Brook Pridemore Tickets

Forged in a childhood spent obsessing over sitcom themes and commercial jingles, Brook Pridemore began a life of songwriting as soon as a guitar was placed in their hands. From their earliest coffeehouse gigs in Kalamazoo, MI to numerous tours of the US, Canada and Western Europe, Pridemore’s live show is one part Jonathan Richman and one part Sunn O))). Having moved to New York in 2002, Pridemore began touring within a couple years, maintaining a home base at the Sidewalk Cafe. PDeeply indebted to the Antifolk scene with which they were long associated, Pridemore’s songs are at once funny and poignant, arresting and disarming. Pridemore’s third album, The Reflecting Skin, garnered considerable attention as the result of tours with folk punk legend Pat the Bunny. Subsequent albums A Brighter Light, Gory Details and Metal Is My Only Friend were instant underground classics, and Pridemore crossed over into metal with the 2021 Trve Grind EP. With 2022’s Glad to be Alive, Pridemore fully embraces pop music, layering head-nodding rhythms and catchy melodies around often pensive, introspective lyrics. From the weary gratitude of the title track, to the teenage ennui of “If You Wanna Die” to the casual hope of “Hunt Sales,” the best Brook Pridemore songs dance the pain away. Pridemore is at once funny and acerbic, their best work lay in the discovery of new sounds and ideas.