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SUMMARY:LP
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:15 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited. \n*** \n \n*** \nLP \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMusic doesn’t have to be complicated.\nAt the end of the day\, it’s all about being honest\, taking no B.S.\, and getting right back up after every fall. New York-born singer\, songwriter\, and all-around rock rebel LP puts it even more succinctly\, “I go Johnny Cash on that shit and just get through it.”\nLike the Man in Black\, she pens and performs timeless tunes with attitude—albeit minus the country twang and cowboy hats. Ukulele in hand\, voice booming with soul and spirit\, and pulling no punches\, LP’s palatability belies an underground unrestraint sharpened by several years in the industry. By 2014\, she had not only written hits for Rihanna\, Cher\, Backstreet Boys\, Cher Lloyd\, and more\, but also released her major label debut\, Forever For Now. The latter’s “Into The Wild” fueled a Citibank ad campaign as everyone from The Wall Street Journal\, CNN\, and USA Today to Vogue and BuzzFeed extolled the artist. She performed on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! and ignited audiences at Austin City Limits\, Bonnaroo\, Lollapalooza\, and more. However\, as her six-year romantic relationship failed and she split from her label\, LP put her head down and wrote what would become 2016’s Death Valley EP [Vagrant Records].\n“My goal was just to create my best music\,” she says. “I stopped overthinking things. I didn’t know how it was going to come out or if anyone would ever hear it\, but I just wanted to write. No one told me what to do. I wasn’t trying to fit into some fucking label’s ideal of who I should be. I had complete artistic freedom.”\nDeath Valley became a watershed moment for the songstress and modern rock at large. Driven by her signature ukulele\, raspy acoustic guitars\, and the unshakable refrain\, “Baby is that lost on you?\,” its lead single “Lost On You” amassed over 91 million YouTube views as well as 44 million Spotify streams and went triple-platinum in Italy\, platinum in France\, Poland\, and Germany\, and gold in Switzerland. Meanwhile\, the title track\, “Muddy Waters\,” soundtracked the Season 4 climax of NETFLIX’s Orange Is The New Black.\n“I love a record that has an eclectic bunch of songs\,” she goes on. “I want it to be an interesting landscape\, and I like to use my voice in different ways. That was my goal with Death Valley.”\nIt also extends to her 2017 full-length album. Once again\, LP re-unites with the team behind Death Valley—producer POWERS’ Mike Del Rio [Christina Aguilera\, X Ambassadors] and writer Nate Campany [Tove Lo\, Carly Rae Jepsen\, Martin Garrix].\n“It’s a weird thing\,” she says. “I feel more confident than ever before. I don’t have to police myself anymore. For this record\, I decided to unapologetically tress on\, keep going\, and run with my emotion.”\nUltimately\, as LP writes more\, she continues to connect with audiences everywhere. “There’s a survivor mentality that comes through naturally\,” she leaves off. “That strikes a chord. I want to show people it’s possible to do whatever they want on their own terms.” \n*** \nNoah Kahan \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFrom the rural solitude of the quiet town of Strafford\, VT (Population: 1000)\, Noah Kahan discovered his penchant for songwriting early on. Long\, cold winters in the Vermont backcountry were spent honing his craft in the rolling hills of his family’s 133-acre tree farm. This serene location provided the backdrop for countless adventures that ranged from typical boyhood antics to the more rebellious teenage exploration. The older that Noah got\, the more he began to feel the pull of adulthood clash with the familiarity of his adolescence. Drawing heavily from these experiences\, Noah’s songs are laced with a youthful wisdom; nostalgia and whimsy taking a back seat to honesty and wit. He meets this conflict head on by acknowledging the loneliness of this new phase of his life coupled with his desire to stay true to himself. Noah’s writing reflects the all too universal feeling of being lost in one’s own backyard and foreshadows the excitement that comes with a leap into the unknown. \nNow 20 years old\, Noah once again finds himself deviating from the norm. As he follows a dream as old as he can remember\, his childhood friends are choosing majors and preparing for more conventional careers. No stranger to feeling lost or isolated\, he now chooses to embrace the uncertainty as fuel. The lyrics to his debut single “Young Blood” read as a letter of encouragement and advice to himself as he embarks on this new adventure. He reminds himself to “be surprised\, keep hungry.” Throughout unexpected challenges and new revelations\, Noah is staying true to his nature; questioning everything and enjoying the ride. \n*** \nKat Cunning \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nKat Cunningham is a singer-songwriter and actress who frequents Sleep No More as the Master of Ceremonies and is currently performing in Refinery 29’s SOLD OUT “29 Rooms.” Her single\, “BABY” is out now on SPOTIFY. \nThe SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory Graduate got her start in Baroque-Burlesque Operas with Company XIV. She recently made her dramatic debut playing Emilie in Les Liaison Dangereuses with Janet Mcteer and Liev Schreiber. and her Broadway Debut in 2016 playing Lila in Cirque Du Soleil’s\, PARAMOUR\, for which she co-wrote Lila’s score to suit her singular voice. \nThe New York Times has described that the “standout spots belong to the sultry-voiced Katrina Cunningham who brings an exquisite indie-siren quality…” \nAwards: Best Actor for Nothing Serious\, 2016 Traildance Film Festival \nBest Supporting Actor Pepper and the Salt Sea\, 2016 Damn! Series
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SUMMARY:Natasa Theodoridou
DESCRIPTION:21+ \n  \nDoors at 7:30pm \nShow begins at 8:45pm
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SUMMARY:Tune-Yards
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale Fri. 10/27 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nNote: Ticket price includes $1/ticket for charity. \n*** \n \n*** \ntUnE-yArDs \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nTune-Yards was formed by Merrill Garbus in 2006\, and that band name has ever since been synonymous with forward movement—whether because of the group’s explosive performance style\, the always-surprising way in which their songs unfold\, or the lines Merrill draws between music and social activism. First gaining notice with the debut BiRd-BrAiNs\, which The New York Times called “a confident do-it-yourselfer’s opening salvo: a staticky\, low-fi\, abrasive attention-getter\,” Garbus forged a reputation as a formidable live presence through relentless touring. \nGarbus became a producer in her own right working with bassist Nate Brenner and engineer Eli Crews on 2011’s w h o k i l l\, a startling and sonically adventurous statement that led to a whirlwind period where the band accrued accolades from critics (including the #1 spot on the Village Voice’s 2011 Pazz and Jop poll.) In 2014\, Tune-Yards released Nikki Nack\, and through touring and licensing music from that album\, they raised money to begin The Water Fountain\, a fund for water-related causes which has donated over $75\,000 to various nonprofits since its inception. \nTune-Yards has collaborated with Yoko Ono\, Laurie Anderson\, David Byrne\, Mavis Staples\, and others. They are currently working on their fourth album\, for release in 2018. \n*** \nXenia Rubinos \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nVocalist and composer Xenia Rubinos crafts movingly powerful songs dipping in and out of genre and structure to create a sound that is fearlessly her own. Xenia’s powerhouse vocals are at the center of her music which grows from a wide range of influences from R&B to Hip-Hop to Caribbean rhythms and jazz all delivered with a soulful punk aura. Her debut album ‘Magic Trix’ was released in 2013 by Ba Da Bing! Records to wide critical acclaim. Pitchfork lauded the radiant singer as “a unique new pop personality” while a profile in The New Yorker described her work as “rhythmically fierce\, vocally generous music that slips through the net of any known genre.” Xenia’s energetic live show and presence echoes some of the larger than life iconic singers she admired as a child including Judy Garland\, Nina Simone and La Lupe while her powerhouse vocals recall the pop sensibility of Mariah Carey and soulfulness of Erykah Badu. Touring the US and Europe extensively\, she has played more than 150 shows both as a headliner and supporting act for such diverse bands as Man Man\, Battles\, Coco Rosie\, and Deerhoof. Xenia has been hard at work on her follow-up full-length LP\, due out Spring 2016.
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SUMMARY:[CANCELED] Moose Blood
DESCRIPTION:Due to heavy snowfall in Boston on Tuesday & Wednesday\, we are forced to cancel our Boston show & instore at Newbury Comics. Refunds available at points of purchase. The NYC show on March 15th will be going ahead as planned. Sorry for any inconvenience but travel safety comes first. \n*** \n \n*** \nMoose Blood \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nLydia \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLeighton Antelman\nMatt Keller\nJustin Camacho\nShawn Strader \n*** \nMcCafferty \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nNick Hartkop\nWes Easterly\nChris Joecken\nEvan Graham
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Bianca Del Rio
DESCRIPTION:This show is SOLD OUT! \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID.  Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent.  Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice.  All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled.  All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue.  Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \nVIP PACKAGE CLASSIFICATIONS\, DESCRIPTIONS & DISCLAIMERS \n\nTHE GUILTY VIP PACKAGE ($199)\nOne ULTRA-Premium Ticket in Bianca’s “Guilty” Section *\n• Includes a Ticket in the First Row \nExclusive VIP Gift Item Created Especially For Guilty Package Purchasers\nSigning-Off – Each Guilty Guest Will Receive an Autographed\, Limited Edition “Blame It On Bianca” Tour Poster\nOne Exclusive Invite to the Preshow VIP Meet & Greet with Bianca Del Rio!\n• Individual Photo Opportunity with Bianca Del Rio\n• Forget the Lines! Access to the Merchandise Booth for All Your Bianca Del Rio Shopping Needs Before General Public\nEssential Bianca Del Rio VIP Merchandise\n• One Commemorative Bianca Del Rio VIP Laminate & Matching Lanyard\n* Venue seating configurations can vary market-by-market \nTHE INNOCENT VIP PACKAGE ($119)\nOne Premium Ticket in Bianca’s “Innocent” Section (Priority entry / entry prior to GA Ticketholders)\nOne Exclusive Invite to the Preshow VIP Meet & Greet with Bianca Del Rio!\n• Individual Photo Opportunity with Bianca Del Rio\n• Forget the Lines! Access to the Merchandise Booth for All Your Bianca Del Rio Shopping Needs Before General Public\nEssential Bianca Del Rio VIP Merchandise\n• One Commemorative Bianca Del Rio VIP Laminate & Matching Lanyard\n* Venue seating configurations can vary market-by-market \nVIP PACKAGE DISCLAIMER INFORMATION \nAll package purchasers will be contacted via e-mail a few days prior to the event date. Information will sent to the e-mail address provided at the time of purchase. If you do not receive an e-mail a few days prior to the event please contact BiancaDelRioVIP@aegpresents.com. \nAll sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges under any circumstances. All packages and package contents are non-transferable. VIP merchandise will be distributed at the show\, some exceptions may apply. Package purchases are restricted to U.S. & Canadian addresses only. All preshow VIP programs and times may vary market-by-market and are subject to modification at any time for any reason. Information provided at the time of purchase (name\, address\, e-mail\, etc.) is the same information that will be utilized for individual contact requirements as applicable. The artist\, tour\, promoter\, ticketing company\, venue or any other affiliated parties are not responsible for outdated or inaccurate information provided by the consumer at the time of purchase. Commemorative VIP laminates are for commemorative purposes only. The VIP laminate does not gain or authorize access into the venue\, VIP or any backstage areas. \n*** \n \n  \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBIANCA DEL RIO\, the alter ego of seasoned comic Roy Haylock and season 6 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race\, is a self-professed “clown in a gown.” This hilariously hateful comic is known for her foul mouth and unapologetic humor\, but her victims hardly have time to feel the sting before she zips on to the next topic. Besides\, Bianca is quick to point out that she’s the biggest joke of all. The NY Times calls her “The Joan Rivers of the Drag World\,” and Joan Rivers herself called Bianca’s humor “So funny! So sharp!” \nBianca’s first stand-up special\, “Rolodex of Hate”\, is available on Vimeo OnDemand\, and her first feature film\, “Hurricane Bianca”\, is available on Netflix. \nHer second stand-up special\, “Not Today Satan”\, will be available on Vimeo OnDemand December 2017. “Hurricane Bianca 2: From Russia with Hate” will be released in 2018.\nBianca is currently touring with her new stand-up comedy show “Blame It On Bianca Del Rio” to sold out audiences all over the world.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bianca-del-rio-2/
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SUMMARY:K.Flay
DESCRIPTION:ALT 92.9 presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale NOW \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nK.Flay \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSince making her debut in 2010\, K.Flay has spun fearlessly detailed lyrics that show the bright and dark of the world in her head. For her second full-length Every Where Is Some Where\, the L.A.-based alt-pop/hip-hop artist pushed deeper into introspection while adding an element of political commentary. The result is her most deliberate and dynamic work yet\, a thrillingly vital album that channels the frenzy and anxieties of today’s world. \nThe follow-up to her 2016 EP Crush Me—whose lead single “Blood in the Cut” hit the top 5 on Alternative radio—Every Where Is Some Where amps up its defiant spirit with a densely textured yet gritty sound. “After Life as a Dog I was listening to so much late-’90s/early-’00s rock\,” says K.Flay\, aka Kristine Flaherty\, referring to her 2014 full-length debut. “I was absorbing the energy of people like Karen O\, Shirley Manson\, and Emily Haines and feeling totally inspired by it\, so there’s lots more live guitar\, bass\, and drums on this record.” Working with producers like Mike Elizondo (Twenty One Pilots\, Fiona Apple\, Regina Spektor\, Skylar Grey) and Tommy English (BØRNS\, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness\, Ladyhawke)\, K.Flay deftly infused the album with the same raw intensity she’s revealed in touring with such artists as Passion Pit\, Icona Pop\, Awolnation\, and Theophilus London.\n \nAn inimitable lyricist who names novelist Marilynne Robinson among her inspirations\, K.Flay also brought a literary sensibility to the making of Every Where Is Some Where. The album’s title\, for instance\, aims to “capture the flexibility of meaning\, the way we fashion our own narratives\,” according to Flaherty. “As a songwriter\, that’s my main enterprise—looking at the events in my life and engaging in a constant framing and reframing of those events\,” she says. “Experience is subjective. We get to decide what’s devastating\, what’s beautiful\, and what we do next. In the books of our lives\, we are both protagonist and narrator. And narrators have incredible power.”\n \nOn the lead single from Every Where Is Some Where\, K.Flay explores the power of lucid self-acceptance and delivers one of the album’s most blatantly upbeat tracks. Matching her seamless flow with sing-song melody\, “High Enough” fuses breezy rhythm and gritty guitar lines into a hopeful meditation on keeping clear-headed. “There are so many songs out there about getting fucked up\,” says Flaherty of the song’s inspiration. “I think a part of me was asking the question: ‘What if I’m already high enough? What if I don’t need anything but what I’ve got?’ There are many moments in my life—whether it’s because of a person or a place—that I don’t want to feel altered or high or buzzed. I just want to feel exactly what I’m feeling.”\n \nKaleidoscopic in mood\, Every Where Is Some Where also offers somber moments like “Mean It”—a stunningly vulnerable track built around K.Flay’s outpourings on love and family and lineage. Laced with subtle wisdom (“Remember what you love/So that when the world gets painful/You become your own god”)\, the starkly arranged song emerged from an especially cathartic writing session for Flaherty. “I wrote ‘Mean It’ in my bedroom in L.A.\, pretty late at night…the song just came pouring out\,” she recalls. “I remember I was crying while I wrote it\, which is pretty unusual for me.” “It’s Just a Lot\,” meanwhile\, came to life while Flaherty was “thinking about the world and how it’s so big and beautiful and sad\,” giving way to a blissfully uptempo but sweetly melancholic pop gem.\n \nOn “The President Has a Sex Tape\,” K.Flay’s measured vocal delivery and throbbing bassline brilliantly clash with her barbed lyrics about the state of the world. “Nothing feels sacred anymore—our highest elected official is a reality television star who is incompetent and openly hateful\,” says Flaherty. “The song started out as a lament\, but turned into a rallying cry as we finished it. I hope it can be a weird little anthem for people feeling disillusioned or alienated.” That anthemic quality intensifies on “Black Wave\,” a powerfully frantic track born from the post-election feeling that “we were all on a beach\, looking out at this terrible black wave in the distance\, knowing it was going to swallow us whole\,” as Flaherty explains. Driven by furious rhythms and urgent vocal work\, the song ends up offering a message of resistance and speaks to “facing something immense and menacing and choosing not to cower\, but to rise up.”\n \nIn a certain way\, defiance is at the root of K.Flay’s evolution as a musician. Originally from Illinois\, she “fell into music very haphazardly” at age 19—a decade after her dad taught her to play guitar. “I was in an argument with someone and was challenged to make a song\, which was my entry point to music\,” says Flaherty\, who studied at Stanford University. “From there I started producing and playing house parties on campus\, kind of as a release from the academic life. I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.”\n \nUpon graduating\, Flaherty moved to San Francisco and kept up with music\, making her breakthrough with the 2011 mixtape I Stopped Caring in ’96 and landing a deal with a major label. Not long after putting out her 2013 EP What If It Is (featuring a collaboration with Danny Brown)\, K.Flay launched her own label for the release of Life As a Dog. Then in 2016\, she became the first artist signed to Night Street/Interscope Records (an imprint helmed by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds)\, releasing Crush Me that August. “I feel like I’ve somersaulted into everything that’s happened since I first started making music\,” says Flaherty. “It’s like I kept slowly turning to the right and ended up doing this for a living\, which is pretty amazing to me.”\n \nIn creating Every Where Is Some Where\, K.Flay hit a new level of complexity and candor in her lyrics\, as encapsulated in the stream-of-consciousness storytelling of tracks like “Champagne.” “Details are everything to me\,” says Flaherty of that gorgeously unhinged song’s lyrical intricacy. “There are only so many ways that humans feel—but infinite ways to describe and embody those feelings.” And in immersing herself in the process of crafting such lyrics\, Flaherty eventually arrived at the realization that “you can understand the fact of your own smallness in this world while still celebrating the very particular singularity of who you are and where you happen to stand.” That moment of truth proved to be an album-defining revelation\, and instilled Every Where Is Some Where with an unlikely sense of hope. “Each song on the record is about creating a different kind of meaning out of a different kind of something\,” Flaherty says. “Even the dark places are places. You’re still somewhere.” \n*** \nEd Balloon \n \nFacebook \nNO SMOKING by ED BALLOON
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