The Goods [Oakland] / Joel Cusumano [Oakland] / Mono Sapiens [Köln]

Schedule

Sat, 26 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00
Location

Oskar-Jäger-Str. 190, Sonic Ballroom, 50825 | Cologne, NW

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Power-Pop / Rock`n`Roll
Oakland powerpopband The Goods return with Don’t Spoil the Fun, their örst full-length album. Written and produced by frontman Rob Good, the record captures the band’s sunny technicolor jangle, where arpeggios ring and harmonies soar a top of a bed of sprightly strummed guitars
and bouncing basslines. Channeling the classics himme of The Byrds and Big Star with the energy of Teenage Fanclub and Matthew Sweet, The Goods’ signature sound feels both familiar and fresh.

Though you, dear reader, may not know it, Joel Cusumano has played a huge role in the Bay Area underground scene for years—as songwriter and/or lead guitarist in a wide-ranging lineup of bands such as Sob Stories, R.E. Seraphin, and Body Double.
Cusumano began writing the music that would become his first solo album, WAXWORLD, after a stint in a mental hospital treating his debilitating OCD: “It was bleak. For a year I could barely function, barely leave the house. After [the hospital] I recovered pretty rapidly. But instead of feeling relief, there was dread, like, ‘Well, what now’? You spend over a year falling off the deep end and you’re a different person when you hit the ground … I needed to write differently than I had before. I was looking around the world and not recognizing what I saw. The songs had to reflect that alienation. I was done with the ‘angry young man’ jilted lover stuff I’d been doing in Sob Stories. I was bored with that kind of boilerplate rock’n’roll topography.” A painful breakup at the end of writing process further sharpened Cusumano’s eye towards material reflecting his growing unease in a world in unrelenting flux.

garage shoegaze surf sludge speedbluegrass gentlemen punk ...
falls jemand fragt
hypnotic sounds out of a lobotomized brain
silly remarks on the lips
straight to the point songs from the heart guts and soul
with not that straight to the point lyrics
that's the anatomy of mono sapiens
morphing into a crowd moving, sweat-drenched, defeaning and cathartic show

Einlass: 20h, Beginn: 21h, Eintritt: 16€

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Where is it happening?

Oskar-Jäger-Str. 190, Sonic Ballroom, 50825, Oskar-Jäger-Straße 190, 50825 Köln, Deutschland, Cologne, Germany

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