SOLD OUT Scott McMicken / Arc Iris
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 (EDT)
06:30PM - 09:00PM
The Avalon Lounge
29 Church St
Catskill, NY 12414
Please note: This show starts a bit early!
Opener: 7:00PM
Scott: 8:00PM
Scott McMicken has always thrived on switching things up. As a founding member of Philadelphia rock mainstays Dr. Dog, McMicken and his bandmates consistently explored new sounds and new ways of writing songs across 10 gleefully eclectic albums before their 2021 hiatus. While McMicken has quietly released solo projects via cassette and vinyl on his own label Press On Records, for his latest effort, he’s done something he’s only done once before: started a band. With Shabang, out March 31, 2023, via ANTI-, comes the debut album from Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING, and he’s made some of his freest and most adventurous music yet: a wonderfully collaborative collection of songs that feel lived in and true.
Opener: 7:00PM
Scott: 8:00PM
Scott McMicken has always thrived on switching things up. As a founding member of Philadelphia rock mainstays Dr. Dog, McMicken and his bandmates consistently explored new sounds and new ways of writing songs across 10 gleefully eclectic albums before their 2021 hiatus. While McMicken has quietly released solo projects via cassette and vinyl on his own label Press On Records, for his latest effort, he’s done something he’s only done once before: started a band. With Shabang, out March 31, 2023, via ANTI-, comes the debut album from Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING, and he’s made some of his freest and most adventurous music yet: a wonderfully collaborative collection of songs that feel lived in and true.
Part Basement Tapes and Paul Simon, and part a globetrotting foray into progressive sounds, Shabang is some of the most exploratory music of McMicken’s career. There are elements of jazz, dub reggae, country, and bossa nova throughout these 13 tracks, each exuding the excitement of being in a room with several other curious musicians. Opener “What About Now” originally started as a folk-rock dirge but when McMicken decided to add some bounce to the rhythm, the whole thing opened up. Even songs that dig deep into personal conflict like “Reconcile” radiate with a joy that’s tangible and rocking.
https://www.anti.com/artists/scott-mcmicken/
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Arc Iris are a wildly adventurous, genre-blurring band founded in Massachusetts by frontwoman, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jocie Adams, formerly of the Low Anthem. Adams, a formally trained classical composer (and former NASA researcher), formed the group as a deliberately adventurous ensemble whose music is informed by everything from sophisticated '70s pop to folk, country, cabaret, jazz, classical music, and contemporary sources such as Grizzly Bear.
http://www.arcirismusic.com
https://www.anti.com/artists/scott-mcmicken/
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Arc Iris are a wildly adventurous, genre-blurring band founded in Massachusetts by frontwoman, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jocie Adams, formerly of the Low Anthem. Adams, a formally trained classical composer (and former NASA researcher), formed the group as a deliberately adventurous ensemble whose music is informed by everything from sophisticated '70s pop to folk, country, cabaret, jazz, classical music, and contemporary sources such as Grizzly Bear.
http://www.arcirismusic.com