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Smoking Popes
Also Playing: Roll The Tanks and Vic And Gab
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Fri Oct 19
9 pm
Smoking Popes, Roll The Tanks, and Vic And Gab at Club Garibaldi
Chicago-based quartet Smoking Popes has made clean, catchy power-pop for nearly 20 years, paving the way for other local acts like Alkaline Trio and Fall Out Boy to reach mainstream success with virtually the same formula. After a six-year hiatus following lead singer Josh Caterer’s conversion to Christianity, the band got back together in 2005, and released one full-length studio LP, 2008’s Stay Down—as well as 2010’s odds-and-ends compilation, It’s Been A Long Day. In 2011, the band released This Is Only A Test, the band’s first concept album ever. Test explores the life of a fictional high schooler, touching on love, suicide, and everything in between—you know, pop-punk stuff. To celebrate the reissue of their 1994 album Born To Quit on SideOneDummy Records, the Popes will kick off tonight’s show by playing the album in its entirety.
Club Garibaldi 2501 S Superior St, Milwaukee, WI
Chicago-based quartet Smoking Popes has made clean, catchy power-pop for nearly 20 years, paving the way for other local acts like Alkaline Trio and Fall Out Boy to reach mainstream success with virtually the same formula. After a six-year hiatus following lead singer Josh Caterer’s conversion to Christianity, the band got back together in 2005, and released one full-length studio LP, 2008’s Stay Down—as well as 2010’s odds-and-ends compilation, It’s Been A Long Day. In 2011, the band released This Is Only A Test, the band’s first concept album ever. Test explores the life of a fictional high schooler, touching on love, suicide, and everything in between—you know, pop-punk stuff. To celebrate the reissue of their 1994 album Born To Quit on SideOneDummy Records, the Popes will kick off tonight’s show by playing the album in its entirety.
Updated 10/10/2012
