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State Theatre Presents Caveman
September 23, 2021 @ 8:00 pm
With special guests Liily and Caroline Kingsbury.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 day of show.
Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm.
21+
All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!
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Since Caveman began in 2010, they’ve released 3 full records, toured endlessly (sharing stages with The War on Drugs, Jeff Tweedy, and Weezer, and playing festivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits), receiving accolades from Pitchfork to the New York Times. Now in 2021, they’ve become one of the mainstays of the NYC music world. More than anything, Caveman are the band that everyone seems to know, who always seemed to be out on the town for years if you needed someone to meet up with late into the night, the throughline to a dozen disparate crowds of artists. Led by Matthew Iwanusa, lifelong city resident, with guitarist Jimmy Carbonetti (who grew up on Roosevelt Island) they quickly started their first band in high school. At 18, they met Jeff Berrall (bass) to complete the trio. Nowadays, they’ve grown from young punk kids into statesmen of sorts for NYC indie music. Jimmy’s Brooklyn shop The Guitar Shop NYC is a city institution and a clubhouse for the band. Practicing and working out of Williamsburg nightclub Baby’s Alright during it’s down hours, the band are just beginning to recreate the momentum of their early career after a period of false starts, legal issues and delays that slowed the release of their new record for several years.
“Smash” is the first Caveman record since 2016’s “Otero War” andwas produced by Nico Chiotellis at Rivington 66. It comes out on Fortune Tellers in July 2021.
“Boy, these guys can write a chorus.”Simon LeBon
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Liily are four Los Angeles musicians- Dylan Nash, Sam De La Torre, Charlie Anastasis & Maxx
Morando – who, up until now, were mostly known for their manic and cacophonous live shows.
Those performances, alongside a couple of early singles packaged together into an EP entitled I
Can Fool Anybody In This Town, drove the band to some surprising early successes: performing
at Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, touring across Europe and the United States, then finding
themselves on the cover of Spotify and Apple Music’s major rock playlists. But then, as quickly as
they appeared, they seemed to vanish. Almost two years later, and now all of 22 years old, the
band return with their debut album TV or Not TV in October. It is a highly aggressive record, far
more so than their early work. But here they jump from moment to moment and genre to genre,
creating an experimental and original set of songs, all more strange and abrasive but also far
more three dimensional than anything the band has done before. It still contains the unbridled
energy of those early shows and singles but feels stripped of anything passive or unintentional.
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CAROLINE KINGSBURY“HEAVEN’S JUST A FLIGHT”ThisCaroline Kingburyrecordis so close to a massive pop album, the kind you hear out on RepublicRecords with hundreds of thousands of dollars sunk into it so that it blasts out your speakers absolutelyperfectly, the kind of inescapable music you hear taking over the airwaves and internet. And yet, it’ssomething else entirely. It’s the story of a young artist begging, borrowing and stealing to just get hervoice heard, and of all the desperation and hard days cutting through. With each song you can actuallyhear a young kid who moved from Florida writing in her bedroom and starting out on her own in hercheap Hollywood apartment. You are right alongside her chasing those massive pop sounds, going towork day after day at the local grocery, and going on tour with a band for the firsttime. Feel her tenacitywaver as she gets stuck in a sleazy contract, as her agent leaves her, and as her first serious relationshipfalls apart. The record lands in this strange place that is really like the sound of our own dreams. It takesyou right there with her. It’s not so shiny, not so escapist anymore. Sometimes it’s really hard. Sometimesit’s broken. Sometimes dreams don’t come true but we keep trying.
