Trace Mountains outlines summits at Deep Cuts on Friday, 25 October 2024.

Long Beard and Lake Saint Daniel open the triple stack bill.

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Aug 2

Matinees are punk rock (and a little emo) at Midway Cafe.

Aug 7

Somergloom hits its 5th year anniversary of heavy music at Deep Cuts.

Aug 8

Somergloom hits its 5th year anniversary of heavy music at Crystal Ballroom.

Aug 8

The 4th Wall celebrates its 21-month anniversary at Capitol Theater.

Aug 9

Somergloom hits its 5th year anniversary of heavy music at Crystal Ballroom.

Johnnie & the Foodmasters / K.O. Queen / Electric Street Queens

Aug 14

Johnnie & the Foodmasters celebrate a lost decade at Deep Cuts.

Aug 25

A monthly Z-movie night at Capitol Theatre.

Aug 30

Ska punk matinee & Jerry’s return from the dead at Midway Cafe.

Hack the Planet: Hackers celebrates 30 Years

Sep 12

30th anniversary of Hackers explodes with screening, celebs, and A/V bonanza.

Hump Nights

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The power of suggestion is strong. The fronter for Lake Saint Daniel wore a James Taylor t-shirt on stage at Deep Cuts. And all I could think about was how the placid, slow-to-medium tempo grooves sounded like old Stringbean. The four-piece kept it cool and easy. Mr. Lake Saint Daniel sang a song he wrote about not having a kid, but he has a kid now, which is a possible scenario because time flows forward, sometimes sideways, and rarely backwards.

“Dad rock,” eh?

Lake Saint Daniel

Tracers

Trace Mountains outlines summits at Deep Cuts.

Lake Saint Daniel: “Well Lived”

Dig the pedal steel on this track that’s smooth as cornsilk.

Mystic River Melodies

Olivia Wendel cuts deep at Deep Cuts.

Long Beard performed solo electric guitar ditties, using an echo repeater to layer herself on top of herself. Mounds and mounds. Healthy reverb and jangly vibes. You get a little lost in the piece when one layer sounds and feels too much like another. Which it will when there’s not enough textural differentiation between the guitar parts on any given layer. Don’t get lost, young cub. And don’t confuse Long Beard with Longbeard, who is a different artist altogether.

The Medford date was the last stop on a weeklong tour for Trace Mountains and Long Beard. They picked a good spot to round out a tour, full of good food and drink, though unexpected in view of the fact that the headliner is out of New York and Long Beard is out of New Jersey. Go figure, maybe they both have local roots.

The four-piece was an easy listening capper to an easy listening night, for the most part. Shades of War On Drugs cosplaying Tom Petty. But a throwback tune like “Soil,” off 2018’s A Partner To Lean On, showed the band could rev up the heavier rock when they wanted to. They just didn’t want to. And that’s just fine.

Shout out to the synth keyboard, expanding the band’s sonic space into the electro dimension with good results.