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Artist Lineup for Night Moves Fest 2024 in Pensacola

Pensacola! We are incredibly excited to bring you this year’s Night Moves Fest lineup! Get ready for another epic day at our beautiful waterfront venue listening to your favorite bands (or more importantly discovering new ones) 🎶 among friends & family at this all-ages music fest!

Who’s excited to see Alvvays play Pensacola for the first time ever?! We are PUMPED to have this Grammy-nominated indie icon headlining NMF 2024!

Alvvays’ third album, Blue Rev, was completed after an unexpected five-year delay, following their acclaimed 2017 release, Antisocialites. The band began work on the album shortly after their previous record, but their progress was hindered by global lockdowns, extensive touring, and a series of unfortunate events, including a stolen demo recorder and a basement flood that damaged their gear. These setbacks, combined with a change in their rhythm section and prolonged border closures, significantly delayed the album’s completion.

Despite these challenges, Blue Rev marks a significant evolution in Alvvays’ sound. The album, their longest to date with 14 tracks, is noted for its harmonic richness and lyrical depth. It introduces both aggressive moments and beautiful spans, blending elements such as cynicism and empathy, melody and clatter. Tracks like “Pharmacist” and “Belinda Says” illustrate the band’s ability to merge contrasting elements seamlessly.

Blue Rev reflects Alvvays’ growth and their ability to balance past influences with new directions. The album explores themes of transition and identity, merging nostalgia with contemporary reflections. With its blend of humor, introspection, and experimental sounds, Blue Rev solidifies Alvvays’ position as a leading force in modern indie rock, showcasing their maturation and continued relevance in the genre.
Silversun Pickups is among the most dynamic and creative rock bands of the post-millennial era, hailed far and wide for their inimitable merging of ethereal melodies and pure sonic force. From the indie rock opening salvo of 2005’s “PIKUL” EP to 2012’s visionary “NECK OF THE WOODS,” each successive release has seen the Silverlake, California-based band venture into uncharted terrain, bravely pushing their imagination and ability towards new and surprising summits.

Ambitious and anthemic, tracks like “Panic Switch” and “Lazy Eye” have proven indelible classics, a guarantee of rare danger and invention amidst the anodyne dross of much contemporary rock. What’s more, the indefatigable quartet have made it their mission to bring their unique music to the people, touring the planet nearly non-stop to reach a devoted and ever-growing international fan following.

Beach Fossils

Throughout the last fifteen years, Beach Fossils have steadily earned their stature as one of the most definitive and enduring bands of the 2010s New York underground, consistently reaching new listeners as their sound has grown from the DIY solo project of Dustin Payseur to an influential four-piece dream pop band, self-produced and self-released.

Bunny (2023) continues the stunning evolution of Beach Fossils’ sound, pulling elements from the jangly melancholy of the self-titled debut Beach Fossils (2010) and What a Pleasure (2011), the gritty, post-punk inspired tracks from Clash the Truth (2013), and the lush arrangements of Somersault (2017). Throughout, Payseur is joined by core band members Tommy Davidson (guitar), Jack Doyle Smith (bass), and Anton Hochheim (drums).

Through tone and mood, Beach Fossils communicate a coming-of-age narrative of self-discovery. Payseur’s slice-of-life lyrics reflect on depression, love, adventure, loss, mistakes, New York City, friendships coming and going — a mélange of granular pieces in the process of continuing to find yourself.
I Won’t Care How You Remember Me, by the Scranton, Pennsylvania-based band Tigers Jaw, is an ode to living in the present. As this hectic era of distraction whirrs, ticks, swipes, and scrolls by each of us at an alarming speed, the ability to maintain a sense of priority for the human elements in our lives as well as a reflective understanding of self, remains a lost art. But here, the group has seized upon it.

Tigers Jaw’s sixth album—and first for new label home Hopeless Records—finds members Ben Walsh (vocals/guitar), Brianna Collins (vocals/keyboards), Teddy Roberts (drums), and Colin Gorman (bass) at the height of their powers, fusing their collective skills with the synchronicity and energy the band honed over several years of non-stop touring. The result is a back-to-the-basement approach elevated by the unmistakable production of their longtime friend and collaborator Will Yip. The band’s most sonically ambitious and lyrically affecting album to date, I Won’t Care How You Remember Me sees a newfound freshness and creative freedom crystalizing the lush and dynamic world of Tigers Jaw.
We’re super excited to welcome Drug Church to Maritime Park in November. Their new album Prude just came out in early October 2024 and we’re stoked to see their new songs live.

For over a decade, Drug Church have been building a very strong case that they’re the best loud guitar band in the game; their fifth full-length PRUDE–a 28-minute blast of aggression, melody, irreverence, and genuine heart–feels like the undeniable proof. The album is so downright satisfying it tricks you into thinking there’s nothing all that surprising about a difficult-to-pigeonhole punk band from Albany, NY, with a name like Drug Church somehow having a career at all, much less one that would last over 10 years and qualify them as the best band going. But before you start trying to think of who might have them beat (good luck), consider what just might be the key to Drug Church’s unexpected staying power: Don’t take it too seriously.

Modern Color

Modern Color is a four-piece band from Los Angeles’ South Bay bringing their own energy and style to guitar-driven rock. Taking notes from bands like Dinosaur Jr, the Pixies, and Deftones, Modern Color can be as driving as they are delicate, navigating listeners through distorted riffs and dreamy hooks. Since their start the band has pushed a hard DIY work ethic that has taken them all around the world from the US to Europe and Japan, filling rooms with fans excited to jump and sing along. With a new album out this year, Modern Color is quickly becoming a band you cannot miss.
Which band are you most excited to watch at Night Moves Fest 2024? We hope that this event and other events we do at The Handlebar will continue to grow our scene and cultivate the next generation of show-goers and promoters
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