BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170909T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170909T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170613T213150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170613T213150Z UID:10002519-1504980000-1504992600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Buffalo Tom "Let Me Come Over" 25th Anniversary Tour DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/16 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. \n*** \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nBuffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz\, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 – a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. They thrived on college radio in the late 1980’s and toured extensively in Europe\, the US\, Australia and Japan. In 1992 the band recorded their third album Let Me Come Over with a varied group of songs they had been developing at home and on the road – mixing their live power trio sound with some more acoustic based guitar ballads. The album’s single “Taillights Fade” would become their signature song. \n2017 marks the 25th anniversary of this album\, and to celebrate\, Beggars Arkive will reissue it together with a live album – in fact the first ever live release from Buffalo Tom. The show was recorded in early 1992 just prior to the release of Let Me Come Over at U.L.U. which stood for University Of London Union (and is now known as Student Central). The band mixed the live album at Q Division in Boston\, and it was mastered at Abbey Road. The double LP contains 10 live tracks\, and the cd + digital edition contains the entire show (17 songs). \nBuffalo Tom have never really stopped making music or playing shows\, and 2017 has seen them celebrating the album’s anniversary with commemorative live shows. For these shows\, they have been performing two sets – the first being Let Me Come Over in full\, and the second being favorites from throughout their career. They have also funded a new album via Pledge Music which will see release later this year. \nOn its first two albums\, Buffalo Tom constructed towering guitar-scapes and mastered a naturalistic version of quiet-to-loud dynamics. So\, for its third\, we found Buffalo Tom shedding a bit\, but not all of the skin it had worn and emerging with its charms more front and center. Let Me Come Over is the sound of the trio exiting the insular underground for the wide world of “alternative” rock–but more or less bringing its best moves along with it\, too. Previously loosely linked with fellow travelers Dinosaur Jr. and Uncle Tupelo via a similar three-piece format\, stunning depth of songwriting and association with Boston’s Fort Apache Studios–it’s not hard to imagine Buffalo Tom wanted to stake a claim stylistically. Yet\, LMCO never feels like a break with the past\, it’s a transition. Inside that abstruse cover are undeniably magnificent tunes. \n“Staples” is emblematic of a band in flux with a grungy lyrical conceit rendered with hi-fi guitar squalls. It’s the first single “Taillights Fade\,” however\, where the band appears to find a new comfort zone\, at an unhurried speed where Janovitz’s storytelling and car crash metaphors stand the best chance of making an impression. It plays with quiet-to-loud dynamics\, and as for emotional expression\, it swings for the bleachers–and a place on alternative rock radio. “Mineral” jangles in a similar vein and makes grand gestures. “Darl” and “Larry” (referencing the brothers from the Newhart show I always thought?) are solid but disparate cuts. Colbourn’s “Darl” feels a bit like an outlier with its thrashy feel–it sounds better louder. “Larry” has a sweetness to it that’s augmented by its busker’s strumming. \nReleased as a second single\, “Velvet Roof” had given us a taste of what was newly possible\, a hook-heavy stomper with a densely woven rhythm matched by tight lyric writing–each piece expertly crafted to go into the next\, no frayed ends here–and a snazzy mix by Ron Saint Germain\, a pro who would later bring out the best in Soundgarden. A wailing harmonica solo gives it all a swagger that’s kind of new for the band. “Stymied” summons the emotional intensity of Birdbrain–it’s probably the album’s darkest moment. Somehow both life-affirming and wistful “Porchlight” contrasts with the way “Saving Grace” blazes through the barroom like a ‘Mats tribute. There’s no filler to be found here. “Frozen Lake” sees the band caressing acoustic guitars in comedown mode. \nLet Me Come Over is kind of a short story collection with equal parts thunder and intimacy\, hills and valleys\, last night’s mistakes and tomorrow’s contrition. Ultimately\, it’s possibility\, a sense of ‘hey\, this just might work’ that makes it such a deep spin 25 years later. Let Me Come Over triumphs. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/buffalo-tom-let-come-25th-anniversary-tour/ 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/2017/06/Let-me-come-over-CH-2.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:20170911T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170911T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170521T214315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170521T214315Z UID:10001790-1505158200-1505158200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Dead Cross DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Thu. 5/25 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nDead Cross \n \n[Facebook] [Twitter] \nDave Lombardo\nMike Patton\nJustin Pearson\nMichael Crain \nDead Cross emerged out of a series of impractical schemes\, fallen-through plans\, and last-minute musical experimentation. Shows were scheduled before a single song was written\, fans were formed before even one show was played. The chaos of its creation seems apt; after all\, the band is comprised entirely of artists who have thrived playing tightly-coiled turmoil—intelligent dissonance disguised as disorder. \nConsisting of Dave Lombardo\, Justin Pearson\, Michael Crain\, and Mike Patton\, the impressive\, expansive\, and eclectic list of prior bands collectively played in would be enough to ensure the unyielding ferocity of the music… but a resume isn’t necessary\, here. Dead Cross stands on its own\, speaks volumes with its multilayered evil-genius vocals\, manic guitar riffs\, and brutal rhythms. \n*** \nSecret Chiefs 3 \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK\nTWITTER \nSecret Chiefs 3 is an ever unfolding musical vision. In 2004 on the album “Book of Horizons” it was revealed that Secret Chiefs 3 has always been a general name for seven different bands\, each representing a different aspect of a musical and philosophical intersection. The seven bands are The Electromagnetic Azoth\, UR\, Ishraqiyun\, Traditionalists\, Holy Vehm\, FORMS\, and a yet unheard seventh band. The sub-groups are appearing increasingly under their own names. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dead-cross/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/dead-cross-admat-2017-1.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:20170912T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170629T215603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T215603Z UID:10002528-1505244600-1505244600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kali Uchis DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nShow moved from The Sinclair to Royale due to overwhelming demand!\n All previously purchased tickets honored. Additional tickets on sale now! \nThis event is all ages. \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nKali Uchis \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nKali Uchis (born July 17\, 1993) is a Colombian singer\, songwriter\, producer\, and videographer. She was born in Pereira\, Colombia and raised in Virginia\, United States. \n*** \nPhony Ppl \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPhony Ppl either crash-landed from the past or the future: critics and fans can’t decide. Since throwing warehouse shows around New York in 2011\, the five Brooklyn natives have tossed together vintage astral funk\, soulful complex R&B\, and dusted-out hip-hop which evokes a newfound genre-less form of music originating in the basement of a Bedford-Stuyvesant home studio where the band begin making music together in high school. Co-founded by lead vocalist Elbee Thrie and keyboardist Aja Grant\, whose brother Bari is the bassist\, the band self-released hits like “Why iii Love the Moon” which is featured in EA Sports’ NBA Live 16 and “End of the Night\,” and was praised by none other than Tyler the Creator as one of his favorite songs of 2016. The dynamic quintet also features Elijah Rawk on guitar and drummer Matthew Byas. Together they have been direct support on tours with like-minded experimental performers Theophilus London\, Erykah Badu and The Roots. Their most recent effort\, 2015’s “Yesterday’s Tomorrow” gained rotation on BBC1 and Odd Future Radio\, and the L.A. Times applauded it’s “meteoric rise” via social media\, with the album peaking at #6 on the iTunes R&B chart. The band is releasing a new\, and as of now untitled\, follow up LP in 2017. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kali-uchis/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/kali-uchis-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170913T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170316T161405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T161405Z UID:10001768-1505329200-1505329200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Alison Moyet DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 3/24 at 1PM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nAlison Moyet \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nOn June 16th Cooking Vinyl presents ‘Other’ – the brand new album by pop legend and relentless explorer Alison Moyet. \n“For me\, making a record at this age\, lyrically\, is a different proposition. Observation in most cases replaces emotion. The invisibility of middle/aged woman rather thrills me and instead I\nwatch”\, explains Moyet. \n“Subject matter covers what you might expect from a pop album.  Dyslexia\, locked-out syndrome\, diversity\, Persephone\, doggedness and the Internet. Always asked what a song is about\, I attempted to cooperate\, but in truth though the lyrics incorporated my best attempt to describe what I see and of the meaning that is mine. I want\, who chooses to\, to find their own landscape or indeed none. Some of us have always felt ‘Other’. I no longer wish it were otherwise.” \nDespite Alison’s professing of age\, the music bursts with clarity\, vitality and freshness\, whether in the zingy ‘Lover Go’\, chic laid-back soundtrack-style ‘The English U’\, ‘Beautiful Gun’s nod to her rock and roll roots\, the icy Germanic arpeggios of ‘Reassuring Pinches’ or ambient\, spoken-word poem ‘April 10th’. \nThe hauntingly fragile and sparsely presented title track ‘Other’\, accompanied by a hypnotic video directed by Steve Gullick\, is available as an instant track download when pre-ordering the album. \n‘Other’ finds Alison at the top of her game – making exactly the adventurous electronic pop music she wants to at this moment in time\, with her voice and songwriting both intense\, poetic and thought provoking. ‘Other’ was catalysed by Alison’s fruitful dalliance with producer and song writing collaborator Guy Sigsworth\, who (as well as having worked with Björk\, Goldie and Madonna)\, co-created her last album ‘the minutes’\, which debuted at # 5 in the national charts and won critical acclaim. \nThe new longplayer features backing vocals from Alison’s daughter on ‘The English U’\, which was preceded by her guest appearance on stage at Alison’s Royal Albert Hall show\, and an appearance in the video for ‘When I Was Your Girl’ (from ‘the minutes’). \nIn addition to Alison studying sculpture at college whilst also creating this new release\, other happenings of note since ‘the minutes’ include receiving an Icon Award at Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Awards\, a hot ticket performance with a 32 piece orchestra at Burberry’s London Fashion Week womenswear show\, and her involvement in the RSC’s celebration of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary where Alison composed and performed a new arrangement of Sigh No More Ladies (from Much Ado About Nothing) in their BBC 2 live special. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/alison-moyet/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/alison-moyet-admat-2017.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:20170914T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170720T050029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T050029Z UID:10002535-1505419200-1505419200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:BADBADNOTGOOD DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nBADBADNOTGOOD \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBADBADBADNOTGOOD is the talented young quartet of Matthew Tavares on keys\, Chester Hansen on bass\, Alex Sowinski on drums & Leland Whitty on saxophone. They formed and became inseparable friends at Humber College’s Music Performance program in 2011 and have been on a critically acclaimed\, rule bending musical journey ever since. BBNG took the music world by storm with their 2014 LP\, III\, a brash yet refined record of angular jazz improvisations\, lush ballads\, kraut rock\, & futuristic hip-hop tinged rhythms which led to a couple years of touring the world & collaborating with some of the best and brightest artists around the globe. \nThe boys are back with the new album IV\, their most impressive and highly anticipated project yet. IV continues their forward thinking progression\, sounding something like a jam session in space between Can\, John Coltrane\, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters\, Weather Report\, Arthur Russell & MF DOOM. \nWith tracks like “Time Moves Slow” featuring haunting vocals from Sam Herring of Future Islands\, the syncopated groove of “Lavender\,” a collaboration with Montreal based producer Kaytranada\, the rumbling fusion build of “Confessions Pt. II” featuring Colin Stetson on the bass sax\, “Love” which is highlighted with smokey left field raps from Mick Jenkins & the epic chords of “Speaking Gently\,” IV is an exploration in post-genre virtuosity. Out Summer 2016 on Innovative Leisure Records\, BBNG prove yet again that the possibilities & discovery in their musical quest are infinite. \n*** \nRic Wilson \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nRic Wilson is a 21-year-old Black Self-proclaimed Artist\, Performer and Prison Abolitionist from the South-Side of Chicago. On August 30th\, 2016 Ric dropped his EP “Soul Bounce” and following that weekend he performed at Northcoast Music Festival opening for BASSNECTAR on the Main Stage. Ric now continues to travel the city of Chicago and the Country performing and speaking on social issues. \nRic also\, is one of the 8 delegates chosen to travel to Geneva\, Switzerland in November of 2014 representing the We Charge Genocide coalition. They successfully presented a shadow report and testified at the United Nations\, charging the Chicago Police Department with genocide and torture actions on Black and brown youth within the city of Chicago helping to create a worldwide connection. The trip was covered all over the US and countries foreign including Daily Mail (UK)\, 20 Minuten (Switzerland)\, MSN France\, Japan Times\, Zee News (India)\, Gulf Times (Qatar)\, IOL News (South Africa)\, Straits Times (Singapore)\, Business Reporter (Pakistan)\, Breitbart. \nRic Wilson has been featured on sites such as Noisey\, Ebony\, The Source\,BET\, Chicago Reader\, Okayplayer\, HipHopDx and more. \n*** \nDJ J-Wall \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMusic has long been a positive force in Jeff Wallace’s life. The day he received his first Beatles record\, the sounds and smells of his early concerts\, and the thrill of buying a set of Technics 1200 turntables are all memories he savors. From interviewing his idols to organizing festivals for thousands of people to DJing at clubs\, bars\, and even some “cool” weddings\, Jeff (aka DJ J-Wall) lives for musical experiences. \nThe move from journalist/blogger to event producer to open-format DJ was a natural progression for J-Wall. Music has always been at the center. His love for classic rock\, old school hip hop beats\, and funk has expanded into a boundless quest to mix almost every genre—except country (sorry)—often in the same night\, and with the fun challenge to keep the flow as seamless as possible. \nFrom slumming it in local dives to being a regular on the Boston-craft brewery circuit to spinning at the Paradise Rock Club for his third consecutive Jameson Bartenders Ball\, DJ J-Wall puts both the client and the crowd first. Currently he holds down a Thursday-night residency at The Druid in Cambridge\, now in its fourth year\, a Friday night residency at Foundry on Elm in Somerville\, and is a regular at the legendary Boston-club Good Life\, having spun the award-winning Fresh Produce party multiple times. He is also one of the few DJs regularly on the Night Shift Brewery and Aeronaut Brewery lineups. DJ J-Wall lives for gigs in alternative venues that aren’t obvious DJ spots. The most rewarding gigs can be the most unlikely ones. \nBoston is a rich music town with many unique venues that encourage you to yourself. With that attitude in mind\, J-Wall curates the music program and books the DJs at Brass Union\, a cool restaurant/lounge concept in Somerville\, MA. In that role\, he has worked alongside dozens of highly respected DJs\, many of which have helped him to expand his own chops and build upon his musical IQ. \nThe way people react to music is always evolving\, and that’s what motivates DJ J-Wall to keep digging for that perfect music-driven experience. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/badbadnotgood/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BBNG-admat-2017-11x17.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:20170916T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170916T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170619T180530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T180530Z UID:10001801-1505584800-1505597400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kasabian DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/23 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n***\nKasabian \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nBowie\, Prince\, George Michael\, Brexit\, Trump… by most markers\, 2016 wasn’t a vintage year. Unless you were Serge Pizzorno\, that is. \n“I was just feeling good about everything\,” recalls Kasabian’s guitarist/songwriter/all-round sonic shaman. “I got married\, Leicester City won the league and I’d written my best record yet!”. \nSerge has every right to be upbeat. Kasabian’s sixth album is genuinely the best selection of tunes they’ve put out since they first erupted into the public conscious back in 2004. \nA straight flush of knock out tune after knock out tune\, it could almost be a greatest hits. In fact\, when the day comes to pick an all-time Kasabian starting line-up\, every one of these songs is going to be jossling Club Foot\, elbowing Fire out the way and tugging on Empire’s shirt for a deserved place in the team. \nIts all-killer make up was no accident either. \n“I decided to give myself six weeks to write an album like they used to do back in the day and that became really inspiring” Serge recalls. “I was like ‘Right\, I’m ready to go into the studio and make a guitar album with loads of really good songs on it.’ Which sounds so basic\, but literally that was it. I made sure there was no fat on anything\, it was going to be classic songs\, no self-indulgence\, nothing was going on there that shouldn’t. I’d heard Berry Gordy had said if you’ve not got them in the first four bars then you’re finished\, so I went in with this old school attitude of song-writing.” \nHaving spent day after day sat with his guitar listening to classic songs from Blondie and The Beatles to Nirvana and The Stooges\, picking them apart and distilling the alchemy that made them stand the test of time\, Serge set about crafting his own. Each morning he’d get up\, walk out to his Aladdin’s cave-like studio The Sergery\, weave his way past the lines of guitars\, stacks of vintage synthesizers\, retro gizmos and the enormous\, signed picture of Leicester City defender Steve Walsh and create Kasabian’s entries for the great rock and roll songbook. \n“There was an ambition to save guitar music from wherever the hell it’s going. We’re trying to save it from being written off as just old music. We wanted to make a very positive album full of hope with guitars to remind people that it doesn’t have to sound like some old-fashioned bullshit next to whatever’s coming out\, that it’s still relevant\,” he states. “That was the plan\, and that’s what we’ve made.” \nP.T.O \nLike Beastie Boys slam dancing into French electro thumpers Justice\, spilling their pint and then taking it outside\, Ill Ray (The King) kicks the doors of For Crying Out Loud open with grandstanding intent. A riotous eruption that takes the self-aggrandisement of the best hip hop diss tracks and delivers it with a fistful of Leicester-bred piss-taking. \n“I love that hip hop arrogance. I don’t think there’s any other band that goes out like an MC telling everyone how much better they are than everyone else\,” says Serge. “It’s playful and you’re in on the joke. Of course you don’t fucking really think that\, if you really thought that you’d be a dick\, but it’s great to say and it’s funny.” \nFlick through any interview with Serge or Tom Meighan from the past ten years and their give-a-fuck sense of humour and delight in the absurd is plain to see. Perhaps more so than on any other Kasabian record\, it’s all over For Crying Out Loud. \nTake the opening (punch) line in Wasted’s Love-like\, alluring mystique – “Summer is here\, so I am told… but you won’t catch me in my shorts” – or the fact that the galloping Come Back Kid transposes a Peckinpah-esque standoff into a Leicester Poundshop. I mean\, you probably won’t get Drake telling a rival he “smells like hotel soap”. \n“I had way more fun with the lyrics on this one and I was way more honest as well\,” he chuckles. “It’s me on the page – shit I hear\, shit I’ve talked\, the language I use.” \nThe New York punk funk fun of You’re In Love With A Psycho is a case in point. Its ludicrously catchy slink detailing sharing chips outside the bargain booze shop after a night out with someone you can’t get enough of\, but who always turns out to be a bit of a handful after a few. \n“It’s not literal\, it’s not like a knife scene in the shower. It’s more like someone telling you a story about a past relationship and they go\, ‘You know what mate\, she was mental…’” he laughs. “It’s got one of those hooks\, the groove is just irresistible.” \nWhereas before he might have delighted in taking a relatively straightforward tune and sticking an extended Krautrock freakout or glitching techno breakdown in the middle\, this time around Serge made a point to restrain himself and instead fills any spare nook or cranny with a perfectly executed middle eight\, a deft countermelody or yet another hands-in-the-air chorus. \n“I’d always go\, ‘Here’s a really pop tune and then there’s this bit that’s in another fucking realm\,” he notes. “But I thought\, ‘No\, I’m not going to do that this time\,’. It was really hard! \nOf course\, rules are there to be broken too\, so Serge can also treat himself to an extended 12” -style workout on Are You Looking For Some Action’s party tune vibe. Whisking its one nation under a groove off down a rabbit hole of ESG-inspired basslines\, piano house and squealing Roxy Music saxophones. Otherwise though\, he’s resolutely kept to the mission statement. \nThe spangled gonzo glam of Good Fight is such an unadulterated melodic pop wallop you can imagine Marc Bolan pouting his way through it on an old episode of Top Of The Pops. Similarly\, a late edition to the album making process Bless This Acid House was written as an antidote to the overwhelmingly negative feelings Serge had fortunately managed to sidestep. “I thought the world was caving in\, it’s a mad time you know\,” he notes\, “but I thought that everybody had had their say\, so that tune is just pure positive energy.” \nIt’s an exhilarating endorphin rush that neatly cues up Put Your Life On It\, a song Tom Meighan – not unreasonably – declares to be “as good as Let It Be.” Building from a pared-back Plastic Ono Band stomp into a planet-sized love-bombing of a singalong. Or\, if you will\, a song that was built for crying out loud. \n“It was always the thing that my dad and grandma would say before giving you a clip round the ear\, but when I wrote it down it had this double meaning\,” Serge points out. “It’s funny that something you heard as a kid could explain what this music is: it’s music for singing your fucking heart out to.” \nSounds exactly like what 2017 needs. \nKasabian’s new album ‘For Crying Out Loud’ is released May 5th. \n***\nThe Sheila Divine \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nTHE MORBS by The Sheila Divine \nCurrent Lineup 2014\nAaron Perrino (Vocal/Guitar)\nJim Gilbert (Bass)\nRyan Dolan (Drums)\nBrian Charles (Guitars/Vocals/Producer) \nFormer Members\nColin Decker (Guitar)\nShawn Sears (Drums) URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kasabian/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Kasabian-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170918T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170509T171150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T171150Z UID:10002507-1505764800-1505764800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 5/12 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n***\nNick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nWhat’s in a name? \nChet Faker took everyone by surprise. Including Nick Murphy. \n“It was always meant to be a temporary project\,” says Murphy of his musical moniker. “But so much has changed. And I moved through some things. To the point where I finally realised\, Holy shit this isn’t temporary. This is not the be all and end all of what I want to do.” \nAt 28 Murphy has done a lot. Emerging in 2012 with the Thinking in Textures EP\, Murphy took Chet Faker international with the release of his self-produced 2014 debut LP\, Built on Glass. \nAs Chet Faker\, Murphy has performed sold out shows on five continents\, and appeared at the likes of Coachella\, Lollapalooza\, Glastonbury\, and Primavera. He performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show\, Boiler Room\, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!\, and Built on Glass won Murphy five ARIAs\, including Best Male Artist and Producer of the Year. His tracks have been streamed in the tens of millions. \nSo why put that recognition in jeopardy? \n“Chet Faker was me trying to prove something to myself\,” says Murphy. “But my tastes are pretty dynamic and I realised I’ve spent time resisting that. Now I want put everything in. It’s not conceptual anymore. It’s just me\, and it made sense to show that in a name. It feels like a rediscovery.” \nThat feeling brings Murphy full-circle. Thinking in Textures came easily — something he conjured between study and work commitments. But making Built on Glass was difficult. “Everything had to be finished to perfection\,” he says. “I recorded it alone. I was so meticulous. I think now I was punishing myself just to see if I could do it.” \nIts success\, creatively and commercially\, proved he could. In early 2015 Murphy moved to New York and began stockpiling new ideas. By early 2016 he’d sketched out the beginnings of a second Chet Faker album\, and flew to Rick Rubin’s Shangri La studios in Malibu to begin work. Then\, a hitch. \n“I remember having this ‘ah-ha’ moment\,” says Murphy. “I was in Shangri La. I could do whatever I wanted. And I thought\, ‘OK. Well\, I’ve ‘made it.’ But how do I feel about the music? I didn’t like it. I wasn’t getting anything from it. And I think that’s where all this stemmed from.” \nMurphy returned to New York emboldened. He sought new dialogues with friends\, most notably guitarist and producer\, Dave Harrington (Darkside). The explorations he’d left behind when establishing Chet Faker returned as fresh creative avenues. By the time he released the brooding ‘Fear Less\,’ under his own name\, followed by ‘Stop Me’ in mid-2016\, he knew everything was different. \n“This huge wave came out\,” says Murphy. “And I broadened the framework. Instead of having to make finished tracks\, I could just explore. That felt like the missing link between where I was and where I’m going now.” \nThe Missing Link EP is a snapshot of that wave in motion. Opener ‘Your Time\,’ bears traces of Murphy’s previous incarnation\, but the central motif of ‘Bye’ is voice-less distortion. ‘I Am Ready’ embraces opposing movements; ‘Forget About Me’ is a grand\, escalating “purge” unlike anything Murphy’s done. Closer\, ‘Weak Education’ is a personal callback — a reminder to have fun. It’s the sound of Murphy exhaling. \n“I haven’t been this excited since I started\,” says Murphy. “I’m so happy to be doing what I’m doing right now. I’ve knocked down some big walls. It’s going to help me out for a long time. So many ideas have been flowing since that switch. Since I let go.” \n***\nCharlotte Cardin \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAt only 21 years old\, Charlotte Cardin has already shown promise of being one of 2017’s breakout songstresses. Her debut single\, the minimal electro-jazz ballad “Big Boy\,” garnered instant online buzz. Since then\, the young singer’s career has been a series of milestones. Her long-awaited debut EP was released July 2016 and instantly jumped to number one on iTunes Canada. The success of the EP is being fueled by a 60-date Canadian tour which has so far included stops at the CBC Music festival\, Osheaga\, and le Festival d’été de Québec (the latter of which saw her opening up for Sting and Peter Gabriel). By road-testing her material with her tight-knit three-piece band\, Charlotte seems to have hit a sweet spot between the minimalism in the songs’ arrangements and the larger-than-life quality of her live show. \n***\nHeathered Pearls \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nHeathered Pearls is Polish-born Brooklynite Jakub Alexander\, whose career in music was deeply rooted before ever releasing his own. Curator for Tycho’s ISO50 blog\, co-founder of the Moodgadget label\, and A&R at Ghostly International\, Alexander has been entrenched in the industry since 2002. He was first introduced to the power of ambient music by his mother at an early age\, discovered techno as a teenager living in the Detroit area\, and gradually learned to create his own vision of the genres. \nIn 2012\, Heathered Pearls wrote and released his first album. Loyal mimicked the hypnotic and swelling motions of ocean waves at night with melodic\, loop-based ambient music\, and was well received across the board. But Alexander would only move on from there\, inescapably drawn to dancefloor ideas and memories of the engrossing techno mixes he pored over as a kid. The second Heathered Pearls album\, Body Complex\, was conceived in that mindset—transforming Loyal’s gritty\, soporific textures into immaculate 4/4 figurines\, glacial tone drifts\, and starry synth plateaus. It’s the beginning of a new phase in Alexander’s ever-evolving project\, the possibilities of which expand seamlessly into the realms of music\, art\, and performance. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/nick-murphy-chet-faker/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nick-murphy-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170720T050110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T050110Z UID:10002536-1506456000-1506456000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Corbin & Shlohmo DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/28 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nCorbin \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nShlohmo \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nShlohmo is the creation of 22-year-old Henry Laufer\, LA-native and visual artist turned selftaught musician. As a founding member of the WEDIDIT collective (RL Grime\, Groundislava\, D33j\, Purple\, 2kwtvr\, Juj\, Nick Melons)\, Henry’s early work placed him at the forefront of a new wave of rising talent amongst west coast producers. With an effortless grasp on sound design\, Laufer combines deceptively simple and emotive melodies\, subtle bass drops and swinging slow motion drums. Receiving support from Pitchfork\, BBC Radio\, the New York Times\, NPR\, Resident Advisor and many others\, Shlohmo leads the way in a new generation of promising young producers with his unique blend of dark and sensual R&B tropes \n*** \nD33J \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/corbin-shlohmo/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/corbin-shlohmo-admat-2017-1.jpg GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170530T153845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170530T153845Z UID:10002513-1506628800-1506628800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Crystal Castles DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/2 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nCrystal Castles \n \nCRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES CRY/ST/A/L C/A/ST/LES \n*** \nFarrows URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/crystal-castles/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/crystal-castles-admat-2017.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:20170929T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170908T022533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170908T022533Z UID:10002554-1506711600-1506711600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Neo Soul Entertainment Presents: HHH North America Tour - 2017 红花会北美巡演 DESCRIPTION:Proper identification required. \n「HHH North America Tour – 2017 红花会北美巡演」\nPresented by Neo Soul Entertainment as the warming up concert of US-China Venture Capital Summit in Boston\, The Chinese Hip-hop Group HHH (红花会) is about to embark their first North America tour right now\, across 5 cities including Los Angeles\, Phoenix\, Boston\, New York and Chicago. \nTour Dates\n9/23 – Los Angeles\, CA @ Modern Sky Festival L.A. \n9/24 – Phoenix\, AZ @ The Marquee Theater \n9/29 – Boston\, MA @ Royale \n9/30 – New York\, NY @ Modern Sky Festival NYC \n10/3 – Chicago\, IL @ House of Blues \n*Tickets go on sale 12PM EST Tue. September 12\, 2017 \nHHH (红花会)\n“Hong Hua Hui\,” which in Chinese means “The Fellowship of the Red Flower\,” HHH for short\, is one of the most representative HipHop groups in China\, commanding a huge following.\nThe varied styles among the members is the group’s biggest strength and selling point. Each of them successfully blending this unique American music style with their own individualities\, attracting legions of fans. \n2011年创立至今，红花会凭借旺盛的创作力及独特的音乐风格成为中国最具代表性和号召力的说唱团体之一。短短几年时间内，红花会凭借高质高产的音乐作品获得业界内外广泛好评。成员风格各异和而不同是红花会的最大的优势与特色，在各自独特色彩之下美式潮流的音乐特性吸粉无数。 \nTouring Members\n弹壳k9999/ 啊之AZ/ PG One/ 小白Brant/ Dp/ Mai/ DJ: Star URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/engage-ucvc-summit-opening-concert/ 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/2017/09/929-Chinese-Event.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:20171004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170620T165019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T165019Z UID:10001804-1507143600-1507143600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:TroyBoi DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:25 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/23 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n***\n\n*** \nTROYBOI \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nOne of South East London’s most closely guarded secrets has recently emerged from the shadows and is set to take the music industry by storm. Known only as TroyBoi\, this multi-talented musician recently signed to Timbaland’s right-hand man and US Super Producer\, Jim Beanz\, things are heating up faster than ever! Producing a wide variety of genres\, but specializing in extraordinarily unique\, versatile\, and highly musical trap beats\, TroyBoi is without a doubt one of the top up-and-coming producers in the game right now and it’s quite clear from his composition that his influences are vast indeed. He is also one half of the Producer/DJ duo SoundSnobz with one of his best friends\, icekream and together they craft the most creative and daring audio paintings you’ll ever listen to. Buckle up and get ready to be taken into the world of TroyBoi because once you are in\, you will never want to get out. \n*** \nYehMe2 \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \n*** \nLouis Futon \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nPhiladelphia producer Tyler Minford\, aka Louis Futon\, has steadily carved out his own lane in the electronic music scene over the past two years. In that short time\, his remixes and singles have garnered over fifty million streams online\, with his biggest single to date “Wasted On You” being released through ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective. \nSimultaneously\, Futon has set his sites beyond the confines of the electronic scene as his productions have reached into the worlds of hip-hop and r&b as well. Not only have his official remixes of artists like Anderson .Paak and Goldlink found major success\, but collaborations with r&b leaning artists like RKCB have resulted in some of his most dynamic work yet. \nHis array of talents is already paying dividends as he’s not only toured with ODESZA in the past year\, but in 2017\, has secured a mostly sold out headlining spring tour alongside appearances at festival staples like Splash House\, CRSSD and Okeechobee. Those prime spots are no surprise as Futon has captivated fans with a unique live show that features the multi-instrumentalist playing out originals and remixes alike. \nWith so much accomplished and in store\, the forthcoming year is undoubtedly slated to be Futon’s most successful yet. \n*** \nSlumberjack \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nIn the past year\, Perth-based duo SLUMBERJACK have brought their music to new heights\, turning out massive club hits like “RA” and increasing their total streams to over 40 million across platforms. During that time\, musicians Morgan Then and Fletcher Ehlers have also pushed to a new level in their artistry and carved out a more boldly challenging sound than ever before. With their first-ever headline tour in the works\, SLUMBERJACK now deliver a new EP that\, in Ehlers’s words\, “explores the dichotomies of light and dark and beauty and ugliness\,” and ultimately creates a world unto itself. Revealing SLUMBERJACK’s more refined musicality and heightened experimentalism\, the new EP Fracture is a potent composite of bass-heavy club anthems\, hook-driven pop tracks\, and lushly cinematic pieces that show their film-score-inspired sensibilities. With its moody intensity and gorgeously jagged textures\, the EP’s lead single and title track debuted in January and quickly became triple j’s most played track for several weeks. “Fracture” features a powerful vocal performance from Sydney-based singer/songwriter Vera Blue\, infusing the song with an emotional depth that endures throughout the EP. “We want to create club tracks that have a story to them\,” says Then. “You can dance to it at a festival or jam to it anywhere\, but you can also listen more closely and study it and see how it relates to your own life.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/troyboi/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts 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:20171006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170523T155902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T155902Z UID:10001791-1507312800-1507312800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Mandolin Orange DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \nMandolin Orange \n \nArtist Website\nFacebook \nLean in to Mandolin Orange’s recent album\, “Blindfaller\,” and it’s bound to happen. You’ll suddenly pick up on the power and devastation lurking in its quietude\, the doom hiding beneath its unvarnished beauty. You’ll hear the way it magnifies the intimacy at the heart of the North Carolina duo’s music\, as if they created their own musical language as they recorded it. \nBuilding on the acclaim of Mandolin Orange’s 2013 breakthrough debut on Yep Roc Records “This Side of Jordan” and its follow-up\, last year’s “Such Jubilee\,” their new album “Blindfaller” is already following suit. Upon its September 30 release\, the album charted on Billboard’s Bluegrass (#3) and Folk/Americana (#16)\, made Rolling Stone’s “40 Best Country Albums of 2016” and was featured on NPR’s “Heavy Rotation\,” among others. \n“When we finished ‘Such Jubilee\,’ I started writing these songs with a different goal in mind. I thought about how I would write songs for somebody else to record\,” Marlin explains. “I ended up with a bunch of songs like that\, but we chose ones that I still felt personally connected to.” \nHoled up at the Rubber Room studio in Chapel Hill\, N.C.\, with a full band this time around\, they laid down the tracks in a week between touring. They’ve always been keen on the notion that drawn-out recording sessions don’t necessarily yield better results. A good song\, and just one good take\, will always shine through any studio sorcery. \nThe passage of time\, and the regret that often accompanies it\, courses through these songs. “When did all the good times turn to hard lines on my face/ And lead me so far from my place right by your side?” Marlin ruminates on “My Blinded Heart.” \nIn fact\, there’s heartache by the numbers on “Blindfaller.” If you didn’t know better\, you’d swear “Picking Up Pieces” is a tearjerker George Jones or Willie Nelson sang back in the early 1970s. It’s a Mandolin Orange original\, of course\, and also a poignant reminder of the economy and grace with which Marlin imbues his songs – say what’s important and scrap the rest. \nA country dirge with soulful washes of pedal steel and mandolin\, “Wildfire” details the the lingering\, present-day devastation of slavery and the Civil War\, with Marlin’s voice locking into close harmonies with Frantz on the chorus. “Take This Heart of Gold” opens with perhaps the best classic-country line you’ll hear all year: “Take this heart of gold and melt it down.” (Marlin admits it was inspired by a Tom Waits lyric he misheard.) \nBut there’s also room for detours. Straight out of a honky tonk\, “Hard Travelin’” lets the band shift into overdrive. A freewheeling ode to life on the road\, it had been kicking around for a while but never fit on previous releases. \nAs for the album title\, it’s meant to evoke a sense of wonder\, of contemplation. A “faller” is someone who fells trees\, and in this case that person is blind to his/her own actions and those of the world. The spectral cover photo\, by Scott McCormick\, is open to interpretation\, too: Either those trees are engulfed in flames or sunlight is pouring through them. It’s up to you. \n“We wanted different vibes and different intuitions on these tracks\,” Marlin says\, “and I feel like we really captured that.” \n*** \nKate Rhudy \n \nArtist Website\nFacebook \nLyrical / Sad river music / Folk \nHometown: Raleigh\, NC URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/mandolin-orange/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mandolin-orange.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:20171007T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170802T171755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170802T171755Z UID:10002541-1507395600-1507411800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Wonder Years: Intimate Acoustic Tour DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 5:00 pm / Show: 6:00 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/4 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Wonder Years \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhat was originally a one-off song written by a group of bored suburban kids turned into a five-year plan none of them were expecting. Call it the ultimate after-school project. With only the intent and purpose of taking that one song and infecting it on everyone they knew\, this ragtag group of “socially awkward” musicians called The Wonder Years found themselves in the middle of a burgeoning – wait for it – career. Now\, as the band joins the Hopeless Records family\, it’s obvious their easygoing short-term plans have changed dramatically. \nThe Wonder Years have come a long way from piggybacking their friends’ shows in Philly with that one initial song to sharing stages with the likes of New Found Glory\, Set Your Goals and Comeback Kid. Oh\, and Boyz II Men. Comprised of Dan “Soupy” Campbell (vocals)\, Casey Cavaliere and Matt Brasch (guitar)\, Nick Steinborn (keys/guitar)\, Josh Martin (bass) and Michael Kennedy (drums)\, they’re a band that used to borrow gear from their friends\, trying to make shows memorable and exciting without worrying whether it was a perfect set or if they were even on time. It shows what the relatable appeal of a band can do – even when\, as in the early days\, they’re not even really trying. \nTheir influences\, ranging from tour mates NFG to Saves the Day and the Hold Steady\, are apparent in the attitude of a band that just want to connect with their audience in the most authentic and unpretentious way possible. “We’re just ourselves all the time\, and we don’t have any rad gimmicks\,” Campbell said. “We play loud and fast and recklessly. We front flip off speakers and sweat and spit and break just about everything. We’ve walked off stage needing stitches more than once.” \n“We’re a band very much charge of ourselves. We always kind of know exactly what we want to do and exactly how we want to do it\, and we like Hopeless because they let us do just that\,” Campbell said. \nThe Wonder Years released their follow up to “The Upsides” this year. Their highly anticipated album “Suburbia\, I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing” is available now. \n*** \nLaura Stevenson \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLaura Stevenson is finally learning not to worry. After more than a year of national and worldwide touring following the release of her critically acclaimed album Wheel\, both headlining\, and alongside such varied acts as Against Me!\, The Go-Go’s\, Kevin Devine\, Tim Kasher of Cursive\, and The Gaslight Anthem\, the songwriter made the move from her between-tour home base of Brooklyn\, to upstate New York’s Hudson River Valley. There\, she rented a nineteenth- century Victorian\, a former brothel in a cement-mining town-turned hippie-enclave\, and converted the attic into a makeshift studio. It was in this space that she and her band went to work arranging and demoing the eleven songs she had written that would make up Cocksure\, Stevenson’s fourth album. The record features musicians Mike Campbell\, Alex Billig and Peter Naddeo\, who in various incarnations have performed with her for over seven years\, as well as newcomer Samantha Niss\, a long-time Hudson Valley resident and the veritable go-to drummer of the region. \nWhere 2013’s Wheel was full of lingering uncertainty\, harkening to Stevenson’s folk and country leanings\, Cocksure is a straightforward\, to the point\, emboldened rock and roll album. Although some existential dread still peaks through the cracks\, Stevenson treats themes as heavy-hearted as sudden and tragic death\, self-imposed exile in small windowless rooms\, and that back-of-your- mind anxiety that the road you’re on may not be the right one\, as their own signs of life; a life that is brightly colored by those realities. \nWith influences ranging from The Lemonheads\, Liz Phair\, and The Replacements\, to early Weezer and the Smoking Popes\, Cocksure maintains Stevenson’s unique vulnerability\, and steadfast devotion to a solid and honest melody. In the writing process\, she challenged herself to be true to whatever was going to come out of her\, with many of the tracks featuring melodies that were purely stream of consciousness. “I felt like over-working it would suck some of the spirit out of the songs… this record needed that spontaneity. Spending so much time editing and second guessing yourself takes all the life out of it.” \nThis sense of spontaneity was maintained in the way Cocksure was recorded. In May of 2015\, Stevenson and her band traveled city-bound to Room 17\, a studio located in her old neighborhood of Bushwick\, Brooklyn. “It’s this very positive and amazing space\, and Joe Rogers\, the engineer\, was so enthusiastic about what we were doing. Everyone was comfortable enough to just really play and not get caught up in anything else.” All the main instrumentation on Cocksure was performed live\, no clicks/no punches\, under the watchful eyes of Rogers and producer Jeff Rosenstock\, Stevenson’s long-time friend and collaborator. “Jeff was the perfect person for the job. All of his Bomb The Music Industry! and solo recordings have this energy to them\, they’re like living things. I wanted to capture some of the magic he has.” The album was later mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley (Joyce Manor\, Deafheaven\, Tony Molina) at Atomic Garden Studios in Palo Alto\, CA. \nSelf-assurance is a new hat for Stevenson\, and on Cocksure she confronts her usual tendencies toward self-deprecation head-on. “It’s freeing to stop being so hard on yourself\, and to quiet down all of the outside noise\,” she says. “Once you’re able to do that\, you can actually write what you should be writing.” \nLaura Stevenson will release Cocksure on October 30\, 2015\, via Don Giovanni Records. \n*** \nThe Obsessives \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLo-fi EP “A Great Menace Weighs Over the City” is out now! theobsessives.com\nThese songs were written and recorded by both of us this summer\, just for you guys – enjoy 8)\n/////New LP coming in 2017 on Lame-o Records///// \n*** \nJetty Bones \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nkelc writes the songs and asks for help from her friends. then they play you the songs. then we all hug and dance. then we build this life long bond where we can all just be friends and a progressive\, mutually supportive team in the seemingly endless race to establish the kindness we know as genuine humanity. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/wonder-years-intimate-acoustic-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/2017/08/The-Wonder-Years-admat-2017.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:20171010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170814T154308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170814T154308Z UID:10001833-1507662000-1507662000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Gary Allan DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/18 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. \n*** \nGary Allan \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWith the allure of a modern day outlaw\, Gary Allan has won over fans\, peers and critics with his signature blend of smoldering vocals\, rebellious lyrics and raucous live performances. While becoming a force on the country music scene\, Allan has remained true to his artistic voice each step of the way. Allan re-signed with Universal Music Group Nashville in 2016\, the label home for the entirety of his twenty-year career. He is currently finishing up work for his upcoming EMI Nashville release. His last album\, SET YOU FREE\, topped the Billboard 200 (Pop Chart)\, a career first for Allan. The album also made its debut at the top of the Billboard Country Album chart (for the fourth time in a row)\, and produced his fifth #1 country radio chart topper with “Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain.” The California native released his first album\, Used Heart for Sale\, in 1996 and since then has released eight additional studio albums selling over 8 million albums\, been certified platinum on three back-to-back albums\, and been certified gold five times. Allan has five #1 hits at country radio\, fourteen Top 10 hits to his credit and amassed over 1.4 billion total streams.  He’s described as “dark and dreamy” in Entertainment Weekly\, “soulful and rough around the edges” in Playboy and deemed a “maverick” by Rolling Stone.  He sells out venues as a headliner from NY to LA\, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\, Late Show with David Letterman\, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\, Live with Kelly and Michael and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has also landed on the covers of Country Weekly\, Pollstar and People magazine.   URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/gary-allan/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GaryAllan_EA_1008_HIres_WEB-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:20171011T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171011T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170823T162906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T162906Z UID:10002550-1507752000-1507752000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Syd DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/25 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n***\nSyd \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/syd/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/image1-7.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:20171014T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171014T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170602T165519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170602T165519Z UID:10002514-1508005800-1508016600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Blue October DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/9 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nBlue October \n \n“Fear” from albums such as 2009’s Billboard Top 200 #13 debut Approaching Normal\, 2011’s Billboard #8 debut Any Man In America\, the Platinum-selling Foiled and most recently Billboard’s #13 debut Sway\, reaching audiences around the world. \nOn April 22nd\, 2016\, Blue October will release their 8th studio album\, titled Home. This album was co-produced by Justin Furstenfeld and Tim Palmer and features mixes from Tim Palmer and Mark Needham. \n“Sway was about finding inner peace and learning to live in a healthy way\,” says Furstenfeld. “This new album Home is about what we do with our time on earth\, how we’re going to utilize that time in a positive way and make it the best we possibly can by bettering ourselves.” \n*** \nThe Score \n \nTO OUR FANS: \nWe started writing together six years ago\, and had no idea where it would take us. Just two dudes in New York\, learning how to write and produce. We wrote a lot of bad songs\, and tried a lot of different things. We moved to LA and wrote more songs\, and tried more different things…like recording in Edan’s bedroom closet. And one pop song we wrote happened to land in a commercial\, and that commercial happened to be really big. ‘Spotify Viral #1’ big. ‘Major label record-deal’ big. ‘Worldwide booking agency’ big. And all that was really cool\, but we had a problem — we weren’t actually a pop band. \nWe like guitars. We like rock and roll. And we like it loud. So we started doing what we like\, and it’s been pretty damn cool so far. Our new EP Myths & Legends is four of the most honest songs we’ve ever written\, and we think our fans reactions say it all: \n“Who ever Disliked song\, I will find you and force you to listin to this song Intel you regret your life choices.” – Chase Cornett\n“The best song I have ever heard” – Mr. Nightmare\nand…\n“The Score=GOAT ‘Like’ if they never disappoint you!!!” – DawnCS \nWe hope you like the new music\, but if you don’t…Chase Cornett will find you and force you to listen to it until you regret your life choices. \n– Eddie & Edan ** THE SCORE URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/blue-october-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/blue-october-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171015T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170629T161953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T161953Z UID:10002524-1508094000-1508094000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Throwing Shade Live DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/30 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nThrowing Shade \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nErin’s Twitter\nBryan’s Twitter \nCalled “the perfect combination of silly\, intelligent\, cynical and charming” by Entertainment Weekly and “well worth dialing up” by the New York Times tv critic\, \nThrowing Shade Live is the boundary-pushing political comedy podcast and tv show hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who bring their fresh takes on pop culture\, women’s rights\, and LGBT rights live to the stage for an evening of hilarity and vulgarity. “Sorry Bill Maher\, there has never been a raunchier or funnier current affairs program.” – Fast Company URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/throwing-shade-live/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/throwing-shade-admat-2017.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:20171018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170802T170351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170802T170351Z UID:10002542-1508356800-1508356800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Vasilis Karras w/ Eleftheria Eleftheriou DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/vasilis-karras-w-eleftheria-eleftheriou/ 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/2017/08/1011-Greek-Karras.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:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170626T173102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170626T173102Z UID:10001808-1508439600-1508439600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Moon Taxi DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River Presents\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nMoon Taxi \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \nIndie rock band from Nashville\, Tennessee\, U.S. \n*** \nToo Many Zooz \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \nWith the snowballing trend towards electronic instrumentation in music\, it’s easy to forget where it all first started: on street corners with real instruments\, playing for tips\, that is until you’ve heard Too Many Zooz. Too Many Zooz is a three-piece “BrassHouse” band comprised of Matt Doe\, Leo P\, and King of Sludge. The group found their voice playing for change on New York’s subway platforms\, honing extremely danceable rhythms and melodies. \nNamed one to Billboards’ Top 25 Next Big Sound\, thanks in part to a video of one of their frenetic subway performances was posted to Reddit and went viral to the tune of over 2.2 million views\, and in a very short time amassed a large fan base. Additional videos have millions of views\, and Facebook likes over 420\,000. \nThis is all for good reason\, too. Their music is infectious\, impossible to stay still listening to. As old-fashioned as their musical approach is\, – if one were to call live instrumentation old fashioned – the structure of their songs follows very closely to any hit dance music track\, hence their self-prescribed “brass house” genre. The drums provide a rhythmic base\, the saxophone a bass line and the trumpet serves as the melody\, guiding you to a gradually increasing\, precipitous crescendo\, where all the instruments come together only “drop” from a dizzying height\, clashing together in an explosive climax of sound. Too Many Zooz will definitely force you to reconsider the way you think about jazz music. Don’t just take our word for it\, Beyoncé APPROVES! \nTOO MANY ZOOZ have shared the stage with Beyoncé\, KASKADE\, Beats Antique\, Galactic and more. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/moon-taxi/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Moon-Taxi-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170724T135119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T135119Z UID:10002533-1508522400-1508535000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Wolf Parade DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/28 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nWolf Parade \nWolf Parade \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe soaring choruses\, rousing anthems\, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are on proud display over the course of Cry Cry Cry\, the band’s thunderous first album in seven years. \nThat unique combination of sounds and influences\, spearheaded by electric co-frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner—a complex yet relatable\, energetic brew of glam\, prog\, synth-rock\, and satisfying discomfort—helped define 2000s indie rock with three critically celebrated albums\, and propelled a growing Wolf Parade fandom even after the band went on a then-indefinite hiatus in 2010. \nThe upcoming return marks their first to be produced by Pacific Northwest legend John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill\, Sleater-Kinney\, Unwound) at Robert Lang Studios outside of Seattle\, and is accompanied by a renewed focus and the creativity of a band that took their time getting exactly where they needed to be. It’s also a homecoming to Sub Pop\, which released all three of the band’s previous albums. \n“The band itself is almost a fifth member of the band\, something more or at least different than the sum of its parts\,” says Krug. “We don’t know who or what is responsible for our sound\, it’s just something that naturally and consistently comes from this particular combo of musicians.” \n“Once we got back together\, I was playing guitar\, writing and singing in a way that I only do while I’m in Wolf Parade\,” says Dan Boeckner\, who shares primary lyrical and singing duties with Spencer. “It’s just something that I can’t access without the other three people in the room.” \nIn the time apart\, the band scattered geographically and focused on family and other work–Spencer on his solo project Moonface\, Dan on his bands Handsome Furs\, Operators\, and Divine Fits (with Spoon’s Britt Daniel)\, and Dante De Caro on records with Carey Mercer’s Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach. And that time allowed for an even stronger\, tighter band to emerge. \nEventually\, Spencer\, Dante\, and Arlen found themselves all back living on remote Vancouver Island\, accompanied by a population density less than that of Alaska\, and the tranquility that leads to creative emanations like a government-sponsored bathtub race. With Dan on the same coast in Northern California\, discussions began about picking things up where they left off. \n“All of our albums are always a reaction to our last one\,” says Arlen. “Expo 86 (2010) was about as sparse as we get\, which is usually still pretty dense\, and this time we wanted to make the palette a little larger.” Adds Dante\, “Expo was a real rock record. We just sort of banged it out\, which was kind of the point.” Cry Cry Cry\, on the other hand\, is more deliberate in its arrangements and embrace of the studio process. “If a part was going on for too long it would get lopped\, you know?” says Dan. “That being said\, there are two very long songs on the record and I don’t think it would be a Wolf Parade record if it didn’t have some kind of prog epic.” \n“I think we’re actually a better band than we were when we stopped playing music together\,” says Arlen. “A little bit more life experience for everybody\, and people having made a bunch of records on their own.” \nThe result of this new consciousness is songs like “Valley Boy\,” a Bowie-inflected anthem for which Spencer wrote lyrics after Leonard Cohen died the day before the 2016 election (“The radio’s been playing all your songs\, talking about the way you slipped away up the stairs\, did you know that it was all gonna go wrong?”). “You’re Dreaming\,” also influenced by the election and the spinning shock that followed\, is driving\, urgent power pop that draws from artists like Tom Petty and what Dan calls one of his “default languages” for writing music. The swirly\, synth-heavy crescendo of “Artificial Life” takes on the struggle of artists and at-risk communities (“If the flood should ever come\, we’ll be last in the lifeboat”). \nThe album carries a sense of uprising that is not unrelated to Wolf Parade’s renewed determination to drive the band forward in uncertain times. Welcome to Cry Cry Cry. \nAll right\nLet’s fight\nLet’s rage against the night \n– “Lazarus Online” (Spencer Krug) URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/wolf-parade/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Wolf-Parade-admat-2017.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:20171021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170620T162108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T162108Z UID:10001803-1508608800-1508621400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/23 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nHope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nThrough The Devil Softly\nThe delicious dichotomy between darkness and light\, the space between inspiration and the manifestation of thought\, is where Hope Sandoval’s music and lyrics catch fire. Through The Devil Softly\, her second album with Warm Inventions partner Colm Ó C”osóig (My Bloody Valentine)\, is a rich brocade of pastoral meditations that resonate with the kind of restrained yet provocative intimacy that only these two artists can provide. Well known for their reticence in the media\, they’ve once again chosen to pour out their hearts and minds on record.\nIt’s been eight years since the release of the critically acclaimed Bavarian Fruit Bread\, but Colm and Hope aren’t ones to adhere to traditional timetables and conventions. “Time is vibrations for us\,” he says. “We didn’t feel like [this album] was ready until it was ready.” In the meantime\, however\, neither artist has been creatively idle. Hope has collaborated with Devendra Banhart\, Air\, Bert Jansch\, Death In Vegas\, and is due to appear on Massive Attack’s forthcoming album. And yes\, a new Mazzy Star record is on the horizon. (“It’s almost finished\,” says Hope\, “but when it will be coming out\, I don’t know.”) Meanwhile\, 2009 saw the reunion of My Bloody Valentine for a select group of live shows\, kicking off with an incendiary performance at this year’s Coachella Festival.\n“It’s like the opposite ends of the spectrum\,” says Ó C”osóig of the difference between MBV and his work with Sandoval. “I play very held back\, but there’s a tension to it.”\nWritten and recorded over the past two years in both Northern California and the Wicklow Mountains of southeast Ireland\, Through The Devil Softly sees Sandoval and Ó C”osóig sharing production and engineering credits\, with Dave Trumfio (Wilco\, The Rentals) and Jim Putnam of the Radar Brothers assisting in the mix. Other guests of note include Mazzy Star keyboardist Suki Ewers and cellist Ji Young Moon\, who provides the solo on the sublime “Thinking Like That.” But the album’s most broad brush addition comes courtesy of Ireland’s Dirt Blue Gene\, the group who tracked the recordings with Sandoval and Ó C”osóig\, and will accompany them on their upcoming tour. While the simplicity of “Lady Jessica and Sam” and the bucolic beauty of “Fall Aside” represent one facet of the record\, Dirt Blue Gene help inject an undulating\, sultry swagger into songs like “Trouble” and “For The Rest Of Your Life” that compliments the album’s more delicate passages. Elsewhere\, autoharps\, vibraphones\, slide guitars\, and crystalline bell chimes flicker across the tape heads like shadows\, used so sparingly at times that their sound is barely audible above Hope’s hushed inflection. On “There’s A Willow\,” her verses are carried on the back of a simple\, singular cymbal\, cresting and falling like ocean waves. Meandering guitar and harmonica parts waltz together like old lovers\, while the distant knocking of a solitary woodblock and the tapping of a tom provide the only cadence. “I merely standing on holes in the ground. If I fall\, well they’ll never know I’m found\,” she coos on “Banchard.” Later she muses\, “I play death in the space of my life. That’s how I feel\, and I never think it twice\,” and you’re left to wonder if she’s ruminating on her own taciturn nature. As with the album’s title\, the words are not there to be explained. They’re to be felt and interpreted. The mystery is magnetic.\n“We just make music for ourselves\,” says Colm. “We don’t really pay attention to what’s going on in the big world when it comes to pop music or anything.”\nAnyone whose seen Sandoval perform live\, either with Mazzy Star or the Warm Inventions\, can attest to that intimacy. Often shrouded in low light\, she rarely communicates with the crowd outside the boundaries of a song. “I go into myself\, close myself off\,” says Hope of her relationship with audiences. “But I do know that they’re there.”\nRife with lush sonics and textures\, Through The Devil Softly is a deliberate body of work that gently solicits your patience\, and like the cover photograph\, it’s creators reveal very little so that the art can reveal so much. \n*** \nHoly Wave \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nFreaks of Nurture by HOLY WAVE \nKyle Hager\nDustin Zozaya\nJulian Ruiz\nJoey Cook\nRyan Fuson URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hope-sandoval-warm-inventions/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/hope-sandoval-admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170808T154953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170808T154953Z UID:10002545-1508697000-1508697000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Citizen DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/11 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nCitizen \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nCitizen’s As You Please reports from ground zero of an epidemic. Two years removed from their previous Run For Cover LP\, Everybody Is Going To Heaven\, Citizen’s perspective is far less sublime. As You Please is a confrontational record\, incapable of turning a blind eye toward the inescapable strife. And so\, songwriter Mat Kerekes pursues the source of discontent that is ravaging his Rust Belt city of Toledo\, Ohio with the band’s most dynamic record to date. \nOn As You Please the epidemic is bigger than addiction and overdoses. There is no longer a Dream to be pursued for the friends and family surrounding Citizen. The band explores that absence and the misguided ways in which it gets filled. On opener “Jet” the kids move slow and there’s a stranger living in the narrator’s home. “In The Middle Of It All” might be Citizen at their most hopeful\, but it also reads as agonizing expression of the ruin in the Heartland. \nAs You Please also showcases the growing versatility of a band seven years deep and still restless. Citizen has churned and ground out their own unique foothold within the greater context of alternative rock. Written over the course of a year\, the record is devoid of the brutish and sinister elements found on Everybody Is Going To Heaven. Here\, Citizen go beyond their early grunge contrasts and strive for something benevolent. \nThere’s a spiritual core to the record that manifests in subtle ways like the ethereal vocals echoing in the breakdown of “Control\,” the droning organs on “You Are A Star” or the almost operatic refrain on “In The Middle Of It All.” The finespun ways in which Citizen has written this record mark a cataclysmic breakthrough for the band. There is damage and disarray in the band member’s lives\, but within this record all the pieces have been restored in an ornate arrangement befitting a stained glass mosaic. \nIn the end\, As You Please tries to give strength to those in need. There are illicit factors that control\, but Citizen has written a guiding light of an album out of the debris. It concludes with “You Are A Star” and “Flowerchild;” one an unstable request of confidence set to soaring progressions\, the other a blistering finale that subverts expectation. As You Please might read as meek\, but it represents Citizen in its most confident and expansive state. \n*** \nSorority Noise \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“I don’t want to be in an emo band anymore\,” proclaims SORORITY NOISE frontman Cameron Boucher. “But I have no problem with people calling us that\, because in the strictest of senses\, we are an emotionally driven band.” \nThat\, is Sorority Noise in a nutshell: part of a movement\, but also discrete and determined to break free from the pack. Truth be told\, the Connecticut-based quartet—Boucher\, guitarist/vocalist Adam “Scuff” Ackerman\, bassist/vocalist Ryan McKenna and drummer Charlie Singer—have always operated a little differently than most of their peers. \nFor starters\, Boucher attended the University of Hartford for jazz saxophone\, while guitarist Ackerman studies acoustics and upright bass. But it’s not just their unorthodox musical chops that set the band apart in the underground punk scene. With the release of their Topshelf Records debut\, JOY\, DEPARTED\, Sorority Noise—recently named one of the 100 Bands You Need to Know in 2015 by Alternative Press—are poised to break out in a big way. \nJoy\, Departed is more than just the best iteration of Sorority Noise to date; the album also marks a creative shift for Boucher\, who draws musical influence from a diverse crop of acts spanning Regina Spektor and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker to The Smiths and Broken Social Scene—and previously spent time fronting screamo band Old Gray. In some ways\, the singer says he approached the creative process like writing his very first album. \nBoucher started Sorority Noise in late 2013 with friends as an outlet to explore musical styles outside his work in Old Gray. The group then recruited Ackerman and issued their debut full-length\, Forgettable\, in May 2014. Much buzz—and tours with rising stars Modern Baseball and The Hotelier—followed\, as did a split 7” with Somos and the arrivals of Singer (whom Boucher had played with in Old Gray) and McKenna. \nOutside of pure proficiency\, one of the more gripping elements of Sorority Noise’s musical direction is the band’s willingness to speak of personal hardships\, including the often-taboo topic of addiction on songs like the heart-wrenching album-closer “When I See You (Timberwolf).” \n“There’s so many people having drug problems—and a lot of bands who play it safe and don’t want to talk about it\,” Boucher explains. “I think it’s important to be shown in modern music. I like to be honest about my past and talk about things that have had me down. As a lyricist\, you are responsible for the people who care about your music.” \n*** \nGreat Grandpa \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPlastic Cough\, the fantastic debut full length from Seattle WA’s Great Grandpa\, is bursting with grunge and pop sensibilities focused around the legendary indie rock sound that’s dominated the Pacific Northwest music scene for the past three decades. \nGreat Grandpa began in Seattle in 2014 when guitarist & vocalist Patrick Goodwin recruited bassist Carrie Miller\, drummer Cam LaFlam\, and vocalist Alex Menne to form a humble rock band. Inspired by the pop-sensible alternative rock of the 90’s\, and offset by a mutual love for noise and math rock\, the group set forth to write and record their first EP. \nDuring recording\, guitarist Dylan Hanwright joined the group\, solidifying the lineup. Great Grandpa began performing in the Seattle area in late 2014\, frequenting the city’s DIY venues. In March of 2015\, their debut EP Can Opener was released on Broken World Media. The EP was met with considerable praise\, and has been described as “warm\, slightly off-kilter grunge pop”\, and “knotty\, twisted\, and warm rock music that’s as melodically satisfying as it is\, at times\, confounding.” \nGreat Grandpa began writing their debut LP soon after\, and found themselves touring the western US and performing extensively in the Seattle area. Written in 2015 and 2016\, Great Grandpa’s debut LP Plastic Cough continues to explore the sonic territory visited in Can Opener\, exhibiting infectious melodies across a range of backdrops\, from quiet bedroom-pop to explosive\, anthemic rock. Plastic Cough is out July 7th via Double Double Whammy. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/citizen/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Citizen-admat-2017.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:20171103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170428T170707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T170707Z UID:10002499-1509732000-1509744600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hamilton Leithauser DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 5/5 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. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nHamilton Leithauser \nHamilton Leithauser + Rotsam in Brooklyn\, NY on September 26\, 2016 \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nI Had A Dream That You Were Mine is an album of songs Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam wrote and recorded together between July 2014 and February 2016. In the spirit of collaborative albums\, not unlike those of David Byrne and Brian Eno\, each musician’s individuality remains in tact\, while in fact\, on this record\, both Hamilton’s identity as a singer and Rostam’s as a producer seem to reach new heights. \n“This was a record I’d been wanting to make for at least a decade\,” Rostam says. “As a fan of Hamilton’s voice in the Walkmen\, I’d been wanting to capture it in ways it hadn’t been captured before — to make songs with him that placed the crooner right beside the howler\, the screamer beside the whisperer — to try to leave no stone unturned in terms of how we should approach the delivery of a song. And also to try to push his voice outside of any musical context it had lived in before.” \nSays Leithauser\, “Rostam’s one-man-band process is so fundamentally different from the way I’ve always written songs\, and it’s very impressive. We had no idea what kind of music we were going to make — we actually didn’t know we were working on an album at first — but unexpected things kept falling into place. We were writing and recording everything simultaneously — it was flat-out inspiring just to be there.” \nMany of these songs seem to take place in a memory of New York’s past\, or wading through the waist high waters in a half-submerged New York of the future. Yet what unites them is that they tell stories — I Had A Dream That You Were Mine is an album\, a collection of songs yes\, but also a collection of narratives. “The Bride’s Dad” faithfully recounts an unexpected (an probably uninvited) guest at a friend’s recent wedding; “You Ain’t That Young Kid” follows the wistful narrator through a night of lost love and transformed resolve. \nFrom the doo-wop of “When the Truth is…” to the country pedal steel of “The Morning Stars”; from the piano and organ alchemy of the Band in “A 1000 Times\,” to the Leonard Cohen-esque Spanish triplets of “In a Black Out”; the album harnesses the exploding musical styles of midcentury America — which\, when melded with the warbled 1980’s analogue synthesizers of “You Ain’t That Young Kid\,” the ultramodern sub bass of “Sick as a Dog\,” the intimate falsetto of “1959\,” and the raucous bar-room chorus of “Rough Going” — sparks an entirely unexpected and innovative style. \n*** \n Courtney Marie Andrews\n/strong> \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAt just 16 years old\, Courtney Marie Andrews left home in Arizona for her first tour. She traveled up and down the West Coast\, busking and playing any bars or cafés that would have her. Soon after\, she took a Greyhound bus four nights straight from Phoenix to New York to do the same on the East Coast. For a decade or so since\, Courtney’s been a session and backup singer and guitarist for nearly 40 artists\, from Jimmy Eat World to Damien Jurado. She never stopped writing her own material\, though. Picking up admirers like Jurado and Ryan Adams along the way\, she has quietly earned a reputation as a songwriter’s songwriter. \nWith plans to settle down for a bit and focus on her own songs\, Courtney moved to the Northwest in 2011 to record her last full-length record On My Page. However\, the record had hardly been released before she was on the road again performing other artists’ songs\, eventually leading her overseas to play guitar and sing with Belgian star Milow. At the tour’s end\, though\, the other session players joined her to record her 2014 EP Leuven Letters in one take. \nIt was during this time that Courtney also wrote many of the songs on Honest Life. She found herself realizing the impact of growing up on the road and this constant reconciling between her and other’s art and identity. Courtney will take it from there: \n“While in Belgium for four months\, I was going through a major heartbreak. I started growing homesick for America and the comfort of family and friends\, and life in the states. That’s where I wrote the first songs for Honest Life. It was a giant hurdle in my life. My first true growing pains as a woman. That’s why in a sense\, I feel this record is a coming of age album. A common thread that runs through the songs\, is a great desire to fit somewhere\, when nowhere fits. And wanting to get back home to the people I know and love. Once I got back to the states\, I started to bartend at a small town tavern. I was home for awhile\, and needed to post up while rehearsing with the band for the record. At the tavern\, I felt I could truly empathize with the stories and lives of the people there. I wrote the other half of the songs about coming home and feeling a sense of belonging again. A lot of the stories at that tavern definitely ran parallel with my own\, even though our lives were so different. I was the “musician girl.” They were farmers\, construction workers\, plumbers\, waitresses\, and cashiers. But\, no matter how different\, I felt we were all trying to live our most honest life.” \nCourtney produced the entire record herself at Litho Studios in Seattle with recording engineer Floyd Reitsma. Honest Life will be available on LP\, CD and digitally August 19th from Mama Bird Recording Co. (USA/World) and on January 20th from Loose Music (Europe). URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hamilton-leithauser/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hamilton_leithauser_glassnote.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:20171105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171105T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170818T165904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170818T165904Z UID:10001836-1509908400-1509908400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Slow Magic [MOVED TO THE SINCLAIR] DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED FROM ROYALE TO THE SINCLAIR. ALL PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED TICKETS WILL BE HONORED AT THE NEW LOCATION. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/slow-magic/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/slow-magic-admat-2017v4.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:20171113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170627T164013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T164013Z UID:10002521-1510599600-1510599600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Angus & Julia Stone DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/30 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n \n*** \nAngus & Julia Stone \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \nThe first notes of Snow are instantly transporting. The guitar is a scratchy\, wooden memory laid over a moment of silence. The gently driving organ beat emerges and takes you with it\, beginning the next enchanting journey with brother-sister duo\, Angus and Julia Stone. “Running from the start\, here we are again\,” Julia sings. “Running from the start\, here we go again\,” comes her brother’s reply. \n“Snow is both of us” Angus says of the first single from the fourth Angus & Julia Stone album. “We sat down and wrote it together.” \nIn that sense\, the album continues a process the siblings began at the suggestion of producer Rick Rubin on their self-tilted album of 2014. “That was the first time that we actually started writing together\, in the same room\, and I guess we took a leaf from that chapter into this record. This time round though\, every song on the record we wrote together” Angus says. \nSince the duo began performing together in 2006\, their story has unfolded with an almost magical magnetism that has galvanised the world. Their four albums have amassed multi-platinum sales and numerous ARIA and APRA awards at home\, and won a fanbase of millions over spiralling tours of the UK\, Europe and North America. The band have each month over 5 million listeners who tune in\, to stream their music from all over the world. \nTheir quietly hypnotic songs have infiltrated film and TV from the recent woody Harrelson film ‘The Edge of 17’ to TV shows like ‘Pretty Little Liars’\, ‘Suits’ & ‘Revenge’. They have cast their spell over the world’s key festivals: Coachella\, Lollapalooza\, Bonnaroo\, Outside Lands\, Rochweichter\, Hurricane\, Austin City Limits\, Electric Picnic\, Splendour In The Grass\, The Great Escape. \nIt’s no secret that these escalating demands nearly divided the duo into parallel solo careers in 2012\, before Rick Rubin insisted they reunite for that self-titled album in Los Angeles. It naturally led to more laps of the world\, and a new purpose and cohesion that flowed into early band sessions for the album. \nPlot-wise\, SNOW is the first moment of yet another confident advance on a story which now accounts for over half a million album sales in Angus & Julia’s homeland of Australia alone. The Sydney-born siblings produced and largely engineered it themselves\, in Angus’s cottage studio\, Belafonté\, in the Byron Bay hinterland. \n“It was quite magical because Angus and I have never spent that much time together\, just the two of us\,” says Julia. “There’s always at least an engineer or tour manager but the last phase of writing and recording was just eight weeks of him and me and the quiet of the land. It was a beautiful time.” \n*** \nLuke Sital-Singh \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \n“I made an album that I was mostly proud of. But the process was hard and process matters to me. It colours the final work with a subtle significance. So now I look back with a bemused frown. Because all I remember is the process. And the process was too hard. \n“When it came time to move on\, things needed to change. I wanted control of the process back. I wanted to be small again. Big can be good\, but big can be brittle. And small packs a punch when you can be nimble.” \nSo wrote Luke Sital-Singh in July 2015. He typeset his words using metal type and an old printing press\, each sentence on a new line\, no full stops required. It was a pause\, a moment of reflection on the events of the preceding couple of years\, specifically the release of his “compromised” debut album\, ‘The Fire Inside’\, the slightly bitter fruits of an ill-starred major label relationship. It was also a personal manifesto\, a quiet\, internal rallying cry. And it was a nice bit of writing\, thought through and pored over and carefully presented. That’s how he rolls. He rolls his own. \nEighteen months on – he wasn’t going to rush – comes ‘Time Is A Riddle’\, that second album Sital-Singh was determined to make solely on his terms. No interference\, no scheduling issues\, nor elaborate musicianship\, nothing big or brittle. Just care\, and effort\, and time well spent – values he shares with the Slow Movement to which he subscribes\, and with the crafts people up and down the country with whom the musician has some special projects planned. It’s a lovely record of self-written songs\, a crafted distillation of the ideas and tastes that have been percolating through Sital-Singh since he was a teenager in suburban southwest London\, listening in awe to Damien Rice\, since he was a rapt fan in the audience at a Ryan Adams gig in Brighton. \nRecalling the music that made him\, Sital-Singh – a singer with both soul and grit in his voice – says: “There was something about acoustic\, singer-songwriter music that seemed more meaningful\, and beautiful. I only like music that I feel like I can call beautiful. And to me that’s slow music\, and more downbeat music. It’s a running joke amongst my friends that I’m a grumpy git\,” he admits (and admits cheerfully). “But I’m not actually depressive. I’m just fairly introverted\, quiet and pessimistic – but I’m happy being that. And songs are always the things I’ve been interested in\, not the bells and whistles around the song. It’s purely about the song in its simplest form\, and trying to craft that with just a guitar or just a piano. I’m obsessed with that.” \nSital-Singh is a student of words. “I was brought up in a fairly religious family\, and there were quite a lot of philosophical\, theological discussions around. So there was always this thing in me about exploring inner things. So before the songs there were woe-is-me\, slit-your-wrist poems\,” he smiles. \nAnd he’s a student of notes\, the youngest of three musical brothers. He was first a childhood violinist then an adolescent guitarist who attended BIMM Brighton music college before graduating from the London open-mic scene. Self-released EPs led to Proper Record Deal led to Difficult First Album. “Spent too much money\, lost too much money\,” the now Bristol-based musician recalls without rancour. “This time I was determined to do the complete opposite.” \nHaving written a brace of songs – simple songs that moved him – Sital-Singh followed his long-held artist’s dream: he escaped to a remote studio\, Attica Audio\, in Donegal\, with nothing on his mind other than making the record of his life. The studio’s owner\, producer Tommy McLaughlin (a member of Villagers’ touring band\, who Sital-Singh has opened for) pulled together a small group of musicians. Well-used to playing together\, the band slotted together effortlessly for a series of recordings over ten days. \n“There were big windows looking over the hills of Donegal\, and it was raining the whole time\, which was perfect for me. We were playing and singing at the same time in this lovely big live room\, with so much bleed\, just the way records used to be made. So much fun. These were simple songs that just need to be recorded nicely and played well with a good band with nice instruments in a nice room. We don’t need weird stuff going on. We needed me to feel inspired by the performance to sing a good vocal. And that’s what I was.” \n‘Time Is A Riddle’ opens with ‘Still’\, a song Neil Young might have left behind on Zuma Beach. \n“It’s a song about wanting to remind everyone that I’m still here – and also reminding myself that all this shit goes on\, but it can just blow past\, and you’re still here. It’s not quite ‘I’m Still Standing’\,” he smiles of the Elton John belter. “But I hate our obsession with newness and following trends. So the idea of someone still there\, still doing their thing\, I think is a nice sentiment to start the record with.” \nAnother cornerstone track is the album’s title track. “I was listening to a lot of Feist and thought she was great\,” he says by way of explaining a song with heavy chords and quiet drama. “And that’s what her music is: quiet drama. Some of the production is quite bombastic\, but there’s a gentleness around it as well. That’s what I was trying to get to.” \nThen there’s ‘Innocence’\, a song glowing with echoey wonder. “It’s fairly up for me\,” Sital-Singh grins with typical self-deprecation. “I’m really proud of that one. That was a song that took as long to write as it lasts for. I was watching telly with my guitar and it just came out\, pretty much fully formed. I’m not entirely sure what it means\, but I guess it’s about this idea of being born\, losing innocence\, people coming in and out of the world\, changing as they go.” \nThe first taste of ‘Time Is A Riddle’ is the heart-shivering\, spine-tingling ‘Killing Me’\, accompanied by an evocative\, home-made\, typically personal video. \n“It’s me singing as my grandma\, and addressed to my grandfather\, who died ten years ago. She talks about him every day. When I think about it too much it just breaks my heart. So one day I just sat down at the piano and it’s probably the most emotional song I’ve ever written. I almost didn’t include it – I thought it might be too much to release. It’s so sensitive and so close to my heart. Then I thought maybe people will connect with it… \n“But then when it came to the video\, I definitely didn’t want to be singing this song\, prancing around in slow motion. Then by coincidence I took delivery of these digitised cine films that my wife’s late grandfather shot in the Seventies. They were only sent to us because her parents were in the process of moving to Vancouver. And when I watched them\, the nostalgic nature and the parallels with both our grandparents\, it just felt tonally right\, and a little note of serendipity. So I just edited them together and that’s what we’ve got. It’s definitely the most personal song on the record.” \nThen again\, personal is stamped on and through everything Luke Sital-Singh does. Head to iTunes to listen to the very funny ‘Idiot Check’ podcast\, recorded by him and a couple of mates (don’t worry\, it’s free). Head to Spotify and you’ll find a lovely selection of covers of songs from films\, including Radiohead’s ‘Exit Music (For A Film)’ from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet\, Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Sound Of Silence’ from The Graduate and The Shins’ ‘New Slang’ from Garden State. Storied songs by storied bands from storied movies\, but he makes them all his own. \nLikewise a new selection of covers recently uploaded to Soundcloud: songs as diverse as Toto’s ‘Hold The Line’\, The Faces’ ‘Ooh La La’ and Kate Bush’s ‘This Woman’s Work’ sound reborn and rebooted. \nWhat it all has in common is care\, effort and dedication. It’s Luke Sital-Singh’s way. It’s what makes his music breathe and his songs pulse. “I like things that are well made – things that love has been put into. And not throwaway shite. It’s why I like the Slow Movement. It’s why I like vinyl.” \nIt’s also why he likes Hannah Cousins\, his wife (although presumably that isn’t the only reason). She’s the artist responsible behind the vivid sleeve artwork for ‘Time Is A Riddle’. \n“Hannah’s an illustrator and printmaker\, and we’ve worked together on most of my artwork. She helped set the tone for the initial three EPs\, which then Parlophone bulldozed over for the album art for ‘The Fire Inside’.” \nThe image on the new cover began as a photograph of a wind-bent tree in Donegal\, “which wasn’t just the place I recorded the album – it became a symbol of escape and refreshment”. Cousins\, a skilled linocutter\, then set patiently to work. “The lino process is one of painstaking craftsmanship\, where an image is carved in reverse in a linoleum sheet\, which takes hours and hours. In this case it took Hannah two days. She then carefully inked the lino with an ink roller and pressed it onto paper\, using an Albion press from 1881.” \nIn the same spirit\, Sital-Singh is finessing a series of special filmed performances in the studios\, workshops\, foundries and ateliers of a host of crafts people he’s connected with up and down the country. Watch this (bespoke) space for collaborations with a ceramicist in Glasgow\, a knife-maker in Derby and a stained glass designer in Devon. \nBut for now\, here’s ‘Time Is A Riddle’. A record where you can smell the graft\, see the joins and hear the sweat on the frets – and the occasional live-recording misstep. It’s that real. Luke Sital-Singh wouldn’t have it any other way. As he said in that summer ’16 letter\, “the effort was justified. Like a long run up a steep hill. \n“I’ve reached the top now. I’m catching my breath. My heart is pounding. And as I look back down\, I am proud of each and every step that it’s taken.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/angus-julia-stone/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Angus-Julia-Stone-ADMAT-2017.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:20171115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170822T171902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T171902Z UID:10002549-1510772400-1510772400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:John Carpenter: Anthology Tour DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/25 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n  \n  \n*** \nJohn Carpenter \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nJohn Carpenter has announced Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998\, a collection of 13 of his classic movie themes newly recorded with the collaborators that worked on his Lost Themes studio albums and subsequent tours: his son\, Cody Carpenter\, and godson\, Daniel Davies. Set for release on October 20 via Sacred Bones\, Anthology… is a near-comprehensive survey of John Carpenter’s greatest themes\, from his very first movie (the no-budget sci-fi film Dark Star) to 1998’s supernatural Western\, Vampires. Those sit alongside the driving\, Led Zeppelin-influenced Assault on Precinct 13 theme\, Halloween’s iconic 5/4 piano riff\, and the eerie synth work of The Fog. Carpenter and his band also cover Ennio Morricone’s bleak\, minimalist theme for The Thing. “I asked Morricone to please compose something with a very few notes\,” Carpenter says. “And brilliantly\, he did.” \nTo accompany the announcement\, Carpenter has shared the theme from 1994’s “In The Mouth of Madness”. Reminiscing on the original composition he states\, “I worked on the soundtrack for In the Mouth of Madness with Jim Lang. We never came up with a great main title theme. In a rented house on Woodrow Wilson (my house was being remodeled)\, I came up with a heavy metal theme inspired by Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” My friend Dave Davies played lead guitar\, and now\, over 20 years later\, his son Daniel is playing the lead. One of my favorite themes.” \nJohn Carpenter is a legend. As the director and composer behind dozens of classic movies\, Carpenter has established a reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of modern cinema\, as well as one of its most influential musicians. The minimal\, synthesizer-driven themes to films like Halloween\, Escape From New York\, and Assault on Precinct 13 are as indelible as their images\, and their timelessness was evident as Carpenter performed them live in a string of internationally sold-out concert dates in 2016. \nIn the weeks following Anthology’s October 20 release\, Carpenter will return to the road\, playing both classic movie themes and material from his two Lost Themes albums. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday at 10:00am local time\, including special VIP packages that include meet and greets with John  Carpenter and exclusive merchandise (for more details check www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com). The performances will once again affirm the power of the Horror Master’s brilliant work as a composer and musician\, and undoubtedly send audiences rushing home to their DVD libraries to dive yet again into the most rewarding filmography in genre cinema. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/john-carpenter-anthology-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/2017/08/john-carpenter-anthology-admat-2017-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:20171116T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170814T155626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170814T155626Z UID:10001834-1510860600-1510860600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - 6LACK DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nThis show is SOLD OUT \n*** \n \n*** \n6LACK \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n6LACK (pronounced Black)\, is a melodic rapper who hails from Atlanta\, Georgia. His debut project\, FREE 6LACK\, has sold over 200\,000 units with over 100 Million streams under LVRN/Interscope – all alongside a sold out headline tour in November 2016.  Apple Music selected 6LACK to launch their “Up Next” development platform in April 2017\, revealing a short documentary about his journey and Billboards in his home city of Atlanta. During the summer of 2017 he also joined The Weeknd on his Starboy Tour: Phase 1. \n*** \nSabrina Claudio \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMiami\, FL \n*** \nSy Ari Da Kid \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/6lack/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/6lack-admat-2017.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:20171117T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170607T182714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T182714Z UID:10002518-1510943400-1510954200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Saint Motel DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nThis show is SOLD OUT \n*** \n \n*** \nSaint Motel \n \nThe year before making their breakthrough with a mainstage performance at Coachella and the chart topping single “My Type\,” Saint Motel had planned to host an event of their own called “saintmotelevision”—a multimedia spectacular of music\, dance\, comedy\, art\, and more that was shut down by authorities before it even took place. “That crazy mixture of worlds and ideas is something we’ve always gravitated toward\,” says front man A/J Jackson in reflecting on the original saintmotelevision. “We’ve always been fans of strange combinations\, and that glorious yet doomed event became a symbol of all that.” So when it came time to create their forthcoming full-length debut for Elektra\, the band reclaimed the name saintmotelevision and\, in the end\, dreamed up an album as magnificently kaleidoscopic as that mythic party itself. \nFeaturing production from the likes of Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids) and Tim Pagnotta (Walk The Moon)—as well as from Jackson\, in and around the band’s own studio in downtown L.A.—saintmotelevision builds off 2014’s My Type EP with a sound even more expansive and artfully genre-blurring. And with its effervescent melodies and shapeshifting grooves\, the album emerges as a beautifully alchemized piece of alt-pop\, every bit the “channel-surfing odyssey” its namesake was meant to be. \nLead single “Move” serves as saintmotelevision’s opening track\, a psych-rock-tinged dancefloor anthem with a chorus so catchy that—during Saint Motel’s raucous sets at summer festivals like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo—audience members instantly shouted along despite never having heard the song before. In the lyric video for “Move\,” Saint Motel have also unveiled their latest undertaking as a decidedly visually-oriented group: the so-called “virtualizer\,” which combines 360° animation and virtual reality technology that allows each viewer a chance to experience the music in a fully immersive manner. \nThroughout saintmotelevision\, the band transforms their infinite inspirations into songs that radiate an electric\, unabashed joy. On “Getaway\,” for instance\, Saint Motel shape their fascination with Donna Summers’ “I Feel Love” into a shimmering\, intensely charged pop number powered by massive piano riffs. With “Destroyer” (as in “I don’t break hearts\, I destroy them”)\, the band echoes the seductive danger in the song’s lyrics by bringing in some fantastically trashed-up horns a la Exile on Main St.–era Rolling Stones. Meanwhile\, on “Sweet Talk\,” Saint Motel channel Iggy Pop-inspired swagger into a stomp-and-clap-driven heavy-hitter destined for sing-along status. \nJust as inventive in its lyrical element\, saintmotelevision brilliantly twists together melancholy and levity in songs like “Local Long Distance Relationship (LA2NY)” (a brightly wistful meditation on love in a social-media-crazed era and on being with “someone who’s physically there with you but mentally far away\,” according to Jackson). One of saintmotelevision’s starkest moments\, “Born Again” calls on an L.A.-based gospel choir to help convey the track’s enigmatic message. ‘Born Again’ rides the line between two worlds\, so you can’t really tell which way to take it.” And on “For Elise\,” Saint Motel play on the mystery of Beethoven’s immortal beloved by paying rhapsodic tribute to the legendary muses behind songs like the Kinks’ “Lola” and Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” \nPassion for eclecticism has always been at the heart of Saint Motel\, a band founded by Jackson and guitarist Aaron Sharp: film-school classmates whose longtime friendship had its roots in a shared appreciation of obscurist cinema and mutually adventurous musical tastes that include everything from Imperial Teen to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony\, 2nd Movement. After bringing bass player Dak Lerdamornpong and drummer Greg Erwin into the fold\, the band released their debut EP ForPlay in 2009 and began hosting a series of “experiential concerts” with such themes as Zombie Prom and Judgment Day. “We played in half-pipes\, semi-trucks\, circuses—pretty much anywhere we could\,” says Jackson. “We just wanted to do what we could to push ourselves beyond our comfort zone\, and give people some kind of big\, crazy experience whenever they came to see us.” \nThanks in part to those one-of-a-kind live shows—and to their critically acclaimed\, independently released 2012 full-length debut Voyeur—Saint Motel steadily built up a devoted underground following throughout their early years. Releasing the My Type EP in summer 2014\, the band saw their fan base grow exponentially as the title track became a top 10 alternative radio smash\, with both the song and its companion video (directed by Jackson himself) each collecting streaming figures in the tens of millions\, and counting. \nNow set for a fall headlining tour—with their past tours including support slots for Arctic Monkeys\, Imagine Dragons\, Band of Skulls\, and Weezer —Saint Motel have discovered a new outlet for their boundary-breaking brand of artistry. With plans of creating virtual-reality-enhanced videos for more tracks from saintmotelevision\, the band hopes to offer an even more immersive way to experience what Nylon recently referred to as “a bright\, dreamy sound that transports listeners to another time and place.” “There’s essentially a new art form there\,” says Jackson of the virtualizer. “But it’s also like when you were younger and bought a new record and went home and put it on\, and you’d sit back and close your eyes and kind of enter the album. This is a whole new way to do that\, where we’re letting people walk into the album and then just live inside it for a while.” \n*** \nGibbz \n \nGIBBZ is a renaissance man. After a childhood spent acting in C list horror movies and ballroom dancing\, he received a “degree” from Berklee College of Music. There he focused on music production\, aiding in his future full time position as an audio engineer. After 5 years on the road and in studios with international touring acts\, he realized being an engineer is a thankless\, miserable existence. Luckily\, his path had led him to working for a crew that went onto form the Lowtemp record label\, including Gramatik and Exmag. They convinced him that it’s OK to drink copious amounts of alcohol and make everyone within a 30 ft radius uncomfortable. Out of this drunken\, obnoxious\, offensive mess of a man\, GIBBZ was born. GIBBZ can now be found singing and dancing to his own brand of electro pop\, recently touring with the likes of Cherub\, Ghost Beach and The Floozies. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/saint-motel-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/saint-motel-admat-2017.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:20171119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170626T161621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170626T161621Z UID:10001806-1511118000-1511118000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - Turnover DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is open to All Ages. \nSOLD OUT \nPlease note\, due to unforeseen circumstances\, Emma Ruth Rundle will be dropping off of the tour. They will be replaced by pronoun as the opener for this show. \n*** \n \n*** \nTurnover \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nFront man Austin Getz doesn’t blink when asked to sum up Turnover’s third full-length\, Good Nature. “Learning\,” he replies. “This whole record is about learning. Opening your eyes to new things\, going outside of your comfort zone\, and learning to grow into something new.”\nTurnover’s previous full-length\, 2015’s Peripheral Vision\, won acclaim for showcasing a dreamier side of the band’s melodically-charged sound; Billboard noted that “the quartet has morphed into a moody\, atmospheric indie rock band\, without losing its knack for hooks.” As easy as it might have been to replicate that success for its third album\, the band resisted the urge to play it safe.\n“It can be hard to be honest with yourself sometimes when it comes to creativity\,” Austin admits. Excited by the opportunities for personal and creative growth the band experienced in the wake of Peripheral Vision\, they worked hard to strike a balance for its follow-up\, “writing good songs but pushing boundaries\, without getting strange just for the sake of being strange.”\nAs the range of textures\, tempos\, and dynamics on Good Nature hints\, the members of Turnover have been listening to a wider range of musical styles over the past couple years. Vintage Southern soul and blues\, Bossa nova and cool jazz\, electronic music\, and psychedelic grooves all filtered into the mix.\n“The new record definitely has a different rhythmic feel because of that\,” he observes. “The melodies we wrote for this record are very different\, much less linear. They’re much more soulful and move around a lot.”\nListening to how the leisurely “Nightlight Girl” melts into a more propulsive selection like “Breeze\,” and the way Good Nature flows together as a seamless whole\, it’s also evident that the foursome has been paying closer attention to how artists from earlier eras made full-length albums. “The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds has become one of my top five favorites of all time\,” says Austin\, citing not only the quality of the individual selections\, but also the careful sequencing and use of space in the arrangements.\n“I read a huge article on Frank Ocean toward the end of writing Good Nature\, talking about taking his time on his records and being patient with the process\, and that really inspired me\, too.”\nAt the same time Austin and his cohorts were opening up their ears\, they were opening up their understanding of themselves too: “A big chunk of the record is learning to be happy.” Not full-throttle exuberance\, but something much more subtle and satisfying. The almost beatific radiance that imbues Good Nature comes from a place of calm and contentment\, nurtured by looking inward.\n“Peripheral Vision was mostly a record about feeling emptiness and not knowing what to do. This one is about the steps I took after feeling those things\, and where those steps took me\, and learning to try to love the emptiness.”\nThe album’s unique blend of musical and spiritual growth is immediately audible on the opening track\, “Super Natural\,” a late-summer idyll of intertwined guitar parts and laidback vocals. “More than anything else\, love has the ability to teach people selflessness\,” says Austin. “That song is specifically about just one type of love\, romantic love\, and how it became almost meditative for me. It made me feel so relaxed\, but at the same time I could feel it was something so big … it’s ‘super natural’ and it’s ‘supernatural.'”\nFrom the flora and fauna that adorn its cover\, to song titles like “Butterfly Dream” and “Sunshine Type\,” the natural world also plays a pivotal role in Turnover’s latest. “Nature is a huge theme\, because nature has been the teacher in my life when it comes to many things.”\nTo record Good Nature\, Turnover reunited with longtime producer Will Yip. Together\, they spent more time in the studio than on any previous Turnover record\, devoting hours of pre-production to methodically going through the new songs\, fine-tuning parts and writing additional melodies. The bulk of the lyrics\, however\, were finalized during the band’s 2016 European tour. “That was a beautiful atmosphere to be doing it in – and the most intense experience I’ve ever had as a writer.”\nTurnover formed in 2009 in Virginia Beach\, VA and has gone on to tour extensively throughout North America\, Europe\, Australia\, and Japan. Their discography includes three full-length albums and countless EPs and split-singles\, including last year’s Humblest Pleasures EP. “It’s really cool to see all the change\, from the first songs we ever wrote\, right up to Good Nature\,” concludes Austin. Eight years into their career\, Turnover sound better than ever. Slip on your headphones\, open up your ears\, and learn for yourself what the excitement is all about. \n*** \nElvis Depressedly \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIn many ways\, new alhambra is an auditory homage to what has shaped lead singer Mathew Lee Cothran’s life. Its title\, as any hardcore pro-wrestling fan will recognize\, credits the Philadelphia arena that birthed its most legendary and extreme version of it\, and the use of samples from wrestling shows and late night televangelists serve as a reference to his upbringing. The album was characteristically made with outdated equipment and limited by only one microphone\, with Mike “Dr. Vink” Roberts playing an essential role on bass that enriches the rockier resonation in comparison to elvis depressedly’s previous releases. Cothran and Delaney were constantly on the move during the recording process thanks to their new found career freedom\, but none of it takes away from new alhambra fully texturized shift toward brightly melancholic noise-pop inspired by Cothran’s favorite un- sung heroes such as Waterboys\, Prefab Sprout and Emperor X. \npronoun \n \n[Website] [Facebook] URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/turnover/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Turnover-Admat-2017v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171120T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171120T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161608 CREATED:20170731T154744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170731T154744Z UID:10002538-1511206200-1511206200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kamasi Washington DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nKamasi Washington \n \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*** \nCC & The Catastrophe \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nCC & The Catastrophe is a ten-piece pop big-band that was formed in 2016 by singer/songwriter Caroline Carlson. The group is based out of Boston\, Massachusetts and is home to both current and past students of the Berklee College of Music. The group has been around the Boston gigging scene for awhile now\, headlining with acts such as Pineapple Jam\, Elijah Ford\, Fight the Moon\, TEGA\, and many others. They released their debut single “Blow” last spring which quickly reached 10k views in just 1.5 weeks. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kamasi-washington/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/kamasi-washington-admat-2017.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 END:VCALENDAR