Over the past couple years, rock and roll has enjoyed an extremely silly waterfowl-related coincidence: The simultaneous rise of the indie jam band Goose and the Brooklyn punk band Geese. Though these two outfits couldn’t be further from each other in sound or style, they’ve been inevitably conjoined by name. And now, in the craziest fluke, both Goose and Geese have announced the departures of band members in a classic Friday-before-Christmas news dump.
For Goose, they’ll be parting ways with longtime drummer and co-founder Ben Atkind, and Geese have confirmed the exit of guitarist Foster Hudson.
In their statement, Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda, Peter Anspach, Trevor Weekz and Jeff Arevalo appeared to chalk Atkind’s departure up to tensions between “fundamental and creative differences,” adding: “We’ve come to a place where we feel our current path to…
