PHILADELPHIA, PA [2013-PRESENT]
Peter Helmis
Joe Reinhart
Nate Dionne
Nick Tazza
The members of Philadelphia’s DOGS ON ACID have only been playing together since 2014, but there’s nothing novice about them. For starters, the band is a veritable supergroup of revered Philadelphia acts, featuring members of Algernon Cadwallader, Snowing and others to make Dogs On Acid yet another export from the buzzed-about local scene.
This longstanding entrenchment in Philadelphia’s music landscape has allowed the punk/indie band — singer/guitarist Peter Helmis, guitarist Joe Reinhart, bassist Nate Dionne and drummer Nick Tazza — a refreshing amount of familiarity to bypass the typical startup grunt work that comes with forming a new project and focus on the most important thing: the music.
We’ve never said, ‘Let’s write music like this because people who like our old bands’ stuff want to hear more,” Dionne explains. “Our past bands really never come up [in conversation]; we just know so much about each other that it’s never a discussion we really have.”