Corey Harper w/ Emmanuel Franco, Mae Mae + Sarah Adams
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
Corey Harper makes alternative pop/rock music for the head, the heart, and the hips.
It's a genre-fluid sound created by a 20something songwriter who's spent the past decade in a creative whirl, working alongside everyone from Justin Bieber to Noah Kahan. He highlights that versatility once again with his full-length debut, Future Tense, which chronicles the decline of a throughout 10 original songs. Broad, bold, and intimately self-reflective, Future Tense showcases the full range of Harper's abilities — the top-shelf guitar skills; the honeyed, husky vocals; the melody-driven songwriting that's turned tracks like "On the Run" into viral hits — while expanding far beyond the scope of acclaimed EPs like 2020's Overcast.
"I spent seven years experimenting with genres, figuring out what my own sound really is," says Harper, who launched his career as a member of L.A.'s folk circle before widening his reach to include indie influences, pop hooks, and amplified rock & roll. "Future Tense is my answer to that. It's the artistic statement I've been working toward."
Raised in Vancouver, Washington, Harper grew up beneath the lush, rain-soaked skies of the Pacific Northwest. He was drawn to music that felt similarly atmospheric, starting with classic craftsmen like Jackson Browne and James Taylor and later expanding to include Dominic Fike, Phoebe Bridgers, and other innovators. As a Gen Z songwriter with timeless tastes — someone who grew up listening not only to his parents' record collection, but also to the genre-bending — it only made sense to create music that blurred the lines between genre and generation.
Moving to Los Angeles at a young age, he found a diverse audience with EPs like Overcast and 2016's On the Run. Rolling Stone praised him as "John Mayer's breezier fraternal twin," while artists like Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson, and Julia Michaels all chose him as their opening act. When the Covid-19 pandemic brought his touring schedule to a halt, though, Harper found himself stuck at home, searching for new ways to maintain his creative momentum. Meanwhile, his relationship with his longtime romantic partner was in a death spiral.
"Most of the songs are about the knowledge that something is coming to an end," he explains. "I wrote most of the album while my ex and I were still together, but I knew where the relationship was going. I knew we'd split up."
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