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SUMMARY:The Tubs\, Mopar Stars
LOCATION:Cloudland Theater
DESCRIPTION:Upon arriving in the United States for The Tubs’ first tour o
 f the country\, frontman Owen Williams told The New Yorker\, “We’re he
 re to unite the country. We’re gonna come\, like\, three times. By that 
 point\, I think this place will start healing.” Then\, joyously\, they d
 id just that\, piling into a van and criss-crossing the States\, bringing 
 their literary\, bleary-eyed\, world-weary\, night-of-your-life highwire a
 ct to the masses when it was needed most. Along the way\, they signed to M
 erge Records\, who will release The Tubs’ third full-length album\, Hard
  Life\, on September 11\, 2026.\n\nThe Tubs have never lacked for ambition
  — on Hard Life\, theirs is to complicate the Tub-ullar experience. Havi
 ng perfected their sound across two albums and hundreds of shows\, the Lon
 don-based Celtic jangle boyband — Williams (vocals\, guitar\, keyboards
 \, bass)\, Dan Lucas (guitar)\, Taylor Stewart (drums)\, and Max Warren (b
 ass) — push themselves even further into the shimmering heart of virtuos
 ic indie rock. They’re joined by frequent collaborators Lan McArdle (voc
 als)\, George Nicholls (guitar)\, and Rachel Kenedy (keyboards)\, all of w
 hom have orbited various Tubs and Gob Nation-adjacent efforts dating back 
 to Joanna Gruesome\, but the secret to Hard Life’s lushness is the addit
 ion of fiddle player Chris Haigh\, an instructor and session musician who 
 left an indelible mark on British pop on Steps’ “5\, 6\, 7\, 8.”\n\n
 Mirroring Williams' use of trilling on vocal melodies\, Haigh’s fiddle s
 hades the vocalist's rueful croon like a bruise. On “Stoop to Me\,” th
 e folkiest\, jangliest pop song on the album\, Haigh’s licks complement 
 Williams at his most self-deprecating\, the lopsided smile of a guy trying
  not to let on how wounded he is in unrequited love. On album opener and t
 itle track “Hard Life\,” it’s the sweetness of the ascending fiddle 
 lines in the mix that weds the harshness of Williams’ lyrics to The Tubs
 ’ fist-pumping anthemics.\n\nThe hard line Williams takes here and elsew
 here on Hard Life further troubles one’s idea of a Tubs song. The person
 a familiar to listeners of Cotton Crown and Dead Meat — to quote William
 s\, “navel gazing about romantic abjection\, London squalor\, and the in
 dignities of grief and OCD” — is still present\, but so too is a secon
 d voice\, steelier and more experienced. “The second persona doesn’t h
 ave much time for the first\,” Williams explains\, “often haranguing h
 im for his self-indulgence and immaturity\; sometimes fairly\, sometimes u
 nfairly.”\n\nIt’s the scold who takes center stage on lead single “W
 ho’s Gonna Love You Now?” His questions\, from the titular one to more
  concrete concerns like “Who’s gonna pay the rent?” existing in mock
 ing opposition to ideas like moving to the city and really starting to liv
 e. Though Williams plays the crank\, the song is a raver\, guitars ringing
  out over an organ-brightened horizon. “It’s your life\,” Williams s
 ings\, the life chugging away beneath him sounding exceptionally keen. He 
 wouldn’t have much sympathy for the lovelorn Williams of “If You Don
 ’t Love Me” — hell\, his whole existence seems like a warning that t
 he kinds of romantic entanglements one suffers when they’re young will e
 nd in loneliness\, failure\, and an inbox choked with unread Substacks.On 
 Hard Life\, these voices argue\, pester one another\, merge into each othe
 r\, and break apart\, sometimes over the course of a single song. They’r
 e two sides of the same coin\, people who’ve experienced grief\, disappo
 intment\, regret\, and shame\, emerging from the wreckage as changed men. 
 “I’m interested in the way sympathy and patience for someone suffering
  always runs out eventually\,” Williams says. “How this can be a good 
 and liberating thing as well as a sad and brutal thing. But mostly they’
 re just pop songs.” Exquisite\, irresistible pop songs. Spin them until 
 the healing starts\, then spin them again.\n\nMopar Stars is the hooky\, g
 uitar-forward indie rock project from Philly artist Nao Demand (Poison Ru
 ïn)\, joined by guitarist Bill Magerr (Zorn)\, bassist and vocalist Nneka
  Anyaoku (S-21)\, and drummer Evan Campbell (Sheer Mag). Since first surfa
 cing in 2023 with the Shoot the Moon tape\, the band has quietly built a c
 atalog that rides the line of familiar (think Bob Mould\, Teenage Fanclub
 \, Big Star) while still landing outside any one clear reference point.\n
 \nThe band’s forthcoming album Official Researchers Of The NJ Devil is o
 ut July 31\, 2026 via beloved Olympia label K Records (Sharp Pins\, early 
 Modest Mouse & Built to Spill). Recorded and mixed by Trish Quigley at Stu
 dio North and mastered by Amy Dragon\, the 11-song LP leans further into t
 he band’s loose\, melodic instincts. Across the record\, Mopar Stars mov
 e effortlessly between power pop\, 90s alt rock\, and classic guitar songw
 riting without settling too cleanly into any one of them.\n\nBoletos: http
 s://dice.fm/event/g53g7a-the-tubs-mopar-stars-23rd-oct-cloudland-theater-m
 inneapolis-tickets
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