Dopapod and The Motet at College Street Music Hall (New Haven)
Sat Oct 28, 7:00 PM - Sun Oct 29, 12:00 AM

Dopapod and The Motet
Saturday, October 28th
@ College Street Music Hall (New Haven)
$25 ($23 advance) / 7:00pm doors / All Ages
Tickets On Sale NOW: http://ticketf.ly/2um5Vnf
------------------------------------------------------------

Premier Concerts and Manic Presents:

Dopapod release their fifth studio album, MEGAGEM’ on October 26th, 2017, in Vinyl/CD/Digital. As a gift to fans, select tracks will be available as a ‘name your own price’ download on their Bandcamp page leading up to the release.

A full fall tour is announced and on sale. Along with those dates, the band will be playing two New Year’s shows– first in one of their favorite cities, Providence, RI, and a NYE date where the band was born—Boston, MA— at the Paradise Rock Club.

Following the release of MEGAGEM and the fall tour, Dopapod and plan to take a break from touring in 2018. Keyboardist and singer/songwriter Eli Winderman explains the sabbatical as a blueprint for wellness borne from mutual respect amongst old friends, a pre-emptive move of self preservation:

After playing close to 150 shows a year for the last 7 years, we have decided as a group that the healthiest thing we can do moving forward is to take some time to nourish other parts of our lives without having to think of the next step for the band. The goal is that we can come back to Dopapod with a renewed sense of excitement and a plethora of new music that we would never be able to conceive without this time off the road.

Listening closely to MEGAGEM provides a window into the band’s roving headspace over the last few years. There’s a rich tradition of songs about life on the road, but very few of them spend time exploring the inner dialogue that results from that lifestyle.

Dopapod recorded MEGAGEM’s instrumentals at the solar-powered Mountain Star Studios in Black Hawk, Colorado during the dead of winter, making the most of an optimal opportunity to unplug from all other noise. “The lack of oxygen led to some crazy ideas,” says guitarist Rob Compa. “When combined with the lack of phone service, human contact, or any other distractions, it allowed us to have the freedom to make a lot of that weird inspiration become reality.”

“A lot of th