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Modern Baseball Setlist
Tour Dates
06/17/16 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
06/18/16 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre 06/19/16 Toronto, ON Opera House 06/21/16 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot 06/22/16 Pittsburgh, PA The Altar Bar 06/23/16 Boston, MA House Of Blues Boston 06/24/16 New York, NY Irving Plaza 06/25/16 New York, NY Irving Plaza 06/26/16 Philadelphia, PA Fillmore 06/28/16 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage 06/29/16 Richmond, VA Broadberry 06/30/16 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 07/01/16 Orlando, FL The Beacham 07/02/16 Fort Lauderdale, FL Revolution Live 07/03/16 Tampa, FL The Orpheum 07/29/16 Lollapalooza Aftershows 07/29/16 Lollapalooza 08/26/16 Leeds Festival 08/28/16 Reading Festival 09/29/16 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre 10/01/16 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Palladium Read More
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Modern Baseball’s “The Holy Ghost Tour” made a stop at Mill City Nights in Minneapolis on Tuesday night.
The show started with Thin Lips. These guys are a female fronted, four-piece group from Pennsylvania. Chrissy Tashjian had a very raw sounding voice that seemed to be smoothed over by the instrumentation of the rest of the group making it sound more poppy than it actually was. The whole band was great and you could feel the integrity coming off the stage. It was a bit Mixtapes mixed with a bit old school Tsunami Bomb and all wrapped up with a bow made out of the current pop-punk scene.
Tashjian was the only musician of the night to bring up the Orlando tragedy. She asked how many queers were in the room and then asked everyone else to be extra supportive of those people. The crowd didn't really need the reminder as this is the land of “Minnesota Nice” and shows up here turn into huge family reunions, but it was still nice to hear her mention in such a head-on way.
As soon as Thin Lips got off stage, the crowd started to push towards the front in anticipation for Joyce Manor. These guys are in no way, shape or form new to the scene, they've actually been around since 2008 but, due to the pop-punk revival that is going on in the music world right now, they seem to finally be getting the recognition that they deserve. It was unbelievable to see how much of the crowd was singing along to every single word of every single song these guys played. The band seemed to be feeding off the energy of the crowd as they played through a good mix of new and old songs. Joyce Manor's most recent release is Never Hungover Again out on Epitaph Records.
After Joyce Manor I ran downstairs to scope out the merch and use the bathroom. On the bathroom door was a sign that suggested that you use the bathroom that best matches what sex you identify with. Nobody said anything, nobody was snickering as they read the signs, it seemed like nobody had an issue with it (as it should be). More people were taking pictures of the sign or telling their friends how cool that is or didn't even acknowledge the signs. It was a truly beautiful sight to see. It seemed to just be for last night's show but this is now the second show I've been to where I've seen signs like this on the bathroom doors. I truly hope I keep on seeing things like this.
Modern Baseball was the headliner of the night. Their music sounds like it's straight off of their recordings but with a sense of energy that you just cannot get from listening to a CD. The other times I have seen these guys, they were the opening band. It was nice to see them get the headlining slot that they deserve.
Some of their music is great for a headlining act but some of their more emo, slow songs had me wondering if these guys were ready to be this huge headliner. It was a bit hard to pay attention through some of the songs towards the middle of their set. It's not that they were bad, they sounded great. It's just that the songs themselves are so mellow and I'm just not a mellow person. I would much rather hear a set full of their upbeat songs but I realize there's just not enough of that to fill a whole set. When it came down to it, these guys did a really good job of mixing it up between slow and fast songs and then their new and old songs.
They ended their set with my favorite song, ‘Your Graduation’. It's a song that I interpret to be about the one who got away but because you let them go. It's full of angst and emotion. It's raw and angry at times and then completely beautiful at others. It's honest and makes you feel something. It was a perfect ending to my night.
Check out Modern Baseball's new release Holy Ghost out now on Run For Cover Records.
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Thin Lips
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Tashjian was the only musician of the night to bring up the Orlando tragedy. She asked how many queers were in the room and then asked everyone else to be extra supportive of those people. The crowd didn't really need the reminder as this is the land of “Minnesota Nice” and shows up here turn into huge family reunions, but it was still nice to hear her mention in such a head-on way.
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Joyce Manor |
After Joyce Manor I ran downstairs to scope out the merch and use the bathroom. On the bathroom door was a sign that suggested that you use the bathroom that best matches what sex you identify with. Nobody said anything, nobody was snickering as they read the signs, it seemed like nobody had an issue with it (as it should be). More people were taking pictures of the sign or telling their friends how cool that is or didn't even acknowledge the signs. It was a truly beautiful sight to see. It seemed to just be for last night's show but this is now the second show I've been to where I've seen signs like this on the bathroom doors. I truly hope I keep on seeing things like this.
Modern Baseball was the headliner of the night. Their music sounds like it's straight off of their recordings but with a sense of energy that you just cannot get from listening to a CD. The other times I have seen these guys, they were the opening band. It was nice to see them get the headlining slot that they deserve.
Some of their music is great for a headlining act but some of their more emo, slow songs had me wondering if these guys were ready to be this huge headliner. It was a bit hard to pay attention through some of the songs towards the middle of their set. It's not that they were bad, they sounded great. It's just that the songs themselves are so mellow and I'm just not a mellow person. I would much rather hear a set full of their upbeat songs but I realize there's just not enough of that to fill a whole set. When it came down to it, these guys did a really good job of mixing it up between slow and fast songs and then their new and old songs.
They ended their set with my favorite song, ‘Your Graduation’. It's a song that I interpret to be about the one who got away but because you let them go. It's full of angst and emotion. It's raw and angry at times and then completely beautiful at others. It's honest and makes you feel something. It was a perfect ending to my night.
Check out Modern Baseball's new release Holy Ghost out now on Run For Cover Records.
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Modern Baseball at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (14 June 2016) |
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