The Brian Jonestown Massacre has followed the colorful and heartfelt creative vision of Anton Newcombe since its 1990 inception in San Francisco. Its aesthetic informed by 60s psychedelic rock and experimental electronic music has evolved greatly in always fascinating directions through challenging personal times and tense periods within the band while garnering a strong cult following on the strength of its prolific output. Before psychedelic rock became a trendy style of music again in the past decade and a half, the Jonestown Massacre was influencing that directly or indirectly through bands it inspired or through Newcombe’s idiosyncratic mentoring. Too many people took the 2004 documentary Dig! at face value when it was a snapshot of a time in American underground music when alternative music was becoming relegated to the underground again while the possibilities of overcoming the forces of the music-industry-with-music-as-commodity seemed possible. Fast forward twenty years and Newcombe’s idealism and wide-ranging curiosity and creative vision seems vindicated by bands not only able to more directly reach an audience but one more organic and global. One June 24, 2022 the group will release its new album Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees, the product of much experimentation in terms of songwriting, production and testing reactions to the music through YouTube and other social media outlets and one of Newcombe’s strongest set of songs in recent years. We had a chance to speak with the songwriter about 2022 tourmates Mercury Rev, the band’s artwork for the tour posters unique to every date, his following the instinct to create regularly as a way of self-inspiration and staying in the habit of creating at as high a level as possible and the flow of the wordplay of his poetic and playful song titles among many other subjects.
Brian Jonestown Massacre performs at Ogden Theater on 04.12.22 with Mercury Rev. Listen to our interview with Newcombe on Bandcamp linked below. Full tour itinerary (including past dates) beneath the interview link and for more information please visit thebrianjonestownmassacre.com.
27th March 2022 Philadelphia, PA USA Union Transfer
28th March 2022 Brooklyn, NY USA Brooklyn Steel
29th March 2022 Jersey City, NJ USA White Eagle Hall
March 30th 2022 Baltimore, MD USA Rams Head Live
March 31st 2022 Providence, RI USA Columbus Theatre
April 1st 2022 Boston, MA USA Roadrunner
April 2nd 2022 Montreal, QC Canada Le National
April 4th 2022 Toronto, ON Canada Queen Elizabeth Theatre
April 5th 2022 Detroit, MI USA Majestic Theatre
April 6th 2022 Indianapolis, IN USA The Vogue
April 7th 2022 Cleveland OH USA Agora Theatre
April 8th 2022 Chicago, IL USA The Vic Theatre
April 9th 2022 Milwaukee, WI USA Turner Hall Ballroom
April 10th 2022 Minneapolis, MN USA First Avenue
April 12th 2022 Denver, CO USA Ogden Theatre
April 13th 2022 Salt Lake City, UT USA Metro Music Hall
April 15th 2022 Vancouver, BC Canada Vogue Theatre
April 16th 2022 Tacoma, WA USA McMenamins Elks Temple Hotel – The Spanish Ballroom
April 17th 2022 Seattle, WA USA Showbox
April 18th 2022 Portland, OR USA Roseland Theatre
April 20th 2022 San Francisco, CA USA The Fillmore
April 21st 2022 San Francisco, CA USA The Fillmore
April 22nd 2022 Los Angeles, CA USA The Wiltern
April 23rd 2022 San Diego, CA USA The Observatory North Park
April 24th 2022 Santa Ana, CA USA The Observatory OC
April 25th 2022 Tucson, AZ USA The Rialto Theatre
April 27th 2022 San Antonio TX USA Paper Tiger
April 28th 2022 Austin, TX USA Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
April 29th 2022 Dallas, TX USA Granada Theater
April 30th 2022 Houston, TX USA The Heights Theater
May 2nd 2022 Lawrence, KS USA The Bottleneck
May 3rd 2022 Saint Louis, MO USA Delmar Hall
May 5th 2022 Nashville, TN USA Brooklyn Bowl
May 6th 2022 Birmingham, AL USA Saturn
May 7th 2022 Atlanta, GA USA Terminal West
May 9th 2022 Asheville, NC USA The Orange Peel
May 10th 2022 Carrboro, NC USA Cat’s Cradle
May 11th 2022 Washington, DC USA Black Cat
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