Dogs In A Pile w/ Strange Machines
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𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
• Doors open at 7:00 PM | Music starts at 8:00 PM
• 21+ Event, Valid ID Required
• No Refunds
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐈𝐧 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐞
Something organic has been blooming from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and is now making its way around the world. Dogs In A Pile, a band of five twenty somethings with old souls and limitless chops, is waking people up to the timeless and ineffable joys of psychedelic-tinged jazz-funk rock n’ roll.
This is one of the busiest touring bands of today, averaging 130 live shows per year since 2022. The road has become their creative engine, generating a rapidly growing catalog of original tunes. Distroid, the band’s newest album, is a 10-song collection featuring long-awaited studio versions of some of the Dogs’ most beloved repertoire.
Dogs In A Pile is guitarist Jimmy Law, guitarist Brian Murray, keyboardist Jeremy Kaplan, bassist Sam Lucid, and drummer Joe Babick. In addition, the Dogs In A Pile community includes the Dog Pound, the group’s extended family of fans across the country.
Besides being a lyric from the Grateful Dead song, “He’s Gone,” the name “Dogs In A Pile” is an apt description of the five-piece band’s stylistic breadth. The sonic image it conjures is a heap of storyteller Americana, bluegrass, jazz improvisation, eccentric instrumental excursions, pop-rock sophistication, and deep-pocket grooves, ranging from funk to Latin to reggae and beyond.
Distroid features material that has already become staples of the band’s live show. These studio renditions have afforded the group a chance to present the compositions just how they envision them. Distroid offers a cross-section of the Dogs In A Pile essence, tight and tuneful four-minute funk and jazz informed psych-rock songs, and then sprawling 15-minute compositions with intricate unison lines, agile genre-jumping, and dazzling improvisation.
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬
New England quartet Strange Machines have spent the last decade and a half pushing their way to the forefront of the East Coast jam scene—not by fitting in, but by blurring the lines entirely. Fusing rock, funk, reggae, livetronica into a sound that refuses to sit still, the band thrives in the space between structure and spontaneity. Their live shows are immersive and unpredictable-built on tight musicianship, but driven by risk, chemistry, and the willingness to go somewhere new every night. On stage, Strange Machines don't just play songs-they stretch them, reshape them, and pull the audience into the process. It's controlled chaos in the best way: intricate compositions collide with deep improvisation, creating a set that feels as alive as it is precise.
They've shared stages with heavy-hitters like The Disco Biscuits, Twiddle, Dopapod, Papadosio, Goose, EOTO, The Motet, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Spafford, lespecial, Neighbor, Turkuaz, Kung Fu, TAUK, etc. —but Strange Machines aren't riding coattails. They're building something of their own.
Their third full-length album, Playing With Fire (released October 7, 2025), captures that evolution in full. As Live For Live Music puts it: "More than anything, Playing With Fire is about growth-musically, emotionally, and as a band... It's an album that resonates—the sound of a band fully stepping into who they are and connecting so deeply with themselves and their fans that it becomes something personal and lasting."
• Doors open at 7:00 PM | Music starts at 8:00 PM
• 21+ Event, Valid ID Required
• No Refunds
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐈𝐧 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐞
Something organic has been blooming from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and is now making its way around the world. Dogs In A Pile, a band of five twenty somethings with old souls and limitless chops, is waking people up to the timeless and ineffable joys of psychedelic-tinged jazz-funk rock n’ roll.
This is one of the busiest touring bands of today, averaging 130 live shows per year since 2022. The road has become their creative engine, generating a rapidly growing catalog of original tunes. Distroid, the band’s newest album, is a 10-song collection featuring long-awaited studio versions of some of the Dogs’ most beloved repertoire.
Dogs In A Pile is guitarist Jimmy Law, guitarist Brian Murray, keyboardist Jeremy Kaplan, bassist Sam Lucid, and drummer Joe Babick. In addition, the Dogs In A Pile community includes the Dog Pound, the group’s extended family of fans across the country.
Besides being a lyric from the Grateful Dead song, “He’s Gone,” the name “Dogs In A Pile” is an apt description of the five-piece band’s stylistic breadth. The sonic image it conjures is a heap of storyteller Americana, bluegrass, jazz improvisation, eccentric instrumental excursions, pop-rock sophistication, and deep-pocket grooves, ranging from funk to Latin to reggae and beyond.
Distroid features material that has already become staples of the band’s live show. These studio renditions have afforded the group a chance to present the compositions just how they envision them. Distroid offers a cross-section of the Dogs In A Pile essence, tight and tuneful four-minute funk and jazz informed psych-rock songs, and then sprawling 15-minute compositions with intricate unison lines, agile genre-jumping, and dazzling improvisation.
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬
New England quartet Strange Machines have spent the last decade and a half pushing their way to the forefront of the East Coast jam scene—not by fitting in, but by blurring the lines entirely. Fusing rock, funk, reggae, livetronica into a sound that refuses to sit still, the band thrives in the space between structure and spontaneity. Their live shows are immersive and unpredictable-built on tight musicianship, but driven by risk, chemistry, and the willingness to go somewhere new every night. On stage, Strange Machines don't just play songs-they stretch them, reshape them, and pull the audience into the process. It's controlled chaos in the best way: intricate compositions collide with deep improvisation, creating a set that feels as alive as it is precise.
They've shared stages with heavy-hitters like The Disco Biscuits, Twiddle, Dopapod, Papadosio, Goose, EOTO, The Motet, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Spafford, lespecial, Neighbor, Turkuaz, Kung Fu, TAUK, etc. —but Strange Machines aren't riding coattails. They're building something of their own.
Their third full-length album, Playing With Fire (released October 7, 2025), captures that evolution in full. As Live For Live Music puts it: "More than anything, Playing With Fire is about growth-musically, emotionally, and as a band... It's an album that resonates—the sound of a band fully stepping into who they are and connecting so deeply with themselves and their fans that it becomes something personal and lasting."
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