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GENERAL ADMISSION - LEGAL AGE 19+The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!/Anti-/Dischord recording artists. mbrs of Fugazi)with special guestLSD Trio (Linsey Wellman, Scott Warren, David Jackson)Licensed 19+ w/ photo IDGeneral admission standing with very limited seatingPresented with the support of Ontario Creates and Beyond The Pale📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXobjKNenABrandon Lewis, Anthony Pirog, Joe Lally and Brendan Canty are ready to unveil their first full-length album as a quartet. Recorded in just two days in December 2022 at Takoma Park, Maryland, studio Tonal Park, with engineer Don Godwin. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis features nine tracks that capture the combustive chemistry of their live show while expanding the collaboration in all directions. Across the album, due out on March 15th via the legendary Impulse! label, the quartet can be heard locking into a hard, swaggering funk groove on That Thang, cradling a wistful, jazz-like theme on Asthenia or rocketing into ecstatic art-punk overdrive on Emergence.The fervor of Lewis playing on the record clearly points back to John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, firmly rooting the album in the soil of the classic Impulse! catalog, despite its thoroughly contemporary feel. Lally says he cant wait to see his bands name next to the unmistakable orange, white and black Impulse! logo. Looking at a record and Im on impulse! with Alice Coltrane? he adds with giddy disbelief. Its like being on Otis Reddings label.Im trying to be cool about it, Canty says with a laugh of being associated with such a storied catalog. Hopefully nobodys going to figure out that Im the imposter in the temple.Thankfully, its hard to imagine todays listeners thinking in those restrictive terms, as the album is arriving at a time when the borders of genre are blurrier than ever. Lewis, for one, relishes the chance to plug into the power of the Messthetics punk-adjacent milieu. I think thats ultimately why I said yes to pursuing the full-length, he says. I love nuanced stuff, but I also like the ability to really just put out some energy. When you hear the Messthetics by themselves, that shit is cranking. And Im always signing up to crank.-----PLEASE NOTE: Vax and masks are no longer required, but masks are always encouraged.ENTRY REQUIREMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING PROVINCIAL HEALTH REGULATIONS-----Limit of six tickets per household/credit card.Lineup, date, venue, times and ticket price subject to change without notice.All tickets sales are final. no exchanges, upgrades, or refunds.Any tickets purchased by suspected resellers are subject to cancellation without refund.
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David
May 9th 2024
The Messthetics are gems. What else can you say? These are guys with a profound love for music and that love pours through in every note & beat they play. I, like many, found the Messthetics through Fugazi & my refusal to accept that something so powerful as Fugazi could ever willingly retire itself. Welp, it hasn’t. The spirit of Fugazi is alive & well & maturing (hopefully along with its fans). Brendan and Joe, inarguably one of the all-time great rhythm sections for folks such as myself (read: a little isolated, a little angry, a little confused, a little drawn to those things which, when said aloud, jar us out of the polite conventions just long enough to realize this whole thing taking place around us really IS a little comic, a little absurd, and heavier than it should be, but there’s nothing to do about that but pick up what you can carry and carry it as far as you can in the direction opposite where everyone else seems to be going). This is not a joke with a punchline. And these are guys who understand that. So they ain’t waiting for the big laugh at the end. Joe and Brendan have been communicating with one another for so long that the connection is palpably psychic—trading beat for bass line, rhythm for note, in the inimitable language of spiritual twins. And the same can be said for Anthony and James. Coming from the Fugazi side of the spectrum, I hadn’t previously witnessed the conversations between Anthony and James. What a shame that is for me cuz I imagine I’ve missed a great deal up until now. I won’t make the same mistake in the future. These two are having the conversations the rest of us shoulda been having all along. Entirely in notes, so with less risk for misinterpretation. Just what an absolutely beautiful four piece these folks make. The conversations between Anthony and James intermingle seamlessly with the conversations between Joe & Brendan & the whole goddamned beautiful thing just sings. “You’re not wrong & you’re not alone” is all I could really make out. But then again, that’s also I was looking to pick out. You’ll hear something different if you need to. That’s the beauty of music. And these guys are willing to share as much of it as you’re willing to hear. Perfect. Great guys, great music. Hoping they officially make themselves a four piece & keep doing this for some time.
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The Messthetics Biography
Joe Lally was onstage, playing at full throttle, when he realized that his band had found a true kindred spirit. It was the fall of 2021 and the Messthetics — the instrumental trio of Lally on bass, his former Fugazi bandmate Brendan Canty on drums and guitarist Anthony Pirog — were at Brooklyn venue the Bell House, digging into their uptempo riff workout “Serpent Tongue.” Joining them for the piece was a special guest, acclaimed jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, making only his second cameo with the group after a drop-in at another New York show back in 2019. That first meeting had been a success, but this time, Lewis’ presence sparked something new.
The sense that there was more to explore within what began as an ad hoc union among the four musicians — lingered after the performance ended. Now, Lewis, Pirog, Lally and Canty are ready to unveil their first full-length album as a quartet.
Read MoreThe sense that there was more to explore within what began as an ad hoc union among the four musicians — lingered after the performance ended. Now, Lewis, Pirog, Lally and Canty are ready to unveil their first full-length album as a quartet.
Experimental Rock
Funk
Instrumental
Post-hardcore
Jazz
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