The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Name: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
Start: 2026-05-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-02T23:00:00-04:00
Location: 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5R 3G5, Canada

Schedule

Sat May 02 2026 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5R 3G5, Canada | Toronto, ON

Deface the Currency, the new second collaborative album from the Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, grew out of a simple intuition. The group — with saxophonist Lewis joining the core Messthetics lineup of Brendan Canty on drums, Joe Lally on bass and Anthony Pirog on guitar — was on tour in the summer of 2025 when Canty knew it was time to go back into the studio.
This configuration of the band had debuted on record the year prior, releasing an acclaimed self-titled album via Impulse!, the legendary jazz label. But as the quartet logged serious time on the road, the drummer felt their chemistry evolving, so he called up engineer Don Godwin and booked a couple of days at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, Maryland, where The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis was recorded.