Jonathan Tyler to Play The Concert Hall in NYC May 5th

Courtesy HBPR

May is shaping up to be a fantastic month of music here in NYC and things kick off May 5th with Butch Walker and Jonathan Tyler at The Concert Hall at the Society for Ethical Culture. Walker is touring in support of his latest album, Afraid of Ghosts, which was released earlier this year. He has had a long career in music both as a front man (Marvelous 3), as well as writer and producer. Constantly mixing things up and displaying an unparalleled versatility, Afraid of Ghosts is an album with grace and depth. For more information visit his official website.

Supporting Walker on this tour, is an aritst who is similarly versatile as well as a skilled songwriter and energizing performer. Jonathan Tyler has played Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Hangout Fest and the Voodoo Experience as well as performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and toured alongside AC/DC, ZZ Top, Grace Potter, and Kid Rock. His 2010 LP Pardon Me for Atlantic Records with backing band The Northern Lights reached No. 8 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and he has had his songs featured in such television shows as Boardwalk Empire and Friday Night Lights.    

It was everything Tyler thought he’d wanted and everything he’d signed up for. But it wasn’t really him.
“I knew what I was getting into,” Tyler says now, removed enough from that whirlwind to have gained some perspective on it. “I knew what would happen when we signed with Atlantic. Then I got over it.”

These days, Tyler is a changed man both in person and on record. He’s more introspective and focused. His shoulders are less slumped, as if a heavy burden has been lifted....and it has. Holy Smokes, his forthcoming third LP, finds Tyler shed of major-label constraints, bearing his soul as a songwriter who’s seen the top of the mountain and now seeks a different kind of climb, one filled less with flash and more with substance. The album’s an open look into who Tyler is at this very moment and, most of all, who he feels he’s always really been.

“I’m in this for the long haul,” he says with certainty; and Holy Smokes, filled with songs that fill every emotional nook and cranny, very much plays out like a testament to this fact. 

Tyler will release Holy Smokes in late summer. Visit his website to listen to a new track "Everything Was Cool in 2002."

Watch his performance of "Disappear" here.

Where: The Concert Hall at the Society for Ethical Culture
When: Tuesday May 5th
Time: 730pm
To purchase tickets to the show visit here

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