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Dr. Dog

From their early days of '60s-inspired psych-pop to the groove-punk and pastoral folk-rock of later albums, Philadelphia's Dr. Dog have maintained an enduring commitment to their own creative evolution. Emerging in the mid-2000s as a staple of Park the Van's roster, they moved to Anti- at the end of the decade and hit a critical high-water mark with 2013's expansive B-Room. Preserving the D.I.Y. spirit that helped shape them, the band eventually designed their own custom-built studio and later an in-house label, which they used to release albums like Critical Equation (2018) and Dr. Dog (2024). Dr. Dog began as a part-time offshoot of the more traditional indie rock act Raccoon. Over the course of several years, guitarist Toby Leaman and drummer Scott McMicken found enough free time to record the casual, sprawling 35-track set The Psychedelic Swamp in a basement rehearsal space, finally self-releasing it in 2001. As Raccoon ended, McMicken and Leaman transformed Dr. Dog into a proper band, with McMicken on guitar and Leaman on bass (the two shared songwriting and vocals), as well as guitarist Doug O'Donnell, keyboard player Zach Miller, and drummer Juston Stens. This lineup recorded 2003's more focused and poppy Toothbrush, which -- like The Psychedelic Swamp -- received a low-key, self-distributed release. When My Morning Jacket's Jim James, a friend of Leaman and McMicken from their Raccoon days, handpicked Dr. Dog to open for his band on an East Coast tour, the band's almost nonexistent national profile began to rise. With O'Donnell replaced by former Raccoon bassist Andrew Jones and several Philadelphia friends making guest appearances, 2005's Easy Beat was picked up for distribution by indie label National Parking. Following its release, the band toured again with My Morning Jacket and M. Ward, and performed several well-received sets at the 2006 South by Southwest festival in Austin. The stopgap EP Takers and Leavers was released in September 2006 in advance of We All Belong, which arrived in early 2007. For the rest of that year, Dr. Dog posted previously unreleased tracks on their website; the songs were later released as Passed Away, Vol. 1 in March 2008. In the summer of that same year, the group released Fate, which featured some of the band's most polished productions to date. It also became Dr. Dog's highest-charting album, peaking at number 86 on the Billboard 200 and earning positive reviews from outlets like Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly. After touring in support of the album, the group released 2010's Shame, Shame, a modern album that featured more guitars than the band's earlier work. Golden Boots member Dimitri Manos, who had played with the band on Easy Beat, joined them as a full-time member, and made his first appearance on a full-length album in 2012 with the release of Be the Void early that year. Following the album, Dr. Dog set to work building their own studio, a process that found them refreshed enough to release another effort, B-Room, in 2013. In early 2015 they released their first live album, Live at a Flamingo Hotel, and they revisited their cassette-only debut The Psychedelic Swamp, turning it into a tighter, polished, and altogether different album in 2016. After five albums on the Anti- label, Dr. Dog opted to release their tenth album, 2018's Critical Equation, on their own We Buy Gold Records. A series of live releases marked their output over the next several years, beginning with 2019's Live 2 followed by Four Nights Live in San Francisco, a chronicle of their 2020 residency at the Independent. Released in 2022, the four-disc set included all four concerts and followed the group's announcement that they planned to cease touring and move forward as a studio band. Despite each of its members working on solo projects, Dr. Dog did indeed reconvene in the studio, putting together a lively and spontaneous self-titled album which they released in 2024. It marked their first studio album in six years.
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