Berkshire Theatre Group to Welcome Progressive Alternative Band The Receiver, 3/10

Berkshire Theatre Group welcomes progressive alternative band, The Receiver, to The Garage on Thursday, March 10 at 8pm.

Tickets to The Receiver are $12 in advance, $15 the day of show. Contact the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield by calling 413-997-4444. Tickets can also be bought online at www.berkshiretheatregroup.org. The Ticket Office is open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm or on any performance day from 10am until curtain.

The Receiver is made up of brothers Casey (vocals, synths/keyboards, bass) and Jesse Cooper (drums and vocals). Sounds of The Receiver focus on rich organ-based melody lines, piercing synth overtones, and foot-stomping bass and drums. Formed in 2005, the brothers quickly expanded on ideas composed the previous year by Casey for his senior thesis in music composition studies at The Ohio State University. After a few live performances, the band was picked up by New York-based Stunning Models On Display Records. With the label's support, the band finished the recording of their debut album Decades in 2006 and celebrated its release later that year with extensive touring throughout North America. Once home, Casey began the near two-year writing process for their follow-up album Length of Arms. The sophomore effort had its release in late 2009 on Vital Music Records. The band recently signed with Kscope Records (Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Engineers) who released their self-produced third album All Burn to critical acclaim in June 2015.

Of The Receiver, NPR Music, All Songs Considered, says, "A universe of dreamy prog in keyboards and synths. On their third album, All Burn, brothers Casey and Jesse Cooper set complex, bright melodies and heartbeat-pulsing rhythms adrift. "Transit" (single from All Burn) sounds like a Pink Floyd ballad sung with a Peter Gabriel-like coo, as synths tug and move the track forward."