[DID NOT ATTEND: August 29, 2026] Anthony Green / Maps + Atlases / Keith Goodwin
I found out about this show a couple of days before it happened and there was no chance I was going to go. It was also the first time I’d heard of the Williams Center/Black Box. Okay, that’s not exactly true, I grabbed tickets to the Gully Boys/Pollyanna show in October, when I checked out the venue website for the first time, I saw this show.
As for the Williams Center, I don’t really know that much about it. There is a cinema. But I was surprised to see the variety of musicians playing here–Built to Spill (!?). Evidently it has a capacity of 642. There also appears to be a bigger venue capacity 2,200 but not that many shows listed for it.
I have seen Anthony Green play with L.S. Dunes. I was very interested in this show but there was just no way to make it.
So I’m going to leave it up to Sadgrlmtl to summarize what she saw in Massachusetts
Keith Goodwin, who I found out has been a long-time collaborator from his High and Driving days, came on. He was joined by Dave Davison on guitar. Anthony joined for the final song.
My two cents: I haven’t heard of him but he is apparently long time friends with Anthony. He has been in a few bands (Good Old War most notably) and shows up with Anthony a lot–he might even be in Circa Survive for this upcoming tour.
Maps + Atlases came on with Dave back as the main singer. I had not listened to the band beforehand, but they are labeled as math rock which explains the very strange riff choices by all instruments – especially the drums which had 1 cymbal and 4 toms on top of the regular hi-hat, snare and kick combo which threw me off and made me super curious as to what he was gonna do with the mini toms. These were unfortunately not mic’d very well, so I couldn’t hear them. Overall, very interesting openers.
My two cents: I have heard of Maps + Atlases (or Maps & Atlases if you prefer), but I don’t know much about them. They seem to have 4 albums out with their 2010 album Perch Patchwork being remastered this year. Pitchfork says their early releases were classic math-rock, typified by busy guitar lines borrowed from 90s bands like Don Caballero. Maps & Atlases are far from the only band from Chicago to use that sound as a starting point, but they’re one of the few to try and move it forward and successfully translate it into pop songs. I probably would have liked them back in the day, although I’m not sold on his voice.
Anthony Green comes on with a massive band including one trumpeter so quiet he needed a mic (!) otherwise, he would be drowned out by the 4 guitars (who needs 4 rhythm guitars?). It was a show of pure excess as Mr. Green performed songs from all of his bands (Circa Survive, L.S. Dunes, Saosin and Sounds of Animals Fighting) all while drinking what looked like piss but was apple juice. At some point, I realized all of his openers were in his band and that Dave had literally been performing the entire evening – what a champ. At some point, they even play musical chair and the trumpeter goes to the drums, the drummer goes to the keyboard and the keyboardist goes to the trumpet (WHAT?). What a polyvalent group that genuinely loves music. Mr. Green sang as if it was his last show which is funny considering how his bandmates played very politely all while staring at him as if thinking “that’s just Anthony being Anthony”. He also sporadically made jokes.
My two cents: The dude is intense. I wish I’d seen Sounds of Animals Fighting when the played Union Transfer and I wanted to see Circa Survive next month, but all three shows sold out in a second. But he’s clearly always making music so I’m sure I’ll see him again.
- Acoustic VIP
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Holding Someone’s Hair Back (Circa Survive song)
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Like Magick (L.S. Dunes song)
Show -
So It Goes
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I Don’t Want to Die Tonight
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Babygirl
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She Loves Me So
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You’ll Be Fine
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Trading Doses
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East Coast Winters
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Pets (Porno for Pyros cover)
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Seven Years (Saosin song)
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Strange Terrain (Circa Survive song)
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Act Appalled (Circa Survive song)
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Reconcile
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Don’t Dance
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Dear Child (I’ve Been Dying to Reach You) / Like Magick / Fucks Me Up
Encore:
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Get Out (Circa Survive song)
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This Song Won’t Save You
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