The band has also been making the festival rounds with stops at Lollapalooza, ACL, and CalJam. Tony Esposito (guitar/vocals), Ryan Hater (keyboards), Sam Wilkerson (bass), Nick Wilkerson (drums), and Hunter Thompson (guitar) have been performing headline shows and supporting some of their idols - The Killers, Spoon, and Weezer. White Reaper recently treated fans to an early taste of new music with the release of their brand new single “Might Be Right”. Expected later this year, the album will follow 2017’s critically acclaimed The World’s Best American Band, which was praised by Pitchfork for having "more riffs than you can fit into the trunk of a Camaro". Equal parts glam and grit, White Reaper's forthcoming Elektra Records debut finds the band packing classic rock with grinning twin guitar leads into masterly crafted pop songs. Nurturing arena-sized ambitions, Louisville, KY's White Reaper remind us that "fun as hell" is a primary purpose of music. Hopefully next time the sound mix is cleaned up! :) Houston, TX Houston Warehouse Studios There was no encore, but the last song, Judy French, was in my mind the most enjoyable moment of the evening, with people just dancing and singing instead of crashing into each other and into innocent bystanders. Things got better as WR continued playing, and broke out some of their more power-pop numbers, and the crowd up front calmed down some, and became more about being an audience than a jostling riot of assault and battery perpetrators. But it was great when White Reaper finally came on, albeit the highly distorted thrash-metal tone and violent moshing continued for awhile. The two opening acts were more or less thrash metal bands, not my cup of tea, and the prolonged, extremely loud distorted cacophony combined with the swirling, jostling, dangerously unpredictable mosh pit of flailing bodies and limbs was all a bit much. The size of the venue was good, but a bit bigger stage would've given the boys more room to play around. But hey, maybe I'm just too old(59) for these kind of shows anymore? My ears are still blown out and ringing the next day. Unfortunately, the sound mix was distorted so much, and Tony's vocals were a bit buried in all the noise, making it a bit less enjoyable than it could've been. Finally got to see one of my favorite bands! White Reaper played a hearty mix of their older stuff along with a bunch of songs from their brand-new album.
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