with special guests Worried Well & Dustin Saucier • What do you get when you blend infectious melodies and pop-infused technical guitar riffs with high-energy and solid musicianship? You get Sparks The Rescue, a five-piece pop rock band from Portland, Maine that will win you over with their originality, passion, and dedication to constantly make rockin’ songs. The group is comprised of Alex Roy (vocals), Patrick O’Connell (guitar), Toby McAllister (guitar), Ben Briggs (bass), and Nathan Spencer (drums). Seasoned musicians of over a decade, the crew started playing together in high school where they spawned from three local bands. They shared stages frequently at local shows and events until they decided in 2005 to become one single entity, Sparks The Rescue (deriving their name from Nicolas Sparks novel The Rescue).
Mouth Washington / Borderlines / Peace Breaker
Friday, April 26, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 SHOW 8 $15
We are excited to welcome back one of the cornerstones of the Sun Tiki family, Mouth Washington. Their music is a tempest—a collision of raw emotion and blistering riffs that leaves audiences both exhilarated and introspective. Joining them is Portland's own Borderlines, whose sound is rooted in 90’s punk and pop-punk such as early Green Day and Riverdales, mixed with more recent melodic punk and alternative acts like The Menzingers and Jimmy Eat World. Rounding out the bill is Peace Breaker: hardcore Rock ‘n’ Roll from Portland Maine. Unrestrained, raw, loud, fast and powerful. A storm of emotion and an energetic live presence.
ONEIDA with Lemon Pitch & Snaex
Saturday, April 27, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 SHOW 8 $20-$25
Oneida has long straddled gray-area boundaries between the NYC punk/psych/rock world and the art/experimental world, playing at gritty rock clubs and elevated cultural institutions, including the Guggenheim, MoMA PS1, ICA London, MassMOCA and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The band has been known for extended live improvisational performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt, members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many others. Oneida’s members juggle a wide variety of other music projects. Drummer Kid Millions has played with Spiritualized, Royal Trux and Boredoms and releases solo compositions under his own name and as Man Forever. Shahin Motia founded noise-punk’s Ex Models and currently plays in Knyfe Hyts. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobby has a band called New Pope. Lemon Pitch is an indie rock band from Portland, Maine. Alex, Brock, and Galen write the songs and Jeff plays drums. Snaex know no limits, yet aspire to align themselves with what is always necessary: patience, harmony, and the child's mind. Snaex are Chris Teret, who hails from Baltimore and founded a band called Company, and Chriss Sutherland, who is from Maine and who helped maintain such musics as Cerberus Shoal, Fire on Fire, and Olas. Both now reside in the Portland, Maine area.
DUB APOCALYPSE ft. Dana Colley of Morphine/Vapors of Morphine
Friday, May 3, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 SHOW 8 $15/20
Dub Apocalypse is an instrumental dub reggae band from Boston, MA. They have created their own unique sound that fuses the militant toughness of Sly and Robbie, and Scientist productions,with a balanced twin guitar attack,explosive Coltrane inspired sax,and a healthy dose of improvisation. The band plays a mix of classic Jamaican tunes and dub plates from the 70s and early 80s, mixed with their own compositions. Featuring current and former members of John Brown's Body, Ghosts of Jupiter, The Skatalites, Morphine and G Love and Special Sauce, DA brings decades of combined experience from clubs,theaters and festivals around the globe to the stage every night. The band maintains a busy schedule in New England with appearances at many festivals and clubs. They have 2 successful long running residencies, won a Boston Music Award in 2011 for Best International Act, and were recently named "One of the 10 Local Acts You Have to Hear Now" by the Improper Bostonian.. The Dub Apocalypse live show is a soul shakin' throw down and they invite you along for the journey. Recently they released a new album, "Frozen Plane," which charted on the Billboard Magazine reggae music charts. For more info please visit: http://dubapocalypse.com
WHEATUS
Saturday, May 4, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 / SHOW 8 / $20-$25
Wheatus ~ acoustic ~ We are excited to welcome Wheatus at Sun Tiki Studios who will be doing a rare acoustic performance of their extensive song catalog. Best known for their hit single “Teenage Dirtbag”, Wheatus has been a pop-rock staple in music for over 2 decades. In 2014, the band experienced a renaissance after “Teenage Dirtbag” was covered by One Direction. Since then, Wheatus, still led by Brown, has enjoyed a renewed interest with their songs covered by the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Sza, Jax, Ruston Kelly and touring with such acts as Dashboard Confessional, Living Colour, Everclear, and many more.
CODEINE w/ Perfect Hair
Saturday, May 11, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 SHOW 8 $30-35
90’s band Codeine is playing shows in support of their lost album Dessau, recorded in 1992 but released just last year, along with new, colored vinyl reissues of their three original Sub Pop records: Frigid Stars LP, Barely Real (EP), and The White Birch, all via the archival label Numero Group. With the release of Frigid Stars LP (1990), Codeine almost single-handedly invented what would later become known as "slowcore." Predating influential albums by kindred spirits Low and Duster by almost half a decade, Codeine's slow, graceful songs support lyrics that are a disturbingly pure embodiment of depression. Opening for Codeine is Portland based, next generation slowcore band Perfect Hair. Established in 2013 by Steven Conner, Cory McWilliams, Stefan Hansen, Dan Smith and joined now by Matthew Houston, collectively members of bands including Pamola, An Anderson, $300, Huak, Red Medicine and so many others!
Brendan Foley Memorial Celebration
Friday, May 31, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 SHOW 8 $12
A Memorial show to celebrate the life of Brendan Foley at Sun Tiki Studios on Friday, May 31. Featuring John Hughes Radio, Dark Hollow Bottling Company, Golden Rules the Thumb and Contrails, we welcome you to come celebrate the life of one of our beloved community members. Proceeds to benefit the Bethlehem, NH Skate Park. https://obits.csnh.com/brendan-foley
Vapors of Morphine ft. Dana Colley of Morphine with special guest Sparxsea
Friday, September 6, 2024
ALL AGES
DOOR 7 SHOW 8 $20-25
Originally scheduled at Bayside Bowl THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO SUN TIKI STUDIOS (375 Forest Ave, Portland, ME) TIX: $20 ADV, $25 DOOR Vapors of Morphine, ft. Dana Colley of Morphine, return to Portland, ME to perform at Sun Tiki Studios on on SEPT. 6 with special guest Sparxsea (full band) ALL-AGES ABOUT VAPORS OF MORPHINE: Vapors of Morphine are a power trio featuring electric baritone sax, drums, and 2 string slide bass (often guitar). Baritone saxophonist Dana Colley (ORIGINAL MEMBER OF MORPHINE) is the through-line between Vapors and “low rock” pioneers Morphine, who’s leader Mark Sandman left this earth while performing onstage in Italy in 1999. VoM performs much of the Morphine repertoire, plus new material and original versions of selective covers. They expand on the ethereal, hypnotic sounds popularized by the group in the nineties, and dig into their influences, from African music to delta Blues. For more info on VOM please visit: VAPORSOFMORPHINE.COM ABOUT SPARXSEA: Sparxsea is an indie artist from Maine with a soulful voice and dark story of hope. Her music is critically acclaimed, defining her as a genre-bending, dynamic, and accomplished songsmith who is thought-provoking, engaging, and alchemic. Her upcoming debut full-length album, On the Sea, is set for a 2024 release and features members of The Dave Matthews Band, Morphine, SeepeopleS, with others, and is co-produced by Will Holland (Pixies, Dead Can Dance) at Chillhouse Studios in Boston. For more info please visit: SOLO.TO/SPARXSEA
