Caution is the name of the game here, which might explain a current lack of rescheduled North American dates, though Grote says those are forthcoming. Guitarist/singer Rob Grote of The Districts performs onstage during the Rachel Ray Feedback Party at Stubbs BBQ on March 21, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Grote, Jacobus and Lawrence are Warwick High School graduates; Cassidy is from Chester County. "You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere is an unachievable promise,” says The Districts bandleader Rob Grote. These songs eventually became You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere once the rest of the band heard Grote’s demos and felt that they would work for The Districts proper. Digital FORT: Watch The Districts give an outside acoustic performance From what looks like the outside of a Hobbit-like dwelling, Rob Grote of The Districts gives us a show. Rob and Pat tell the story. Rob and his band have spent the summer traveling the international festival circuit, but they’ll be back in Philadelphia on November 6th for their largest local headlining gig to date at the Electric Factory.Read Rob’s case for 1977 below. _g1.setAttribute('srcset', _g1.getAttribute('data-srcset')); The Districts are an American rock band originally from Lititz, Pennsylvania. Frontman Rob Grote of The Districts croons urgently on “Cheap Regrets,” the lead single from the band’s forthcoming fourth full-length, “You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere.” Digital FORT: Watch The Districts give an outside acoustic performance From what looks like the outside of a Hobbit-like dwelling, Rob Grote of The Districts gives us a show. What makes the Districts stand out from their peers who emerged at the same time is their embrace of change. CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 04: Rob Grote of The Districts performs at Grant Park on August 4, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. His room is on the third floor. Rob and his band have spent the summer traveling the international festival circuit, but they’ll be back in Philadelphia on November 6th for their largest local headlining gig to date at the Electric Factory.Read Rob’s case for 1977 below. "I was a bit of a hermit, recording in my room all the time," Grote said. This video is unavailable. Download this stock image: Rob Grote and Pat Cassidy of the Districts, performing on the main stage at the 2017 OnBlackheath Music Festival - K86HNM from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Rob Grote. Longtime fans of the band - perhaps those who have followed the band from nearly a decade ago, when they were scrappy teenagers from Lititz releasing "Telephone" in 2012 - will note a leap not only in musicality, but the ways in which that musicality is presented, namely via more inventive production and arrangements. _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-inverted-img'); As time went by, Grote began to record demos of these songs, fleshing them out much further than he ever had before when writing in the context of a full band. "I'm not nervous about changing stuff up," Grote said in March. Sick Riffs: Rob Grote and Pat Cassidy teach you the acoustic and electric guitar lines of The Districts' Cheap Regrets. } catch(e) {}, try { _g1.classList.remove('lazyload'); Once the song ideas were in place, the band decamped with a Tescam 16-track recorder to a cabin in Hudson Valley, New York, where the bulk of the work on the album was done. March 24, 2020, 10:00 am. Rob Grote of The Districts performs during the #SXSWTakeover at ACL Live on March 21, 2015 in Austin, Texas. “Most of the time my approach to writing songs has been with a guitar or piano, just figuring out chord changes and lyrics,” Grote said. "You're witnessing a performance, but you're also experiencing something together. By Sam Roche 29 September 2020. I think it’s really important for music to offer a place where people can connect and realize that you’re not alone and you’re really just another vessel of consciousness.”. Each of the band’s records have different moods and tonalities, which makes the band more dynamic than the rest of the indie guitar rock scene from the early 2010s. I feel like that aspect is super important to being what it is.". Watch Queue Queue "I feel like we were the most prepared ever for this tour," Grote says. One of the sadder ironies that the Districts face is that, while fans are stuck at home, the band has made one of its most lively, propulsive albums yet. “I was falling in love with someone new,” The Districts’ frontman Rob Grote recently said in a promotional statement. I feel that because I trusted myself a lot throughout the process and tried to approach this record with the attitude of ‘I know what this can be and I want to make it that,’ You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere feels really pure. Rob Grote of The Districts performs onstage at The Other Tent during Day 2 of the 2015 Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival on June 12, 2015 in Manchester, Tennessee. The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were still in … “I feel like we got super burned out,” the band’s principal songwriter, Rob Grote, told American Songwriter. The Districts are making their way back to Boston this Friday to open for Temples at Paradise Rock Club, but first, lead vocalist/guitarist Rob Grote took the time to tell me what it was like to become a professional musician out of high school and where they can’t wait to eat while they’re here. "I played a few of those [livestreams] at first, but then I cut way back," says Grote. “I was falling in love with someone new,” The Districts’ frontman Rob Grote recently said in a promotional statement. “It’s about a dream for love to last forever and a yearning to postpone death. "It feels like it's going so slow but also, I can't really keep track of the time," says Grote about his quarantine. The balance of just releasing a new record and feeling the societal pressure to use the time to be creative felt somewhat at odds. The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were all still in high school. The show ended with Grote and Lawrence duetting on "One by One," a song by the obscure but acclaimed folk songwriter Connie Converse. Rob Grote's gear and equipment including the Fender Mustang Electric Guitar, ZVex Mastotron Fuzz Pedal, and fender mustang. _g1.setAttribute('src', _g1.getAttribute('data-src') ); "The best part of music events is that they're social events," Grote says. "I was making songs purely out of looking for an escape.". The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were all still in high school. The Districts are an American rock band originally from Lititz, Pennsylvania. Of course, Grote couldn't have known then how pertinent those themes would become to the world at large, nor could he have envisioned the cosmic irony behind an album titled "You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere" releasing on the cusp of a viral outbreak. This is as fitting an introduction to the band’s new album as you could wish for. He has roommates, so isolation isn't a worry, but signs of time's malleability are beginning to show. It’s not that I feel that music has to always be political post-2016, but I do think it’s important to consider the role of music to heal and change people. Earlier this week, that same song got a major boost in visibility by …. “I feel that by the end of our 2017 tour we were at this point of assessing a lot. It is about wanting to escape everyday life while also craving time… The Districts You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere (Fat Possum) Buy it from Insound. Frontman Rob Grote sloot zich op in zijn slaapkamer, schreef 32 nummers en besefte dat die niet eigen voelden. Today we’re delighted to premiere a song from Rob Grote of The Districts, who has covered R.E.M’s Nightswimming, which just so happens to be one of my favorite songs, like, ever. The Districts On World Cafe : World Cafe Hear a live performance of songs from the band's latest album, Popular Manipulations, and a chat with lead singer Rob Grote and guitarist Pat Cassidy. Their mature-beyond-young-years, emotionally-charged blues-rock is fist-clenchingly raw and translates into a visceral live performance as exciting as it is instrumentally impressive; indeed at their August Lexington show frontman Rob Grote threw down his microphone stand in a moment of perfectly executed rock n' roll for the 2014 week-night London crowd. "It really made me think, like, 'Why do I work so hard?' The Districts You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere (Fat Possum) Buy it from Insound. Last Friday, LNP | LancasterOnline successfully launched "Quarantunes," a new weekly music series featuring artists performing live on Faceboo…, In the fall of 2019, two Lancaster musicians and friends created a song. _g1.classList.remove('lazyload'); Rob Grote, Connor Jacobus, Braden Lawrence and Pat Cassidy make up the band that formed in 2009 as suburban teens who found comfort in the company of other musicians in an otherwise small, conservative town. There was an error processing your request. The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were all still in high school. "Lyrically, the whole record deals a lot with a desire to transcend some stuff," Grote said back in March. The Districts are a four-piece indie rock band from the small town of Lititz, Pennsylvania. In a press statement, singer/guitarist Rob Grote explained the upbeat track’s sobering lyrics, saying, ““Cheap Regrets” is some late capitalist nihilism channeled into a Districts dance party. To get there, we must first navigate through the noise and the stormy waters, and The Districts chart the course for us to follow. "I think we all felt a little uncertain about where we were heading and what we were doing," Grote said in March. Unbeknownst to fans, Grote and the Districts played their last show to date, playing all of "You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere" as well as cherished songs from the bands' whole discography. For WXPN’s Greatest Year in Music, we asked The Districts’ frontman Rob Grote to pick his favorite. Once Mark Larson strikes a chord, Rob Grote growls soulfully, Connor Jacobus plucks his bass guitar, and Braden Lawrence attacks a cymbal, it’s clear: The Districts’ music doesn’t just … Rob Grote of The Districts performs onstage at the SoundExchange/Marty Diamond showcase during the 2015 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Stubbs on March 20, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Frontman Rob Grote is not your average rockstar met z’n donkere krullen en snorretje, maar weet toch te leveren, met zijn licht verwilderde blik. En met zijn stem. From the ghostly hand claps on "My Only Ghost" that herald in the album to the jittery riffs of "Sidecar," each song on the album is imbued with a sense of urgency. Accompanying him are bassist Conor Jacobus, guitarist Mark Larson, and drummer Braden Lawrence, all 19 or 20 years old. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Hopes are high at Fat Possum, the band's record label, that touring will be able to continue in the fall. When LNP | LancasterOnline first caught up with Grote on March 6, he was between dates in Georgia, chipperly answering questions on the band's 2020 plans and the making of the album. “The Beatles’ ‘All You Need Is Love’ is such a simple statement, but that song probably had a pretty large impact on the world despite being a simple idea. A full two months after the record's release, Grote is in Philly, biding his time by hiking, meditating and writing and recording songs in his apartment. } The bands' website lists a full European tour commencing on Oct. 13, which includes a stop in Lancaster, United Kingdom. Inexplicably wearing a surgeon’s mask and light blue nurse’s scrubs, The Districts frontman Rob Grote is relentless as he sits behind a drum set in the smokey basement of a North Philadelphia row home. The LGBTQ+ Coalition of Lancaster has announced "Stay In & Come Out," an art contest seeking art in various mediums. “The act of writing a song, trying to sculpt something out of the human experience, can feel quite vain. Rob Grote lives in a house whose foyer has wallpaper of pretty pink flowers. I clearly remember where I was, and what I was watching, when I laughed — really laughed — for the first time after the terrorist attacks of S…, Update: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has canceled its annual George F. Hempt Memorial MS Polo Match in August because of concerns s…, Lancaster rapper, songwriter and music producer Charles Infamous appeared on Monday night's episode of NBC's "Songland," a competition show on…. In early March, Grote and the Districts, the Lancaster County-born, Philadelphia-based band that Grote has fronted for nearly half of his 25 years on this planet were poised to release their fourth album, "You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere," on March 13. This is as fitting an introduction to the band’s new album as you could wish for. Log In. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Rob Grote Frontman Rob Grote of The Districts croons urgently on “Cheap Regrets,” the lead single from the band’s forthcoming fourth full-length, “You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere.” Music fans won't gather on the Camden Waterfront for XPoNential Music Festival this summer. Na Popular Manipulations (2017) voelden de bandleden zich opgebrand, zowel professioneel als persoonlijk. "But I don't think it'll be hard to pick back up when the time comes.". Listen to The Districts full session with Mary Lucia. Error! Their most recent album, 'A Flourish and a Spoil,' was recorded at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minn. ""It was awesome," says front man Rob Grote. Shares. by Joe Vitagliano March 24, 2020, 10:00 am. "You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere is an unachievable promise,” says The Districts bandleader Rob Grote. The Districts was formed by four childhood friends in 2009, while they were still in high school, and the Lititz, Pa. band has since grown up in the public eye, having signed to … Never, however, has this change been more palpable than on You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere. It was way more limitless — I wasn’t making it to be something in particular, it was more about trying to use the time and space you have in a song to make as many transcendent moments happen in whatever way you can. The prolific young band released its first EP, Kitchen Songs, in 2011 f… read more ‘And trying to juggle this desperate desire to escape with the need to show up in my life’. The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were still in … THE DISTRICTS "You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere is an unachievable promise,” says The Districts bandleader Rob Grote. "Like, grappling with that feeling where you want to be miles away in a different situation, and then still being in the same spot.". Song Premiere: The Districts' Rob Grote covers R.E.M. The band also features  Connor Jacobus on bass and Braden Lawrence on drums, and Pat Cassidy on guitar. Grote’s initial response to this burning out was to analyze his own relationship with music and his creative process. Download this stock image: Rob Grote and Pat Cassidy of the Districts, performing on the main stage at the 2017 OnBlackheath Music Festival - K86HNM from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Popular Manipulations – The Districts. Bio The Districts are a four-piece indie rock band from the small town of Lititz, Pennsylvania. A four-piece, The Districts are led by singer and primary songwriter Grote. While stuck at home, the Districts have sought alternative ways to promote the new album - an "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit, the charitable releases of old demos and several livestream sessions, now ubiquitous in the age of social distancing. "It just reaffirmed what I already thought about what capitalism expects of people.". Grote says that the making of the album was markedly different than the band's three previous records out of necessity. Het scheelde niet veel of de vierde plaat van lo-fi indierockviertal The Districts was nooit uitgebracht. “Ultimately, the process of writing, to me, is more about simultaneously escaping yourself and validating yourself — not in an insecure way, but in a way that validates your existence almost, like ‘I am here, this is me,’” Grote said. "We put on some Nirvana and went swimming." “It’s about a dream for love to last forever and a yearning to postpone death. Grote has always been a master of writing songs that are both simple and grandiose thematically, and You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere is a prime example of that. “I think they connected to what I was trying to do with the songs and it really felt natural to try to make them bigger and better as a band,” Grote said. The guitar framework is straight out of the indie-rock parts bin; from a distance, Rob Grote's snarled words run together into a 90-proof blur. _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-mobile-inverted-img'); PHOTO COURTESY OF DALTON YOUNG. This article was originally slated to be published in early March but was delayed due to the tornado that hit Middle Tennessee (the home base of American Songwriter and many of our writers). You work really hard on something, and then a global pandemic happens," Grote says. Get premium, … I’ll really be psyched the whole time we’re working on it, but then by the time we’re done I’m like ‘ah, but I did this wrong, I did that wrong,’ I really start to pick it apart. But after all their gear and their van were stolen, it's lucky they even have it at all. An email has been sent with a link to confirm list signup. Rob Grote's gear and equipment including the Fender Mustang Electric Guitar, ZVex Mastotron Fuzz Pedal, and fender mustang. Home Shows Merch News ... is “a fairytale about finding heaven and quickly growing bored with what it has to offer,” while singer/guitarist Rob Grote explains the song “is about the elusive nature of bliss and how even when you’ve caught it, you know it may be fleeting.” Contact. Frontman Rob Grote sloot zich op in zijn slaapkamer, schreef 32 … I feel like this record fell into a nice place; because I was confused and uncertain about a lot of things and because I approached it with no attachment to what it would become, it was one the first times that I’ve really felt totally free to be myself with it. As far as big events go, summers in this region have belonged to Hersheypark for decades. There's work to do to get the gist, but it's worth it. “We did our first record when we were young and it’s kinda all over the place. Once Mark Larson strikes a chord, Rob Grote growls soulfully, Connor Jacobus plucks his bass guitar, and Braden Lawrence attacks a cymbal, it’s clear: The Districts’ music doesn’t just waft pleasantly through the air, it cuts through. Please enable JavaScript to properly view our site. ABOVE: THE DISTRICTS. I think that finally synthesized a lot of things that I had tried to do in music before, and it worked this time because I wasn’t trying to do them. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Rob Grote I think that’s step one in changing the world: understanding that someone else feels the same way as me. It was a lot more focused on production and arrangement.”. “Sometimes I write a song about an issue, but other times it can be just as powerful to express something like love,” Grote said. As The Districts’ 2017 tour winded down, Grote began writing a new batch of songs, this time not for the band but just for himself. Playing over 200 live shows is a really easy way to burn out and be like ‘well, what the fuck am I doing?’ I think there was a lot of that feeling, a lot of things did need to be reassessed — plus there was a lot of outside, stressful drama going on. "It was like we all woke up one day and thought, 'Oh, we've been doing this for years now.'". _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-inverted-source'); Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images The band was formed in 2009 while the members were all still in high school. Rob Grote and Pat Cassidy of The Districts have an equal stake in their Gibson Les Paul Recording II guitar: Rob owns it, and Pat plays it. It is about wanting to escape everyday life while also craving time with one who’s present. It’s got really folky songs, it’s got heavier songs, it’s got really soft songs. The Chameleon Club is hosting live bands with full production - but no one is allowed to attend the concerts in person, only through livestream video. But after all their gear and their van were stolen, it's lucky they even have it at all. During the first week of social distancing, Grote used a constant cycle of home recording as a way to tune out news from the outside world. His room is on the third floor. This indie-rocker's a perfect example of complementing rhythm and lead approaches. Success! CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 04: Rob Grote of The Districts performs at Grant Park on August 4, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Instead of the typical workflow, which generally consisted of Grote bashing a song out on an acoustic guitar and bringing it to the rest of the band to flesh out, he began filling out his demos more, sometimes spending eight hours on a single song. Dozens of concert dates in Europe and the United States, including a hometown show at the Chameleon Club on April 17, were planned to follow. The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were all still in high school. I’d just sit down, press record and take them as far as I could — it became a different thing. The members of the Districts met in their hometown of Lititz, Pa., and began making a name for themselves in Philadelphia's music scene. "It's all blurring together.". } “It’s about a dream for love to last forever and a yearning to postpone death. Die zit altijd tegen het overslaan aan, een beetje emo, waar soms Robert Smith (The Cure) in te horen is of … ‘And trying to juggle this desperate desire to escape with the need to show up in my life’. You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere (out 3/13 via Fat Possum) is The Districts’ latest full-length album.One that marks their eleventh year and fourth release together. "If it doesn't make sense to people now, maybe two records from now they'll figure it out.". History. Click here to learn more about the tornado and what you can do to help those who were affected by it. “I’m always really self-critical after albums are done. Fittingly, that show was in Philadelphia at the beloved venue Union Transfer. We’ve been playing together since we were pretty young, so it was like ‘who are we now that all this time and life has gone by?’ It definitely put us in a state of questioning.”. It is about wanting to escape everyday life while also craving time with one who’s present. Become a member. They watched as the West Coast shows, then Midwest dates were cancelled in a matter of days. The Districts On World Cafe : World Cafe Hear a live performance of songs from the band's latest album, Popular Manipulations, and a chat with lead singer Rob Grote … Schau dir mit Bandsintown Live-Übertragungen an, erhalte Updates zu den Künstlern, kaufe Karten und gib RSVPs zu Konzerten ab “Then I’d bring it to the band and we’d all jam on it for as long as it took until it shaped up; if anyone had ideas on how to arrange it, we’d do that. Already a member? PHOTO COURTESY OF DALTON YOUNG. Joe Vitagliano On the day before the album's release, the Districts found out the entire tour was canceled, except for that night's show. if ( localStorage.getItem(skinItemId ) ) { I don’t have too many qualms with it because of the purity of it.”. In the meantime, Rob Grote, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the Districts will play all of the critically-acclaimed "You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere" on Instagram Live at 4 p.m. today. In 2009 a group of four high schoolers from Lititz, Pennsylvania decided to start a band: this was the birth of The Districts. _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-mobile-inverted-source'); Over the course of four albums, Rob Grote-led The Districts have tweaked their sound as much as any band over the same span. Comprised of frontman Rob Grote and longtime friends Pat Cassidy (guitar), Connor Jacobus (bass), and Braden Lawrence (drums), The Districts arose through the typical high-school band cliché and grown into something much bigger. Rob and Pat tell the story. Despite the song’s dark undertones, the ‘nihilist disco’ of “Cheap Regrets” finds The Districts as electrifying as ever. The Districts are a four-piece indie rock band from the small town of Lititz, Pennsylvania. Watch Queue Queue. var _g1; You can change people politically without talking to them about politics. "It's not a social event like a show, it's you being alone and staring at your phone, which kind of sucks.". These demos, however, were more about recording right from the start. Rob Grote Of The Districts Shares Thoughts On New Album, His Creative Process And The Role Of Music In Society. Toen frontman Rob Grote en drie van zijn vrienden in 2009 nog op school zaten, besloten ze hun eigen band te vormen. _g1.setAttribute('srcset', _g1.getAttribute('data-srcset')); ABOVE: THE DISTRICTS. if ( localStorage.getItem(skinItemId ) ) { } catch(e) {}, by For Rob Grote and just about every person on the planet, the view from March 6 looked a lot clearer than it does more than two months later. 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