Kayo Dot
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OCT
05
2019
Seattle, WA
Highline
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OCT
04
2019
Portland, OR
The High Water Mark
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OCT
03
2019
Eugene, OR
Old Nick's Pub
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OCT
02
2019
Oakland, CA
Elbo Room Jack London
I Was There
SEP
30
2019
San Diego, CA
SPACE - SD
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SEP
25
2019
Ottawa, Canada
Cafe Dekcuf
I Was There
SEP
24
2019
Toronto, Canada
The Grand Gerrard Theatre
I Was There
SEP
22
2019
Lexington, KY
The Green Lantern
I Was There
SEP
21
2019
Chapel Hill, NC
Local 506
I Was There
SEP
20
2019
Louisville, KY
Camp Social Club
I Was There
SEP
18
2019
Baltimore, MD
Metro Gallery
I Was There
SEP
17
2019
Rochester, NY
The Bug Jar
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SEP
16
2019
Portland, ME
Geno's Rock Club
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SEP
15
2019
Cambridge, MA
Hong Kong Harvard Shows
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SEP
14
2019
Philadelphia, PA
Kung Fu Necktie
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SEP
13
2019
Brooklyn, NY
The Kingsland
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NOV
02
2018
Brooklyn, NY
Knitting Factory Brooklyn
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OCT
22
2018
New Haven, CT
Cafe Nine
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JAN
27
2018
Washington, DC
DC9 Nightclub
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JAN
26
2018
Philadelphia, PA
Kung Fu Necktie
I Was There
NOV
18
2017
Hamden, CT
The Space
I Was There
SEP
11
2017
Lancaster, PA
The Lizard Lounge
I Was There
SEP
10
2017
Charlotte, NC
The Milestone Club
I Was There
SEP
09
2017
Knoxville, TN
The Concourse
I Was There
SEP
08
2017
Atlanta, GA
The Masquerade
I Was There
SEP
06
2017
Baltimore, MD
Metro Gallery
I Was There
SEP
05
2017
Allston, MA
Brighton Music Hall
I Was There
SEP
02
2017
Montreal, Canada
Bar Le Ritz
I Was There
SEP
01
2017
Ville De Québec, Canada
L'anti Bar & Spectacles
I Was There
AUG
31
2017
Ottawa, Canada
Brass Monkey
I Was There
AUG
30
2017
Toronto, Canada
Lee's Palace
I Was There
AUG
29
2017
Detroit, MI
El Club
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AUG
28
2017
Chicago, IL
Beat Kitchen
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AUG
27
2017
Milwaukee, WI
Milauwakee
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AUG
26
2017
Dekalb, IL
The House Cafe
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AUG
25
2017
Iowa City, IA
Blue Moose
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AUG
24
2017
Fargo, ND
The Aquarium
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AUG
23
2017
Winnipeg, Canada
The Good Will
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AUG
22
2017
Regina, Canada
Exchange
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JUL
30
2017
Montreal, Canada
L'Esco
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JUL
29
2017
Toronto, Canada
Hard Luck
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JUL
28
2017
Westland, MI
The Token Lounge
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JUL
27
2017
Kansas City, MO
The Riot Room
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JUL
26
2017
Denver, CO
Marquis Thearer
I Was There
JUL
25
2017
Salt Lake City, UT
Club X
I Was There
JUL
23
2017
Seattle, WA
Highline
I Was There
JUL
22
2017
Portland, OR
Tonic Lounge
I Was There
JUL
21
2017
San Francisco, CA
DNA Lounge
I Was There
JUL
20
2017
Upland, CA
Gideon's Hall
I Was There
JUL
19
2017
Phoenix, AZ
Joe's Grotto
I Was There
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Fan Reviews
Eric
October 2nd 2019
Double drummers never complimented nor cut through such intense dual 6 string delayed chorus so purposefully. Made King Crimson seem like a nice try. Once in a lifetime experience.
San Diego, CA@SPACE
brian
October 2nd 2019
Awesome performance ! Tbh the guitar mix was a little washed out and the vocal was way under everything else. However, the dual drumming is always more appreciated in a live setting, truly epic / mesmerizing. Hope they come back soon !
San Diego, CA@SPACE
Shravan
March 2nd 2017
Good set, first song was weak though. Very experimental and creative
Chicago, IL@Thalia Hall
About Kayo Dot
Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. To read various descriptions from magazines and reviews, you might feel like you couldn't be reading about the same band. From chamber music to black metal to goth to jazz and avant-garde classical -- nothing really fits. Is Hubardo the "true" Kayo Dot? Is Coffins on Io? Choirs of the Eye? Does the question need an answer?
Toby Driver, the primary composer and frontman for the band, has been fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. That's not to say Kayo Dot doesn't have an impressive catalog. Neither is the band jarring the listener from one absurd extreme to another just to prove a point. For as much ground as they cover, it's always in the service of a carefully curated mood.
The core of Kayo Dot might be that mood, one that lies at the crossroads of darkness and mystery. In films, the music that accompanies mystery is almost always nocturnal, probably playing on some primal relation in our brains between the unknown and the night time. It's at this intersection that one is most likely to nail down what Kayo Dot is all about. Driver still collaborates with former maudlin of the Well bandmate Jason Byron, with Jason handling lyrical duties. Byron, who is a lifelong student of the occult, gives the listener a feast of words to unpack that are as elusively satisfying as the labyrinths of sound they travel through. Whether by way of menacing guitars, ethereal woodwinds, or alien electronics, there's always a sense that a new passage could open, that around the next corner could be anything: a beast or some figure of erotic desire.
Kayo Dot have played the stages of Roadburn and SXSW. In 2015, Driver organized and played a 12-concert, career-spanning residency at The Stone in New York. Kayo Dot records have appeared on labels as diverse and distinguished as Hydra Head, The Flenser, and John Zorn's Tzadik. With the release of 2016's Plastic House on Base of Sky, they take a decidedly electronic turn, incorporating a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick.
Everything is fluid. The only constant is change. You can't step in the same river twice. Many people hold these truths to be self-evident. As these ideas become even more more commonplace, it only makes sense that musicians should defy the demand to answer the question "Who are you?" The refusal to answer is, in a way, the best answer possible. Kayo Dot is what that refusal sounds like.
– Joshua Strawn
Toby Driver, the primary composer and frontman for the band, has been fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. That's not to say Kayo Dot doesn't have an impressive catalog. Neither is the band jarring the listener from one absurd extreme to another just to prove a point. For as much ground as they cover, it's always in the service of a carefully curated mood.
The core of Kayo Dot might be that mood, one that lies at the crossroads of darkness and mystery. In films, the music that accompanies mystery is almost always nocturnal, probably playing on some primal relation in our brains between the unknown and the night time. It's at this intersection that one is most likely to nail down what Kayo Dot is all about. Driver still collaborates with former maudlin of the Well bandmate Jason Byron, with Jason handling lyrical duties. Byron, who is a lifelong student of the occult, gives the listener a feast of words to unpack that are as elusively satisfying as the labyrinths of sound they travel through. Whether by way of menacing guitars, ethereal woodwinds, or alien electronics, there's always a sense that a new passage could open, that around the next corner could be anything: a beast or some figure of erotic desire.
Kayo Dot have played the stages of Roadburn and SXSW. In 2015, Driver organized and played a 12-concert, career-spanning residency at The Stone in New York. Kayo Dot records have appeared on labels as diverse and distinguished as Hydra Head, The Flenser, and John Zorn's Tzadik. With the release of 2016's Plastic House on Base of Sky, they take a decidedly electronic turn, incorporating a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick.
Everything is fluid. The only constant is change. You can't step in the same river twice. Many people hold these truths to be self-evident. As these ideas become even more more commonplace, it only makes sense that musicians should defy the demand to answer the question "Who are you?" The refusal to answer is, in a way, the best answer possible. Kayo Dot is what that refusal sounds like.
– Joshua Strawn
Show More
Genres:
Abstract Electroacoustic, Avant Goth, Modern Composition, Progressive Experimental Doom
Band Members:
Toby Driver
Hometown:
New York, New York
No upcoming shows
Send a request to Kayo Dot to play in your city
Request a Show
Similar Artists On Tour
Live Photos of Kayo Dot
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Bandsintown Merch
Circle Hat
$25.0 USD
Live Collage Sweatshirt
$45.0 USD
Rainbow T-Shirt
$30.0 USD
Circle Beanie
$20.0 USD
Concerts and tour dates
Past
OCT
05
2019
Seattle, WA
Highline
I Was There
OCT
04
2019
Portland, OR
The High Water Mark
I Was There
OCT
03
2019
Eugene, OR
Old Nick's Pub
I Was There
OCT
02
2019
Oakland, CA
Elbo Room Jack London
I Was There
SEP
30
2019
San Diego, CA
SPACE - SD
I Was There
SEP
25
2019
Ottawa, Canada
Cafe Dekcuf
I Was There
SEP
24
2019
Toronto, Canada
The Grand Gerrard Theatre
I Was There
SEP
22
2019
Lexington, KY
The Green Lantern
I Was There
SEP
21
2019
Chapel Hill, NC
Local 506
I Was There
SEP
20
2019
Louisville, KY
Camp Social Club
I Was There
SEP
18
2019
Baltimore, MD
Metro Gallery
I Was There
SEP
17
2019
Rochester, NY
The Bug Jar
I Was There
SEP
16
2019
Portland, ME
Geno's Rock Club
I Was There
SEP
15
2019
Cambridge, MA
Hong Kong Harvard Shows
I Was There
SEP
14
2019
Philadelphia, PA
Kung Fu Necktie
I Was There
SEP
13
2019
Brooklyn, NY
The Kingsland
I Was There
NOV
02
2018
Brooklyn, NY
Knitting Factory Brooklyn
I Was There
OCT
22
2018
New Haven, CT
Cafe Nine
I Was There
JAN
27
2018
Washington, DC
DC9 Nightclub
I Was There
JAN
26
2018
Philadelphia, PA
Kung Fu Necktie
I Was There
NOV
18
2017
Hamden, CT
The Space
I Was There
SEP
11
2017
Lancaster, PA
The Lizard Lounge
I Was There
SEP
10
2017
Charlotte, NC
The Milestone Club
I Was There
SEP
09
2017
Knoxville, TN
The Concourse
I Was There
SEP
08
2017
Atlanta, GA
The Masquerade
I Was There
SEP
06
2017
Baltimore, MD
Metro Gallery
I Was There
SEP
05
2017
Allston, MA
Brighton Music Hall
I Was There
SEP
02
2017
Montreal, Canada
Bar Le Ritz
I Was There
SEP
01
2017
Ville De Québec, Canada
L'anti Bar & Spectacles
I Was There
AUG
31
2017
Ottawa, Canada
Brass Monkey
I Was There
AUG
30
2017
Toronto, Canada
Lee's Palace
I Was There
AUG
29
2017
Detroit, MI
El Club
I Was There
AUG
28
2017
Chicago, IL
Beat Kitchen
I Was There
AUG
27
2017
Milwaukee, WI
Milauwakee
I Was There
AUG
26
2017
Dekalb, IL
The House Cafe
I Was There
AUG
25
2017
Iowa City, IA
Blue Moose
I Was There
AUG
24
2017
Fargo, ND
The Aquarium
I Was There
AUG
23
2017
Winnipeg, Canada
The Good Will
I Was There
AUG
22
2017
Regina, Canada
Exchange
I Was There
JUL
30
2017
Montreal, Canada
L'Esco
I Was There
JUL
29
2017
Toronto, Canada
Hard Luck
I Was There
JUL
28
2017
Westland, MI
The Token Lounge
I Was There
JUL
27
2017
Kansas City, MO
The Riot Room
I Was There
JUL
26
2017
Denver, CO
Marquis Thearer
I Was There
JUL
25
2017
Salt Lake City, UT
Club X
I Was There
JUL
23
2017
Seattle, WA
Highline
I Was There
JUL
22
2017
Portland, OR
Tonic Lounge
I Was There
JUL
21
2017
San Francisco, CA
DNA Lounge
I Was There
JUL
20
2017
Upland, CA
Gideon's Hall
I Was There
JUL
19
2017
Phoenix, AZ
Joe's Grotto
I Was There
Show More Dates
Fan Reviews
Eric
October 2nd 2019
Double drummers never complimented nor cut through such intense dual 6 string delayed chorus so purposefully. Made King Crimson seem like a nice try. Once in a lifetime experience.
San Diego, CA@SPACE
brian
October 2nd 2019
Awesome performance ! Tbh the guitar mix was a little washed out and the vocal was way under everything else. However, the dual drumming is always more appreciated in a live setting, truly epic / mesmerizing. Hope they come back soon !
San Diego, CA@SPACE
Shravan
March 2nd 2017
Good set, first song was weak though. Very experimental and creative
Chicago, IL@Thalia Hall
About Kayo Dot
Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. To read various descriptions from magazines and reviews, you might feel like you couldn't be reading about the same band. From chamber music to black metal to goth to jazz and avant-garde classical -- nothing really fits. Is Hubardo the "true" Kayo Dot? Is Coffins on Io? Choirs of the Eye? Does the question need an answer?
Toby Driver, the primary composer and frontman for the band, has been fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. That's not to say Kayo Dot doesn't have an impressive catalog. Neither is the band jarring the listener from one absurd extreme to another just to prove a point. For as much ground as they cover, it's always in the service of a carefully curated mood.
The core of Kayo Dot might be that mood, one that lies at the crossroads of darkness and mystery. In films, the music that accompanies mystery is almost always nocturnal, probably playing on some primal relation in our brains between the unknown and the night time. It's at this intersection that one is most likely to nail down what Kayo Dot is all about. Driver still collaborates with former maudlin of the Well bandmate Jason Byron, with Jason handling lyrical duties. Byron, who is a lifelong student of the occult, gives the listener a feast of words to unpack that are as elusively satisfying as the labyrinths of sound they travel through. Whether by way of menacing guitars, ethereal woodwinds, or alien electronics, there's always a sense that a new passage could open, that around the next corner could be anything: a beast or some figure of erotic desire.
Kayo Dot have played the stages of Roadburn and SXSW. In 2015, Driver organized and played a 12-concert, career-spanning residency at The Stone in New York. Kayo Dot records have appeared on labels as diverse and distinguished as Hydra Head, The Flenser, and John Zorn's Tzadik. With the release of 2016's Plastic House on Base of Sky, they take a decidedly electronic turn, incorporating a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick.
Everything is fluid. The only constant is change. You can't step in the same river twice. Many people hold these truths to be self-evident. As these ideas become even more more commonplace, it only makes sense that musicians should defy the demand to answer the question "Who are you?" The refusal to answer is, in a way, the best answer possible. Kayo Dot is what that refusal sounds like.
– Joshua Strawn
Toby Driver, the primary composer and frontman for the band, has been fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. That's not to say Kayo Dot doesn't have an impressive catalog. Neither is the band jarring the listener from one absurd extreme to another just to prove a point. For as much ground as they cover, it's always in the service of a carefully curated mood.
The core of Kayo Dot might be that mood, one that lies at the crossroads of darkness and mystery. In films, the music that accompanies mystery is almost always nocturnal, probably playing on some primal relation in our brains between the unknown and the night time. It's at this intersection that one is most likely to nail down what Kayo Dot is all about. Driver still collaborates with former maudlin of the Well bandmate Jason Byron, with Jason handling lyrical duties. Byron, who is a lifelong student of the occult, gives the listener a feast of words to unpack that are as elusively satisfying as the labyrinths of sound they travel through. Whether by way of menacing guitars, ethereal woodwinds, or alien electronics, there's always a sense that a new passage could open, that around the next corner could be anything: a beast or some figure of erotic desire.
Kayo Dot have played the stages of Roadburn and SXSW. In 2015, Driver organized and played a 12-concert, career-spanning residency at The Stone in New York. Kayo Dot records have appeared on labels as diverse and distinguished as Hydra Head, The Flenser, and John Zorn's Tzadik. With the release of 2016's Plastic House on Base of Sky, they take a decidedly electronic turn, incorporating a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick.
Everything is fluid. The only constant is change. You can't step in the same river twice. Many people hold these truths to be self-evident. As these ideas become even more more commonplace, it only makes sense that musicians should defy the demand to answer the question "Who are you?" The refusal to answer is, in a way, the best answer possible. Kayo Dot is what that refusal sounds like.
– Joshua Strawn
Show More
Genres:
Abstract Electroacoustic, Avant Goth, Modern Composition, Progressive Experimental Doom
Band Members:
Toby Driver
Hometown:
New York, New York
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