Mineral - 25th Anniversary Tour 2019 @ GAMH w/ Tancred
Wed Jan 30, 10:00 PM - Thu Jan 31, 2:59 AM

Door 7 / Show 8
In 1997, after less than four years together, Mineral broke up. But while some bands simply fade away after calling it a day, that wasn’t the case for the Austin-based four-piece. In fact, it was quite the opposite – their legacy grew and grew. Not bad for a band who had only put out a handful of seven-inches and two studio albums, 1997’s debut The Power Of Failing and 1998’s posthumous EndSerenading. Back then, Mineral’s members – vocalist/guitarist Chris Simpson, guitarist Scott McCarver, bassist Jeremy Gomez, and drummer Gabe Wiley – were little more than kids, early-20-somethings with a magical chemistry that can still be heard and felt in those songs today, but which few people ever got to experience at that time.
In 2014, something remarkable and unexpected happened. Mineral got back together – something they said they’d never do – and played a whole bunch of shows, first in the US and then in Europe, Japan, and Australia. Not only did that mean audiences were finally able to hear songs from EndSerenading in a live setting for the first time, but the band were also playing large (and sold out) venues rather than DIY basement shows, and earning press from outlets including Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, Noisey, Stereogum, Alternative Press, and Brooklyn Vegan, among many others – in essence, enjoying the kind of success that, despite signing to a major label, they never experienced the first time around.
Now, on the 25th anniversary of the band’s existence, something else remarkable and unexpected has happened: for the first time in more than two decades, Mineral is releasing new music. The two new songs – available physically as a collectible 10-inch coupled with a limited edition hardcover book, One Day When We Are Young: Mineral At 25 – pick up exactly where the band left off all those years ago, ebbing and flowing with their trademark grace and beauty, but also carrying the weight of the world, and the past, on their shoulders. The Simpson-born “Aurora” is a lilting, soothing and melancholy song that floats for eight gorgeous minutes; the blueprint for the dreamy, elegantly tender “Your Body Is The World” – which explodes and soars to an epic crescendo – came from Gomez. Both are cl