Last month, the LA-based duo Dream, Ivory picked up where they left off in 2022 with their debut album About a Boy. Brothers Christian and Louie Baello streamlined their broad range of genre influences on their newly released follow-up record, When You Come Back I Have So Much to Tell You, which leans into their mutual love of vast dream-pop while maintaining the tight bedroom-pop aesthetic Christian clings to in his production.
Not long after the album dropped, we also saw the release of another anticipated entrant in the modern dream-pop canon: Wisp’s debut album If Not Winter. Given the natural genre pairing, Dream, Ivory were invited to open for Wisp on her current set of North American dates that kicked off on the East Coast at a pair of particularly exciting venues. “9:30 Club is a venue we’ve always been excited to play,” the Baellos share of performing at the DC live music staple. “It’s been a blessing to return to it so soon after playing there for the first time with bôa in May.”
Regarding their subsequent journey to NYC, they add: “Another bucket list venue to play definitely has to be Webster Hall. As a band, we’ve been learning to get accustomed to a new playback rig we’ve built for live, and we really think our show in New York with Wisp was the one that made us feel like what we’ve been working on was worth it. We got to hear the benefits of what we’ve been rehearsing sonically, especially mixed into our in-ears, and the stage felt just as big as it sounded. Grateful.”
With the tour taking them through the next month and change, check out some photo highlights from both of those dates below, and find their remaining tour stops here.
9:30 CLUB
Posting up before the show.
The wonderful and obligatory cupcakes at 9:30.
Stairway to heaven (the green room).
WEBSTER HALL
Outside the Webster Hall marquee. Surreal.
Sprite or Stella? Salad.
Signing merch before playing Webster Hall.
