Jon Auer plays Hamden solo for the first time on Wednesday, August 14th! Expect songs & stories from every era of his career plus openers The Shellye Valauskas Experience.
GA tickets $25 advance (plus other tiers)
$30 at door (no other tier availble then)
Doors are at 6pm!
Special guests The Shellye Valauskas Experience perform an opening set from 7 - 7: 20pm
Jon plays from 7:30 - 9pm
(PS: if you generously decide to spring for the “Request a Song” ticket, Jon will share a gargantuan list with you to choose from :-)
A critically-acclaimed solo artist, Jon Auer was also the co-founder/singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist of the Posies and was a member of the reformed Big Star for 17 years (until Alex Chilton's untimely passing in 2010). Auer has toured the world over in support of his much-praised solo release Songs From The Year of Our Demise and his one-man show is entrancing and intimately entertaining, songs and stories side by side.
Auer has produced and/or mixed records for the likes of You Am I, Redd Kross, and Spiral Stairs (of Pavement) and the Sub Pop label and also performed on William Shatner's album (produced by Ben Folds). Former Beatle Ringo Starr even covered one of Auer's compositions ("Golden Blunders") and Auer's haunting "Lady Sweet" (sung by Auer) was the lead track from the Big Star record . Auer is prominently featured in the 2017 Big Star movie and in 2022, Jon joined Jody Stephens (Big Star), Mike Mills (REM), Chris Stamey (The dBs), and Pat Sansone (Wilco) for a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of Big Star's #1 Record.
About Songs From The Year of Our Demise
“Startling (and liberating), a brilliant inversion of pop routine” – UNCUT (4/5)
“One of the best albums of the year...August, melodic and heart wrenching” – AMPLIFIER
"The most arresting songwriting of Auer's career...this is Jon Auer at his best."- UNDER THE RADAR (8/10)
"A confessional and delicately nuanced solo album." – THE VILLAGE VOICE
"Better even than his contributions to last yearʼs Posies and Big Star albums, Demise displays the sort of pop classicism that Auer excels at.... pain framed by such unerring, uplifting melodies that you almost hope, selfishly, that heartbreak will visit him each time he sits down to write." - HARP
"Each song carries a strong, distinct melody, as if someone built an entire Brill Building in Auerʼs head...Auer rides his juxtaposition of soaring form and searing content into pop transcendence.”
– POP MATTERS (8/10)
"The Posies released Every Kind Of Light last year, but its excellence has already been surpassed by Auer's solo full-length debut.... He's emerged with what could be his sharpest, most memorable work since Frosting On The Beater." – THE ONION
"Auer's first proper solo LP after a long career is a total surprise.... A conceptual, soulful record - but with a prickly, smarting underside. What you do get issomething akin to a watershed LP....a counter-spell you canʼt escape... This could be 2006's sleeper LP, this thicket of thorns lurking beneath a beauteous rose" - THE BIG TAKEOVER (#2 on Jack Rabid's Top 40 picks)