Although the members of Ha Ha Tonka may no longer be as young as they used to be, they’re far from worried about keeping up with the partiers at Ohio University.
“I don’t think that (the age gap) will stop us,” said Lennon Bone, Ha Ha Tonka’s drummer. “We’ve been known to kick back a few beers.”
The Missouri band will play at Casa Nueva, 4 W. State St. at 10 p.m. Saturday as part of a nationwide tour for its third and latest album, Death of a Decade. Ha Ha Tonka has passed through Athens once before for its Mountain Stage session last October.
Since its last visit, Death of a Decade has seen success, receiving raving reviews from both the Washington Post and Huffington Post. Patrick Foster of the Washington Post even suggested that while Mumford and Sons is a solid band, it was a shame that Ha Ha Tonka had not taken its place on the Grammy stage in 2011.
The band’s single “Unusual Suspects” was featured as a lead-in song for game three of the 2011 World Series. The band’s members said the music video has also seen a good amount of success.
“We have only received great feedback from the song and video,” the band’s members said in an email. “NPR even said ‘Ha Ha Tonka may have created the catchiest mandolin-driven rock songs since ‘Losing My Religion.’ ’ ”
Ha Ha Tonka will travel to Europe in October for its first-ever international tour. The group said it would also soon be releasing a new music video for its song “Lonely Fortunes.”
The band’s members said they plan to continue writing and producing more material and that they hope to have enough for a new album by the end of the year.
“We should have enough material to start tracking by this fall,” said the band. “We are really going to step it up on this one. Get ready.”
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