As their name may suggest, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are quite a sight to behold as a live band. The theatrically inclined, Oakland-bred, avant-garde prog-rockers have been developing their sound alongside their stage presence for over a quarter of a century at this point, with 2024’s Of the Last Human Being LP seeing them return to their wholly unique world of noise and grim pageantry after a 15-year absence.
Today the band has announced another set of dates spanning the West Coast this spring, and in the meantime they’re teasing their live show in its latest iteration with a clip recorded last year at Quebec’s Festival de Musique de Création in Chicoutimi. The video sees the quintet performing the nine-minute epic “The Salt Crown” from their 2007 album In Glorious Times. “This night was a high point for the band’s reunion,” SGM recalls. “And we hope to release a full concert video in the coming year. It was also a farewell to our beloved drummer Matthias Bossi, whose unparalleled musicality has shaped the band for much of its existence. Happily, though, the universe has presented us with another awesome drummer: please welcome Wes Anderson. Of idiot flesh!”
No word yet on whether it’s that Wes Anderson, but I think we can all make an educated guess. Check out the video below, and find the band’s full set of tour dates—including shows in LA, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Francisco, Arcata, Portland, and Seattle between May 21 and May 30—when ticketing info goes live here.
