January 23, 2015, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm $10

Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight: Michael McDermott’s new band “the Westies”

This is no guy/girl group. The Westies are a band that unabashedly confronts the trials of the inner city heart with a slow burn delicacy that juxtaposes many uncomfortable subjects with a tender and elegant beauty that is rare in the current music landscape.

The Westies album “West Side Stories” is a song cycle inspired by the real life Westies “a ruthless gang of Irish mob punks that ruled Hell’s Kitchen in the 60’s and 70’s”. The gangsters serve as a metaphor for the dark side that lurks inside us all. The unexplained forces that cause internal struggles, destroy relationships and leave us clinging to love as just a memory.

Call it Ameri-gangsta-cana.