For those unaware, Southern California singer/songwriter Tom Ciurczak (Sir-Zak) offers up an infectious blend of energetic rhythms, danceable beats and powerful storytelling lyrics that make you think you are listening to a crossbreed of Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon and Steve Earle, complete with Eagles-esque harmonies and hook-laden Eric Clapton style guitar work.

Brought up to appreciate the intricacies of music by his father, a professional musician at the Military Academy of West Point, Tom learned, early on, about music’s complex and distinct sounds and rhythms as well as the imagery that great storytelling can evoke.

Now Americana Singer-Songwriter Tom Ciurczak is releasing two music videos in advance and simultaneously with his brand new album, “Yorick” out June 27th, 2025.

Click here to watch the first music video and single “The Watcher”, which is the story of an alien dropped off and abandoned on earth thousands of years ago and his attempts throughout earth’s evolution to get noticed and picked back up again.

“Top Of The Rainbow” is a R&B lament, complete with horns, and will be available as a music video on May 23rd, 2025.

On June 27th, 2025, the video, “Yorick,” which is currently being edited, will be released as will the album, also called “Yorick.” The title track is Tom’s story of the skull of Yorick, the court jester in Hamlet may have come from.

1. The Watcher
2. Wild One
3. Yorick
4. You’re Next
5. Where Do I Belong
6. Chameleon
7. Top Of The Rainbow
8. A.L.T.O.W.D.
9. Malleus Maleficarum
10. Am I M.I.A.

On an album that celebrates the artform of storytelling as beautiful, and as dutifully impassioned as you could only have wished for, this boisterously-personal new recording opens on the guitar wrangling rocker The Watcher and the Springstein-esque, yet Steppenwolf-inspired Wild One (which pays tribute to one of his friends that didn’t survive youth), the languishing balladry of the titular Yorick (as noted, his story of the skull of Yorick, the court jester in Hamlet may have come from), and then we get both the alt-rock styled, euphorically-challenging rock of You’re Next (inspired by the Who, Rage Against the Machine, and Martin Niemöller’s poem, First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak because I was not a socialist) and the rousing Where Do I Belong (which focuses on the homeless crisis).

Along next is the gritty rocker Chameleon (about a private eye and master of disguise written as a theme for a fictitious TV Show) and the low-slung R&B-drizzled ballad Top Of The Rainbow and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the silky harmonica-imbibed storytelling of A.L.T.O.W.D. (the Billy Joel-inspired track that is short for “Another Long Typical Ordinary Working Day,” which is an introduction to someone in the Afghanistan heroin trade, who we later find out is a C.I.A. agent!), the emotively foot to the floor rocker Malleus Maleficarum (which means “The Witches’ Hammer” offers parallels with the people of Ukraine fleeing the destruction from the war), the set coming to an all too soon close on the melodious Ameriana-folk-rock of Am I M.I.A. (a tongue twister about a guy so bored with his life that he disappears and moves to Miami to become a mercenary).

Tom’s first album “Call Me Ishmael” was released in 2020. Then came the 2021 single “Christmas Time in Hollywood” his second CD, “I Ain’t Ever Growing Up -Volume I,” and 2023’s “I Ain’t Ever Growing Up-Volume II” and an ep, “Christmas Time in Hollywood.”

He and five other songwriters from the Steve Earle tribe put together “Muscle Shoals Record Shop” recorded at Muscle Shoals legendary Cypress Moon Studio, home of the Swampers (aka Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)!

Tom is fully-committed to life on the road as he regularly performs at music venues throughout the South-land to promote his own brand of Heartland Rock. Singer/songwriter/recording artist Tom Ciurczak is proof that, once lit, the musical spark never dies – it’s just waiting for the right time to blaze its magic.

Official Purchase Link

www.tomciurczak.com