
Cavetown
Tessa Violet, Addison Grace
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7:30pm
Standing room - limited seats available.
Since the age of 14, Cavetown has created self-produced songs both intensely diaristic and touched with offbeat imagination. Now 22, the Cambridge-based artist otherwise known as Robin Skinner has built a global following based on that outpouring, forging a connection so personal he’s taken to keeping a cupboard full of letters he receives from fans. On his new EP Man’s Best Friend, Cavetown expands on the beautifully detailed bedroom-pop that’s brought him immense success in recent years (including headlining sold-out shows around the world), ultimately arriving at one of his most vulnerable projects yet.
The follow-up to 2020’s Sleepyhead (his Sire Records debut), Man’s Best Friend took shape from a period of enormous change for Cavetown. Prior to releasing Sleepyhead, he’d found himself unmoored by the demands of his growing fame. With the album dropping right as the world went into lockdown, Skinner slipped into what he now refers to as “a very toxic place, mentally speaking,” and eventually stepped back from working on music to focus on his mental health. As he began writing again, what soon emerged was the raw introspection of Man’s Best Friend, a body of work made in deliberate solitude.
Throughout Man’s Best Friend, Cavetown examines everything from hopeless crushes to toxic positivity to unhealthy coping mechanisms. Along with previously released singles like “Let Me Feel Low” ft. Miloe, the EP features four new tracks written, recorded, and mixed entirely by Skinner. On “Idea of Her,” for instance, Cavetown presents an up-close portrait of unrequited love, adorning his confessional lyrics with brightly bubbling effects. The EP’s most upbeat moment, “I Want to Meet Ur Dog!!” centers on the same crush, this time offering up a sweetly warped serenade to her pet. And on “Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me,” Cavetown sets his self-reflection to a gorgeously sprawling collage of sound. “I wrote that song in the depths of a breakdown during lockdown,” says Skinner. “It’s about being angry at the situation and blaming everyone else, manipulating myself and other people. It came from a dark place, so it felt important to make the music a bit lighthearted.”
-
At The Gates
Friday, August 19, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Carpenter Brut
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Warpaint
Monday, August 22, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Circle Jerks / Descendents
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Descendents / Circle Jerks
Friday, August 26, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile 25th Anniversary Tour
Monday, August 29, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Murder By Death / Amigo The Devil
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm
-
Less Than Jake & Bowling For Soup: Back For The Attack Tour
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
of Montreal
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Tinariwen
Monday, September 19, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Panteón Rococó
Friday, September 23, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Cate Le Bon presented by (((folkYEAH!)))
Friday, September 30, 2022
Doors: 8:00pm / Show: 9:00pm
-
Daniela Darcourt & Tito Nieves
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Cairokee US Tour - SF
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Doors: 5:30pm / Show: 7:00pm
-
OM
Monday, October 3, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
THE BRONX and THE CHATS
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 6:45pm
-
Mom Jeans
Saturday, October 8, 2022
Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 7:00pm
-
The Movement
Friday, October 14, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Papadosio w/ Lusine & Duffrey
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Milton Nascimento
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Teddy Swims
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
La Santa Cecilia
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
Grupo Niche
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Doors: 8:00pm / Show: 9:00pm
-
Osees
Friday, December 9, 2022
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
-
EELS - Lockdown Hurricane Tour
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm