BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Royale Boston 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: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:20181003T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180710T164558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180920T114017Z UID:10001954-1538589600-1538589600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Joey Graceffa - Eden Tour DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis show has been cancelled. Refunds are available at point of purchase. \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. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. 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. \n**EVERY TICKET COMES WITH A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN** \nELITE PACKAGE:\n**INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN**\nExclusive 45 minute PRE-SHOW Behind the Scenes Experience + Q&A with Joey & Daniel\nMeet & Greet + Photo with Joey\nReserved Elite Seating (in front rows)\nExclusive Tour-Only signed poster\nCommemorative VIP Laminate\nEarly Entry into venue + early access to merch shop\n**Parents/Guardians can accompany their child with General Admission Ticket**​ \nVIP PACKAGE:\n**INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN**\nPOST SHOW Meet & Greet + Photo with Joey\nReserved VIP Seating\nExclusive Tour-Only Poster\nCommemorative VIP Laminate\n**Parents/Guardians can accompany their child with General Admission Ticket**​ \nGENERAL ADMISSION:\n**INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN**\nGeneral Admission Access to Show\n**Parents/Guardians can accompany their child with General Admission Ticket**​ \n*** \nJoey Graceffa \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIn celebration of the release of Rebels of Eden\, the third and final chapter to the Eden series\, Joey Graceffa will be embarking on his FIRST major live tour! The Eden Tour will be the biggest and most unforgettable live production he’s ever created. Whether you haven’t yet read the series\, or have been a supporter since the beginning #TheEdenTour is a must-see event for all of Joey’s adoring supporters and avid readers alike! Joining Joey on tour is Daniel Preda\, his creative counterpart\, making this a tour you won’t want to miss! \nHave you ever imagined what it would be like to step inside the world of Eden? At each tour stop\, Joey will be transforming venues and bringing to life the world of Eden in a fun\, interactive\, and immersive way. On stage\, he’ll be taking part in themed games and challenges\, sharing exclusive content and behind the scenes stories\, answering fan questions\, and so much more. Come prepared to participate because Joey will be calling on his fans to help him throughout the show. \nPrior to the show\, fans will be able to interact with Eden like never before\, with an immersive venue environment\, surprise characters\, photo and behind-the-scenes opportunities\, as well as access to the newly re-launched Crystal Wolf store pop-up shop with tour-only merchandise available. Who knows what other surprises Joey might have for you. \nGet your tickets now before it’s sold out! See you at the show! URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joey-graceffa-eden-tour/ 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/2018/07/Joey-Graceffa-admat-2018-11x17.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:20181005T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180619T170058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180906T202013Z UID:10002655-1538762400-1538775000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Frights DESCRIPTION:Presented by Indie617 \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/22 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. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Frights \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nA couple of months after graduating from high school\, Mikey Carnevale (vocals/guitar) and Richard Dotson (bass) got together as The Frights to play a one off 30 minute set as sort of a joke. The feeling they got from the crowd in their hometown of San Diego inspired them to become a “real” band almost in spite of themselves. Along the way\, they recruited Marc Finn (drums) and released You Are Going To Hate This (produced by Zac Carper of FIDLAR) in February 2016. Jordan Clark (guitar) added to the band’s musical prowess in the ensuing year of touring around North America. The fearsome foursome has now teamed up with Epitaph Records for the August 24th release of their new album\, Hypochondriac (with Zac Carper again at the helm). 2018 looks to be a year filled with drinks\, laughs\, tears\, miles in the van and on a plane and plenty of hours on the stage for The Frights. \n*** \nHUNNY \n \nWebsite\nTwitter \n*** \nHot Flash Heat Wave \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSan Francisco indie-rock quartet Hot Flash Heat Wave rose to prominence in the Bay Area music scene in 2015 with the release of their ‘Gutter Girl’ music video\, from their debut album Neapolitan\, which was uploaded to YouTube and eventually made its way to the front page of reddit. Their versatile sound\, at times reminiscent of golden 60s\, power pop\, dream pop\, post-punk and indie rock\, demonstrates a dynamic range of songwriting prowess centered around consistently infectious\, sun-soaked melodies and guitar hooks. HFHW formed in Davis\, California as a noise collaboration between Adam Abildgaard and Nick Duffy in 2010\, expanding to a full band when bassist Ted Davis and guitarist Nathaniel Blum joined the group in the following years. Renouncing the traditional front-manned format of most contemporary bands\, the four instead each contribute songs and share the lead. With the release of their sophomore album\, Soaked\, accompanied by a string of creative self-produced music videos in 2017\, the group embarked on its first nationwide tour. Their first single\, ‘Bye Bye Baby’\, appeared on Canada’s Viral 50 Spotify playlist. In 2017\, HFHW released their sophomore album Soaked with OIM Records\, which charted on college radio in the U.S. The band just finished up a national tour and SXSW visit with No Vacation to promote their new single ‘Glo Ride’ – a song released in collaboration with Broken Ent. Hot Flash Heat Wave will continue to release music and new videos throughout 2018. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-frights/ 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/2018/06/The-Frights-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:20181006T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181006T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180427T151058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T160334Z UID:10002633-1538850600-1538850600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] HONNE DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nSOLD OUT! \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. \nOpening 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nHONNE \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIn 2018\, unless an artist has a Drake-like grip on the charts\, it’s tough to directly gauge success. Seven-digit streams don’t always translate to actual fans at shows. One act might draw the attention of every tastemaker going\, while still failingto sell more than a handful of physical records.In the case of London duo HONNE –Andy Clutterbuck and James Hatcher –their time in the spotlight has been disorientating. Success has paved every step\, but tracking where it comes from has proved a tough task. One week they’re selling out a 3\,000 capacity show in their hometown\, the next they’re headliners at a festival in South Korea\, playing to 20\,000 people\, and shortly after they’re jet-setting to LA to collaborate with other artists. In this age when anyone can access music from virtually anywhere\, HONNE’s 2016 debut LP ‘Warm on a Cold Night’ has been embraced by different corners of the globe (the album went triple-platinum in South Korea)\, a swarm of fans all equally obsessed with the pair’s skill in writing relatable\, emotion-fuelled\, romantic pop.For their next move\, instead of getting caught up in different audiences\, vast territories and the demands of a world-spanning fanbase\, they focused on themselves. Placing a microscope to their own lives –the jet-setting highs and lows of being in a band\, the relationships they tried to hold up back home –they emerged with a touching\, personal second album with its own universal appeal.‘Love Me / Love Me Not’-HONNE’s new album coming out on August 24th 2018 -captures the duality of life’s ups and downs\, and the balancing act of navigating between two states at once. Whether it’s the honeymoon period high of a relationship\, the frustration of a long-distance separation\, the fear of losing someoneclose\, Andy’s lyrics dial in at the reality of most people’s lives. The record acknowledges that for every peak\, a challenge is round the corner; and equally\, that whenever life throws everything at once\, better times are ahead.Take ‘Day 1 ◑’ and ‘Sometimes ◐’\, the first two tracks unveiled from the record. The former is a sunny-side-up ode to an everlasting love (“You’ll always be my day one\, day zero when I was no-one”)\, complete with gospel choir and candy-coated synths. ‘Sometimes ◐’\, meanwhile\, sits at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum. It was penned when Andy heard news of a London terror attack and couldn’t get hold of his girlfriend. The news turned out to be false\, but the frontman spent hours dwelling on what might have happened. “It’sthe same with everyone\, but your mind just starts to think the worst in a situation like that\,” he explains. Via a Kanye-like vocoder that conveys despair through digital strain\, he dwells on mistakes he might have made\, wondering out loud if he might ever see his girl again. It’s a touching reminder that we need to keep the ones we love close.Debut ‘Warm on a Cold Night’ found itself under the covers and in a loved-up\, blissed out state. ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ instead looks outwards and considers thebigger picture. It also finds HONNE coming on leaps and bounds\, both as producers and lyricists. Swapping a bedroom production aesthetic for a richer\, more textured style\, they also explore more beat-driven territory\, nodding towards hip-hop royalty like Dr. Dre\, DJ. Dahi\, Pharrell and BadBadNotGood.Andy’s lyrics can be earnest\, funny and self-mocking in the space of the same verse. Not least on ‘306’\, a tribute to James’ knackered Peugeot car\, which he still drives today. The song jokes about the falsemirage of fame (“One record down and I’m riding in this piece of shit”)\, and the days the pair spent as fearless twenty-somethings\, driving round east London while blasting Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Money Trees’ with the windows down. “Every time I listen to it\, I get nostalgic memories of growing up\,” Andy says\, reflecting on the track.Sticking to their London flat-turned-studio\, HONNE worked with some of pop’s most diverse\, exciting talents on ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’. North London drummer/vocalist Georgia stars on the jet-lagged ‘Location Unknown’; Norwegian singer Anna of the North gets caught up in the fidgety dayglow of ‘Feels So Good’; Jazz-pop prodigy Tom Misch and pianist Reuben James also make timely appearances. For some acts\, collaboration is often a box-ticking exercise to cram big names into songs for the sake of it\, but HONNE have a different motive\, where they’ll only work with an artist who can provide something new. They scout out new music\, track the artists down and promptly slide into their DMs. “These people have a lot to offer\, a fresh perspective that maybe you wouldn’t otherwise see\,” states James. “It’s a shame to limit yourself purely for pride\, to limit it to just us two in a room.”In-between records\, the pair would spend hours on flights\, dreaming up their next steps. “We’d spent so long touring and listening to other music\, we just had loads of inspiration bottled up\,” James remembers. They drew up notes on their phones\, recorded voice memos on the go\, and by 2016’s debut release\, they were raring to go on new material. Before hitting record\, they seemed to have a clear idea on what they wanted to achieve: a lusciously-produced follow-up with an\nemotional depth that went beyond their first work. Andy also saw the band’s early ideals coming further into focus. He cites the band’s name (“Honne” meaning your true feelings\, those you keep to yourself) and the name of their early record label (“Tatemae”\, which reflects the other side: what you say and what you display in public). In time\, this dichotomy between an online persona and actual reality has become starker.“Those two sides have been rooted in us from the beginning. Perhaps we didn’t explore it completely on the first album\, but it’s been bubbling away\,” Andy says. “Finally with this next album\, we demonstrated it.” Honne’s early vision is more evident than ever\, and the remarkable songs on this second LP capture themes and feelings their debut only hinted at.Andy journeys back to this idea of duality\, something that’s defined HONNE since the beginning. “I love how one side doesn’t exist without the other. These songs have to be there together.” James agrees: “You can’t have good without the bad\, and we wanted to show that: not everything is always rosy. In your head\, you think everything you aspire to have doesn’t come with its own problems. Relationships\, work\, home life\, family –there’s two sides to it all. Films and TV shows either show the good or bad\, but we wanted to show a balance and the grey space.”‘Love Me / Love MeNot’ achieves exactly that. It’s a journey through grey space\, fears and doubts\, peaks and pitfalls and the in-betweens. These are soul-searching songs that make you look inwards\, to the point where it’s impossible not to relate to each moment of introspection. That\, in itself\, is a remarkable and rare quality in a band –this ability to make you listen closer to your own thoughts. A sign of success if ever there was one \n*** \nHablot Brown \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFormerly known as Linus Hablot\, Hablot Brown is comprised of Linus Lester-Hodges\, Austin Brown\, & John Brown who together form a fresh neo-soul/R&B band with a unique sonic polish. \nBringing an interesting blend of vastly contrasting genres\, the band borrows from musical influences such as Nick Hakim\, Ned Doheny\, & J.Dilla creating their own unique sound that is difficult not to fall in love with. \nIn their first 12 months of releasing music\, Hablot Brown was streamed over 7.7 million times on Spotify\, in addition to being featured on playlists like Global Viral 50\, Fresh Finds\, Sweet Soul Sunday\, Alternative R&B\, & Sin Estres. \nThe band just released their sophomore EP with Soulection and are gearing up to release three music videos along with several singles before the first of 2019. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/honne/ 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/2018/04/honne-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:20181008T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181008T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180515T140039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T140039Z UID:10001922-1539028800-1539028800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Liz Phair DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nSOLD OUT! \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nLiz Phair \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLiz Phair is a Grammy-nominated singer songwriter whose debut album\, Exile In Guyville\, is considered by music critics to be a landmark of indie rock. She has been a recording artist and touring performer for twenty-five years\, paving the way for countless music artists\, particularly women\, who count her among their major influences.  Her deeply clever and often brutally candid songs have been garnering critical praise since she began her career in the early 1990s in Chicago by self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound.  The intense viral response to these early tracks led to Phair signing with the independent record label Matador Records. \nHer 1993 debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to international acclaim; it has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\, by Pitchfork as one of the 100 Greatest albums of the 90’s and is considered one of the most accomplished debut albums for any artist in any genre to date. She was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine\, topped SPIN’s 20 Best Albums of the Year\, and reached No.1 on the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics Poll. Phair joined Lilith Fair in 1998-9\, performing as a main stage headliner along with top female acts of the day like Sarah McLachlan\, Emmylou Harris\, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott. \nIn Spring 2016 Liz toured with The Smashing Pumpkins on their North American “In Plainsong” tour. Liz is currently working on a new record\, and will be touring in June. \n2018 marks the 25th Anniversary of Exile in Guyville. To celebrate\, Matador Records will be re-issuing the record along with a box-set. Phair has sold over five million records worldwide\, with three US gold albums and two Grammy nominations. More than two decades after the release of her debut\, Phair’s influence in contemporary music and particularly over female voices in alternative music can be felt today more than ever. \n*** \nSpeedy Ortiz \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Necessary brattiness” is the motto for Speedy Ortiz’s dauntless new collection of songs\, Twerp Verse. The follow-up to 2015’s Foil Deer\, the band’s latest indie rock missive is prompted by a tidal wave of voices\, no longer silent on the hurt they’ve endured from society’s margins. But like many of these truth-tellers\, songwriter\, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis scales the careful line between what she calls being “outrageous and practical” in order to be heard at all. \n“You need to employ a self-preservational sense of humor to speak truth in an increasingly baffling world\,” says Dupuis. “I call it a ‘twerp verse’ when a musician guests on a track and says something totally outlandish – like a Lil Wayne verse – but it becomes the most crucial part. This record is our own twerp verse\, for those instances when you desperately need to stand up and show your teeth.” \nTwerp Verse was tracked in Brooklyn DIY space Silent Barn\, mixed by Omaha legend Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes\, Rilo Kiley) and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Emily Lazar (Sia\, Haim\, Beck). The record pulls from the most elastic pop moments in Squeeze’s Argybargy and the seesawing synth-rock of Deerhoof and the Rentals. With Dupuis on guitars\, vocals\, and synths\, supporting guitarist Andy Molholt (of psych pop outfit Laser Background) now joins Speedy veterans Darl Ferm on bass and Mike Falcone on drums – and together they accelerate the band’s idiosyncrasy through the wilderness of Dupuis’ heady reflections on sex\, lies and audiotape. \nDupuis\, who both earned an MFA in poetry and taught at UMass Amherst\, propels the band’s brain-teasing melodies with her serpentine wit. Inspired by the cutting observations of Eve Babitz\, Aline Crumb’s biting memoirs\, and the acute humor of AstroPoet Dorothea Lasky\, Dupuis craftily navigates the danger zone that is building intimacy and political allyship in 2018. Now as public pushback against the old guards reaches a fever pitch – in the White House\, Hollywood and beyond – the band fires shots in disillusioned Gen Y theme “Lucky 88\,” and casts a side-eye towards suitors-turned-monsters in the cold-blooded single “Villain.” Closing track “You Hate The Title” is a slinky traipse through the banality of this current moment in patriarchy – in which survivors are given the mic\, but nitpicked over the timbre of their testimonies. “You hate the title\, but you’re digging the song\,” Dupuis sings wryly\, “You like it in theory\, but it’s rubbing you wrong.” Tuned smartly to the political opacity of the present\, Twerp Verse rings clear as a bell. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/liz-phair/ 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/2018/05/liz-phair-admat-2018-royale.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:20181010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180718T171024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T183046Z UID:10002657-1539198000-1539198000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Joyce Manor DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 7/20 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. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. \nOpening 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. \n*** URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joyce-manor-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/2018/07/Joyce-Manor-admat-2018-sq.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:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180710T165136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T123102Z UID:10001956-1539284400-1539284400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Spafford DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \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. \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. \n*** \nSpafford \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWe Jam \n*** \nDewpoint \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nDewpoint(formerly Treehouse Live) is an eclectic four-piece instrumental jam band from Boston\, Massachusetts. Formed in early 2014 as house party staples in Boston\, they have quickly secured fans and made a name for themselves in the competitive northeast jam band scene. Pulling inspiration from such diverse acts as Phish\, Steely Dan\, Vulfpeck\, Lotus\, and countless others across the musical spectrum\, they have crafted a sound grounded in improvisational experimentation and soaring melodic lead lines. In the past year\, Dewpoint’s danceable combo of genre-bending jams have soared to new heights\, playing shows at the Middle East Downstairs\, Sonia\, and Brighton Music Hall. Guitarist Hamilton Kibbe\, keyboardist Alex Moran\, bassist Dalton Markrush\, & drummer Ryan Slobin have crafted melodic\, high-energy sets and are ready to take on the Northeast this Fall. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/spafford/ 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/2018/07/Spafford-admat-fall2018v2.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:20181012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180604T153433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180904T180448Z UID:10002645-1539367200-1539379800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Tyler Childers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nSOLD OUT! \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nTyler Childers \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLike many great Southern storytellers\, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a place. The people\, landmarks and legendary moments from his childhood home of Lawrence County\, Kentucky\, populate the 10 songs in his formidable debut\, Purgatory\, an album that’s simultaneously modern and as ancient as the Appalachian Mountains in which events unfold. \nThe album\, co-produced by Grammy Award winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson\, is a semiautobiographical sketch of Childers’ growth from wayward youth to happily married man\, told in the tradition of a Southern gothic novel with a classic noir antihero who may just be irredeemable. Purgatory is a chiaroscuro painting with darkness framing light in high relief. There’s catharsis and redemption. Sin and temptation. Murder and deceit. Demons and angels. Moonshine and cocaine. So much moonshine and cocaine. All played out on the large\, colorful canvas of Eastern Kentucky. \nChilders had been searching for a certain sound for his debut album for years as he honed his craft\, and was finding it elusive when his friend\, drummer Miles Miller\, introduced him to Simpson\, the Grammy Award-winning musician and fellow Kentuckian. Childers sent Simpson a group of his songs\, then went to visit him in Nashville. \n“And he said\, ‘There’s this sound. I know what you’re trying to get at\, the mountain sound\,'” Childers recalled. “‘So I asked\, ‘What are you doing?'” \nIntrigued\, Simpson enlisted the aid of Ferguson\, the Grammy Award winning sound engineer. They assembled a band that included multi-instrumentalists Stuart Duncan\, Michael J. Henderson and Russ Pahl\, bassist Michael Bub and Miller on drums\, of course\, and helped Childers make a debut album of consequence that announces an authentic new voice. \n“I was writing an album about being in the mountains\,” Childers said. “I wanted it to have that gritty mountain sound. But at the same time\, I wanted a more modern version of it that a younger generation can listen to — the people I grew up with\, something I’d want to listen to.” \n*** \nOna \n \nWebsite\nTwitter \nOna is an indie-rock band comprised of longtime friends Brad Goodall (keys)\, Bradley Jenkins (vocals/guitar)\, Zach Johnston (bass)\, Max Nolte (drums)\, and Zack Owens (guitar). \nThe band formed in late 2013 and are based in Huntington\, WV. Ona’s debut record ‘American Fiction’ reached critical success appearing on NPR best of lists\, SIRIUS Radio airplay\, and a spot on nationally syndicated radio program Mountain Stage. \nFrom New York City to Birmingham\, AL\, the five piece unit has garnered a faithful fan base on the east coast and Midwest regions. The band recently signed with New Frontier Touring based in Nashville\, TN and plans to expand their time on the road in 2018. \nCurrently the band is working with Athens\, GA-based producer/engineer\, Drew Vandenberg (Of Montreal\, Toro y Moi\, Drive By Truckers) at Chase Park Transduction Studio. Their forthcoming album will be released in 2018\, no official release date yet. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tyler-childers/ 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/2018/06/Tyler-Childers-admat-2018-royale.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:20181016T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180625T141903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180910T165606Z UID:10001939-1539720000-1539720000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Masego DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/29 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nMasego \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nVanJess \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/masego/ 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/2018/06/Masego-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:20181018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180515T160058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T160058Z UID:10001923-1539892800-1539892800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Murder By Death DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 5/18 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nMurder By Death \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMurder By Death is a Louisville\, KY quintet with a wry\, ominous name. But behind the geography and moniker is a band of meticulous and literary songwriters matched by a specific brand of brooding\, anthem-riding balladry and orchestral indie rock. \nMurder By Death’s path began in the early 2000s as most Midwestern college-town groups do\, by playing to small crowds at ratty venues and frenzied house parties. While many of their formative-year scene-mates failed to make it much further than campustown’s borders\, Murder By Death translated their anonymous beginnings into a 15+ year career founded on a bedrock of five full-length albums\, tireless D.I.Y. touring and performing ethics\, and\, most importantly\, a dedicated\, cult-like fanbase. \n*** \nWilliam Elliott Whitmore \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nWilliam Elliott Whitmore is a singer-songwriter/banjoist/guitarist/drum-stompin’ solo act from Lee County\, Iowa. He has released six full-length albums that seamlessly meld country\, blues\, folk\, and punk styles – spanning from 2003’s Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern Records) to 2015’s Radium Death (ANTI-). His songs are haunting\, rustic\, powerful\, and real – byproducts of living his entire life on the family farm\, being involved in the hardcore-punk scene in the local community\, and touring hard across the country. His seventh album Kilonova (2018) is different from everything else in his catalog\, a collection of 10 cover songs from artists who have influenced his 15 plus-year career.\nA man armed only with a banjo and a bass drum can be a formidable force\, especially if his name is William Elliott Whitmore. With his powerful voice and honest approach\, Whitmore comes from the land\, growing up on a family farm in Lee County\, Iowa. Still living on the same farm today\, Whitmore has truly taken the time to discover where his center lies\, and from that he will not be moved. \nWhitmore has consistently carved his own path\, honoring the longstanding tradition of folk music throughout his nearly 20-year career\, while always allowing his blues\, soul\, and punk rock influences to shine through. Getting his first break opening for his friend’s hardcore band with just a banjo in hand\, he would discover bands like The Jesus Lizard\, Bad Brains\, Lungfish\, and Minutemen and soon learn to play his own brand of rural\, roots music with that same DIY ethic. \nWilliam Elliott Whitmore has been back and forth across the United States and to cities around the world. He’s toured with such diverse acts as Frank Turner\, Trampled By Turtles\, Clutch\, and Chris Cornell\, to name a few. He’s appeared on some of the biggest stages around the world including Stagecoach Fest\, Byron Bluesfest (Australia) and End of the Road Fest (UK). His willingness to take his show to any playing field has proved invaluable as he turned strangers to diehards with every performance. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/murder-by-death/ 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/2018/05/murder-by-death-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:20181019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180724T170036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T222913Z UID:10002663-1539970200-1539984600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Joywave and Sir Sly DESCRIPTION:Joywave and Sir Sly Present: An Evening With Sir Sly and Joywave \nPresented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 5:30 pm / Show: 6:00 pm \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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nJoywave \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Anxiety caused by feeling too content” is just the first aspect of the double-pronged paradoxical rumination that is Content\, the sophomore full-length album by Rochester\,\nNY-based indie quintet\, Joywave\, slated for release July 28 with a tour supporting Young the Giant and Cold War Kids to follow. The title\, Content\, sees Joywave apply their trademark irreverence and humor to two large yet interrelated ideas springing from the dual meaning of the word\, “content”\, and signaling a move into a deeply personal terrain for Joywave frontman Daniel Armbruster.\nAbout the duality reflected in the album’s title (CONtent the noun versus conTENT the adjective)\, Armbruster says:”I loved that the two words were associated with completely opposite feelings for me (one pure\, one not)\, and that only a human hearing the two words in the English language could tell the difference between the ideas represented. To a search engine\, they are identical. How can you explain to Google that one of these things makes you happy and helps fill the void in your soul\, and the other is just flooding your senses?”\nThree years have passed since Joywave’s “Tongues”and their collaboration with Big Data on the hit song “Dangerous” first put the band on the map. Creating their own imprint Cultco Music via Hollywood Records\, the five members of Joywave—Daniel Armbruster (vocals)\, Joseph Morinelli (guitar)\, Sean Donnelly (bass)\, Benjamin Bailey (keyboards)\, and Paul Brenner (drums)— embarked on an intense tour schedule in support of their debut album\, sharing the stage with Foals\, The Killers\, Brandon Flowers\, Metric\, Silversun Pickups and Bleachers. They played at Coachella\, Lollapalooza (US & Berlin)\, Reading & Leeds\, Okeechobee\, Osheaga\, Hangout and Bumbershoot\, with appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers’ shows. Glowing reviews followed in Rolling Stone\, Billboard\, Spin and Entertainment Weekly.\nThis success enabled Armbruster to seriously adult on a whole new level\, and this year he finally moved into a place of his own\, a few blocks away from his childhood home. For Armbruster\, who sold stationery and paper goods at Staples before Joywave took off\, the musical dream born when he started writing songs aged fifteen was finally coming true. The single “It’s A Trip!” began with two basic ideas in mind: “Haunting” versus “haunted”. “I wanted to make something undeniably beautiful that would outlast me\, but at times verged on the absurd and snapped the listener out of a dreamy haze. “It’s A Trip!” moves pretty far in the absurd direction\, juxtaposing a pretty friendly arena-sized chorus against versus straight out of a haunted house. The song is a little disorienting\, much like the past few years of our lives have been”. The music video for “It’s A Trip!” features the band slowly aging as they ride jet skis in\nMiami and underscores the sense of endlessly being on tour\, just getting older while the girl on the back of the jet ski stays the same age.\nTouring—which Armbruster describes as “an episode of Louie where it’s funny but somewhat soul crushingly sad at the same time”—took its toll on the band both physically and emotionally but had an upside. “Playing our instruments was second nature at that point\,” notes guitarist Joey Morinelli\, that allowed us to focus and interact with crowds\, and each other on stage\, in ways that we never had before.“\nPost tour\, Armbruster who had been dealing with chronic illness was diagnosed with pancreatitis\, and had to stop drinking on doctor’s orders. Sobriety “really affected the sound of the record\,” he says. In contrast to Joywave’s playful debut\, the tone of Content is more confessional\, sometimes combative\, as it questions how connected we really are in this hyper-connected world—which brings us to Content’s second theme\, stemming from the collective angst of a generation whose art (and very lives) are now mere content for the Internet. Sonically\, Content is more cohesive than Joywave’s LP1\, How Do You Feel Now? It’s focused and deliberate\, loud and cinematic featuring a more prominent vocal throughout LP2.\n As a clear example of conscious\, positive content; the title track “Content” is accompanied with a video shot on vintage Super 8 on location at Kodak Tower in Rochester. The building\, once the global epicenter of film photography\, is a monument to the pre-Internet world in the Rochester skyline and a place that’s close to the hearts of all bandmembers\, as most of their parents worked there before Kodak filed for bankruptcy. In addition\, Kodak has afforded the band the opportunity to utilize some of their iconic equipment which inspired Daniel to take up film photography to help fill the existential void. “Film is slower and more deliberate\, and that’s calming in a way. It’s not disposable\, it’s not easy\, which in turn\, forces you to care. I like that.”\nAt the end of the day music is at the core of what Joywave is and drives the creativity in every aspect. Brenner sums it up\, “We’re always working on new music and new ways to make our live performance better and better. Joywave will not be confined to a certain genre or niche. We do what we want.”\nContent is produced by Joywave’s Daniel Armbruster & Sean Donnelly and mixed by Rich Costey (TV On The Radio\, The Shins\, Interpol) and will be released on Hollywood Records/Cultco Music on 7.28. \n*** \nSir Sly \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe triumphant lead single from Sir Sly’s Don’t You Worry\, Honey\, “High” turned a hotel-room panic attack into a creative breakthrough for the L.A.-based trio. “This album started out as an exploration of fear and anxiety\, over very minimal electronic music\, but ‘High’ really opened up the honesty of the record\,” says lead singer Landon Jacobs\, who co-founded Sir Sly with fellow multi-instrumentalists Hayden Coplen and Jason Suwito. With “High” emerging as “an upbeat anthem about ego death\,” in Jacobs’s words\, the song ultimately formed the heart of Sir Sly’s second full-length: a deliberately hopeful album born from an extraordinarily dark time. \nWritten in the aftermath of Jacobs’s divorce and his mother’s death\, Don’t You Worry\, Honey transforms heavy-heartedness into unlikely joy. The album finds Sir Sly expanding on the moody experimentalism of their 2014 debut You Haunt Me\, channeling a looser energy that closely shapes their more groove-driven sound. Self-produced and recorded in Suwito’s studio\, Don’t You Worry\, Honey also matches their delicately inventive alt-pop with a more granular approach to storytelling. “It was almost like writing a memoir of the past three years of my life\, but focusing on little snapshots rather than telling the complete story\,” Jacobs points out. \nThanks in part to that purposely detailed lyricism\, Don’t You Worry\, Honey hits with an undeniable urgency. “Musically and lyrically\, we wanted this album to be very much in-the-moment and paint a specific picture with each song\, as opposed to just setting a vibe\,” says Coplen. With that clarity of vision in place\, Sir Sly experienced a profound burst of inspiration. “There were all these sounds and textures that I was hearing in my head so strongly\, in a way that hadn’t ever happened before\,” says Coplen. “There was never any effort to try to make things feel fresh or new or surprising — that all just came from following our instincts and enjoying the process of bringing the music to life.” \nThroughout Don’t You Worry\, Honey\, Sir Sly strike a powerful contrast by embracing both the thrill of creation and the wistful undercurrent of each track. With its shivering synth lines and graceful acoustic guitar\, “And Run” reflects on the futility of regret. “That song came from being fascinated by the idea that\, of all the infinite possibilities in the world\, I ended up falling in love and getting married and then getting divorced\, and there’s nothing I could do to change that\,” says Jacobs. On “Astronaut\,” Sir Sly build off a majestic guitar riff supplied by Suwito and deliver an intensely danceable meditation on loneliness. “It’s trying to put a different spin on being alone\, because sometimes being alone can give you this great ability to see the world in a way that’s larger than life\,” Jacobs explains. Inspired by an ill-fated romantic encounter at a festival after-party\, the blissfully frenetic and beat-heavy “Trippin” perfectly captures the rush of instant infatuation. And on “Oh Mama\,” Sir Sly close out Don’t You Worry\, Honey with a hazy and soulful serenade to Jacobs’s mother\, a piano-laced piece that makes quietly heartbreaking use of a sampled voicemail. \nSince forming in 2012\, Sir Sly have forged their singular sound by drawing upon each member’s long-honed musical talents: Jacobs’s introspective yet infinitely searching lyricism\, Suwito’s in-studio ingenuity\, and Coplen’s sophisticated musicianship and sense of songcraft. Orange County natives and friends since high school\, Jacobs and Coplen connected with Suwito through the local music scene. Their early collaborations yielded songs like “Ghost\,” a Neon Gold release that quickly earned buzz online. After making their Cherrytree Records debut with the Gold EP in 2013\, Sir Sly put out You Haunt Me (which reached #14 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart) in September of the following year. \nWith Don’t You Worry\, Honey marking a major turning point for Sir Sly\, the band feels a stronger sense of artistic purpose than ever before. “As a person who mainly writes lyrics about himself\, sometimes I get caught up in this fear that it’s wrong or selfish to write so much about my own life\,” says Jacobs. “What snapped me out of that on this album was going back to the catalog of music that helped raise me\, where the songwriters were incredibly honest about their lives in a way that normalized a lot of what I went through growing up. If I can do that for other people\, by telling my story and not trying to sugarcoat it\, then hopefully I’m able to help them feel a little less out of place in the world.” \n*** \nDONNA MISSAL \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nOn her debut album This Time\, L.A.-based singer/songwriter Donna Missal shows the elegant collision of elements at play in her music: a poet’s command of tone\, a soul singer’s boundless intensity\, a bedroom musician’s willful embracing of intimacy and experimentation. Along with channeling the raw passion she first ignited by playing in rock bands in her homeland of New Jersey\, This Time expands on the melodic ingenuity displayed in recent singles like “Driving” and “Thrills.” Above all the album is a testament to the sheer force of Missal’s voice\, a dynamic but delicate instrument that achieves a beautifully nuanced expression even as she belts her heart out. \nWith its title taken from a track Missal co-wrote with her frequent collaborator Sharon Van Etten\, This Time is an uncompromisingly honest look at living entirely on your own terms. “I’ve spent most of my life being hyper-focused on time\, which I think is something that a lot of women obsess over\,” says Missal. “We’re in such a rush to make things happen\, when really we should take the time to figure out what we actually want out of life. And even though it’s so fucking hard to have that kind of patience\, I think it’s so important to believe in yourself enough to let things develop in a way that feels right to you.” \nProduced by Tim Anderson (Solange\, BANKS\, Halsey)\, This Time matches that defiant spirit with a sound inspired by the rule-bending sensibilities of mixtape culture. Blending elements of soul and hip-hop and rock-and-roll\, Missal shaped This Time’s sonic landscape partly by laying live recordings down on tape\, then sampling those recordings to imbue her songs with a fresh yet timeless energy. Much of that live recording took place at the iconic Different Fur Studios in San Francisco\, with the sessions headed up by Missal and Nate Mercereau (a musician known for his work with Leon Bridges). “I really wanted this album to reference my history of playing in bands\,” Missal points out. “It’s all these very pure\, talented musicians playing together in a room\, but then we took that and sampled it and altered in a way that creates something totally new.” \nThroughout the album\, Missal brings her time-warping but gracefully arranged sound to songs that capture the most specific of emotions. Crafting her lyrics with the kind of idiosyncratic detail that instantly etches each line onto your heart\, Missal explores self-empowerment on tracks like “Transformer”—a fiercely charged anthem about “having the courage to take what you want from life\, without apology.” On “Thrills\,” with its softly swaying groove and dreamy guitar tones\, Missal’s voice soars and shatters as she muses on self-love and sexual confidence. “‘Thrills’ is about owning what makes you real\,” says Missal. “There is a shift happening in our societal standards of beauty and sexuality\, and the more we embrace our flaws the closer we become to effecting real change. I’d love for people to hear the song — and not just women\, but anyone who feels disenfranchised— and remember that being sexy and confident comes from self-acceptance.” \nElsewhere on This Time\, Missal infuses social commentary into songs like “Girl”: a stripped-back yet intricately textured track that unfolds with both gentle playfulness and piercing vulnerability. “I wanted to address this idea that women need to be pinned against each other in order to succeed\, or need to point out the flaws in other women just to feel good about themselves\,” says Missal. “That kind of thinking has been around forever\, and it doesn’t feel like it’s going away—but the more we talk about it\, the better it’s going to get.” And on “Driving\,” Missal delivers one of the album’s most mesmerizing moments\, with her flowing melody\, hypnotic rhythms\, and ethereal vocals merging with a quiet grandeur that’s simultaneously escapist and inspiring. “‘Driving’ is about being on the precipice of taking control over your life—that feeling of seeing something you want in the distance and making the decision to go for it\,” says Missal. “It’s about saying ‘Even if it takes a long time\, or I hit some bumps along the way\, it’s all okay because I’m the one behind the wheel.’” \nFrom song to song on This Time\, Missal shows a natural musicality she credits to her father\, a former session drummer and songwriter who ran his own studio in Manhattan. Born in New York\, Missal moved with her family to New Jersey as a kid\, and grew up playing with the vintage microphones and 16-track tape machine her dad kept in the basement. “Every year he’d have us make Christmas albums for my grandparents\,” recalls Missal\, who’s one of six children. “We’d go out and buy these instrumental CDs of Christmas songs and he’d record us singing over it\, and as we got older we moved onto making our own arrangements and playing the instruments ourselves\,” says Missal. “It was my first experience in singing and I just fell in love with it.” \nWhen Missal was 10\, her parents enrolled her and her siblings in a summer program at a local community theater\, mainly as a way for the home-schooled family to interact with other kids. That program immediately sparked a love of performance in Missal\, and helped her to develop the remarkable vocal range that now gives her music so much vitality. During her high school years she joined a theater program at a vocational school in a nearby town\, but decided against furthering her education at a conservatory. “I was looking at all these schools that cost up to 40 thousand dollars a semester\, and it just didn’t feel right\,” Missal says. “Senior year I told my teacher that I didn’t think that was my path\, so he graduated me four months early\, and then I joined a rock band.” \nMissal stuck with her band for several years\, first playing basement shows around New Jersey and later booking gigs in Manhattan. As the band’s lyricist\, she discovered a deep love of songwriting\, and dedicated herself to honing her craft. Eventually moving to Brooklyn\, Missal balanced her time between bartending and writing\, and soon came up with “Keep Lying”—a soulful slow-burner showcasing her full-throated vocal delivery. “At the time I was struggling to understand what I wanted to do with my music\,” says Missal. “I didn’t have the confidence yet to stand behind my vision\, so I thought I could get other artists to cut my songs and just thrive that way.” Although she’d initially planned to use “Keep Lying” as part of her effort to score a publishing deal\, Missal ultimately self-released the demo and landed it in the hands of Zane Lowe\, who premiered it on Beats 1 (and\, in turn\, helped push the demo to the top of Spotify’s Viral charts). \nWhile record companies quickly came calling\, Missal decided to focus on refining her vision\, in part by working with a series of co-writers and producers. After finding a strong creative chemistry with Tim Anderson\, she moved to L.A. and brought This Time to life by way of a deliberately unhurried process. “I allowed myself a lot of time to figure out what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it\, and because of all that I ended up making a record that really reflects who I am\,” she notes. \nHaving signed her deal with Harvest Records in early 2018\, Missal has also recently appeared as a featured artist on Macklemore’s GEMINI\, written songs for the Netflix original series The Get Down\, and supported K.Flay at a pair of sold-out shows. And with the release of This Time\, one of her greatest hopes is for the album to impart the same sense of self-discovery that informed its creation. “This isn’t a record about love and loss and relationships\,” Missal says. “It’s about taking chances for yourself\, figuring out who you are and really standing behind that. I made a point of putting myself out there as a real person navigating this life at this moment in time\, because I want to do whatever I can as an artist to help people feel more confident in navigating their own lives. I’d love for the listener to receive the message that you can take your time to learn and love yourself. That’s been the most important discovery that I want to share with this album.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joywave-and-sir-sly/ 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/2018/07/joywave-sir-sly-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:20181021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180821T140040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180822T154425Z UID:10001962-1540148400-1540148400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Bostonand Newport Jazz \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 8/24 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. \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. \n*** \nCory Henry & The Apostles \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“The human voice is so powerful\,” says Cory Henry. “When I’m singing\, it’s like this extra way of connecting and communicating with people beyond what I can do just playing the organ. I’m able to convey these messages that are really important and meaningful to me through my words. Being front and center like this every night\, it’s a challenge\, but I’m up for it.” \nOn the debut album with The Funk Apostles\, ‘Art of Love\,’ organ virtuoso Cory Henry demonstrates that’s he more up for the challenge\, moving from sideman to frontman with seemingly effortless grace and cool. Praised by AllMusic as “one of the finest Hammond B-3 organ players of his generation\,” Henry also proves himself to be a remarkable singer and songwriter here\, one of extraordinary depth and vision. He and the band whip up an intoxicating blend of blues\, soul\, R&B\, Afrobeat\, gospel\, and jazz on the record\, blurring genres and upending expectations at every turn. Simultaneously futuristic and retro\, experimental and classic\, it’s the sound of one of modern music’s most inventive minds coming fully into his own as a bandleader and storyteller. \nA Brooklyn native\, Henry may be best known for his role in Snarky Puppy\, the instrumental jazz-pop orchestra hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the more versatile groups on the planet right now.” He’s won a pair of GRAMMY Awards for his work with the band since 2012\, but Henry’s deft keyboard skills have been blowing minds around the world for more than two decades now. At six\, he made his debut at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater\, and at nineteen\, he joined the touring band of jazz icon Kenny Garrett. Since then\, he’s toured or recorded with everyone from Bruce Springsteen and The Roots to P. Diddy and Yolanda Adams in addition to cracking the Top 10 on Billboard’s Jazz charts with a pair of solo albums. NPR called him “a master” and said his “musical charisma is a match for a nearly 400 pound organ\,” while Keyboard Magazine dubbed his playing “soulful\, church-y\, playful\, restrained\, and virtuosic\,” and The Boston Globe raved that “if anyone’s going to preach the gospel of the Hammond organ\, it should be Cory Henry.” \nThe gospel\, in fact\, is where it all began for Henry. He grew up performing and singing in church (a recent documentary titled ‘Gotcha Now’ features incredible footage of him tearing up the organ there at the age of four)\, but he refrained from sharing his voice with the world outside those holy halls for many years. \n“I just didn’t think my voice was good enough\,” he confesses. “I didn’t think anyone else would want to hear it. But now that I’ve overcome my fear of singing\, I’ve gotten comfortable with my voice\, and it’s become just like another instrument for me.” \nHenry’s vocals on the album are smooth and breathy\, with an intimate delivery that’s alternately understated and ecstatic. While his keyboard playing often draws comparisons to Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock\, Henry’s singing reveals a whole different side of his musical personality\, one that synthesizes everything from Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye to Stevie Wonder and Prince. \n“Every influence that I could think of growing up is in this record\,” reflects Henry. “I’m trying to break the barriers. The word funk is in our name\, but I want people to know that this band is bigger musically than any one genre.” \nHenry pieced together The Funk Apostles’ lineup out of players he met on the road over the years\, and each member of the band is an all-star in their own right. Guitarist Adam Agati\, who co-wrote the album’s lyrics with Henry\, has worked with everyone from Booker T. Jones to Ludacris\, while bassist Sharay Reed has performed with Patti LaBelle\, Aretha Franklin\, Chakha Khan\, and more. Henry met drummer TaRon Lockett while he was playing with Snarky Puppy\, but he’s performed with some of the biggest names in R&B including Erykah Badu and Montell Jordan\, and keyboardist Nick Semrad’s credits include Miss Lauryn Hill\, Bilal\, and Gabriel Garzon-Montano. \nRecorded in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn\, ‘Art Of Love’ was tracked live to tape in an effort both to capture the inimitable energy of the band’s live shows and to channel the warm analog vibes of the 1970’s. While Henry may be renowned for his gifts as an improviser\, the album serves as a showcase for his skills as a songwriter and producer\, rich with intricate arrangements and memorable hooks. That’s not to say it’s without spontaneity\, though. The band worked with minimal rehearsal (Henry estimates they’ve had three in the two years since the band started playing together)\, and several tracks are actually first-take recordings. \nThe driving\, funky “In The Water\,” combines a relentlessly pulse-pounding rhythm section groove with swirling synthesizer underneath Henry’s insistent\, charismatic vocals. Like much of the album\, the song is an examination of love: what it means\, what it takes\, what makes it last. On lead single “Trade It All\,” he offers up a vulnerable\, honest account of the sacrifices he’d make for a lover\, while the sensual and smooth “Just A Word” sets a sultry mood for romance\, and the fluid\, elegant “Our Affairs” finds him asking\, “Babe tell me why / You put me through Hell when Heaven’s where true love resides?” \nAs a writer\, Henry is clearly interested in love beyond just the romantic sense of the word\, though\, often zooming out to take a big picture look at a world that seems to be sorely lacking in it. “Find A Way” is an anthem to making life better through compassion and empathy\, frequent show-closer “Give Me A Sign” is a blues and gospel-tinged love letter to music itself\, and the punchy “Takes All Time” is Henry’s true-life account of his journey to manhood\, his “testimony to love and not rushing to find it.” \nThe album ends on a more political note with “Free\,” a gritty tune inspired by current events that features Henry’s most impassioned vocal performance yet as he promises\, “we gonna fight / live or die for our rights / everywhere.” \n“I want to make music that really means something\,” he explains. “I think of the 60’s and 70’s as this golden era of music\, and if you look at some of the top artists then like Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder\, they were singing about what was happening around them in this creative way that made people want to act. They used music as a tool to reach the world and bring about change to help make it a better place. I want to do that\, too.” \nIt’s an ambitious goal\, to be sure\, but if there’s one thing this album proves\, it’s that Cory Henry is up for the challenge. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cory-henry-the-funk-apostles/ 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/2018/08/Cory-Henry-Photo.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:20181023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180807T130052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180904T180520Z UID:10002674-1540321200-1540321200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Tank and The Bangas / Big Freedia DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nSOLD OUT! \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nTank and The Bangas \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nOriginating in New Orleans\, Tank and The Bangas have all the qualities that relates them\, to the city that birth them but a flair that separates them as well. Their performances range from being “One of the most energetic shows you’ll ever see” to “A gospel tent in Mississippi”. Rummaging through their sound like a thrift store hippie\, you’ll find the Bangas to provoke a musical reference of Rhythmic Soul and Spoken word among other genres such as Rock\, Gospel\, Funk\, and Folk. Combining the various musical techniques among the Bangas\, coupled with the instilling play on lyrics from the lead vocalist; Tank and The Bangas have quilted a unique sound that singles them as one of the most distinctive groups to come out of New Orleans. The group has graced the cover of one of New Orleans most recognized magazines\, “OffBeat” and recently won band of the year at the New Orleans Big Easy Awards. The group has opened for acts such as LiAnne LaHavas\, PJ Morton\, Galactic\, Big Freedia\, The Revivalist\, and The Soul Rebels. Most recently the band was titled as the 2017 NPR Tiny Desk Contest winners. \n*** \nBig Freedia \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe scope of Big Freedia’s impact is undeniable. Over the past few decades\, the New Orleans native has catapulted herself from local favorite to becoming the anointed Queen of Bounce\, sharing some of her high energy flavor on massive hit tracks like Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning “Formation” and Drake’s “Nice For What” while shaping contemporary culture by bringing twerking\, shaking and wiggling to a national platform. \n“I just want to inspire people to understand that New Orleans culture is very special\, it’s a phenomenal place and that we’re on a rise to bigger and better things and we speak it through our music and everyday living down here\,” says Freedia\, who was born and raised in the city’s 3rd Ward. “The pain and suffering that we go through here in New Orleans\, we take it and we flip it around.” \nIt’s the heartbeat of her Asylum Records debut 3rd Ward Bounce\, a fiver-track EP releasing this June. Aerobic\, ceaseless and a touch more mainstream than prior releases\, the project has all the signifiers of Freedia’s brand of Bounce— throbbing instrumentals\, booming vocals\, frenetic handclaps—with even sharper songwriting that pushes her sound into new territory. Lead single “Rent” is all attitude\, rebuffing the type of people who occupy a space in your mind\, while “Karaoke” featuring Lizzo pounds along with robust horns\, intended to become the freewheeling type of anthem that soundtracks a night out of singing. Elsewhere\, the Goldie-assisted “Play” nods to the “slay” echoed on Freedia’s “Formation” collab with Beyoncé\, and “Bomb” plays like a chest-thump\, a nod to all that Freedia’s accomplished. \nIn fact\, it’s hard not to feel Freedia’s presence in pop culture. In addition to high-level appearances on culturally-defining tracks and a string of her own impacting releases\, Freedia has become one of the strongest voices from the South\, in part thanks to Big Freedia Bounces Back on Fuse TV\, a weekly docu-series that’s been on for six seasons and become the network’s highest rated original series. \nIn addition to living life as a member of the LGBTQ community\, she’s consistently used her music to lift listeners of all gender and sexual identity\, using music as a bridge to unite. “I’m a voice for different communities\,” she says. “Live your life and live the best way you know how. Love whoever you choose to love. Be whoever you want to be\, do whatever you want to do. It’s a much broader mission for me to encourage people all over—not just the LGBTQ community but heterosexuals as well to live out they life loud and proud.” \nA former choirboy\, Freedia cut her teeth on the bounce circuit in New Orleans\, quickly garnering national acclaim and becoming a staple on the touring circuit. In the past\, she’s dazzled crowds at festivals spanning Outside Lands to FYF\, as well as sprinkled her Bounce magic on songs from Diplo\, Spank Rock\, Galactic and Elliphant. She’s shared her life in other facets of media as well\, including the critically-acclaimed memoir Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva! on Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster. \nBut at the core\, Bounce music is where Freedia got her start\, and where she continues to touch people most. “When people come to visit New Orleans\, it’s an infectious city: the culture\, the people\, the food\, the whole city\,” she says. “We have so many talented musicians here and people want to taste a little piece of it every time they go somewhere. Bounce is getting ready to keep making a part of history and keep opening doors for the music industry. We are on our rise to people recognizing the music that has been captivating for so long locally here in New Orleans\, and now the world has got a taste. It’s just so infectious\, baby.” \n*** \nNaughty Professor \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nNaughty Professor is an iconoclastic New Orleans-based jazz-funk sextet whose adventurous recordings and horn-charged\, high-energy live performances have earned them an enthusiastic fan base\, critical acclaim\, and widespread attention from their musical peers. \nTheir diligent roadwork has established Naughty Professor as a beloved live act. Weaving together complex\, inventive compositions and loose\, organic improvisation\, the band honors their hometown’s jazz\, R&B and brass-band traditions while looking to the future. \nNaughty Professor raises the stakes on its new album Identity (Release date June 23\, 2017). Where their prior four releases showcased the group’s knack for self-contained instrumental experimentation\, Identity finds the band teaming with a stellar assortment of more than a dozen cutting-edge collaborators\, whose vocal\, instrumental and compositional contributions expand the music into new musical territory. \nIdentity’s prestigious gallery of guests includes Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na\, who’s featured on a pair of tracks\, “Darker Daze” and “Sugar Coat\,” which also features contributions from New Orleans legend Ivan Neville. David Shaw of the Revivalists lends his vocals on “Stray” and singer/guitarist Dexter Gilmore contributes on “I Can’t Sleep At Night.” Additional special collaborators include trumpet player Eric “Benny” Bloom of Lettuce\, percussionist Mike Dillon\, much-lauded jazz vocalist Sasha Masakowski and members of the renowned New Orleans horn outfit Soul Rebels\, who turn up the brass on the album-closer “Funk 4 Lunch.” \n“They’re not just guests\,” explains Naughty Professor drummer Sam Shahin. “The collaborators on this album were chosen because we respected what they do and felt that they could be a complement to our ensemble.” \n“When these kids first started coming up on the scene\, I could tell right away that there was something very special about their energy and music\,” David Shaw comments on his excitement to collaborate with Naughty Professor. “I believe that the sky has no limit for these boys.” \n“My first impression of Naughty Professor was one of amazement\,” Chali 2na notes. “New Orleans is full of musicians that are masters of their craft\, and Naughty P is no exception. They are also perfectionists and students of the game. This is immediately apparent once you hear them play. \n“I am loving the resurgence of jazz combined with this youthful mindstate that musicians have today\,” Chali continues\,” and Naughty Professor is pushing that envelope.” \nThe band recorded each track on Identity live in the studio\, heightening the immediacy of the performances and solidifying the band’s connection with the guest collaborators. The sessions were also documented on video\, with an eye towards releasing a video version of the album. \nA wide range of musical impulses has driven Naughty Professor ever since the band members first convened in 2010\, having met while students at Loyola University’s jazz program. The musicians’ potent collective chemistry quickly won attention on the New Orleans music scene. After graduating\, they began touring\, expanding their audience nationwide. \nNaughty Professor’s first three albums—2013’s Until the Next Time\, 2015’s Out On A Limb and 2016’s live In the Flesh—further raised the band’s national profile. Lauded by critics for having a musical “depth and vision far beyond their young years\,” Naughty Professor’s name regularly appears alongside New Orleans’ veteran luminaries. In 2013\, the band was nominated by Gambit’ Weekly’s Big Easy Music Awards for “Best Emerging Artist\,” and for “Best Funk Band” every year since. Naughty Professor was also nominated in 2015\, 2016 and 2017 by Offbeat Magazine’s Best of the Beat Awards for “Best R&B/Funk Artist.” In the magazine’s most recent poll\, bassist Noah Young and Drummer Sam Shahin were named finalists as the “Best at their Instruments\,” furthering the band’s stellar musical reputation. \nIdentity continues Naughty Professor’s unyielding exploration of their home city’s eclectic musical landscape. “New Orleans is the reason that we were all able to come together\, and it’s the reason we’ve been able to continue making music together\,” says alto and baritone saxophonist Nick Ellman. “We all were drawn to the city\, and we all have a tremendous respect for the history of the music culture in New Orleans. In no way are we a traditional New Orleans band\, and this is not a traditional New Orleans record\, but New Orleans’ musical and cultural traditions have everything to do with how we make music.” \nNew Orleans’ vital spirit is present throughout Identity\, which combines artfully-crafted studio creations with material developed through live performance. “We like being adventurous and cerebral\, but fun is also important\,” Shahin concludes. “We operate with a jazz mentality\, but we like verse/chorus structures. We definitely embrace the idea that we’re bridging the gap between the more thought-provoking side of jazz and popular mainstream music\, and making the whole thing fun and accessible.” \nThe result is Identity\, Naughty Professor’s most potent and ambitious musical statement to date. It is a record that\, by collecting together diverse and disparate musical voices into a seamless whole\, simultaneously honors the past and pushes into the future. \nNaughty Professor are:\nIan Bowman – tenor saxophone\nJohn Culbreth – trumpet\nBill Daniel – guitar\nNick Ellman – alto and baritone saxophones\nSam Shahin – drums\nNoah Young – bass URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tank-and-the-bangas-big-freedia/ 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/2018/08/tank-big-freedia-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:20181026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180529T160057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T170324Z UID:10002639-1540576800-1540589400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Yacht Rock Revue - Night 1 of 2 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nSOLD OUT \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nYacht Rock Revue \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe Yacht Rock Revue is the greatest show on Surf and the finest tribute to ’70s light rock to ever perform anywhere. Ever. Their spot-on renditions of Hall & Oates\, Michael McDonald\, Steely Dan\, and the rest of the Time-LifeInfomercial Catalog have enthralled fans across the United States. It goes without saying they have taken their act to the high seas\, performing showcase sets on music cruises with Weezer\, Kid Rock\, Train\, Zac Brown Band\, Sister Hazel\, and fitness guru Jillian Michaels. \nBy blurring the lines between a tribute\, an original act\, and a comedic troupe\, the Yacht Rock Revue has forged a unique niche market and a special bond with their fans. The band attacks each song as if it were their own\, and the energy exchanged between the band and the crowd has more in common with a stadium U2 show than that of a typical bar band.\nThe band has won accolades ranging from “Best Place to Get Drunk With Your Dad” to “Best Overall Music Act in Atlanta” to “Best Place to Start an Extramarital Affair\,” and has been name-dropped by the New York Times\, Pitchfork\, the Guardian UK\,Spin\, TimeOut New York\, Billboard\, MTV.com\, and (probably) your mom at her last cocktail party. \nSpeaking of name-dropping\, members of the band have played on-stage with members of Weezer\, Billy Joel\, Walter Egan\, .38 Special\, John Mayer\, Zac Brown Band\, Little River Band\, Sheryl Crow\, Noel Gallagher\, Starbuck\, Sarah McLachlan\, Don Henley\, Lynyrd Skynyrd\, Neil Finn\, Jellyfish\, Devo\, Nine Inch Nails\, Joan Jett\, Wet Willie\, Bon Jovi\, Skid Row\, and the Saturday Night Live Band. (None of those were a joke.) URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yacht-rock-revue-night-1-of-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/2018/05/yacht-rock-revue-admat-fall-2018-soldout-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:20181027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180529T160015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T170205Z UID:10002641-1540663200-1540675800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Yacht Rock Revue - Night 2 of 2 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! Tickets for the Fri. 10/26 show still available HERE. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nYacht Rock Revue \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe Yacht Rock Revue is the greatest show on Surf and the finest tribute to ’70s light rock to ever perform anywhere. Ever. Their spot-on renditions of Hall & Oates\, Michael McDonald\, Steely Dan\, and the rest of the Time-LifeInfomercial Catalog have enthralled fans across the United States. It goes without saying they have taken their act to the high seas\, performing showcase sets on music cruises with Weezer\, Kid Rock\, Train\, Zac Brown Band\, Sister Hazel\, and fitness guru Jillian Michaels. \nBy blurring the lines between a tribute\, an original act\, and a comedic troupe\, the Yacht Rock Revue has forged a unique niche market and a special bond with their fans. The band attacks each song as if it were their own\, and the energy exchanged between the band and the crowd has more in common with a stadium U2 show than that of a typical bar band.\nThe band has won accolades ranging from “Best Place to Get Drunk With Your Dad” to “Best Overall Music Act in Atlanta” to “Best Place to Start an Extramarital Affair\,” and has been name-dropped by the New York Times\, Pitchfork\, the Guardian UK\,Spin\, TimeOut New York\, Billboard\, MTV.com\, and (probably) your mom at her last cocktail party. \nSpeaking of name-dropping\, members of the band have played on-stage with members of Weezer\, Billy Joel\, Walter Egan\, .38 Special\, John Mayer\, Zac Brown Band\, Little River Band\, Sheryl Crow\, Noel Gallagher\, Starbuck\, Sarah McLachlan\, Don Henley\, Lynyrd Skynyrd\, Neil Finn\, Jellyfish\, Devo\, Nine Inch Nails\, Joan Jett\, Wet Willie\, Bon Jovi\, Skid Row\, and the Saturday Night Live Band. (None of those were a joke.) URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yacht-rock-revue-night-2-of-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/2018/05/yacht-rock-revue-admat-fall-2018-soldout.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:20181028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180507T140045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181001T145058Z UID:10001919-1540753200-1540753200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Gallant DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show has been cancelled. Refunds are available at point of purchase. \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. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. 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. \n*** \nGallant \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nJamila Woods \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/gallant/ 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/2018/05/Gallant-admat-2018-854x1200.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:20181029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180604T160002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T200637Z UID:10002642-1540839600-1540839600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Dermot Kennedy DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \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. \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. \n*** \nDermot Kennedy \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThere’s a sign on the house Dermot Kennedy has called home for 25 years. “Cois Coille\,” it reads: Irish for “beside the forest\,” a nod to the vast mountains and huge sprawl of trees not far from his front door. “Whenever I’ve been away\, eventually I need to come back and reset\,” admits the fast-rising star\, who grew up here in Rathcoole\, a village nestled between the wilderness of County Kildare and the frantic bustle of Dublin. It’s a contrast that also exists at the heart of his music: rustic\, tender singer-songwriter laments full of scenic beauty\, set to urban\, electronic beats. “I really like that clash\,” he explains of his acclaimed mix of intimate\, guitar-led storytelling and hip-hop-inspired production. “Making those two worlds collide is really exciting to me.” \nHe’s not the only one who’s excited. Since the release of his stunning April 2017 EP\, Doves and Ravens\, and follow-up single ‘Moments Passed’\, Kennedy has shot to over 80m plays on streaming platforms\, been hailed as a “big\, beautiful and bold” new voice by Beats 1’s Zane Lowe\, won praise from everyone from TIME Magazine to Wonderland. He’s also supported Lana Del Rey and worked his way on the radar of rap super producer Mike Dean\, best known for his work with Kanye West and Travis Scott\, with whom he’s currently cooking up a mixtape. \nRegularly compared to Bon Iver – whose For Emma Forever Ago album was a turning point in Kennedy’s musical adolescence (“he just blew my mind”) – the 25-year-old describes his songs as struggles between two extremes: light and dark\, love and loss\, life and death\, happiness and sorrow. “All my tracks sort of toggle between two themes\, even within the same song: it can go back and forth from line to line\,” he says. The deeply personal ‘Moments Passed’\, for example\, was dragged from the rubble of a time of simultaneous pain and blossoming romance for the young Irishman\, who was both mourning the death of a friend and falling in love when he wrote it. “Sometimes it’s hard to pin a song down. More often it’s a battle between two opposites like that.” \nKennedy got his first guitar aged 11\, and “got serious” aged six years later\, before a chance encounter with another of his musical heroes gave him his first big break. Beloved Irish songwriter Glen Hansard had been walking through Dublin when Kennedy spotted him one day in the street\, around the time of his first recordings. “I invited him to the studio\,” Kennedy recalls. “He couldn’t make it\, but he called back and offered me ten minutes onstage at his sold-out Christmas show.” The youngster performed his 2016 single ‘After Rain’ and the response was immediate: the track went on to rack up a staggering 33m million streams on Spotify. ‘Moments Passed’ – now with a spectacular video directed by Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar collaborator Nabil – won’t be far behind. \nWith new music set for release in early 2018 and bigger\, better live shows around the corner\, momentum is building quickly behind Kennedy. Not that he’s really noticed: the 25-year-old is too focused on pushing his artistic boundaries on his upcoming debut album to pay attention to any hype. “Having spent a lot of time in the acoustic world\, it felt really good to do something new and push myself out of my comfort zone on these recent tracks\,” he says of his increasing electronic experimentation. “I’d be letting myself down if I didn’t chase that\, if I just did what came easy to me.” \nJust don’t expect him to abandon his roots entirely. “I don’t want to go too far. The trick is to be able to strip a song of all its production and for it to still tell a good story that makes you feel something. Certain things run through all sorts of music that appeal to me\, whether that’s a hip-hop artist or a singer-songwriter: honesty and a good story.” Dermot Kennedy’s story\, you get the feeling\, is just beginning. \n*** \nThe Oh’My’s \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFormed by Maceo Haymes and Nick Hennessy\, Chicago soul band The O’My’s have etched out an important place in the city’s music scene. From collaborations with Chance The Rapper and BJ The Chicago Kid to TDE’s Ab-Soul\, The O’My’s bring a traditionally vintage sound to a new era of music in seamless fashion. With a new project slated for 2018\, The O’My’s are ready to capture the hearts of music fans\, both old and young. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dermot-kennedy/ 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/2018/06/C3_Dermot13.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:20181030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181030T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180717T163933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180907T211307Z UID:10001945-1540926000-1540926000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Violent Femmes DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 7/20 at 1PM! \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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nViolent Femmes \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nViolent Femmes formed in 1981 as an acoustic punk band playing on the streets of Milwaukee. Their main influences at that time were Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps\, and The Velvet Underground. Their goal was to rock harder than any other acoustic act on the planet. \nThey were rejected for an audition by a local nightclub and set up outside a Pretenders gig. Chrissie Hynde asked them to open that night’s show. This gave the early Femmes a publicity boost which led to them being invited to play in NYC supporting Richard Hell. A rave review in the New York Times led eventually to a record deal\, which in turn spawned worldwide touring. \nTheir eponymous first album became the first and only album in Billboard history to enter the charts as a platinum album\, eight years after its release. The Femmes became a mainstay of festivals\, clubs and theatres in over 30 countries worldwide in the ensuing three decades. \nMTV’s “Unplugged” show was inspired by the Femmes\, although they never actually appeared on it. Their raw sound and honest lyrical perspective has been cited as an influence by artists as diverse as Pink\, Keith Urban\, The Smiths\, Nirvana\, Lou Reed\, John Cusack\, Mark Morris\, and Wim Wenders. \nViolent Femmes are currently touring in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the release of their first album. \n*** \nYour Smith \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMinneapolis native Your Smith (aka Caroline Smith)\, relocated to Los Angeles after signing to Pulse Recording (DRAM\, Miike Snow\, Gallant\, et. al). Inspired by the history of Laurel Canyon and moving through a city that’s been immortalized in music throughout the ages\, Smith concocted her own sound\, bringing together the funk / R&B “Minneapolis Sound” of her roots and the classic songwriting of the LA folk heroes. Your Smith is currently wrapping up her debut EP\, produced by Tommy English (BØRNS)\, Stint (Gallant\, Aluna George\, NAO)\, and Nicky Davey (Internet\, Syd The Kid)\, arriving on Neon Gold Records (HAIM\, Christine & The Queens\, et. al) this spring. She also recently appeared as a featured artist on alt rapper Rejjie Snow’s debut. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/violent-femmes/ 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/2018/07/Violent-Femmes-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:20181101T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T020000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180724T160051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181003T181841Z UID:10002661-1541106000-1541124000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Fleetmac Wood Presents Rhiannon's Revenge - A Halloween Disco DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 9:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \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. \nPlease note: this show is 21+ with valid ID.. \nOpening 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. \n*** \nFleetmac Wood \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \nWith exclusive remixes and edits crafted for the dance floor\, this DJ set and AV show is not a tribute act\, but a rave that re-frames the music of Fleetwood Mac. Twirling through disco\, techno and house\, DJs Roxanne Roll and Smooth Sailing have taken this dance party from Berlin to Burning Man and shared their passion with like-minded hedonists around the world. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/fleetmac-wood/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Rhiannons-Revenge-Boston-poster.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:20181102T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180723T160006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T161719Z UID:10002660-1541181600-1541194200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pond DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 7/27 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nPond \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhat do you call a group of psychedelic songsters all grown up? A group who were often considered the younger sibling\, who have come into their own? Artists who just released their best piece of work yet\, and musicians who unleashed one of the rowdiest and strongest live touring sets 2014 witnessed? You call them POND. \n2014 unveiled the full-formed POND and the Northern Hemisphere barely survived. POND supported the Arctic Monkeys throughout Australia and then jumped on the next plane to Europe. There\, POND stunned audiences at Primavera Spain + Portugal\, UK festival Field Day\, and brought the house down\, every night\, across their UK/EU headlining tour. Touring with Nick Allbrook (Vocals / Guitar / Astronaut)\, Jay Watson (Drums / Vocals / Dad Jokes)\, Joseph Ryan (Guitar / Bass / Vocals / Actual spaceman)\, Jamie Terry (Keys / Good vibes) and with barely a breather between\, POND tore through North America\, with sell-out shows ranging from one coast to the next\, bouncing between countries like a pogo-stick. Pond’s 6th album “Man\, It Feels Like Space Again” hit the shelves January 23 (AUS) / January 26 (UK/EU) / January 27 (US) 2015\, with more festivals and headline tours booked around the globe to showcase the new tunes and support this stellar album release. \n“Man It Feels Like Space Again” was recorded in Melbourne Australia and once again mixed by buddy Kevin Parker. The band showcased “MIFLSA” songs throughout their first headline tour of the US in October. Starting at a festival in Mexico\, heading to New England\, traipsing through Canada\, and back down the west coast\, POND pondered\, why stop there? After their sold-out Los Angeles Halloween show\, POND ventured south to play music festivals in South America\, where audiences exploded upon hearing “MIFLSA”‘s hits and partied-hard with the melodious entertainers. \nHailing from Perth\, Australia’s POND formed in 2008 after good friends Joseph Ryan (Mink Mussel Creek)\, Nick Allbrook (Mink Mussel Creek\, Allbrook/Avery\, Tame Impala\, Peter Bibby & His Bottles of Confidence)\, and Jay Watson (Tame Impala) hit upon the idea of an all inclusive\, ego-free collaborative\, so the boys immediately recorded their debut album “Psychedelic Mango” with a little help from good friend Kevin Parker (Tame Impala). \nSince the beginning\, POND wrote music and produced records faster than a label could release them. POND followed up “Psychedelic Mango” within months\, releasing “Corridors of Blissterday\,” a frenzied effort recorded live with an eight-piece band in 2009. A year later\, their third album “Frond\,” a kaleidoscopic classic\, dripping with funk and falsetto\, loosely inspired by a diet consisting only of Prince and Fleetwood Mac\, delighted audiences Australia-wide. “Frond”‘s release finally realised industry attention and praise\, solidifying the band and their music in its own right. “Beard\, Wives and Denim\,” their 4th album\, was recorded on a farm a few hours South-West of Perth. “Beard\, Wives\, Denim” is a triumph of the eclecticism and good humor that drives POND. \nUpon “Beard\, Wives\, Denim” release in March 2012\, global attention shined its light upon the Perth gang. A North American tour ensued\, smashing through 31 shows — including 8 at South by South West — where they were one of the most talked about bands of the festival. From there\, they returned home to Australia and sold out a national tour before storming UK and Europe\, causing NME to tout them as the “hottest band in the world right now” as well as proclaiming “Beard\, Wives\, Denim” as “quite possibly the best album released so far this year.” \nIn August 2013\, POND gifted to the world their 5th LP in as many years\, “Hobo Rocket.” “Hobo Rocket” is 40 minutes of perfectly imperfect emotion\, challenging veteran listeners and music reviewers with an evolved and vigorous sound. Singer Nick Allbrook describes the release as the “…kind of mindset of finding our own little place in music\, and being more of a functioning band\, which is what makes it noisier and denser. This one we went as brutally hard as we would at a show. We wanted the songs to sound loose and live.” \nEnthusiasts and music aficionados world-wide agree MIFLSA is POND’s most focused composition to date. This mirrors their touring efforts\, dynamic and enthralling live show\, media buzz and essentially\, the maturation of a musical career a long time in the making. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing growing up\, especially when it’s this much fun! \n*** \nJuan Wauters \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nJuan Wauters was born in Montevideo\, Uruguay and has been living in Jackson Heights since 2002. For five years he performed with\n“The Beets” and released three albums. During this time he was influenced by of a large New York City music community. After the group dissolved\, Juan struck out on his own\, releasing his first solo album (N.A.P.) in 2014. The following year he released his second album\, “Who Me?”\, forging his own creative identity. After promoting these albums\, Juan questioned how he could make a living through his music and still have a rewarding life. It was a time to rethink and evaluate his art and career. \nSince 2016 Juan has covered a lot of ground both physically and artistically. He performed in his homeland for the first time\, directed the movie “Romane” in southwest France and traveled extensively in Latin America. In June 2017\, he went to Mexico City to write music. Up to this point\, most of Juan’s recording had been in English but that all changed when he revisited his Latin roots. He always wanted to write an album while traveling as both time and place have a unique influence on music. While in Mexico he was offered a role in a movie in Argentina so he packed his hundred pound studio in two suitcases and went. After filming the movie\, he recorded songs in Argentina\, Uruguay\, Chile\, Peru\, Mexico and Puerto Rico. At every stop Juan sought out artistic collaboration – especially with musicians who had different traditions and energies specific to region. \nThough recorded entirely in Spanish\, Juan’s music still retains a New York style. The first of a trilogy\, this special album “La Onda de Juan Pablo”\, reflects the best of all cultures and influences. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pond/ 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/2018/07/POND-July2018Press-720x720.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:20181104T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180807T132153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180807T132246Z UID:10002675-1541363400-1541363400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Peggy Zina: North American Tour DESCRIPTION:Doors @ 7:30pm \n———————— \n21+ \nValid US Government ID or international passport required for entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/peggy-zina-north-american-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/2018/08/PeggyZina-Royale.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:20181105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181105T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180730T220022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180914T183505Z UID:10002671-1541444400-1541444400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Maggie Rogers - Night 1 of 2 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nThis show is ALL AGES. 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nMaggie Rogers \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMaggie Rogers is a producer\, songwriter and performer from Easton\, Maryland. After her education at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, she released her breakout single “Alaska” and subsequent critically acclaimed debut EP\, Now That The Light Is Fading. “Alaska” has since charted in Spotify’s Viral 50 in 40 countries\, hit #1 in 23 countries and now has over 100 million global combined streams to date. The BBC\, Tidal\, Google Play\, Vevo\, Pandora and numerous publications – including Rolling Stone\, NYLON\, SPIN\, Billboard and more – have tipped her as an artist to watch. NPR named her one of its Favorite Musicians and The New Yorker declares\, “Maggie Rogers is an artist of her time.” \n*** \nMallrat \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMallrat is the Hannah Montana of the rap game. Australian newcomer’s debut EP Uninvited features Spotify & blog favorites\, collecting over 9 million plays on Spotify\, and support from tastemakers Lorde\, Chloe Moretz\, BBC’s Zane Lowe\, KCRW\, NME\, Triple J\, Noisey/Vice\, Kitsune and many more\, with several #1s tracks on Hype Machine “Most Popular” chart. \nMallrat shot to attention as a 16 year old with her incredible indie hip hop/electronica/pop-rap hybrid track “Suicide Blonde” gathering praise from the good folks at Triple J and international tastemakers like Hilly Dilly\, Pigeons and Planes\, Pilerats and many others. Next up for Mallrat was “Sunglasses\,” with just the right combination of tropical electro sounds\, darkly skewed rapping and an incredible summertime chorus. And then at 17\, Mallrat dropped her debut EP and new jams “Inside Voices\,” “Uninvited\,” “Tokyo Drift” and “For Real” landed at the top of Hype Machine\, while setting new benchmarks in combining surgical insight\, blissful melancholy\, and indie pop sensibilities. \nIt’s a unique slice of modern nostalgia\, with a lyrical maturity way beyond her years. Mallrat delivers bittersweet records layered with danceable\, relatable disconsolation. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/maggie-rogers/ 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/2018/07/maggie-rogers-admat-2018-2soldout.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:20181106T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180803T130059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180914T183551Z UID:10002673-1541530800-1541530800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Maggie Rogers - Night 2 of 2 DESCRIPTION:SECOND SHOW ADDED DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND! \nPresented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nThis show is ALL AGES. 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. \n*** \n \n*** \nMaggie Rogers \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMaggie Rogers is a producer\, songwriter and performer from Easton\, Maryland. After her education at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, she released her breakout single “Alaska” and subsequent critically acclaimed debut EP\, Now That The Light Is Fading. “Alaska” has since charted in Spotify’s Viral 50 in 40 countries\, hit #1 in 23 countries and now has over 100 million global combined streams to date. The BBC\, Tidal\, Google Play\, Vevo\, Pandora and numerous publications – including Rolling Stone\, NYLON\, SPIN\, Billboard and more – have tipped her as an artist to watch. NPR named her one of its Favorite Musicians and The New Yorker declares\, “Maggie Rogers is an artist of her time.” \n*** \nMallrat \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMallrat is the Hannah Montana of the rap game. Australian newcomer’s debut EP Uninvited features Spotify & blog favorites\, collecting over 9 million plays on Spotify\, and support from tastemakers Lorde\, Chloe Moretz\, BBC’s Zane Lowe\, KCRW\, NME\, Triple J\, Noisey/Vice\, Kitsune and many more\, with several #1s tracks on Hype Machine “Most Popular” chart. \nMallrat shot to attention as a 16 year old with her incredible indie hip hop/electronica/pop-rap hybrid track “Suicide Blonde” gathering praise from the good folks at Triple J and international tastemakers like Hilly Dilly\, Pigeons and Planes\, Pilerats and many others. Next up for Mallrat was “Sunglasses\,” with just the right combination of tropical electro sounds\, darkly skewed rapping and an incredible summertime chorus. And then at 17\, Mallrat dropped her debut EP and new jams “Inside Voices\,” “Uninvited\,” “Tokyo Drift” and “For Real” landed at the top of Hype Machine\, while setting new benchmarks in combining surgical insight\, blissful melancholy\, and indie pop sensibilities. \nIt’s a unique slice of modern nostalgia\, with a lyrical maturity way beyond her years. Mallrat delivers bittersweet records layered with danceable\, relatable disconsolation. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/maggie-rogers-night-2-of-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/2018/08/maggie-rogers-admat-2018-2soldout.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:20181108T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180410T130048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T130048Z UID:10001911-1541707200-1541707200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kamasi Washington DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 4/20 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nKamasi Washington \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhen Kamasi Washington released his tour de force LP\, The Epic\, in 2015\, it instantly set him on a path as a torchbearer for progressive\, improvisational music that would open the door for new audiences to experience music unlike anything they had heard before. The 172-minute odyssey featuring his 10-piece band\, The Next Step\, was littered with elements of hip-hop\, classical and R&B music\, all major influences on the young saxophonist and bandleader\, who exceeds any notions of what “jazz” music is. \nReleased to critical acclaim\, The Epic won numerous “best of” awards\, including the American Music Prize and the Gilles Peterson Worldwide album of the year. Washington followed that work with collaborations with other influential artists such as Kendrick Lamar\, Run the Jewels\, Ibeyi\, and John Legend\, and the creation of “Harmony of Difference\,” a standalone multimedia installation during the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. \nThe fulfillment of Washington’s destiny begin when at age 13\, Washington picked up his musician father’s horn and proceeded to play the Wayne Shorter composition “Sleeping Dancer Sleep On” despite never touching a saxophone or knowing how to play. After deciding to commit to his instrument\, he became\, lead tenor saxophone chair at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts at Alexander Hamilton High School\,\, where he started his first band—Young Jazz Giants—with pianist Cameron Graves\, Thundercat\, and Ronald Bruner\, Jr. \nWashington received a full scholarship to the University of California at Los Angeles\, where he studied ethnomusicology. He recorded his first album with Young Jazz Giants during the summer following his freshman year. The quartet’s self-titled debut was dripping with maturity well beyond the players’ collective age\, and with Washington penning four of the album’s seven original songs\, became a platform to spread the “now” sound of jazz all around the country. \nFollowing his sophomore year at UCLA\, Washington went on his first national tour with West Coast hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg\, performing alongside some of the most talented young musicians in the country. Later that year\, the young saxophonist joined the orchestra of Gerald Wilson\, one of his biggest heroes. After graduation\, Washington toured with Grammy Award-winning producer\, singer and songwriter Raphael Saadiq\, and later that year\, returned to Wilson’s band on the album In My Time. \nHis mass appeal continues to grow drawing vibrant\, diverse\, multi-generational crowds to his shows at the world’s most prominent festivals such as Coachella\, Glastonbury\, Fuji Rock\, Bonnaroo and Primavera. A prominent journalist recently summed it up best when he wrote “in a millennium largely absent of anything new or captivating in the jazz idiom\, Washington has just unleashed a musical hydra grounded in respect and intimate knowledge of the past and striking far out into a hopeful future.” Next up for Washington is the highly anticipated Harmony of Difference EP\, due for release this Fall and his sophomore album slated for 2018. \n*** \nButcher Brown \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nButcher Brown is an up-to-the minute throwback to the great progressive jazz bands of the 60s and 70s. They are a hard-working band in an era where most groups are fleeting assemblages\, together only long enough to record. Their organic coherence emerges from long collaboration as a group of equals rather than a top-down\, leader/sideman lineup. They are building their audience by any means necessary\, combining a conventional\, label-oriented approach with releasing “underground” tapes\, disciplined rehearsal and engaging\, adventurous performance. \nThis musical maturity is surprising in such a youthful band. The players in Butcher Brown were all born after the mid-70s golden age of fusion. But their modern\, hip-hop-inflected funk has rich echoes of Weather Report\, Return to Forever\, early Earth Wind and Fire and\, perhaps\, a pungent whiff of Zappa. Like those bands\, Butcher Brown’s unified sound comes from the intertwined talents of the four members\, each bringing something unique to the mix. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kamasi-washington-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/2018/04/kamasi-washington-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:20181109T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181109T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180710T160529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T171125Z UID:10001953-1541788200-1541799000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Toro Y Moi DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 7/13 at 11AM! \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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nToro Y Moi \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBorn and raised in Columbia\, South Carolina\, Chaz Bear (formerly Bundick) has been actively involved in music going back to his early teenage years playing in punk and indie rock bands. Bear unveiled his Toro y Moi guise in 2001\, in which he began incorporating electronics and channeling a wider swath of stylistic influences — from indie rock and ’60s baroque pop to ’80s R&B\, French house\, and underground hip-hop — into his own solo music. By the time he graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2009 with a BA in graphic design\, Bear had refined Toro y Moi into a truly unique\, captivating project\, with numerous music magazines and blogs touting his hazy recordings as the sound of summer. His Carpark-released debut album\, Causers of This\, would follow in early 2010 and garnered high praise in many publications including NME and Pitchfork. \nWith each subsequent record\, Bear revealed himself to be as prolific as diverse. From the space-age funk of 2011’s Underneath the Pine to the introspective\, house-tinged pop and soul of 2013’s Anything in Return\, to the ’70s radio gold influences percolating throughout 2015’s What For?\, Bear consistently steered Toro y Moi in new directions while never sacrificing his melodic sensibility or keen ear for arrangements and texture. Although his most recent excursions — last year’s stunning concert film/album\, Live from Trona (featuring an expanded line-up of Toro y Moi’s touring group performing in the California desert)\, and his Star Stuff collaboration with jazz duo the Mattson 2 (just released in late March on Carpark sister label Company Records\, which Bear runs) — were full-band affairs\, his latest Toro y Moi album is a much more personal outing. \nRecorded and produced by Bear in Portland\, Oregon\, between March 2016 and March 2017\, the spacious arrangements mirror the intimate\, soft-hued pop of Boo Boo. Eschewing the traditional rock instrumentation of What For?\, slow-pulsing neon synths and electronics are once again far more prevalent\, with subtle ’80s influences finespun through his song craft. Throughout\, Bear plays all of the instruments\, with the exception of guest spots from Anthony Ferraro (a/k/a Astronauts\, etc. and also Toro y Moi’s live keyboardist) and Madeline Kenney (Company Records recording artist). Toro y Moi’s most reflective album to date\, the woozy contemplations and daydreams of Boo Boo point toward an idyllic path of catharsis for not only the listener\, but for Chaz Bear himself. \n*** \nDizzy Fae \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \nDizzy Fae is a 19-year old alternative R&B artist based in St. Paul. As a student of dance (TU Dance) and vocal performance (Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts)\, Dizzy developed an eclectic style that has landed her on stages alongside The Internet\, Kehlani\, Poliça\, Empress Of\, and Jorja Smith. Her debut track “Color Me Bad” debuted on Zane Lowe’s Beats1 radio show while she sat in senior-year vocal class\, and shortly after graduation she embarked on a sold-out US tour with Lizzo. Her debut project Free Form mixtape—produced by Psymun (The Weeknd\, Corbin) and Su Na (GoldLink\, Gallant)—released in February 2018 to widespread indie acclaim. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/toro-y-moi/ 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/2018/07/Toro-y-Moi-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:20181111T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181111T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180814T130010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180816T170513Z UID:10002677-1541964600-1541964600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Dear Jack Benefit Concert feat. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nAndrew McMahon in the Wilderness \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAll proceeds will benefit the Dear Jack Foundation. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization\, the Dear Jack foundation was founded in 2006 by Andrew McMahon and provides quality of life programming to the underserved adolescent and young adult cancer demographic and their families. To learn more visit: www.dearjackfoundation.org URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dear-jack-benefit-concert-feat-andrew-mcmahon-in-the-wilderness/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/andrew-mcmahon-admat-2018.png 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:20181112T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180622T155926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T155926Z UID:10001938-1542051000-1542051000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:St. Lucia DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/29 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nSt. Lucia \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nArkells \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/st-lucia-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/2018/06/st-lucia-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:20181114T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180605T140043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T140043Z UID:10002643-1542225600-1542225600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Wild Nothing DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/8 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nWild Nothing \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Our technology\, our machines\, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves\, and that is what is unique about human beings.” – Ray Kurzweil \nAlthough civilization’s transition into a cyborg world seems inevitable\, there are still those who recognize the beauty and power of a human touch to complement the circumvention. Jack Tatum understands this balance\, and through a decade making music as Wild Nothing he has learned to embrace both sides of that dynamic—but perhaps never as distinctly as on Indigo\, the fourth Wild Nothing album. On one hand\, it is a return to the fresh\, transcendent sweep of his debut\, 2010’s Gemini\, and on the other\, a culmination of heights reached\, paths traveled\, and lessons learned while creating the follow-ups\, Nocturne and Life of Pause. Indigo finds Tatum at his most efficient\, calculated\, and confident—resulting in an artful blend of hi-fi humanity and technology that fires on all circuits and synapses. \nWhereas Gemini was the sound of Tatum making the album he imagined in his bedroom and 2012’s Nocturne was the result of his first turn in a proper studio\, followed by 2016’s Life of Pause\, a multi-studio tinkering odyssey spanning time and spaces\, this 2018 maturation finds Tatum arriving at total creative openness. “My entire 20s have been spent on this project\, and in that sense you inherently find the limitations in what you make\,” Tatum says. “With the last record I was trying to stretch out as far as I could\, but with Indigo I’ve created something that has homed in on its own identity. My life has become less about chasing these creative bursts and more about learning to channel my creativity.” \nEvery note\, every sound\, every breath on a Wild Nothing release is intentional\, and Tatum admits to exhausting every possibility in his quest for perfection—an arc familiar to all artists. Like the novelist who admits to gratuitousness in their early works\, Tatum speaks to learning concision. “I’ve been a musician since age 10\,” he says. “It’s always been fun for me\, and there is always going to be a part of making music that feels like a puzzle: how do I put these pieces together to create something?” \nTo make Indigo\, Tatum confronted the Man vs. Machine dichotomy by seizing on the surrounding synergy. In his studio\, he would write pieces of songs on guitars\, with keyboards\, “in the box” with plug-ins and programs—whatever held his interest on any given day. Sticking to his routine\, he built a series of highly detailed demos\, intending to record the final package swiftly with a live band in a studio and—bucking against the trend of the rougher sound of Wild Nothing’s peers—in a clear\, bright\, 1980s-inspired fidelity. “I’ve finally accomplished a hi-fi sounding record\,” Tatum reflects. \nOn Indigo\, Tatum balances resources and influences. “I wanted it to sound like a classic studio record\, as close as I could get it there. It just boils down to me wanting to fit into some larger narrative\, musically\, in terms of these artists I love.” Tatum elaborates\, “The records that have influenced the actual sound of Indigo are by Roxy Music\, Kate Bush\, and Fleetwood Mac; Roxy Music’s Avalon is one of my favorite records ever. I think about how my music will age. Ideas of ‘timeless’ are going to be different—so if Indigo is not timeless then it’s at least ‘out of time.'” \nFinding the right people to work on the album was integral\, as was the proper place to record it. Tatum booked four days at Sunset Sound’s Studio and hired drummer Cam Allen and guitarist Benji Lysaght to track the record live while Tatum played bass. Afterwards\, producer Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink\, Gang Gang Dance\, Japanese Breakfast) and Tatum built out the rest of the album’s sound by adding new parts and repurposing sounds from Tatum’s demos. The pair mixed the album in Denver in ten days\, and Tatum brought it back to his Glassell Park studio in Los Angeles for polishing. \nThe resulting Indigo is its own cyborg world\, utilizing the artful mechanisms of human touch with the precision of technology to create the classic\, pristine sound Tatum had been seeking his entire career. From the opening drum beat\, chiming guitar\, and sweeping synth of “Letting Go” to Tatum’s Bryan Ferry vocal turn on “Oscillation” to the ’80s-heavy blips\, clicks\, and strut of “Partners in Motion\,” it’s clear that Indigo is at once vintage Wild Nothing and a bold\, new leap into a bigger arena. As for the album’s title\, Tatum points to a lyric in the new song “The Closest Thing To Living”: “Breathe indigo\, it’s the closest thing to living.” “As I was writing that song I was thinking about the way we’ve merged ourselves with AI\, seeing that subtle\, blue iPhone glow on everyone’s faces\, and envisioning this color being representative of our effort to embrace this change in humanity. So it’s about the idea of this backlit reality we all live in\, and how to accept that.” \nThe album ends with the driving\, wide-open skies and epic beat of “Bend\,” solidifying Indigo as a grand achievement in scope and sound by a deft and exceedingly thoughtful artist. Beyond technique\, influence\, time\, and theme\, Tatum has succeeded in extending himself to his utmost capacity. “I don’t write songs because I have super specific things I want to say\, I write songs because I really care about the way instruments work together\, and I really care about being able to think about things as a whole\, sonically\,” Tatum says. “I write songs for the whole package.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/wild-nothing/ 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/2018/06/Wild-Nothing-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:20181115T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180814T130051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181115T165458Z UID:10002678-1542306600-1542306600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Real Friends DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Thu 8/16 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. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages.  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. \n*** \n \n*** \nReal Friends \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \ncomposure [kuh m-poh-zher] noun.\n1. serene\, self-controlled state of mind; calmness; tranquility: \nComposure ultimately empowers. \nBy reaching that sphere of serenity and confidence\, we can achieve our full potential. Real Friends make a major leap towards this space on their appropriately titled third full-length album\, Composure [Fearless Records]. The Tinley Park\, IL quintet—Dan Lambton [vocals]\, Dave Knox [guitar]\, Eric Haines [guitar]\, Kyle Fasel [bass]\, and Brian Blake [drums]—perfect their patented one-two punch of punk and pop\, while penning their most personal tunes to date. \n“We wanted it to be the standout album and literally reclaim our composure\,” says Kyle. “In some ways\, it felt like we were on autopilot or something until now. We had a conversation. We didn’t hold anything back. We devoted one million percent to the music\, were present\, and showed who we truly are.” \nFollowing a whirlwind of touring in support of 2016’s The Home Inside My Head\, the boys dove into writing a year later. They headed to Los Angeles to record with producer Mike Green—who helmed a handful of tracks on The Home Inside My Head. Musically\, they built on this incredible foundation by pushing themselves as writers first and foremost. \n“For us\, it’s truly the definition of a new start\,” Kyle elaborates. “We’re not beating around the bush. On the whole\, we weren’t satisfied with the The Home Inside My Head. We felt like something got lost along the way. It was a really good lesson though. So\, the songwriting became the focus. We aimed to make the most energetic\, dynamic\, and catchiest anthems we could.” \nDespite harnessing instant chemistry with Green\, the process presented a myriad of challenges as Dan’s bipolar disorder worsened. \n“Everything was a huge clusterfuck while we were recording\,” sighs Dan. “I was bouncing off the walls and just losing my mind. I couldn’t control myself. It was hard to pin me down in one direction. I was smoking too much weed. I was getting into trouble. It was a big wakeup call. Everybody finally sat me down and asked\, ‘What the fuck is going on with you? We’ve got to fix something here’.” \nAfter he finished his parts\, Dan found a new psychiatrist in Illinois\, received a different prescription\, enrolled in an outpatient program\, and attended group therapy alongside his bandmates. The vocalist openly shared his journey and struggles on social media\, engendering empathy and eliciting similar stories from the fans. It strengthened the Real Friends community in the process and set the stage for Composure. \nThe album’s first single “From The Outside” hinges on an off-time riff that swings into a confessional chorus as Dan sings\, “From the outside\, I seem fine. On the inside\, I’m \nstill sick. The pill’s a temporary fix.” Each word immediately connects as the music reflects a frenetic and fiery feeling. \n“It’s about the use of medication\, how it doesn’t sometimes work out\, and the feeling of confusion\,” Dan goes on. “The uncertainty can extend to everything in life. We don’t always know what’s good or bad for us. We question why we feel certain ways when things may seem crazy. In bipolar disorder\, untreated mania and depression go wildly out-of-control. With the mania\, I feel invincible. On the other end of the spectrum\, it’s just the opposite. I think we all share similar feelings.” \nMeanwhile\, “Smiling On The Surface” builds from acoustic guitar into another high energy chant. The sweeping dynamic underscores a relatable message written by Kyle. \nWith many tunes about coming-of-age\, the boys tackled another phase of this struggle in the poignant slow burn of “Unconditional Love\,” which is “about how we end up taking care of our parents.” \nIn the end\, Real Friends have certainly come full circle\, found their composure\, and remain ready for their brightest chapter yet. \n“Emotionally\, I hope listeners feel connected to it\,” concludes Kyle. “On a guttural level\, I hope they think it’s our best release so far. That’s what we set out to make.” \n*** \nBoston Manor \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nGrayscale \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSince forming in 2011\, when its band members were only in high school\, the Philadelphia-based quintet—composed of vocalist Collin Walsh\, guitarist/vocalist Dallas Molster\, guitarist Andrew Kyne\, bassist Nick Ventimiglia and drummer Nick Veno—has emerged quickly from the Philadelphia punk scene\, establishing a solid fan base and sharing stages with the likes of Cute Is What We Aim For\, Knuckle Puck\, Neck Deep\, Seaway\, and more. Working with producer Kyle Black (State Champs\, Handguns\, Hit The Lights) for their Fearless Records debut album\, Adornment\, Grayscale has honed their talent of constructing strong hooks\, relatable lyrics and catchy riffs\, all the while coming into their own distinguished sound. Through their unbarred emotion and unique blend of alternative rock and punk roots\, Adornment\, sees the band expand their sonic palette\, further illuminating their skill of creating well-narrated stories paired with palpable emotion that urges listeners to dive in and craft their own narratives. \n*** \nEat Your Heart Out \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nHailing from Newcastle\, Australia\, Eat Your Heart Out—Caitlin Henry [vocals]\, Andrew Anderson [guitar]\, Will Moore [guitar]\, Dom Cant [bass]\, and Jake Cronin [drums]— carry on the tradition of Australia’s impressive history of musical outliers from Nick Cave and Silverchair to The Amity Affliction and Parkway Drive\, but they do so unequivocally on their own terms. The group’s grunge-y pastiche of emo energy\, punk power\, and pop palatability immediately ignited excitement around the world upon their emergence in 2012. Along the way\, the quartet released two EPs\, Distance Between Us (2015) and Carried Away (2017)\, inked a deal with Fearless Records\, and have supported artists such as Trophy Eyes\, Hands Like Houses\, Knuckle Puck\, Real Friends\, and many others. Everything paved way for the group’s 2017 EP\, Mind Games [Fearless Records]\, which shows the band aren’t afraid to open up. Their lyrical honesty ensures that the message resonates loudly in the end. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/real-friends/ 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/2018/08/Real-Friends-Admat-2018-16x20.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:20181116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180710T140017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T202511Z UID:10001950-1542391200-1542403800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Gregory Alan Isakov [Night 1 of 2] DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 7/13 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. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nGregory Alan Isakov \nCredit: Rebecca Caridad \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBorn in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and now calling Colorado home\, horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds. With songs that hone a masterful quality\, telling a story of miles\, landscapes\, and the search for a sense of place\, he has been described as “strong\, subtle…a lyrical genius.” Isakov has recently released an album of his songs played in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony. \n*** \n Leif Vollebekk \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“A friend told me it was Saturn returns and that may be true. I was about to turn thirty and I knew that if I didn’t change direction I was going to end up exactly where I was headed.” \nAt the end of Leif Vollebekk’s twenties\, his own songs didn’t sound right. He had spent an entire year on the road\, playing almost 100 shows\, but every night his favourite moment came only right at the end\, covering a song by Ray Charles or Townes Van Zandt. Every time he got home from tour he took a hot shower and lay still under a window\, listening to Nick Drake’s Pink Moon\, feeling saved\, wondering why his own music didn’t give him that. Why the songs he had written himself always felt like so much work. \nHe booked himself a secret show. One night only at a Montreal dive bar — not to play his own songs but other people’s. Leif found a rhythm section and they rehearsed once. Then midnight unspooled. Leif called it the most fun he had ever had playing music: Ray Charles and Tom Waits over a locked groove; Bob Dylan and Kendrick Lamar over a slow pulse. The light was dark blue and purple. \nIt was time\, Leif understood\, to make a dark blue and purple record. An album of locked groove and slow pulse\, heavy as a fever. And the lesson he learned from singing all those other people’s songs was that none of those other artists seemed worried about anything except laying down their own souls\, flat out. “I used to think\, ‘This will be kinda like a Neil Young song\,’ ‘This will be kinda like a Bob Dylan song\,'” he recalled. “I kinda ran out of people to imitate. And then there was just me.” \nHis first new song came to him on his bicycle. He wasn’t thinking\, wasn’t trying\, but the rhythm\, the chords\, the melody — it all just fluttered up. He tried at first to let it go: the song wasn’t meticulous enough\, it wasn’t studied or conceived. The next morning it still came back to him\, incontestable. “I told myself\, ‘You’re never saying no to a song ever again\,'” Leif said. “I realized I had been saying ‘no’ to a lot of songs\, over the years.” Twin Solitude is what happened when Leif stopped saying no. The songs started coming so fast: fully formed\, impossible. “Vancouver Time” took 15 minutes; “Telluride” took less. It was as if the songs were waiting for him. Instead of obsessing about the details of recording\, “I just showed up to the studio and went\, ‘Let’s see what happens.'” \nWhat happened was\, they got it: “Big Sky Country” and its patient\, coasting tranquility\, “Into the Ether\,” which rides to reverie with the Brooklyn string duo Chargaux. There’s “East of Eden\,” an interpolation of Gillian Welch\, which doesn’t seem like it ever ought to end. For a beautiful album\, Twin Solitude is deceptively brave\, filled with unexpected refrains. “When the cards get stuck together / so hard to pull them apart\,” Leif sings\, “I think your face is showing.” Then: “Ain’t the first time that it’s snowing.” \nYet in its heart\, above all\, Twin Solitude is a gesture back to Leif’s long nights under a pink moon\, when a record was the only thing that could keep him company. Besides a wink to Hugh MacLennan’s novel “Two Solitudes\,” this is the unlonely loneliness of the album’s title. “It isn’t a record I made for other people — it’s the one I made for myself\,” Leif said. “It’s the album I wish I could have put on.” \nListen to it in a rental car in cold weather\, with the windows all rolled up. Listen to it laying by an open window. Listen to it all the way through\, alone. “By the time the last notes die away\, all that’s left should be you\,” Leif told me. “And I’ll be somewhere else. And that’s Twin Solitude.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/gregory-alan-isakov-night-1-of-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/2018/07/gregory-alan-isakov-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:20181117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T115204 CREATED:20180710T140011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T184051Z UID:10001951-1542477600-1542490200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Gregory Alan Isakov [Night 2 of 2] DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis show is now SOLD OUT! Tickets are available for night one on Fri. 11/16 HERE. \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. \n*** \n \n*** \nGregory Alan Isakov \nCredit: Rebecca Caridad \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBorn in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and now calling Colorado home\, horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds. With songs that hone a masterful quality\, telling a story of miles\, landscapes\, and the search for a sense of place\, he has been described as “strong\, subtle…a lyrical genius.” Isakov has recently released an album of his songs played in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony. \n*** \nReed Foehl \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBorn into a musical family\, Reed grew up in a small country town in New England\, listening to his parent’s bluegrass band rehearse in the living room every Thursday night for all of his childhood. From there Reed took to the streets at the early age of 11 performing at Boston’s own Fanuel Hall Marketplace. He then became the front man for the band Acoustic Junction which toured for ten years nationwide and eventually signed with Capricorn/Mercury records. In 2001 he began his solo career with the release of Spark which put him on the map in the publishing world\, garnering placements in both film and television. His 4th solo album\, Lost In The West was released in 2014\, which led him to tour with Gregory Alan Isakov\, Todd Snider and Anais Mitchell\, to name a few. Recently Reed was nominated for a Grammy for his song “Fly” which was covered by the country music star Lee Ann Womack.  Dusty and patient his music is genuine Americana\,  telling stories of the human condition with lyrics and a voice that push the boundaries while paying homage to tradition.  2018 is shaping up to be a big year for Reed as he plans to release his 5th solo record.  Stay tuned… URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/gregory-alan-isakov-night-2-of-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/2018/07/gregory-alan-isakov-admat-2018.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