WHY? to bring West Coast influence to Rhino’s

Indie folk, hip-hop band WHY? and pop duo The Moore Brothers will bring their West Coast energy to Bloomington when they take the stage to perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Rhino’s All Ages Club on South Walnut Street.

Local band Tammar will open the show. Tickets are available at Landlocked Music, TD’s CDs and LPs and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Box Office.

Spirit of ‘68 Promotions director Dan Coleman said he is a big fan of WHY? and has been trying to book them since they performed at Bear’s Place two years ago.

“They blew my mind, so I asked them to find it in their hearts to get an extra date on their tour and they did,” Coleman said.

He said fans were upset when the show was at Bear’s because they were not 21, so they could not enter the bar. He made sure to book an all-ages venue.

This September, the members of WHY? released their fourth album “Eskimo Snow,” which they recorded at the same time as last year’s “Alopecia,” but had to be put temporarily in limbo until the band was ready for its release.

“Eskimo Snow” flaunts the trio’s ability to diversify their style as it unravels a melancholic Americana and folk sound different compared to their previous albums.

Brothers Greg and Thom Moore are currently writing songs for their sixth album release “Who Are The Moore Brothers?” Greg Moore said he is pleased to be on tour with WHY? because it means large crowds.

Thom Moore has been writing songs since he was 14 and soon after and joined in on the process.

“We write about our moods, romantic problems, childhood memories, isolation and existential wonderings,” Greg Moore said.

Greg Moore said Bart Davenport, Prince, The Beatles and The Cure influence him and his brother in their music.

“We are more pop, but we add elements of folk, Gregorian jazz and R&B that we just hope people like,” Greg Moore said.

The Moore Brother’s current album “Aptos” is named after a city in Santa Cruz County, Calif.

“We liked that its meaning is a Native American word for branching together two streams and that the word sounds atmospheric, so it just stuck,” Greg Moore said.