Last summer, Boozewa released their most albumy album to-date, Bon Vivant. I whiffed on reviewing it. Why? I have no idea. A lot of travel last year, some shit just gets by. I don’t know. The record is at the bottom of this post and it sounds great. By all means, partake, though I’m sure you already have, because you’re better at this and cooler than I am.

Nonetheless, I’m happy to put up word of Boozewa taking the road on the show or some such as they head out on tour this summer. They tour anyhow, but the impetus here would seem to be a stop through the Asheville Doomed & Stoned fest, which looks rad, and after that, they’ve got club shows with Godzillionaire (I seem to recall Mike Cummings is a big Paw fan, so that should be a moment), Husband Lost at Sea and a slew of others. It starts the 9th, ends the 26th, and they’ve got three days off. Imagine my relief to see that, in fact, some of us are getting younger.

I’m gonna go listen to that record. Here’s dates from social media:

All these random show announcements we guess it’s time to show the BIG LEAGUE CHEW!

Summer tour kicks off July 9th and it’s LOADED with bangers in amazing cities with even more amazing bands and some NEW BALLPARKS we haven’t seen yet!

JULY
9 – Pie Shop – Washington DC w/ GUHTS
10 – Monstercade – Winston Salem NC w/ GUHTS
11 – Asheville NC – Doomed and Stoned Festival
12 – Blackstrap – Gainesville GA w/ Armazilla, Husband Lost At Sea
13 – Cobra – Nashville TN w/ Serrotonin
14 – MagBar – Louisville KY w/ Mound Builders
16 – Heavy Anchor – St Louis MO w/ ComaHawk, Nothing People
17 – Replay Lounge – Lawrence KS w/ Godzillionaire
18 – Leftys – De Moines IA w/ Worst Impressions, Look At Me
19 – Zhora – Minneapolis MN w/ Husband Lost At Sea
21 – Reggies – Chiago IL w/ Displacer, Jesus Coyote
22 – Lucky Fox – Paw Paw MI w/ RTRN, Archaea
24 – Spacebar – Columbus OH w/ Server, Disnerver, Husband Lost at Sea
25 – 123 Pleasant St – Morgantown WV w/ Grey Harbinger, Hovel, Husband Lost At Sea
26 – Gem Speakeasy – Spring City PA w/ Hover, Oven, Husband Lost At Sea

Boozewa:
Jessica Baker / bass, hollering
Rylan Caspar / guitar, hollering
Mike Cummings (mRc) / drums, hollering

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https://boozewa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.BOOZEWA.com

Boozewa, Bon Vivant (2024)

Hey, Boozewa! I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re a band. I know you’re all recording on your four-track in your house, having a good time thinking it’s all toss-off this, super-casual that, but nah. You’re a real band. Two releases in the span of a year, the second markedly developed from the first — that’s the new two-songer Deb (review here) preceded by the demo First Contact (review here) in February — mastered by Tad Doyle and a cinematic narrative-style video for the title-track that features actual people who also don’t play an instrument in the group? Selling shirts? Yeah, that’s band stuff. What’s next? An album? Shows? Doing a Zoom interview that I haven’t yet hit you up for but probably will by the time this is posted? You’re a band. Tough break. That’s how it goes sometimes when you don’t suck.

“Deb,” from Deb, was posted last week ahead of the 7″ coming out, and as noted, it’s a step forward from the prior demo in sound. Still good and tracked-in-the-attic (basement? living room?) raw, but there’s melody peaking through “Deb” and the accompanying “Now. Stop.,” which is shorter and more punk but still nestled into a groove ahead of its belter finish, and “Deb” even dares a bit of atmosphere in its brooding vibe, which is complemented by the dark psychology of the video, which was directed by drummer/vocalist Mike Cummings and features him in the title role as the bartender/waitress Deb being stared at by the clip’s protagonist, who, again, isn’t in the band. You’ll see bassist/vocalist Jessica Baker among the crowd, and guitarist/vocalist Rylan Caspar is working the door, but “Deb” is a video with acting. A setting. Thought put into what people are wearing.

Band stuff.

I know it can be hard to accept, but don’t fight it. You can’t anyway. Write enough songs together, start playin’ and recordin’ ’em, and you’re gonna end up a band one way or the other. Might as well roll with that and make the most of it.

Video follows here. Enjoy:

Boozewa, “Deb” official video

Boozewa (Featuring members of Backwoods Payback) have unleashed a video for their song “Deb”. The track is taken from their upcoming EP of the same name mastered by Tad Doyle of the legendary band TAD at Witch Ape Studio in Seattle Washington.

The band commented “By the end of 2020 we had written roughly 20 songs and with ‘Deb’ I think we really started to settle into what I guess you could say is our ‘sound.’ It’s off, it’s catchy, it’s heavy, it’s Boozewa. We recorded the tune on the four-track cassette machine again, and this time sent it off to Tad Doyle (Tad/Witch Ape Studio) for mastering. If there’s a light in the dark year that was 2020 it was definitely getting to work with someone I’ve been a giant fan of for the better part of the last 20 years, that being Tad!”

BOOZEWA is
Jessica Baker – bass/hollering
Rylan Caspar – guitar/hollering
Mike Cummings (mRc) drums/hollering

Boozewa, Deb (2021)

Boozewa on Instagram

Boozewa on Bandcamp

Boozewa website