Silverada bring Living Proof back to the Wonder Bar in February

The Texas country-rock band, formerly Mike and the Moonpies, returns to Asbury Park on Saturday, Feb 6, 2027, for the first time since August 2024.

The last time Silverada played the Jersey Shore was a late-summer night: Aug 28, 2024, at The Wonder Bar in Asbury Park. They’re coming back to the same room in the dead of winter. On Saturday, Feb 6, 2027, Silverada play the Wonder Bar, with the show starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $27.80 through Ticketmaster. The date was announced Oct 21.

That 2024 visit came in the band’s first season under a new name. Silverada were long known as Mike and the Moonpies, and they introduced themselves under the new name with a self-titled LP in 2024. The Asbury Park show was part of that first run, a night after a stop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2025 they kept going with the “Unlit Matches” tour.

The reason to pay attention now is the new record. Living Proof came out Aug 7 on the band’s own Prairie Rose Records, according to CultureMap Austin. It’s ten songs, recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, and produced by frontman Mike Harmeier with John Evans. The sound pushes further into country-rock, swapping pedal steel for keyboards, and it’s the first record with keyboard player Parker Twomey, the band’s newest member. Saving Country Music tracked the band adding tour dates ahead of the release, and the Living Proof tour has been on the road since, with stops including the Black Swamp Arts Festival in Ohio in September.

Pedal steel out, keyboards in: the band that comes back to Asbury Park sounds different from the one that left.

So the band that walks onto the Wonder Bar stage in February is not quite the one that played it two and a half summers ago. New name then, new sound now. For anyone who saw the 2024 show, it’s a chance to hear how the songs have changed with keys in the mix; for anyone who missed it, it’s a good time to catch up.

The Wonder Bar holds about 600, a good size for a band that plays loud and likes a crowd that moves. Asbury Park has a deep rock and roll history, and a Texas country-rock band leaning harder into rock fits the town well.

What to know before you go: it’s a 7 p.m. Saturday show in early February, so dress for the walk from the car. At $27.80, it’s a fair price for a band with a new record to show off. The show is three months out, but February Saturdays at the Wonder Bar don’t stay quiet for long.

A Texas band, a new album, a boardwalk room in the middle of winter. Asbury Park could do a lot worse for a February Saturday.

Sources: Silverada (formerly Mike and the Moonpies) Announce New Self-titled LP (Glide Magazine) (glidemagazine.com); Silverada Living Proof (CultureMap Austin) (austin.culturemap.com); Silverada Restocks Tour Dates Ahead of New Album (Saving Country Music) (savingcountrymusic.com); Silverada Embarks on 2025 “Unlit Matches” Tour (Saving Country Music) (savingcountrymusic.com); BSAF Preview: Silverada (BG Independent Media) (bgindependentmedia.org); PHOTOS: Silverada in Cambridge, MA (08.27.24) (New England Sounds) (newenglandsounds.com)