For its spring show, the Social Planning and Events Committee’s Jazz and Grooves has chosen to feature the Philadelphia band Dr. Dog.
The group, which is currently on a national tour and is set to release another album in April, will perform at the Rotunda on Tuesday, March 2.
Dr. Dog was founded with the 1999 release of its Psychedelic Swamp CD. Since then, it has gained national recognition and critical acclaim for blending the pop-rock style of the 1960’s with the lo-fi style of the early 1990’s.
At the performance, Dr. Dog will be joined by Kurt Vile, another Philadelphia-based artist who will open the show. Vile was the lead guitarist in the band The War on Drugs, and has recently launched a solo career with Matador Records.
SPEC Jazz and Grooves Co-Director David Saginur, a College junior, called Dr. Dog’s range remarkable.
“The band is capable of being intimate one second and psychedelic the next,” he said.
According to SPEC Secretary and College senior Eileen McKeown, “Jazz and Grooves has done a great job of appealing to a wide audience in past shows, and I think this time they will do the same.”
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