Show Me The Body. Photo by Yulissa Benitez
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Punk is not immune to platitudes. Half-hearted attempts at provocation or lazy throwbacks to the past can only be masked by aggressive sonics for so long before the music you're listening to becomes the picture of what the genre originally was created in part to push back on. Show Me The Body knows how to avoid all this. Since 2016 they've taken hardcore in their own direction, building a dedicated following while never presenting themselves as anything other than mortal.
"Loose Talk," their new single, opens up with a reflection that could act as a neat summary of the band's overarching lyrical themes. Over his tinny, distorted banjo strums, Julian Cashwan Pratt muses on the "furnace" of modern life, the weak overpowering the strong, and "the games that they play that they say will make you a man." The song blasts into a snarl of apocalyptic goth-rock where Pratt is the curbside prophet and, tellingly, the song's mantra is its most coherent line: "Love and respect / come and fuck with the set." In a seller's market for false dreams, Show Me The Body's advocating for real community is timely and perhaps even vital.
Watch the new song's music video below, followed by the group's upcoming 2022 tour dates with Soul Glo and Wifigawd.
Show Me The Body tour dates
July 12 - Columbus, OH - Rumba
July 13 - Kansas City, MO - Recordbar
July 14 - Colorado Springs, CO - Black Sheep
July 16 - Los Angeles, CA - CORPUS PRESENTS: LA IBD
July 20 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
July 22 - Dallas, TX - Cheapsteaks
July 23 - Austin, TX - Sunny's Backyard
July 24 - Houston, TX - The End
July 26 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
July 27 - Tuscon, AZ - Club Congress
July 28 - Bakersfield, CA - Temblor Brew
July 29 - Oakland, CA - Starline
July 30 - Los Angeles, CA - Sound & Fury
August 1 - Reno, NV - Holland Project
August 3 - Seattle, WA - Madame Lou's
August 4 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club
August 5 - Tacoma, WA - Real Art Tacoma
August 6 - Portland, OR - Polaris*
August 7 - Boise, ID - Shredder*
August 8 - Salt Lake City, UT - Beehive
August 9 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
August 11 - Louisville, KY - Portal
August 12 - Morgantown, WV - 123 Pleasant St.
August 13 - Baltimore, MD - DIY
August 20 - Las Vegas, NV - Psycho Las Vegas at Resorts World
August 30 - 10/2 - Perris, CA - Desert Daze Festival
*No Soul Glo
