James Brandon Lewis

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.