There are few tougher gigs in town than playing a Tuesday night in late-January, but Jane’s Party have the chops and the pops to make it suddenly feel like a mid-summer Friday night. This evening (January 23), the Toronto and Los Angeles band — clearly having put aside any lingering hostilities over the NHL’s 1993 Campbell Conference Finals — swing by Deep Cuts in Medford, part of short run of Northeast dates that, amongst other beats and treats, shows off new single “Common Guys.”
The lively track dropped last week, and makes us want to relive our aughts-era indie dance party youth all over again. And for one night, we totally can. Just pretend tomorrow is Saturday.
“I totally loved the feeling of the beat, and a few weeks later, on a walk in the park with my headphones on, I finished the entire song in a matter of minutes,” says Jane’s Party vocalist and guitarist Tom Ionesu. “Producing the recording required walking a very fine line between polished dance-pop and slacker indie rock. With the turn of a dial, the tune would teeter too far in either direction — either gaining too much confidence, or losing the fun, dance-y atmosphere. My production note to our wonderful mix engineer Matty Green was… ‘think grade 8 school dance, after school in the gym, trying to muster up the courage to ask a girl out’. That was the only way I could describe what the track needed to feel like. We also made a point to highlight all the backing vocals, which rally behind our protagonist to muster up the courage to make it through to the end of the song.”
We’ll use it to get through the end of winter. But for this evening, we’ll just dance about it.
JANE’S PARTY + DAVID NEW JOY :: Tuesday, January 23 at Deep Cuts, 21 Main St. in Medford, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, $15 :: Event info :: Advance tickets