Stereolab will be taking over the First Avenue Mainroom on Wednesday, September 28th!
Formed in London in 1990 and led by the songwriting team of Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, Stereolab are recognized as “one of the era’s most creatively dynamic bands” (Pitchfork) and “one of the most influential groups of the 1990s” (LA Times). Throughout ten studio albums, the band developed into “a multi-limbed musical collective unafraid of the joys of pop melody but equally comfortable with wild experimentation” (FACT) whose impact on the omnivorous, genre-agnostic music of today is indisputable. The band announced an indefinite hiatus in 2009, but returned in 2019 with multiple expanded LP reissues and their first tour dates in a decade.
Fievel Is Glauque is kicking the night off. French singer and visual artist Ma Clément met songwriter Zach Phillips in 2018 as he reeled from a concussion after colliding with a Brussels streetlamp. The band-leading duo independently released their debut album, God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess, on New Year’s Day of 2021 with as little fanfare as any of Phillips’ forty-plus past records (see: OSR Tapes, Blanche Blanche Blanche), but it gradually garnered cult acclaim among musicians and online crate diggers. Recorded entirely live with cheap microphones, half-broken cassette equipment, and a rotating cast of twenty-five able accompanists in New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, and southern France, the uncategorizable compilation of twenty quick-moving miniatures ranging from bossa nova to post-punk stands as a unique document of a promising group with an unusual ethos and a colossal amount of music in store.
Tickets are still available HERE!
