Street Eaters Announce 'Opaque' LP | Unleash “Tempers” Single + Video | US Tour

Street Eaters Announce Brand New Studio Album, Opaque due out September 5 via Dirt Cult Records Opaque pre-order link Unleash “Tempers” Single + Video US Tour Kicks Off This Month Tour dates below + here “Street Eaters Sling Powerful Post-Punk” – SPIN “catchy, skull-crushing buzz” – AV Club “channels the raw approach to rock ‘n’ roll once taken by ’70s and ’80s innovators such as Wipers, Gang of Four, and X.” – BUST "Feedback whips and howls, [they] coil and snap like their Bay Area forebears in the Dead Kennedys, and they wrap themselves in atmosphere like Savages." – FLOOD “rattled post-punk energy” – Post-Trash Street Eaters tour dates - TICKETS 7/30: San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ The Taxpayers, Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra, 7pm 7/31: San Jose, CA @ Art Boutiki w/ The Taxpayers, Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra, 7:30pm 8/1: Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell w/ Welt Star, BAUS, Ologist, 8pm 8/2: San Pedro, CA @ The Sardine - Recess Romp w/ 7 Seconds, The Urinals, 6pm 8/8: Oakland, CA @ Eli's with Parallel, Chime School, 8pm 8/27: San Francisco, CA in Kerouac Alley w/ Channel 3, 6pm (free!) 9/11: Silver Spring, MD @ Quarry House w/ Signal Ghost, Vampyres From Africa 9/12: Philadelphia, PA @ God’s Automatic Body w/ HIDE, Pinkwash 9/13: Brooklyn, NY @ Hart Bar w/ Discreet Charms, Weegee 9/15: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall w/ Unwound

Credit: Heather Frienkel  Oakland post-punk rockers Street Eaters today announce their brand new studio album Opaque due out September 5 via Dirt Cult Records – seven tracks that thrum with both rage and redemption. Since the band’s 2017 LP The Envoy, not only did they weather a global pandemic along with the rest of us, frontwoman Megan March also had a child. While becoming a mother was, as she puts it, “an incredible joy and opportunity to rewire emotional pathways and deep wounds,” it was also a reminder of her own childhood; March’s own mother was violently homophobic and eventually ejected Megan and her teenage sister — both queer — from their home. For March, childbirth was both a traumatizing and transformational experience. Ironically born on the Fourth of July, her baby immediately entered a world steeped in bureaucracy, as the hospital was so understaffed that Megan was neglected until the last moment, forced to endure an emergency C-section. “I was borderline dehumanized by the toxic, misogynistic nature of the American medical system and its focus on efficiency and profit before care,” she says. Appropriately, the record kicks off loud and jagged with lead single “Tempers,” which March says is about “being in isolation and not being sure what the future is going to be like, and how things will be when the storm is over.” In Krista Wright and Theo Garvey’s wild-eyed video for “Tempers”, Street Eaters absolutely destroy a hospital waiting room where no one ever gets helped Watch / Share: “Tempers” video On Opaque co-founders Megan March (drummer/vocalist) and John No (bass/vocals) are joined by guitarist Joan Toledo since 2019, a refugee from transphobic family and government in Florida, former editor of Maximum Rocknroll Magazine and radical union organizer at City Lights Books in San Francisco. The new collection attempts to stitch up the bloody wounds of their past — a meditation on birth and death, excavated trauma, and trying to find steadfast kin in a world that’s becoming more and more splintered and cruel. It is almost like a body in the process of healing: messy, broken, beautiful, and nevertheless alive. “Opaque is a record that gets deep into the stark and beautiful reality of growth and transition from trauma and loss,” says March. “What does it mean to wake up one day and realize you are living the way you have always demanded to live  — yet with all those jagged piles of emotional, physical, and social/political baggage still slicing through the veil?” Still, the album isn’t just confrontational — it’s complicated. A grasping toward identity, understanding, a place in the world in the process of being curated. “It’s a transition into finding peace with the world — a resonant connection with community and chosen family, getting beyond a lot of the pain and hurt,” No says. “We're trying to suture up wounds at this point and create something that’s healthy.” The band have toured extensively with Screaming Females and Jawbreaker among others, and now fans will have more chances to experience their fierce live show with a slew of dates that kicks off later this month!

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