{"id":7573,"date":"2025-12-22T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/joe-walsh-kurt-vile-war-on-drugs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:00","slug":"joe-walsh-kurt-vile-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/joe-walsh-kurt-vile-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Walsh, Kurt Vile Join War On Drugs In Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2021\/12\/The-War-on-Drugs-by-Shawn-Brackbill-1-1.jpeg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" alt=\"The War on Drugs\"><figcaption>The War on Drugs (photo: Shawn Brackbill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The War on Drugs celebrated their annual Drugcember to Remember residency at Philadelphia club Johnny Brenda\u2019s last week by welcoming special guests Joe Walsh, the Hold Steady\u2019s Craig Finn, Real Estate\u2019s Martin Courtney and founding member Kurt Vile at various points throughout.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 20, Vile was part of a War on Drugs throwback by joining frontman Adam Granduciel and company for \u201cArms Like Boulders\u201d from their 2008 debut album <em>Wagonwheel Blues<\/em> \u2014 the only studio effort to which he significantly contributed before starting his solo career. He also lent a hand on covers of  Bill Fay\u2019s \u201cPictures of Adolf Again\u201d and R.E.M.\u2019s \u201cCountry Feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/04\/craig-finns-always-been-a-novelist\/\">Craig Finn\u2019s \u2018Always Been\u2019 a Novelist<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/04\/modest-mouse-cruise\/\">Modest Mouse Will \u2018Float On\u2019 At Their Own Cruise<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/02\/snapped-musicares-persons-of-the-year-charity-gala-honoring-the-grateful-dead-a-photo-essay\/\">Snapped: MusiCares Persons of the Year Charity Gala Honoring the Grateful Dead (A Photo Essay)<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although Vile hadn\u2019t played live with the band in around 15 years, he was joined in June by Granduciel for a surprise performance of \u201cHunchback\u201d at Los Angeles venue the Hollywood Palladium.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"egxqfdYbPtc\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Walsh first showed up on Dec. 19 to jam on his solo cuts \u201cRocky Mountain Way\u201d and \u201cIn the City\u201d plus the Drugs\u2019 signature \u201cUnder the Pressure,\u201d and then returned the next night for the same three-pack of tunes. After the first night, he called the Drugs \u201cone of my favorite bands\u201d on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Finn also appeared Dec. 19 for takes on his solo tunes \u201cBethany\u201d and \u201cPostcards,\u201d as well as Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cSweetheart Like You,\u201d while Courtney aided covers of Gene Clark\u2019s \u201cFrom a Silver Phial\u201d and Lou Reed\u2019s \u201cSatellite of Love\u201d the night before.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the War on Drugs are at work on the follow-up to 2021\u2019s <em>I Don\u2019t Live Here Anymore<\/em>, which fulfilled the contract they signed with Atlantic in XX. The group\u2019s first three albums were released by Indiana indie Secretly Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The War on Drugs (photo: Shawn Brackbill) The War on Drugs celebrated their annual Drugcember to Remember residency at Philadelphia club Johnny Brenda\u2019s last week by welcoming special guests Joe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4828,4829,4082,6,3269,4830],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craig-finn","category-joe-walsh","category-kurt-vile","category-news","category-real-estate","category-the-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}