ADHOC Presents: Good Looks at The Broadway with support from Bloomsday (duo)!

Good Looks

Born and raised in small Texas towns, the members of Good Looks met and began playing together in Austin.

Songwriter Tyler Jordan grew up in a South Texas coastal town dominated by the petrochemical industry, his childhood steeped in the tension between nature and industry, exploitation abundantly present and the wealth gap on full display. His father’s church, described by Tyler as “cult-like in its intensity,” was homebase and where he learned to sing.

Tyler eventually met lead guitarist Jake Ames in the late-night song-swap circles of the Kerrville Folk Festival campground (where they would also meet Buck Meek and Adrienne Lenker pre-Big Thief). They shared their mutual love of the Texas hill country canon (Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, and Willie Nelson), a love of cheap diner food, thrift store baseball caps, and a healthy dose of harmless shit-talking.

They began playing in bands together, backing up other songwriters and taking turns in the spotlight. They sought out producer Dan Duszynski (Loma, Cross Record, Jess Williamson) to engineer their debut album.

What would form was Good Looks, a blue-collar political indie-rock band with healthy doses of Replacements swagger and shimmering, desert rock riffs not unlike The War On Drugs.

Bloomsday

Iris James Garrison and Alex Harwood come together as Bloomsday, the Brooklyn-based indie pop duo

formed in 2019. The band is fronted by Iris (they/them), who sings with warmth and darkness in the quiet

hours where shadows and ghosts rise to the surface. Over the course of 2020, Bloomsday’s debut album

'Place to Land' was recorded as a collection of songs written throughout Iris’ transition. The songs weave

through periods of loss, upheaval, hope, fear and setting oneself free. The album explores the yearn to

find homes in other people, places, addictions or memories; ultimately finding a place to land within the

self. The duo expresses their learned lessons through difficult growth that they witnessed in one another

over the years, with playfulness and heart wrenching melodies, they hold space for whatever comes up.

The "brotherly dynamic" brings tenderness and trust to the songs, as the two set out on a new chapter

with their first ever LP out June 10, 2022 on Bayonet Records.