On Friday November 18, Day 1 of The Wonderfront Music and Arts Festival kicked off for an unbeatable weekend. Located in San Diego’s marina, the forefront of downtown welcomed the return of the multi-genre festival WonderFront, which hit the ground running with Joey Purp as his very first show in Southern California. Purp uplifted the crowd with gratitude for their support and pursuit in his music career. Joey gained attention in 2012 after his first mixtape release “The Purple Tape,” and jumpstarted the feel for the festival and anticipation for the rest of day one.
Darling Greatly a group composed of The Croome Brothers, drummer Brayden Tario and electric Guitarist David Mills. introducing classical rock into modern alternative. The band truly rocks on and their style says it all. David Mills performs with a cig in his mouth and all time classic aviators, as the Croome Brothers rock with a trippy button up and ruby red electric guitar. Paying their respect to the loyalty of the fans, Darling Greatly opened with top hit “Shine” as part of their first album released in 2016.
As the day progressed, Saint Motel, Lainey Wilson, Quinn XCII and Young The Giant enticed the crowd and fan appeal. Saint Motel lead with top hits “My Type” and “Cold Cold Man” as lead singer AJ Jackson ran onto stage wearing a bright red tail coat, knee high boots and a black homburg hat. AJ fascinates the fans with his style and Indie pop music genre.
Lainey Wilson, performing since a young age, brought her country groove to the festival. Singing her top hit “Things A Man Oughta Know”, Wilson engaged with fans and danced among band members. An enticing an interactive show, Lainey continues her funk and groove as a female country artist.
Rising Artist Quinn XCII gave a stunning show at the Coors Light Stage. Fans filming, singing, dancing and pulled up their flashes to light up the main stage. Beginning his career back in 2011, Quinn XCII is best known for top hits “Stacy,” “Flare Guns” and “Straightjacket.” Quinn stands for ‘Quit Unless Your Iinstincts are Never Neglected’ and XCII represents the Roman numeral of Mikael Temrowski birth year 1992.
Another top show from day one had to be Young The Giant and they gave a set to remember. The euphoric lighting, mic stands strung with flowers and erratic dancing were part of lead singer Sameer Gadhia and his unpredictability as he moved across the stage and screamed with fans who floored for intro song “Wake Up.” The strobe lights, euphoric blues and purples made for an outstanding set that concluded with a well remembered hit performance of “Mind Over Matter” released in 2014.
To represent the East Coast, New Jersey-based singer and songwriter Bea Miller led an impressive set at the Tustreams Community Stage located at Ruocco Park. Grasping her career at only the age of 13. Miller is best known for hit album Aurora released in 2018 and her fans were ecstatic to hear “Song Like You,” “Burning Bridges” and “Crash&Burn” live. Bea’s facial expressions and assurance to the loyalty of her fans says it all.
To conclude Day 1 of WonderFront Music and Arts Festival, headliners The Zac Brown Band and EARTHGANG closed the day out with a well-remembered performance at the main stage. The Zac Brown band is most known as an American Country Band based in Atlanta with a classic “Chicken Fried” that captivated the crowd as they sang along ‘Cold Beer on a Friday Night,’ on a Friday night.
Headliner EARTHGANG featured hip-hop duo Johnny Venus and Doctur Dot raised the bar as the duo synced up, fist pumping the air, jumping towards the crowd and engaging their fans. The fans showed their loyalty for EARTHGANG as the duo’s songs have a fascinating range of musical influence. Attempting the notion of the conscious and subconscious of their lyrics and musical output, their closing of Day 1 of The WonderFront Music and Arts Festival of 2022 set the tone for what’s to come on both Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday, November 19, Goose and Trey Anastasio Band concluded their eight-show fall tour of the Northeast. The arena tour began in Portland, ME on November 9th, followed by performances in Lowell, MA, Uncasville, CT (at the Mohegan Sun Casino where Goose played their first arena show in February 2021), Glens Falls, Moon, PA, Fairfax, VA, and Syracuse. Endearingly referred to as “TABoose” over the past few months, the bands co-headlined the tour and sold out each of the nights, with each night of the run consisting of two 90+ minute sets of music opening with Goose and concluding the night with TAB, with various sit-ins throughout each of the bands’ performances.
Throughout the tour, both Peter Anspatch from Goose and Anastasio have expressed to the audience how grateful they were for the fall run and how much fun they have been having working, rehearsing, and chatting while on tour. Palpably so, fans have stated how much they’ve seen the tour has rubbed off on both the young indie-groove band and the veterans of the jam band scene.
Just after 7:30pm sharp, Goose took the stage, greeted with booming applause. The Connecticut-based five-piece began their set with “Flodown.” Referred to by fans as the “Flopener,” the jam’s introductory train-beat from drummer, Ben Atkind kicked the crowd into a barn dance style frenzy while guitarist, Rick Mitarotonda and keyboardist Anspach being to play around with space and chaos to pump the room’s energy to 11. As Goose’s skill and performance have evolved over the years, their older songs continue to grow and expand in composition. An example of this can be seen in the beginning of the “Flowdown” from the 2021 album, Shenanigans Nite Club. However the twisty angelic tones of the band’s 2022 Dripfield album could be heard in this performance tonight.
Goose continued the set with “Pancakes,” whose mysterious drum-beat and feedback are combined with fun audience participation clapping along with Peter Anspach. The punchy jam originating from Peter’s previous band, Great Blue, was filled with wailing overdrive from Rick while Anspach exercised his piano and organ playing skills. Rumblings from bassist Trevor Weekz provided subtle foreshadowing to the evil peaks and valleys at the end of the jam until the band’s speedy timing and turnaround at the end of the song.
To cool down the hot and bothered audience from the “Pancakes” jam, Goose provided a breezy rendition of their song “Turned Clouds,” a first time play on the tour. While the song’s back-end jam always provides fun vibes, the crowd was met with an extra flair from Trevor’s slap bass which built up intense tension and release to send the “Turned Clouds” sky high.
Next, the crowd at Santander Arena saw “Dripfield,” summoned by the usual entrancing synth from Peter, digital drumbeat kicked in by percussionist Jeff Arevalo, and mystifying beams of purple and green light from Andrew Goedde. The song’s eight-note trade-off between Rick and Peter on guitar pumped the energy through the crowd until the toms from Ben’s kit kicked in and sent the drip into an extremely primal sounding jam. Rick channeled the energy through his hollow body PRS sending commanding growls over the controlled chaos composed by the Connecticut quintet.
After this stunning performance, Peter took a moment to thank the fans, the 77-person crew working to get everything in place for the shows, and of course Trey for all the fun they have been having on the tour. With that, Peter welcomed Trey on to the stage and the group began the Vasudo original, “Rockdale.” Rick and Trey harmonized the opening notes of “Rockdale” in a style reminiscent of the Allman Brothers style. As the main jam began to take form both Rick and Trey dove into low frequency distortions creating a comfortable valley for the two to later shoot off. Rick began to wail as Trey filled the space with expression before the two wove through each other’s soloing in complimentary form. The rest of the band held down intense space and rhythm with Trevor Weeks holding it down on bass, Jeff and Ben shredding high hats and snares, and Anspach on organ.
With the energy up, the honking and hollering fans were then treated to a bustout of “Elmeg the Wise,” which this author would describe as peak Goose. The enchanting hymn, written by Mitarotonda, describes a being on a path searching for wisdom and inspiration. As the song punched into the jam, the band’s enchantment of the crowd quickly lit up.
To cap off the set, the band welcomed the TAB horns players, James Casey, Natalie Cressman, and Jennifer Hartswick to the stage shortly before Rick tore into the opening notes to the fan favorite, “Hot Tea.” In its studio debut on Dripfield, the classic jam was paired with horns for the first time. With seasoned trumpet, trombone, and saxophone players on stage, the crowd was in for a raging tea party and received nothing short of it.
Goose Setlist:: Flodown[1], Pancakes, Turned Clouds, Dripfield, Rockdale[2], Elmeg The Wise[2], Hot Tea[3][1] Flopener. [2] With Trey Anastasio on guitar. [3] With Trey Anastasio on guitar, James Casey on saxophone, Jennifer Hartswick on trumpet, and Natalie Cressman on trombone.
The Trey Anastasio Band graced the stage for the final time of the tour and was greeted by the sold out crowd with eruptions of warm applause and cheers. The love and reception of Trey in the arena felt like an entire crowd welcoming their rock star father to melt faces.
The set began with “Push on Til the Day,” whose bouncy rhythm kept Trey hopping and bopping around the quick and concise composition. Things cooled things down with “Love is What We Are,” a fun reggae half-time beat was adorably paired with percussionist Cyro Baptista playing a small bow and arrow to appear as a bearded, can-jingling Cupid.
To fire things up again the band erupted into “Mozambique” with a jazzy salsa style that kept the crowd moving as Trey ran back and forth across the stage. “Cayman Review” came next followed by an incredibly funky “Camel Walk.” Bassist Dezron Douglas kept everything locked in place as keyboardist Ray Paczkowski revved up his organ. Trey took this as a queue to glide through a solo which was met at the end with a palpably strong call and response jam between saxophonist James Casey and the rest of the band.
“Twist” had a fun jam paired with some high kicks and “woo’s” from Trey, who showed off a fair amount of his looping skills that he has grown partial to over the last couple of years. “No Man in No Man’s Land” kept the night moving with tight and concise horns and on-the-dime turnarounds. The jam concluded with a drum and space style solo from Cyro and drummer Russ Lawton.
“Life Beyond a Dream” captivated the crowd next with harmonic crescendos from the horn/vocal section. “Dark and Down” was a highlight of the TAB set with its intense vibe and composition. Trey’s soulful solo raised the hearts of the crowd and left the room speechless before its eruption of applause.
While waiting for Mitarotonda and Anspach to join the stage on guitar and keys, Cyro treated the crowd to a spacey jam consisting of Vargan playing and voice modulated poetry. Rick and Peter sat in for “Ghost” where the jam sent the crowd once again into overdrive. While waiting for Trey’s fried amp to be fixed, Peter shared some words that he heard from Trey at one of his first Phish shows. Anspach recounted that Trey asked the crowd, “Hey, any youngsters out there? This is a pretty good job!” With that Peter encouraged the young people of the crowd to pursue music if their passions lie there.
“Hey Stranger” and “Everything’s Right” brought joy and whimsy to the crowd as the night neared the end. For the last song of the set, the rest of Goose rejoined the stage for “First Tube,” where Dezron and Trevor wove through heavy basslines together and brought even more energy. A disco ball at the top of the stage canopy shone throughout the arena while the rhythm section turned around and played to the crowd behind the stage.
Both bands came to the stage for the encore and ripped into a beloved slow version of the Phish jam, “Llama,” whose final lyric, ‘Taboot’ was appropriately changed to ‘Taboose’ for the night. The slow and melodic “Show of Life” came next and as Trey ended the song and thanked all the band members and crew, Trey said, “We don’t want the party to end. So I say keep the fuckin’ party going!” With this, the group punched into “Party Time” which ended with a New Orleans-Style parade walk off guided by Cyro’s whistle and the TAB horns.
Trey will be back with Phish for their NYE run at Madison Square Garden over December 28-31. Goose is scheduled to play two nights at 1stBank Arena in Broomfield, CO for two nights of their Annual Goosemas show on December 16-17, with other scheduled Goose events at the Fox Theater in Boulder on December 18, two nights of New Years Eve at the Brady Music Center in Cincinnati, and five nights at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester from March 8-12.
Trey Anastasio Band Setlist: Push On ‘Til the Day, Love Is What We Are, Mozambique, Cayman Review, Camel Walk, Twist, No Men In No Man’s Land, A Life Beyond The Dream, …And Flew Away, Dark and Down, Ghost [1], Hey Stranger [1], Everything’s Right[1], First Tube [2]
Encore: Llama [3], Show of Life [4], Party Time [5]
[1] Rick Mitarotonda on guitar and Peter Anspach on keys. [2] Rick Mitarotonda on guitar, Peter Anspach on keys, Trevor Weekz on bass, and Jeff Arevalo and Ben Atkind on percussion. [3] Rick Mitarotonda on guitar, Peter Anspach on keys, and Jeff Arevalo, Ben Atkind, and Trevor Weekz on percussion; performed in an alternate arrangement. Final lyric changed to “Taboose.” [4] Rick Mitarotonda on guitar, Peter Anspach on keys, and Jeff Arevalo, Ben Atkind, and Trevor Weekz on percussion. [5] Rick Mitarotonda on guitar, Peter Anspach on keys and vocals, and Jeff Arevalo, Ben Atkind, and Trevor Weekz on percussion. Ended with the horns and everyone else on percussion playing as everyone walked off stage.
After two years under wraps, The Wonderfront Music Festival makes its first return since 2019. Running from November 18-22, 2022, Wonderfront was started by CEO Paul Thornton and is located right in the marina along the waterfront piers and parks of downtown San Diego. Wonderfront is a multi genre annual festival hosting over 80+ artists, including award winning headliners Gwen Stefani, Cage The Elephant, G-Eazy, and The Zac Brown Band.
WonderFront 2019
One of Southern California’s biggest cities, San Diego has become the perfect location for festival grounds in the SeaPort Village Marina. The Wonderfront Festival is bringing a full package to the comeback lineup for 2022 with many art installations, food vendors like Sophias Kitchen, Pressed and Smash City Burgers, in addition to hosting various retail vendors and partnering with The San Diego Museum of Art, one of the region’s largest and most-visited art museums to accentuate the visual arts experience.
WonderFront Music and Arts Festival Lineup
The lineup includes artists coming from around the globe. Headliners include Gwen Stefani, G-Eazy, The Zac Brown Band, Cage The Elephant, Young the Giant and EARTHGANG. While hosting over 80 artists, Wonderfront pulls from rock, alternative, rap, pop rock to appeal to a wide range of community for the fans. Not only does Wonderfront bring award-winning headliners but brings deserving attention to many more well established artists. Other artists featured on the lineup include Fitz and The Tantrums, Bea Miller, Joey Purp, Hippie Sabotage and many more.
NYS Music will head west for WonderFront Music and Arts Festival and will be reporting back on members of the East Coast music community, several of which are making an appearance at Wonderfront Festival 2022. Bea Miller from Maple Wood, New Jersey, launched her career after placing 9th on X- Factor at the age of only 13. Some of her top hits from album Aurora include “Song Like You,” “Like That,” and “Motherlove.” Another artist representing the East Coast is Two Feet, originally from Manhattan and gained attention in 2016 and rose to success after releases Pink and Max Marco is Dead Right? in 2021.
Following their record-breaking Los Angeles arena residency and their Latin America stadium run, Maná has announced the 2023 leg of their México Lindo Y Querido tour featuring 19 shows across the United States.
The U.S. leg of the tour kicks off with two more dates of Mana’s current L.A. residency at the Kia Forum on February 10 and 11 and continues with stops in Phoenix, Houston, Miami, Chicago, including a stop at UBS Arena at Belmont Park, in Elmont, NY, on Saturday, April 22, before wrapping in Sacramento, CA, at Golden 1 Center on September 23. Tickets go on sale starting on Friday, November 18 at 10 a.m. on Ticketmaster.
Maná’s Mexico Lindo Y Querido complete tour dates
Mexico Lindo Y Querido
México Lindo y Querido kicked-off on June 10 in Tijuana, México. With Maná performing multiple nights in Medellin, Bogota, Puerto Rico and México. The tour is a timeless celebration of their love and admiration for Mexico and the multigenerational Latino community. The five-city México run brought the band to sold-out stadiums with over 150,000 fans. Moreover, that total includes 60,000 ecstatic fans at the prestigious Foro Sol stadium in Mexico City. In order to kick-off the announcement of their U.S. leg, MANÁ will host a launch party at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Beach, featuring a special live performance from the band. Moreover, Mexico Lindo Y Querido is a part of a three-decade run that has seen Maná amass a diverse audience of fans of all ages that continue to celebrate their music around the globe.
The México Lindo y Querido U.S. run comes on the heels of Maná’s record-breaking residency with 12 sold-out shows and 165,000 tickets sold to date.
Get ready, we’re coming with a brand new production and all our hits. We’re excited to be back on the road and see all our fans in the US. This isn’t just a concert tour, it’s a celebration of life.
– Maná
Considered one of the most influential Latin rock band in the world, Maná has transcended generations with their music. Maná — meaning positive energy in Polynesian — began in 1986 when four friends from Guadalajara came together and fused rock sounds with Latin and Caribbean rhythms. The group includes Fher Olvera as vocalist, guitarist and main composer, Alex González on drums, Sergio Vallín on lead guitar, and Juan Diego Calleros on bass.
Maná is one of the most decorated latin groups ever
Furthermore, the group has amassed 133 Certified Gold Albums, 256 Certified Platinum albums, 4 Grammy Awards, 9 Latin Grammys, 26 Billboard Latin Music Awards, 15 Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, and honors such as the 2018 Latin Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award & 2018 Latin Grammy Person of the Year Award and more recently the 2021 ICONO LATIN BILLBOARD Award.
Their current collaboration project, which began in 2019, revisits some of their greatest songs, accompanied by renowned and diverse artists.
On the heels of the announcement that guitarist Chuck Garvey will be sitting-in as a “special guest” for their NYE performance, moe. has announced a short run of tour dates for Winter 2023, which will include select performances up and down the east coast.
Beginning with three nights in NY, NJ, and DC in late January, the tour will resume with a 2-night run at the State Theatre in Portland, ME over President’s Day weekend, and an additional 2-night run at the Palace Theatre in Albany on February 24-25, coinciding with “moe.day” in Albany on 2/24. The band has yet to announce plans for Chuck to return to the band on a full-time basis following his sit-in on NYE.
moe. – Chuck Garvey (guitar, vocals), Rob Derhak (bass, vocals), Al Schnier (guitar, vocals), Jim Loughlin (percussion, vibes), Vinnie Amico (drums)
The band made its long-awaited return to Colorado this month, where they played their first three-night run in nearly a year at the Fox Theater in Boulder. On the final night of the run, the band announced that Garvey, who suffered a stroke last November, would sit-in as a “special guest” for a portion of the band’s NYE performance at the Fillmore Philadelphia for the first time in over a year. The announcement came exactly one year to the day since Garvey suffered his stroke, and his return appearance is also especially significant, since the Fillmore Philadelphia was the last venue he performed at on Halloween 2022.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of my worst day ever. I scared my wife, my family, my friends, and many of you who heard of my stroke. Thank you for your well-wishes and your donations, without which my recovery would not have happened. This year has been a really long, difficult one for me, but a rewarding one, in that I learned what a person needs to do to achieve goals. Some are basic, everyday things like speech, and some are more about universal things that I noticed about family, friends, and community that keep us all afloat. So, thank you for your help and your community. I can’t wait to see all of you where the water falls, and the music calls. I will be joining my brothers on stage in Philly, the city of brotherly love.
Chuck Garvey’s note to fans
The band is gearing up for the holidays with a selection of limited-edition merch, currently on-sale via the moe. online store. Offerings include “ugly” t-shirt and crewnecks sold alongside a moe. holiday ornament. For more information, click here.
A special artist pre-sale will begin Wednesday, November 16th at 10am local time – for details click here. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, November 18th at 10am local time. For ticketing and show info, please visit moe.org/tour.
moe 2023 Winter Tour Dates
Thursday, January 19 – The Paramount – Huntington, NY Friday, January 20th – 9:30 Club – Washington, D.C. Saturday, January 21st – Wellmont Theater – Montclair, NJ Friday, February 17th – State Theatre – Portland, ME Saturday, February 18th – State Theatre – Portland, ME Friday, February 24th – Palace Theater – Albany, NY Saturday, February 25th – Palace Theater – Albany, NY Thursday, March 9th – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN Friday, March 10th – Mars Music Hall – Huntsville, AL Saturday, March 11th – Minglewood Hall – Memphis, TN Sunday, March 12th – Vinyl Music Hall – Pensacola, FL Wednesday, March 15th – Music Hall – Charleston, SC Thursday, March 16th – The Plaza Live – Orlando, FL Friday, March 17th – Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL Saturday, March 18th – Jannus Live – St. Petersburg, FL Sunday, March 19th – PV Concert Hall – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Tuesday, March 21st – Lincoln Theatre – Raleigh, NC Wednesday, March 22nd – Jefferson Theatre – Charlottesville, VA Thursday, March 23rd – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC Friday, March 24th – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA Saturday, March 25th – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
On Saturday, November 12, TABoose (Trey Anastasio Band and Goose) took over Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut for an incredibly fiery sold-out show as the third night of Goose and Trey Anastasio Band‘s co-headlining tour.
Goose’s performance on Saturday marked their second appearance at Mohegan this year – the home-state arena hosted the eighth annual Goosemas celebration this past February. Unlike that show, where there was extra space on the floor and no seats open behind the stage, the room was absolutely packed with people, a full 10,000-person sell out.
The quintet took the stage to thunderous applause and jumped into “Animal.” The perfect opener choice for the energetic crowd, guitarist Rick Mitarotonda took his time on the middle jam section and brought it to a rolling boil before closing out the catchy tune.
“Flodown” was tapped next and saw Mitarotonda once again lead the jamming, this time not with punchy guitar playing but with a bevy of delay effects. As the extended intros to this song are wont to do, the propulsive beat of drummer Ben Atkind and percussionist Jeff Arevalo was peppered with squiggly guitar freak-outs until exploding into the song proper.
Keeping the energy up in this no-breathers set was the first track from Dripfield to appear on this tour, the jamming staple “Arrow.” Taking the dance-y groove out for a shorter-than-normal spin, Mitarotonda pushed through a broken string to lead the rest of the band through a smooth segue into a cover of Bob Seger’s “Hollywood Nights,” not played by Goose since May 4, 2018 or 311 shows. Arevalo sported an ear-to-ear grin throughout the cover as the band kept the energy at a screaming level as they finished off “Arrow.”
Wasting no time, multi-instrumentalist Peter Anspach used his wireless guitar set-up to join Rick center-stage on the ensuing “Dripfield.” Debuted alongside “Hungersite” during the third set of the Goosemas show in the same room back in February, last night’s “Drip” had a similar effect in an arena setting — pounding drums and churning guitar echoing around every corner of the space as massive smiles were sported by all band members.
Anspach then called up the TAB horn section to help on a cover of “Fish in the Sea” by Fat Freddy’s Drop – a staple of the live Goose catalogue. Bassist Trevor Weekz driving groove laid the perfect foundation for the horns to solo over as saxophonist James Casey and Mitarotonda traded licks phenomenally.
Trey was brought out for the set closer, and the crowd went absolutely nuts for the opening notes of “Factory Fiction.” For those of you who may not know the history of the song, “Factory” was penned by Mitarotonda and songwriting partner Matt Campbell over a decade ago as part of Goose precursor band Vasudo’s catalogue. Rarely played in the earlier days of Goose, it was busted out at crew member “Coach” Jon Lombardi’s wedding in October 2019 and was a standout part of their 2020 livestreamed Bingo Tour. Since then, the song has been played numerous times at “special occasion” shows, or times when the vibe just calls for a little extra.
Excitement swept the crowd as the song progressed, and we were treated to another dose of Allman Brothers-like guitar playing from Anastasio and Mitarotonda as the jam built to multiple screaming peaks to close out Goose’s incredible set.
TAB’s set began with the first repeat of tour, catalogue classic “Sand.” Moving from there into “Shine” and “Twist,” Anastasio’s normally bouncy energy seemed multiplied last night as he ripped his fretboard to shreds during the opening songs.
A quick bounce through “Mozambique” gave way to the tour’s first “Night Speaks to a Woman,” a song filled with impressive vocal contributions from Natalie Cressman, Jennifer Hartswick and James Casey while Trey continued to shred.
“Mercy,” a beautiful song crafted from the composed piano intro to the Ghosts of the Forest live shows, offered a breather ahead of a bubbly take on “Undermind.” Trey led the band through relative rarity “…And Flew Away” from his Lonely Trip quarantine album before the brightness of “Pigtail” kept smiles on faces.
Taking a late-set spot that is perfect for the song, “About to Run” featured what may have been Anastasio’s strongest guitar playing of the night. Bassist Dezron Douglas dug into the groove as the roof was blown off the arena. “Push On ‘Til The Day” closed out the main portion of TAB’s set with another blistering peak that had the crowd even more dialed in and crazy than they had been before.
Bringing Mitarotonda and Anspach on stage, the band jumped into a peppy “No Men in No Man’s Land” that once again showcased Douglas and drummer Russ Lawton‘s rhythm section connection, with the former turning to face the latter throughout the deep groove. Focusing once again on guitar showcases rather than deep improv, Anastasio and Mitarotonda brought forth peak after peak in “NMINML” and the set-closing “46 Days” that left ear-to-ear grins on those in attendance.
For the encore, the rest of Goose was brought up on stage as Trey remarked that “sometimes you just need two bassists” before ripping directly into “Carini.” More smiles on the faces of every band member, more fretboard fireworks and one final venue-destroying peak closed out the third show of TABoose tour.
With five shows remaining, both bands continue to be growing in energy and confidence as the tour goes on and we all eagerly await the collaborations to come.
Thursday, November 10th saw the Disco Biscuits play the first of two nights in Hartford at Infinity Music Hall. The first set was bookended with long time favorite Digital Buddha with the meat of the set consisting of newer songs from the bands catalog. The second set was full of high energy jams just like the first, but was cut short by a fire alarm going off and the show ending early.
After the two night Hartford run the band heads to Boston and Stroudsburg, PA to finish out the weekend run. The following week, November 18 & 19, finds the Disco Biscuits in Atlanta and the band will close out the year in Chicago for a three night New Years run.
Disco Biscuits – Infinity Music Hall, Hartford, CT – Thursday, November 10, 2022
Set 1: Digital Buddha-> 4th of July-> Another Plan of Attack-> Evolve-> Digital Buddha
Set 2: Mindless Dribble-> Who’s in Charge-> Orch Theme-> Freeze
Earlier this week, the legendary Peter Gabriel announced plans for his 2023 tour across the UK & Europe in the spring. The tour marks his first solo shows outside of North America since 2014’s Back to Front Tour. which celebrated So.
The 22 shows in Europe will kick off in Krakow, Poland on May 18, 2023, with dates in Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and the UK before wrapping in Dublin, Ireland on June 25, 2023. North American tour dates will follow in the late summer and fall with dates and details to come.
Peter Gabriel said of the tour:
It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin. Look forward to seeing you out there.
Peter Gabriel first came to international prominence with the success of Genesis, a band that he co-founded while still at school. Since leaving Genesis in 1975, his recording career has included eleven studio albums, film soundtracks for Alan Parker’s Birdy, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Philip Noyce’s Rabbit Proof Fence as well as numerous live albums. His musical career has included multiple Grammy Awards, the world-renowned Real World Studios, the formation of the Real World Records label, and in 1980 the creation of WOMAD, the festival that has launched the careers of many artists from around the world and has just celebrated its 40th anniversary.
Peter Gabriel co-founded the human rights organization WITNESS (Witness.org) in 1992, the organization that pioneers the use of cameras and technology in human rights campaigning, and in 2007, alongside Sir Richard Branson, he founded The Elders (theelders.org) which was launched by Nelson Mandela. In 2006, Peter Gabriel was awarded the prestigious Man of Peace title by The Nobel Peace Laureates and in 2008 was also included in the Time 100 list. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice. He remains engaged in a wide variety of tech-based businesses throughout a variety of creative industries.
Tickets go on sale starting Friday, November 11, 2022 at LiveNation.com.
Peter Gabriel i/o The Tour2023 dates
May 18: Krakow (TAURON Arena) May 20: Verona, Italy (Verona Arena) May 21: Milan (Mediolanum Arena May 23: Paris (AccorHotels Arena) May 24: Lille, France (Stade Pierre-Mauroy) May 26: Berlin (Waldbuehne) May 28: Munich (Koenigsplatz) May 30: Copenhagen (Royal Arena) May 31: Stockholm (Avicii Arena) June 2: Bergen, Norway (Koengen) June 5: Amsterdam (Ziggo Dome) June 6: Antwerp, Belgium (Sportpaleis) June 8: Zurich (Hallenstadion) June 10: Cologne, Germany (Lanxess Arena) June 12: Hamburg, Germany (Barclays Arena) June 13: Frankfurt, Germany (Festhalle) June 15: Bordeaux, France (Arkea Arena) June 17: Birmingham, England (Utilita Arena) June 19: London (The O2) June 22: Glasgow (OVO Hydro) June 23: Manchester, England (AO Arena) June 25: Dublin (3Arena)
Fans of moe. got a dose of good news about beloved guitarist Chuck Garvey the other night at the band’s show at The Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO. In his customary pre-encore “Al.nouncements,” guitarist Al Schnier read a note from Chuck, who suffered a stroke last November, proclaiming that he would sit-in as a “special guest” for a portion of the band’s NYE performance at the Fillmore Philadelphia for the first time in over a year. As expected, the news was met with much delight.
The announcement came exactly one year to the day since Chuck Garvey suffered his stroke, and his return appearance with moe. is also significant since the Fillmore Philadelphia was the last venue he performed at on Halloween 2022. The band has yet to announce plans for Chuck to return to the band on a full-time basis.
Thank you for your well-wishes and your donations, without which my recovery would not have happened. This year has been a really long, difficult one for me, but a rewarding one, in that I learned what a person needs to do to achieve goals.
~ Chuck Garvey
The NYE performance will include an opening set by the New Haven, CT based 4-piece Eggy, and also feature The Horn Section, a 3-piece horn group featuring former members of Turkuaz, who will be performing with moe. throughout the night. The concert will follow moe.’s appearance at the North Beach Music Festival in Miami Beach, and a handful of Rob & Vinnie shows with BlueStar Radiation through the remainder of 2022.
Covering a band from Belgium is a first for NYS Music, and not without good reason. The Haunted Youth have been indie darlings in Belgium and The Netherlands since the 2021 release of their first single “Teen Rebel,” and in attending Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany this past September, The Haunted Youth were one of the finalists for the ANCHOR Award, given out on the final day of the festival.
While The Haunted Youth did not win the ANCHOR Award (congrats to Cassia), they performed later that night at Angie’s to an industry crowd that saw lightning in a bottle. Seeing a band of this caliber perform in a club, having just played a main stage, who brought more energy to the room at the former, showed the nascent nature and the great potential for this Belgian band, who released their debut album Dawn of the Freak on November 4.
With hints of Australian indie rock band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, recurring themes on Dawn of The Freak reflect the lives of a band who first connected during the COVID lockdowns in Europe and persevered through the loneliness and disruption to their lives. Frontman Joachim Liebens put his heart and soul into Dawn Of The Freak, writing all the songs and producing the album. The group’s sound ties together influences including The Cure, Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, with shoegaze and dream pop laying the foundation of the album’s tone. Balancing out the highs the group has experienced in the past two years, the lows from Lieben are deftly channeled into the music.
It’s therapy, a way of dealing with my existence. And I hope this album will be universal and accessible enough for others to enjoy it in the same way.
Joachim Liebens
Whether live or studio, The Haunted Youth have a ‘sound of a generation’ quality about them, one that is heard clearly on the second and third tracks, “Teen Rebel” and “Stranger.” The former is an excellent post teen-angst song for the ’20s, with a dream pop beat that reflects on wanting more, creating a sweet dilemna. “Stranger” has hints of lonelieness that soldiers along thanks to The Cure and Culture Club, with tastes of new wave channeled through Gen Z.
A steady bass tone spreads into melanchoic synth rock on the longest track of the album, “Gone,” with “Broken” having the catchiest guitar riff and full band sound among the whole album, and that’s saying something. Lieben’s voice adds subtle emotion in his intonations, making “I Feel Like Shit and I Wanna Die” more upbeat than the title might suggest, offering a ray of light amid the burden of his life.
The airy and dreamy “House Arrest” repeats the lines “In the night I was falling down” and “take me away,” a stark view of what lockdowns must have felt like in Europe, as opposed to America where they varied in response and success. The properly upbeat penultimate track “Coming Home” gives a feeling of redemption and hope as the album draws to a close.
“Fist in my Pocket,” the final track and only acoustic number, channels the repressed anger of a generation, angry but unable to rise up against the gravity of the world left for them. Again, a melancholic glimmer of hope is shared, with Liebens singing, “It’ll all be over someday soon, I promise you.” As dark as the lyrics can be, the message gives the listener a fair reminder and feeling that it’s okay to feel like shit sometimes.
After performances at Reeperbahn, Rock Werchter, Best Kept Secret, Pukkelpop, and Tomavistas, the group not only has the ANCHOR Awards nomination under their belt, but also have been nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards.
The Haunted Youth will be playing sold-out album release shows in The Netherlands and the Main Hall of legendary Brussels venue Ancienne Belgique, followed by an extensive string of release and festival shows all over Europe in 2023. Here’s to hoping they can make their way State-side for shows in the near future.
Dawn of the Freak is now available on all streaming services and Bandcamp
