Taking Back Sunday, The Maine
This event is in the past
Fri April 19, 2019, 8 pm, & Sat April 20, 2019, 8 pm
Crystal Ballroom
West End (Portland)
$35 - $40
Some albums are undeniably transportive. For me, Taking Back Sunday’s Where You Want to Be brings back vivid memories of my neighbor’s stuffy laundry room, where he’d hooked up his Xbox 360. We’d blast the 2004 record as the dryer rumbled, with Call of Duty’s Nazi Zombies drowned out by the dueling screeches of Adam Lazzara and Fred Mascherino. One night his older brother decided to throw a party, and to keep us quiet, he gave us two cans of Coors Light and instructed us to stay in the laundry room. I guiltily took my first sip of the warm beverage and almost spit it out on the controller. “A Decade Under the Influence” came on, and my future flashed before my eyes—just another emo kid-turned-normie adult self-medicating away the ennui of wage labor and suburban living.
by Cameron Crowell
by Cameron Crowell