And Twens!

Twen houses wares at Warehouse XI on Saturday, 22 June 2024.

Raavi and Small Pond open the triple-stack bill on the northeastern leg of Twen’s world domination tour.

Mark Erdody, a longtime local musician in the area, is going through a course of treatment and recovery from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Everything is expensive, especially medical bills. Help if you can.

Small Pond

Sea. Mill Pond Falls. Phantom Ocean. There are too few bands named after bodies of water. Add Small Pond to the list. We can have a local mini-fest of water-themed or water-named acts, and maybe turn it into a environmental fundraiser.

Raavi is a Nice fest alum. Twen too. Has Small Pond played the local mega fest? Not sure about previous editions. You sort through the 80+ bill this year and tell me. 

The four-piece played a set of indie rock originals, though they threw at least one curveball. In the last 30-seconds or so of one song the band segued into what sounded like kinda, maybe, sorta, possibly the chorus to “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls?

Raavi

Raavi, the brainchild of Raavi Sita, has put out some quieter, acoustic guitar-driven music lately. Were we going to get a laid back coffee house set at Warehouse XI? Not so fast. Raavi performed as a four-piece, dialing up the intensity at least as high as the rockers off the 2022 full-length album It Grows On Trees.

Twen

The crowd dug Twen, and dug their half dozen jumbo dice that were bouncing around the room in lieu of beach balls.

The psych rockers and Brit poppers performed as a five-piece, leaning into a meaty rhythm section to give the set a kind of Euro dancehall esprit.

Someone in the crowd identified a cover as “Holidays In The Sun,” though it was unclear whether the song arrived via the Sex Pistols, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, or none of the above. Catch the band on the remainder of their tour and maybe you can crack the case.

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