We Are Scientists

We Are Scientists are playing Paper Tiger on Friday, November 13, 2026. It's a specific kind of night: they're celebrating the 20th anniversary of With Love and Squalor, and they're doing it by playing the album in full. If you've had that record on your shelf for two decades, this is the one show you'll actually want to be at.

With Love and Squalor came out in 2006, so the math checks out—twenty years later, they're running it from start to finish. That's the whole album, not just a few tracks scattered through the set. And they aren't stopping there: they're adding all the hits on top of it, so you get the full record plus the songs you probably know best. It's a double-dip of a set—the deep cuts from the anniversary album and the familiar ones from the rest of their catalog.

If you've never heard them, they're a New York band that's spent a long time doing their own thing. With Love and Squalor was one of their early records, and it's the one they're centering this whole night around. Hearing it in full is a different experience than picking through it on your own, and since they're adding the hits, you'll get the songs that defined their sound alongside the ones that usually stay in the background.

It's a Friday night show, and it's happening at Paper Tiger, 2410 N St Mary's St, in San Antonio. The music starts at 8 PM, and tickets run from $20 to $25.