Davis Live Music Collective Presents: King Dream at Davis Veterans Memorial

(Oakland, CA) Indie psych-rock project King Dream, fronted by Bay Area songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Lyon, release their new single “Lost Summer” Friday, 10th March off their forthcoming sophomore album Glory Daze: IV due out April 7th on Dimed Records, followed by a European tour of Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic presented by ROLA 12th April through 7th May.

What started as a four song EP at the beginning of 2020 blossomed into a self produced triple album by the end of last year, spanning a myriad of collaborators, including GRAMMY winning mix engineers Dave Way (Fionna Apple, Macy Gray) and Michael Brauer (John Mayer, Coldplay). The live quintet consists of Lyon’s closest collaborators: bassist, best friend, and best man Zak Mandel-Romann, wife and Rainbow Girl, Caitlin Gowdey on keys, and long time touring buds and bandmates in a plethora of projects Nick Cobbett on drums and Adam Nash on guitar. The first installment, which the band will tour this spring, is chalk full of rock anthems with soaring vocals and sky splitting guitar solos, sure to echo from sweaty small clubs to fervorous festival audiences.

With a soulful voice, roots planted in the golden era of California psychedelia, and a wry energy that places him firmly in the 21st century, Lyon charts a path through timeless themes: disillusionment with oneself, with adulthood, with one’s country — and the discovery, time and again, that somehow there’s still plenty worthy of a love song.

Lyon, a Bay Area native, left college to co-found the folk-rock band Tumbleweed Wanderers, who toured the country for five years supporting The Revivalists, Moon Taxi, and Greensky Bluegrass and playing major American music festivals such as Outside Lands, Hangout, Shaky Knees, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, all before turning 24.. Inspired by jack-of-all-tradesmen like Jim James, Jonathan Wilson and Blake Mills, Lyon spent the next several years honing his craft and expanding his skill set, touring as a guitarist in various projects and becoming a producer and engineer out of his home studio, Dimed Records, in addition to releasing and touring his debut self-titled album and now, the triple album follow up “Glory Daze.”

King Dream’s sophomore album “Glory Daze,” is a magnum opus born out of happenstance and brimming with ambition. It’s a cinematic journey of an album rarely seen these days. It’s about keeping the fire burning, and the desire yearning, while empires and life as we know it crumble around us. It’s about — what it takes to stay, to support instead of seek, and the love and community we can forge when we foster instead of follow.