The Lighthouse & The Whaler / The Modern Electric

Doors 8pm | Show 9pm

Cleveland’s own The Lighthouse and the Whaler will celebrate its new album, “This is an Adventure,” at the Grog Shop on September 15th. After spending the past 12 months on the road winning over both fans and critics with their addictive pop-influenced indie rock, the band was eager to get in the studio and record this new collection of road-tested songs that already has Paste Magazine hailing TLATW a band “You Should Listen To Now” and praising their “folk rooted in gorgeous harmonies and acoustic finger acrobatics” with “a more complex, ’60s pop direction.”Produced by Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Gossip, Ra Ra Riot), “This Is An Adventure” was recorded in a refurbished barn at Bear Creek Studios in Seattle, WA. Despite most of the album being written in Cleveland, OH the band was extremely meticulous in the studio, which brought the whole album together. “We really thought about every part and how it would affect the way the song comes together,” says singer Michael LoPresti. “We spent hours in the studio trying to get each part to have this radiating feeling and energy.” The end result is a versatile album that brilliantly shows off the bands strength as both musicians and songwriters.

Hear what KEXP, MTV, Filter and a wide range of music lovers are talking about on new song “Venice”– http://soundcloud.com/lighthouse-and-the-whaler/venice/s-VggEi

“This album is about making your life an adventure and each song on the record has its own part in that,” says lead singer Michael LoPresti of the album’s ideology. “The idea of an adventure –it’s ups and downs, and the emotional complexity played a huge role in how we crafted the album. We believe in embracing the life you have, and we poured that sentiment into the record. Hopefully the music creates an atmosphere for someone else’s adventure to begin.”

The Lighthouse And The Whaler have already played over 200 shows, including dates with The Temper Trap, The Dodos, GIVERS, Sufjan Stevens, Cults, and Best Coast as well as appearances at SXSW, Pop Montreal, and CMJ. Catch the band before it embarks on a coast-to-coast tour of North America.

“I think everyone has a story,” says LoPresti, “and hopefully our music can be a part of it.”