Long Island band will stage a revolution at the Gramercy Theatre on May 22
Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23rd St. at Lexington Ave.
Saturday, May 22, $20, 8:00
212-614-6932
www.myspace.com/thepenguinrevolution1
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“Get funky,” Long Beach, Long Island’s Penguin Revolution declares on “Soul Brother,” and it’s hard not to comply. Named after Sakura Tsukuba’s popular young adult manga series, TPR knows how to throw a party. Mixing genres in clever ways, they tell the continuing story of penguin Oscar Hamilton, who is after nothing short of world domination. With Kevin McIntyre on vocals, rhythm guitar, and didgeridoo, Jim Willi on lead guitar, Scruff on bass, John Montoya on drums, and Dan Wagner, Andrew Hagerty, and Julie Gallo on various brass instruments, TPR is nonstop fun. Reggae beats and horns populate “Punky,” while the band goes psychedelic on the thirteen-minute epic “Lydibot.” And if “Rhombus on Parkside” doesn’t get your juices flowing, you better check your pulse. On “Coleman Parade,” they sing, “You think you know about energy”; there’ll be plenty to know on May 22 at the Gramercy Theatre, when the Penguin Revolution opens up for city boys the Energy.