Mary Ruppert represented by Photo Art Pavilion on-line.
2021-09-03 - 2022-09-03, 2022-09-01 - 2022-09-08 | PHOTOART PAVILIONWEBSITE, United States
Mary Ruppert’s photography will be shown on Photo Art Pavilion on line after being contacted by the gallery owners and curators of the website.
Photo Art Pavilion features the artwork of photographers in many genres for both enjoyment and for sale in many sizes and media.

Fearless Watercolors – Virtual Classes with Jan Guarino
2022-06-07 13:30 - 2022-09-06 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Painting different a subject matter each week from landscapes, seacapes, still lifes, florals and portraits. I will show you techniques that will allow you to feel free while holding onto detail, gain control, make corrections and have fun. Learn to trust your instincts with color and add contrast and allow blossoms, drips and splatters to work for you. $25 per class includes a 2+ hour class, critique and recording. Sign up for my newsletters to receive class updates on my website: janguarinofineart.com

Richard Clark - Forms and Textures in B&W
2022-08-17 08:00 - 2023-02-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Emma S. Clark Library, 120 Main Street, Setauket, NY, 11733, United States
Over the past ten years, my wife and I have travel over much of the world. A fantastic venture! During these ventures I have captured colorful form and texture images everywhere. I always thought I would like to expand my skills in photography during retirement. Recently, I have taught myself digital image rendering with different software packages. I accidentally discovered that rendering in B&W was as easy as rendering in color. Gradually I realized that for me, B&W images were more interesting than color – I could bring out contrast of form and textures better than I ever imagined.

The Firefly Artists Call to Artists: Opportunities to Engage with The Firefly Artists!
2022-08-18 - 2022-12-31 | The Firefly Artists, 90 Main Street, Northport, 11768, United States
The Firefly Artists, Voted the Bethpage Best of LI – Best Art Gallery 2022, is moving to a new location at 90 Main St, Northport NY. This means we have room to take on new Fireflies!
We are seeking talented artists who share our community spirit. Artists and artisans of diverse media are welcome. To apply, please email 6 jpgs of their work and a website link, social media, bio and/or artist statement if available to membership@thefireflyartists.com.
We also have opportunities available for pop-up solo shows and private receptions.
About Us
The Firefly Artists was established in 2011 to create a gallery setting for local artists. The goal was to create a space where artists could meet, collaborate, and sell their beautiful creations. Over the past decade, The Firefly Artists has had the great privilege of displaying a stunning variety of work by over 200 Long Island artists through our Main Street locations and pop-up galleries in the community. We boast some extraordinary talent, while maintaining a very down to earth and supportive atmosphere that is unique to Long Island. We are eager to continue to be an outlet for local artists, offering a place to create, grow and connect to customers. Every time you shop at The Firefly Artists Gallery, you help ensure our future and our ability to serve the local art community.
Mission Statement
To provide a supportive space where artists can collaborate, learn, and develop. Artists can exhibit and sell their work in a professional gallery setting. We seek to promote visual arts in our community by contributing to local educational efforts and supporting regional artists.

Firefly Artists Special Exhibition: BIG INK
2022-08-21 - 2022-09-03 | The Firefly Artists, 90 Main Street, Northport, 11768, United States
The Firefly Artists are thrilled to have Big Ink back at The Firefly Artists. BIG INK hosts large-scale woodblock printmaking events across the United States and we have been lucky to have them visit us in the summers of 2018 and 2019. Artists that are interested in carving a woodblock of at least 24 by 36 inches are invited to participate. First, you submit a design for consideration. If selected, you’ll have two months to carve a woodblock based on your submission.
Applications are due 6/30.
On 8/20 and 8/21, BIG INK will transform the art studio in the gallery into a print studio featuring The Big Tuna: a custom-designed giant mobile press. The public is invited to attend, witness the spectacle, and learn more about the process. The event spans two days with 8-10 artists printing their works of art each day.
The printed pieces will then be on display in the Darcy Arts Center on the second floor of Firefly Art Gallery through 8/21-9/3/2022.
Submission fee is $35. You can submit up to 3 designs for consideration. Accepted artists are required to pay a $350 fee for the event ($35 submission fee will be deducted from event fee). Accepted artists will also be responsible for purchasing their own 3/8 or 1/2 inch carving substrate and carving tools.
This is an amazing event! We hope that you will join us.

fotofoto gallery presents: “THE ART OF PHOTOMONTAGE” A Solo Exhibition of Photographic Works by ALAN M. RICHARDS
2022-08-25 12:00 - 2022-09-17 18:00 (America/New_York) | fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver Street, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
fotofoto gallery features “THE ART OF PHOTOMONTAGE” ~ a solo exhibition of photographic works by ALAN M. RICHARDS from Aug. 25 – Sept. 17. • fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver St., Huntington, NY 11743. • Gallery Days and Hours: Thursday 12:30-4pm; Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm. • Reception Date Sat. Aug. 27th, 5-7pm. For information, go to fotofoto gallery Facebook, Instagram and Website: fotofotogallery.org

fotofoto gallery presents "PORTRAITS" ~ a Group Exhibition of Photographic Works by fotofoto gallery Artist Members
2022-08-25 12:00 - 2022-09-17 18:00 (America/New_York) | fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver Street, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
fotofoto gallery features “PORTRAITS” ~ a Group Exhibition of Photographic Works by fotofoto gallery Artist Members from Aug. 25 – Sept. 17. • fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver St., Huntington, NY 11743. • Gallery Days and Hours: Thursday 12:30-4pm; Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm. • Reception Date Sat. Aug. 27th, 5-7pm. For information, go to fotofoto gallery Facebook, Instagram and Website: fotofotogallery.org

fotofoto gallery presents "VEGETAL STRUCTURES" ~ a Solo Exhibition of Photography by PAMELA WALDROUP
2022-08-25 12:00 - 2022-09-17 18:00 (America/New_York) | fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver Street, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
fotofoto gallery features “VEGETAL STRUCTURES” ~ a Solo Exhibition of Photography by PAMELA WALDROUP from Aug. 25 – Sept. 17. • fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver St., Huntington, NY 11743. • Gallery Days and Hours: Thursday 12:30-4pm; Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm. • Reception Date Sat. Aug. 27, 5-7pm. For more information, go to fotofoto gallery Facebook, Instagram and Website: fotofotogallery.org

Steve Walker Art, LI Charcoal Artist Exhibit at Farmingdale Library
2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30 | Please CHOOSE or add your venue!, NY, United States
CHARCOAL ART – A DETAILED PERSPECTIVE
Steve’s artwork will be exhibited in the library gallery for the entire month of September. Original artwork will be available for sale. Prior to the pandemic Steve Walker Art was exhibiting in library galleries across Long Island. Preview his most current artwork in FACEBOOK “Steve Walker Art”, INSTAGRAM “LongIslandCharcoalArtist”, and new Web Site “https://www.artpal.com/SteveWalkerArt”

Harborfields Library presents our 34th Annual Senior Art Show: Visions of Experience
2022-09-03 | Harborfields Library, 31 Broadway, Greenlawn, NY, 11740, United States
This annual exhibition features the artwork of people age 60 and over who work in a variety of mediums. Meet the artists at a reception in their honor on Wednesday, September 7th from 5:00 – 6:30 PM in the Harborfields Library Art Gallery.

The Firefly Artists: Exhibition - pARTy til the Cows Come Home
2022-09-04 - 2022-09-25 | The Firefly Artists, 90 Main Street, Northport, 11768, United States
Celebrate our beloved village of Northport with this incredibly fun exhibition, which will constitute a “Last Moo-Rah” and a “MOO-ving Celebration” for our incredibly “Cow-moo-nity Oriented” gallery of local art and artists!
“pARTy ‘Til the Cows Come Home” is a juried exhibition celebrating and complementing the Great Cow Harbor Day Weekend annually held in our historic downtown Northport, NY. Works featuring cows, and other farm life, as well as those honoring the Cow Harbor Race and festival will be considered. All original media is acceptable, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, collage, fabric work, glasswork, jewelry and digital media. Entries must be original artworks (no artwork created in a workshop or class under instruction of a teacher), no reproductions (with the exception of photography). Maximum size of pieces (including framing) is 30” x 40”. Each artist may submit one entry for consideration for $35. Artists can submit up to three additional pieces for $5 fee each. Up to two pieces of artwork from each selected artist will be chosen to be part of the exhibition. Please indicate whether the work is framed or unframed.
The exhibition will hang September 4 – 25, 2022. Artists from throughout the USA are invited to apply. The Firefly Artists takes no responsibility for shipping, and strongly prefers hand delivery and pickup of works. If you do choose to ship, a prepaid return shipping label must be included.

Huntington Historical Society presents Lunch & Learn Lecture Series – Long Island Golf, Phil Carlucci
2022-09-05 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | Black and Blue Seafood Chophouse, 65 Wall Street, Huntington , NY, 11743, United States
Lunch & Learn series combines good food with Huntington and Long Island’s rich history. Each month features a different speaker covering a topic relating to our local history and includes a three-course meal at Black and Blue Seafood Chophouse. This month a discussion with author Phil Carlucci featuring 200 images that trace the sport’s local history from its roots in Southhampton in the 1980’s through the modern era.

Hofstra University Museum of Art Presents Off the Press
2022-09-06 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Hofstra University Museum of Art- David Filderman Gallery, Hofstra University Museum, 112 Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, 11549
A print, in the broadest definition, is a work of art comprised of ink on paper created through an indirect transfer process. Four major printmaking methods have been developed over the centuries: relief, intaglio, and the planographic techniques of lithography and screenprinting. Each printmaking method produces a work on paper that has an individual and identifiable quality.
Off the Press features works from the Hofstra University Museum of Art collection and provides examples of these four printmaking techniques. The collection contains more than 2,200 prints in a range of mediums and processes that date from the late 16th century to the 21st century. As printmaking techniques have developed over the centuries, artists have explored the possibilities and pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Digital technology has added additional pathways for this artistic exploration.
Funding has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Admission is free.

Hofstra University Museum of Art Presents New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection
2022-09-06 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Hofstra University Museum of Art – Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum, 112 Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
New York, New York. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. Gotham. The Naked City…Iconic names to describe an iconic metropolis, a city of myth and legend, where dreams rise as high as skyscrapers and can fall just as far. Yet beyond the silhouetted skyline is a place where New Yorkers actually live, work, love, struggle, and survive.
These photographs from the Hofstra University Museum of Art collection capture New York City in its infinite complexity and variety, not only celebrating the city’s iconic architecture, but reveling in its everyday streets and signage, authentic faces, and dynamic street scenes. The black-and-white images were made over a span of 75 years, from 1932 to 2008, yet are unified through the use of monochrome, creating connections between disparate decades. While the photographers are not all native New Yorkers, they are inheritors of this miraculous city, dedicated to seeking its intricacies, grandeur, joy, and hardships. Their distinct visions unfold in New York’s ever-changing landscape, chronicling a city that reinvents itself on a daily basis.
Funding has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Admission is free.

Sept. Suburban Art League-Free Art Demonstration
2022-09-06 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Syosset Woodbury Community Park, 7800 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, NY, 11791, United States
Join us as Philip Read demonstrates Japanese brush painting. Try your hand at winning a raffled item brought in by the artist or maybe even the piece they are working on tonight. Get more information on our website www.suburbanartleague.com or our Suburban Art League Facebook page or email us your questions at suburbanartleague@gmail.com

The Jazz Loft Jazz Concert and Jam Session
2022-09-07 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | United States
Weds 9/7—
Jazz concert and jam session, featuring The Jazz Loft Trio (bassist Keenan Zach & friends).
Concert at 7pm, followed by an open jam at 8pm.
7:00 PM. Tickets: arrive at 7:00 PM–$10; arrive at 8:00 for the open jam–$5.
Also: Weds 9/14, 9/21, 9/28.

Hofstra University Museum of Arts Reception for the Fall Exhibitions
2022-09-08 16:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Hofstra University Museum of Art – Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum, 112 Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, 11549, United States
Join us in celebrating the opening of New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection and Off the Press.
Light refreshments will be available.
Admission is free. RSVP to 516.463.5672

The Art Guild of Port Washington - Home is Where the Art is - Reception
2022-09-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Art Guild of Port Washington, 200 Port Washington Boulevard, Manhasset, NY, 11030
Awards and Reception

The Art Guild of Port Washington - Home is Where the Art is - Reception
2022-09-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Art Guild of Port Washington, 200 Port Washington Boulevard, Manhasset, NY, 11030
Reception for Juried art and competition judged by William Graf

Westbury Arts presents: Arts on Schenck
2022-09-09 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Westbury Arts, 255 Schenck Ave, Westbury, NY, 11590, United States
In cooperation with the Westbury Business Improvement District’s Street Fair on Saturday, September 9th (Rain date: Sunday, September 10th), Westbury Arts will host an artists and artisans fair on Schenck Avenue, both outside and inside our building.

The Jazz Loft presents The Aubrey Johnson Duo
2022-09-09 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | United States
Fri 9/9—
The Aubrey Johnson Duo. Aubrey Johnson is a vocalist, composer, and educator who specializes in jazz, Brazilian, and creative contemporary music. She is joined by pianist and composer Randy Ingram.
7:00 PM. Tickets: $30 adults, $25 seniors, $20 students, $15 children, children 5 and under free.

The Paramount Presents Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
2022-09-09 20:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | The Paramount, 370 New York Ave, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
Tickets on sale now at: https://paramountny.com/shows/mike-campbell-dirty-knobs/

The Firefly Artists: Art Reception: pARTy til the Cows Come Home!
2022-09-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Firefly Artists, 90 Main Street, Northport, 11768, United States
This will be a “Last Moo-Rah!” at our old location (162 Main St., Northport) a “Moo-ving Celebration” to our new location (90 Main St., Northport), and an all-around “Moo-Tacular Celebration” of our beloved Village of Northport and our incredibly “Cow-Moo-nity Oriented” gallery of local art and artists!
Enough with the word play! The Great Cow Harbor Day Weekend in Northport, NY includes one of the most prestigious 10K runs in the country, as well as a 2K fun run followed by a village-wide festival that includes a parade, vendors and general celebration of our historic downtown, which was once named “Cow Harbor.”
pARTy ‘Til the Cows Come Home is a juried exhibition celebrating and complementing this Great Cow Harbor Day Weekend. Artworks on the theme of cows, and other farm life, as well as works honoring the Great Cow Harbor races, festival and the Village of Northport itself will be featured

The Jazz Loft Presents What Is JAZZ ? Living Museum Tour
2022-09-10 18:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | United States
Sat 9/10—
What Is JAZZ ? Living Museum Tour. The Jazz Loft presents a LIVE tour through jazz history, with its What is JAZZ? interactive tour on September 10 (starting at 6 p.m.) and October 21 (starting at 7 p.m.). Small-group tours begin every ten minutes between 6:00 and 7:00. (See TICKETS.) The tour comprises seven stops within the Jazz Loft’s museum and performance space. Each stop in jazz history is about four minutes, during which guests will be treated to a brief performance and historical reflection. The entire live, interactive experience will take about 30 minutes. After the tour, guests can then proceed to the Basie Garden to enjoy some lingering sounds of LATIN JAZZ and to debrief their experience.
Tickets: $30 adults, $25 seniors, $20 students, $15 children, children under 5 free.

EastLine Theatre’s Production of “Anna in the Tropics” at Westbury Arts
2022-09-10 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Westbury Arts, 255 Schenck Ave, Westbury, NY, 11590, United States
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, set in Ybor City, Florida, in 1929. Here, a cadre of Cuban-Americans, primarily female cigar factory laborers who hand roll each cigar await the arrival of their new lector, Juan Julian. The lector serves to entertain the workers by reading great stories. Most of the group is overjoyed by the presence of this new, handsome lector, but when he starts reading from the Russian classic, Anna Karenina, the scandalous lives of Tolstoy’s characters start to intertwine with the lives of his listeners. As Juan Julian reads, the hot, humid Florida summer strangely starts to resemble the cold Russian winter of Tolstoy. Infidelity, money problems, and violence spring to the surface as the owners and workers grapple with their newfound understanding of life, love and business.

EastLine Theatre presents Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
2022-09-10 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Westbury Arts, 255 Schenck Ave, Westbury, NY, 11590, United States
Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize winner comes to Westbury in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Free tickets with a refundable reservation.
‘I have dreams and they are full of white snow,
and Anna Karenina is dancing waltzes with Vronsky.
Then I see them in a little room,
and all the snow melts from the heat of their bodies.’
Tampa, Florida, 1929. In a Cuban–American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are employed to educate and entertain the workers, the arrival of a new lector is cause for celebration. But when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and the American dream prove a volatile combination.
EastLine Theatre in association with Westbury Arts will present Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics this September, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
This production is part of EastLine’s Theatre for All initiative.

The Paramount Presents Dennie DeYoung "The Grand Illusion 40th Anniversary Album Tour"
2022-09-10 20:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | The Paramount, 370 New York Ave, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
In 1977, history was made upon the release of THE GRAND ILLUSION album. DENNIS DEYOUNG AND THE MUSIC OF STYX celebrate that history by performing the album in its entirety plus all eight Top Ten hits LADY, BABE, COME SAIL AWAY, TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS, BEST OF TIMES, MR. ROBOTO plus classic rock anthems RENEGADE, BLUE COLLAR MAN, SUITE MADAME BLUE and many more.
DENNIS DEYOUNG is a founding member of STYX and the lead singer and songwriter on seven of the bands eight Top Ten hits. DENNIS is a legendary singer, songwriter, keyboardist, composer and record producer with a career spanning over 40 years. His voice is one of the most recognizable in the music world today and continues to inspire new generations of fans. THE ORIGINAL VOICE….ALL THE CLASSIC HITS….ALL THE MEMORIES….ONE UNFORGETTABLE EVENING.

EastLine Theatre's Production of "Anna in the Tropics" at Westbury Arts
2022-09-11 15:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Westbury Arts, 255 Schenck Ave, Westbury, NY, 11590, United States

The Paramount Presents The Struts "Across The Pond Tour"
2022-09-11 20:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | The Paramount, 370 New York Ave, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
The third full-length from British rock band The Struts, Strange Days came to life over the course of a charmed and frenzied burst of creativity last spring. After getting tested for COVID-19, singer Luke Spiller, guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and drummer Gethin Davies all moved into the Los Angeles home of Jon Levine, a producer who worked extensively on their acclaimed sophomore effort YOUNG & DANGEROUS (including the album’s chart-climbing lead single “Body Talks”). Within just ten days of couch-crashing at Levine’s house, The Struts had laid down nine original tracks and one masterful cover of a KISS B-side: a lean, mean body of work that amounts to their most glorious output to date.
“It was so much fun to make a record this way instead of getting everything done in between touring, working with multiple producers in multiple countries,” says Spiller. “We were all just burning to capture that excitement as much as we possibly could, and at times it felt like the songs were literally just falling from the sky.”
In an organic turn of events for a band massively embraced by some of rock-and-roll history’s greatest icons—a feat that’s included opening for The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Guns N’ Roses—Strange Days finds The Struts joining forces with a formidable lineup of guest musicians: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes, Tom Morello, and Robbie Williams. Mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Panic! At the Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Marr), the result is a powerhouse album that lifts The Struts’ glammed-up breed of modern rock to entirely new and wildly thrilling heights.
Kicking off with a magnificent bang, Strange Days opens on its title track, a sprawling and string-laced duet with Robbie Williams. “I was doing Quarantine Radio and Robbie hit me up out of the blue asking if we could talk,” notes Spiller, referring to the Instagram Live show launched by The Struts in the early days of lockdown. “We ended up Face-Timing for about two hours the first time we’d ever spoken, talking about life and music and UFOs and everything else you can think of. I asked if he’d like to work together at some point, and while we were making the album he graciously let us come over and record him singing on his front porch.” Despite its prescient title, “Strange Days” took shape from a voice memo Spiller recorded on the band’s tour bus way back in summer 2019. Fused with a cabaret-inspired interlude Spiller had recently dreamed up, the song ultimately evolved into the perfect vessel for the frontman’s force-of-nature voice: a tenderhearted epic that offers incredible solace in the most chaotic of times.
Sparked from a Britpop-leaning riff brought in by Slack, the album’s potent lead single “Another Hit of Showmanship” feat. Albert Hammond Jr. centers on another poignant vocal performance from Spiller, who deftly channels the tension between giving in to temptation and rising above your demons. After laying down the initial version of the track, Spiller reached out to Hammond, for whom the band opened on a series of 2018 solo shows. “‘Another Hit of Showmanship’ reminds me of being at a club night called Ramshackle years ago at the O2 Academy in Bristol, where they’d play bands like The Libertines and Razorlight and Scissor Sisters, and of course The Strokes,” says Spiller. “I hit up Albert out of the blue and told him, ‘We’ve got this song, and I’m so excited to see what you would do with it.’ As soon as he got his hands on it, he took it to a whole different level—it really just shows why he’s so brilliant at what he does.”
The most groovy-heavy work yet from The Struts, Strange Days also delivers hip-shaking standouts like “I Hate How Much I Want You”: a hot-and-bothered stomper graced with a scorching guitar solo from Phil Collen and Joe Elliott’s high-voltage vocals. Another explosive moment, “All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go)” unfolds in snarling power chords and exquisitely cheeky lyrics (its opening salvo: “You look like a movie star/On Sunday morning”). “That one’s based around the idea of being in love with your motorcycle—there’s a bit of innuendo to it,” says Spiller, whose own bike inspired the track. “The whole concept of being all dressed up with nowhere to go seems especially relevant the moment.” Meanwhile, “Wild Child” makes for a fierce and filthy anthem, infinitely supercharged by Tom Morello’s blistering guitar work. And on the beautifully weary “Burn It Down,” The Struts slip into a bittersweet mood, serving up a slow-burning ballad that sounds straight from the sessions for Exile on Main St.
The sole cover song on Strange Days, “Do You Love Me” finds The Struts updating a fantastically sleazy track first recorded by KISS in 1976 and remade in 1980 by Girl (a late-’70s/early-’80s British glam-metal band that, incidentally, featured Phil Collen on guitar). “I was so in love with Girl’s version of ‘Do You Love Me’ and thought the simplicity of it was amazing,” says Spiller. “I wanted to give it an even bigger sound for our album—something way more aggressive, completely balls-to-the-wall.”
In their supreme handling of “Do You Love Me,” The Struts again claim their rightful place in the lineage of rock-and-roll hellraisers. Formed in Derby, England, in 2012, the band quickly drew a major following with their outrageous live show, and later made their debut with Have You Heard (a 2015 EP whose lead single “Could Have Been Me” hit #1 on Spotify’s viral chart). Before they’d even put out their first album, the band opened for The Rolling Stones before a crowd of 80,000 in Paris and toured the U.S. on a string of sold-out shows. With their full-length debut Everybody Wants arriving in 2016, The Struts released YOUNG & DANGEROUS in 2018, soon after wrapping up a North American tour with Foo Fighters. Having toured incessantly since their formation, The Struts have also taken the stage at many the world’s biggest music festivals, including Lollapalooza, Governors Ball, Isle of Wight, and many more.
As Spiller reveals, the making of Strange Days was a period of joyful productivity. “Every day I’d wake up at about 7 a.m., get three venti Americanos delivered to the house, go out to the backyard and smoke a couple of spliffs, and listen to the voice memos I’d recorded at the sessions the day before,” he recalls. “After the first four days or so we hit a bit of a wall, so we decided to get some beers in and just stay in the pool all day—and the day after that we knocked out three whole songs.” Throughout Strange Days, that kinetic energy manifests in the album’s unbridled spirit, an element that makes every track exhilarating. “I think because we’d wanted to make an album this way for years, all that excitement and hunger led to an immediate sort of magic once we started working on it,” says Spiller. “It was undoubtedly a magical ten days for us—and I hope when people hear the album, it gives them a taste of that magic too.”
