Nashville-based rock quartet The Sleeveens will officially release their second full-length album National Anthem on May 1 via Memphis label/record store Goner Records. The band — lead vocalist Stefan Murphy, guitarist Eli Steele, bassist James Mechan and drummer Ryan Sweeney — will kick off a short tour in support of the record with a local release show Friday night in The ’58 room at Eastside Bowl. Attendees will have the opportunity to score advance copies of the record. “We’re gonna go down to Memphis the day before, pick up the records and do an in-store at Goner,” Sweeney tells the Scene. “Then come home the next day, do The ’58 show, and then we’re doing two weeks through the East Coast.” National Anthem finds the group further refining their infectious, hooky blend of punk, garage and power pop. As the title suggests, there is a political element to some of the material. On the powerful title track, Murphy — who is Irish and the band’s principal songwriter — aims his pen at life under Trump, singing, “Burn your fucking country to the ground in the name of love / Burn your fucking country to the ground — enough is enough.” Nashville’s The Scurvies and Memphis garage rockers The Drip Edges are also on the bill.
7:30 p.m. at The ’58 at Eastside Bowl
1508A Gallatin Pike S., Madison
