From OffBroadwaySTL.com

PALLBEARER
W/ FISTER & THE GORGE

FRI. May 2, 2025
Doors 7PM | Show 8PM
$25 GENERAL

General Onsale begins Friday, April 4 at 10 AM CT.

All Ages (21+ with valid ID to drink, $3 minor surcharge under 21)

From the venue website:

DEVON ALLMAN has blues-rock in his DNA. That distinctive sound has been shaping his music since he first started playing guitar as a teenager, all the way to his recent albums with the Allman Betts Band. But for his first solo album in eight years, Allman freed himself of any genre expectations, picked up a bass guitar, and wrote a series of songs informed by R&B, funk, and alt-rock. “Previously on my records, I was carving out something that I felt needed to fit into contemporary blues or straight-ahead rock & roll,” Allman says. “That wasn’t on my mind this time. Instead, the goal was to write music that moves me.” The result is Miami Moon, an undeniably feel-good album that evokes the promise of crystal-blue skies, never-ending humid nights, and the summertime of our dreams. Recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami, the legendary outpost where Allman’s father, Gregg, and the Allman Brothers Band cut LPs like 1972’s Eat a Peach, the album has shades of Curtis Mayfield, Sade, and even The Cure, and calls to mind hues of bright pink and deep navy. “I always see records in colors, and when I wrote this batch of songs, I knew we needed to record somewhere fun and upbeat,” says Allman, who calls St. Louis home. “We’re living in an era where you can make a record in your basement or your bedroom, but I wanted to go somewhere that had history in its hallowed halls and stories in the fabric of its rooms. There’s a real sacred vibration at Criteria.”
But the location is just part of Miami Moon’s equation — Allman also assembled a dream team of a session band to bring his songs to life. George Porter Jr. of the Meters played bass, Ivan Neville handled keys, Lettuce’s Adam Deitch manned the drum kit, and Karl Denson swooped in to blow saxophone. R. Scott Bryan, the multi-instrumentalist who died in 2023 shortly after the sessions wrapped, makes one of his final recorded appearances on percussion.

St. Louis' THE GORGE will bring its progressive metal overseas to ArcTanGent Fest in Bristol, UK.

From the ArcTanGent website:

ArcTanGent is a critically acclaimed, independent festival and since 2013 we’ve been delivering line-ups you won’t find anywhere else on Earth.

From Pelagic Records’ FB:

We’re excited to invite you to enjoy this extraordinary bill with us this summer:

Bipolar Architecture
Lo!
The Gorge

Fellow Berliners, we’ve been mentioning the fact that Pelagic Fest has been relocated to the city of Maastricht, NL because our (still) beloved city sadly doesn’t have any comparable space to host this event as the amazing at Muziekgieterij.

HOWEVER - we would like to warm up for Pelagic Fest with those of you who can and those who can’t travel to Maastricht on the following day!

After supporting THE OCEAN at sold out Kesselhaus in January, BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE are ready to lead this night, supported by LO! From Sydney who haven’t been over here in ages (remember their tour supporting Cult Of Luna back in 1869…?) and the wicked THE GORGE from St. Louis on their virgin trip overseas.

Artwork by Johan G. Winther

From Pelagic-records.com:

Pelagic Fest 2025 will bring together a remarkable lineup, headlined by the blackened progressive metal virtuoso Ihsahn, renowned for his complex, genre-defying compositions and his mastery of both raw aggression and atmospheric depth, as well as post-rock pioneers This Will Destroy You and God Is An Astronaut, whose expansive, emotionally charged soundscapes evoke a journey through vast, uncharted territories of the human experience. This lineup is exploring the full spectrum of the Pelagic musical universe: from the intricate yet catchy post metal of Belgian trio Psychonaut to the quiet instrumental soundscapes of new Hungarian signing Törzs, from the raw, unrelenting ferocity of Lo! from Sydney and the evocative, cinematic metal of Hypno5e to the dark, krauty extravaganza of Swedish Gösta Berlings Saga.