Roger Clyne, founder and vocalist of ’90s desert-pop-rock band The Refreshments, will come to Murfreesboro on Thursday, June 18, as Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers play Hop Springs, joined by Ike Reilly featuring Shane Reilly.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy, the debut album Clyne released with The Refreshments; Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have released its ninth album, Hell to Breakfast, in 2026 and continue to tour in support of that release.
Clyne, also the writer and performer of the beloved King of the Hill theme song “Yahoos and Triangles,” studied cultural anthropology at Arizona State University and as a student performed an ethnography focus on mariachis during a three-month Spanish-immersion stay with a local family in Ensenada, Mexico. That experience helped shape his musical identity.
After lineup changes brought The Refreshments to an end, Clyne and co-founding drummer P.H. Naffah regrouped in Tempe, Arizona, and launched Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers in 1999. Since then, the band has continued as an independent act, touring throughout the year and maintaining a direct relationship with its audience. Clyne and Naffah also created Circus Mexicus, their annual music festival in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, just south of their home state of Arizona.
Ike Reilly is a punk-poet-troubadour and the leader of the ferocious musical outfit The Ike Reilly Assassination. The former doorman and gravedigger hailing from Libertyville, Illinois, is the host of Ike Reilly’s Lies & Apologies on Sirius XM Radio and he is the subject of the award-winning documentary Don’t Turn Your Back On Friday Night. The film, from executive producer Tom Morello, chronicles the songs, career and proverbial life of Reilly.
The June 18 show kicks off at 8 p.m.
