Thursday Rocking Meridian

THURSDAY
With Special Guests
The Fall Of Troy
The Dear Hunter :: Touche Amore

Rock: Thursday have always been difficult to categorize. Over their eleven-year career they’ve toured with everyone from the Cure to Cursive, but have retained an inherent aggressiveness that can only come from being weaned on similarly independent nineties acts like Ink And Dagger and Lifetime. When Thursday-singer Geoff Rickly, guitarists Tom Keeley and Steve Pedulla, bassist Tim Payne, drummer Tucker Rule and keyboardist Andrew Everding- delivered the genre-defining Full Collapse, Alternative Press called 2001 "The Year Punk Broke Again." SPIN christened the band the "The Next Big Thing" featuring Rickly on its cover in 2004. Thursday's major-label debut, War All The Time, was a commercial success - but, ultimately, Thursday abandoned that route. Instead, they became something far more impressive in today's musical climate: A band that eschewed gimmicks, instead forging a unique, organic and evolving sound more lasting than trend. The New York Times concluded, "They may not be rock stars, but by a kind of critical consensus they have emerged as the standard-bearers for their sound, the band considered most likely to survive the vagaries of rock trend-hopping."

Meridian Houston

Advance: $15, Day of Show: $17
Door: 6:30 PM