

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Fai Laci at The Drake (Amherst, MA)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: DSP Shows Presents:

Fai Laci
May 14, 2026
The Drake | Amherst, MA

failaci.com

“What can we do to get people off their fucking phones?” exclaims founder and frontman Luke  Faillaci, explaining the mission behind Fai Laci, the band he founded and fronts. “And how can  we give them something real and make them have a great time? That’s the most important thing  we can do: Just communicate with our followers and let them know they fucking rule!” The  Boston quintet — which also includes guitarists Anthony Cervone and Michael “Goldie”  Goldblatt, bassist Cal Hamandi, and drummer Zack Putnam — have already amassed a grassroots  fanbase thanks to their energetic, wildly cathartic live shows around the Northeast. They’ve seen  a community coalesce around their inspired rock songs, with a quarter-million monthly followers  and millions of streams despite, until recently, having no label, no publicist, and no manager.  They’re proof that good tunes can still find their audience, and they’re working hard to bring  others into the fold. “We’ve always been making music for ourselves, and we’re going to hold  ourselves to that, because we know other people will want to hear it, too.” 

Fai Laci are a band with a mission, and Elephant in the Room is the ideal vehicle to achieve it.  Produced by Dan Auerbach and recorded at his Easy Eye Sound Studios in Nashville, the album  blends the urgency of punk and the stomp of glam with the theatricality of classic rock, all bound  together by the band’s sharp swagger and Faillaci’s boundless charisma. Especially for a debut,  it’s confident and surprisingly diverse, full of brazen rockers and bruised-heart ballads. The band  expertly traverses the psychedelic time and tempo changes of “Cure Upon the Hill” with the  same grace and nuance that they bring to “Beautifully Boring,” a dreamily bittersweet anthem  about navigating your young adulthood with your sense of self intact. In between, they deliver  bangers like the decadent “Sarasota” and the jittery new wave “Headlights”, each a showcase for  their inventive guitars and nimble rhythm section. “We never set out to make a certain kind of  sound,” says Faillaci. “It takes us wherever it takes us. We got more into the rock side of things  on the album, but we also wanted to have some really beautiful songs on it. We wanted to have  something for everybody.”  

That’s been the defining Fai Laci attitude since Faillaci founded the group. Working by himself  and learning as he went along, he released two EPs and a handful of singles that he hoped might  eventually make their way beyond his circle of friends. Those early songs reveal a young artist  still integrating all of his favorite artists, from the obvious (Bowie, Nirvana, The Doors) to the not so-obvious (The Highwaymen). “My dad played them around the house all the time, and I loved  the songwriting and storytelling aspect of their songs. When I was a teenager, I went through an  era of loving rap music, especially this artist Felly. I drew a lot of inspiration from him, and that’s  when I realized I could just produce myself. I was just figuring out how to make sounds and record  them…and I sucked! But I enjoyed it because I was learning how to make the music that I wanted  to listen to.” 

Gradually, Faillaci brought players into the band, based more on personality than chops. “It was  never about adding another guitar just to have another guitar,” he says. “It was about getting the  right people. I knew they’d be a good fit for the band because nobody has an ego. We’re all pretty  level-headed.” Currently, all five band members live together in a house in Medford,  Massachusetts, where they can jam ceaselessly and record whenever inspiration strikes.  “Everybody holds their own with production and songwriting. Everybody writes. Everybody gets  a vote. So, there’s been a huge shift in our sound because everybody is bringing their own ideas  to the music. I can’t imagine making this music with anybody else in the band.”  

Soon their music made its way to Auerbach, one half of the Black Keys, whose first response was:  Get ‘em in the studio. “I couldn’t believe it,” says Faillaci. “It was the craziest shock of my life. We  didn’t know what we were getting into, because we’d never recorded as a full band before.” They  made two trips down to Nashville, where they had a few co-writing sessions with Auerbach and  Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves, Demi Lovato) and holed up at Easy Eye Sound Studios. “It was  a learning experience, and it gave us the confidence to try things a little differently. We did some  overdubs and tried some things to give the record a cool studio sound, but we were focused on  making it sound like a performance, like a band playing together. We wanted to capture that  feeling we get when we’re playing live.”  

The five players had a breakthrough while they were working on the opener, “Cure Upon the  Hill,” which opens with a Springsteen reference and a deep urge to break free: “Oh, my mamma  told me I was born to run, shed off my dirty clothes and burn into the sun.” The song lives up to  that sentiment, constantly twisting itself into new shapes as though nothing could hold it in place.  “We had basically finished the song, and when we got to the outro, we were trying to figure out  what to do. We thought about a double chorus or something like that, but it seemed too easy,  too predictable. We don’t want to take the easy route. We don’t want to be predictable. So, let’s  do this huge tempo modulation into the choir outro with a dual guitar solo thing.” That decision  makes a great song even better, introducing an album full of little sparks of inspiration that catch  you off guard and make you put down your fucking phone.  

“Have You Nothing Left to Say” opens with Cervone playing the national anthem on guitar, a nod  to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, but also an acknowledgement of the sad state of the union. “That’s  something Anthony started doing during our live shows, and then we’d talk about the bad shit  going on in America right now and how it’s up to us to make things better. We had to include  that on the album, because that’s such a crucial part of the message. Fai Laci aren’t an explicitly  political band, but they do see rock and roll as a subversive force: a battering ram for storming  the castle, the glue that binds people together into a community that’s more powerful than any  one person. It is, ultimately, a noble pursuit. “We’re trying to get people together so they can  hang out and just talk to each other,” Faillaci explains. “So, let’s be as real as possible. Let’s keep  hammering away at the stuff that makes a true difference to the people in front of us. We’ve  proved on a small scale that we can do that. Now it’s just a matter of finding cool ways to do it  on a larger scale.”
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- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Amherst
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: TheDrake
- **lat**: 42.376173312847
- **long**: -72.520151138306
- **full address**: TheDrake, 44 N. Pleasant St,Amherst,MA,United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: DSP Shows (https://allevents.in/org/dsp-shows/663134)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** TheDrake, 44 N. Pleasant St,Amherst,MA,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** DSP Shows
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, art, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Fai Laci at The Drake (Amherst, MA) ?
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