We The Beat presents

Tourist

at SOhO Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA

Friday, October 21

Doors - 7pm

21+

In 2015, William Phillips won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, as a co-writer for Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me.' "It's an absurd compliment," he says, "but my intention has only been to write music and work with great musicians." Since then, Phillips has released three albums as Tourist -- 2016's 'U' and 2019's 'Wild' and 'Everyday' -- and several solo EPs. He's also remixed Christine and the Queens, Churches, Deftones, Wolf Alice, Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd and Sofia Kourtesis. In May 2022, his fourth album, 'Inside Out,' will be released on Monday Records. Growing up, Phillips fell in love with dance music: Goldie, Daft Punk and MJ Cole were favourites. In 1999, he started making beats on production software Reason; later, he taught himself piano by listening to his fathers pop records. It's a process he put to the test in the Covid-19 pandemic. After hearing the devastating news that a friend had passed away, locked down with his phone, laptop and a keyboard, Phillips started writing 'Inside Out.' Though it came from grief, 'Inside Out' is tender and uplifting, with kaleidoscopic fragments of garage grooves and French filter house. After playing Coachella and Glastonbury, opening for Bonobo on tour and selling out two nights at Village Underground, Tourist is preparing a new live show that will make his dreams come true: to feel everything, with everyone, through dance music.

We The Beat presents

The Motet

at SOhO Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA

Wednesday, October 26

Doors - 7pm

21+

Since 1998, The Motet have inspired the world with their unique style of dance music. Over the course of nine full-length albums, they’ve traversed the lines between funk, soul, jazz, and rock and built a diehard audience in the process. They’ve headlined Red Rocks Amphitheatre six times and sold out countless legendary venues coast-to-coast. In addition to racking up nearly 20 million total streams and views, they’ve also garnered widespread acclaim from numerous publications including Relix, Glide Magazine, and AXS.  The band has also graced the stages of festivals such as Bonnaroo, Bottlerock, Electric Forest, Bumbershoot, Summer Camp, and High Sierra.  

We The Beat presents

George Fitzgerald

at The Usual Place

Las Vegas, NV

Friday, November 4

Doors - 7pm

21+

We The Beat presents

The Brook & The Bluff

at SOhO Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA

Wed, Nov 16

Doors: 7pm

18+

We The Beat presents

Phantoms

at SOhO Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA

Thursday, December 8

Doors - 7pm

18+

Phantoms, comprised of Los Angeles based Kyle Kaplan & Vinnie Pergola, are a live electronic act that does exactly that. Often tough to box in, their electronic style is best described as blurring the lines of house & indie-dance. Incorporating distinctive synth and drum patterns, the duo have become synonymous with their genre of alternative electronica.

Launching in 2016 with debut EP, “Broken Halo”, the duo were quickly signed toRepublic/Casablanca, releasing their eponymous debut album the following year. ‘Phantoms’ featured the chart topping “Just A Feeling” (ft Verite), clinching #1 spots on US Dance Radio for4 straight weeks, iTunes electronic chart and sitting atop the SiriusXM / BPM Top 20 countdown for over 8 weeks, shattering the previous record in the process and being named BPM’s ‘Breaker of the Year’.

2019 saw the release of the duo’s 7-track “Disconnect” EP, which included dance chart topping single “Say It” and club focused instrumental “Designs For You”, which saw worldwide DJ support from the likes of Pete Tong, Diplo, Duke Dumont, Jai Wolf, Martin Garrix and many more. The same year also saw the duo hit the road with a live sold out North American headline tour that included festival stops at Ultra Miami, Life Is Beautiful, EDC Mexico, EDC Japan, MadeIn America, Okeechobee, Voodoo Fest and many more.

Despite a pandemic hit 2020/21 the duo continued creating, releasing their 5-track “Moonlight”EP in October, which featured their cover of Aaliyah classic “One In A Million” and electro/pop crossover hits “Moonlight” &“Want To Know”, in addition to official remixes for the likes of Tiesto, Jai Wolf, Crooked Colours and more, highlighting the demand from their peers for the Phantoms touch.

Looking ahead, Phantoms have a new album set for release in 2022 on Odesza’s burgeoning Foreign Family imprint, with their first single due for release in November 2021 and a long player, featuring several collaborations, that will inspire a brand new live show. Applauded by NPR, Billboard, Dancing Astronaut and many others, it’s clear the duo have cemented themselves as one of electronic music’s hottest live acts.

We The Beat presents

!!! (Chk Chk Chk)

at SOhO Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA

Friday, December 16

Doors - 7pm

21+

Combining punk abandon and tightly-coiled dance music has always been bonded into the band's DNA. It's this core plus their growth and mastery of songwriting that has seen them outlive the mid-2000s 'indie/dance punk' tag and has allowed them to consistently grow lyrically and sonically from album to album. As If is their most transcendent collection of songs yet. "Each album we've made has gotten closer and closer to our live set and this, we're proud to say, is the closest we've come yet. We were heavily influenced by current dance music -- Nina Kraviz, Moodymann, Paranoid London, Rrose and Delroy Edwards were frequently referenced -- and philosophically by the early '90s house records we love on labels like Trax and Dancemania and by artists like Romanthony and Green Velvet. Those records sound great because they're fairly raw attempts to use the technology of the time to ape the New York and Philly disco records that those producers loved. We figured, if those old house records sound like they do because the artists manipulated disco samples with MPCs, why couldn't we just sample ourselves and manipulate the tracks with Ableton Live? The more raw it came out the better it felt, not only because that's what excited us about those old records, but because it felt more punk, which always feels good."