Dawes Coming To The Taft Theatre On 3/8

photo credit: Trish Badger

3/8/23 – Taft Theatre, 317 E 5th St, Cincinnati, OH – Buy Tickets

Acclaimed LA-based rockers Dawes have announced plans for a US headline tour. An Evening With Dawes US Tour 2023 gets underway March 2, 2023 at Birmingham, AL’s Iron City, and then travel the country through a homecoming finale at Los Angeles, CA’s The Theatre at Ace Hotel on May 5, 2023. Highlights include stops at such historic venues as Nashville, TN’s Ryman Auditorium (March 4, 2023), New York City’s Beacon Theatre (March 18, 2023), and San Francisco, CA’s The Fillmore (April 26), as well as a special two-night stand at the world- famous Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA (April 27-28, 2023). For complete details and ticket availability, please see dawestheband.com/tour.

“We’re back to the Evening With format,” says Taylor Goldsmith. “Two sets. Just us. Long nights. Full hearts. Buy tickets. Come early. We’ll all have to break out the catalog master lists and bingo cards as we try to get to every song we’ve got.”

DAWES BIOGRAPHY
MISADVENTURES OF DOOMSCROLLER (released July 2022),the 8th studio album from Dawes, represents an adventurous new turn for the band, evincing a more ambitious, exploratory approach towards recording than ever before. Produced by longtime collaborator Jonathan Wilson (Billy Strings, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen), the band shook their normal approach to record making and what you hear is the result.

Taylor Goldsmith, the band’s songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist describes the album in this way: “We’ve always prided ourselves on being minimalists. With this record we set out on being MAXIMALISTS. Still a quartet. Still not letting these songs hide behind any tricks or effects. But really letting the songs breathe and stretch and live however they want to. We decided to stop having any regard for short attention spans. Our ambitions go beyond the musical with this one. Every time a take was completed felt like a major accomplishment. We wanted to honor the traditional length of a vinyl record – 40-45 minutes – but disregard any concern for numbers of tracks. The way Miles or Herbie often did. Documenting the songs is only half of the picture. For this record they’re also the platform for us to jump off from and get lost in. This whole album felt a little beyond our comfort zone and I’m really proud of what that’s done to the music. I think the best way I can say it is – we wanted this record to be less a collection of songs and more a collection of music.”

MISADVENTURES OF DOOMSCROLLER marks Dawes’ first LP following 2020’s Rounder Records debut, GOOD LUCK WITH WHATEVER. Produced by 7x GRAMMY® Award-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) at Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A, the album earned critical applause around the world, with Esquire declaring it “their liveliest, most visceral set yet.” Dawes celebrated with a range of high-profile TV appearances, including ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert #playathome series as well as CBS This Morning: Saturday Sessions.

Dawes is: T.Z. Goldsmith (guitar, primary vocal), W.Q. Gelber (handmade bass), G.W. Goldsmith (drums, percussion, background vocals), and L.M. Pardini (piano, organ, synthesizers, clavinet, Wurlitzer, guitar, background vocals).

PRAISE FOR MISADVENTURES OF DOOMSCROLLER:
“Dawes have created something which wrestles with contemporary themes in an eloquent and thoughtful matter…Taylor Goldsmith’s vocals are the most nuanced they have ever sounded, perfectly equipped to take on the task of handling the big lyrical themes of the album.”– LOUDER THAN WAR

“The album leaves no doubt that these four Angelenos can play their instruments. Doomscroller’s seven tracks—six of which are at least five and a half minutes long — give the band plenty of room for key changes, tempo changes, slick solos and grooves as smooth as top-shelf scotch.”– RIFF MAGAZINE