Being asked to headline 2 nights in a row at The Mercury Lounge is definitely an excellent sign for an emerging band, since the staff who books the most prestigious of NYC small venues is known to be extremely picky. Brooklyn natives A Million Years – a band we’ve been following, featuring and also booking for quite some time – landed this double gig after selling out the venue in June. The quartet plays a punchy, at once catchy and incendiary brand of indie rock with epic tinges, reminiscent of a a darker and more aggressive version of Spoon. A Million Years brought their high energy live shows around the U.S. in several occasions, also opening for 30 Seconds to Mars, Phoenix, and the Drums, before being personally asked to join Jesse Malin on his U.K. tour last December. If good indie rock is your thing, you may want to be at Mercury Lounge on July 21 or 22.
