We're excited to announce three rare live appearances to celebrate 20 years of Guitar Romantic, Featuring Terry Six and friends performing the songs of The Exploding Hearts.

Sunday July 16th, 2023 - Los Angeles, CA - The Paramount

Tuesday July 18th, 2023 - Detroit, Mi - Third Man Records

Thursday July 20th, 2023 - New York - TV Eye

The shows will have the band performing “Guitar Romantic” in its entirety from start to finish + the additional songs included with the expanded album. A few covers will be sprinkled in here and there as well. Not to be missed!

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If credibility were currency, Fake Names’ wealth would be off the charts. Composed of Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Dag Nasty), Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace), Dennis Lyxzén (Refused, INVSN, The \[International\] Noise Conspiracy), Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys, Soulside) and the newest member Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites of Spring), the band is a veritable post-hardcore dream team. However instead of rehashing the past, Expendables is a reinvention that sees the band dialing back the distortion and leaning into the melodies. The result pairs their unparalleled pedigree with a pop sensibility that’s slightly unexpected and wholly satisfying. “On our last record \[2019’s Fake Names\] the general influences were 70’s U.K. punk and power-pop; but it wound up with a little classic rock vibe as well, like the Vibrators meets Aerosmith. We never saw that coming!” Baker explains. “The pop influences are a little more out front on this one and the production really helps it shine. It sounds more direct, more urgent.”

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On a practical level, Geese are still the group we were introduced to in 2021: vocalist Cameron Winter, guitarist Gus Green, guitarist Foster Hudson, bassist Dom DiGesu, and drummer Max Bassin. But spiritually, Geese have returned as an entirely different prospect. Their new album 3D Country is the sound of a restless, adventurous band redefining themselves.

Anyone who has seen Geese live recently might've noticed the band adopted a different vibe onstage -- more of a volcanic, unpredictable aesthetic. It turns out that wasn't a flipside to the recordings of Projector, but foreshadowing that there was more to the story. Knowing they were now beyond teenage basement experiments and were instead making something for an audience who would hear it, Geese felt emboldened. "When we were writing Projector it was about narrowing the scope, trying to do more with less," Green says. "When we started writing for 3D Country we were trying to do a lot more and seeing what worked and what didn't."

While writing 3D Country, Winter was preoccupied with "modern doom," the way climate change and all manner of looming catastrophes hang on the horizon while we otherwise go about our lives. "It's about living in spite of just total ambient dread," he explains. "I wanted to adopt an irreverent, sarcastic way of looking at that." While Winter wanted to portray a generational experience, he didn't want to be overly literal or didactic about it. "At this point, everybody I know is already so cynical and defeatist about the state of things, it's actually hilarious," he explains. "Younger people make jokes out of the fact that human extinction is on the horizon, and that's kind of beautiful. I tried to represent that attitude."

With a heightened ambition fueling 3D Country, the band created a bugged-out, wild, unpredictable ride -- an almost phantasmagoric reflection of contemporary life. "It feels like going to the circus and instead of having a good time, everyone is trying to kill you," Bassin says.

And even if 3D Country is one more stop and not the final destination -- Winter hints that what comes next could be just as severe a change -- the album makes one thing very clear about Geese. This is not the band we thought they were, and no one can say where they might take us next.

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The Nashville, Tennessee, garage rock group were signed as teenagers to the prestigious XL in the UK and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label in the US, with whom they released two widely acclaimed albums. They went on to tour with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Le Tigre etc and have been cited as influences for groups such as Paramore and Big Joanie.

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