Before they head off to support Motion City Soundtrack on their “Commit This to Memory 10 Year Anniversary Tour,” Team Spirit is stopping at the Bishop on Tuesday, Jan. 13 to share their music with Bloomington.
The band is led by Ayad Al Adhamy, founder of Black Bell Records and former Passion Pit keyboardist.
Team Spirit released their debut album, “Killing Time,” in September 2014, following up the band’s two 2012 extended plays, “Love is for Suckers” and “Team Spirit." According to the music blog Culture Collide, Team Spirit “is a sonic hurricane born from Al Adhamy’s renewed love for raw guitar fueled rock n’ roll.”
Dan Coleman, owner of Spirit of ’68 Promotions, the promotion company putting on the show, said he thinks Team Spirit will put on a really fun show.
“In a world where a lot of bands are using guitars to create, like, new ideas, they’re a band who’s still using guitars to make, you know, fun party music,” he said.
Coleman also said he thinks the show is a good fit for the start of a new semester. “It’s a band whose whole vibe is just to have the best time possible,” he said.
Opening for Team Spirit is a Bloomington local group, the Alamo Freeze. Brian O’Connor, the band’s keyboardist, said he is excited to be playing with Team Spirit, a band he really enjoys.
“We’ve been working on a lot of new music lately and it’s been sounding really good, so it’ll be a fun show,” O’Connor said.
O’Connor also said this show is acting as a grand finale for their current drummer, Matt McCarthy. It will be their last show with him before he moves to Nashville, Tenn.
As for their style, O’Connor said, “At its core, we all like writing pop songs.”
Davis Snedeker, lead guitar for the Alamo Freeze, added that they try to walk along the line that lies between all of the band’s varying influences.
The Alamo Freeze have been spending quite a bit of time in the studio recently, recording material to follow up the 2013 release of their debut album, “Livewire.” They said they agree they want to release something by the end of the semester, though they aren’t sure what form that will take.
The band members said they agree that being real is one of the most important aspects of what they try to do when they get on stage.
“We’re not trying to be something we’re not,” lead guitarist Davis Snedeker said. “Just being, like, we’re college students in a college band, and we’re up there to ?have fun.”
