Dexter & The Moonrocks

Overview

Doors: 6:30 PM, Show: 7:30 PM

“We realized that oil workers like to listen to Alice In Chains, and the goth kids like Tyler Childers so why couldn’t we do both? And so we did, and it worked so well.” – James Tuffs, lead singer, Dexter and the Moonrocks.

It most definitely worked out well. A former fry cook, oil field operator, concrete surface decorator and kids’ baseball coach met up in a small town in West Texas and started playing country western music together (as one does in small town West Texas). But something didn’t feel right – so their roots in country began to cross-pollinate with the rock and grunge music they heard their parents playing at home.

Meanwhile, as they honed their identity as a band, their drummer, Fox, (the baseball coach) took the helm of their social media, exponentially growing their followers. But they quickly proved they weren’t just building a passive online community: their streams started to sharply increase, and their shows started selling out. Curious followers became fans of the music. Two years later, with 675,000 TikTok followers and more than 50 million streams, Dexter and the Moonrocks have become something none of them ever, in a million years, dreamed possible.

“Coming from a town with only 700 people and regularly selling that many tickets in cities all over the nation is insane,” says Tuffs.

“Beats the hell outta a pulling unit,” says bassist Ty Anderson (the former oil field operator).