Mewithoutyou with Kevin Devine and Buried Beds

Tix On Sale Friday 5/11 at 12PM Doors 7:30 | Show 8:30 "I do not exist," mewithoutYou frontman Aaron Weiss mutters to open the band's third full-length, Brother, Sister, setting the tone for an album that explores philosophical, spiritual and interpersonal relationships with equal aplomb. However, while Weiss has become known for his stream-of-consciousness lyrics communicated via his half-sung/half-shouted vocals, Brother, Sister is a huge progression for Weiss personally, as well as the rest of… Show more the Philadelphia-based band-guitarist Michael Weiss, guitarist Christopher Kleinberg, bassist Greg Jehanian and drummer Rickie Mazzotta. Oh, and it also has the potential to finally break the underground's best-kept secret wide open. In a musical landscape dominated by genre divisions and marketing campaigns, Brother, Sister is simply an album made by five people who create art without any limitations-and that's what makes it so important. While the album retains the band's instantly recognizable post-hardcore sound, Weiss' vocals and the implementation of atypical instrumentation are the most instantly recognizable shifts from 2004's Catch For Us The Foxes. "A lot of our old stuff is all shouting and that's still there," explains Weiss. "But I've never really listened to heavy music; with this record, my goal was to make music that I wanted to listen to. Not everyone agreed at first, but I wanted to incorporate different types of melodies and instrument-and those are probably some of my favorite moments on the record." While Foxes and the band's Tooth & Nail debut [A

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