We Love You, Akron/Family: Tonight at The Parish

photo by Chad Wadsworth

Akron/Family with Delicate Steve
Friday, April 1
The Parish (214 East Sixth Street)
$15/17, doors at 8
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Those of you who've seen them before (perhaps when they headlined the Austinist SXSW party two years ago?) know this nearly irrefutable truth: when Akron/Family play a show, they freaking mean it. Few bands manage to so consistently stir their audience into a frenzy of delight as the Brooklyn via Pennsylvania trio, and their newest album, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (pardon the absurd title), is an auspicious return to form for an act that had at one point struggled to overcome the loss of one of their founding members to a Buddhist monastery. The three piece of Miles Seaton, Seth Olinksy, and Dana Janssen seem confident and at peace on the new album, and there's no doubt new rompers like "Silly Bears" and "Light Emerges" will stand tall live. And, as this interview a couple years ago shows, the group not only brings it energy-wise, but they also embrace deep thought, that rarity of rarities in the music world/human population. And you get to check it all out at the cozy Parish tonight.

Opening up is New Jersey's Delicate Steve, who is pretty damn good, and not all that delicate.