Strange Weather ‘CD Release Party’

The storm has passed. It’s time to rock and roll.

“All over the world, strangers talk only about the weather.”

Wednesday night, Strange Weather will be the talk of the town in South Lake Tahoe, when the hometown band staging a “rock and roll revolution” will host a CD-release party at the American Legion Hall.

Strange Weather’s self-titled album has been months in the making, following shows throughout South Shore and a fall tour that thundered from Southern California to San Francisco. Two weeks ago, the whirlwind touched ground at North Shore’s Crystal Bay Casino, where the band staged its Red Room debut.

Strange Weather is frontman Vinny Berry, flanked by Todd Christensen on bass and John “Chili” Munroe on guitar, with Jon Gardner on drums.

Their new album, recorded at Play Your Own Music in Carson City, features original songs that include “Sleeping on the Lawn,” “Shi Shi Dogs,” “Hummingbird,” “Watch This Space,” “Elvis,” and a self-titled track inspired by a July hail storm in Tahoe.

Band members have described Strange Weather as “new dogs doing an old trick,” hard-driving rock and roll — like “the 1970s meet the 1990s.”

“We want to get people digging rock and roll again,” Berry said this summer.

No doubt, they’ve been listening. The storm continues at 10 p.m. Wednesday at the American Legion, which fronts Lake Tahoe Boulevard and has an official address at 2748 Young St. Stop by if you’re still searching for that Stairway to Heaven.