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Touché Amoré / One Step Closer / Greet Death (Brooklyn Bowl, Philadelphia, PA, April 17, 2026) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: April 17, 2026] Touché Amoré / One Step Closer / Greet Death

I’ve seen Touché Amoré twice and have been clown away both times.  When they announced this tour of the Stage Four album, I was ready to see them.  I don’t know this album any more than their other ones, but I do enjoy a tour of an entire album.

Now this album is pretty intense: it is the band’s fourth album, but the title’s central inspiration was singer Jeremy Bolm’s mother, who died of cancer.  But I have been so impressed by the passion and empathy of the band that I assumed this show would be the very definition of catharsis.

But then DAVE announced a show the same night and I had a tough time deciding which to go to.  I had never seen DAVE before, after all.  And then, the whole thing was moot because the John Malkovich show was announced in Princeton, and there was no way I could miss that.

I’m sure Touché Amoré will be back and I will happily see them again next time.

I don’t know One Step Closer, but they are a straight edge hardcore punk band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.  They are indeed a hardcore band (the singer is a classic hardcore screamer) but they have some melodic components as well.  Indeed, in one song there’s intense hardcore screaming and also really pretty harmonies.  They haven’t put out an album since 2024 and it sounds like their sound is evolving.  I’ll bet they are great live.

I saw Greet Death (geez, with this name and the TA album being about cancer…) open for Foxing in 2022.  I have an overall good memory of them, but when I look at the post I wrote, I didn’t have all that much to say about them, except that the girls in front of me talked thoughout their set.  Their newest album is even more shoegaze than when I saw them.  This would have been a fun night (despite the darkness).

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Home is Where (World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA, July 13, 2022) [FOXING]

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[ATTENDED: July 13, 2022] Home is Where

I saw Foxing three years ago without knowing much about them.  Their live show blew me away.  So when it was announced that they were playing Philly again, I had a choice. Go to the Bikini Kill show that I’ve had tickets to for years or go to the Kevin Devine show which I had gotten tickets for just in case it sold out, or blow off them both and go to Foxing.

Well, Bikini Kill was postponed (again) and Kevin Devine was a solo show (which is good, but I’ve seen him solo twice already), so I decided to go to Foxing without having a ticket.  Traffic was light, I got free parking (well, technically it cost 68 cents) and bought a ticket in cash with no handling fees!

I went downstairs and was kind of surprised at how young the audience was.  I was also surprised by how well people seem to know the opening band Home is Where who hail from Florida.

The band is a four piece: josiah gardella – drums ; trace george – guitar ; brandon macdonald – tantrum, harmonica, singing saw ; connor “fat slaps” o’brien – bass. (more…)

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Greet Death (World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA, July 13, 2022) [FOXING]

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[ATTENDED: July 13, 2022] Greet Death

After the wildness of Home is Where, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Greet Death.  I assumed they had gotten their name from Explosions In the Sky who have a song called that.  Which meant that they would probably be instrumental post-rock.

But they aren’t.

They are a four-piece from Detroit with two lead singers.   When I saw them I was in front of Samuel Boyhtari who has a more pleasant singing style.  On the other side of the stage was Logan Gaval who is more of the mouthpiece of the band, I’m guessing. (more…)

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Deafheaven / Inter Arma / Greet Death (Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA, April 4, 2020) [POSTPONED]

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[POSTPONED: April 4, 2020] Deafheaven / Inter Arma / Greet Death

indexI liked Deafheaven’s Sunbather album for its fascianting mix of death metal and shoegaze. I haven’t heard anything from their two new albums, although I have heard very good things about them.

I wasn’t sure if I’d want to go to this show as it might be too intense.  But I had it on my radar.

However, I already had tickets to see Parquet Courts this evening, so it was unlikely I was going to this show.

I had read some really positive reviews about Inter Arma which had me interested in seeing them live.  I mean, if you write “proggy organic doom fields while expanding further the on the psych-folk strain” that sounds pretty awesome, but when I listened to whatever their latest record was, I didn’t really like it.  It just seemed extreme with no subtlety.

Greet Death I assume is named after the Mogwai song, which is promising.  This glowing review of their new album New Hell certainly makes me want to check them out

Greet Death’s shoegazey slowcore resembles a number of pleasing touchstones — Red House Painters, Nothing, Hum, Pedro The Lion, Dinosaur Jr., Thunder Dreamer; a few of Sam Boyhtari’s vocal runs even remind me of Dan Bejar — yet in practice they are entirely their own thing, and that thing is extremely good. These nine songs are mostly mammoth waves of sonic sludge, thick with musical texture and brimming with an energy that belies the measured pace. At its best, as one the nine-minute epic “You’re Gonna Hate What You’ve Done,” their music feels like being crushed by an avalanche while simultaneously soaring across the skyline.

Maybe this would have been the better show that night?

deafh

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