Mondo Drag Announce Fall West Coast Dates
Mondo Drag‘s new LP, Through the Hourglass, is at the top of my review stack. No, not a literal stack. It used to be. Now it’s all on my laptop, it’s not a physical stack and yet somehow it’s bigger. Life don’t make no sense, not ever. Nonetheless, the species persists. I must really like being behind on shit.
Anyhow, the record just came out on Friday, so you know by the time I get there it won’t be the longest delay ever, but my next unbooked day is Oct. 11, so yeah, by the time I get there I’ll probably feel like a bit of a jerk for having let it go so long. If I can sneak it in, I will, but the good news is that even if I’m that late on catching it near the release, I’ll still be ahead of the West Coast tour that the Oakland-based heavy prog rockers will undertake in November. Minor victories. I take what I can get.
The good news here, aside from the fact that the album rules — oops, just had an opinion — is that Mondo Drag are getting out. I do not know that they’ll come east at all in support of Through the Hourglass, but the live activity is welcome, period. Before this past Friday, the last Mondo Drag record was in 2015. Maybe we can slow down a bit before we stick them on the road for six weeks at a time.
In fact, maybe we can slow down generally as well. Maybe it’s okay to be a couple weeks late with a review, or a month. Or 10 years. What, is the record gonna go stale? Not in a month, or I probably wouldn’t want to write about it in the first place. So yeah, I’ll fuggin’ get there when I get there. And Mondo Drag will get everywhere else when they get there. Deep breath is the FOMO killer.
Dates came off socials, which are part of the problem. Sadly also the solution, though they’ve never been used that way to my knowledge:
Through The Hourglass is out now!!!
So excited to release this album and take the songs out on the road.
Get a copy of the album from @easyriderrecord or pick one up at these shows
September 22 – Mill Valley, CA at @sweetwatermusichall
October 21 – Oakland, CA at @elismilehighclub w/ @deathchantnoise
November 3 – Nevada City at @ribaldbrewing
November 4 – Sacramento at @cafecolonial916
November 9 – Eugene, OR at @johnhenryseugene
November 10 – Vancouver BC at @greenautomusic
November 11 – Seattle, WA at @substation.seattle
November 12 – Portland at @the_high_water_mark
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