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RIVAL SONS SETLIST
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Do Your Worst Electric Man Rapture Bird in the Hand Where I've Been Open My Eyes Drum Solo Guillotine Feral Roots Face of Light Guitar Solo Shooting Stars (Acoustic) Darkside Nobody Wants to Die Keep On Swinging THE BLACK ANGELS SETLIST STARCRAWLER Setlist Goodtime Girl Read More
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Los Angeles blues rockers Rival Sons stopped in midtown Kansas City at the Uptown Theater, to headline a bill (supporting brand-new seventh studio album, Darkfighter) that truly showed the spectrum of today's rock n' roll.
The evening opened up early, with a thirty-minute set from fellow LA band, Starcrawler, in support of their third album, last year's She Said, and who we saw headline in St Paul back in late 2019. The indie rock band has some punk-pop undertones, with a Sunset Strip LA swagger and vocalist Arrow de Wilde proves to be pretty mesmerizing to watch. Not to be outdone, and without missing a chord, guitarist Henri Cash found his way up to a balcony box, to finish the song some twenty feet above the main floor.
We've been fans of TX psych rock band The Black Angels for years- their memorable in- store set at Electric Fetus in Minneapolis on Record Store Day 2013 and tour with the late Roky Erickson, being a couple highlights of their late decade-plus.
We caught them headlining last October in Lawrence, shortly after latest album, Wilderness of Mirrors was released and the band continues to create on their own terms, not at all feeling obligated to work in their biggest radio hit to date, "Don't Play with Guns". Vocalist Alex Maas remains even more enigmatic, baseball hat with the brim tightly pulled down and not saying much between songs, other than a pleasant thank you.
Though Long Beach, CA band Rival Sons have been around over a decade and a half, it seems like now turns the next big chapter in the band's evolution. New and seventh album Darkfighter was just released this month (via Low Country Sound / Atlantic Records) and its follow up, Lightbringer is already also in the can, and is set to release later this year. as the band will tour extensively through the summer, and then is off to UK / Europe for the Fall.
Live, they sizzle playing that familiar 70's influenced sound that would have found a home on Zeppelin's Swan Song label but have said they are as equally influenced by Prince, The Roots, and Van Morrison, as much as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and others.
The crowd loved the solos by guitarist Scott Holiday (many on a dual-neck guitar) vocalist Jay Buchanan didn't need to speak loudly at all between songs to get a rise out of the crowd, and drummer Mike Miley sported an infectious smile most of the evening, even more so during his own solo. And, though staying mostly serious on stage, the band clearly has a clever sense of humor, as evidenced by the wordplay on their own setlists (see pic at right).
A solid evening of entertainment that showcased several of the many facets today's Rock is - each sub-genre clearly influenced by the past, but fluid enough in the interpretation, that innovation is still possible in glam indie rock, Texas psych rock, and LA blues/soul rock with Rival Sons / the Black Angels / Starcrawler proving the point.
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The Grammy-nominated California rockers are out on a spanning nationwide tour in support of their just-released new album, DARKFIGHTER, which came out on June 2nd and features new single, “Bird in the Hand”.
Just a few dates left on this leg, it’s set to end in Denver on June 18th, but it’s fortunate for anyone seeing these last shows also get to see TX-psych rockers The Black Angels as support, and who we saw headline in Lawrence last October.
Regarding the new single, “Bird in the Hand,” singer Jay Buchannan said, “There’s a lyric in there, ‘Let’s go down to the river where the water runs still and deep, to scatter the ashes of the mess I used to be.’ You can burn through a whole lot of time just trying to find your lane, your realized intention. At some point you accept reincarnation as a waking process. Build, refine and burn again and again and the lyric, ‘A bird in the hand, now that’s a miracle I can believe’ is the immersive commitment to the present.”
RIVAL SONS Tour Dates
JUN 18 OGDEN THEATRE DENVER, CO
JUL 21 BUKTAFESTIVALEN TROMSØ, NORWAY
JUL 2 2MALAKOFF ROCKFESTIVAL NORDFJORDEID, NORWAY
AUG 1 USANA SALT LAKE CITY, UT
AUG 3 SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
AUG 5 WHITE RIVER AMPHITHEATRE AUBURN, WA
AUG 6 HAYDEN HOMES AMPHITHEATER BEND, OR
AUG 7 TOYOTA AMPHITHEATRE WHEATLAND, CA
AUG 9 FIVEPOINT AMPHITHEATRE IRVINE, CA
AUG 10 NORTH ISL CREDIT UNION AMPH CHULA VISTA, CA
AUG 11 HOUSE OF BLUES LAS VEGAS, NV
AUG 13 ISLETA AMPHITHEATER ALBUQUERQUE, NM
AUG 15 DOS EQUIS PAVILION DALLAS, TX
AUG 16 WALMART AMP ROGERS, AR
AUG 17 ORION AMPHITHEATER HUNTSVILLE, AL
AUG 19 ITHINK FINANCIAL AMPH WEST PALM BEACH, FL
AUG 20 MIDFLORIDA CREDIT UNION AMPH TAMPA, FL
AUG 22 PNC MUSIC PAVILION CHARLOTTE, NC
AUG 24 PNC BANK ARTS CENTER HOLMDEL, NJ
AUG 25 BANK OF NEW HAMPSHIRE PAVILION GILFORD, NH
AUG 26 THÉÂTRE BEANFIELD MONTRÉAL, CANADA
AUG 27 STATE THEATRE, PORTLAND, ME
AUG 29 XL LIVE HARRISBURG, PA
AUG 30 JONES BEACH THEATER WANTAGH, NY
AUG 31 JIFFY LUBE LIVE BRISTOW, VA
SEP 2 BUDWEISER STAGE TORONTO, CANADA
SEP 3 CANADIAN TIRE CENTRE OTTAWA, CANADA
SEP 6 ROXIAN THEATRE MCKEES ROCKS, PA
SEP 7 THE MILL & MINE KNOXVILLE, TN
SEP 8 FIRSTBANK AMPHITHEATER FRANKLIN, TN
SEP 9 RUOFF MUSIC CENTER NOBLESVILLE, IN
SEP 23 RIFF FEST CLARKSTON, MI
SEP 24 LOUDER THAN LIFE 2023 LOUISVILLE, KY
OCT 13 ROUNDHOUSE LONDON, UK
OCT 14 NX NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK
OCT 16 BARROWLAND BALLROOM GLASGOW, UK
OCT 17 O2 ACADEMY BIRMINGHAM, UK
OCT 18 MANCHESTER ACADEMY MANCHESTER, UK
OCT 20 CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE CAMBRIDGE, UK
OCT 21 O2 ACADEMY BRISTOL, UK
OCT 22 O2 GUILDHALL SOUTHAMPTON, UK
OCT 24 LA CARRIÈREST HERBLAIN, FRANCE
OCT 25 LE RADIANTLYON, FRANCE
OCT 27 L’OLYMPIAPARIS, FRANCE
OCT 28 LES DOCKSLAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
OCT 29 ALCATRAZMILAN, ITALY
OCT 31 GASOMETERWIEN, AUSTRIA
NOV 1 X-TRAZURICH, SWITZERLAND
NOV 2 THEATER FABRIK MÜNCHEN, GERMANY
NOV 4 LUCERNA MUSIC BAR PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
NOV 5 KLUB STODOŁA WARSAW, POLAND
NOV 6 MUSIC CLUB B17 POZNAŃ, POLAND
NOV 8 HUXLEYS NEUE WELT BERLIN, GERMANY
NOV 9 MELKWEG AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
NOV 10 KANTINE ARCHDIOCES COLOGNE, GERMANY
NOV 12 ANCIENNE BELGIQUE BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
NOV 13 GROSSE FREIHEIT 36 HAMBURG, GERMANY
NOV 14 THE GREY HALL COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
NOV 16 FORUM SCENE BERGEN, NORWAY
NOV 17 SENTRUM SCENE OSLO, NORWAY
NOV 18 B-KÖSTER MALM, SWEDEN
NOV 20 HOUSE OF CULTURE HELSINKI, FINLAND
NOV 21 TAMPERE HALL TAMPERE, FINLAND
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