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Singer-guitarist Max Poscente joins more than 100 artists performing at Deep Ellum Block Party

Dara Feller
Max Poscente joins more than 100 artists performing at Deep Ellum Block Party

Maybe it鈥檚 something in the drywall. Singer-guitarist Max Poscente grew up in the same Lakewood house where a young Steve Miller once rattled the walls in the 1950s. Now living in California, Poscente makes well-crafted, semi-psychedelic rock with his five-piece band About You.

The group鈥檚 debut album, due out Feb. 7, includes 鈥淲hat If I Could,鈥 featuring a striking video by Gerald Sullivan and Robert Yeoman, collaborators of filmmaker Wes Anderson. Another just-released song, 鈥淪unny,鈥 is a dramatic strut about overcoming depression. In a statement, Poscente called it 鈥渁n allegory for wanting to live. It鈥檚 not about pretending things are OK 鈥 it鈥檚 about holding onto the hope that they can be.鈥

Poscente returns to Dallas for a trio of shows: Nov. 21 at Sons of Hermann Hall (Zounds Sounds festival), Nov. 22 at Trees (as part of the Deep Ellum Block Party) and Dec. 30 at the Kessler Theater (opening for Seryn).

Now in its second year, the Block Party is a free all-day event featuring country singer Joshua Ray Walker, the rock band Mothership and more than 100 acts performing at more than 20 venues. The party starts at noon and includes live mural creations, an artist鈥檚 market and a wine walk.

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