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Canadian post-punk band Preoccupations (singer / bassist Matt Flegel, drummer Mike Wallace, guitarist /synth Scott “Monty” Munro, and guitarist Daniel Christiansen) just headlined the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis on October 4th in support of their self-titled 2016 album.
Perth’s Methyl Ethel opened up the show to a very slow build of ‘Shadowboxing’ to a darkened room. Their music started to pick up, and with that, the lights shined brighter.
According to the singer/guitarist Jake Webb, talking about Minneapolis, “What a great city. It’s our favorite city in the United States! We’ll come back if you’ll have us again.” Having played in New York and Chicago, we can only imagine that Minneapolis’ less crowded and friendly attitude probably factored in why they love it here (I think they’ll quickly change their name once they see the snow...).
Methyl Ethel’s debut album Oh Inhuman Spectacle is out now on 4AD internationally.
If you’re not familiar with Preoccupations, this is the new name for their previous cultural insensitive Viet Cong name. In fact, it was on the eve of their Minneapolis show in 2015 that the band announced that they would be changing their name after talking to Vietnamese Minneapolis protesters. Look, at the end of the day, the name change was the right move for this young band, as it shifts focus from unwanted controversies to actually listening to their music.
Now as Preoccupations, and with a new self-titled album from Flemish Eye and Jagjaguwar, sounded fresh and slightly more aggressive than their debut dream/shoegaze 2015 Viet Cong album.
Things got off to a rock start, as Matt Flegel’s microphone did not initially worked. It was fixed right away, and with that, the band started playing selections from both bands, starting with newer Preoccupations tracks, like ‘Silhouettes’, with a big middle chunk from Viet Cong. The group ended their set with the satisfying ‘Death’ song, playing what sounded like an extended outro.
Preoccupations’ self-titled album is out now on Jagjaguwar.
World Tour Dates
Perth’s Methyl Ethel opened up the show to a very slow build of ‘Shadowboxing’ to a darkened room. Their music started to pick up, and with that, the lights shined brighter.
According to the singer/guitarist Jake Webb, talking about Minneapolis, “What a great city. It’s our favorite city in the United States! We’ll come back if you’ll have us again.” Having played in New York and Chicago, we can only imagine that Minneapolis’ less crowded and friendly attitude probably factored in why they love it here (I think they’ll quickly change their name once they see the snow...).
Methyl Ethel’s debut album Oh Inhuman Spectacle is out now on 4AD internationally.
If you’re not familiar with Preoccupations, this is the new name for their previous cultural insensitive Viet Cong name. In fact, it was on the eve of their Minneapolis show in 2015 that the band announced that they would be changing their name after talking to Vietnamese Minneapolis protesters. Look, at the end of the day, the name change was the right move for this young band, as it shifts focus from unwanted controversies to actually listening to their music.
Now as Preoccupations, and with a new self-titled album from Flemish Eye and Jagjaguwar, sounded fresh and slightly more aggressive than their debut dream/shoegaze 2015 Viet Cong album.
Things got off to a rock start, as Matt Flegel’s microphone did not initially worked. It was fixed right away, and with that, the band started playing selections from both bands, starting with newer Preoccupations tracks, like ‘Silhouettes’, with a big middle chunk from Viet Cong. The group ended their set with the satisfying ‘Death’ song, playing what sounded like an extended outro.
Preoccupations’ self-titled album is out now on Jagjaguwar.
World Tour Dates
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10.07.16 - Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, MI
10.08.16 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON 10.11.16 - Theatre Fairmount - Montreal, QC 10.12.16 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA 10.14.16 - Warsaw - Brooklyn NY 10.15.16 - First Unitarian Church - Phila, PA 10.16.16 - Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington DC 10.18.16 - Masquerade - Atlanta, Ga 10.19.16 - Gasa Gasa - New Orleans, LA |
10.21.16 - The Mohawk - Austin, TX 10.22.16 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX 10.25.16 - Valley Bar - Phoenix, AZ 10.26.16 - The Irenic - San Diego, CA 10.28.16 - The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA 10.29.16 - Independent - San Francisco, CA 10.30.16 - Independent - San Francisco, CA 11.01.16 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR 11.02.16 - Neumos - Seattle, WA |
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Methyl Ethel: Jake Webb |
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Preoccupations at Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis (04 October 2016) |
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