{"id":1447,"date":"2019-10-20T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lamedrivers.com\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2023-07-02T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:31:33","slug":"pianos-wednesday-w-the-astounds-capstan-shafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/pianos-wednesday-w-the-astounds-capstan-shafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pianos Wednesday w\/ The Astounds (Capstan Shafts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re playing a <b>show Wednesday, 10pm at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianosnyc.com\/e\/lame-drivers-act-william-the-astounds-leevancleef-rosemont-post-71100398205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pianos<\/a><\/b>, and we&#8217;re psyched to share the bill with <a href=\"https:\/\/theastounds.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Astounds<\/a>. That&#8217;s the new-ish band from Dean Wells, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Capstan_Shafts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Capstan Shafts<\/a>), now based out of St Louis. I just read their wikipedia page and learned they were one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/12\/03\/131708934\/5-artists-you-should-have-known-in-2010\">&#8220;5 Artists You Should Have Known in 2010&#8221;<\/a> according to Kevin Cole at KEXP\/NPR. But Dean Wells has been churning out short, catchy cuts for much longer than that, and has been an inspiration to us Lame Drivers for well over a decade. Back in 2008, some of the Lame Drivers \/ Get Him Eat Him \/ 2nightmayorezz members played in Dean Wells&#8217; backing band for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/the-capstan-sha\/\">Capstan Shafts&#8217; NYC debut at the Knitting Factory<\/a>. He returned with a band of his own later that year at The Charleston in Brooklyn, and we all set up a couple more shows together at Pi Lam in Philly in 2009, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/april-21-nyc-capstan_shaft\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2010<\/a> at Public Assembly. A lot has changed in the past decade, but Pianos still exists, and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re sharing this bill.<\/p>\n<p>23 October, 2019 @ Pianos<br \/>\nLame Drivers 10pm<br \/>\nAct William 9pm<br \/>\nThe Astounds 8pm<br \/>\nLeeVanCleef 7pm<br \/>\nRosemont Post 6pm<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lame-drivers-astounds-flyer.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Also, we have <b>a new song coming to the internet on Tuesday<\/b> called &#8220;Fade&#8221; &#8211; pre-save it <a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/lamedrivers\/fade\">here<\/a> or get it on <a href=\"https:\/\/lamedrivers.bandcamp.com\">bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re playing a show Wednesday, 10pm at Pianos, and we&#8217;re psyched to share the bill with The Astounds. That&#8217;s the new-ish band from Dean Wells, aka The Capstan Shafts), now based out of St Louis. I just read their wikipedia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/pianos-wednesday-w-the-astounds-capstan-shafts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamedrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}