7Horse: Double Summertime Tour feat. the music of dada

Come join us at The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery for a night of rock ‘n roll with 7Horse!

Sunday August 3,2025

“7Horse: Double Summertime Tour feat. the music of dada”

Some horses were always meant to run wild.

Phil Leavitt and Joie Calio, the multi-instrumentalists behind 7Horse’s self-described

postpunk dystopian blues,” have been exploring unfenced territory together for 30

years. Kickstarting their partnership as members of dada — the platinum-selling alt-

rockers behind 90s hits like “Dizz Knee Land” — they now pack a different punch with

7Horse, blurring the lines between 70s-sized rock & roll, Vegas showbiz glitz, and

bluesy grit. It’s a sound rooted in groove and Gretsch guitars, rhythm and riffs, desert-

rock crunch and cinematic sweep. A sound that nods to the best parts of the past while

still pushing forward.

7Horse’s fifth album, The Last Resort, offers a snapshot of a boundary-breaking band in

evolution. Since launching the band in 2011, Leavitt and Calio have saluted the glory

days of American rock & roll both onstage and in the studio. Here, they make room for

international flourishes, too. There’s the bilingual bounce of “Non Sono Un Ragazzo”

which finds drummer/frontman Leavitt recounting the band’s introduction to film legend

Martin Scorsese (who memorably used 7Horse’s career-launching track Meth Lab

Zoso Sticker”; in The Wolf of Wall Street) in both English and Italian. There’s the Latin

beat of “Hey Vámonos!” where flamenco guitars, polyphonic rhythm, and four-on-the-

floor stomp all swirl together. At its core, though, The Last Resort charts its own musical

geography.

“We love the wide-open expanses in our sound,” says Calio, nodding to the

atmospheric, lonely-highway ambiance that drifts throughout The Last Resort like desert

dust. panoramic.

Our influences are from the 20th century — blues, & ;60s and &;70s rock & roll — and we

turn that sound on its head. Right out of the box, we had a sound that was our own, but

The Last Resort is the destination we’ve been headed toward the whole time.as

blues-rock innovators. Leavitt and Calio have established themselves outside of their long-running partnership, too.

Leavitt logged several years with the Blue Man Group and worked as a voice-over actor.

Calio released multiple solo records. With The Last Resort — whose sonic swirl also

features contributions from multi-instrumentalist/producer Brian Whelan, audio engineer

Mark Rains, and mixer/producer Dave Way — they join forces once again, mining

multiple decades of collaborative chemistry for an album that targets the head, heart, and hips