Titus Andronicus returns to Davis!

DLMC is excited to welcome Titus Andronicus back to the Davis Odd Fellows Hall Friday, September 20, 2019. Get your tickets here right now! Early birds get ’em online for $15 through July 31st. Only $18 online after that, and $20 at the door. This show is not a Collective guaranteed quarterly show, but both DLMC members and Davis Odd Fellows members can get $12 tickets. Email Matt, Kyle or Juelie for the discount. Anyone can also get tickets at Armadillo Music for $16 any time before the show. Prices above include all fees!!

Joining the unparalleled Jersey punks  on stage is Philly’s own Control Top – a band whose 2019 debut album Covert Contracts got a 7.9 from Pitchfork.

Do not miss this show!!

Anyone who saw them last time around knows exactly how exciting and rare an intimate show with one of America’s hardest working, hardest rocking bands can be. Anyone who missed it… well here is your chance! Since last time Patrick Stickles and friends have put out two great new albums, including this year’s An Obelisk, the sixth album from Titus Andronicus, which finds the noted rock band under the stewardship of producer and legendary rocker Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar, et al.). This trans-generational meeting of the minds has yielded the most immediate, intense, and unadorned Titus Andronicus record to date. Recorded over six breathless days at Steve Albini’s world-renowned Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, An Obelisk presents the sound of Titus Andronicus, rock band, at its most irreducible, as monolithic as the album’s titular monument.

An Obelisk functions as a kind of companion piece to last year’s A Productive Cough. Taken together, these two records present a panoramic view of Titus Andronicus’ musical interests. If A Productive Cough left listeners wondering what happened to all the fast songs, An Obelisk offers an answer—they are here. Whereas A Productive Cough was slathered with every available bell and whistle, very much a product of the studio and a demonstration of its capacity for “magic,” An Obelisk is built for the stage, the most faithful and true reflection of the Titus Andronicus live sound yet put to tape.

Thusly, An Obelisk has all the trappings of a classic punk album, though, to hear Stickles tell it, it is moreso an album about punk. “The ideology of ‘punk’ supports the elevation of our own interior authority and the degradation of exterior authority, which we recognize to be arbitrary, a tool by which the many are subjugated under the few,” Stickles explains, growing noticeably short of breath. “While the common ‘punk rocker’ will take this as license to piss on the street and generally pursue a lifestyle of nihilistic hedonism, the true ‘punk’ will recognize the price of this freedom. An Obelisk tells the story of one particular individual, someone maybe a lot like you but certainly a lot like me, scouring linty pockets, trying to pay that bill.”