Prepare to Be Jammed: The Greeting Committee

Many people think of a concert’s opening act as something to suffer through before their beloved headliner or something to skip altogether. This is a mistake.

We’ve already established that Jukebox the Ghost picks stellar opening bands, and one of the many is Kansas City indie band The Greeting Committee, who joined them last spring with a fun, high-energy set led by frontwoman Addie Sartino.

“The Greeting Committee” is an appropriate name for an opening band, especially one that impresses and stands out in a situation where bands can fall flat. Their set consisted largely of songs from 2018 debut full-length This Is It that won the crowd over easily with catchy guitar riffs and Sartino’s deep, breathy vocals, with highlights like “Don’t Go” and a cover of MGMT’s “Kids.”

The band just released a new EP, I’m Afraid I’m Not Angry, building on their already solid discography with a mature mix of sounds from the drumbeats of haunting opener “Cry Baby” and counterpart closer “Call in the Morning” to the biting guitar riff of “Simply Surviving,” one of the EP’s best tracks.

The Greeting Committee will be hitting the road again this fall with Hippo Campus.