Bartees Strange

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Bartees Strange
w/ They Hate Change, Equipment
Fri, Nov 4 Show: 8:30 pm (Doors: 7:30 pm )
$18.00
Bartees Strange live at the Grog with They Hate Change and Equipment as support!

Friday, November 4th
7:30pm doors / 8:30pm show
$16 advance / $18 day of show
All Ages
+$2 at the door if under 21

BARTEES STRANGE
A producer and songwriter who traverses shimmery indie electronica, gritty alt-rock, folk, hop-hip, and more in his unpredictable songs, Bartees Strange emerged from Washington, D.C. in 2020. His eclectic debut album, Live Forever, appeared in October of that year. Farm to Table, his first album for 4AD, arrived in 2022.

Raised in Mustang, Oklahoma, Bartees Leon Cox, Jr. traveled the state with his family as a child, singing in opera productions as well as in churches. As an adult, he moved to Brooklyn to pursue music in a more diverse scene, eventually relocating to Washington, D.C. to work for an environmental nonprofit. It was from there that he released the EP Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy under the stage alias Bartees Strange in March 2020. Inspired by being one of the few Black fans in attendance at a concert by the National the year before, it reworked some of the group's songs with fewer limitations of genre while retaining what he loved about the tracks. A full-length debut of original material, Live Forever, followed on the Memory Music label in October of the same year. The album was widely acclaimed, and Strange toured with artists like Lucy Dacus and Courtney Barnett. He co-produced Oceanator's album Nothing's Ever Fine, which appeared in April of 2022. He also signed to his dream label, 4AD, and released his second album, Farm to Table. The single "Cosigns" included shout-outs to Dacus and Barnett as well as Phoebe Bridgers and Justin Vernon.

THEY HATE CHANGE
Floridian rap duo whose atmospheric, party-friendly music incorporates influences such as drum'n'bass and post-punk.

EQUIPMENT
Hey! Nick here, inventor of the emo/pop-punk/power-pop/rock'n'roll band called Equipment from the city of Toledo, Ohio. Welcome to the Not-So-Frequently Asked Questions page! Here I will answer any burning questions that you may or may not have.
Who's in the band?

Equipment mainstays include Nick Zander (myself, he/him) on guitar/vocals, Jacob Scott (they/them) on guitar (ex-bass), and Jake Pachasa (he/him) on drums. They say a band isn't real until it has two Jakes in it. In 2021, Ellie Hart (they/them) joined the live band as the bassist, shuffling Jacob over to guitar. We have included many others in our live band over the years.

When did Equipment start?

Equipment as project started in the spring of 2015. I was in my senior year of high school and wanted to release music under a moniker that wasn't my own name. I released a five song demo on May 20, 2015. This demo EP was taken off the internet right before we started rolling out our EP Chump, but most of it was re-uploaded on its five year anniversary! We took out a song because it was weird. You can listen to it here!


They Hate Change
Equipment