Futurebirds / T. Hardy Morris

Rock juggernaut Futurebirds is an Athens, Georgia based group described by singer/guitarist Carter King as “always too indie rock for the jam festival, too country for the indie scene, a little too psych-rock to feel like we were Americana.” Founding members King, Daniel Womack, Thomas Johnson and bassist Brannen Miles began playing together as students at UGA. In recent years, the quartet has added pedal steel player Kiffy Myers, keyboardist Spencer Thomas and drummer Tom Myers.

Opening the show is fellow Athenian T. Hardy Morris, an insightful songwriter and frontman who has drawn from his early experience with psych rockers Dead Confederate and the indie supergroup Diamond Rugs (with members of Deer Tick, Los Lobos, and Black Lips). His latest release The Digital Age of Rome is an incisive rock album centered on the idea that technology doesn’t necessarily equal progress.