{"id":480846,"date":"2019-01-14T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=777897"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:00:01","slug":"jawbox-talk-first-tour-in-more-than-20-years-this-year-made-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/jawbox-talk-first-tour-in-more-than-20-years-this-year-made-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Jawbox Talk First Tour in More Than 20 Years: \u2018This Year Made Sense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since 2009, when D.C. post-hardcore band Jawbox came together for a one-off performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon<\/em>, the members have discussed the idea of launching a more full-scale reunion. Now, they\u2019re finally making it official, as the band will reunite for a series of club dates this summer \u2014 their first live shows in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last five years, every year we\u2019ve been like, should we play shows?\u201d bassist Kim Coletta tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cAnd every year, it\u2019s easy to put up some impediments to playing shows. \u2026 It was kind of like, this year made sense finally. And the hardest thing was just saying, \u2018Yes, let\u2019s try this.\u2019 I\u2019m really excited and nervous at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shows will bring together the group\u2019s best-known lineup of Coletta, singer-guitarists J. Robbins and Bill Barbot, and drummer Zach Barocas. Titled \u201cAn Impartial Overview\u201d \u2014 after a line from the track \u201cChinese Fork Tie\u201d off 1996\u2019s Jawbox<\/em>, their final studio album to date \u2014 the run will see the quartet play 12 gigs spanning major U.S. cities. Set lists will draw mainly on that self-titled LP and For Your Own Special Sweetheart<\/em>, the band\u2019s superb 1994 major-label debut, following two albums on legendary D.C. indie label Dischord. The tour kicks off on June 14th at Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and hits various cities in the Northeast, West Coast and Midwest before wrapping at Chicago\u2019s Metro on July 27th.<\/p>\n

The four musicians have all remained in contact since the band\u2019s 1997 split, even collaborating on various projects over the years. According to Robbins, they reached the point where a proper reunion needed to happen now or never. \u201cIf we\u2019re gonna do it, we should do it when we\u2019re still physically capable of doing it justice, of the endurance and physical commitment that it takes to play the kind of music we played in Jawbox,\u201d Robbins says of the mindset that led up to the decision. \u201cIf we\u2019re gonna do it, let\u2019s just fuckin\u2019 do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time Jawbox played in public was the Late Night<\/em>\u00a0appearance, timed to a then-new reissue of Sweetheart<\/em><\/a>, co-released by Dischord and Coletta\u2019s DeSoto imprint. On the show, they played one of that album\u2019s standouts \u201cSavory,\u201d a Nineties classic that exemplifies the band\u2019s signature blend of burly rhythmic drive and tender melodic hooks. No public shows followed, though, and aside from a 2015 Dischord\/DeSoto reissue of Jawbox<\/em><\/a>, the band has been mostly quiet since then.<\/p>\n