Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have returned with an upcoming album and tour for spring 2024. The Oakland-based band is set to perform a show at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre on Friday, April 5, 2024.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum recently announced their long awaited fourth studio album Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being, set to release February 23, 2024. The album, alongside their upcoming tour and short film, was crowdfunded through Kickstarter. The 20-date tour includes stops at cities such as Dallas, Brooklyn, Chicago, Portland, and more.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum formed in 1999 in Oakland, California. The band was founded by Nils Frykdahl and Dan Rathbun of the band Idiot Flesh, with Carla Kihlstedt of Tin Hat Trio, 2 Foot Yard and The Book of Knots. Matthias Bossi and Michael Mellender both joined in 2004. Previous members include percussionist Moe! Staiano, founding drummer David Shamrock, and drummer/manager Frank Grau.

The band tours the U.S. frequently in a renovated vintage Green Tortoise bus, and their live performances have featured puppet shows, pseudo-scientific scholarly presentations, and performances by members of the Butoh group inkBoat. SGM’s music has been categorized as anything from avant-prog to art rock to experimental metal to rock in opposition. Many reviewers have remarked that the group is altogether unclassifiable.

The band uses many homemade devices as instruments, such as the viking row-boat and the spring-nail guitar. Rathbun plays a stringed bass instrument of his own construction called The Log which uses piano strings and is perhaps 7 feet long. Mellender’s percussion instruments consist of restaurant kitchen equipment, trash can lids, and other “found” metal objects, in addition to traditional percussion instruments.

Don’t miss Sleepytime Gorilla Museum with special guests Melted Bodies and Faun Fables at the Fonda Theatre on Friday, April 5, 2024. Tickets are available at Axs.com.

Location: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Address: 6126 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Show Time: 9:00 p.m.

Doors Open: 8:00 p.m.

Ticket Price: $30

Age: All Ages