Twilight Concert Series 2026 presents The War On Drugs

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  The War On Drugs

  The history of rock ’n’ roll is a story of splintering. Stop here for 10 seconds, and think: How many niches can you name without even trying, without having to pause for just a split second? They seem infinite and, already the better part of a century since rock’s bastard birth, still ceaseless, each new form defined by the mainframe’s perpetuity of flux.

  But over the last 15 years, The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of the mightiest counterweights to this endless division, reconnecting rock’s manifold hyphenates with an ardor and ease that suggest they were never split far apart in the first place. Folk, indie, kosmiche, noise, roots, arena, psychedelic, soft, whatever—The War on Drugs are this century’s great rock ’n’ roll synthesists, obviating the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the abstruse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. The War on Drugs have never done that so well as they do with I Don’t Live Here Anymore, their fifth studio album and their most compulsive and bold set of songs to date.

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  Lo Moon

  Los Angeles four-piece Lo Moon—singer and chief songwriter Matt Lowell, bassist Crisanta Baker, guitarist Sam Stewart, and drummer Sterling Laws—emerged out of nowhere in 2018 with their debut release, “Loveless", a slow-burning epic that transfixed everyone who heard it. The song set out a paradigm that the band honed over the course of two critically acclaimed albums. Songs that shift and stretch, moving from quiet to loud and back again, tweaking the rock template with impressionistic touches and ambient interludes, but anchored by solid gold, melodic pop hooks, Lowell’s affecting falsetto, and lyrics that are intensely personal, if not painfully honest, yet strangely elliptical. After spending the past few years on the road supporting tours for The War On Drugs, Phoenix, Glass Animals, Air, London Grammar, Chvrches, Metric, Muna and The Lemon Twigs, the band’s third outing (to be released in ’24), revolves entirely around a single unifying idea, of life and personality forged from the revelatory moments of lived experience. It’s the singular work of a group of musicians whose confidence and abilities have not only scaled the heights of their ambitions but outstripped them.
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