Daniel Romano's Outfit, Uni Boys
Schedule
Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2501 Kettner Blvd San Diego CA 92101 | San Diego, CA
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The Outfit release career defining new album,Preservers of the Pearl, asserting themselves as messengers of the new wave of underground rock and roll, pushing the movement forward alongside fellow trailblazers Mystery Lights, Sheer Mag, Shadow Show, Uni Boys + more.With Preservers of the Pearl,The Outfit deliver their most complete and fearless statement yet —a record that is less like a collection of songs and more like a living organism. Tracked to tape at their own Camera Varda studio,the album captures the band live in the room —breathing, musing, and believing —every imperfection intact. It’s the sound of human hands and hearts at work, their bodies as instruments, played by something greater, in a shared moment of co-creation, preserved in real time.Everything has been leading here. For the first time since Attack in Black,Daniel Romano shifts from his position as sole writer,opening the floor to Outfit stalwarts Ian Romano and Carson McHone,and welcoming into the fold longtime friend and legendary Canadian rock-n-roller,Tommy Major.The band is functioning for the first time as a true collective —multiple voices and perspectives —all serving one creative pulse. The result is both a new beginning and a homecoming —an album that feels discovered, not designed.Thematically,Preservers of the Pearl,presents music as communion —rock n roll as experience beyond the borderlands of matter —bridging the physical with the philosophical. It pushes back against the flattening forces in modern times —what the band calls “the mono-agriculture of the mind.” In a “target culture”, condemned to homogeny and banality, The Outfit refuse polish and uniformity, embracing imperfection as truth, and promoting curiosity through creativity.For The Outfit, this isn’t just philosophy —it’s practice. Their songs are open systems, meant to be shared, reshaped, and reinterpreted. Every performance is a ritual of participation, a dialogue between band and audience, between creation and communion. As the band puts it, “These ideas didn’t begin with us —and they’re not meant to end here.”At the center of it all is a deep spiritual current —what The Outfit calls Rock & Roll Magick: the belief that music is a sacred act, a force that can reconnect the individual soul to what is larger.The Outfit are making music that is purposeful and profoundly urgent.Preservers of the Pearlis an invocation as much as an album -it’s fearless in a time of great compromise, and resolute in an age of peripheral bullshit. Here is a band serving something greater than themselves
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2501 Kettner Blvd San Diego CA 92101, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101-1217, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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