TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/917-wmse-presents-the-silos-on-their-35th-a... With Special Guest Liv Mueller! $15 adv/ $20 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 6pm, showtime 7pm The Silos Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the seminal album “Cuba” with the release of a double LP version. Performing the album, plus favorites from all the subsequent albums. A greatest hits show for the Silos super fans! The Silos, the still-kicking band Walter Salas-Humara co-founded in New York’s post-punk ‘80s scene played Alt-Rock, Alt-Country, and Americana before any critics coined those terms. They were named Best New Artist in the 1987 Rolling Stone Critics Poll. Throughout Salas-Humara’s career his voice has remained textured like a walnut; meanwhile, his narratives focus not on interior, abstract weaves of doubts and anxieties but on storytelling. He renders small incidents in granular detail that take on the weight of attentive, convincing poetry and wry wordplay. Each tune is marked by such humanity, which offers much refuge in a convulsive time. Salas-Humara’s legacy would seem secure; his name is on 24 albums, his Horse Paintings hang in homes and galleries around the world, and his WaltersDogs portraits even appeared in the film Get Him to the Greek. but he’s hardly ready to call it a day. “It's still really fun for me,” he says of his musical pursuits. “In fact, I'm much happier than I've ever been in my life. I really enjoy traveling around entertaining. I see myself as an artist, but I also see myself as a communicator and entertainer — and teacher and mentor. And I love that. Back in the day, the Silos just blasted everybody's faces off. We hardly talked at all. Now, I play songs, I tell stories. Then I hang out after.” Salas-Humara might have attended art school at Pratt Institute, but his songs feel shaped by low-key vistas of everyday life. Of that era, Salas-Humara recounts: “I learned a lot about design, conceptual ideas, and the history of art. I think that has helped me bring a unique character to my music and art, but it’s being out there on the road, just playing and playing, singing and singing, connecting with audiences, trying new shit out, that has made me a not only a better entertainer, but a better person.” In doing so, he has imbued his tunes with a slightly weathered, wandering cosmopolitan Euro-Western vibe and a relaxed and open-ended ambience. Plus, they teem with a bounty of hooks and grooves that never distract from his musical portraits. The space-time of Salas-Humara is not a Technicolor world, or a green screen world of hyped fakery, it’s a workaday world, paced as such, in which home and heart are the iconography of inspiration, played with pluck and gravelly insight. Or, as Walter suggests, “One’s environment and one’s experiences always informs one’s songwriting. This happens naturally whether you like it or not. Songs are life, and my life has been just one very long song.” Much. much more info, music and art at: waltersalashumara.com // Liv Mueller Singing/writing years ago in a Rockabilly band called "The Screaming Lillies" & barely 19, Liv packed up and re-located herself to Nashville from the Midwest, where she performed at places like 'Tootsies' and 'The Rose Room' while supplementing her income occasionally by playing for money on the streets with an open guitar case. Not long after Nashville, Austin became her next home wherein she formed the first incarnation of 'The Lovelies'...Re-forming the band after returning to the Midwest is where The Lovelies had the most success. After recording four records, touring & charting nationally twice, the band ended in 2004/05. Two albums were released under her next endeavor, 'The Dark Horse Project', production team Marc Hutner & Grant Curry (Pleasure Club) helped her to refine a new sound she had envisioned...... capturing a beautiful , haunted landscape of listening. Recording deep in the south of Louisiana proved to be just what she needed to unearth her next phase of writing, and performing. In the last several years however, Liv prefers to play solo, releasing now two records..The first solo release entitled 'LIV SINGS' Love Songs For The Forlorn And Misguided, and the second 2017 release entitled 'LIV SINGS Light Of The Valley Shadow Of The Mountain' both of which she composed, played, recorded and mixed nearly the entire album alone in her home studio. Both albums are now available through cdbaby, and itunes. $15 adv/ $20 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 6pm, showtime 7pm