It isn’t everyday that you get a collaboration like this on tour: Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids and Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio. But when you do, it’s a two-for-one deal–full of nostalgia and fearless rock.
The Get Up Kids reigned in the emo scene in the 90s, released countless albums, toured with the likes of Green Day, Hot Rod Circuit and Weezer, and even founded their own label, Heroes and Villains Records. The band stayed together for ten years before breaking up in 2005, which is when Matt Pryor joined The New Amsterdams and then went on to pursue a solo career. His latest album is due out in February called Memento Mori. The single from the album, “A Small Explosion” is a slower track, intuitive, simple–while most of the songs from his earlier solo releases are much grittier and way more pop-punk, especially as heard on Wrist Slitter.
The other half of this show is Dan Andriano, who was invited to join Alkaline Trio by Matt Skiba as a bassist and vocalist in 1997. The band found mass success, especially on the album From Here to Infirmary released in 2001 on Vagrant Records, and a new album (as said this year) is definitely in the works. While members of the band continued on their side projects, Andriano did as well, making music under the name Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room. His sound might be unlike what you’d expect from his past with Alkaline, especially on his first album release Hurricane Season and tracks “From This Oil Can” and “This Light.” There’s a sense of sadness to his music, but it’s powerful still–striking, heart-felt, serious.
Catch these two all-stars when play together in Brooklyn. It’s a show that’ll be a blast from the past, in a way, because it’s the voices you know and love–just with a new, independent, more personal spin to it.
Saint Vitus Bar
4/21
7:30 p.m.
$16
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