Sleep Brings Its New Lineup to Basilica Hudson With Zombi and The Schizophonics

Friday, November 13, doors 7pm, show 8pm | Hudson, NY | Tickets from about $57

The stoner-doom band Sleep plays Basilica Hudson on Friday, with Zombi and The Schizophonics opening. The Bowery Presents, Higher Ground, and Sister Midnight present the show. Basilica’s bar and kitchen are open before and during the concert.

It is Sleep’s first tour without co-founding guitarist Matt Pike. Bassist and singer Al Cisneros, the band’s songwriter and only remaining original member, now plays with drummer Dale Crover of the Melvins and Redd Kross, and guitarist Bubba Dupree of the Maryland hardcore band Void. In June the trio released “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” on Third Man Records, the band’s first new music since The Sciences in 2018. Cisneros said the first jam had “blue sunglasses-era Iommi” quality, a reference to Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi. Henry Rollins, who promoted the new lineup, wrote that the single doesn’t try to pick up where The Sciences left off.

Sleep formed in the early 1990s and is known for the albums Holy Mountain and Dopesmoker, the latter a single hour-long track. The fall tour began September 8 in San Diego and ends November 17 at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C.

The openers are Zombi, a Pittsburgh duo of bassist and synthesist Steve Moore and drummer A.E. Paterra, who take their name from the Italian title of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and draw on the film’s Goblin score, and The Schizophonics, a San Diego garage-rock band led by married couple Pat Beers on guitar and vocals and Lety Beers on drums. The group has won several San Diego Music Awards, including best rock album for People in the Sky, and released a new album, Burning Floor, on Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label on September 29.

Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front Street, Hudson, NY. Tickets through basilicahudson.org or 518-822-1050.