{"id":164831,"date":"2025-06-06T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/06\/flying-high-how-jam-band-goose-is-bringing-the-genre-to-new-generations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:14:35","slug":"flying-high-how-jam-band-goose-is-bringing-the-genre-to-new-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/06\/flying-high-how-jam-band-goose-is-bringing-the-genre-to-new-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying High: How Jam Band Goose Is Bringing The Genre To New\u00a0Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThis spring, The Shed, a massive cultural complex on Manhattan\u2019s West Side, hosted \u201cLuna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy,\u201d an immersive exhibition filled with carnival attractions designed by revered artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein. But on one March evening, these hulking installations were just a backdrop: Goose<\/a>, and 1,000 of its most ardent fans, descended on the space for a special event promoting the ascendant Connecticut jam band\u2019s new album, Everything Must Go<\/em> (released April 25). Costumed actors modeled after the figures on the album\u2019s Where\u2019s Waldo?<\/em>-esque cover \u2014 a maid, a burlesque dancer, an old-timey weightlifter \u2014 wandered about, interacting with attendees. More than an hour of fully improvised music capped the evening.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of stuff we want to be doing a lot more of,\u201d singer-guitarist Rick Mitarotonda says. \u201cWe just want to do more weird s\u2013t, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo months later, Goose is fresh off another high-concept event: Viva El Gonzo, its first Mexican destination festival. Welcoming more than 3,000 attendees, the group curated a bill for the three-day May fest that included both jam regulars (Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Eggy) and indie-rockers (The War on Drugs, Dawes). \u201cWe get excited anytime there\u2019s any kind of blurring of the lines between those worlds,\u201d says Mitarotonda, 34. \u201cWith our own music, we\u2019re kind of flirting with those lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tSince exploding during the pandemic, thanks in part to its savvy embrace of livestreams and drive-in concerts, Goose has become a touring force: The band that was playing small clubs in 2019 will headline New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden in June for the first time. Jam-world titans like the Grateful Dead\u2019s Bobby Weir and Phil Lesh and Phish\u2019s Trey Anastasio have helped to burnish Goose\u2019s credentials as the Next Great Jam Band, performing with its members and exposing it to veteran audiences in the process. \u201cThe most valuable things you pick up are not tangible,\u201d Mitarotonda says of rubbing shoulders with these legends. \u201cYou\u2019re not able to articulate them; they\u2019re not said. They\u2019re just this osmosis-type thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the quartet is also reverent of millennial indie-rock favorites: It has covered the likes of Spoon, Radiohead and The National. At a 2024 concert, Vampire Weekend joined Goose for a 33-minute version of the rock mainstay\u2019s \u201cCape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGoose, which is rounded out by bassist Trevor Weekz (35), multi-instrumentalist\/vocalist Peter Anspach (32) and drummer Cotter Ellis (33, who joined in early 2024), may jam with the best of them, but the band\u2019s aspirations go beyond that scene. Loaded with slick, funky grooves and heartfelt ballads, Everything Must Go<\/em> notched Goose the best chart marks of its young career \u2014 No. 3 on Vinyl Albums<\/a> and No. 6 on Top Album Sales<\/a> \u2014 upon its April debut. The group\u2019s team is servicing its music to radio, including \u201cGive It Time,\u201d which hit No. 10 on Adult Alternative Airplay<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n

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