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SUMMARY:Dave Hause & The Mermaid
LOCATION:Songbyrd
DESCRIPTION:“As far back as I can remember\, I always wanted to be in a r
 ock and roll band.”\n\nDave Hause had an epiphany rewatching Goodfellas.
  “There's that scene in the beginning where Henry Hill says\, ‘As far 
 back as I can remember\, I always wanted to be a gangster.’” The Phill
 y-bred\, California-based singer-songwriter always longed to be in a diffe
 rent kind of mob.\n\n“This record is my realization that\, as far back a
 s I can remember\, I always wanted to be in a rock and roll band. This rec
 ord is that rock and roll band distilled into 10 songs.”\n\nThis record 
 is …And The Mermaid. And those 10 songs offer a welcome shock to the sys
 tem\, blending Hause’s signature lyrical elan and gift for surging melod
 ies with his keening vocals and some deliciously sharp musical elbows cour
 tesy of the titular group.\n\n“I had made a couple of records in a row i
 n Nashville\, and I was super happy with the outcomes\,” says Hause of 2
 023’s Blood Harmony and 2021’s Drive it Like it’s Stolen\, both prod
 uced by Will Hoge with top-flight session musicians. While they certainly 
 had their muscular moments\, those records were more in line with the Amer
 icana-tinged music Hause had been making as a solo artist. He ended up on 
 several solo tours\, as well as some duo outings with his brother and coll
 aborator Tim\, which necessitated stripping the songs back. “It occurred
  to me how far I’ve come from my roots\,” he says. “Punk rock just i
 sn’t where my muse has been for the last couple albums.”\n\nBut as he 
 pumped electricity when playing those solo songs with his occasional band 
 The Mermaid at his celebratory weekend festival Sing Us Home in Philly the
  last few years\, he realized\, “I was just missing plugging in and turn
 ing up. I was missing the energy that it takes to deliver that show.”\n
 \nWhile the former leader of beloved Philly punk rockers The Loved Ones ha
 s been no stranger to going to 11\, it had been a minute since The Mermaid
  — whose current iteration includes brother Tim Hause on guitar and voca
 ls\, bassist Luke Preston\, keyboardist Mark Masefield\, and drummer Kevin
  Conroy — had done a proper tour. And they’d never recorded together.
 \n\n“This is the first time I've taken that band into the studio and bee
 n like\, ‘No matter what\, damn the torpedoes\, we are going to sound th
 e way we sound. I'm not going to Nashville and getting the murderers row o
 f players. This is our sound\,’" says Hause of the mission statement for
  …And The Mermaid\, which is being released on Hause’s Blood Harmony l
 abel.\n\n\\*\\*\\*\n\nOver Our Eyes is a punk rock from Baltimore Maryland
  est 2014 that blends a style of early 90s punk rock with a more melodic y
 et aggressive vibe.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/53lr8l-dave-hause-th
 e-mermaid-21st-nov-songbyrd-washington-dc-tickets
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