“All-star group” (Rolling Stone) Fantastic Cat's "C'mon Armageddon" is featured in this week’s episode of the new Sylvester Stallone series Tulsa King, streaming now on Paramount+. The band also performed the freewheeling track, which kicks off their critically acclaimed debut, The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat, on CBS Saturday Morning.
After earning raves with the album everywhere from American Songwriter to No Depression here in the States, the instrument-swapping four-piece is headed to Europe for headline dates this spring before returning to the US for festival performances in the summer, including the just-announced In Between Days, which finds them sharing a bill with Lord Huron, Modest Mouse, Blitzen Trapper, and more.
They said it couldn’t be done. Four different songwriters joining forces to form a single band? There was simply no precedent (outside of CSNY, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, The Highwaymen, Monsters of Folk, etc). And yet Fantastic Cat did it anyway, defying the odds and teaming up to record their highly unanticipated debut, The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat. Captured in the wilds of the Pocono Mountains, the album gleefully careens between genres and decades, mixing electrified 60’s folk and 70’s AM radio gold as it balances careful craftsmanship and ecstatic abandon in equal measure.
Individually, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume along with a litany of critical acclaim. NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” No Depression dubbed Don DiLego’s latest album “a masterpiece.” Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne’s latest single a “stunner” and praised Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland.” Collectively, though, the four transcend their respective roots, emerging as an instrument-swapping, harmony-trading, tear-jerking, wise-cracking rock and roll cooperative far greater than the sum of its parts.
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FANTASTIC CAT TOUR DATES:
12 Jan Asbury Park, NJ - Asbury Lanes
14 Jan Red Bank, NJ - Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at the Count Basie Center for the Arts
15 Jan Asbury Park, NJ - Songwriters By The Sea
25 Feb Woodbridge Township, NJ - Avenel Performing Arts Center
10 Mar Leffinge, Belgium - De Zwerver
11 Mar Amen, Netherlands - Café "De Amer"
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12 Mar Dörphof, Germany - The Upstage
15 Mar Hagen Am Teutoburger Wald, Germany - Gaststätte Stock
16 Mar Essen, Germany - Jazz Im Jubb
17 Mar Altlandsberg, Germany - Buchholz Saloon
19 Mar Groningen, Netherlands - Oosterpoort
20 Mar Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
21 Mar Leiden, Netherlands - Qbus Club
25 Mar New York, NY - Webster Hall
28 Apr Kilkenny, Ireland - Kilkenny Roots Festival
29 Apr Kilkenny, Ireland - Kilkenny Roots Festival
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The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Hologram" from "The Wind Can Be So Cruel" the debut EP of the new duo Tiny Cities, featuring Melissa Anthony and Dennis King
Michael Patrick is a Americana singer-songwriter who has played well over 2,000 live shows in the tri-state area, released six albums from 2004's Roots & Branches to 2023's Crossing Bridges, and created popular shows like his Johnny Cash "Ring of Fire" tribute. A few years ago, he moved to the Hunterdon County area. Halfway through 2023, Michael made an even bigger life decision - he decided to leave his full-time job and play music full-time.
(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- Outpost in the Burbs presents Robyn Hitchcock on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at First Congregational Church of Montclair. Imogen Clark will open the night. Doors are at 7:30pm, showtime is 8:00pm.
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