NYC punk rock n’ roll singer-songwriter-guitarist LORNE BEHRMAN will be celebrating the release of his full-length solo debut album A LITTLE MIDNIGHT (out 9/16 via Spaghetty Town Records) with a NYC show at Arlene’s Grocery (95 Stanton St) on Friday, September 16. LORNE will hit the stage with a 7-piece band featuring two backup singers at 9:30pm.
Might you have interest in arranging a preview or coming out to the show? LORNE is also available for interviews.
A LITTLE MIDNIGHT follows LORNE’s acclaimed 2021 four-song EP When I Hit The Floor, which prompted the esteemed Jesse Malin to note: “Real blood and guts rock and roll that bleeds with soul and redemption.”
The 10-song A LITTLE MIDNIGHT is a series of New York City vignettes haunted by shadows but guided by light. The words here are literate and lacerating, recalling the street poetics of Lou Reed, Richard Hell, and Television. The songs feature stark and fluid guitar playing in the spirit of The Stooges’ James Williamson, Johnny Thunders, and Lou Reed. The album’s first two singles are “A Little Midnight” and “I Hope The Sun Doesn’t Catch Us.”
“This album is about struggling to be reborn,” LORNE shares. “Wanting to run back to the arms of toxic people or the patterns of self-destruction. It’s about clawing your way to a new existence while acknowledging all the causalities, and all you’re letting go. You glimpse a new life, but you don’t feel it yet.”
The album’s raw but polished production aesthetic is courtesy of producer Matt Chiaravalle (Warren Zevon, Joe Bonamassa, Spacehog). A LITTLE MIDNIGHT was mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Joe Lambert. Wyldlife bassist Spencer Alexander designed the album artwork, and it is a subtly playful homage to the cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Damn the Torpedoes.
