Indie rockers Titus Andronicus stopped by the Grog Shop last week in support of their latest critically acclaimed album, 2022’s The Will to Live. Since coming on to the scene in 2005, band members have come and gone but frontman Patrick Stickles has been the steadfast captain. The process of writing The Will to Live was largely in response to the death of Stickles’ cousin, best friend, and bandmate, Matt “Money” Miller in 2021.
Now joined by Liam Betson (guitar), RJ Gordon (bass), and Chris Wilson (drums), the band is as conceptual, dense, and glam rock-y as ever. Their albums—and shows—take you on a journey. And the members, especially Stickles, are most definitely performers. The dude-heavy crowd spent the majority of the show fist-pumping the air and singing along in full catharsis.
Titus Andronicus are on the road through April, as they make their way around the west side of the country before heading back east.
SETLIST
My Mother Is Going to Kill Me
(I’m) Screwed
Above the Bodega (Local Business)
Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ
Give Me Grief
Baby Crazy
Fatal Flaw
Fired Up
Dimed Out
Tumult Around the World
Four Score and Seven
A More Perfect Union
Titus Andronicus Forever
