Buckle up — Colorado’s most gloriously unhinged lounge-punk outfit Jesus Christ Taxi Driver are hailing a cab to a city near you. The band have officially announced their God Gave Us Wheelz For A Reazon Tour, kicking off with a hometown show at Denver’s Hi-Dive on June 24 and barreling through the heartland into early July.
The run lands in the wake of Taxi The Rich, the quartet’s second full-length, released last month via Midtopia. The record is rapturously irreverent, politically pointed, religiously disoriented, and existentially uncertain — pure rock ‘n’ roll in spirit, but utterly unbound in sound. Garage punk, funk, surf rock, twang, power pop, and yes, even jazz flute, all share the backseat as the band drags an unlikely cast of characters (serial killers, Lana Del Rey, Jeffrey Epstein, take your pick) along for the ride.
“‘Taxi The Rich’ is a worried perspective of our current time,” the band shared. “The album’s subject matter looks at the world from afar and from up close, even looks within and into the past. We wonder how we got here, we recite mantras to ease the fear, and sometimes we play our instruments loud to show our teeth.”…