Events

[COUNTRY] The Sadies have maintained a steady presence through twenty-five years of alt-country shape-shifting, allowing to the genre to morph and gather moss around them. But the Toronto-based quartet hasn’t wavered much from its cow-punk-noir origins, which has garnered  near-universal praise from critics and has landed the band a mind-blowing list of collaborations and associations along the way (they have longstanding relationships with Neko Case, the Mekons, Jon Spencer and Robyn Hitchcock;  they’ve backed Neil Young and made an album with the late Gord Downie, and on and on). Their latest, last year’s Northern Passages (Yep Roc), brought the band full-circle: it was recorded in the basement of the house in which Travis and Dallas Good grew up, which is also where the pair first started making music. Taking a familiar, garage-spiked approach to country with tinges of rockabilly sprinkled along the way, Northern Passages manages to sound fresh despite mainly mining the band’s standard territory… consider that proof enough that there’s no shortage of worthwhile musical ideas among these four talented men, who’ll grace the stage at the new Rec Room on Friday, November 30.