EVENT DETAILS

• Doors 7:00pm :: Music 7:30pm :: 21+
• GA: $11 ADV (Box-Office) / $13.71 ADV (Online) / $16 DOOR

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EVENT DESCRIPTION

Barking at Ghosts Release Show 

w/ The Long Honeymoon & The Famous Volcanoes 

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Barking at Ghosts is a Minneapolis-based power-pop trio specializing in tightly crafted original songs, hooky riffs and melodic vocal harmonies. Their music reflects a shared passion for classic rock and pop, psychedelia, post punk and rockabilly. Debut LP Hearing Horns arrives in April 2025 and features ten original songs that range from punky power-pop to folky jangle and achingly pretty melancholy.

Guitarist Johnny Wilson (Go Buttons, Evil Sulu) is a native North Carolinian and has fronted bands in NC, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Drummer Chris Hansen (Pioneer Son, Clockwork) is a native Minnesotan and gigged for years around the state before forming the band Hearing Horns in 2013 with Johnny and bassist John Hile. In late 2023, Montana transplant and veteran bassist Rob McClain (Tim Montana & the Shrednecks, Jeremy Scared), met Chris by happenstance at Chris’ optical shop. Barking at Ghosts was born.

All three members share a background in the fine and applied arts. Johnny works by day as a freelance graphic designer after a long career designing for Best Buy Corporate. After a career in graphic design, Chris now runs Owl Optical in Minneapolis with his wife Julie. Rob is currently working towards his BFA degree at the University of Minnesota. Before that he worked in film and theater and owned his own company for over twenty years.

The Long Honeymoon
Minneapolis-based pop-rock band The Long Honeymoon has been filling venues and exciting fans with their high-energy shows, featuring original songs with rich vocal harmonies, catchy pop grooves, and clever arrangements. Its members, all 20+ year veterans of the Twin Cities music scene, combine a deep love of classic pop-rock with a modern sound and joyous spirit that’s attracting music lovers of all ages.

Having shared bills while playing in separate bands in the early 2000s, founding members Lee Zukor (Lee Rude, Charlie Bucket) and Adam Marshall (The Humbugs, The Bazillions) reconnected in 2022, finding instant chemistry through a shared love of artists including Elvis Costello, The Beautiful South, Stevie Wonder, and Teenage Fanclub. Excited by the songs they were writing, Lee and Adam enlisted Adam’s wife Kristin Marshall (also of The Humbugs and The Bazillions) to help flesh them out. Right away, the three knew they had something special – they just needed to find the right band. And did they ever!

Bassist Volney Hendrix (Lee Rude, Charlie Bucket) brings unique and catchy melodies to the band’s rhythm section, while drummer Dennis Olson (RadioSpares) anchors the band with tight grooves and smart pop sensibilities. Volney and Dennis’ combined experience includes extensive gigging with jazz bands, cover bands, hard rock bands, and pop bands, and the music The Long Honeymoon plays draws on all of these influences.

Lead guitarist Mike Senkovich (Atomic Flea, The Humbugs, The Bazillions) and keyboard/vocalist Eric Kreidler (Atomic Flea, Fever Pitch) have been playing catchy, original pop songs together since the mid 90s. In addition to their “day jobs” in the band, both are expert singers, songwriters, and arrangers, drawing on a love of power-pop, soul, jazz, and funk that gives The Long Honeymoon a rare sophistication.

With a supergroup vibe and two years of playing shows to full houses under their belts, The Long Honeymoon is poised to take it to the next level, with an album in the works and more gigs on the horizon.

The Famous Volcanoes  
For 20 years Famous Volcanoes has been spewing musical lava of full on rock, rootsy Americana, multi-layered pure pop and traditional bluegrass.  The Volcanoes proudly wear their influences on their ragged shirtsleeves putting a Midwestern spin on a Crazy Horse meets quirk pop sound.  With three full length recordings (and another on the way) this five piece Minneapolis band have performed on stages from regional dive bars to Hollywood hotspots to back yard BBQ’s.