Dogstar has today released their first album since 2000’s ‘Happy Ending’ in the form of ‘Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees’, via Dillon Street Records.
A lot can happen in those 23 years between albums. The music and career paths intertwine and expand yet come back together again with a fresh sound and feeling of a new band without the constraints of everything that was before.
What I hear initially is that tightness and feeling in the songwriting. Those alt-power trios of the late eighties and nineties (Sugar, Green Day, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) get a glimpse of what they would sound like in the new roaring twenties. The songwriting is vast, stylistically, and the experimentation within each song, while sometimes subtle, is always signature. This is what was meant to be. They needed the break. Now we have a continuation of what was always meant to be: great original music.
About the show/livestream
The global livestream will closely follow the release of the band’s new album Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees, which arrives October 6 via Dogstar’s own label Dillon Street Records and is distributed through ADA. The record has already been hailed one of the “most anticipated albums of Fall 2023” by the likes of Pitchfork and AV Club, and is available for pre-order. Fans can hear a glimpse into the record with previously released singles “Everything Turns Around,” “Breach,” and “Glimmer.”
Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse and bassist Keanu Reeves, Dogstar was born in 1991 as a band of friends who came together in a garage in Southern California and simply dreamed of playing music together and making a little noise. Now, all these years later, Domrose, Mailhouse and Reeves took some time at the tail end of an historic lockdown to create this collection of songs that fully encompasses who they are as artists today. The happily reunited rock trio’s official return came in May 2023 – more than 20 years since their last performance together.
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The event will be Tuesday, October 10 at 9:00pm U.S. Eastern.
About Dogstar
Here in 2023, Dogstar epitomize the quintessential Southern California storytelling rock band they’ve always been in their hearts, making deeply resonant music that literally comes from Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees – the name of their new album which arrives October 6, 2023 via their own label Dillon Street Records (distributed through ADA). Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse and bassist Keanu Reeves, Dogstar was born in 1991 as a band of friends who came together in a garage in Southern California and simply dreamed of playing music together and making a little noise.
Now, all these years later, Domrose, Mailhouse and Reeves took some time at the tail end of an historic lockdown to create this collection of songs that fully encompasses who they are as artists today. The happily reunited rock trio’s official return came in May 2023 – more than 20 years since their last performance together – with their first public performance at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival with a set that sparked fan and critical praise alike, including the live debut of their lead single “Everything Turns Around,” which was officially released July 19. Dogstar is currently on their 35+ city Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees Tour which included a west coast run in August and an east coast run in December.
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