Oakland, California-based power trio Pistachio — featuring Tucson native Zach Briefer — is cycling back through Tucson, with a gig Thursday, April 7, at Sky Bar, 536 N. Fourth Ave.
The band debuted in Tucson last July, bringing its self-described “nutty groove pop” to Monterey Court.
The encore celebrates the release of Briefer’s debut album “Explorer,” which was recorded in the Chiricahua wilderness in Southeastern Arizona in December 2015. The band, comprised of University of California, Berkley grads, is an old-school rock band, one whose bread is buttered on the road in four-month stretches, hitting small towns and big cities and camping out on BLM land while “rejoicing in the old-fashioned model of a working band,” the band said in a written note.
The trio joins Tucson bands White Fuzzy Bloodbath and Periscope for Thursday’s 21-and-old show at Sky Bar. Admission is free and the show gets started at 9 p.m. Details: skybartucson.com
Tucson is the first of three Arizona shows for Pistachio, which also will play a gig in Phoenix and one in Flagstaff this weekend before zipping off to New Mexico, Dallas and points farther South.
