BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131413 CREATED:20170912T152045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170912T152045Z UID:10002556-1517428800-1517428800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 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. 9/15 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. \nBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket goes to War Child to support children and families in communities affected by war throughout the world. More info at: https://warchildusa.org/homeusa \n*** \n \n*** \nBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFor 15 years\, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has carried the torch for true rock and roll. The latest edition of the firebrand rock troupe\, sees them at their most dynamic. Their sixth studio album\, “Specter at the Feast\,” ventures into diverse sonic territory\, delivering their most ambitious offering yet. It’s an album of impossible dichotomies; opposing sounds amalgamate into a seamless\, entirely coherent package\, that rumbles with driving rhythms\, and soars with skyward-arcing guitar howls. Robert Been delivers growling bass grooves on “Hate the Taste\,” and Peter Hayes’ guitar wails on what may be their most hard-rocking song\, “Rival.” Counterbalancing these frenetic outbursts are moments of star-gazing ambient textures\, like the crystalline harmonics introducing the slinking album opener\, “Fire Walker\,” and the organ drones of “Returning.” There are moments of down-home blues paired alongside flailing punk bombasticism; gnarled dark rock shores upon uplifting\, and optimistic anthems. Taking cues from all points of the band’s many years on the road\, this record is the band’s most well-realized album to date. “We thought about making it a double album\,” Been says of the many songs that were written for the record. \nTo write the album\, the Los Angeles band traveled north to the sleepy Northern California town of Santa Cruz\, where they holed up in an old Post Office-turned-recording studio. It was here\, just a few blocks from where Been grew up\, that they began to write. \n“Peter would spend all day and night in that studio\,” Been recalls\, “[Drummer] Leah [Shapiro] and I would go and check on him every few days\, and he’d show us these incredible textures and guitar lines that he built.” \n“I’ve never seen the sunrise so many times\,” Hayes laughs\, “I’d work all night on these songs\, trying to get them right.” \nPrior to heading north to Santa Cruz\, Dave Grohl invited them to his Studio 606\, home to the storied Neve 8028 console soundboard from the legendary Sound City — the subject of his recent documentary — and on which Nirvana created “Nevermind” and BMRC recorded their debut album in 2001. “It was a nice sense return\,” Been says\, “to come back to the place where it all began for us.” \nFor two years\, the band worked on creating the album\, a process that they all agree\, was one of the most difficult of their career. Like the Macbeth quote that became the album’s title\, there was a painful shadow that had been cast upon the band. \nDuring the band’s 2010 tour\, Robert’s father Michael Been — known for fronting 1980’s alt-rock group\, The Call — died while backstage. He was BRMC’s sound engineer\, and as Hayes says\, “he was like another member of the band.” They finished the tour but afterward\, the trauma began to set in. \n“Music began as the best way to escape what was out there\, all the shit in the world that feels false\, everything you want to say against it\,” Been says\, “but when a loss like this is so close to music\, it turns everything upside down. Music becomes the one place where you can’t escape. It’s like waking up in a completely different world. How do I get my bearings in this world?” \nSlowly\, the band began to rebuild. They fought grief and the pain of Michael’s death by confronting it directly\, with no fear. \n“The only thing that felt good was just getting together\, plugging in\, and turning up loud as shit\,” Been says. “It was kind of this therapeutic process\, playing really loud\, and just feeling this energy; letting that be a release. It really helped us pull out of that darkest place that we were in.” \nAs their momentum regained\, their synergy reconnected them to one another. Then one session began the process that unlocked their creative energy again. “I began playing this drumbeat that I had been working on\,” Shapiro says\, “the guys started playing\, and suddenly we realized that we were playing the Call’s ‘Let the Day Begin.'” \nThe unintentional homage to The Call turned into their own high-powered take on the song they performed with Michael around the world. The energy was explosive and real; it became the first song they recorded at Grohl’s studio\, as a tribute to Michael’s place in the band. For Robert\, of course\, the meaning transcended music. “This song was one of my earliest memories of my father’s music\,” he says. \nGrief transformed to joy. On this album\, where they dug deeper than ever before\, mining these difficult emotional landscapes\, the result is intense\, but rapturous. From personal and intimate hymns like the “Sometimes the Light” to the buzz-saw guitars of “Teenage Disease\,” Been says “it was these two extremes that we were drifting back and forth between\, you feel both when you are going through what we went trough.” \nAbove all\, “Specter at the Feast” is honest; it tells the story of a journey to Hell and back\, revealing that in darkness\, there can be light. Wounds will eventually heal\, and maybe\, music can save your life. As they sing on ‘Returning\,’ “I will follow you till we all return\, till we know our souls’ survived.” \n*** \nNight Beats \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nDanny Lee Blackwell – guitar / vocals\nJakob Bowden — bass\nJames Traeger — drums\nNight Beats play pure psychedelic R&B music that spikes the punch and drowns your third eye in sonic waves of colour. Theirs is a bastard blues\, contorted and distorted into new shapes for 21st century wastoids — once tasted never forgotten. This is music to melt your sorry little minds.\nMake no mistake: their new album Who Sold My Generation sounds like it has been created against a backdrop of burning Stars and Stripes flags and with the whiff of napalm hanging in the air — an alternative universe where ‘Helter Skelter’ is the national anthem and Charlie Manson is still on the loose. Acid-test heaviness is Night Beats’ currency\, but this is no out-right nostalgia trip either. Instead of Nixon and Vietnam\, Night Beats have their own epoch of God and guns and bombs and drones to rail against…or flee from. Besides\, bad vibrations\, blues jams and id-shattering explorations are timeless pursuits – why shouldn’t today’s young generation be allowed to take a ride down the slippery spiral that sits within the centre of each of us?\nOn their third album – and first for Heavenly Recordings — Night Beats perhaps most recall their Texan forefathers and psyche-rock originators 13th Floor Elevators at their ‘69 peak\, just before The Man busted young Roky Erickson and dragged him to the psyche ward for barbaric doses of shock treatment. These boys represent the best of the Lone Star State’s flipside – that vast dusty hinterland of the soul where it’s easy to drift off the map and reinvent yourself as part of the long lineage of creative cowboys who prefer psychotropics to rodeo riding\, guitars rather than firearms.\n“Old cowboy culture is alive and well in Texas\,” says frontman Danny Lee Blackwell. “I grew up with Texan mythology all around us\, so as a band its instilled in our blood. My Dad didn’t wrangle steers but he did pick cotton when he was young. But then cities like Austin and Dallas\, where we spent most of our time growing up\, have a real sense of musical history that runs deep\, so we feed off legacy that too.”\nFrom the Elevators and The Red Krayola on to pre-ZZ Top band The Moving Sidewalks\, Butthole Surfers and The Black Angels – whose record label Reverb Appreciation Society have released Night Beats — and a clutch of other early cult bands besides (Bubble Puppy\, Shiva’s Headband and the Golden Dawn\, anyone?)\, Texas has always been a prime breeding ground for such outlaw music. “The Elevators were one of the reasons I decided to become a singer and form the group\,” says Blackwell. “I loved their attempt to play R ‘n’ B music\, but from a distinctly Texan approach. I’d say they have profoundly influenced the group\, but it’s now our job to take it to another level in a new age.”\nIt took a cross-country relocation to instigate their formation. Night Beats were born when frontman Danny Lee Blackwell upped stick from Dallas to Seattle\, Washington and was soon joined by childhood friend James Traeger. “James got me a copy of Ginsberg’s Howl when I was around 15 and it changed everything\,” remembers Blackwell of his old friend. “We grew up together and once he moved up to Seattle we did everything together there too. I wanted to try out a different place\, a new city\, where no one knew my music and there wasn’t anything remotely similar going on. Coming from Dallas\, Austin seemed like the obvious choice but I needed something more. Seattle was at one time the home to people we love like Ray Charles\, Jimi Hendrix and Quincy Jones so I didn’t feel too disconnected.”\nThe two existed initially as a guitar and drums duo\, named in honour of Sam Cooke’s 1963 album Night Beat\, before fellow Jakob Bowden Dallas resident joined on bass after a stint in Austin. Filtering a collective love of pioneering artists as disparate as Buddy Holly\, Fela Kuti\, Etta James\, James Brown and Leonard Cohen\, Night Beats dropped a clutch of singles\, split-singles\, cassette release and two albums – their self-titled debut in 2011 followed by Sonic Bloom in 2013 – as well as featuring on all manner of compilation albums that document the cutting edge of the head-bending\, modern counter-cultural US underground.\nNight Beats hit the road too\, touring extensively with Roky Erickson\, The Zombies\, The Jesus and Mary Chain\, The Strange Boys\, Black Lips\, The Growlers and The Black Angels in North America\, Europe\, Israel\, South Africa and Australia.\nRecorded on old two-inch tape in Echo Park\, Los Angeles at the home of producer Nic Jodoin and featuring co-production and guess bass playing from Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club\, new album Who Sold My Generation goes beyond merely being a retreading of well-worn garage / R&B path. Instead it offers a contemporary take on the psychedelic experience\, a heady set of hoodoo voodoo songs. Mordant and corrosive opener ‘Celebration #1’ sets the tone with its wailing guitar jams and Messiah-like monologue\, while ‘No Cops’ makes like the imaginary soundtrack to an orgiastic party somewhere in the LA hills as the summer of love gave way to an era of greed and paranoia. ‘Sunday Mourning’ is the sound of blood dripping on the twitching remains of a generation’s super ego and with a rockabilly strut\, ‘Egypt Berry’ chases the White Rabbit down into a cosmic underworld while shaking its burning tail feathers\nWith new Who Sold My Generation\, Night Beats have not only painted it black\, they’ve torched the fucker and driven it off the cliff\, crashing and burning into the arid canyon below.\nIn its afterglow only the lone howl of a solitary coyote remains.\nBen Myers. October 2015. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/black-rebel-motorcycle-club/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Black-Rebel-Motorcycle-Club-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180204T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171201T180125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T180125Z UID:10002579-1517778000-1517778000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Fernando & Sorocaba USA Tour 2018 DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/fernando-sorocaba-usa-tour-2018/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/24-George-Brazil.jpg GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20170922T172038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T172038Z UID:10001846-1517943600-1517943600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Yung Lean & Sad Boys DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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. 9/29 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nYung Lean & Sad Boys \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nThaiboy Digital \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yung-lean-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Yung-Lean-admat-2018-PORTRAIT.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180217T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180217T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171024T161739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T161739Z UID:10001851-1518886800-1518903000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Decibel Magazine Tour 2018 DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 5:00 pm / Show: 5:15 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.\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. \n*** \n \nSince its launch in 2012\, the annual Decibel Magazine Tour’s ambitious curation has unified artists from around the extreme universe who would otherwise never have the opportunity to tour North America together. The lineup for the 2018 Decibel Magazine Tour continues that proud tradition\, as Norwegian progressive metal legends Enslaved join forces with Pacific Northwest black metal heroes Wolves in the Throne Room\, Danish post-black siren Myrkur and doomed rock ‘n’ crushers Khemmis (with regional openers in select markets to be announced next year). \n“I have always wanted Enslaved to be part of the Decibel Tour concept\,” says Enslaved guitarist and co-founder Ivar Bjørnson. “Not only is Decibel an institution\, and defender of the last line of resistance for the printed metal mag in North America (for a band started in 1991\, printed magazines are no small matter)\, but the Decibel Tour has also become an institution and an icon for metal that we admire here on the other side of the pond. So\, to be asked to headline\, and to perform with these other very fine artists\, is a great honor and a great pleasure. Be there or be trapezoid!” \nOf 2018’s four featured acts\, three have released new LPs in late 2017 to coincide with the Decibel Tour: Enslaved\, with their fourteenth full-length album\, E; Wolves in the Throne Room\, with sixth record Thrice Woven; and Myrkur\, with sophomore release Mareridt. The former have already been honored with a pair of authoritative Hall of Fame features (on 1994’s landmark Frost and 2003 groundbreaker Below the Lights). Wolves in the Throne and Myrkur each graced Decibel’s cover in 2017\, while in 2016\, Khemmis took home Decibel’s Album of the Year honor for their Hunted release. Additionally\, Enslaved\, Myrkur and Khemmis have each recorded and released exclusive tracks via the Decibel Flexi Series\, and the 2018 headliners will return with their second flexi contribution\, which will appear in the annual Decibel Tour issue of the magazine that hits stands February 2018. \n*** \nEnslaved \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nWolves In The Throne Room \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \n Myrkur \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \n*** \n Khemmis \n \nWebsite\nFacebook URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/decibel-magazine-tour-2018/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/dBTour2018_AdmatOnline.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180111T172022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T172022Z UID:10002595-1519333200-1519333200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:IPANEMA & BUDA PRODUCTIONS PRESENT ALOK DESCRIPTION:21+ \nDoors 9pm\nShow time 11pm \nMore info:\nINF.: (508)250-1193 – (617)583-3641\nwww.ipanemaproductionsusa.com URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ipanema-buda-productions-present-alok/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Nightclub,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/222-Alok.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180225T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171106T163437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171106T163437Z UID:10001855-1519585200-1519585200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - dvsn DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nNote: Ticket price includes $4/ticket album bundle. \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. 11/10 at 10AM! \nThis show is SOLD OUT. \n*** \n \n*** \ndvsn \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dvsn/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dvsn-admat-2018-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180108T191301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180108T191301Z UID:10002589-1519671600-1519671600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kelela DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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. 1/12 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. \n*** \nKelela \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \nKelela’s debut\, Take Me Apart\, spans the past and future of R&B while registering as an instant classic. With critical praise from The New York Times\, Pitchfork (Best New Music)\, and a cover story for The FADER\, it’s clear that Kelela is taking over. Having already performed at The Hollywood Bowl with Solange\, at massive festivals with the Gorillaz and gone around the world with The xx\, Kelela is now selling out her own headline tour. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kelela/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Kelela_SHOT_01_HASSELBLAD_008_SS_hires-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171112T150045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171112T150045Z UID:10001865-1520013600-1520026200@royaleboston.com 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 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/lp/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LP-admat-2018v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180122T200935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T200935Z UID:10001886-1520191800-1520191800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Natasa Theodoridou DESCRIPTION:21+ \n  \nDoors at 7:30pm \nShow begins at 8:45pm URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/natasa-theodoridou/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/34-Natasa-Theodoridou.jpg GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171024T154437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T154437Z UID:10002570-1520539200-1520539200@royaleboston.com 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. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tune-yards/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/tune-yards-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171203T170015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171203T170015Z UID:10002581-1521054000-1521054000@royaleboston.com 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 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/moose-blood/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Moose-Blood-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180317T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171031T155853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171031T155853Z UID:10001854-1521313200-1521322200@royaleboston.com 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/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Bianca-Del-Rio-Admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180321T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180321T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171112T150044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171112T150044Z UID:10002571-1521662400-1521662400@royaleboston.com 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 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/k-flay/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/KFLAY-Admat-2018v3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180115T060029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180115T060029Z UID:10002597-1522778400-1522778400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Between the Buried and Me / The Dear Hunter DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 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. 1/19 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nBetween the Buried and Me \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhat if dreams could be broadcast for the purpose of entertainment? Could you consume the innermost thoughts of another person on screen? If you could\, what does that say about an attention-starved audience? More importantly\, what would become of the dreamer?\nBetween The Buried and Me pose those questions and more on their two-part eighth full-length and introductory offering for Sumerian Records\, Automata. The North Carolina quintet—Tommy Giles Rogers\, Jr. [lead vocals\, keyboards]\, Paul Waggoner [lead and rhythm guitar\, backing and lead vocals]\, Dustie Waring [rhythm and lead guitar]\, Blake Richardson [drums]\, and Dan Briggs [bass\, keyboards]—explore these themes by personally smashing boundaries once again. Automata marks the band’s first proper double LP-spanning concept. Moreover\, they continue to expand their ever-evolving style\, upholding a tradition of progression in the process.\n“We never want to repeat ourselves\,” affirms Paul. “We’re always trying to do something different\, and this album fell right into that sort of pattern. We push ourselves into new places\, while retaining our basic sound. Musically\, we go somewhere that’s fun and challenging. We never know how it’s going to turn out. These are uncharted waters for us. We’ve never written an entire piece and presented it in separate parts like this.”\nTommy agrees\, “This many years into our career\, we want to continue doing things differently.”\nThis approach cemented the group as progressive music’s most unpredictable outlier since its formation in 2000. Among many milestones\, they released 2007’s watershed Colors followed by The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP in 2011 and The Parallax II: Future Sequence a year later. 2015 saw Coma Ecliptic elevate them to new heights yet again. Not only did it bow at #12 on the Billboard Top 200 (a career high for the band)\, but it also garnered widespread acclaim from Noisey\, Revolver\, Alternative Press\, and The Guardian who welcomed the album with a rare perfect score. In between\, they launched countless sold out headline tours and support runs with the likes of Mastodon.\nNow\, they break more ground with Automata.\n“Lyrically\, I wanted to write something that I treated as a puzzle until it comes together at the end\,” continues Tommy. “For as deep and dark as it is\, there’s a positive outcome\, which we’ve never had. The story follow a protagonist whose dreams are used as entertainment broadcasted by a company called Voice of Trespass. Most of the record takes place within that dream. The character thinks it’s all real.”\n“Even though it takes place in the future\, there are a lot of parallels to modern society\,” adds Paul. “Oftentimes\, we turn athletes\, movie stars\, and musicians into commodities. We forget that they’re real people with problems and issues. They’re society’s escape from reality as we use them for entertainment. Hence\, society plays a role in their downfall\, be it drug dependence\, isolation\, or even suicide. Society perpetuates mental illness with those expectations.”\nAutomata – Part I unveils the first six songs comprising the entire body of work. Stretching near seven minutes\, “Condemned to the Gallows” kicks off this journey. Acoustic guitar builds in epic fashion before sweeping distortion takes hold followed by unpredictable rhythms and a seismic vocal performance which\, as Tommy puts it\, “sets up the whole story.”\nElsewhere\, the trudging eight-minute guitar symphony of “Yellow Eyes” spirals into the melodic bliss of “Millions.”\n“There are a lot of moments where we totally venture away from the traditional formula of what a progressive metal band can do\,” states Dan. “There are all these little moments where we’ve done something we never did before. ‘Millions’ is the perfect example. It’s four-minutes of straight melody—another first.”\nWith Automata Part I\, Part II\, and the myriad of visuals on the horizon\, Between The Buried And Me realize their potential to its fullest—and go one step further.\n“All of our music should build up to the newest record\,” Tommy leaves off. “That’s what happens with Automata. You can take little snippets from our past throughout this album. It sounds like Between The Buried And Me\, but it’s still new. We hope to keep the music industry on its toes. This is part of doing that.” \n*** \nThe Dear Hunter \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIt’s been almost a decade since Casey Crescenzo brought The Dear Hunter — both the band and the character of the same name — to life with his 2006 debut full-length\, Act I: The Lake South\, The River North. Although it was evident from his stint as singer of The Receiving End Of Sirens\, the record revealed Crescenzo’s incredibly inventive and ambitious musical flair\, something which has been evolving ever since. The two albums which followed — 2007’s Act II: The Meaning Of\, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading and 2009’s Act III: Life And Death — cemented the now 32 year-old as a maverick\, idiosyncratic talent whose music\, while fitting a modern aesthetic\, was also from a bygone era. \nAnachronistic and timeless in equal measure\, the narrative of The Dear Hunter existed in both the past and the present\, its detailed plot standing simultaneously as an age-old and new age fable. As that tale progressed\, so did Crescenzo’s art\, his experimental compositions blurring the line between different genres to create a sound that was — and still is — unique to the band. But then\, halfway through the six envisioned Acts of the Dear Hunter narrative\, Crescenzo’s attentions shifted. Between 2010 and 2011\, the band recorded a series of nine four-track EPs known as The Color Spectrum. Later released as a single volume edition\, each EP was a musical interpretation of a color from the visible spectrum\, showcasing the increasingly far-reaching ambitions for Crescenzo’s musical vision and his inventive interpretation of the world around him. Two years later\, the more mellow and straightforward fifth full-length Migrant showcased a different side to the songwriter’s talents\, and last year he composed and recorded his first symphony Amour & Attrition. With such a storied musical repertoire\, its clear Crescenzo is no ordinary musician.\nNow\, six years and two albums after The Dear Hunter released Act III: Life And Death\, Crescenzo has returned to the narrative of the anti-hero who shares the band’s name\, applying all of the knowledge and experience of the last ten years to this new chapter. Picking up where the story left off — with the eponymous protagonist assuming the identity of his late brother and returning home — Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise is an album that explores the complex notions of who and what we are\, and which attempts to answer its own questions through the wanderings and wonderings of the album’s protagonist. Yet as the plot and the music weave their way through these fifteen songs\, it’s clear that they transcend the boundaries of the Dear Hunter story. This is as much about a return in real life as it is the fictional story.\n“Revisiting something that was six years removed from my life\,” explains Crescenzo\, “and going back to doing these records was actually a suggestion of my manager and friend Mike Marquis. We got talking about the title of the record and it really just made sense\, both within this story — which is about this character returning to a familiar place as a different person — but also in terms of the music\, which was returning to a familiar place as a different person for myself. So it was the perfect middle ground of describing conceptually\, and as far as the plot goes\, a story\, but also a very perfect paralleling between my personal life and the story of the record — that revitalization and rejuvenating that comes from revisiting something with a newfound perspective.”\nThe result is the band’s most orchestral and multi-layered set of songs to date. Both nuanced and euphoric — sometimes at the same time — their very essence breathes life back into a story that has been on pause for over half a decade\, reigniting the lives of the characters with heart and aplomb. That’s something Crescenzo insists could only have happened by taking a break from the world with The Color Spectrum and Migrant. The distance that making those records afforded Crescenzo means that of all the albums The Dear Hunter has made\, Act IV’s soundtrack to its main character’s physical and philosophical journey is also the closest Crescenzo has come to realizing the true musical vision inside his head.\n“I was trying to do it on Act I\, Act II and Act III\,” he says with a slight sigh of fake exasperation\, “but I could never get to the point where I was just in a room with an orchestra playing these parts\, because I didn’t know how to do it. It was this thing that I always wanted to incorporate into what I did before\, I always wanted this and I was always upset that I didn’t get it. This time\, I could apply this knowledge that I actually possess into this music. It was one of the most exciting experiences of my life because the orchestra is such an integral part of that album from start to finish\, as far as weaving in and out of the music and gluing it all together.”\nThat’s certainly an understatement. Aside from a couple of brief pauses\, Act IV is almost one continuous piece of music. Whether it’s the gracefully powerful lilt of “At The End Of The Earth”\, the frantic\, almost King Crimson-esque 9 minute epic surge of “A Night On The Town” or the angular guitars of “King Of Swords (Reversed)” — which Crescenzo says drew inspiration from unlikely sources such as ELO\, Talking Heads and Michael Jackson — it all creates a sense of dramatic momentum to parallel all the physical and metaphysical action that takes place across this record’s ambitious 64 minutes. Initially written and recorded at Crescenzo’s self-built studio in Port Angeles\, Washington (where he now lives) with the rest of the band\, once their parts were done\, Crescenzo then set about finishing the rest of it himself.\n“I tracked most of my guitar and then I finished writing the scores for the orchestra\, so before I even got in to doing vocals\, my girlfriend\, my dog and I drove down to California and tracked the orchestra.”\nPlayed by the community-based Awesöme Orchestra collective at Berkeley’s Fantasy Studios\, it means the album truly is the culmination of everything that preceded it. As such\, even though it’s part of a fictional narrative\, it doubles up as the band’s most autobiographical album to date. That might seem like a paradoxical concept\, but to listen to Crescenzo explain it\, and it makes perfect sense. As Crescenzo points out\, “There were always these big pillars of the story that I wanted to tell as far as broad strokes. It’s always had Point A and Point B on a grand scale\, but I like to grow as a human being\, a songwriter\, a lyricist\, and I didn’t want to bind myself to the outlook and my feelings and my personal headspace at 22\, when I started writing this\, knowing that it would be years and years and years before I’d ever get to the sixth part. I didn’t want to control the creativity of the 32 year-old me at 22. I left a lot of wiggle room so I could pull on the new experiences I’d have as an adult and through the years it would take to finish it. So a lot of the detail is told from the last six years of my life going into Act IV.”\nAs such\, the personal growth that Crescenzo experienced in his own life shaped those moments. For a start\, he wanted the band — completed by Nick Crescenzo (drums\, percussion)\, Robert Parr (guitar\, keyboards)\, Nick Sollecito (bass)\, Maxwell Tousseau (guitar\, keyboards) and Andrew Brown (keyboards) — to have more input into the development of the songs. Secondly\, he found his attitude towards the people who initially inspired the characters had changed over time — and so had the characters as a result.\n“Looking back on the way that it started\,” Crescenzo remembers\, “the story was rooted in such an intensely bitter place I was able to demonize whoever I wanted through the fiction of it. What’s really interesting is that\, just by coincidence\, in this story and in these characters who have been somewhat demonized in my mind relating to real life people\, there are these moments somewhat of redemption for these characters. It was like I knew I wasn’t going to want to make that record until I was in a personal place where I had sort of gotten past the initial bitterness and the grudge I’m incapable of not holding. If I had written it all as younger man\, I think it would have been bitterness from the beginning to the end\, and there would have been no room for my growth or the growth of whatever character I’m putting in there.”\nThere are still two more Acts planned\, as well as a graphic novel in the works\, but for now\, the life of the Dear Hunter — both the character and the band — is fully consumed by this newest part of the story. It’s been a long time in the waiting\, but that’s precisely why the pieces have all fallen so perfectly into place. “Honestly\,” Crescenzo chuckles\, “just the act of making this record after so long\, and making the record I said I was going to make and not damning the younger version of me to having lied\, is very cathartic. And when it was done\, I had no idea what to do with myself. All of a sudden\, I was finished with this thing I didn’t even know if I would get to. I was blindsided by the finality of it.”\nOne listen\, and you probably will be\, too. \n*** \nLeprous \n \nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/buried-dear-hunter/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/between-the-buried-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180116T165609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T165609Z UID:10002596-1522870200-1522870200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Black Angels with special guest Black Lips DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nThe Birds and The Bees Tour \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 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. 1/19 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Black Angels \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nDeath Song is the first full-length release in four years from The Black Angels – Austin’s five-piece psych rock masters – and their debut for Partisan Records.  \nWritten and recorded in large part during the recent election cycle\, the music on Death Song serves as part protest\, part emotional catharsis in a climate dominated by division\, anxiety and unease. “Currency\,” a strong contender for the heaviest song the band has ever put to wax\, meditates on the governing role the monetary system plays in our lives\, while slow-building psychedelic earworm “Half Believing” questions the nature and confusing realities of devotion. \nRecorded between Seattle and Austin\, Death Songfeatures production from Phil Ek (Father John Misty\, Fleet Foxes\, The Shins). The 11-track collection offers a sharply honed elaboration on their signature sound – menacing fuzz guitar and cutting wordplay\, steeped in a murky hallucinatory dream.  \nThe band will tour extensively behind Death Song\, including a headline set at one of the first-ever shows at new NYC venue Brooklyn Steel on May 2nd. Full itinerary below for “The Death March Tour”\, which begins in Nashville. The band will be supported by A Place to Bury Strangers. \nSince forming in Austin in 2004\, The Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock\, and the New York Times has said they “play psychedelic rock as if the 1960s never ended\, and they are absolute masters of it”. The band has toured with Queens of the Stone Age\, Brian Jonestown Massacre\, the Black Keys + more\, and played festivals such as Glastonbury\, Fuji Rock\, Primavera\, Harvest Fest\, Coachella and Bonnaroo. Two of the band members co-founded Levitation Festival (formerly Austin Psych Fest) in 2008\, which has since grown into one of the best-reviewed and expertly-curated festivals in the country (returning in 2018). \n*** \nBlack Lips \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe story of the Black Lips began in Dunwoody\, Georgia\, a quiet\, conservative suburb of Atlanta\, in the year 1999. Born of a mutual love of Link Wray\, The Stooges\, and The Ramones\, and sealed through a shared dedication to defiance\, the band formed after childhood friends Jared Swilley and Cole Alexander were kicked out of Dunwoody High for separate\, yet equally bad\, behavior. The former classmates took their love of\nmusic and restless energy and channeled it into their newly found free time\, and joined by\nfriends Ben Eberbaugh and Joe Bradley\, the Black Lips started playing shows around Atlanta\, at house parties and bars. They spent this time honing their sound – garage rock infused with blues\, psychedelia\, and punk\, plus a healthy dose of reckless abandon – and released their first 7-inch\, “Ain’t Coming Back\,” in 2002 on Die Slaughterhouse records (named in homage to the flophouse den they called home). Shortly before the band was set to head out on their first ever national tour\, Eberbaugh was tragically killed by a drunk driver. Devastated but determined to carry on in Eberbaugh’s honor\, the Black Lips hit the road as a trio just a few days later.\nIt’s been 15 years\, but that passionate dedication to touring has never left the\nband. The Black Lips have released eight full-length albums since that first tour\, and have\ntraveled the country and the world extensively\, making a name for themselves as an electrifying\, must-see live act. It helps that the same mischievous spirit that helped speed up their exit from the educational system is still very much alive\, thriving in its new environment on stage\, resplendent with punk rock theatrics and miscellaneous bodily fluids\, amongst other things. The band’s energy and unique “flower punk” sound helped them build a rabid fan base\, and after releasing their first two albums through Bomp!\, they put out the critically celebrated Let It Bloom on In The Red records. This record garnered the Black Lips features in Spin and Rolling Stone\, and they were soon signed to Vice Records\, subsequently releasing Los Valientos Del Mundo Nuevo\, an ambitious album recorded live at a bar in Tijuana\, Mexico\, in February of 2007.\nIn their decade-long tenure with Vice\, the Black Lips have evolved from wildly crooning over fuzzy\, raucous music at house shows full of kids to wildly crooning over fuzzy\, raucous music at international festivals in front of thousands of fans. They have toured consistently\, with their zeal for travel taking them all over the world\, and not without some international adventure: In 2009 the Black Lips went on their first (and last) tour of India\, playing shows in Bangalore and Mumbai before chaos struck in Chennai after the band ditched their toned-down presence in favor of classic Black Lips capers\, including some not so well received Lips-locking. After the same sex smooching and\nalso Alexander baring his butt to the rowdy crowd\, the tour’s sponsors pulled out and the band was nearly jailed\, their passports confiscated by the disgruntled promoters. According to Swilley: “The first few shows\, we were being really reserved because we didn’t want to offend anyone\, but they kept telling us to do what we wanted…I guess “do whatever you want” didn’t include kissing each other\, and I think Cole mooned the crowd\, which is a huge no-no. We had to physically wrestle our passports back from the promoters. It was the scariest 15 hours of my life\, but we got out of there.” The band ended up taking a 200 mile cab ride to the next province and hopped a flight to Berlin\, narrowly escaping Indian prison.\nUndeterred\, the band jumped at the chance to become the first Western punk band to tour another notoriously conservative continent\, the Middle East\, just a few years later. Why? “It was important for a number of reasons\,” Swilley says of the tour. “We’ve always wanted to push boundaries of where we go. Plus\, a lot of people told us we couldn’t do it\, and anytime someone tells us we can’t do something\, then we kind of have to. We have O.D.D\, oppositional defiance disorder.” This time\, their shows went off without a hitch\, and Black Lips played shows for crowds in Jordan\, Cyprus\, Egypt\, Lebanon\, Iraqi Kurdistan\, and the United Arab Emirates in 2011 in support of that year’s release of their record Arabia Mountain\, produced by Mark Ronson. The title was\nactually a reference to a mountain in Georgia\, but that didn’t stop the Lips from playing\nthe record all over the Middle East\, to enthused fans and without causing any further international incidents. “Everyone was really nervous about us going there\, but it really went off without a hitch\,” adds Swilley. The band also hasn’t abandoned plans to become the first rock band to play on all seven continents\, hoping to hit their last remaining one\, Antarctica in the near future\, and disregarding Metallica’s claim of this achievement: “Just when we were securing the funding\, Metallica sniped us. They took a boat\,\nprobably a gold plated Versace boat\, down there. But they actually didn’t play on land\, and they didn’t play with amps\, so technically they haven’t played Antarctica. Metallica hasn’t beat us yet.”\nFor their ninth studio album\, the Black Lips have teamed up with Sean Lennon\,\nwho got on board to produce Satan’s graffiti or god’s art? in 2016. The Black Lips had formerly worked with Lennon on Arabia Mountain\, where Lennon played theramin on several tracks. The band moved up to Lennon’s studio compound on a remote farm in upstate New York\, and spent several months living and breathing the new record. This removal from the outside world\, plus the return of beloved early guitarist Jack Hines and the exciting addition of new members Oakley Munson on drums and Zumi Rosow (the first female Black Lip) on saxophone\, infused the project with a focused\, intoxicating liveliness\, similar to the spirit that had brought the Black Lips to life in the first place\, way back in 1999. Only this time\, the band is drawing from nearly two decades of experience and musicianship\, and the newness is tethered by familiarity: Munson is a longtime friend of the band\, and Rosow has been playing live with the Black Lips for several years now. There’s even a dash of kismet: unbeknownst to the band\, after being off the grid for some time\, Munson had just recently moved to a cabin a short distance away from Lennon’s compound\, and the first time his phone ever rang after he plugged into the wall\, Alexander was on the other end\, asking him to play.\nAll of this excitement and immersion created the perfect storm for the Black Lips’\nmost musically evolved album to date. “It was a really beautiful experience. We were very far from civilization\, and we were all living at the studio. We weren’t going home to our own beds every night; that was our whole world\, 100% of the time\,” says Swilley of the experience. “Making this record was the most wonderful few months of my life. It\nwas by far my favorite time recording an album so far…It was just magic.” The Black Lips were joined by Saul Adamczewski of Fat White Family\, who helped co-produce the record with Lennon\, plus another rather magical guest: Yoko Ono. “She’s very cosmic\,” Swilley says of the celebrated artist and musician\, who makes an appearance on a few of the tracks. The final product is urgent and thoughtful\, reflecting the growth the Black\nLips have experienced since bursting onto the scene (once or twice quite literally on fire)\,\nbut it’s also true to their original blistering\, careening take on rock n’ roll: fuzzy\, dirty\, and rife with three and four part harmonies. Satan’s graffiti or god’s art? proves that while they may have grown up a bit and changed a few things around\, the Black Lips are still as creatively unhinged and exhilarating as ever.\nSatan’s graffiti or god’s art? is out May 5th on Vice Records. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/black-angels-black-lips/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/the-black-angels-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180207T193020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180207T193020Z UID:10001890-1522953000-1522953000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] James Bay DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT \nPlease note: tickets are NON-TRANSFERABLE. The original purchaser of the tickets must pick up their tickets at will call night of show with valid ID and will be required to enter the venue immediately. No exceptions will be made. \nBowery Boston presents James Bay \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nPlease note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited. \n*** \n \n*** \nJames Bay \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nJames Bay is the definition of a modern day rock star.  Following the release of his debut album Chaos And The Calm\, featuring—“Hold Back The River” and “Let It Go”— BAY was nominated for “Best Rock Album\,” Best Rock Song\,” and “Best New Artist” at the 2016 Grammy Awards. In the UK\, the record became the “Biggest New Artist Album Release” that year and has been certified Gold in the United States\, Germany\, Australia\, Switzerland\, platinum in Canada\, Ireland\, Netherlands\, Sweden\, double platinum in the UK and has sold nearly 3.5 million albums in global consumption\, and 2.7 billion streams worldwide. Receiving the BRIT’s Critics Choice award in 2015\, BAY has gone on to receive a win for “Best Male Solo Artist” at the BRITS\, International Newcomer at the ECHO Awards\, “Best New Act” & “Best Solo Artist” at the Q Awards\, “Most Performed Work” at the Ivor Novello Awards and was nominated for “Best New” & “Best PUSH” at the MTV EMA’s and a MTV VMA for “Best New Act.” On the other side of the globe\, he has received a nod for “Best International Artist” at the ARIA Awards in Australia. In addition to selling out shows and performing at festivals across the globe\, BAY lent a new version of his song “Running” for the 2016 Sports Relief charity\,  is an advocate for the international non-profit Wateraid\, designed his own signature line for Topman\, and Epiphone created the Limited Edition James Bay Signature “1966 Century” Guitar in his name. \n*** \nDavid Ryan Harris \n \nFacebook \nDavid Ryan Harris. “Sounds like a law firm\, tastes like analog tape\,” says the soul singer/songwriter and guitarist. “I heard music\, melodies and stories in my head as a child. It never went away and I hope it never does\,” he says. \nBorn in Chicago and raised in Atlanta\, David was drawn to the blues after hearing songs by Son House\, Robert Johnson and others. Growing up at a time when Prince\, Parliament-Funkadelic\, Stevie Wonder and other musicians were stretching the boundaries of popular music\, he began to understand that music could not and should not be limited by our often narrow views of what it should be. \nIn 1991\, David co-founded Follow For Now\, a band that combined all of the influences that had been shaping his musical vision: Bad Brains meets Stevie Wonder and Public Enemy in Memphis. While the band had a short life\, it was David’s launching pad\, as it allowed him to taste the fruits of such a strange mess of musical ingredients. He signed to Columbia Records in 1997\, released a self-titled record and began to spread his wings as an artist\, writer and producer. In 2000\, he signed to Elektra with the band Brand New Immortals. Shortly after releasing an album\, the label folded and the band followed suit. \nToday\, David Ryan Harris calls Los Angeles home\, but is internationally recognized for playing guitar and singing in John Mayer’s band from 2004-2012. He has also had the pleasure of writing with\, playing with and/or producing artists from Dave Matthews\, Cassandra Wilson\, Derek Trucks\, Santana\, Marc Broussard\, and Guy Sebastian. Most recently\, he produced and co-wrote six songs on Indie.Arie’s album\, Songversation. \nSince his major label days\, David has independently released many singles and solo albums\, including the wildly popular 2007 LP\, The Bittersweet. On October 23\, 2015\, he released his fourth full-length album\, Lightyears\, which includes co-writes with Derek Trucks\, Susan Tedeschi\, Tyler Lyle and Joe Gil among others. The LP also features guest appearances by John Mayer\, Indie.Arie and Nikka Costa. “Lightyears is me sending up a flare into the darkness from where I live\,” says David. It’s a soulful look into my life. My past and how it informs my present. My sense of hope\, my sense of humor.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/james-bay/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/James-Bay-admat-2018-localized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180130T170041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T170041Z UID:10002602-1523642400-1523655000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Thirdstory DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is open to ALL AGES. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale Fri. 2/2 at noon! \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*** \nThirdstory \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThirdstory is the stage name of soulful NYC-based group Ben Lusher\, Richard Saunders\, and Elliott Skinner. The chameleonic singers proved their genre-bending talent by stepping behind Grammy Award-winning recording artist Chance the Rapperon his 2017 tour – appearing alongside the superstar during performances on Saturday NightLive\, Late Night with Stephen Colbert\, and NPR’s Tiny Desk. \nReleasing an abundance of awing acoustic covers since 2015\, Thirdstory has cultivated a strong grassroots following\, including over 100\,000 YouTube subscribers. In 2017 they released their debut EP\, Searching – a showcase of the band’s bone-chilling harmonies and awe-inspiring vocal palates. Thirdstory’s debut LP – an 11 song album executive-produced by Malay (credits include Frank Ocean’s Channel ORANGE & Blonde) that blends pop songwriting and powerful vocals with both electronic and live instrumentation – is anticipated for a Spring 2018 release. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/thirdstory/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Thirdstory-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180110T195634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T195634Z UID:10002592-1523728800-1523741400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Rainbow Kitten Surprise DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 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. \nTHIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT. \n*** \n \n*** \nRainbow Kitten Surprise \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nRainbow Kitten Surprise and all five of its members hail from the mountains of Boone\, North Carolina. With chilling harmonies\, dynamic instrumentation\, and introspective lyrics\, their genre-defying sound takes influence from artists like Modest Mouse and Kings of Leon as much as Frank Ocean and Schoolboy Q.  Independently\, they have over 75 million streams across digital platforms\, and notched over 45 sold out shows on their first U.S. headline tour.  Their engaging and distinct live performances have led to stand out sets at festivals such as Bonnaroo\, Firefly\, Shaky Knees\, Hangout\, Sasquatch\, and Austin City Limits among others.  The band worked with GRAMMY award-winning producer Jay Joyce (Cage The Elephant\, Sleeper Agent) on their Elektra debut\, How to: Friend\, Love\, Freefall\, available everywhere on April 6th. \n*** \nCaamp \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nEvan plays the banjo\, Taylor plays the guitar and together they slam stages as the power duo Caamp. The childhood friends have been writing songs since 2012 and began performing as Caamp in 2015. In March of 2016\, the duo released their self-titled debut record that has since put them on the map. Caamp is known for their heartfelt sound\, and authentic live shows that leave their loyal crowds with hearts pounding. Taylor and Evan are two good gentlemen\, writing good music\, and plan on… Caamping til’ they croak! URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/rainbow-kitten-surprise/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Rainbow-Kitten-Surprise-Admat-2018-v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180123T162434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T162434Z UID:10001888-1523905200-1523905200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Stars DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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 Sat. 1/27 at NOON! \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. \nRoyale is general admission standing room only. Tickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office (Cambridge\, MA) Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nSTARS has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket goes towards providing indigenous women and their children a safe and supportive environment through the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal. \n*** \n \n*** \nStars \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSTARS have made their career telling the tales we keep in the darkest\, and most hopeful parts of our souls. Delivering the hard and soft edges of life and love as only this band can\, they returned with two new tracks Privilege and We Called It Love. \nFrom the reflective beauty of Amy Millan’s vocal in Privilege “never got what you want\, never got it” to Torquil Campbell’s contemplative and contrary\, “I don’t believe that people change…but I’ve changed” on We Called It Love\, Stars return time and again to comfort and reassure us that within the experience of failure and fucking up is the path to a life well lived. \nA collective band statement notes\, “We’re back! We have a new album. It was recorded in Montreal and Connecticut with the great producer\, Peter Katis. We love him and thank him for being there for us. It’s our first with our friends at Last Gang. We made this record for ourselves\, for our kids\, and for you. And we are so happy and grateful that you’re still listening to our music.” \nWith approaching 20 years as a band and a storied album catalogue spanning 2001’s Nightsongs\, the romantic upheaval of 2003’s Heart and 2004’s Set Yourself On Fire\, 2007’s In Our Bedroom After the War\, the downcast elegies of 2010’s The Five Ghosts\, the rejuvenation of 2012’s The North and sub-base\, dance club infused No One Is Lost in 2014\, Stars continue to prove themselves some of the finest musical storytellers in the country\, moving through life with their fans. \nStars now returns with their 8th full-length release “There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light”\, out Friday\, October 15 via Last Gang Records worldwide. \n*** \nDan Mangan \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nDan Mangan is a two-time JUNO award winning & two-time Polaris Music Prize listed musician and songwriter. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia with his wife and sons. With Jesse Zubot\, he scored Hector And The Search For Happiness\, a feature film starring Simon Pegg. \nMangan has toured extensively in North America\, Europe and Australia. He released his fourth LP\, Club Meds\, in 2015 to much critical acclaim\, under the moniker “Dan Mangan + Blacksmith” (Blacksmith referring to long-time collaborators). \nIn June 2016\, Mangan released Unmake\, an EP featuring five songs including a cover of Robyn’s “Hang With Me” with two songs off Club Meds reworked\, including “Forgetery” featuring Tegan Quin\, and new songs “Whistleblower” and “Race To The Bottom.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/stars/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/STARS-admat-2018-royale-v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171211T154401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171211T154401Z UID:10002582-1523991600-1523991600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Ministry DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:30 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*** \nMinistry \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMinistry’s Al Joursengen\, the acclaimed pioneer of industrial music\, doesn’t muck around\, doesn’t sugar-coat\, doesn’t pull punches. He’s highly opinionated\, exceptionally well read and articulate on subjects ranging from politics to alien conspiracies to American history to his beloved Chicago Blackhawks/Bulls/White Sox/Bears. He is an avid follower of NASA scientist David S. McKay\, ancient civilizations scholar Zecharia Sitchin\, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson\, and Scottish writer/archaeologist/scientist Graham Hancock. During a layover at the Las Vegas airport this past summer\, Jourgensen spotted U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff\, introduced himself\, and took full advantage of the encounter to let the Congressman know of his views on tax reform and the possible perils of redistribution of wealth\, the current obstruction of the “Russia-gate” investigation by the House Intelligence Committee lead by Republican Chair Devin Nunes\, and to inquire about the status of the possible impeachment of the President\, on not only obstruction and collusion charges\, but for treason. \nYou see\, Al Jourgensen is angry\, really angry about what’s going on in America – sexual abuse and the disrespect of women in our society\, the waning respect for the U.S. Constitution\, the growing acceptance of one’s opinions replacing facts\, the decline of the our leaders’ sense of morals\, ethics and personal responsibility to the country and to their constituents\, and the mad man in the White House. Yeah\, Al is angry\, and that takes us straight to Ministry’s upcoming album AmeriKKKant. \nBefore all of that\, the industrial machine that is Ministry has manufactured immense amounts of sound during its 30+ years of musical artistry. Initially coming into existence in 1981\, Ministry was to be the lifetime passion project of front runner and founder Al Jourgensen. Often associated with ideas and imagery that are easily recognized today\, in part because of Jourgensen’s insanely dreaded hair\, pitch black attire\, vampiric glasses\, and exquisite top hat\, the band has become incredibly symbolic. But like any creature cursed with the gift of creativity\, “Uncle Al” has shed his skin several times over the decades. The development of Ministry and all of Al Jourgensen projects has been purely organic\, which is a huge reason why the masses following his projects are so vast. \nOften referred to as one of the founders of Industrial Music\, the true outlook of Ministry as well as Jourgensen’s other projects\, is far more fluid than just one specific genre. Surgical Meth Machine\, Revolting Cocks\, and anything Al “Fucking” Jourgensen has produced all explore different realms of sound and thought. \n In the year 1981 in Chicago Illinois\, Ministry was initially born. With an original line up of Al Jourgensen doing lead vocals\, guitar\, programming and overall production\, Stephen George on drums\, Robert Roberts on keyboards and backing vocals\, and John Davis also on keyboards and backing vocals. New sounds were constantly being developed in the 80’s especially as technology improved. At first the band had a very catchy\, synth-pop sound. They began by releasing four 12” singles on Wax Track! Records starting in 1981\, and released their first LP “With Sympathy” in 1983 via Arista Records. \nAs time progressed however\, so did Ministry\, and they quickly developed a harsher\, and even more stylized industrial sound that they soon became infamous for. In the mid to late 80’s the band gained a progressively greater following as it released albums Twitch (1986)\, The Land of Rape and Honey (1988)\, and The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (1989). The darker\, heavier sound that Ministry had developed into was often a direct reflection upon modern concepts\, society\, and politics. It was also during this time that Al Jourgensen himself reached one of his many peaks of creativity and branched off into what would be one of his many side-projects: Revolting Cocks. He also began producing a vast amount of other music by artists similar to his realm in one way or another such as Nivek Ogre/Skinny Puppy\, The Reverend Horton Heat\, Nine Inch Nails\, Smashing Pumpkins\, Cheap Trick and Red Hot Chili Peppers. With the release of Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs (1992)\, Ministry hit an all time high in the mainstream musical realm and even received a Grammy nomination. Filth Pig was released in 1994 and by then Ministry had not only grown a solid fanbase\, but a solid reputation as well. \nFamous for a hellaciously unique talent and sound\, pure heinous insanity while on tour\, and endless energy filled performances at countless festivals\, Ministry had developed a cult following and would go on to release several more records throughout the years before eventually taking a hiatus. On December 23rd\, 2012 then guitarist Mike Scaccia suffered a heart attack and passed away. It was not long after this that Jourgensen took what was to be an indefinite leave from doing anything Ministry related as he could not bare to continue without Scaccia. It wasn’t until recently that Jourgensen decided that if the circumstances were right\, he would consider reawakening Ministry to release something new to the world. \nNow\, in 2017 Ministry has reunited\, revamped its line-up\, signed to Nuclear Blast Records\, recently returned from a full world tour\, and is now preparing to release their 14th studio album\, AmeriKKKant\, on March 9th 2018. Society and Politics have taken a turn for the insane and frightening in the United States and across the globe\, leaving much inspiration and frustration for Ministry to draw from. Jourgensen remembers his shock while witnessing everyone and everything around him during the recent election process\, and awoke on the morning of November 9th 2016 proclaiming: “We are making a fuckin’ album – right now.” \nAmeriKKKant\, like all Ministry projects\, is an organic reflection of not just the band’s talent and sounds\, but of the society in which we all live and breathe. Jourgensen says “I’ve spoken my piece on the societal conditions that would elect such a blithering idiot. It’s not an anti-Trump album\, it’s like a- ‘did you pay attention in School? Does anybody have any intellectual curiosity anymore?’- album. [It’s] basically just holding up a mirror to ourselves and saying: ‘Look at this\, is this what you really want to be?’” \nWith a new line up\, incredibly full sound\, and some might say a return to the roots of Ministry\, the band is prepared to release a record that is socially relevant and sonically effective. Fans can look forward to a hearty future for not just Ministry\, but Surgical Meth Machine\, and Revolting Cocks as well. There is simply too much insanity in this world for Jourgensen not to speak his mind and keep our senses alive with his vast array of decibels and visuals: “I’m afraid for the stupidity of not embracing nonsense. I think nonsense is a great escape from the rigors of being in life’s hamster wheel.” \n*** \nChelsea Wolfe \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want everybody to open up. I’m like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand\, wondering where to begin—to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I’m sure of it.”\n– Henry Miller \nDigging beneath the mess of the world to find the beauty underneath is perhaps the most consistent theme in Chelsea Wolfe’s expansive discography—a theme that ties together her ceaseless explorations in unorthodox textures\, haunting melodies\, and mining the grandeur embedded within ugliness and pain. With her sixth official album Hiss Spun\, Wolfe adopts Miller’s quest to become empowered by embracing the mess of the self\, to control the tumult of the soul in hopes of reigning in the chaos of the world around us. “I wanted to write some sort of escapist music; songs that were just about being in your body\, and getting free\,” Wolfe says of the album before extrapolating on the broader scope of her new collection of songs. “You’re just bombarded with constant bad news\, people getting fucked over and killed for shitty reasons or for no reason at all\, and it seems like the world has been in tears for months\, and then you remember it’s been fucked for a long time\, it’s been fucked since the beginning. It’s overwhelming and I have to write about it.” \nHiss Spun was recorded by Kurt Ballou in Salem\, Massachusetts at the tail end of winter 2017 against a backdrop of deathly quiet snow-blanketed streets and the hissing radiators of warm interiors. While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow\, Unknown Rooms)\, or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (Pain Is Beauty\, Abyss)\, Wolfe’s latest offering wrings its exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass\, pounding drums\, and crunching distortion. It’s an album that inadvertently drew part of its aura from the cold white of the New England winter\, though the flesh-and-bone of the material was culled from upheavals in Wolfe’s personal life\, and coming to terms with years of vulnerability\, anger\, self-destruction\, and dark family history. Aside from adding low-end heft with gratuitous slabs of fuzz bass\, longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm contributed harrowing swaths of sound collages from sources surrounding the artist and her band in recent years—the rumble of street construction at a tour stop in Prague\, the howl of a coyote outside Wolfe’s rural house in California\, the scrape of machinery on the floor of a warehouse at a down-and-out friend’s workplace. Music is rendered out of dissonance—bomb blasts from the Enola Gay\, the shriek of primates\, the fluttering pages of a Walt Whitman book are manipulated and seamlessly integrated into the feral and forlorn songs of Hiss Spun. \nThe album opens with the sickening bang of “Spun”\, where a lurching bottom-heavy riff provided by Chisholm and Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age\, Failure) serves as a foundation to a sultry mantra of fever-dream longing and desire. The first third of Hiss Spun—whether it’s the ominous twang and cataclysmic dynamics of “16 Psyche”\, the icy keyboard lines\, restless pulse and harrowing bellows of Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom\, SUMAC) on “Vex”\, or the patient repetition and devastating choruses of “The Culling—all carry the weight of desperation\, lost love\, and withdrawal. Wolfe’s introspection and existential dread turns outwards to the crumbling world around us with “Particle Flux”\, an examination of the casualties of war set against an aural sea of static. White noise is a constant thread through Hiss Spun\, with Wolfe finding solace in the knowledge that radio static is the sound of the universe expanding outwards from the Big Bang—a reminder that even dissonance has ties to creation. The electronic thump of “Offering” serves as an ode to the Salton Sea and the encroaching calamities stemming from climate change. The obsession with white noise and global destruction carries over into “Static Hum”\, where the merciless percussive battery of Wolfe’s former bandmate and current drummer Jess Gowrie helps deliver the dire weight of a sonnet dedicated to a “burning planet.” By the time the album closes with “Scrape”\, Wolfe has come full circle and turned her examinations back inward\, reflecting over her own mortality with arguably the most commanding vocal performance in her entire oeuvre. \n“The album is cyclical\, like me and my moods\,” Wolfe says of Hiss Spun. “Cycles\, obsession\, spinning\, centrifugal force—all with gut feelings as the center of the self.” And it’s an album that Wolfe sees as a kind of exorcism. “I’m at odds with myself… I got tired of trying to disappear. The record became very personal in that way. I wanted to open up more\, but also create my own reality.” Every Chelsea Wolfe album is cathartic\, but never before has both the artist and her audience so desperately needed this kind of emotional purging. Sargent House is proud to release Hiss Spun to the world on September 22nd\, 2017. \n– Brian Cook\, 2017 \n*** \nThe God Bombs \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nJustin Symbol has joined forces with Edrick Subervi and Jabbath Roa to form The God Bombs. On debut EP ‘Hex’ (March 2018) the trio forges a bold new sound that combines elements of electronic\, alternative metal\, hip hop and punk. Industrial beats collide with haunting analog synths and 90s alt rock attitude to create a compelling soundtrack for the new Dark Age. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ministry/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ministry-Admat-2018-localized-v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180422T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180422T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20170925T164142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T164142Z UID:10001848-1524427200-1524427200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Darkness 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. 9/29 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. \n*** \nThe Darkness \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n2003 gave birth to one of the most extraordinary and best loved rock bands. The Darkness released their debut album Permission To Land to overnight success\, topping the UK charts\, going 5x Platinum and selling over 1.5 milion copies in the UK alone. It spawned a series of hit singles including “I Believe In A Thing Called Love\,” “Growing On Me\,” “Get Your Hands Off My Woman” and “Love Is Only A Feeling.” The album clocked up a series of awards including three BRIT Awards\, two Kerrang Awards and an Ivor Novello for Songwriters Of The Year\, amongst many others. \nThe Darkness played a number of landmark shows\, including a headline set at the 2004 Reading and Leeds Festivals\, as part of a whirlwind career of global touring as international sensations. The band then built upon the success of their debut with their 2005 follow up One Way Ticket To Hell… And Back\, which produced the Top 10 hit “One Way Ticket.” \nIn 2006 Justin Hawkins left the band\, checking into rehab and The Darkness fell apart. Following successful treatment\, the band reformed in 2011 touring Europe and South America in 2012 with Lady Gaga. The band released their comeback album Hot Cakes that year and Last Of Our Kind in 2015. \nIn 2016 “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” was featured in a wildly popular Apple Music commercial starring Taylor Swift. \nThe Darkness have now returned in 2017 with Pinewood Smile\, delivering some of the most sharp-witted\, infectious\, humorous and downright brilliant songs of their career.\nAhead of the album’s announcement\, The Darkness toured Europe in support of Guns N’ Roses. \nAddressing Pinewood Smile and The Darkness’ undoubted relevance in 2017\, Justin Hawkins asks\, somewhat rhetorically of the world at large\, “Why should anybody care? Because if you don’t\, we’re fucked!! History will remember us as the apathetic generation who negligently ushered in a dreadful dystopian age that may or may not come to be known as The Rise of the Arseclowns. We cannot allow this to continue! You may not give a shit about Brexit or Trump\, but PLEASE… give a shit about The Darkness otherwise the last bastion of cultural sensibility will fall and our airwaves will be polluted by meaningless pop purveyed by arseholes and morons… Oh wait!” \n*** \nDiarrhea Planet \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe gravitational pull of Diarrhea Planet is strong; once you get caught in the orbit of its stadium-sized riffs and blistering solos\, it’s hard to escape. The Nashville six-piece has been melting faces since its debut 7” Aloha first started making waves outside the leafy campus of Belmont University\, where its members first met. What started as a dorm room dick joke between two friends bored by the music-business ladder-climbing of their classmates has grown into one of the biggest—and loudest—rock acts to come out of Nashville since their big bros and labelmates in JEFF The Brotherhood. As they toured the country behind their critically acclaimed 2013 LP I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams\, the likes of Billboard\, Rolling Stone\, SPIN\, and even BuzzFeed have taken notice. Ignore them at your own peril. \nOn their latest LP for Infinity Cat Recordings\, Turn to Gold\, the Planet boys worked with Vance Powell\, the Grammy-winning engineer and Jack White confidant. Powell used his expertise in recording live sound to capture some of the energy of the Diarrhea Planet live experience—they tracked the main guitar and drum tracks live\, in the same room\, for a record that’s both massive and frenetic. It’s easily the most sophisticated and complex music they’ve ever made\, but still carries the joyous irreverence that minted thousands of RAWK fans across the country. \nThe band’s rhythm section\, which features drummer Ian Bush (a.k.a. Tuff Gus) and bassist Mike Boyle\, is the bedrock on which the foundation is built\, but what makes Diarrhea Planet explode is the raw power of its four guitars. Not one note is wasted\, and each ax slinger plays a role; Jordan Smith writes soaring power pop singalong hooks; Brent Toler brings a classic rock sensibility and chunky\, fuzzy riffs; Emmett Miller’s wields classical training and a wizard-like five-finger pick-less technique for mind-bending\, finger-tapping solos; and Evan Bird is the glue that holds them all together\, capable of playing any part (or instrument) as needed. \nDiarrhea Planet is a nationally touring band\, playing a punishing schedule of more than 200 shows a year. But they cut their teeth in the clubs and house shows of the Nashville DIY scene\, built by the likes of JEFF\, Heavy Cream\, Natural Child\, Pujol\, and shaped in legendary spaces like the old police precinct that would come to be known as Glenn Danzig’s House. As they’ve graduated from living rooms to clubs to festivals\, the energy has remained constant—just ask the ladies in the mosh pit or the crowdsurfing dads you’re sure to find at any Diarrhea Planet show. They’re carrying the torch for the past\, present and future of rock\, and you’d be wise to take notice—everyone else sure has. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-darkness/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the-darkness_09-14-17_20_59bb0dec6edff.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180120T155413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180120T155413Z UID:10001883-1524596400-1524596400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Minus the Bear DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note\, backpacks are not permitted.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/26 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. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nMinus the Bear \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nOver the course of their 15-year career\, Minus the Bear have carved out their own unique musical world. This isn’t to say they’re impervious to outside influence. They’ve borrowed components from a wide swath of genres—the brainy clangor of New York’s proto-punk scene\, the cerebral buzz of IDM\, the poptimist evaluation of hip-hop and R&B\, and the grandiose visions of prog rock—but always managed to defy classification. Throughout the first decade of their existence\, every new album offered a new musical approach\, as seen in the idiosyncratic fretboard gymnastics of Highly Refined Pirates\, the glitchy loops of Menos el Oso\, or the modernized Fripp-inspired wizardry of Planet of Ice. By the time the band entered our current decade\, their knack for reinvention yielded to an emphasis on refinement. Albums like OMNI and Infinity Overhead searched for a middle ground where their myriad of stylistic approaches could all work within the context of a single record. \nOn their sixth album VOIDS\, Minus the Bear started with a blank slate\, and inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process. “There was a lot of change and uncertainty\,” says guitarist David Knudson. “I think the general vibe of emptiness\, replacement\, lacking\, and longing to fill in the gaps was very present in everyones’ minds.” Change was everywhere. Keyboardist/vocalist Alex Rose took on a more prominent role in composition and handled lead vocal duties on songs like “Call the Cops\,” “Tame Beasts\,” and “Robotic Heart\,” drummer Kiefer Matthias joined the fold\, producer Sam Bell lent a fresh set of ears in the studio\, and the band returned to their original label home at Suicide Squeeze Records. Minus the Bear were no longer swept along by the momentum that had driven them for the last fifteen years. Instead\, they reached a point where they could recalibrate and redefine who they were as a musical entity. The resulting album VOIDS retains many of the band’s signature qualities—the hedonistic tales of nighttime escapism and candid vignettes of adulthood\, the savvy up-tempo beats\, the layered and nuanced instrumentation—while simultaneously reminding us of the musical wanderlust that initially put them on the map. \nAlbum opener “Last Kiss” immediately establishes the band’s renewed fervor. An appropriately dizzying guitar line plunges into a propulsive groove before the chorus unfolds into a multi-tiered pop chorus. From there the album flows into “Give & Take”\, a tightly wound exercise in syncopation that recalls the celebratory pulse of early Bear classics like “Fine + 2 Pts” while exploring new textures and timbres. “Invisible” is arguably the catchiest song of the band’s career\, with Jake Snider’s vocal melodies and Knudson’s imaginative guitar work battling for the strongest hooks. “What About the Boat?” reminds us of the “math-rock” tag that followed the band in their early years\, with understated instrumentation disguising an odd-time beat. “Erase\,” recalls the merging of forlorn indie pop and electronica that the band dabbled with on their early EPs\, but demonstrates the Bear’s ongoing melodic sophistication and tonal exploration. By the time the band reaches album closer “Lighthouse\,” they’ve traversed so much sonic territory that the only appropriate tactic left at their disposal is a climactic crescendo\, driven at its peak by Cory Murchy’s thunderous bass. Not since Planet of Ice’s “Lotus” has the Bear achieved such an epic finale. All in all\, it’s an album that reminds us of everything that made us fall in love with Minus the Bear in the first place\, and a big part of that appeal is the sense that the band is heading into uncharted territories. \nSuicide Squeeze Records is proud to release VOIDS to the world on March 3\, 2017 on CD\, LP\, and cassette. Nick Steinhardt designed the artwork and layout for all formats. The first pressing of the album is available on 5\,000 copies of splatter colored vinyl and 5\,000 copies of 180 gram black vinyl. The LP jacket features PMS inks\, a die-cut cover with a printed inner sleeve and contains a download code. The cassette version is limited to 500 copies and includes a download code as well. \n*** \nThe Coathangers \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAn all-female garage punk band with an irreverent\, fun-loving attitude\, the Coathangers play purposefully simple\, hooky tunes that borrow from vintage girl group sounds and contemporary teen pop acts as much as the old-school punk and new wave outfits that inform their sound. Hailing from Atlanta\, Georgia\, the Coathangers were formed in 2006 by guitarist and singer Julia Kugel (aka Crook Kid Coathanger)\, bassist and singer Meredith Franco (aka Minnie Coathanger)\, keyboardist and singer Candice Jones (aka Bebe Coathanger)\, and drummer and singer Stephanie Luke (aka Rusty Coathanger) — Kugel and Franco were working together in a dress shop that specialized in wedding gowns and prom dresses; Jones and Luke were earning their living as bartenders. While they could barely play their instruments\, they were eager to take the stage\, and after playing their first show at a house party\, the Coathangers soon made their proper stage debut opening for the Hiss\, and their sense of fun soon won over hometown audiences. \nThey also became friends with fellow Atlanta band the Black Lips\, who gave the Coathangers opening slots that helped them gain an even larger audience. In 2007\, infamous Atlanta punk label Die Slaughterhaus Records teamed up with New York’s Rob’s House Records to issue the band’s self-titled debut album\, and the Coathangers were playing out as often as their schedules would permit\, frequently gigging throughout Georgia and venturing out on short tours. Their second album\, 2009’s Scramble\, was released by Suicide Squeeze Records\, and by the time they put out 2011’s Larceny & Old Lace\, they were playing throughout the country and even toured Europe opening for the Thermals. In 2013\, the Coathangers hit Europe again opening for …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead\, but by the end of the year\, they were reduced to a trio when Candice Jones left the group. Undaunted\, the Coathangers pressed on as a three-piece as they recorded album number four\, Suck My Shirt\, which was released in the spring of 2014. In 2016\, the Coathangers returned with their fifth album\, the well-received Nosebleed Weekend. The Parasite EP followed in the summer of 2017 on Suicide Squeeze Records. ~ Mark Deming\, Rovi URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/minus-the-bear-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/minus-the-bear-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180204T150026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180204T150026Z UID:10002603-1524682800-1524682800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kate Nash DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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. 2/9 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nKate Nash \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nMiya Folick \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nI’m from Santa Ana\, California and grew up going to a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist church in Orange County. I played basketball for 9 years and hated it the entire time. \nI went to NYU\, but stopped going to class and would spend all day walking around the city by myself. So I left and moved home and spent the rest of that semester learning how to play guitar from a person I went to high school with. \nI play music because forming thoughts into sounds blends emotional and rational thought in a way that turns me on. I met my band on Tinder. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kate-nash/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kate-nash-admat-2018-v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20170710T152512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170710T152512Z UID:10002531-1524769200-1524769200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Echosmith DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is all ages. \nRescheduled from 11/10/17. All previously purchased tickets will be honored. Tickets 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*** \nEchosmith \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nOur dreams drive us. They’re why we build cities\, create art\, and pursue love. \nIn 2013\, teenage siblings from Southern California\, ECHOSMITH\, brought a lifelong dream to fruition with the release of their debut album Talking Dreams. As soon as they could hold instruments\, they began playing music together as kids. They traded the living room for Farmers Markets and open mic nights\, while quietly honing their songwriting chops. Those chops were on full-display in the breakout single “Cool Kids\,” which became a runaway success. Supporting Talking Dreams\, they performed around the globe and enchanted audiences everywhere. As those adventures unfolded\, they grew up\, both as people and musicians\, and that growth shines through their 2017 sophomore album\, Inside A Dream [Warner Bros. Records]. \n“We describe our new album as dreamy pop\,” explains frontwoman Sydney. “These songs explore different aspects of our lives—love\, adventure\, heartache\, and living out our dreams. On our first record\, we were simply dreaming of the future\, and we’re inside of that dream now. We’ve lived so much life in a short period of time. I was 15 when we recorded Talking Dreams\, and now I’m 20. This amazing journey of connecting with fans and different cultures all over the world completely changed our lives.” \nDriven by Sydney Sierota\, Noah Sierota [bass\, percussion\, backing vocals]\, Graham Sierota [drums]\, and Jamie Sierota [guitar]\, Talking Dreams earned a prestigious RIAA gold certification\, yielding the double-platinum breakout smash “Cool Kids\,” which notched a quarter-of-a-billion Spotify streams\, and the platinum-certified “Bright.” They took over radio airwaves and performed across television everywhere from Ellen to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon twice. Meanwhile\, tastemaker praise came courtesy of Elle\, Rolling Stone\, Nylon\, and more. Simultaneously\, Sydney stood out as a positive cultural force\, whether acting as a brand ambassador for Coach\, designing a line for Hollister\, or dueting on stage with Taylor Swift. \nAlong the way\, the band faced a major change together. After bringing their dream to life\, co-founder\, guitarist\, and big brother Jamie left ECHOSMITH\, transitioning focus to his wife and newborn baby. \n“We had to come to grips with the fact that Jamie left the band\, so we had to find ourselves as a trio instead of a quartet\,” admits Noah. “The process helped us recognize what we really wanted to do musically.” \n“At that point\, we never had another musician on stage with us\,” says the frontwoman. “That literally forced us on a journey of having to discover this sound. We still had electric guitars\, but they weren’t the center of the music anymore. The keyboards\, pads\, percussion\, and vocals became the focal point. We began recording and writing constantly at the same time. We wanted to write as honestly as possible. There were no narratives; it was all life experiences and truth.” \nIn order to bring that vision to life\, the group utilized vintage synths\, keys\, and drum machines\, carefully emphasizing each detail and “making sure we loved every single note and sound.” As a result\, Inside A Dream is awash in shimmering synths\, airy guitars\, and heavenly vocals. Its eleven anthems wouldn’t be out of place blasting from an eighties transistor radio during an episode Stranger Things or booming across massive North American festival grounds as the sun sets for a headline gig. \n“Inside a dream is the culmination of a year-and-a-half of tirelessly working to define who we are\,” continues Noah. “We not only grew as musicians but as people. The stories we’ve told on this album are our stories that we’re living right now.” \nNoah’s finger-picked acoustic guitar on “Goodbye” entwines with Sydney’s breathy delivery before bouncing into a danceable refrain colored by island-style keys and heavy bass. It also represents another evolution. \n“This song was written out of pure frustration with another person who couldn’t make up his mind\,” reveals Sydney. “That indecision was affecting us\, so the message is\, ‘Good luck finding yourself. Goodbye. I have to move on with my life regardless of your opinion.’ It’s a bit darker for us\, but I think a lot of people can relate to that.” \nCo-written with an old family friend Leah Haywood\, opener “Get Into My Car” gleefully nods to new wave influences like The Cure and Joy Division with its cinematic lyricism\, shiny keyboards\, and lush refrain\, “Get into my car. Get into my life. Get into my heart. You know what I like.” \n“It talks about how sometimes you have negative voices in your head\, but then you find that person who makes them go away\,” she says. “That’s totally happening in my relationship.” \nFor “Crazy Love\,” they teamed up with a longtime inspiration\, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder\, to make a love song about “what it feels like to be in the crazy exciting love where you get to dance together and do things you see in the movies.” \nThe arena-size drums of “Future Me” propel the equivalent of the grade school exercise of writing a letter to your future self. “Everyone Cries” tackles the craziness of the world head-on.\nAt the heart of the record\, ECHOSMITH cling to the message that drove them from the start which is their mission statement “to spread hope and love through music to the whole world.” \n“Music is one of the few things that can unite people\,” concludes Noah. “We hope that’s something we can be a part of.” \n“We’ve really gotten to understand the depth of that mission statement\,” Sydney leaves off. “We were so blessed for ‘Cool Kids’ to blow up and see the world. We got to realize the depth of spreading love\, how important it actually is\, and the lack of love in the world. Our message has stayed the same\, but we understand it more. We go deeper. Life is hard\, but you can find the joy no matter what. That’s what we’re here to show people.” \nIn the end\, Inside A Dream has the power to motivate millions to follow their own dreams as ECHOSMITH did. \n*** \nThe Score \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nJena Rose \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/echosmith/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/echosmith.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180105T164015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180105T164015Z UID:10002588-1524942000-1524952800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:20th Anniversary Show - Russian Pop Star: Ruki VVerh DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/20th-anniversary-show-russian-pop-star-ruki-vverh/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/42818-Greek-Concert.png GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180430T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180430T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180120T163402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180120T163402Z UID:10001884-1525118400-1525118400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Unknown Mortal Orchestra 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. 1/26 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. \n*** \n \n***\nUnknown Moral Orchestra \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe threads of our past never unravel\, they hover like invisible webs\, occasionally glistening due to a sly angle of the sun. On Multi-Love\, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy\, humid longing\, loss\, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed the pain of being alone on II\, Multi-Love takes on the complications of being together. \nMulti-Love adds dimensions to the band’s already kaleidoscopic approach\, with Nielson exploring a newfound appreciation for synthesizers. The new songs channel with the spirit of psych innovators without ignoring the last 40 years of music\, forming a flowing\, cohesive whole that reflects restless creativity. Cosmic escapes and disco rhythms speak to developing new vocabulary\, while Nielson’s vocals reach powerful new heights. “It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artists is today\, a curator\,” he says. “It’s more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life\, creating sounds that aren’t quite like anyone else’s. I think that’s much more subversive.” \nWhile legions of artists show fidelity to the roots of psychedelia\, Unknown Mortal Orchestra shares the rare quality that makes the genre’s touchstones so vital\, constant exploration \n***\nMakeness \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIt’s the contrasts which stand out in Makeness’ (aka Kyle Molleson) music. Crafting tracks which make a virtue of disparate influences\, Kyle manages to pull off something difficult: making tirelessly-crafted songs which sound loose-limbed and to-the-point. He comes from a Leeds-born scene which\, counting Adult Jazz and Glad Hand amongst its numbers\, haven’t pegged themselves to one musical discipline. That network of like-minded friends\, and the restless ethos cultivated between them\, continues to shape the music Kyle makes on his own. \nHis debut album\, Loud Patterns\, is the fullest example of this yet. On the one hand\, it’s noticeably indebted to house and techno; there are 4/4 rhythms\, and a no-nonsense directness which nods to the likes of Omar-S and Theo Parrish. On the other hand\, those dancefloor structures are a vehicle for a wider spectrum of sounds. Channeling avant-garde experimentalism and an outsider’s interest in pop\, he embraces the distance between those two poles. \nSpending his earliest years on a remote island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides\, he was surrounded by Highlands folk music and his dad’s bagpipe bands. Later moving to Dorset\, he spent the majority of his time growing up in England’s South West. It was there that Kyle started a band with some school friends\, which – with a manager and recording sessions in London under their belt – made it halfway to recording an album. \nBut it was in Leeds where he made his most important connections. Moving there for university\, his school friend and regular collaborator Tom Howe had also moved to nearby York. Finding himself in a flat with Harry Burgess\, he was the link between that pair – making a connection that would soon become Adult Jazz. Meanwhile\, he helped to form Glad Hand (then-called Fun Adults) with friends-of-friends drawn from the same circle. \nAt this point\, Kyle’s interests in guitar and folk music started to expand outward. He discovered the music of Caribou\, whose 2013 ‘Swim’ charted a trajectory similar to the one he was following; the sweet spot it found – between left-of-centre pop and club-minded music – struck a chord with the different spheres Kyle was increasingly drawn to himself. At the same time\, Flying Lotus’ output was another big eye-opener; his music\, as well as Teebs and other signees to the Brainfeeder stable\, pointed to psychedelic\, unconventional possibilities for building rhythms. \nCosmic Slop\, an underground institution in Leeds\, was another touchstone. Based on the fringe of the city centre\, it’s a community-oriented party that was started to raise money for their education charity. It boasts a hand-built\, peerless sound system\, a near-pitch black dance floor and a music policy that ranges from Dilla instrumentals to Detroit house. He recalls\, “That place was definitely an awakening in terms of dance music.” \nThe student enclaves of Headingley and Hyde Park\, where he and almost all his friends were based\, was an area that lent itself to being creative. Populated by never-ending terraces of cheap student houses\, the close-quarters living made for easygoing connections and rehearsals. Plus\, the house parties that constantly took place – in the area’s plentiful supply of scuzzy basements – meant opportunities to playing for rowdy\, appreciative crowds. \nEach summer\, he would return to the Outer Hebrides with his extended band mates in tow. His dad built his own studio there\, so they would make the journey to all spend a couple of weeks writing and recording. It became an important hub\, with both Adult Jazz and Glad Hand releasing debut albums from sessions that took place there. \nHaving moved to London in 2015\, which is when he started working on his solo material\, the studio still remains an important finishing-stop for his music. He returned to the Highlands to put the finishing touches to Loud Patterns. Putting the album through the studio’s mixing desk\, he also spent time tinkering with the finer details. “They’ve just got lots of old\, broken bits of gear\,” he says. “At one point\, we had two car batteries and we were holding it up to get the spring reverb to work.” \nThe music on the album\, written and recorded with this record in mind\, manages to deftly flit between his different interests. Coarse\, discordant squeels repeatedly pierce the opening title track\, softened by the chorus’ sweetly-sung vocals. Elsewhere\, ‘Who Am I To Follow Love’ sketches a goofy-pop aesthetic – with wobbly synth-notes and clattering percussion – as backdrop for endearing vocal harmonies. And in ‘Rough Moss’\, there’s a proper\, face-melting club banger. With driving\, non-stop drums and a squirming bassline\, it’s the bedrock for cacophonies of noise: distorted\, strummed guitar chords\, laser-beam synths and blasts of hiss. \nThe album arrives after a series of releases that have established his particular\, in-between approach to dance-minded music. He put out two EPs on Manchester-based imprint Handsome Dad\, a one-off single with Adult Jazz\, the self-released ‘Temple Works’ EP and a limited-edition white label for Nic Tasker’s much-feted Whities imprint. The album is set to come via Secretly Canadian\, a longstanding giant of independent music. Their genre-spanning output is the perfect home for Kyle’s difficult-to-define approach. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/unknown-mortal-orchestra/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/UMO-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171027T162826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171027T162826Z UID:10001853-1525204800-1525204800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather DESCRIPTION:This show is now SOLD OUT. \nBowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is All Ages. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited. \n*** \n \n*** \nBrian Fallon & The Howling Weather \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBrian Fallon first rose to commercial and critical acclaim as the singer/songwriter/guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem\, in addition to other beloved acts including The Horrible Crowes and Molly & The Zombies.  \nFallon released his first solo record\, Painkillers\, in 2016. The album received widespread critical applause\, with Entertainment Weekly acclaiming Fallon as “a first-rate songwriter with a dozen tunes that wax philosophical about love and the human condition – the dude’s like a modern day Nietzsche with a sleeve tattoo.” “Painkillers suggests (Fallon) really was holding his best songs back\,” noted MOJO while Kerrang! declared it “a straight-up fantastic return to Brian’s rock ‘n’ roll roots.” “(Fallon’s) version of the American Dream is tied not to anything abstract or political\, but to songwriters like Bruce Springsteen\, Tom Petty\, and Roy Orbison\,” wrote Consequence of Sound\, “and in some ways Fallon’s version is even more effective than those of his forebears.” “It feels a little like a new morning\,” raved Rolling Stone. “For a guy whose songs have always traded in the pains and pleasures of nostalgia\, the Fallon of Painkillers seems to have arrived at a newfound\, forward-looking clarity.”\nBrian Fallon will release a new solo album in 2018 on Island Records. \n*** \nCaitlin Rose \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nNashville’s own\, Caitlin Rose doesn’t like to categorize her music\, but what she creates is beyond easy classification. Her lyrics – visceral\, illustrative\, witty\, and wry – paired with timeless and tireless melody\, easily put her in a category alongside some of the most revered songwriters of our time. “The Stand-In” released in 2013 on ATO records seamlessly melds pedal steel guitar with restless pop beats\, creating lush instrumentals that build on the more spare construction of its precursor\, “Own Side Now” (2010\, ATO Records). Both albums have received praises from the likes of The Guardian for Rose’s undeniable strong suit\, her talent for storytelling through song. “For me the intention behind any song is writing a good one\,” Rose says “and to create something worthy enough to share with other people” Rose’s songs\, however\, are way beyond worthy. They’re downright necessary. She’ll be hitting the road in 2018 in advance of her forthcoming album\, slated for a mid-year release via ATO Records. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/brian-fallon-howling-weather/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BRIAN-FALLON-ADMAT-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180502T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20171116T174727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171116T174727Z UID:10002575-1525287600-1525287600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Tom Misch DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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. \nTHIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT! \n*** \n \n*** \nTom Misch \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Apparently\, I have a sound\, and people can hear it\,” Tom Misch claims modestly. For someone with a cohesive and sprawling body of mellow beats behind him\, he seems mildly bewildered that this is the case. “I try so many genres that it’s hard sometimes to pinpoint. I guess my sound is uplifting\, soulful\, funky — and happy more than it is sad.” It’s a perfect description of his debut album\, due in 2018\, which brings together low-slung hip-hop beats\, glittering disco\, and noodling jazz instrumentation in a way only Misch can. \nIf Misch seems surprised\, it’s because his fanbase has developed naturally. He never set out with any grand plan when he began making beats\, and uploading roughly three tracks a week to Soundcloud at 16. “I prefer a more organic approach to making music\, but also to building a fanbase\,” he reflects. “I don’t want a big push on my music as I don’t want to be as big as possible.” And yet\, he’s rapidly become one of the U.K.’s most exciting emerging new artists\, gaining 1.1 million monthly listeners on Spotify and playing a sold-out tour of the U.K.\, U.S. and Europe in 2016. Collaborating with a clutch of fellow trailblazers like Novelist\, Loyle Carner\, and Zak Abel\, he’s accumulated a total of 75 million streams across all platforms to date — and it all started in his bedroom. \nMisch’s earliest introduction to music came via his artistic family\, including his psychiatrist father\, a passionate violinist\, who would take him to concerts and the opera as a child. He sang in a choir at school\, and picked up the violin himself at the age of four. When one of his older sisters took up guitar and later abandoned it\, nine-year-old Misch inherited the instrument\, and taught himself to play Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Nirvana songs. Today\, he also plays bass\, banjo\, and a smattering of keys. \nIt was one of his sister’s boyfriends who introduced him to the music of J Dilla at 15\, and from then on\, Misch was hooked. He took up Music Technology at school the following year\, and began learning how to create his own “really chilled out\, boom-bap kind of ‘90s hip-hop” on Logic Pro. “When I wasn’t at school\, I’d be making beats\,” he says. “It was just what I did.” As he began sharing his tunes on Soundcloud\, he found the response was overwhelming. “You put songs out and you build a fanbase — it’s kind of addictive.” \nA collaboration with his sister Laura\, on the jazz-inflected “Follow\,” was a major turning point for both siblings after it was uploaded to influencer YouTube channel Majestic Casual. The track features Laura on sax and Tom on beats and vocals\, intertwined to mesmeric effect. “That was the point where I was like\, okay\, maybe I could do this as a career\,” Misch reflects. “Suddenly it had 100\,000 plays.” Shortly afterward\, Soulection co-founder Joe Kay commented on one of Misch’s productions on Soundcloud\, asking the teenage prodigy to guest on his radio show. \nSoon afterward\, in 2014\, Misch contributed to Soulection’s White Label series\, weaving together obscure jazz samples\, guitar\, and vocals to create the perfect summer listen (including the dreamy fan favourite “The Journey”). His Beat Tape series collected the best of his hip-hop instrumentals\, the 5 Day Mischon project featured collaborations with grime MC Novelist and singer-songwriter Zak Abel\, and his 2016 Reverie EP brought the official release of Misch’s most sophisticated songs to date. As well as soulful singers Carmody and Jordan Rakei\, he struck up a collaborative relationship with fellow south Londoner Loyle Carner\, whose mellow bars flow over Misch’s productions like a breeze on a hot day. \nBoth artists form part of the much-hyped scene of singer-songwriters emerging from south east London\, including King Krule and Cosmo Pyke. Each has a DIY mindset and a brooding\, poetic approach to lyricism that weaves them loosely together. “There’s definitely a certain sound\,” reflects Misch. “Everyone’s music in south London is really chilled. It reflects the vibe of this part of London — it’s laid back.” \nMisch has lived in south London all his life\, and he loves it so much that his new single\, “South of the River\,” is dedicated to it. “I much prefer the general vibe of south London\,” he says. “I love this area\, Peckham\, Dulwich\, Forest Hill. Singing that line — You should come south of the river — it just felt really good.” With its string arrangements mirroring disco synth stabs and a funky bassline\, it’s an irresistible bop that nods clearly to Misch’s danceable new direction. \nOne of the biggest influences on Misch’s sound has long been jazz. With a degree in jazz guitar\, Misch is an avid listener of Robert Glasper\, Roy Hargrove\, Cory Henry\, and jazz-influenced songwriters like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu. “It’s kind of a warm feeling\, when you hear a certain chord progression\,” he explains. \nIn the making of his debut album\, he’s also been drawing on inspiration from disco\, house\, and techno\, discovered through the portal of producers like Kaytranada and Motor City Drum Ensemble. The euphoric feel of 1970s and ‘80s disco (think Earth Wind and Fire or Gwen McCrae)\, and the thump of nightclubs like Fabric or Corsica\, inspired him to bring more movement into his songs. “I want people to dance at my live shows\, I want to bring more energy\,” he says. “When you’re in a club and you can feel the bass…I want people to have that experience.” \n*** \nGabriel Garzón Montano \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nOn his debut LP\, Jardín\, Gabriel Garzón-Montano sings of the struggles and uncertainties of the many-layered game that is America today\, from the specific doubt and double consciousness of the first-generation hustle\, to the universal challenges of love\, legacy\, and exploring the maze of one’s own mind. A child of immigrant parents – a child of Brooklyn\, NY – Garzón-Montano’s aesthetic is an extension of his French-Colombian heritage\, a pastiche of Bach sonatas\, cumbia records\, and the machine gun funk that echoes to this day from behind half-rolled tints up and down Nostrand Ave. His mother\, a member of the Philip Glass ensemble in the 1990’s\, instilled within him a painstaking attention to detail that remains a hallmark of his process. “My mother is the reason I love music\,” he says. Her rigorous classical instruction served as his creative engine as he honed his skills over the course of years in the lab\, copping Stevie’s changes\, studying Prince’s lyrics\, and absorbing the beat theses of Timbaland\, Dilla\, and Pete Rock. \nJardín comes on the heels of three intense years of touring\, writing and recording. Soon after the 2014 release of his debut EP\, Bishouné: Alma del Huila\, Gabriel was invited out on the road by rock legend Lenny Kravitz\, as direct support on 23 concerts across Europe. The day after playing Wembley Arena\, he received a call notifying him that his song “6 8″ would be sampled by Drake on his full-length If You’re Reading This\, It’s Too Late. The months following these cosigns Garzón-Montano was featured at Bonnaroo\, Lollapalooza\, and Austin City Limits\, and on back-to-back tours with English indie-rockers Glass Animals and Stones Throw label mate Mayer Hawthorne. \nIn 2016\, he returned to Waterfront Studios in Hudson\, NY\, to record Jardín with his mentor\, analog guru Henry Hirsch. A capable multi-instrumentalist\, Gabriel tracked drums\, bass\, guitar\, piano\, and synthesizers direct to 2” tape\, adding percussion\, digital programming\, and several layers of his own vocals to create a lush sonic environment that recalls a contemporary\, streetwise Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. “I wanted to make music that would remind people how beautiful life is – how delicate their hearts are\,” says Garzón-Montano. “A garden is full of life\, and growth\, and beauty. I named the album Jardín hoping for it to create a space for healing when people put it on. I’ve always wanted to make music that is healing\, comforting\, and funky.” This intention is\, perhaps\, what has always attracted listeners to his music. Fans of Bishouné will find familiar ground in the organic sounds and impressionist narratives of Jardín: the Moog-heavy “Fruitflies” reads as a lyrical epilogue to “Keep on Running\,” while “The Game” brings the folkloric percussion of “Me Alone” home from Cartagena to Crown Heights. The enduring choruses of “Sour Mango\,” “Crawl\,” and “My Balloon” exhibit a melodic and compositional craftsmanship reminiscent of the fan favorite “Everything is Everything\,” confirming Garzón-Montano’s innate pop sensibilities\, and his indisputable knack for fusing a wide range of classic influences and cutting-edge ideas to create a sound all his own. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tom-misch/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Tom-Misch-admat-2018-v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180121T164500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180121T164500Z UID:10001885-1525374000-1525374000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hop Along DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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***\nHop Along \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nHop Along has had multiple lives. First conceptualized as a freak-folk solo act by Frances Quinlan\, it progressed towards a fuller sound with the addition of Mark Quinlan on drums\, Tyler Long on bass and Joe Reinhart (Algernon Cadwallader\, Dogs on Acid) on guitar. Emerging as one of music’s most unique songwriters\, the captivating vignettes Frances has weaved tell vivid stories of desperation and weary awakening. Her powerful voice is a spellbinding entity all it’s own\, celebratory and raw\, and one that can’t be shaken away. \nTheir new album\, Painted Shut\, (out on May 5\, 2015 via Saddle Creek) is their 2nd full-length (preceded by Get Disowned in 2012). However\, this release marks their first time creating as a full-formed entity\, arranging everything as a group. It was co-produced\, recorded and mixed by John Agnello (Kurt Vile\, Dinosaur Jr.\, Sonic Youth\, etc.) in the great cities of Philadelphia and Brooklyn\, and incidentally finished in the shortest span of time the band has ever made anything. \nLike their debut\, Painted Shut is a series of accounts\, a procession of fleeting and repeating characters. However\, it diverges from its predecessor in its close-up\, controlled approach (most of the album features the band recording live)\, and more focused portraiture. Whereas Get Disowned calls forth a dreamy collage of protagonists in a tone that’s often anthemic and surreal\, Painted Shut is a grounded\, less merciful image of many struggling adults (and children) in a severe landscape. \nOften depicted in Painted Shut are the two lives of legendary (though generally unknown) musicians\, Buddy Bolden and Jackson C. Frank\, who were plagued with mental illness until their penniless deaths. Included are accounts of more everyday poverty\, abuse\, greed; and banal\, sub-par behavior. Society is unveiled as a structure that\, in reality\, was most certainly not built with everyone in mind. Clearly this is difficult subject matter. Yet the songs themselves move unencumbered and easily\, forming angular pop anti-anthems\, at times jubilant as well as irreverent. Somehow\, they are not sad songs. There is joy\, in the abandon of Frances’ unforgettable voice\, in the exulting choruses. One wakes to a sky that is a bright\, ageless blue. It’s morning and so clear outside that multitudes of lives can be seen\, in focus despite the distance. All of this is viewed through a window sealed with cracked paint that cannot be opened on either side. That is how we must often view the lives of others\, especially when it comes to people who have lived and gone from this world. That’s another story. \n***\nSaintseneca \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAt the intriguing intersection of metaphysics and rock and roll\, you will find the new Saintseneca album Such Things. While the thematic concerns of the record address the very nature of human consciousness\, the decidedly hook-centric sound serves as a delightfully visceral counterpoint\, infusing the band’s unique melding of folk\, punk and epic rock with a very earthly sense of groove. At its core\, Such Things is entirely accessible and undeniably powerful\, unquestionably Saintseneca’s most cohesive\, catchy output\, and a work that cements the band’s singer songwriter Zac Little’s status as one of modern indie music’s most thoughtful and talented artists. \nBolstering the more streamlined “pop” compositions is a raucous and fuzzed out sonic palette that beautifully accentuates the record’s power of engagement.“When we were getting ready to record with Mike (Mogis of Bright Eyes)\, I told him I wanted the songs to be filtered through sixties psychedelic pop\,” Little explains. “Not like a throwback record\, because I didn’t write those type of songs. What we wanted were modern songs that sounded like a band had gone back in time to record them.” \nSince its origin in 2007 as an teenage bluegrass outfit in Appalachian Ohio\, then its growth to a large\, multi-instrumental live rock and folk collective whose onstage experiments would find their way to tape on 2011’s Last\, and then the more traditional approach of writing and recording in making Dark Arc\, Saintseneca has largely been Little’s machine. A meticulous\, tireless craftsman\, he began writing for Such Things by demoing songs composed of anywhere from two to one-hundred-and-fifty tracks\, which he then shared with his bandmates to serve as reference points for their own invented parts. \n“Even though it might seem like this singular vision\, at the core my creative strategy for the band is one that inherently involves other people. I think the best work I’ll make involves working that way. Ultimately\, by involving other people that are really talented and that I admire\, we’ll come up with something that will transcend what any individual would be capable of. To me that’s the ultimate creative goal; to have that element of spontaneity and the culmination of multiple minds.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hop-along/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Hop-Along-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131414 CREATED:20180329T040131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T040131Z UID:10001907-1525467600-1525467600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Neo Soul Presents: AfterJourney+BooM Huang The DMOB 2018 "West To West" US Tour DESCRIPTION:18+ \nDoors at 8pm. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/neo-soul-presents-afterjourneyboom-huang-dmob-2018-west-west-us-tour/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/unnamed.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR