{"id":311755,"date":"2026-08-02T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311755\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:46:08","slug":"review-geese-soars-above-the-haters-as-the-controversial-new-york-rockers-debunk-the-myths-haunting-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311755\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Geese soars above the haters as the controversial New York rockers debunk the myths haunting the band"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the year since the release of its latest album \u201cGetting Killed,\u201d Geese has been in the crosshairs of many a music critic and music snob.<\/p>\n

The New York rockers have been accused of being industry plants, scene interlopers and marketing manipulators at best. Their \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d debut was picked apart. Their family lines were investigated for possible record label moles. A band nowadays apparently can\u2019t actually be good and have a sudden rise before being prematurely autopsied.<\/p>\n

But at Lollapalooza Saturday, Geese spread its wings and properly debunked the myths that keep haunting the band. <\/p>\n

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\"Geese<\/p>\n

Geese performs on Day 3 of Lollapalooza on the Allianz stage in Grant Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n

There were a few rough edges \u2014 but that\u2019s rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. And it also could be blamed on the unfriendly skies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to United Airlines for losing our guitar,\u201d said singer\/guitarist Cameron Winter, putting the local brand on blast. \u201cThe buck stops at United tonight. The quality of the show is \u2018up in the air,\u2019 so to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n

To the aforementioned music snob, it probably is ammo in the band\u2019s argument. For the casual fan, no one seemed to know any difference. A sizable crowd flocked over to the Allianz stage to catch the controversial act, though it was unclear if that all was truly for Geese or hangers on for Olivia Dean who headlined on the adjoining T-Mobile stage right after.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019s on after us?\u201d asked Winter. Some responded correctly. \u201cNobody!\u201d and \u201cWho cares?\u201d said others. In either case, it was a win for the quartet who are just weird and mysterious enough to turn heads.<\/p>\n

The music rose to the occasion, with Winter\u2019s inner Lou Reed and Julian Casablancas shining on songs like on \u201c2112,\u201d \u201c100 Horses\u201d and \u201cCowboy Nudes,\u201d matched by the on-point playing of fellow guitarist Emily Green, bassist Dominic DiGesu and drummer Max Bassin. They all operated with great cohesion and rule-breaking gumption, no more so than in the brutal blues rocker \u201cTrinidad\u201d that could be their best work.<\/p>\n

When Winter headlined the Rockefeller Chapel<\/a> at the University of Chicago last December under the guise of his solo album \u201cHeavy Metal,\u201d he proved his gifts, just himself and a piano. But on the Lolla stage with the full band, it\u2019s tenfold. His charisma as a front man is undefinable. It may not be in line with the fervent fans who hail him as this generation\u2019s Kurt Cobain. Then again, Courtney Love is a very vocal supporter of him and the band so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

Formed in 2016, Geese comes from the holy grail of Brooklyn, an untouchable lineage to some, but the quartet wears the Television, Velvet Underground and Strokes influences well on songs like fan favorites \u201cTaxes,\u201d \u201cBow Down\u201d and \u201cCobra\u201d without coming off as pantomime. Throw in a little Leonard Cohen on slow peak songs \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine\u201d and \u201cI See Myself.\u201d Maybe some Henry Rollins on bar brawler \u201cJesse.\u201d Who could hate any of that? But don\u2019t take our word for it. See them at Salt Shed Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 and judge them yourself. Everyone else is doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the year since the release of its latest album \u201cGetting Killed,\u201d Geese has been in the crosshairs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-311755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}