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SUMMARY:15 Years Gretchen: THEE SINSEERS *live
LOCATION:Gretchen
DESCRIPTION:Thee Sinseers kommen mit ihrem neuen Album Love Stories ins Gre
 tchen. Die Band aus East Los Angeles verbindet Soul\, R&B\, Doo-Wop und Ch
 icano Soul zu einem Sound\, der vollständig im Hier und Jetzt steht und s
 ich nicht in Nostalgie verliert\, sondern konsequent zeitgenössisch ist. 
 Getragen wird er von einer vollen Bläsersektion\, mehrstimmigem Gesang un
 d einer Rhythmussektion\, die es in sich hat. Das Album erzählt von Liebe
  in all ihren Facetten – von Nähe und Verlust\, von Familie\, Erinnerun
 gen und zweiten Chancen. Statt eindeutiger Antworten lassen Thee Sinseers 
 Raum für Zwischentöne und erzählen Geschichten\, die gerade deshalb ber
 ühren\, weil sie offen bleiben. Love Stories trägt all die Gefühle in s
 ich\, die oft nicht zur Sprache kommen – ein unverschickter Liebesbrief
 \, der schließlich doch seinen Empfänger erreicht.\n\nGleichzeitig marki
 ert das Album einen Wendepunkt für die elfköpfige Band. Nach Jahren des 
 gemeinsamen Tourens und Arbeitens haben Thee Sinseers einen neuen\, eigene
 n musikalischen Ausdruck gefunden: Die Arrangements sind dichter\, der Ban
 dsound geschlossener\, die Songs persönlicher. Das ist kein Rückblick au
 f den Soul vergangener Jahrzehnte\, sondern die selbstbewusste Fortschreib
 ung einer lebendigen Tradition.\n\nThee Sinseers eilt der Ruf voraus\, ihr
 e Songs mit großer Wärme und beeindruckender kollektiver Präzision auf 
 die Bühne zu bringen und dabei stets nahbar und lebendig zu sein\, getrag
 en von großer Spielfreude. Was im Studio als vielschichtiges Klangbild en
 tsteht\, wird live zu einem unmittelbaren Moment. Kommt vorbei\, denn das 
 Gretchen hat obendrein Geburtstag und Thee Sinseers sind genau die richtig
 e Band\, um zusammen zu feiern.\n\nPräsentiert von COSMO\n\nFür diese Ve
 ranstaltung bieten wir ermäßigte Tickets an\, um auch Menschen mit klein
 erem Portmonee Zugang zu Kultur zu ermöglichen. Diese Kontingente sind li
 mitiert und nur bei TixforGigs verfügbar. Wir vertrauen auf Eure Selbstei
 nschätzung: Wenn ihr könnt\, bucht Standard-Tickets und überlasst die e
 rmäßigten Kontingente denjenigen\, die gerade sehr sparen müssen.\n\nPh
 oto: Alfonso “JP” Gomez\n\n\n_________________________________________
 ____\n\nTo say that Thee Sinseers play oldies would be a misnomer. Fronted
  by bandleader and son of East Los Angeles Joey Quiniones\, the group has 
 quietly chipped away at the sounds of R&B and soul since forming in 2019. 
 Quinones and his crew have continuously created a distinctive vibe that ex
 plores all aspects of a timeless genre\, bringing together their interpret
 ation of music through an unmistakable modern lens.\nCatching up with Thee
  Sinseers ahead of their new Colemine Records release\, ‘Love Stories’
  (out September 18th)\, one thing becomes abundantly clear: this is not an
  LP that explores a neat and tidy love story. The vision of love put forth
  on this record is full-spectrum. Think of the seminal 1993 East LA film B
 lood In Blood Out — three protagonists bound together through hardship\,
  strife\, and diverging roads\, who ultimately circle back to reckon with 
 why they remain. It's a similar story here. ‘Love Stories’ isn't inter
 ested in the happy ending. It's interested in everything that comes before
  it\, after it\, and in spite of it.\nOf course\, none of this is accident
 al. More than a new record\, ‘Love Stories’ is a portrait of a band th
 at has finally grown into itself — one that knows exactly who it is and 
 isn't shy about saying so. As Quiñones puts it: "It's a solidifying state
 ment of where we are now. This is our style."\nBassist Christopher Manjarr
 ez described that confidence as something you can hear: "Everything was ju
 st that notch up." In contrast to Sinseerly Yours\, which had developed or
 ganically from a four-piece into an eleven-member ensemble\, ‘Love Stori
 es’ was built from the ground up as a collective effort — every role e
 stablished before the band entered the studio. "We went in knowing these a
 re the roles that are gonna be played by these people\," Quiñones says. "
 Everybody was considered wholeheartedly in every arrangement aspect."\nTha
 t collective approach extended into the sonic choices themselves. Every me
 mber zoomed out — listening not just to their own parts but to the recor
 d as a whole\, what Quiñones calls thinking like "a beautiful painting" r
 ather than a collection of individual tracks. With that foundation in plac
 e\, the band handed the final mix to engineer Kelly Finnigan. "We could ge
 t so far with our opinions\," Quiñones admits\, "but at the end of the da
 y there's still 10 or 11 of us trying to figure out what's right." The ban
 d also leaned into earthier instrumentation — standup bass\, guitars run
  through amplifiers for a warmer sixties-adjacent tone — pulling inspira
 tion from wherever it presented itself\, even the most unlikely of places.
  It's that cross-genre thinking that Quiñones sees as the record's defini
 ng quality. "It didn't feel like we were making soul music at any point\,"
  he says. "It felt like we were making our music."\nBut the sonic ambition
  of ‘Love Stories’ only tells half the story. The band sought to captu
 re something more honest than a highlight reel — showcasing the highs an
 d lows of romantic\nrelationships while expanding the frame to include the
  familial\, the complicated\, and the unresolved. On "Let's Fall In Love (
 Again)\," Quiñones's protagonist pleads for a second chance before stoppi
 ng mid-song to acknowledge his own role in the heartbreak — trading wish
 ful fantasy for something far more honest. It's that kind of emotional can
 dor that runs throughout the record. The band's parents appear in the albu
 m art\, their own love stories folded into the record's visual identity\, 
 some of those stories still standing\, others not. As Manjarrez puts it: "
 Every single song title directs you down a different road of love — whet
 her you win or lose." Quiñones wanted listeners to sit with that ambiguit
 y. "Love is never-ending\," he says. "It stretches beyond lifetimes. I wan
 t people to still be confused — I want it to be left like an open book."
 \nTo achieve what they're reaching for\, every member of Thee Sinseers has
  had to check their ego at the door — and mean it. "The sense of ego is
 \, in a weird way\, non-existent when it comes to recording and writing\,"
  Quiñones says. "We're all fans of each other at the end of the day." It'
 s the kind of trust earned on the road\, forged through years of shared mi
 les and close quarters — and reflected in a lineup that welcomed new add
 itions seamlessly\, including expanded roles for familiar faces and string
  arrangements from newcomer Skip Heller that push the songs into new terri
 tory.\nThat spirit of trust extends to their partnership with Colemine Rec
 ords\, built on patience and creative freedom. "Terry's like a homie\," Qu
 iñones says. "He gives us his input but we get a lot of freedom because h
 e trusts us." For a band still actively defining itself on its own terms\,
  that kind of label support isn't just appreciated — it's essential.\nYe
 t one thing remains constant throughout: Thee Sinseers' commitment to wher
 e they come from. That East LA identity doesn't announce itself — it sim
 ply exists\, woven into the fabric of the music without being worn as a ba
 dge. As Francisco Flores puts it: "We're from here. You can hear it a thou
 sand miles away. You can't deny it — but we don't try to. It just comes 
 out that way." Nowhere is that more apparent than on "Minute by Minute\," 
 which Quiñones describes as the album's most neighborhood-feeling moment 
 — a slow dance number that conjures the gymnasiums of Roosevelt and Garf
 ield High\, intimate and unhurried\, like a memory you didn't know you wer
 e making. There's no performance of heartbreak here\, just the real thing.
 \nLike an unsent love letter finally delivered\, ‘Love Stories’ carrie
 s the weight of everything that was felt but never quite said. The univers
 ality of that feeling is perhaps best captured in Quiñones's own words: "
 It's never too late to change. It's never too late to tell a person you lo
 ve that you love them." After any song on this record\, Eric Johnson says
 \, there's really only one appropriate response. "Damn."\n\nPresented by C
 OSMO\n\nFor this event we offer discounted tickets to give people with les
 s money still access to culture. These quotas are limited and only availab
 le at TixforGigs. We trust in your self-assessment: If you can\, please bo
 ok standard tickets and leave the reduced tickets to those who have to sav
 e money at the moment.\n\nPhoto: Alfonso “JP” Gomez\n\nBoletos: https:
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