Live Nation & PHILM presents

Tom Hamilton artwork

Tom Hamilton

of American Babies

Date and room

Past show

Show
Room
Cafe du Nord
Downstairs, 2174 Market St, San Francisco
Tom Hamilton artwork

Tom Hamilton (of American Babies)

Tom Hamilton has made a career of pushing rock n’ roll boundaries. Since 2000, Hamilton has fronted a cadre of bands, including Brothers Past, American Babies and Ghost Light. He also sings and plays lead guitar in the juggernaut contemporary Grateful Dead cover band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead.

It wasn’t until a series of personal and societal crises compelled the Philadelphia based musician/songwriter/producer to reconsider his approach and finally forge ahead under his own name.

“When you're in a van on the road for 20 years, you live in your bubble, you think that your world is one way — and it's not. The pandemic break gave me the time to see that. Then my band broke up and my dad got sick. The only refuge I had was the studio.”

I’m Your Vampire, Hamilton’s most personal effort yet is a 10-song suite wreathed in tattered-flannel rock & roll that encapsulates Hamilton’s salvation in isolation, as he sorts through the darkness to find a pinpoint of light.

“It takes effort to not just be jaded as we age — to not look at the world in a hardened way,” Hamilton says. “Yeah, it's a dark, dark fucking time, let's make some lemonade.”

His album I’m Your Vampire co-produced by Hamilton and Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman/Wednesday) is out now via AWAL/Relix.

Tom Hamilton socials:
Instagram: instagram.com/trhjunior/
Facebook: facebook.com/TomHamiltonMusic/
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2IzNN3U60kdz41Yw9zj31H
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/tom-hamilton/6111638
X (Twitter): x.com/tommyhamilton

Coming up

All shows
  1. Cafe du Nord (downstairs)

    Live Nation presents

    DICE

    with The Back Alley

    Doors Show All ages

    Cafe du Nord (downstairs)

  2. Cafe du Nord (downstairs)

    Live Nation presents

    Dave Hause & The Mermaid

    with Darius Koski

    Doors Show 21+

    Cafe du Nord (downstairs)

  3. Swedish American Hall (upstairs)

    SF Leonard Cohen Festival presents

    San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival

    Doors Show All ages

    Swedish American Hall (upstairs)

  4. Cafe du Nord (downstairs)

    Live Nation presents

    IAN SWEET

    with Luella

    Doors Show 21+

    Cafe du Nord (downstairs)

Past shows