Astoria State is playing their first show in Alaska.
** Doors open at 7 p.m. with music at 8 p.m. with Rival Dads and Astoria State after that.
** Tickets are $20 in advance and tickets for the VIP Pre Party & Meet and Greet are available.
** This is a 21 and up show.
Astoria State Bio:
BIOGRAPHY
Danny Resnick (Lead vocals, Guitar) / Jesse Carroll (Guitar) / Cameron Horst (Bass Guitar) / Jon Longley (Drums)
No strangers to the toil and grind of the Music business, the members of Astoria State have been professional musicians and road warriors in bands for the past decade. They’ve been supporting members in various projects, and have now decided the time is right to step forward and take the lead roles in a project they’ve been visualizing together for years. With the release of the thought-provoking yet hopeful new single “Nobody Knows“, Astoria State are ready to take on that challenge.
The band’s Danny Resnick and Jesse Carroll met while Jesse was filling in on guitar for The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus on a national tour. Danny was a featured player in the support band on that tour, and he and Jesse became fast friends with a shared passion for music.
Their symbiotic musical interests would be the force that drew the two together again multiple times over the ensuing years, as they crossed paths both in the studio and while touring. In early 2020 Jesse – whose career had evolved to become the tour manager of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, was given the honor of calling Danny to offer him the position of keyboardist and backing vocalist for TRJA.
When touring shut down in early March of last year, the two started serious discussions about making their mutual vision for their own Rock band a reality. They began writing together in July, and by September they were recording at TRJA Drummer Jon Espy’s Home Studio in Santa Clarita, CA with The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s Ron Winter as their producer. Bassist and backup vocalist Cameron Horst, a longtime friend of Resnick since their high school days in Anchorage, Alaska was brought in to round out the lineup. Astoria State filled out the foursome with Jon Longley, a seasoned touring drummer with over a decade of experience, formalizing his addition to the official lineup in January 2022.