WEEZER Setlist
MODEST MOUSE Setlist Dramamine Teeth Like God's Shoeshine Gravity Rides Everything Float On Back to the Middle Wooden Soldiers Satin in a Coffin Fire It Up Dashboard Out of Gas We Are Between The World at Large MOMMA Setlist
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The ride everyone wants to join this season, Weezer’s Indie Rock Roadtrip pulled over at the Bonner Springs, KS exit, just outside Kansas City, to play a lively outdoor show under the stars and clearing skies at Azura Amphitheater.
Momma is a rising Los Angeles indie rock band and opened the evening with a thirty-minute-set, in support of recent record “Household Name” and more recent single, “Bang Bang”. The band would make a return appearance as well, jumping on stage to join Weezer for a song during their set.
Modest Mouse has managed to carry...err, Float On, despite the devastating death of their drummer Jeremiah Green at the end of last year (we caught the band last Sept w/Green and in December without), with the sun emerging from cloudy skies, just as the band took to the stage.
Latest LP is still 2021’s The Golden Casket, with a supposed 9-track follow-up EP, due soon and their hour-long set would wrap with 2004’s “The World At Large “and singer Isaac Brock crooning, “My thoughts were so loud.”
Weezer would begin as darkness filled the skies, illuminating the car dashboard stage set, themed around road trips and a large backdrop screen that showed animated versions of famous landmarks that could be visited on a road trip, as the band dipped into their entire three decade-plus musical catalogue.
Singer Rivers Cuomo gained instant applause, sporting a I Heart KC t-shirt and at one point early on, Cuomo said "something is wrong" and he "turned up the volume" on the dashboard stage to keep the road tunes and fun atmosphere going.
The young producer of their recent Van Weezer and SZN EPs, Suzy Shinn is from Wichita, first collaborating with on 2016’s “California Kids” and the band performed the song they wrote with her, acoustically around a central mic stand.
As the band performed “Island in the Sun” they all donned sunglasses and Cuomo would later say, “Every road trip needs a family photo” so he took a Polaroid photo of the 15,000+ people that were along for this ride. For whatever reason, Cuomo kept shouting out Wichita throughout the show (hey, this is KC!) and the encore of “Surf Wax America” and “Buddy Holly” put a solid end to a very entertaining musical road trip.
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Billed as Weezer’s Indie Rock Roadtrip! This spring and summer touring package is among the best out there for the season. Weezer’s latest releases were a string of seasonal—or Sznz—EPs: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Their last full album, Van Weezer, arrived in 2021.
The band was forced to cancel a planned Broadway run earlier this year, “due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses” but the plus side to that, is they’re on the road again with another local date. Our coverage with them dates us all the way back to 1994, when they were a wee opening band!
As for Modest Mouse, we remain huge fans, seeing them live in September AND December of last year, and despite the death of founding drummer Jeremiah Green late last year, still remain on the road.
The Portland band’s sometimes temperamental appearances have seemed to have leveled out as singer Isaac Brock ages, and they’ve become a more consistent band to again always see live.
LA indie rockers Momma have a new single, “Bang Bang” out now.
WEEZER Tour Dates
JUN 13 the armory minneapolis, mn*
JUN 14 breese stevens field madison, wi*
JUN 16 blossom music center cuyahoga falls, oh*
JUN 17 wonderroad festival indianapolis, in
JUN 18 pine knob music theatre clarkston, mi*
JUN 23 merriweather post pavilion columbia, md#
JUN 24 pnc music pavilion charlotte, nc#
JUN 25 ameris bank amphitheatre alpharetta, ga#
JUN 27 td pavilion at the mann philadelphia, pa#
JUN 28 hartford healthcare amphitheater bridgeport, ct#
JUN 30 maine savings amphitheater bangor, me#
JUL 1 the palladium outdoors worcester, ma#
JUL 3 cmac canandaigua, ny#
JUL 4 budweiser stage toronto, canada#
JUL 6 festival d'été de québec quebec city, canada
JUL 9 hard rock casino gary, in w/ joyce manor
JUL 11 stage ae pittsburgh, pa #
JUL 13 forest hills stadium queens, ny#
JUL 30 fuji rock festival naeba, japan
AUG 19 ambleside music festival west vancouver, canada
AUG 20 white river amphitheatre auburn, wa^
AUG 22 hayden homes amphitheater bend, or^
AUG 24 greek theatre berkeley, ca^
AUG 26 albertsons boise open concert series boise, id
AUG 27 the great saltair magna, ut^
AUG 28 fiddler's green amphitheatre englewood, co^
AUG 30 arizona financial theatre phoenix, az^
SEP 1 zappos theater at planet hollywood las vegas, nv^
SEP 2 fivepoint amphitheatre irvine, ca^
SEP 3 gallagher square at petco park san diego, ca^
SEP 16 cave mountain catskills music festival windham, ny
SEP 17 sea.hear.now festival asbury park, nj
SEP 21 louder than life louisville, ky
OCT 1 oceans calling festival ocean city, md
OCT 7 accor stadium sydney, australia w/ kiss
* = w/ modest mouse + momma
# = w/ future islands + joyce manor
^- w/ spoon + white reaper
(All photos by Brandon Clasen; Click on any image to enlarge and see in full)
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