Tracers — HUMP DAY NEWS

Trace Mountains outlines summits at Deep Cuts on Friday, 25 October 2024.

Long Beard and Lake Saint Daniel open the triple stack bill.

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Nov 1

Unleashed from the dungeon of the American Genre Film Archive, THE AGFA HORROR TRAILER SHOW is a senses-shattering compilation of horror & cult thrills. Double feature!

Ruby Grove / The Plus Ones / Marilyn Eden

Nov 4

Funky trip hoppers Ruby Grove are secretly plotting a fantasy-themed rock opera. Prove me wrong. With The Plus One and Marilyn Eden.

Nov 5

The Presidential Erection: Dance & Drag Party, Pop Up Arcade, and Bars Over Bars will help you get through election night anxiety.

Nov 13

The story of women making the Boston music scene. In-house appearance and Q&A (and maybe a uke performance?) with Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls).

The Modern Faces / Perfectly Lethal / Whyte Lipstick / Luddites

Nov 13

The Modern Faces, pop punk powurrr. With Perfectly Lethal, Whyte Lipstick, Luddites.

Linnea’s Garden / The Ghouls / Catwolf / Goodkarma

Nov 14

Linnea's Garden EP release, w/The Ghouls, Catwolf, and Goodkarma at Deep Cuts.

Nov 15

The 4th Wall celebrates its 1-year anniversary with Trash Sun, Lady Pills, Petal Dance, and the Dreamtoday at the Capitol Theater.

Nov 22

Hard rocking Cortez has a real metal ripper with their new album Thieves and Charlatans. With Worshipper and Curse the Son.

Nov 30

Punk in broad daylight. Get there early for WORM, Presidential Disgrace, Screw Cart, and Neponset Monastary.

Dec 14

Biribá Union w/ Balla Kouyaté at the Regent Theatre.

Dec 26

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along. The movie like you've never seen it before: host, goody bags, glam ups encouraged!

Dec 31

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along. The movie like you've never seen it before: host, goody bags, glam ups encouraged!

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The power of suggestion is strong. The fronter for Lake Saint Daniel wore a James Taylor t-shirt on stage at Deep Cuts. And all I could think about was how the placid, slow-to-medium tempo grooves sounded like old Stringbean. The four-piece kept it cool and easy. Mr. Lake Saint Daniel sang a song he wrote about not having a kid, but he has a kid now, which is a possible scenario because time flows forward, sometimes sideways, and rarely backwards.

“Dad rock,” eh?

Lake Saint Daniel

Tracers

Trace Mountains outlines summits at Deep Cuts.

Lake Saint Daniel: “Well Lived”

Dig the pedal steel on this track that’s smooth as cornsilk.

Mystic River Melodies

Olivia Wendel cuts deep at Deep Cuts.

Long Beard performed solo electric guitar ditties, using an echo repeater to layer herself on top of herself. Mounds and mounds. Healthy reverb and jangly vibes. You get a little lost in the piece when one layer sounds and feels too much like another. Which it will when there’s not enough textural differentiation between the guitar parts on any given layer. Don’t get lost, young cub. And don’t confuse Long Beard with Longbeard, who is a different artist altogether.

The Medford date was the last stop on a weeklong tour for Trace Mountains and Long Beard. They picked a good spot to round out a tour, full of good food and drink, though unexpected in view of the fact that the headliner is out of New York and Long Beard is out of New Jersey. Go figure, maybe they both have local roots.

The four-piece was an easy listening capper to an easy listening night, for the most part. Shades of War On Drugs cosplaying Tom Petty. But a throwback tune like “Soil,” off 2018’s A Partner To Lean On, showed the band could rev up the heavier rock when they wanted to. They just didn’t want to. And that’s just fine.

Shout out to the synth keyboard, expanding the band’s sonic space into the electro dimension with good results.