Dexter and The Moonrocks
Schedule
Wed, 19 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Georgia Theatre | Athens, GA
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DEXTER AND THE MOONROCKS
WED, 19 FEB 2025 at 08:00PM EST
Ages: 18 & Over
Doors Open: 07:00AM
OnSale: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 at 10:00AM EST
Announcement: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 at 10:00AM EST
“We realized that oil workers like to listen to Alice In Chains, and the goth kids like Tyler
Childers so why couldn’t we do both? And so we did, and it worked so well.” – James Tuffs, lead
singer, Dexter and the Moonrocks.
It most definitely worked out well. A former fry cook, oil field operator, concrete surface
decorator and kids’ baseball coach met up in a small town in West Texas and started playing
country western music together (as one does in small town West Texas). But something didn’t
feel right – so their roots in country began to cross-pollinate with the rock and grunge music they
heard their parents playing at home.
Meanwhile, as they honed their identity as a band, their drummer, Fox, (the baseball coach)
took the helm of their social media, exponentially growing their followers. But they quickly
proved they weren’t just building a passive online community: their streams started to sharply
increase, and their shows started selling out. Curious followers became fans of the music. Two
years later, with 675,000 TikTok followers and more than 50 million streams, Dexter and the
Moonrocks have become something none of them ever, in a million years, dreamed possible.
“Coming from a town with only 700 people and regularly selling that many tickets in cities all
over the nation is insane,” says Tuffs.
“Beats the hell outta a pulling unit,” says bassist Ty Anderson (the former oil field operator).
But it wasn’t just the guys in the band who couldn’t believe what was happening. The band had
caught the attention of Severance Records, a newly launched Nashville-based imprint of Big
Loud Rock. The rapidly growing fanbase on social media coupled with more frequent sold-out
shows convinced the label to sign the band as their flagship act.
Through Severance, Dexter and the Moonrocks will release “Western Space Grunge,” an EP
including the lead single “Sad In Carolina,” an angsty rock track growing quickly at alternative
radio.
“Grunge and country are honestly so similar,” says Fox. “Look at Johnny Cash’s cover of ‘Hurt’
by Nine Inch Nails. Both speak to the oppressed and the depressed – country with twang and
grunge with a bite. A pair of boots can mean cowboy or combat. We are huge fans of artists like
Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers and Noah Kahan – and when you take that sound and plug it into
amps with electric guitars, you get Dexter and the Moonrocks.”
“We took a bet on ourselves, and it’s paying off immensely,” he continues. “We believed we had
something special, and if we could just get people to pay attention they’d fall in love, and we did
just that.”
“It feels like a fever dream, and it’s definitely helped the health of my knees,” says Ty’s cousin
guitarist Ryan Anderson, who never plans to decorate concrete again.
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Where is it happening?
Georgia Theatre, 215 N Lumpkin St,Athens,GA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
