Marsden (album release), Help Desk, The Regular Johns (QOTSA tribute)

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Skylar Nahn

A man in front of a wall with a guitar.

Marsden

On the new album Tune It Out, Madison singer-songwriter and guitarist Marsden channels the angst generated by the overwhelming nature of modern life into driving modern rock, with a dash of '90s grunge for spice. It's a worthy follow-up to the 2017 space-themed concept album, Gravity. Marsden celebrates the release of Turn It Up with this concert, also featuring sets by IT-themed punk heroes Help Desk and Queens of the Stone Age tribute The Regular Johns.

$13 ($8 adv.).

media release: Feeling overwhelmed in this zoo?  Marsden’s new album has what you need.

Smash the soul-sucking screens and tune out the noise...  Snap out of the zombified coma and tune in to your higher self.   For those searching for a foothold in a world that spins faster each day, "Tune It Out" releasing Nov. 17, 2022 is an album for reflection on navigating life, learning, and growth.  This dynamic, deep, and emotionally charged rock record has the angst you remember from the grunge era with modern stylings and stories.

How often are you uncertain about life?  Opening track and first single "End on End" is your answer.  Written during the Covid lock down, this upbeat sounding song disguises a story of how life can be suddenly upturned like a car flipping end on end.  Touching on silent creeping killers like climate change, natural disasters, or a pandemic, it screams for sensibility while reconciling that things bleed, and we need to learn to be OK with that.

Driving and hard-hitting title track, "Tune It Out",  discusses the overwhelm from the modern over-saturation of media (news, social, commercials, opinions, etc.), while looking for peace by simply tuning it all out.  The verses admit to the addiction, mental health issues, disillusionment, and indifference from too much consumption, yet resolves to a psychedelic major chord vamp with some semblance of success in tuning it out.

Do you at times feel like you're spinning your wheels and not gaining traction?  Almost like you're "Running in the Dark"?  This mid-album song is about the futility of constantly chasing and being open to letting things come to you even if it means letting the shadows surround you.  Many of us don't fully know what the hell we're doing, and this song is about working through those struggles to understand who you are and continuing to run in the dark.

Marsden's sophomore album holds all of this and much more as it waxes philosophical on the digital world. Check out the album release party at The High Noon Saloon Nov. 17 for a show you won't want to miss.

Event: https://www.high-noon.com/event/marsdentune-it-out-album-release-party/