BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//172.67.138.41//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.wmse.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-160169@www.wmse.org DTSTAMP:20240328T200715Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Phone Interview CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Tune into WMSE as Matt talks with Josh Caterer before he visits the Back Room at Colectivo for his “Holiday Soiree” with his trio. Only o n WMSE!\nCaterer first burst onto the Chicago punk scene in 1991 with Smok ing Popes who he formed with his brothers Eli and Matt. From their early i ndie releases to their critically acclaimed major label albums\, Smoking P opes developed a unique blend of buzzsaw guitars\, caffeinated rhythms and heartfelt crooning vocals. During a band hiatus in the early aughts\, Jos h wrote and recorded music as a solo artist and with the pop-punk band Duv all which featured other Popes alumni. Reuniting in 2005\, Smoking Popes r eleased three more albums\, the most recent being Into The Agony in 2018. Josh also released an album with the Blues outfit Jackson Mud Band along t he way.\nLife under the pandemic has forced many in the creative community to find ways of innovating around it. As Josh and his band recorded The H ideout Sessions and then The SPACE Sessions\, they created events that wer e good for the band\, good for the venue\, and great for the fans. They ca ptured that unpredictability\, that sense of “anything could happen\,” tha t sits at the core of the live music experience.\nIn keeping with the form at of The Hideout Sessions\, this powerful\, poppy trio performed to empty house\, live-streaming as a virtual concert event. Josh and his cohorts p layed with all the inspired intensity of the performance at the Hideout\, but with an even more tangible sense of self-assurance. The band tears thr ough an ambitious setlist including visionary arrangements of standards li ke the Etta James’ classic “At Last”\, Frank & Nancy Sinatra’s “Somethin’ Stupid” (delivered here as a stirring duet between Josh and his daughter P hoebe) and a handful of original compositions\, spanning the breadth of Ca terer’s impressive songwriting catalog. The band’s performance also includ ed an incendiary version of the holiday favorite “White Christmas” which i s not included on the album but being released separately as a digital sin gle\, available November 26th. DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211215T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211215T190000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:interview: Josh Caterer URL:https://www.wmse.org/event/interview-josh-caterer/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://www.wmse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ Josh-Caterer-200x300.jpg\;200\;300\,medium\;https://www.wmse.org/wp-conten t/uploads/2021/12/Josh-Caterer-200x300.jpg\;200\;300\,large\;https://www.w mse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Josh-Caterer-200x300.jpg\;200\;300\,ful l\;https://www.wmse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Josh-Caterer-200x300.jp g\;200\;300 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nTune into WMSE as Matt talks with Josh Caterer before he visits the Back Room at Colectivo for his “Holiday Soiree” with his trio. Only on WMSE!
\nCaterer first burst onto the Chicago punk scene in 1991 with Smoking Popes who he formed with his brothers Eli and Matt. From their early indie releases to their critically acclaimed major label albums\, Smoking Popes developed a unique blend of buzzsaw guitars\, caffeinated rhythms and heartfelt crooning vocals. During a band hiatus i n the early aughts\, Josh wrote and recorded music as a solo artist and wi th the pop-punk band Duvall which featured other Popes alumni. Reuniting i n 2005\, Smoking Popes released three more albums\, the most recent being Into The Agony in 2018. Josh also released an album with the Blues outfit Jackson Mud Band along the way.
\nLife under the pandemic has forced many in the creative community to find ways of innovating around it. As J osh and his band recorded The Hideout Sessions and then The SPACE Sessions \, they created events that were good for the band\, good for the venue\, and great for the fans. They captured that unpredictability\, that sense o f “anything could happen\,” that sits at the core of the live music experi ence.
\nIn keeping with the format of The Hideout Sessions\, this po werful\, poppy trio performed to empty house\, live-streaming as a virtual concert event. Josh and his cohorts played with all the inspired intensit y of the performance at the Hideout\, but with an even more tangible sense of self-assurance. The band tears through an ambitious setlist including visionary arrangements of standards like the Etta James’ classic “At Last” \, Frank & Nancy Sinatra’s “Somethin’ Stupid” (delivered here as a stirrin g duet between Josh and his daughter Phoebe) and a handful of original com positions\, spanning the breadth of Caterer’s impressive songwriting catal og. The band’s performance also included an incendiary version of the holi day favorite “White Christmas” which is not included on the album but bein g released separately as a digital single\, available November 26th.
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