Dog City Disco | 2019-04-26 | The Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO [SBD/AUD Matrix]

You say you haven’t met your needs? What if I told you had a recording of Dog City Disco opening things up at The Fox Theatre?!

Hailing from the mountains of Summity County Colorado – Dog City Disco brought their blend of garish funk inter-spliced with hard hitting metal grooves and accessible songwriting to open things up for Evanoff’s and Cycles’ co-headlining show at the landmark Boulder venue. The set started off with a tune called “The Cycle”, which felt heavily influenced by the popular nu metal genre of the late 90’s, mixing trashy guitar riffs with biting rap verses and even a primal scream at the peak of the intro, for good measure. The song also contained a broken-down mid-section jam, fitted with dueling guitar licks and blanketed with the sounds of a rainmaker. The segment built with intensity before the bottom fell out and the band crashed back-in with the main riff and the lyric “we’re never going back” sung with visceral intensity.

Next up, the band kicked into “Affective Needs”, a song that starts off as a mixture of 80’s hair metal guitar riffs and 70’s rock keys, resulting in a sound that lands somewhere between The Cars and Steely Dan. Yet, after the song’s first break and guitar solo, the song breaks itself down again, this time into a much more patient, building riff that seems to time-travel to the atmospherically looping, infinitely building progressions of the mid-2000s, like Kings Of Leon meets the Silversun Pickups. This part was one of the most compelling of the set, with a vocal performance dripping with honest intensity and passionate resilience, to the build which seemed like it could go on forever, and I would have been ok with that. The moment is briefly dropped for an excursion to Westeros, as the band quickly jammed on the Game Of Thrones theme song before then erupting with a synth onslaught, once again completely transposing the song’s genre for the final time to carry it on out.

For the final portion of the set, the band got down to their funky roots, performing the zany mix of watery funk melodies and karate references, “Adventure Of Guide Brad’s Funky Bits”, before the final one-two punch of the set, the motown funk of “Black Mild And Magic”, which they would segue into a spicy cover of fellow Colorado natives String Cheese Incident’s “Rosie” to close things out with a familiar charm.

Dog City Disco not only started the party at The Fox that evening, they brought a big portion of it as they had a considerable number of disco-clad fans waiting at the door for a solid spot to enjoy the band’s set. A set filled with an amalgam of genres mashed together with a high-energy approach that is as danceable as it is rockable. A solid showing to start off a great night of music.

Dog City Disco | 2019-04-26 | The Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO

-= One Set =-
01. The Store[1]
02. Panic Blooms (Black Moth Super Rainbow cover)
03. Water >
04. Everything Must Go
05. Find Your Friends[2]
06. Mean Dog[3]
07. Game Show[4]
08. The Ball
09. The Mess

Show Notes: Dog City Disco opened the show followed by Cycles then Evanoff. The show was billed as a co-headlining show with Evanoff and Cycles.
[1] “Affective Needs” contained a “Game of Thrones Main Title Theme” jam.
[2] “Rosie” contained the outro to “Black Mild And Magic”.

Taper Notes: DFC directly behind the soundboard. Mics raised around 9′ PAS. Board patch thanks to FOH Engineer Phil.

Thank you to Dog City Disco and The Fox Theatre for being cool with taping/sharing shows. Go see live music and tip your bartenders! #spacetapes

LINK: https://archive.org/details/DCD2019-04-26.AKG.P170.AUD.SBD.Matrix.flac16