The War on Drugs
Cactus Festival 2024
Minnewaterpark
Minnewater 1-15
Jul 14, 2024
2:00 PM GMT+2
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Matt
September 18th 2024
This show was better than expected. I have seen plenty of concerts at Xfinity and I enjoy the venue, this time was no different. Seems like there were even more seating options this time around and less lawn seats. We got tickets to the show specifically to see The War On Drugs, a band that I had become familiar with through listening to "like" artists on Pandora. I was not sure what to expect seeing them live because their songs can be on the more mellow side. I was blown away by how they sounded and the level of energy as was my wife who only new a couple of songs. They were excellent! I immediately went online, post concert, to see if they had any other shows close by. I look forward to seeing them again, the next time they come through.
Mansfield, MA@Xfinity Center
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The War on Drugs Biography
The history of rock ’n’ roll is a story of splintering. Stop here for 10 seconds, and think: How many niches can you name without even trying, without having to pause for just a split second? They seem infinite and, already the better part of a century since rock’s bastard birth, still ceaseless, each new form defined by the mainframe’s perpetuity of flux.
But over the last 15 years, The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of the mightiest counterweights to this endless division, reconnecting rock’s manifold hyphenates with an ardor and ease that suggest they were never split far apart in the first place. Folk, indie, kosmiche, noise, roots, arena, psychedelic, soft, whatever—The War on Drugs are this century’s great rock ’n’ roll synthesists, obviating the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the abstruse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. The War on Drugs have never done that so well as they do with I Don’t Live Here Anymore, their fifth studio album and their most compulsive and bold set of songs to date.
Read MoreBut over the last 15 years, The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of the mightiest counterweights to this endless division, reconnecting rock’s manifold hyphenates with an ardor and ease that suggest they were never split far apart in the first place. Folk, indie, kosmiche, noise, roots, arena, psychedelic, soft, whatever—The War on Drugs are this century’s great rock ’n’ roll synthesists, obviating the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the abstruse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. The War on Drugs have never done that so well as they do with I Don’t Live Here Anymore, their fifth studio album and their most compulsive and bold set of songs to date.
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