Beach Fossils @ 9:30 Club - 10/24/2017
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Beach Fossils @ 9:30 Club - 10/24/2017

Where did Beach Fossils disappear to? It has been four long years since the band hailing from Brooklyn, New York has released new material for the world to hear. This hiatus led Beach Fossils to create Somersault, their latest most sonically experimental record to date. Since Beach Fossils’ inception, the indie rock band has been no stranger to change, with Dustin Payseur being the sole member remaining from the original group. Along with lead singer and guitarist Dustin Payseur, Beach Fossils is currently a trio consisting of bassist Jack Doyle Smith and guitarist Tommy Davidson. For their first ever stop at the 9:30 Club, Beach Fossils made the most of their set time to perform a gratifying balance of older cuts from their discography and songs from their newest album.

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Queens of the Stone Age @ The Anthem - 10/20/2017
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Queens of the Stone Age @ The Anthem - 10/20/2017

Josh Homme is rocking the cool dad aesthetic with swagger these days (cool dad level: playing a 6th-grade graduation party). And why shouldn’t he? Twenty-one years after Queens of the Stone Age’s debut, he’s still hoisting the rock n’ roll flag high above the rest and he knows it. The critical acclaim that the band has received since their breakout 2003 hit “No One Knows” has allowed them to experiment with their riff-heavy sound in new, sleeker directions. The addition of producer Mark Ronson for their latest album Villains (released through Matador Records, their first after their departure from Interscope) said as much. There’s no doubt that Homme and company wanted to get people dancing more than headbanging this time around, but with their stop at The Anthem, there was more than enough of both to go around during their two-hour set.

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