Rockers won’t be shushed on nationwide public library tour

Singer-guitarist Josh Malerman is hitting the books again, and it has nothing to do with studying.

“I’m sitting outside the library in Carson City right now,” he said enthusiastically by phone from Nevada this week. “They’ve got an Alfred Hitchcock festival going on. It’s fantastic.”

Later, the library would serve as host for a rock ‘n’ roll show, and Malerman’s hyperkinetic trio, the High Strung, would headline – another stop on the Detroit garage-rock group’s improbable National Public Library Tour. For the third consecutive summer, Malerman and bandmates Chad Stocker and Derek Berk are turning libraries into places to be rocked, not shushed.