
GUERILLA TOSS + ERICA ESO + M. GEDDES GENGRAS (birthday bash)
This show is sold out
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Guerilla Toss met in 2012, crawling out of the skronky psychedelic punk fairytale that was their Boston DIY scene. Now based in New York, the currently touring and always recording art rock band have fully crystalized their brilliantly unhinged music. Along the way, they’ve played alongside Built to Spill and Parquet Courts, Os Mutantes and Mdou Moctar. And they’ve toured all around the world, hitting every festival from Pitchfork in London, to Treefort, to the Primavera Weekender to Pickathon.
In 2022, the band’s colorful dance punk took the form of Famously Alive, their Sup Pop debut. The record is the latest iteration of a carefully honed vision, an exploration of what it means to be alive (famously), to survive, to find strength in that survival, to be happy. The record was a revelation. A lazy river ride done while wielding a jackhammer. Electroclash by way of fucked up no wave. ESG by way of PiL by way of Brian Eno by way of Sonic Youth. Not long after, the band went on tour with Pavement, playing some of the biggest venues of their career.
Our friend Ged is having his birthday party at Tubby's too. He'll be bleeping and swishily blooping.
Weston Minissali is a Kingston, NY–based composer, vocalist, and producer who creates music under the moniker Erica Eso. A longtime participant in New York’s experimental music scene, Minissali weaves electronic avant-garde into ornate art-pop. Since founding Erica Eso in 2015, he has released music on NNA Tapes, Ramp Local, and Hausu Mountain, continually evolving the project’s sound and live configurations. His latest album, Songs In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, marks a shift toward a more intimate, solo-driven process that pairs arhythmic and austere production with clarion vocals. The show will feature a brand new lineup featuring Jared Ashdown (Openhead) and Kim Anderson.