Jason Kane & The Jive are among the acts booked for this year’s Fredstock. Credit: Oscar Moreno

A good rock tune contains timeless elements. The trick lies in figuring out which ones go where.

San Antonio-based singer-songwriter-guitarist-keyboardist Jason Kane understands just where those pieces fit together. You could say he knows how to wield an axe and when to swing the blade.

Kane and his trio, The Jive, will drop the new album Find Out for Yourself on Saturday, March 15, at a release show at Jandro’s Garden Patio.

Find Out unloads the kind of driving, melodic rock riffs that sound like they were written anytime between the early ’70s and a recent, hazy Friday night. And Kane, bassist Ace Jackson and drummer Tommy Bryant deliver said riffs with an infectious abandon.

Jason Kane & the Jive will release the album Find Out for Yourself this Saturday. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Jason Kane

By the sound alone, these guys could easily have dropped a double-live album with a gatefold sleeve at some point in their career — and maybe they still will.

But Kane and the Jive are about more than riffs. Tight harmonies, catchy songwriting and freight train-style boogie blues are also part of the package. We’re talking Aerosmith (when they were good, naturally), Faces and Humble Pie here.

Given the band’s versatility, you’d be forgiven for wondering if Kane grew up around a melting pot of sounds, and the answer is yes. His father spent time in Chicago metal bands, while his mom instilled a love of more chill ’70s rock.

As evidence of the band’s eye to earlier decades, they even manage to use Roman numerals in Find Out’s song titles without being prog. Check out “Honeybird” and the bluesy slow burn of “Honeybird II.” And don’t sleep on the sweet, wah-laden leads on “Taking My Time.”

Expect plenty of material from Find Out at the release show. Local metalloid psych-prog hybrid Syr, which includes Current editor-in-chief Sanford Nowlin, will open the show with mind-melting sounds.

$5, 10 p.m. Saturday, March 15, Jandro’s Garden Patio, 2623 N. St. Mary’s St., facebook.com/jandrostx.

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This article appears in Mar 5-18, 2025.