Tom Hamilton w/ AJ & The Woods, Cory Grinder

Wednesday, April 22Tom Hamilton w/ AJ & The Woods and Cory Grinder (solo) at Grog ShopDoors 7 PM | Show 8 PMALL AGES$20 advance / $25 day of show+ $3 at door if under 21Tom Hamilton has spent the last 30 years fronting several bands over a handful of genres - including Brothers Past, American Babies, Ghost Light, and he also sings and plays lead guitar in Joe Russos Almost Dead. It wasnt until a series of personal and societal crises compelled the Philadelphia based musician/songwriter/producer to reconsider his approach and finally forge ahead under his own name. When youre in a van on the road for 20 years, you live in your bubble, you think that your world is one way and its not. The pandemic break gave me the time to see that. Then my band broke up and my dad got sick. The only refuge I had was the studio. Im Your Vampire, Hamiltons most personal effort yet is a 10-song suite wreathed in tattered-flannel rock s salvation in isolation, as he sorts through the darkness to find a pinpoint of light.It takes effort to not just be jaded as we age to not look at the world in a hardened way, Hamilton says. Yeah, its a dark, dark fucking time, lets make some lemonade.His album Im Your Vampire co-produced by Hamilton and Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman/Wednesday) is out now via AWAL/Relix.