- Unfortunately Les Dérailleurs are unable to play their show at The Drake scheduled for this Friday, February 3rd. Landowner and Perennial will now be joined by Ian St. George.
- General Admission Standing Room
Western Massachusetts band Landowner play abrasively clean minimalist-punk. Singer Dan Shaw defined Landowner's sound as a drum-machine driven solo project on the Impressive Almanac cassette in 2016, and when Shaw teamed up with his current bandmates in 2017, the group made a deliberate effort to preserve that sound as a live band. The result was 2018’s Blatant LP, the inaugural release of Born Yesterday Records. In 2020 they returned with Consultant, their third full-length album. Landowner's music is built from its own unique set of blueprints, in which clean tones, abrasive minimalism, and caricatured hardcore make space for lyrics that reflect on the global systems our lives are tangled in and the dark absurdities we take for granted.
The name “Landowner” evokes images of a tough guy collecting rent, building fences into square shapes on a round planet, hoping to win the fight against nature, exhausting the soil into sand, starving to death surrounded by money, well-respected in the community, walking thanklessly through the doors that were opened to him.
Perennial is a three-piece art punk band from New England. Combining angular post-hardcore, 60s soul, free jazz and garage rock, Perennial’s live shows are non-stop dance punk sprints. The band’s newest album, ‘In The Midnight Hour’, builds upon Perennial’s aesthetic adventurousness, with echoes of The Clash, Otis Redding, Ornette Coleman, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ringing throughout the record’s effervescent 22 minutes.
Ian St. George is a multi-instrumentalist from Florence, MA. His music is a self described as “fuzz pop” with a love for infectiously catchy power pop, Robert Pollard, and fuzz pedals. Debut album “Emergency Index” out later this year.