IF YOU GOWhat: Nightfall concert series featuring Deer Tick.When: 8 tonight; Behold the Brave opens at 7 p.m.Where: Miller Plaza, corner of M.L. King Boulevard, Market and Cherry streets.Admission: Free.Phone: 265-0771.Venue website: www.nightfallchattanooga.com.THE OPENERBehold the Brave is a local indie rock quartet from Ooltewah consisting oyton Davis, Zack Randolph, Joel Parks and Jeremiah Thompson. For more information, view the band’s Facebook profilie at facebook.com/beholdthebrave
From Saskatchewan to California, Chattanooga to London and dozens more dates in between, Deer Tick’s summer tour is a real globetrotter.
Given a wide-ranging sound that stretches from poppy ballads to punky anthems, the Rhode Island-based indie quintet’s expansive schedule is a case of life imitating art.
Although Deer Tick often is tossed cavalierly into the same alt-folk basket as groups such as Iron & Wine and Neutral Milk Hotel, guitarist Ian O’Neil said the band’s members were most strongly influenced by the building block genres of American rock.
“Country/blues or rockabilly or punk or whatever … that’s the kind of music that we all like,” he said. “As far as our influences and the closest thing we have to a genre, that’s where we lie.”