeur is the songwriter and musician behind Bird Streets, who released their latest album August 10th.  Audiophile Review said, "Bird Streets has no shortage of powerful pop gems… a most tasty slice of modern American indie rock pie." 

Lyrically, these songs draw heavily on internal conflict — self-doubt, anxiety, depression — with an overarching feeling of wistful resignation rather than blind optimism. Periodically difficult themes are delivered via unshakable melodies, a dichotomy that recalls the tightrope walked by artists like Elliott Smith and David Bazan/Pedro the Lion. In album opener “Carry Me,” Brodeur celebrates “new beginnings and bitter ends” over a bright, bristling bed of electric guitars, then laments the end of a friendship that was once “tighter than Steely Dan” in the eminently catchy “Betting on the Sun.” From there the album jumps between epic power-ballads (“Stop to Breathe”) and British Invasion-flavored power-pop (“Thanks for Calling”), the George Harrison-via-Radiohead melancholy of “Heal” and the grungy jangle of “Until the Crown.”
 
After years in the making — and decades on the outside looking in — Bird Streets is giving Brodeur a renewed creative energy, and a shot at reaching a larger audience.

​He will be appearing with his live band at the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan on October 30.

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