Ty Walker & The Humanoids/Izaak Opatz at The Southgate House Revival – Revival Room – Newport, KY

Get your tickets to see Ty Walker & The Humanoids/Izaak Opatz in Newport, KY. Happening on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at The Southgate House Revival – Revival Room. Doors open at 8:00 PM.

Ty Walker otherworldly performance to the stage. A space cowboy frontman leading a group of extraterrestrials are on a strange, musical journey. Their live sound combines elements of galactic country, gospel, soul and psychedelia accompanied by synthesizers, drum machines and hand-triggered samples that sync with interactive multimedia elements, creating a strange yet beautiful sonic and visual experience. While an emerging act, they have successfully headlined a tour earlier in 2024 to full (some sold out) rooms in legendary venues like Tractor Tavern presented by KEXP (Seattle) and Bottom of the Hill (SF).Like many of his favorite songwriters (John Hartford, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Tweedy), Izaak Opatz is an ungulate in lifes winter pasture, chewing on and metabolizing disappointment, heartbreak, and the other tough stuff into enjoyable musical carbohydrates. A compulsive metaphorager (and inveterate wordplayboy), Opatz breaks it all down with enzymes of wry humor, thoughtful simile and close observation -a therapeutic process of narrativizing his own life that, almost as a byproduct, turns out savory nuggets of literate, confessional pop.Where 2018s Mariachi Static drew from Opatzs fragmented love life as a seasonal Park Service employee and resonated especially with the sensitive dirtbag set, Extra Medium, his latest release, splits time between romantic Hindenburgs across his native Montana, up the East Coast, and in faraway Los Angeles. Montana and LA especially decorate the album, supplying wells of metaphor and scene-making, and as characters in their own right – LAs alternately charming (In the Light of a Love Affair) and discomfiting (East of Barstow), and, in Big Sandy, Montana evolves from setting to subject as the girls feelings he traverses it to see prove less than his own feelings for the state.In LA, Opatz learned from and worked alongside Jonny Fritz at Dad Country Leather, and met bandmates and Extra Medium collaborators Malachi DeLorenzo (drums, producer, engineer) and Dylan Rodrigue (multi-instrumentalist, producer). He now lives in Missoula, Montana, where he runs his own custom leather shop, is writing the next album, and pursuing a masters in journalism.

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