OSEES played 2 nights at Brooklyn's Warsaw (pics, setlists)
During normal times, OSEES are either on tour or making albums, but the pandemic had them off the road for nearly two years, easily the longest stretch since forming in the last ’00s. Finally back out there, the band’s tour hit Brooklyn on Friday for a sold-out two-night stand at Warsaw in Greenpoint and you could tell they and the crowd had a lot of stored energy to to unleash.
The five member lineup of the band — frontman John Dwyer, keyboardist Tomas Dolas, bassist Tim Hellman and dual drummers Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone — had the packed room swarming from the kickoff the “The Dream,” through Smote Reverser‘s “C,” which ended the night. While OSEES released three albums since they last toured, they didn’t overload their set with them, only playing “Scramble Suit II” and “Terminal Jape” from Protean Threat and “Electric War” from Metamorphosed. Otherwise it was a nice mix of favorites, including “Withered Hand” (one of three from Mutilator Defeated at Last), “Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster,” “The Static God,” and more.
Watching the crowd going wild it looked like a regular OSEES show, including very few masks being worn on Friday night. (Security was diligent about checking vaccination against IDs, however.) Depending on your Covid anxiety levels it was either thrilling or had you eying the exit. This was my first full-on indoor rock show since lockdown, and easily the loudest thing I’ve experienced since March 2020, so it was a little bit of both for me, but the majority of people there on Friday seemed to be in the former camp.
The setlist for Saturday night, which photographer Kate Hoos shot, was pretty similar, but shuffled around. Both nights featured openers Mr Elevator as well as Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band whose new album, Music is Dead, came out Friday via John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.
Check out pics from Saturday night by Kate Hoos and setlists from Friday and Saturday, below.
SETLIST: OSEES @ Warsaw 5/24/2021
The Dream
The Daily Heavy
Tidal Wave
I Come From the Mountain
Sticky Hulks
Nite Expo
The Static God
Scramble Suit II
Electric War
Terminal Jape
Turned Out Light
Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster
Gholü
Withered Hand
Encrypted Bounce
C
SETLIST: OSEES @ Warsaw 5/25/2021
I Come From the Mountain
Tidal Wave
The Static God
The Fizz
Turned Out Light
Rogue Planet
Jettisoned
Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster
Withered Hand
Animated Violence
The Dream
The Daily Heavy
Encrypted Bounce
C
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Oh Sees Album Guide: Their 10 Best Records
Coheed and Cambria pull Dance Gavin Dance as support for summer tour
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Coheed and Cambria have pulled Dance Gavin Dance as support for their upcoming summer tour. The move comes after Dance Gavin Dance vocalist Tilian Pearson stepped away from the band after allegations of sexual assault against him surfaced on social media. A statement from Coheed reads:
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Coheed and Cambria have pulled Dance Gavin Dance as support for their upcoming summer tour. The move comes after Dance Gavin Dance vocalist Tilian Pearson stepped away from the band after allegations of sexual assault against him surfaced on social media. A statement from Coheed reads:
After much internal conversation and consideration, we have decided to replace Dance Gavin Dance on the "A Window of the Waking Mind Tour." We wish them healing and strength. We will be announcing a replacement in the coming days as we prepare for the release of Vaxis II and subsequent summer tour.Coheed's tour begins on July 12 in Miami, FL, and includes an NYC show at Forest Hills Stadium on July 30. See all dates below. Vaxis II: A Window of The Waking Mind is due out on June 24; pre-order it on vinyl. https://twitter.com/Coheed/status/1534316130218778624 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltKTHtMmDJQ COHEED AND CAMBRIA: 2022 TOUR Tue, JUL 12 Bayfront Park Amphitheatre Miami, FL Wed, JUL 13 MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Tampa, FL Fri, JUL 15 713 Music Hall Houston, TX Sat, JUL 16 Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels, TX Sun, JUL 17 Dallas, TX -Irving Music Factory Irving, TX Tue, JUL 19 Coca-Cola Roxy Atlanta, GA Sat, JUL 23 Nashville Municipal Auditorium Nashville, TN Sun, JUL 24 Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre Charlotte, NC Tue, JUL 26 The Anthem Washington, DC Wed, JUL 27 The Liacouras Center Philadelphia, PA Fri, JUL 29 Agganis Arena Boston, MA Sat, JUL 30 New York, NY Forest Hills, NY Mon, AUG 1 Stage AE Pittsburgh, PA Tue, AUG 2 Detroit, MI - Crofoot Outdoors Pontiac, MI Wed, AUG 3 RBC Echo Beach Toronto, Canada Fri, AUG 5 Armory Minneapolis, MN Sat, AUG 6 Chicago, IL - SeatGeek Stadium Bridgeview, IL Sun, AUG 7 Saint Louis Music Park Maryland Heights, MO Tue, AUG 9 Denver, Co - Fiddler's Green Amphitheater Englewood, CO Wed, AUG 10 The Complex Salt Lake City, UT Fri, AUG 12 Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall Los Angeles, CA Sat, AUG 13 Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater San Diego, CA Sun, AUG 14 The Greek Theatre Berkeley Berkeley, CA Tue, AUG 16 Marymoor Park Redmond, WA Wed, AUG 17 McMenamins Edgefield Troutdale, OR Sat, AUG 20 Paycom Center - w/ My Chemical Romance Oklahoma City, OK Fri, OCT 14 O2 Academy Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom Sat, OCT 15 O2 Academy Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom Sun, OCT 16 O2 Academy Brixton London, United Kingdom Tue, OCT 18 Manchester Academy Manchester, United Kingdom Wed, OCT 19 Rock City Nottingham, United Kingdom Thu, OCT 20 SWG3 Galvanizers Glasgow, United Kingdom Sat, OCT 22 Trix Antwerpen, Belgium Sun, OCT 23 Poppodium 013 Tilburg, Netherlands Tue, OCT 25 Columbiahalle Berlin, Germany Wed, OCT 26 Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden, Germany Fri, OCT 28 Estragon Club Bologna, Italy Sat, OCT 29 TONHALLE Munich, Germany Sun, OCT 30 Carlswerk Victoria Köln, Germany
The Delgados are back, announce first shows in 17 years
Scottish indie rock greats The Delgados broke up in 2005 after 11 years and five albums together, including 1998's Peloton, 2000's The Great Eastern and 2002's Hate, all of which are fantastic. (All five of their albums are good, though.) The band -- Alun Woodward, Emma Pollock, Stewart Henderson, and Paul Savage -- have now announced that they're getting back together.
“When we started The Delgados in 1994, it instantly felt effortless and simple," the band writes in a statement on their website. "There was a synergy and a chemistry. Four people pulling in different directions, but towards the same destination. Two of us couldn’t play very well and two couldn’t play at all but that unlearned sensitivity was our guide. Fast forward 25 or so years – the band has been split up for 15 of them – and we’re driving to Stuart Braithwaite’s wedding. We’ve spent hardly any time with each other for over a decade and like before it’s effortless, simple… and the thought occurs that it might be good to play together once again.”
The Delgados announced five UK shows happening in Brighton, London, Manchester, Sheffield, and Glasgow. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 10. All dates are listed, along with an announcement video, below.
No word on North American shows, or new music, but we can hope.
If you've never listened to The Delgados, they made a widescreen brand of indie rock that made great use of Alun and Emma's complementary vocals and worked especially well with producer Dave Fridmann, who gave their sound extra scope. The Great Eastern made our Indie Basement Best of 2000 list and here's what we wrote:
Led by singer/guitarists Alun Woodward and Emma Pollock, Scottish band The Delgados were one of the best bands of the 1995-2005 era, making magisterial indie rock that felt both immense and entirely homespun. Their third album, The Great Eastern, is wildly ambitious both in song structure and in arrangements -- songs were prone to left turns of tempo and time signature, and grand orchestration. No doubt influenced by Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs and The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin (both of which were, like The Great Eastern, produced by Dave Fridmann), songs like "Accused of Stealing," "American Trilogy" and "No Danger" remain perfect indie rock symphonies The Delgados feel a little lost to the era, for whatever reason, but The Great Eastern still wows.Though the band broke up in 2005, they continued to run Glasgow indie label Chemikal Underground that has been home to Mogwai, Arab Strap, Bis and more over the years. Wecome back, The Delgados! Listen to The Great Eastern and Peloton below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjlz7qovFtE THE DELGADOS - 2023 TOUR DATES 20 Jan 2023 - BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2 21 Jan 2023 - LONDON O2 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE 22 Jan 2023 - MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2 24 Jan 2023 - SHEFFIELD LEADMILL 25 Jan 2023 - GLASGOW BARROWLAND BALLROOM
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Indie Basement: 20 Favorite Albums of the Year 2000 (Alphabetical Order)
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Thursday are celebrating the 21st birthday of their sophomore LP, the hugely influential, pivotal post-hardcore classic Full Collapse, in their home state of NJ this summer, with a show at Jersey City's White Eagle Hall on July 9. They've now announced they'll be keeping the celebration going with more shows. They'll be joined by Anthony Green of Circa Survive for the new September dates, and October support varies by date, including The Homeless Gospel Choir, Hail the Sun, and The Fall of Troy. See all dates below.
The tour stops in Brooklyn for an intimate show at Saint Vitus Bar on September 9. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 10 at 10 AM, and they'll go quickly, so don't sleep on them.
Saint Vitus Bar is also where Geoff Rickly's other band, No Devotion, will play one of their first shows in seven years, on July 9 with Jeremy Enigk and Nate Bergman. Tickets for that are on sale now.
Thursday are also playing a few festivals coming up, including This is Hardcore and Hawthorne Heights' Is For Lovers, and they're also supporting My Chemical Romance at some of their reunion shows, including at Barclays Center and Prudential Center. See all dates below.
Speaking of Anthony Green, his new solo album, Boom. Done., is due out July 22 via Born Losers Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cepZ6K7mY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaLixshtM9k
photo by Azu Rodriguez[/caption]
Thursday are celebrating the 21st birthday of their sophomore LP, the hugely influential, pivotal post-hardcore classic Full Collapse, in their home state of NJ this summer, with a show at Jersey City's White Eagle Hall on July 9. They've now announced they'll be keeping the celebration going with more shows. They'll be joined by Anthony Green of Circa Survive for the new September dates, and October support varies by date, including The Homeless Gospel Choir, Hail the Sun, and The Fall of Troy. See all dates below.
The tour stops in Brooklyn for an intimate show at Saint Vitus Bar on September 9. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 10 at 10 AM, and they'll go quickly, so don't sleep on them.
Saint Vitus Bar is also where Geoff Rickly's other band, No Devotion, will play one of their first shows in seven years, on July 9 with Jeremy Enigk and Nate Bergman. Tickets for that are on sale now.
Thursday are also playing a few festivals coming up, including This is Hardcore and Hawthorne Heights' Is For Lovers, and they're also supporting My Chemical Romance at some of their reunion shows, including at Barclays Center and Prudential Center. See all dates below.
Speaking of Anthony Green, his new solo album, Boom. Done., is due out July 22 via Born Losers Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cepZ6K7mY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaLixshtM9k
Citizen’s Mat Kerekes announces new LP with Turnstile’s Daniel Fang on drums (stream a track)
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Citizen frontman Mat Kerekes has announced a new solo album, Nova, which features drums by Daniel Fang of Citizen's recent tourmates Turnstile, who Mat says "really gave a new life" to the songs, and it also includes a song called "Daniel Fang" which is actually a nine-second drum solo by Daniel. "I thought it was funny, so I put it on the record," Mat said.
The album comes out August 5 via Wax Bodega (pre-order), and Mat just released lead single "Danger." It's more on the jangle pop side than Citizen, but still with a punk edge thanks to Mat's vocal style and Daniel's forceful drumming. (In fact, it's a little like Angel Du$t, the punk-turned-jangle-pop band that Daniel also drums in.) "As one of the first tracks written for Nova, it kind of sparked the entire writing process and lit the fire that I needed to write an album," Mat says. "The subject matter touches on not feeling heard or seen by someone you once looked up to."
Mat also released an acoustic version of "Danger." Check out both below.
In related news, we just launched an exclusive white/yellow splatter vinyl variant of Citizen's classic 2013 debut album Youth. Get yours while they last.
https://youtu.be/LAsplh_PlGA
https://youtu.be/fPazo-u3Wac
Tracklist
1. Introducing...
2. Danger
3. Look, I’m A Famous Actor
4. And It Might’ve Been
5. Daniel Fang
6. Art Of Living
7. The Cool Kids
8. Parachute
9. Honky Tonk
10. Six Twenty
11. You’ll Be Selling Out Theaters
12. Farewell, Frankenstein
Mat with Citizen by Amanda M Hatfield[/caption]
Citizen frontman Mat Kerekes has announced a new solo album, Nova, which features drums by Daniel Fang of Citizen's recent tourmates Turnstile, who Mat says "really gave a new life" to the songs, and it also includes a song called "Daniel Fang" which is actually a nine-second drum solo by Daniel. "I thought it was funny, so I put it on the record," Mat said.
The album comes out August 5 via Wax Bodega (pre-order), and Mat just released lead single "Danger." It's more on the jangle pop side than Citizen, but still with a punk edge thanks to Mat's vocal style and Daniel's forceful drumming. (In fact, it's a little like Angel Du$t, the punk-turned-jangle-pop band that Daniel also drums in.) "As one of the first tracks written for Nova, it kind of sparked the entire writing process and lit the fire that I needed to write an album," Mat says. "The subject matter touches on not feeling heard or seen by someone you once looked up to."
Mat also released an acoustic version of "Danger." Check out both below.
In related news, we just launched an exclusive white/yellow splatter vinyl variant of Citizen's classic 2013 debut album Youth. Get yours while they last.
https://youtu.be/LAsplh_PlGA
https://youtu.be/fPazo-u3Wac
Tracklist
1. Introducing...
2. Danger
3. Look, I’m A Famous Actor
4. And It Might’ve Been
5. Daniel Fang
6. Art Of Living
7. The Cool Kids
8. Parachute
9. Honky Tonk
10. Six Twenty
11. You’ll Be Selling Out Theaters
12. Farewell, FrankensteinBlack Thought & Danger Mouse share “Because” ft. Joey Bada$$ & Russ
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Black Thought and Danger Mouse have released the second single from their long-awaited collaborative album Cheat Codes. Over dark and bluesy production from Danger Mouse, "Because" offers up gritty, compelling verses from Black Thought, Joey Bada$$, and Russ, and a hook from Dylan Cartlidge. Check it out below.
Joey Bada$$ said, "I’ve always been a big fan of Black Thought and Danger Mouse. I think Black Thought is one of the greatest rappers ever, so when they asked me to get on this record, it was a no-brainer, plus the record is fire! I still remember the first time I heard 'You Got Me' the video was shot on my great-grandmother’s block and I was actually there that day when I was a child. It changed the way I looked at music. I’m very honored to be a part of this track. We’re making history!"
And Russ added, "Being able to collaborate with one of the greatest lyricists of all time is an honor and to do it in unison with Danger Mouse is something I’m just really proud to be a part of."
The album also features appearnaces by MF DOOM, A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels, Raekwon, Kid Sister, Conway The Machine, and Michael Kiwanuka. It arrives 8/12 via BMG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlnh-gFPrq4&t=281s
Tracklist
1. Sometimes
2. Cheat Codes
3. The Darkest Part (ft. Raekwon & Kid Sister)
4. No Gold Teeth
5. Because (ft. Joey Bada$$, Russ & Dylan Cartlidge)
6. Belize (ft. MF DOOM)
7. Aquamarine (ft. Michael Kiwanuka)
8. Identical Deaths
9. Strangers (ft. A$AP Rocky & Run The Jewels)
10. Close To Famous
11. Saltwater (ft. Conway The Machine)
12. Voilas & Lupitas
photo by UNCANNY[/caption]
Black Thought and Danger Mouse have released the second single from their long-awaited collaborative album Cheat Codes. Over dark and bluesy production from Danger Mouse, "Because" offers up gritty, compelling verses from Black Thought, Joey Bada$$, and Russ, and a hook from Dylan Cartlidge. Check it out below.
Joey Bada$$ said, "I’ve always been a big fan of Black Thought and Danger Mouse. I think Black Thought is one of the greatest rappers ever, so when they asked me to get on this record, it was a no-brainer, plus the record is fire! I still remember the first time I heard 'You Got Me' the video was shot on my great-grandmother’s block and I was actually there that day when I was a child. It changed the way I looked at music. I’m very honored to be a part of this track. We’re making history!"
And Russ added, "Being able to collaborate with one of the greatest lyricists of all time is an honor and to do it in unison with Danger Mouse is something I’m just really proud to be a part of."
The album also features appearnaces by MF DOOM, A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels, Raekwon, Kid Sister, Conway The Machine, and Michael Kiwanuka. It arrives 8/12 via BMG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlnh-gFPrq4&t=281s
Tracklist
1. Sometimes
2. Cheat Codes
3. The Darkest Part (ft. Raekwon & Kid Sister)
4. No Gold Teeth
5. Because (ft. Joey Bada$$, Russ & Dylan Cartlidge)
6. Belize (ft. MF DOOM)
7. Aquamarine (ft. Michael Kiwanuka)
8. Identical Deaths
9. Strangers (ft. A$AP Rocky & Run The Jewels)
10. Close To Famous
11. Saltwater (ft. Conway The Machine)
12. Voilas & Lupitas
