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by Lucy on 4/10/24The Masquerade - Purgatory - AtlantaNooice, great opener and great set, love the sound mixer
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El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles
Remo Drive In Concert
It takes a fair bit of moxie to name your first album Greatest Hits, but Minneapolis trio Remo Drive's 2017 debut rises to the challenge with a lean 10-song collection of emo-spiked indie rock anthems. While the suburban Minneapolis band seemed to arrive fully formed, the record was actually the culmination of a four-year gestation period.?
Remo Drive was founded by brothers Erik (vocals, guitar) and Stephen Paulson (bass) when they were still in high school, inspired equally by new-school emo acts like Title Fight and Joyce Manor and timeless genre touchstones like Weezer's 1996 classic, Pinkerton.?
But unlike many fledgling emo outfits, the Paulsons weren't ones to take themselves too seriously. Where peers like The World Is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die used their band name to broadcast their ideological intent, Remo Drive is by their own admission "very meaningless."?
As Erik explained to Minneapolis' City Pages site, "Stephen was going to buy drumheads for our drum set, and the company that makes the drumheads is Remo. So he was driving to get Remo drumheads: Remo Drive."?
That irreverent spirit has infused all aspects of the band's presentation, from the raw, mosh-worthy demos they started dropping on Bandcamp in 2014 (sample title: "My Good Friend Is a Pro Sk8er") to their family portrait-style press photos to their low budget videos. The winsome clip for 2017 single "Yer Killin' Me" — featuring the brothers and drummer Sam Mathys performing the song while running through their suburban neighborhood — received an endorsement from noted online music critic Anthony Fantano (aka The Needle Drop), increasing anticipation for Greatest Hits.?
Recorded in the Paulsons' family home and initially self-released by the band, the album was picked up for wider distribution through legendary punk imprint Epitaph. But Remo Drive's 2018 EP, the un-ironically titled Pop Music, already finds the Paulsons outgrowing their emo roots, incorporating the polyrhythmic finesse of bands like Vampire Weekend on lead single "Blue Ribbon."
Nooice, great opener and great set, love the sound mixer
I've been listening to Remo Drive for years and the recordings are a long shot from the experience and the vibes that the band gave at this concert. The Atlanta fans are also really engaging. It's tough to find a show where people knew the lyrics to such a small band (shout out to the girl that was able to sing along to *every* song from Mercy) and just all around having fun and enjoying the music and not talking over it. Wilt was a really good supporting act with an amazing stage presence they have definitely gained a fan. Keep on rocking
Remo Drive sounded great. It was an awesome show!
Came to this venue to see Slow Pulp mainly, but the opening band and headliner did really well! I loved the venue, the tickets weren't too expensive! Slow Pulp were so good live too! Absolutely loved the experience!
Remo Drive were awesome. Good mix of older and new songs. Played for a while. Heart to Gold was a great opening band. Sound at Teragram ballroom was amazing.
Remo Drive at the Masquerade was the best show I have ever been to. Every act was so passionate and talented. Remo’s on-stage chemistry was unmatched. The crowd was so into it (albeit very rough). The music, the delivery, everything about this show was incredible. I met Erik after the show, and he was so, so kind. I cant wait to see them again!
I saw remove drive when they opened for hippo campus. The energy was great and the crowd was super into it even though they weren’t the headliners. This time, while they were the headliners, the crowd was more catered toward a pop punk audience (fun). the moshes were great but too much of their new material was being played and the group didn’t take seemingly obvious cues that no one was extremely into it. i get it you want to release new material but playing 5 or 6 new tracks when all people know and love is the old stuff? gutsy.