His first major label release via Island Def Jam, Do You Feel launched him out of the underground and into mainstream consciousness. Do You Feel balanced melody, meaning, and musicianship, embodying Avary’s forte of infusing passion into pop music with a variety of instruments and influences. From the cutting, rocking industry criticism of “A Song is Not a Business Plan”, to the bouncy calls to consciousness of “Break It Out” and “Do You Feel”, to the R&B-tinged, saxophone-backed “So Much Love” which featured the horn section that played on Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke album, to the epic, layered closing track “So, In This Hour”, Avary made it clear that he was uninhibited both from musical and lyrical standpoints. Furthermore, the recurring message and focus on re-sensitizing and retaining identity amidst a world of cruelty and conformity found throughout Do You Feel still rings true today as it did 10 years ago.

Currently working on the follow-up to his sixth studio album Zoetic, Avary is building on the dynamic evolution of his music that Diffuser claims, “simultaneously evokes Foster The People and Justin Timberlake" and Infectious Magazine believes “displays exactly what pop rock music would sound like if it were zapped with 100,000 volts and lived to tell the tale.”  Forever challenging himself and his fans, Avary isn’t content releasing the same record over and over again, and thus expands and grows his oeuvre without fear of risks or alienation, even spurring New Noise to compare the album to “Foster the People or Passion Pit filtered through Michael Jackson.” With songs like the worldly-focused, wearily hopeful “Same Air” to the thrashing inner-conflicts of “Cold War” which Substream likened “as if Trent Reznor, Mutemath and Paper Route formed a supergroup in secret” , Zoetic continues the conscientious, heartfelt approach to songwriting felt on every album by The Rocket Summer, but carried out in a darker shell.  It is with this same fierce independent spirit that The Rocket Summer is able to have the freedom to look fondly back at the album that propelled him forward, Do You Feel without embracing nostalgic tightly.

Check out the dates below and be sure to catch The Rocket Summer’s national Do You Feel 10 Year Tour when it comes to a city near you!

7.20 Antone’s Austin, TX

7.21 Trees Dallas, TX

7.22 Warehouse Live [Studio] Houston, TX

7.25 The Social Orlando, FL

7.26   Crowbar Tampa, FL

7.28 Masquerade Atlanta, GA

7.29 Exit/In Nashville, TN

7.30 Visulite Theatre Charlotte, NC

8.1 Rock & Roll Hotel Washington, DC

8.3 The Gramercy Theatre New York, NY

8.4 Brighton Music Hall Boston, MA

8.5 The Foundry at the Fillmore Philadelphia, PA

8.6 Rex Theater Pittsburgh, PA

8.8 The Mod Club Toronto, ON

8.10 Skully’s Music Diner Columbus, OH

8.11 The Loving Touch Detroit, MI

8.12 Bottom Lounge Chicago, IL

8.13 Cabooze on the West Bank Minneapolis, MN

8.15 Wooly’s Des Moines, IA

8.16 The Riot Room Kansas City, MO

8.18 Marquis Theatre Denver, CO

8.19 Club Sound Salt Lake City, UT

8.22 The Crocodile Seattle, WA

8.24 Slim’s San Francisco, CA

8.25 The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, CA

8.26 Beauty Bar Las Vegas, NV

8.27 The Holding Company San Diego, CA

8.29 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ

For more info on The Rocket Summer visit the JFH Artists Database.

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