The War on Drugs Live!!

Living in the northernmost, east coast state has its benefits when it comes to music, bands, and touring, because they often choose to start in Maine (or Boston, for a larger market)- or end their tour and there's something to be said for the last night of a tour, the culmination of feelings, putting on their effort into that last show, but if I had to pick, I would definitely say the start of a tour is better, because you get to witness many live debuts of new songs, see the band work out kinks, develop chemistry together as a band and leanr to play off each other, what songs work well, etc. . I've been lucky enough to catch the opening night of several tours from great bands (re: Circa Survive to name one).

This past Monday, I won free tickets to The War on Drugs here at the State Theatre. I had honestly forgot that I'd entered the contest, so I was pleasantly surprised and happy to go. I had listened to their new album and was not necessarily blown away by it at first, but it started to grow on me and I'd heard a lot of hype around their live shows are incredible experiences. I wanted to see how these new songs would translate live. And, man, they did not disappoint! Yes, the show was free (for me), but after the nearly 2 hour set, I would have gladly paid the $30 next time to see them. Being the opening night of their fall tour, they debuted quite a few of their new album's songs and they sounded great. The band's sound is very reminiscent of 1970s rock that I grew up listening to because of my dad. There are quite a few jams placed in a few of the songs and the new songs translated perfectly to the stage.



  1. In Chains
    (Live Debut)
    Play Video
  2. Pain
    Play Video
  3. An Ocean in Between the Waves
    Play Video
  4. Strangest Thing
    Play Video
  5. Holding On
    Play Video
  6. Red Eyes
    Play Video
  7. Knocked Down
    (Live Debut)
    Play Video
  8. Nothing to Find
    (Live Debut)
    Play Video
  9. You Don't Have to Go
    Play Video
  10. Up All Night
    (Live Debut)
    Play Video
  11. Burning
    Play Video
  12. Eyes to the Wind
    Play Video
  13. Under the Pressure
    Play Video
  14. Clean Living
    (Live Debut)
    Play Video
  15. In Reverse

A lot had been said about the opening band as well, Land of Talk, so I was excited to see them, too. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Two Great Films, and more to Pass the Time

Image
"We Need to Talk About Kevin" starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, Rocky Duer, Ashley Gerasimovich, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Alex Manette, James Chen written and directed by: Lynne Ramsay Remember when The Who sang "The Kids are Alright"? Yea, this film proves that is not the case as it attempts to define nature versus nurture versus just plain evil (and are you simply born that way). This is a modern American (almost strictly American, by the way) horror story. One all too real in the wake of Columbine and all subsequent mass killings (at schools, specifically) since that awful day. We always struggle to understand why things like that happen and how they got this way, what drives someone to murder. This is the story of a boy-turned-teenager through the eyes of his mother, and her struggle with raising him and then answering for his crime. Swinton, as Eva, is flat-out amazing. Since much of the film unfolds in flashback wit...
Read more

Pineapple Express + 1

This has probably been one of the most relaxing school vacations in awhile. It helps that the weather has changed and its actually decent now. Looking back, Maine had a very long, depressing, all-I-want-to-do-is-stay-inside-until-the-snow-disappear kind of winters. It was blistering cold. It snowed a significant amount. It was dark more than it was light. It was depressing. Seasonal Affected Disorder, perhaps. I mean, I went out as much as I wanted to, but the cold tended to keep me in. Christmas vacation- nothing much happened, except I got this brilliant idea for my blog and started the project of watching 365 films in one year. February break came next. Again, nothing much. It was still cold and I'm not a skier or a snowboarder. I did play in a pond hockey tournament. That was fun. But, now we've come to April and it's finally spring in Maine. This week's weather makes braving all those cold days and nights during the winter worth it. I think the winters that we ha...
Read more

Films 64 & 65 (Fish Tank)

First off, I have to say, I think the band Taking Back Sunday has been completely ruined for me. And I know what a lot of people are thinking...really, aren't you like 8-9 years behind everyone else? It's true the original bands album "Tell All Your Friends" was seminal in putting the genre now known as EMO on the map. It was approximately 30 minutes of pure, unadulterated "heart-on-my-sleeve" and "I'm pissed at how you treated me so I wrote song about it" songs. Adam Lazzara is well known for writing songs is a form of back-stabbing or talking behind someone's back who has slighted him. I used to really love them. I would crank their music to Eleven! I never thought of it as EMO music, I just thought they were writing songs that I could connect my experiences to. It was like they were writing relatable songs. They knew my heartache and pain. And they wrote it for me! I still remember seeing the video for "Cute Without the E" on M...
Read more