Photo via Disco Biscuits’ Facebook page

The Disco Biscuits’ winter tour continued with a performance at Washington, DC’s Anthem on Saturday. Philadelphia’s Snacktime opened the show and, at the start of the Biscuits’ second set, the group’s horn section emerged for a run from Kool & The Gang’s “Get Down on It” into Rick James’ “Give it To Me Baby.” Both songs were bust outs for the Biscuits–the quartet had not performed the Kool & The Gang cover since October 31, 2015 and they had not played the James favorite since February 3, 2017. 

The horn section remained onstage as the group moved into David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” which the Disco Biscuits last performed on October 30, 2021. The Disco Biscuits’ entire second set was a full segue, ending with a run from “Caterpillar” into “Who’s in Charge,” a geographically appropriate “Anthem,” “The Wormhole” and then the end of “Caterpillar.” 

On Friday, the Disco Biscuits’ celebrated the release of their latest song “Shocked” at Albany’s Palace Theatre. The tune is another selection front the forthcoming “space rock opera” guitarist Jon Gutwillig and keyboardist Aron Magner are writing with longtime friend Joey Friedman. In a note they explained, “Every story has to start somewhere, and ours starts with ‘Shocked!’ Somewhere in deep space many galaxies away, an electronically-evolved alien spaceship captain is flying fast and living dangerously…approaching the inevitably messy end to an intergalactic bender. Buckling under the weight of royal expectations, our captain and his crew have been taking fuzzies and getting shocked off the ship’s electronic power source, the polyfuzaline crystal, frying their circuits and blasting them into a psychedelic stupor. Teetering on the edge of derangement, but forever loyal to each other, we join this gang of extra-terrestrial malcontents just as their circumstances are about to change forever.”

The Disco Biscuits also offered “Spy” for the first time since September 17, 2021 during their first set on Friday. The Disco Biscuits will kick off the next leg of their tour with three nights at Pelham, TN’s The Caverns, beginning on March 10.