ANCHR's Artist of the Week: Geese

Photo by Daniel Topete

We've got some new and exciting rock coming out of NYC everyone! Lucky for us, they’re migrating west for the winter and playing three shows in Pittsburgh, Michigan, and Chicago before heading out on a European tour.

Geese is a 5-piece group composed of teenage friends Max Bassin, Dominic DiGesu, Gus Green, Foster Hudson, and Cameron Winter. A career in Rock & Roll was not originally the aspiration of the band. Being 18 and 19 years old, the group figured they’d have some fun making music in the downtime Covid-19 provided and then head off to college once they graduated high school. Plans for college, however, have since been put on pause once Geese's music began to take flight.

Right as the pandemic began to swoop across the country in Spring 2020, Geese uploaded some of their self produced songs on to Spotify, to which lead to them getting management and eventually a label. Fast forward to Halloween weekend 2021 and they now have given us a great album to enjoy. They haven't played many live shows or gone on tour yet, but they do have a music festival under their belt in the 2021 presentation of Atlanta's Shaky Knees Music Festival. They even made their late night debut when they performed on Colbert. In May, they will be on tour opening for indie rock heroes Spoon on the West Coast leg of their tour, but ANCHR readers don't need to wait that long to catch them. They will be performing at Chicago's Tomorrow Never Knows Festival headlining a show at Lincoln Hall that also sports two other ANCHR favorites: Native Sun and Gustaf. I personally am excited to check them out. Their song “Low Era” is a certified bop. Come through so you can say you saw Geese's first Chicago show— get tickets here!