That was your first question, because you saw this week's featured RC artist, and remembered all the emails and texts that I've sent you about this concert, and said to yourself, "oh SHIT, I almost forgot." But you didn't forget. You're here now, and you can still buy tickets and join us for the fun.
Your second question might be: wait, what the hell are Eve 6 and Titus Andronicus doing together on the same bill? This is not a question that I can answer with full certainty. But, in the course of putting together this blog post about Eve 6, I did find this article from May 2022 that describes Titus frontman Patrick Stickles joining Eve 6 for a song at one of their shows, and Eve 6 frontman Max Collins described the team-up like this: "Just a couple guys who like to play rock 'n' roll, what's the big deal?"
What's the big deal? Well, the big deal here is that Eve 6 and Titus Andronicus are giving a few of us an excuse to hang out in person. So buy those tickets. I'll hit you up with the pregame info at some point. And make sure to review this new Eve 6 album beforehand (and the Titus album next week). It'll add to the experience, I'm sure of it.
JOE'S COMMENTS: This all started because we're approaching the two-year anniversary of the last Record Club concert outing (King Tuff @ Johnny Brenda's), and I was itching to attempt it again. So this pretty much amounted to me scrolling through the upcoming shows for a few different local venues. Going through Underground Arts' website, I stumbled upon this concert, and was intrigued. What the hell were Eve 6 and Titus Andronicus doing together?
Record Club:
WEEK 315 — February 9-15, 2025
Dream Fist
by Eve 6
LISTEN:
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PICKED BY JOE
So after I decided that this was going to be the show in question (and after Nate first indicated that he might come to the show but then confirmed that he was too fat and too old to come to the show but that he would still be okay with picking the Titus Andronicus album that RC would be covering), it was just a matter of which Eve 6 album we'd be doing. In my mind, the point of listening to this band during this time is to prepare for the concert. There's no other choice but their most recent album, right? This is the album that they are going to be playing the most cuts from. We don't need to listen to the 1998 self-titled because you already know "Inside Out," and we don't need to listen to the 2000 album Horrorscope because you already know "Here's to the Night," and they aren't playing any other songs from either of those albums. So let's check out Dream Fist.
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ALBUM DETAILS
GENRE: Alternative rock, power pop
RELEASED: October 4, 2024
LENGTH: 33:09
TRACKLIST:
- Call on Me
- No Time at All
- Forest Lawn
- I Don't Wanna Know
- No Better
- Alright
- Dream Fist
- Black Wave
- Feeling Fine
- Even Though
- Daylight
- Boom in the Frame
LYRICS: Genius.com
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ARTIST DETAILS
STYLIZATION: For the past few weeks, I've been writing the band's name as "EVE 6," like with all caps, because it was written like that somewhere, and I took it as gospel. But I don't see overwhelming evidence that all-caps EVE 6 is the preferred style (or, like Wikipedia alternatively suggests, "EVƎ 6"). Most publications just write "Eve 6," and on the band's Twitter, Collins mostly just writes it like "eve6." So who cares. Just do it how you wanna do it. I'm gonna stick with "Eve 6" for the time being.
PRONOUNS: he/him/his for Max Collins
PRONOUNS: he/him/his for Max Collins
ABOUT: Eve 6 was formed in 1995 in Southern California. They are named after a character in The X-Files. Their core members included Max Collins (lead vocals and bass), Jon Siebels (guitar, backing vocals), and Tony Fagenson (who had, by 1996, already replaced founding drummer Nick Meyers). The band's first gig was at Eagle's Coffee Pub in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Eventually, they found minor fame with two hits—"Inside Out" (erroneously referred to as "Heart in a Blender" by yours truly) and yearbook classic "Here's to the Night." Finding their fame waning, Eve 6 broke up in 2004. However, the band reformed in 2007, with Collins and Fagenson and new guitarist Matt Bair. Sielbels returned to guitar in 2011. Drummer Ben Hilzinger replaced Fagenson in 2018. Eve 6's true renaissance (relatively speaking) occurred in 2020, when Collins became a prolific tweeter (no indication as to whether he's still there or moved to BlueSky). They are still releasing music, their most recently album recorded independently through a Patreon campaign.
DISCOGRAPHY: Dream Fist is Eve 6's sixth LP. Their first two were already mentioned (Eve 6 and Horrorscope). 2003's It's All in Your Head was the final album before the initial breakup. Two post-reformation albums before this one are 2012's Speak in Code and 2022's Hyper Relevisation.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
READING SOME SHIT: Max Collins talks shit on other '90s bands; Max Collins interviews with John Hinckley Jr.
WATCHING SOME SHIT: "Inside Out" on Conan in 1998
RECORD CLUB CONNECTIONS: If we're filing this under the RC sub-sub-category of "bands whose RC albums were released decades after a clear commercial peak," then I think you have to definitely include Fastball's The Help Machine, and probably the Black Keys' Dropout Boogie as well (though Fastball is the clearest comparison). Am I missing anyone?
Two albums prior to this week have featured the word "dream"—Broken Dreams Club by Girls and Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. Very few RC artists have had a number in their name, besides 100 gecs, 340ml, and Boyz II Men. Genesis was also fronted by a man named Collins. Emmy Rossum's RC album shares a title with Eve 6's biggest hit.
An incomplete list of RC artists who have toured or co-headlined with Titus Andronicus in concert: Eve 6, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, King Tuff, Bully, Death Cab for Cutie (it's true! in A.C.!), the Menzingers, Little Big League, Dan Deacon, Real Estate, Foals, and Times New Viking, who are not technically Record Club, but they more or less morphed into long odds at some point after they shared the Johnny Brenda's stage with Titus Andronicus on June 26, 2008.
An incomplete list of RC artists who have toured or co-headlined with Titus Andronicus in concert: Eve 6, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, King Tuff, Bully, Death Cab for Cutie (it's true! in A.C.!), the Menzingers, Little Big League, Dan Deacon, Real Estate, Foals, and Times New Viking, who are not technically Record Club, but they more or less morphed into long odds at some point after they shared the Johnny Brenda's stage with Titus Andronicus on June 26, 2008.
The only Record Club band that Max Collins "spilled the tea" about in that aforementioned Stereogum article is Sugar Ray.
MENTIONS ON THE BLOG: Never! At least not as far as I could tell. The term "eve 6" is not very search-friendly on Blogger's primitive systems.
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OTHER ALBUMS TO CHECK OUT
LAST WEEK'S ALBUM: Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii, and make sure to check out the reviews if you wanna see what we thought of it!
RC@5: We're relistening to the Record Club album we featured exactly five years ago this week. The RC album for this week in 2020 was Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone.
LAST WEEK'S ALBUM: Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii, and make sure to check out the reviews if you wanna see what we thought of it!
RC@5: We're relistening to the Record Club album we featured exactly five years ago this week. The RC album for this week in 2020 was Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone.
SHADOW RECORD CLUB: Each week, I'm exploring a genre of last week's album by listening to one of that genre's top-rated albums. Last week's Alligator Bites Never Heal was a Southern hip hop album. We're listening this week to The Forever Story by J.I.D.
NEXT WEEK'S RC ALBUM: In case you need some extra time with an album to write a review for it, you can get a head start on The Will to Live by Titus Andronicus!
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Happy listening, RC family!
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
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