{"id":100,"date":"2024-01-09T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2024\/2024\/01\/09\/public-water-supply-announce-new-album-and-pre-eclipse-sun-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:30:00","slug":"public-water-supply-announce-new-album-and-pre-eclipse-sun-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2024\/2024\/01\/09\/public-water-supply-announce-new-album-and-pre-eclipse-sun-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Water Supply Announce new Album and Pre-Eclipse “Sun Festival”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rochester-based alternative rock\/indie Americana act Public Water Supply has announced the release of their new record General Strike<\/em>, to be showcased at Sun Festival, the band’s pre-eclipse event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sun Festival takes place at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 29, 2024, at Essex<\/a>, a music hall located at 1048 University Avenue which can hold 700 concert-goers. Public Water Supply<\/a> will play their new record General Strike<\/em>, plus some fan favorites. It started on Nazareth University’s campus when all five band members were enrolled for undergraduate studies. They have played on and off together since graduation in 2019 and the core group remains intact with Iggy Marino and Karis Gregory, Jr. on guitars, plus Alex Brophy on bass, and Spencer Kronrich on drums.\u00a0Last summer, Tanner Kartes returned to the stage to flash his harmonica skills and rejoined as the fifth member. Public Water Supply has sold out Rochester venues such as Iron Smoke Distillery, Three Heads Brewery, and the Jackrabbit in Buffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are calling it SUN FESTIVAL in observance of the cosmos and we will assemble in celebration of the moon, the sun, and our musical surroundings,\u201d exclaimed Iggy Marino, the band\u2019s frontman. \u201cIt feels like the universe is truly coming together for us and we can\u2019t wait for our babies to hear our creation!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band released their first self-titled record last year, growing their fanbase dubbed the “babies,” with General Strike <\/em>on its way. Billed as music written for the working class, “This album showcases the daily struggle of living, loving, and wanting to \u2018stick it to the man\u2019\u201d, added Marino. \u201cWe\u2019ve been re-defining our music and experimenting with our sound all year long. I think our babies are really going to notice more of a rock n\u2019 roll feel in these songs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first single, \u201cLeila\u201d will drop on Friday, January 12.\u00a0 Lead guitarist Karis Gregory, Jr. wrote the music and lyrics. \u201cLeila is loosely inspired by the story of famed criminals, Bonnie and Clyde, two lovers on a cross-country crime spree, burning rubber and living an intense but exhilarating life,\u201d claimed Karis.\u00a0The rest of the songs on the album, including the title piece, \u201cGeneral Strike\u201d, were written by lead singer and guitarist, Iggy Marino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets<\/a> for Sun Festival will go on sale Friday, January 12, priced at $25 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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