BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190501T114836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T114950Z UID:10002051-1556830800-1556830800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Sugarbabies Band Live! DESCRIPTION: URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sugarbabies-band-live/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/8B5C74D4-1696-4217-9407-8E4080700A5A.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190115T150038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T185915Z UID:10002011-1557082800-1557082800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Parachute DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 1/18 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nParachute \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPlatinum-selling band PARACHUTE are on the brink of a momentous 2019 with the release of their first new music in three years\, the new single “Young” from their highly-anticipated fifth studio album\, coming spring 2019. In April\, they will embark on The Young Tour 2019 which will travel throughout 35+ cities across the United States. Will Anderson\, lead vocalist and songwriter of Parachute\, calls “Young” one of the most personal songs he’s ever written\, but notes its undeniable relatability. “Everyone has felt that vulnerable feeling of uncertainty and fear of the unknown. Maybe that’s what becoming an adult is all about\, and the song is an exploration of that.” Fans and critics alike are no stranger to Anderson’s impeccable ability to connect as a songwriter\, with Billboard hailing that he has a “knack for writing emotionally connecting\, hook-laden songs that linger in the brain for days” as well as Idolator calling the band’s past songs “well-crafted and infectious.” The album and tour will mark the trio’s first new material and full-fledged touring since the 2016 release of Wide Awake. Friends since childhood\, Parachute’s Will Anderson (vocals\, guitar)\, Johnny Stubblefield (drums)\, and Christopher “Kit” French (saxophone\, keyboards) spent nearly every afternoon of high school in Anderson’s basement\, dreaming up songs showing a deep affinity for classic pop\, heart-felt rock\, and tuneful blue-eyed soul. The band quickly began landing gigs locally and soon gained a following at the nearby University of Virginia. As their inaugural release under the name Parachute\, Losing Sleep debuted at #2 on the Billboard Digital Albums Chart and climbed to #40 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Over the next few years\, along with releasing The Way It Was and Overnight (which shot to the #3 spot on iTunes)\, Parachute toured with such artists as Kelly Clarkson\, Gavin DeGraw and Mat Kearney in addition to three sold out headlining tours. The band has spent a decade touring internationally and turning out hit singles like the platinum “She Is Love” (#1 at iTunes)\, the gold “Kiss Me Slowly\,” “Forever And Always\,” and the infectious smash single “Without You” from Wide Awake (#1 iTunes Pop Album). \n*** \nBilly Rafoul \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nEmerging singer/songwriter Billy Raffoul confirms North American tour dates this spring supporting Parachute. The extensive run of dates brings Raffoul to New York’s Gramercy Theatre\, Nashville’s Cannery Ballroom\, D.C.’s 9:30 Club\, Boston’s Royale as well as two dates at Los Angeles’ Troubadour. Raffoul has spent the past few years on the road sharing the stage with Kings of Leon\, ZZ Ward\, NEEDTOBREATHE\, Mondo Cozmo\, Judah & The Lion and more. Ticket’s on-sale begins on Friday\, January 18 and can be purchased at billyraffoul.com. See below for complete tour dates. \nRaffoul’s debut EP 1975\, which was released last year via Interscope Records\, continues to receive critical praise. The Observer proclaims\, “Falling somewhere in-between Hozier and James Bay is Billy Raffoul. The 22-year-old knows how to balance poetry with an anthemic\, hard rock edge. We’ll definitely be seeing more of this Nashville by Canada troubadour\,” while Ones To Watch adds\, “Never hiding behind overly-clever production techniques or superfluous furnishings\, lyrically or sonically\, 1975 paints a brutally honest portrait of Raffoul as a genuine artist.” \nRaffoul grew up in a creative family in the small farming town of Leamington\, Ontario. His mother is an artist\, writer and teacher and his father Jody Raffoul is a solo artist and hometown hero who has opened for everyone from Joe Cocker to Bon Jovi. Raffoul’s earliest musical influences come from his dad. “The Beatles were like Jesus in our house\,” he recalls\, adding that he also listened to soul singers like Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. On his tenth birthday\, Billy received a British Invasion-inspired guitar with a Union Jack on its front from Jody and started teaching himself to play. By 16\, he had bought his first real guitar\, a 1968 Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/parachute-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/2019/01/Parachute-Admat-2019.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:20190507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190226T150016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T145642Z UID:10002748-1557255600-1557255600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Dandy Warhols DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nDue to overwhelming demand\, this show has been moved from The Sinclair to Royale! Tickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nThe Dandy Warhols \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nCosmonauts \n< \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nThe Vacant Lots \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe Vacant Lots are an American duo comprised of Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen. The key element of The Vacant Lots’ minimalist\, primitive rock and roll songs is their boundless energy\, which tears up the psych template with a genuine punk spirit. The notion of duality is also a recurring theme in the band’s minimal means maximum effect aesthetic\, whether in their lyrics or fiercely monochromatic artwork. \nThe group has collaborated with underground music legends including; Sonic Boom (who mixed their debut album Departure)\, Alan Vega of Suicide (who’s vocals are featured on the band’s second album Endless Night) and Anton Newcombe who has recorded and produced 2 EPs at his Berlin studio with the band. Their second EP together is expected for a 2019 release on Anton’s label\, A Recordings. \nHaving recently toured Europe with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club\, The Vacant Lots will be hitting the road with The Dandy Warhols this May in the USA. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-dandy-warhols/ 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/2019/02/Dandys-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:20190509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190108T171935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T215658Z UID:10002725-1557428400-1557428400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Movements DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nThis show is now SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nMovements \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMusic and emotion share a timeless physiological\, psychological\, and spiritual bond. A chord\, a melody\, or a lyric can lift spirits and inspire. Movements achieve that sort of reaction on their full-length debut\, Feel Something [Fearless Records]. Threading together spacey guitars\, evocative and introspective lyricism\, ponderous spoken word\, and tight songcraft\, the Southern California quartet—Patrick Miranda [vocals]\, Ira George [guitar]\, Spencer York [drums]\, and Austin Cressey [bass]—immediately connect by opening up. That musical empathy quietly launched Movements on an upward trajectory in 2015. Formed by longtime friends\, the group landed a deal with Fearless Records after just one local gig. Produced by Will Yip [Tigers Jaw\, Title Fight\, Turnover\, Citizen]\, their debut EP\, Outgrown Things\, became a fan favorite. Acclaimed by the likes of Alternative Press and New Noise Magazine\, songs like “Nineteen” and “Kept” each respectively amassed over 800K Spotify streams and counting as they have toured nonstop. Along the way\, the boys started working on what would become Feel Something before returning to the studio with Yip in February 2017. In the sessions\, their signature style crystallized and coalesced. Ultimately\, Movements bring emotion to life in each note. \n*** \nBoston Manor \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBlackpool’s Boston Manor formed in 2013 and\, in two short years\, worked their way to signing with renowned US indie label Pure Noise Records\, worldwide. In that period\, they’ve successfully built a name for themselves with their modern day emotive rock anthems and DIY work ethic. A band with expert songwriting and craftsmanship\, they are also heavily involved in the production of their own videos and visual content\, and as a result are now a mainstay with the likes of Kerrang TV & Scuzz. The band has also been in constant circulation across major radio stations in the UK such as BBC Radio 1 & Kerrang\, with significant coverage also coming from Rock Sound\, Upset & Discovered to name a few. The band were even nominated for ‘Best British Breakthrough’ at the 2018 Kerrang awards. \nThey released their debut album ‘Be Nothing’ in 2016 to widespread acclaim and the band have continued to tour the world since then. Now veterans across the US\, UK & European circuits\, the band have toured with the likes of Moose Blood\, Knuckle Puck\, Have Mercy\, Lower Than Atlantis\, & Four Year Strong\, and also completed a Summer on Vans Warped Tour 2017. Topping their 2017 off with high profile slots at Slam Dunk Festival\, Reading & Leeds\, and the Kerrang Tour\, Boston Manor have stormed into 2018 fully charged\, ready to unleash their next offering onto the world. \nProduced by Mike Sapone (Taking Back Sunday\, Mayday Parade\, Public Enemy)\, ‘Welcome To The Neighbourhood’ is a soundtrack to disenfranchisement set in a fictionalised version of the band’s hometown. In support of it’s release\, the band will be heading out on their largest UK headline tour to date (including a London show at Electric Ballroom) before heading back to the US for a main support slot on the Real Friends tour to cap off an action packed 2018. \n*** \nTrash Boat \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIn nature\, crown shyness is a phenomenon in which the crowns of neighboring trees refuse to touch one another\, instead creating a canopy-like cover for the sun’s rays to peek through. From the ground\, it’s a stunning image\, and it paints a striking contrast between the trees’ interconnectedness at their roots and their complete detachment at their tallest points. \nOn their second full-length album\, CROWN SHYNESS (out July 20)\, the UK-based TRASH BOAT push toward the light as they explore similarly disparate emotions\, juxtaposing hard-fought introspection against external strife to create a propulsive\, captivating blend of punk and melodic hardcore. \nThe album\, produced by Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember\, Neck Deep) follows 2016’s Nothing I Write You Can Change What You’ve Been Through\, their debut LP for Hopeless Records that launched the quintet—vocalist Tobi Duncan\, guitarists Dann Bostock and Ryan Hyslop\, bassist James Grayson and drummer Oakley Moffatt—into the pages of Alternative Press and Rock Sound and onto festivals like the prestigious Reading and Leeds. \nTwo years of nonstop worldwide touring with acts such as New Found Glory\, Beartooth and The Wonder Years fine-tuned the band’s jagged\, muscular songwriting—and helped imbue Crown Shyness with an overflowing sense of honesty and\, above all\, accountability. \n“There’s a lot of things I’d like to keep secret: bad decisions\, anxieties\, thought processes\,” Duncan explains. “It’s so easy to hide those things\, but it can be a self-defeating process if you never address any of your issues. Through songwriting\, I can’t cut myself any slack. I’ll call myself out on these things and put them in a song\, then I have to sing it every day on tour and remind myself. It stops me from slipping.” \nSo the band look inward\, mining themes of personal responsibility (the caustic “Controlled Burn”)\, betrayal (“Shade”) and the subconscious (“Inside Out”) to wrestle with the at-times uncomfortable facets of ourselves. But at the same time they’re staring down the ugliness\, they’re finding the joy in celebrating unbreakable bonds (“Love\, Hate\, React\, Relate”) and resolving to live up to familial legacy (“Old Soul”). \nIt’s this push and pull that makes for such a powerful statement from a still-young band\, an emotional awareness wiser than their years. Ultimately\, Crown Shyness is overflowing with acceptance and understanding. Because Trash Boat don’t shut the darkness out—they invite it in\, knowing the only way to break through that canopy and into the sunlight above is to embrace life’s obstacles head-on and work every day to defeat them. \n“Throughout my life\, I’ve always found music as something that challenges me\,” Duncan says. “Sometimes you hear a song that hits you so hard\, it feels like it was exactly what you needed to hear at that moment. The spark could change your day and challenge you. That’s what this album did: It challenged my anxiety\, my family\, my responsibilities\, my past\, my future. I spent a lot of time looking inward\, and now the album is ready to reach out.” XX \n*** \nDrug Church \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nDrug Church are a glorious contradiction. They are an unabashedly aggressive band that writes hooks you can’t stop humming: too poppy for the heavy crowd\, too heavy for the poppy crowd. Their frontman is a singer who rarely sings and delivers lyrics that revel in the darkest corners of the human condition\, but are just as likely to make you laugh as they are to make you flinch. They loudly shout the uncomfortable truths we prefer to ignore but somehow make us want to shout along with them; they make serious music but don’t take themselves too seriously; they are completely adverse to planning but have accidentally built a loyal cult following. On Cheer\, the band has doubled down on their Drug Church-iest impulses and emerged with an album that’s sure to please longtime fans and turn new heads. If there’s anything intentional about Drug Church\, it’s knowing the value of being unintentional. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/movements/ 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/2019/01/Movements-admat-2019.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:20190512T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20181105T170027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T175749Z UID:10002706-1557691200-1557691200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] FKJ DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nFKJ \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nLou Phelps \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nA longtime fixture of the Montreal arts scene\, Lou Phelps is one of Canada’s foremost purveyors of club-rap bangers. Lou started making music in 2011 with KAYTRANADA\, forming a future-rap group called The Celestics\, releasing their debut project\, Massively Massive. Using the moniker\, Lou Phelps\, Lou developed a reputation for creating tasteful and danceable hip-hop music\, releasing Supreme Laziness in 2014 and curating Cause I Wanna\, an 80-minute DJ mix that featured tracks from innovative electronic artists like DJ Rashad\, RP Boo\, and Kyle Hall\, showcasing his excellent taste and long list of influences. In 2017\, Lou released 001: Experiments\, his debut project which racked up millions plays on SoundCloud\, featured appearances from Bishop Nehru\, Innanet James\, KALLITECHNICS\, and earned a nomination from Canada’s JUNO Awards for Rap Recording of the Year. In September 2018 Lou shared his sophomore album\, 002 / LOVE ME\, via Last Gang Records. 002 / LOVE ME sees Lou’s older brother\, Kevin\, aka the Polaris Prize-winning producer\, KAYTRANADA\, as executive producer\, with guest spots from BADBADNOTGOOD\, JAHKOY\, Planet Giza\, Pony and drum master\, Karriem Riggins. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/fkj/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FKJ_pressphoto.jpeg 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:20190514T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190514T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190219T170048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190218T173850Z UID:10002029-1557856800-1557856800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Citizen / Knuckle Puck DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 2/22 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \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 friends\, his family\, and 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. Both are Kerekes’ discreet way of expressing the wreckage of widespread opiate addiction. “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 fully outgrown the pop punk\, but also refuses to brood in post-hardcore dirges. 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 the grunge to shoegaze 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 daily 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 illitic 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*** \nKnuckle Puck \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIn early 2017\, Knuckle Puck entered the studio to record the follow-up to Copacetic—their 2015 breakthrough that debuted in the Top 10 of five different Billboard charts\, earned a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards and launched them from the Chicago suburbs to a place among the most beloved acts of the modern pop-punk genre. \nBut midway through the process\, the band (vocalist Joe Taylor\, guitarists Nick Casasanto and Kevin Maida\, bassist Ryan Rumchaks and drummer John Siorek) realized they were on the wrong path. They weren’t only making the wrong album for Knuckle Puck—they were making the wrong album for themselves. They knew they had no choice but to start from scratch. \n“Having such a struggle and being so disconnected in the recording process felt wrong\,” Casasanto explains. “It felt so wrong\, and we were all afraid to talk about it. There was some denial when we realized what was unfolding.” \nDiscouraged but undefeated\, the band changed producers\, eventually landing back with Copacetic producer Seth Henderson\, and began rebuilding the songs they’d written from the ground up. Knuckle Puck’s first attempt would have produced a fine album\, but their second created the right one. \nThe result is Shapeshifter\, due October 13 on Rise Records. Despite its title\, the album isn’t a reinvention for the band; rather\, it’s the sound of Knuckle Puck taking their best qualities and honing them to make them even sharper. The songwriting became tighter and more deliberate\, the lyrics more introspective and urgent—without losing an ounce of the sweat-soaked authenticity and passion that made Copacetic so captivating. Above all\, it’s an album that proves the band are unflinchingly unwilling to compromise when it comes to their art. That’s a sentiment reinforced throughout Shapeshifter’s main lyrical theme—the importance of identity—which was only magnified during their first studio session. \n“When you reach early adulthood and start to see your life take shape\, it’s also important to shape your identity and break yourself free from anything that might be holding you down\,” Casasanto says. “That was a glaring parallel between what was going on with the record and what we were writing about at the time. Although it was tumultuous\, I truly think we wouldn’t have written the same record without going through what we did.” \nThroughout their struggle\, Knuckle Puck grew stronger and more confident in themselves\, something the band ultimately want listeners to take from Shapeshifter. \n“I hope the album instills a little bit of hope in people\,” Casasanto says. “You look at politics and how fast the world is now\, everything the internet is bringing to the world. It’s difficult to form an identity when there’s so much in your face. I hope people realize they should consume the things that really speak to them. Through that\, I feel like it’s the most satisfying way to be who you want to be.” XX \n*** \nHUNNY \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAlt-indie rock band HUNNY has signed to Epitaph and have released a new EP Windows II available today. Windows II is the follow up to the band’s 2017 EP release Windows I. \n“We’re super stoked to finally release this music we’ve been sitting on for a bit and even more stoked for who were releasing it with. I have dreamt of being on Epitaph since the first band I started back in the eighth grade. Please enjoy the second installment of our windows series. Be good to each other and play loud.” \nHUNNY is a band from Newbury Park\, CA who first made a name for themselves in early 2015 after releasing their debut single “Cry for Me”. Tastemakers and fans alike found the Southern California group to be a perfect mix of post-punk tinged pop and their childhood influences like Prince and The Cure. The result is a sound that feels uniquely them. With a few more years and more material under their belt\, HUNNY has gained across the globe by touring with the likes of The Neighbourhood\, The Frights\, Bad Suns\, Beach Slang\, and more. This is just the start of a long and promising career for HUNNY. \nHUNNY is front man Jason Yarger\, guitarist Jake Goldstein\, bassist/keyboardist Kevin Grimmett\, and drummer Joey Anderson. \n*** \nOso Oso \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/citizen-knuckle-puck/ 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/2019/02/0514-Boston-Citizen-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:20190516T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190213T170023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190516T172828Z UID:10002743-1558033200-1558033200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Basement DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:45 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 2/15 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nBasement \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAndrew Fisher (vocals) – Alex Henery (guitar) – Ronan Crix (guitar)\, Duncan Stewart (bass) James Fisher (drums) \nThe fourth full-length from Basement\, Beside Myself is an intimate look at the drawbacks of living in your own head\, and the attempt to shake off everyday anxieties. “One of the things everyone in the band seems to struggle with is living fully in the present time\,” says Andrew Fisher\, who co-founded the Ipswich\, England-bred five-piece in 2010. “We tend to look back on the past and think\, ‘That was so much better than what’s going on now\,’ or look toward the future and assume it’s going to be better than today. The title came from thinking about\, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if you could stop yourself from doing that\, and just appreciate the moment as it happens?’”\nBut for all its intense introspection and confessions of self-consciousness\, Beside Myself centers on a powerful\, passionately charged sound that makes every track feel deeply cathartic. A relentless burst of pure vitality\, the album expresses its unrest in the language of furious guitar riffs and visceral rhythms. And at the heart of Beside Myself are Basement’s indelible melodies\, an element that lends an anthemic quality to even the most heavy-hearted songs. \nThe follow-up to Promise Everything—a 2016 album whose re-release the following year\nmarked Basement’s debut for Fueled by Ramen—Beside Myself was co-produced by the band and Colin Brittain\, and mixed by Rich Costey (Arctic Monkeys\, Foo Fighters\, Muse). In creating the\nalbum\, Basement focused on channeling the raw energy of their live performance\, adding little adornment beyond the occasional synth line or piano melody. But despite the stark simplicity of its sonic\npalette\, Beside Myself emerges as the band’s most fully realized work to date. “We’d never been able to take this much time with something before\,” says Fisher. “It was always this rushed writing process\, rushed rehearsal\, rushed recording. This was the complete opposite\, and because of that it feels like the most complete thing we’ve ever come up with.” \nOn the album-opening lead single “Disconnect\,” Basement set the tone for Beside Myself with a hard- hitting track built on lyrics that closely detail the nagging pain of ambivalence. “From a young age I wanted very badly to be in a band and travel all over playing for people\,” says Fisher. “But now sometimes I get bogged down in thinking things like\, ‘Is this the best thing for me to be doing? Should I be doing something that could help make someone else’s life better?’ So ‘Disconnect’ is about trying not to get too entrenched in those thoughts\, and to let myself just enjoy this whole experience for what it is.” \nBasement continue that exacting self-examination on “Be Here Now\,” bringing a frenzied intensity to their own struggle with embracing the sentiment of the song’s title. Later\, Beside Myself veers into darker terrain with “Stigmata\,” whose serpentine guitar riffs and dizzying rhythms sharply capture what Fisher refers to as “those moments when everything’s going okay\, but you just feel incredibly down for real reason.” Meanwhile\, “New Coast” looks back on Basement’s first trip to Los Angeles and its exacerbation of their misfit tendencies\, the song’s shiny textures brilliantly clashing with their self-effacing lyrics (“For me it’s too bright outside/If it is bright at all/The leaves are alive outside/But better when they fall”). “There’s something unreal about L.A.\, in a way that’s magical but also slightly ridiculous\,” says Fisher. “‘New Coast’ is about us trying to cope with feeling so grateful to be in the position we’re in\, but also recognizing that it’s so different from where we came from.”\nOn the delicately unsettling “Ultraviolet\,” Basement turn their focus outward\, reflecting on the 2017 terrorist attack on the Westminster Bridge in London. With its eerily ethereal guitar tones\, the song is threaded with plainspoken yet piercing lyrics (e.g.\, “We’ll be wanting you home safe and sound”). “I remember hearing the news in my kitchen in America\, and feeling so alienated and far from home\,” says Fisher\, who now lives in Richmond\, Virginia. “I just felt incredibly helpless\, and realized that this kind of thing could happen to anyone at anytime.” \nWhile an undeniable volatility infuses much of Beside Myself\, Basement slip into a gentler mood on songs like “Keepsake\,” a harmony-laced reverie that adds a touch of wide-eyed romanticism to the album (“Can you put me in your pocket?/Let me be your lucky charm/I’m right here waiting/So come and use me”). A\nspontaneously composed interlude driven by elegant piano work and graceful acoustic guitar\, “Changing Lanes” looks at the fragility of human existence. “Anyone who’s ever been behind the wheel in a moving vehicle has probably had that realization that—at any minute—you could be in a fatal accident\,” says Fisher. “‘Changing Lanes’ is about that moment of realization\, and how terrifying that possibility is.” \nOn “Slip Away\,” Basement shift into a fast-paced\, joyfully frenetic epic that offers up a subtle message of hope (“Carry on\, it gets darkest before dawn/Wait a while\, it won’t be long until the morning”). And with “Reason for Breathing\,” Beside Myself turns gloriously pensive\, with Basement’s sludgy guitars and brooding rhythms create a perfect contrast to the song’s tender vulnerability. “When you’re a kid\, all that matters to you is your family\, and what you’re having for tea that night\,” says Fisher in discussing the song’s inspiration. “But as you get older\, you start to think about the fact that these people that you love so much are going to die someday—even though at some point they probably told you they’d never leave you. ‘Reason for Breathing’ is about those lies that parents tell their children to make them feel secure.” \nThroughout Beside Myself\, Fisher’s lyrics reveal the thoughtful sensitivity partly honed through his recent stint as a teacher of religious studies at a school in East London (a position he held while Basementtook a break between their 2012 sophomore album Colourmeinkindness and their 2014 EP Further Sky). “Every single day I could genuinely affect young people on a face-to-face level\,” says Fisher of his teaching experience. “I had a purpose and a drive\, and there was real meaning to it. I think it’s possible for music to inspire other people too—but as soon as you make that your goal\, or have an agenda to what you’re creating\, it taints everything. For me the only goal behind making music is some kind of emotional outpouring.” \nOn Beside Myself\, that outpouring unfolds at its own distinct pace\, with Basement bringing an unhurried deliberation to their meditations on mental health and the overall anxiety of getting by in the modern world. As a result\, the album invites a certain self-reflection in the listener\, and ultimately provides a sense of solace. “I don’t think making this album has changed my perspective in any way\, but I do think it’s good to talk about things that you’re struggling with\,” says Fisher. “Even if it doesn’t help you to understand the world any better\, it’s always good to just get those thoughts and feelings out. That’s what music’s always been able to do for me.” \n*** \nNothing \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nTeenage Wrist \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nFiddlehead \nWebsite\nFacebook URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/basement-3/ 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/2019/02/Basement-admat-2019.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:20190517T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190219T140034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190218T170048Z UID:10002026-1558116000-1558116000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Chromatics & Desire DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 2/22 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nChromatics \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nDesire \n \nFacebook \n*** \nIn Mirrors \n \nFacebook URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/chromatics-desire/ 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/2019/02/Chromatics-admat-2019.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:20190518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190518T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190130T170058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190218T184920Z UID:10002731-1558202400-1558202400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] PUP DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nPUP \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nRatboys \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBorn out of fierce friendship and a mutual affection for melody\, Chicago’s Ratboys – anchored by the partnership of Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan – aim to ‘write songs that tell stories and honor the intimacy of memory\,’ according to Steiner. \nGN\, the group’s second full-length album via Topshelf Records\, offers a bevy of tales\, laments and triumphs\, which recount near-tragedies by the train tracks\, crippling episodes of loneliness\, remembrances of a deceased family pet with freezer burn\, and on and on. The songs shift and breathe as worlds all their own\, tied together by the group’s self-proclaimed ‘post-country’ sound\, which combines moments of distortion and a DIY aesthetic with a devotion to simple songwriting and ties to the Americana sounds of years past. \nDrawing influence from the down-to-earth sincerity of late-90s Sheryl Crow and the confessional confidence of Kim Deal and Jenny Lewis\, the songs on GN (aka ‘goodnight’) “largely detail experiences of saying goodbye\, finding your way home\, and then figuring out what the hell to do once you’re back\,” says Steiner. The songs chosen to close both sides of the record – the slow-burning ‘Crying About the Planets’ and quizzical ‘Peter the Wild Boy’ – unpack the respective journeys of two real people who were quite literally lost and found. ‘’Crying’ tells the survival story of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson from a first-person perspective\, and ‘Peter’ reflects on the life of a feral child in Germany who was eventually adopted by the King of England\,’ according to Steiner. ‘Writing as and about these people is the best way I can attempt to empathize with them and really just wrap my mind around these bits of history that otherwise might not get talked about. And it helps me understand my own experiences a little bit better\,’ she says. \nCertain personal stories – the tour adventures recapped in ‘GM\,’ the struggle to learn to show affection as divulged in ‘Molly’ – find Ratboys just as eagerly exploring subject matter that comes from within\, and then illustrating the highs and lows with soaring hooks and plaintive ones. Even in the moments that lie somewhere between bliss and misery\, a tension persists between Steiner’s sweet vocal delivery and Sagan’s physical\, almost-off-the-hinges guitar playing that lends each song a deeper sense of color and movement. \n
Steiner and Sagan felt the impulse to make music together from the get-go – they first met as university students\, quickly put out an EP together\, and started performing as an acoustic two-piece in dorm rooms and backyards. During the next few years\, the friends traveled separately\, eventually reunited\, and recorded what would become the first Ratboys record\, AOID\, which the folks at GoldFlakePaint describe as ‘a gleaming\, joyous\, raucous display of melodic indie-rock.’ \n
After a year and a half of touring the US and Europe as a plugged-in full band (featuring the additions of drums\, bass\, and trumpet)\, the members of Ratboys returned to Chicago and holed up at Atlas Studios for two weeks to record with engineer Mikey Crotty (who had previously worked with the group on the songs ‘Not Again’ and ‘Light Pollution’). ‘This time around\, we were lucky enough to feature the talents of friends who play the pedal steel\, accordion\, cello and violin to give the songs an extra something\,’ says Steiner. ‘Dave finally got to show off his ridiculous skills on the pocket piano\, and the whole thing felt like one big loving experiment.’ \nRatboys keep the good times going in 2018 with a new EP called GL (aka Good Luck). Featuring four songs recorded shortly after the GN sessions\, this new companion piece expands upon themes of isolation and memory\, while focusing closely on the ups and downs of personal relationships. \n‘Each of the songs on GL sounds like its own little world\, which is what we set out to do\,’ Steiner says. With each song sounding distinct from the rest\, the EP offers up four different takes on the sounds of heartache. \nOn the heals of their newest release\, you can find Ratboys on the road\, playing songs old and new all over North America and Europe. \n*** \nCasper Skulls \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nCasper Skulls burst forth from the Toronto exurbs in 2015. Described by MTV as a collection of “confrontational art rock that bleeds with sincerity\,” and drawing comparisons to luminaries like Television\, The Fall (The Toronto Star)\, Pavement\, and Sonic Youth (Noisey)\, their debut EP\, Lips & Skulls (Buzz) attracted immediate attention from audiences in Toronto and up and down the Eastern seaboard. Riding the wave of rising excitement\, the band hit the road\, hard\, touring extensively and sharing stages with acts like Cloud Nothings\, Thurston Moore\, Suuns\, Weaves\, The Julie Ruin\, Solids\, Greys\, and Chastity Belt. \nFollowing the reverberating shout that was the band’s first EP\, Casper Skulls debut full length\, Mercy Works\, (out now on Buzz) is a startlingly ambitious statement of intent. The album was recorded in early 2017 with co-producer/engineer Josh Korody (Fucked Up\, Dilly Dally)\, and mixed by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In\, Death Cab For Cutie). While the rough and ready post-punk and lo-fi early ’90s indie influences present on the band’s first recordings still provide the foundation\, there is a sense of scale on display in their swelling guitar figures and sweeping string arrangements (provided by Toronto musician Paul Erlichman). Each of the album’s 11 songs are densely arranged\, intricately written and performed with an uncommon earnestness. \nDual songwriters and vocalists Melanie St. Pierre and Neil Bednis seek to represent lived experience in immense detail\, engaging with a diverse palette of references\, both musical and lyrical. Whether drawing on the poetry of William Blake (“What’s That Good For”)\, the dystopian sci-fi of Philip K. Dick (“Colour of the Outside”)\, or ruminating on mortality and evolving personal/cultural legacies through Elvis Presley and Paul Simon’s trips to Graceland (“You Can Call Me Allocator”)\, St. Pierre and Bednis collect pieces of the world around them and imbue them with new meaning as they attempt to understand their place in it. \nSwirling standout “I Stared at ‘Moses and the Burning Bush’” deals with the role of religion in experiences of grief\, cleverly wrapped in a reference to a ’80s pop artist Keith Haring. “I like the idea of exploring biblical imagery without necessarily picking sides\,” says Bednis. “It’s rationed throughout the songs what my stance is\, if I even have a stance. I find that religion can be therapeutic when people in your life die….(It) doesn’t necessarily need to be a sacred thing.” \nDespite how swiftly they seemed to have reached songwriting maturity\, Casper Skulls still see themselves as being at the beginning of their journey – an enticing prospect given the self-assuredness that underpins their debut. \n“We’re really only at the start of being a band\,” says St-Pierre agrees. “Our records don’t have to move mountains as long as we’re being true to our own ideas. We want to be a slow burning candle.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pup-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/2019/01/pup-ADMAT-2019-two-nights.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;VALUE=DATE:20190519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190521 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190312T160601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190509T153208Z UID:10002753-1558224000-1558396799@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Glykeria and Kostas Karafotis DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 19th 2019 \n21+ \nDoors open at 8pm \n$50 general admission URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/glykeria-and-kostas-karafotis/ 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/2019/03/Glykeria-2019-ROYALE.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190528T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190211T170047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T154949Z UID:10002742-1559070000-1559070000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Distillers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Thu. 2/14 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Distillers \nFacebook \n*** \nStarcrawler \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nStarcrawler are a Los Angeles rock & roll band formed one year ago when Arrow de Wilde first met Henri Cash on the high school yard in Echo Park. The rhythm section of Austin Smith and Tim Franco came soon after\, found on the streets of Hollywood. They play rock & roll music heavy and loud and their incendiary performances resemble the children of the Cramps\, the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs\, and Alice Cooper. \n“Ants\,” a song they recorded days after first playing together\, was quickly discovered by London DJ Matt Wilkinson and debuted on Apple Beats One radio just as the band were playing their first few shows. The DJ loved it so much\, he played it twice in a row. Soon after\, it found its way to Sir Elton John\, who spun it on his “Rocket Hour” radio program\, as well as to Zane Lowe\, who played it to further accolades. Much media interest both from the music and fashion worlds has quickly followed. “Ants” & the forthcoming “Used to Know” are from an early session recorded by Steven McDonald (Red Kross) and document the unhinged beginnings of the group taking their first steps into the public eye. They have only now found the time to take a breath and are recording their more fully realized debut LP at Pax Am studios in Hollywood with Ryan Adams producing\, due out later this year. \nAs a group\, Starcrawler embodies that strange archetypal mojo that one finds in certain gangs of young rockers\, only once or twice a generation; all the while still kicking and screaming as they sprint toward finding something new and entirely of their own. The band consists of Arrow de Wilde on lead vocals\, Henri Cash on guitar\, Austin Smith on drums\, and Tim Franco on bass. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-distillers/ 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/2019/02/THE-DISTILLERS-admat-2019-17x11-presale.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:20190530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190103T141741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T151923Z UID:10002723-1559242800-1559242800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:6th Annual Battle of the Biotech Bands DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/6th-annual-battle-of-the-biotech-bands/ 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/2019/01/botbb2019-poster_royaleweb.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:20190531T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190531T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20181113T150023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T172447Z UID:10001992-1559325600-1559325600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Lady Lamb DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 11/16 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nLady Lamb \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nKatie Von Schleicher \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nKatie Von Schleicher rose from intern to artist on Brooklyn label Ba Da Bing with Bleaksploitation\, a self-recorded 2015 mini album of irreverent\, fuzz-laden tunes. On her debut full-length\, Von Schleicher strikes again on the magic that comes from her warped and uncompromising sound. Shitty Hits channels the bright\, sunny radio burners of the 1970’s\, songs you drive to\, carefree\, and songs you can cry to\, which The Guardian describe as “Portishead meets the Beatles\,” and NPR’s Bob Boilen calls “one of those constant repeat records for me.” \nConjuring the home recorded sound of Paul McCartney’s McCartney or Jeff Buckley’s Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk\, Shitty Hits was created on a tape machine at Von Schleicher’s childhood home in Maryland. Where Bleaksploitation courted a kind of sonic nihilism\, Shitty Hits shows confidence\, growth and unflinching self-realization. Inhabiting the roles of producer and engineer\, Von Schleicher cements her voice as one to be reckoned with\, parsed and pored over\, on an album that is “never less than beguiling” (Pitchfork). \n*** \nAlex Schaaf \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/lady-lamb/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lady-lamb-admat-2019-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:20190601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190222T175827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T175938Z UID:10002034-1559415600-1559426400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Zveri Live at Royale DESCRIPTION:ZVERI The Best!\nOne of the biggest Russian Rock Bands is coming back to Boston.\nDoors 7pm/Show 8pm\n\nAdvance:\nGA 75\nVIP 105\n\nDay of:\nGA 85\nVIP 115 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/zveri-live-at-royale/ 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/2019/02/zveri2018-boston.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:20190603T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190603T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190219T150010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T003820Z UID:10002028-1559588400-1559588400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Empire of the Sun DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is now SOLD OUT. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nEmpire of the Sun \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAlt/Electronic pioneer Empire of The Sun has been making waves across the world with phenomenal live shows and anthemic smash hits for the last decade. Across multiple countries\, touching more than 100 cities in recent years\, Empire of The Sun’s dynamic performances are like nothing else on earth. \nEmpire of The Sun has amassed more than 1.75 billion total streams and has reached multi-platinum status with global singles “Alive”\, “We Are The People”\, “Walking On A Dream” and “High & Low”. In celebration of Walking On A Dream’s tenth anniversary\, Empire Of The Sun re-released their album on a limited-edition vinyl\, which included a free download of newly released track “Chrysalis”. The third album\, Two Vines debuted at #1 on the US Dance/Electronic Albums Chart and #8 on the US Alternative Albums Chart. The single\, “Walking on A Dream\,” has more than 210 million Spotify streams and 87 million YouTube plays. Empire of The Sun has more than 650 million streams on Spotify and more than 300 million YouTube views. \nThe last few years have been huge for the band with standout performances at the likes of Coachella\, for their third time\, Ultra Music Festival\, Outside Lands and Governors Ball. The 2015 US West Coast tour culminated in a spectacular sold-out headline performance at the legendary Hollywood Bowl venue in front of more than 17\,000 fans. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/empire-of-the-sun/ 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/2019/02/Empire-Of-The-Sun-admat-2019.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:20190604T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190604T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190225T165724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T165724Z UID:10002747-1559674800-1559674800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Empire Of The Sun DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nSecond show added due to overwhelming demand! Tickets are on sale Fri. 3/1 at 10am! \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n\n*** \nEmpire of the Sun \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAlt/Electronic pioneer Empire of The Sun has been making waves across the world with phenomenal live shows and anthemic smash hits for the last decade. Across multiple countries\, touching more than 100 cities in recent years\, Empire of The Sun’s dynamic performances are like nothing else on earth. \nEmpire of The Sun has amassed more than 1.75 billion total streams and has reached multi-platinum status with global singles “Alive”\, “We Are The People”\, “Walking On A Dream” and “High & Low”. In celebration of Walking On A Dream’s tenth anniversary\, Empire Of The Sun re-released their album on a limited-edition vinyl\, which included a free download of newly released track “Chrysalis”. The third album\, Two Vines debuted at #1 on the US Dance/Electronic Albums Chart and #8 on the US Alternative Albums Chart. The single\, “Walking on A Dream\,” has more than 210 million Spotify streams and 87 million YouTube plays. Empire of The Sun has more than 650 million streams on Spotify and more than 300 million YouTube views. \nThe last few years have been huge for the band with standout performances at the likes of Coachella\, for their third time\, Ultra Music Festival\, Outside Lands and Governors Ball. The 2015 US West Coast tour culminated in a spectacular sold-out headline performance at the legendary Hollywood Bowl venue in front of more than 17\,000 fans. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/empire-of-the-sun-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/2019/02/Empire-Of-The-Sun-admat-2019-two-shows.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:20190607T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190219T150015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190405T171304Z UID:10002027-1559930400-1559930400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Ibeyi DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 2/22 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nIbeyi \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAshes typically have a funereal connotation\, and suggest a sense of crumbling. And it’s true that the two sisters of the electronic-soul duo Ibeyi\, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz\, wrote the first song on their album Ash\, also entitled “Ash\,” during the American elections. Despite the heaviness in the air\, Ibeyi sought to write a song that plucked positivity from the very place where all hope seemed to be lost\, which\, in turn\, became an underlying theme for the album as a whole. “We can do positive things with ashes\,” Naomi says. “Ashes can fertilize\,” Lisa-Kaindé adds. “There’s still hope.” \nOn September 29th\, Ibeyi will release Ash via XL Recordings. Their first album\, the eponymous Ibeyi\, grappled with the past—the sister’s relationship\, origins\, loss\, and roots. It earned them fans and collaborators in some of the most iconic and crucial artists of today\, Beyoncé and Alvin Ailey included. By contrast\, Ash is a more visceral and potent political statement\, and while firmly rooted in Afro-Cuban culture and history\, finds itself entirely concerned with Ibeyi’s present: Who Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi are\, what’s important to them\, and how they live today\, especially given that the spheres\, both personally and politically\, are entirely different from when Ibeyi was recorded. It’s also a testament to their cathartic live performances\, where they’re able to transmute a vast array of emotions—sorrow\, anger\, sensuality\, happiness—to and through their fans. \nAsh is also a study in deft electronic production. The album’s rapturous opener “I Carried This For Years\,” awash with Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi’s voices interlacing with each other and a sampling of the “Dragan I Slavei” by the Bulgarian choir Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares\, evokes the sense of both a mantra and a rallying cry. “This album was born because of feelings we had in our bellies\, whether it’s energy that wants to get out\, fear\, love\, anger\, joy and hope\,” Lisa-Kaindé says. “All the songs and the subjects that we’re talking about on this album\, we’ve actually been carrying them for years.” The meditative quality of single-line repetition also grounds mighty tunes like “No Man Is Big Enough For My Arms\,” which features samples of a speech given by former First Lady Michelle Obama and is drawn from a phrase in Jennifer Clément’s Widow Basquiat\, which Lisa-Kaindé was reading during one of the recording sessions. \nIbeyi worked once again alongside XL head Richard Russell\, a confidante and friend\, to produce Ash at his studio. “We absolutely wanted\, 100%\, to work with him again: It was not even a question\,” Lisa-Kaindé says. “Richard is an amazing producer…wherever you want to go\, he will guide you there. But it feels like you’re playing with him. You’re sharing ideas together and he has an amazing ear. It’s like a flow\, it’s really easy.” To that effect\, Naomi adds: “It’s like we produced the album too\, actually\, and it’s a good feeling.” Along with Russell’s stylized production sensibilities\, Ibeyi drew from a host of influences ranging from Kendrick Lamar\, Jay Electronica\, Meshell Ndegeocello\, Erykah Badu and Nina Simone and beyond\, to craft the wide-ranging musical landscape of Ash. Yet visual art also played a pivotal role here\, with the sisters particularly drawing inspiration from video artist Chris Cunningham for the striking “Numb.” \nThe sisters have never shied away from writing lyrics that reflect the depth of their shared history\, and include songs written in English\, French and Yoruban. Yet Ash also brings with it the first song the two have written that includes Spanish lyrics\, “Me Voy.” It’s not a coincidence that Lisa-Kaindé wrote the song when she was leaving Cuba\, a place where Ibeyi holds strong roots. The moving “Me Voy\,” which also features the vocal styling’s of the Spanish hip-hop artist Mala Rodríguez\, is also firmly intended to be a sensual song. “I feel when women talk about sensuality and it’s felt\, not only is it sexy but really powerful\,” Lisa-Kaindé says. “And also\, it’s really complicated: Sensuality is not being sexy.” \nInstrumentally\, Ash finds Naomi refining her skills at the cajón and the batá\, and Lisa on the piano\, and expands the use of electronics\, as well. It’s the idea of transmission\, though\, that lies at Ash’s core. “I think it’s one of the most important words that I know!” Lisa-Kaindé explains. “I wanted to be a music teacher when I was younger. So transmission has always been important for me. I feel like I was also raised by strong\, independent women and I think they transmitted that to me. I think that also artists saved my life through their art; that they transmitted to me. I feel like the most important thing you can do is transmit to people your truth and your energy and what you feel and how you feel when you’re a musician.” \nThis symbiotic exchange is writ large on Ash\, especially on the seven-minute-long epic and album centerpiece “Transmission/Michaelion.” It’s a song that Ibeyi wrote with their fans in mind\, and envision singing the song’s vivid chorus—“we sing and our tears dry / facing a clear sky”—at their cathartic live shows in a beautiful\, intense and symbiotic moment. The venerable Meshell Ndegeocello lends her talents on the bass for the song\, and it also features an excerpt from The Diary of Frida Kahlo\, as read by Maya Dagnino\, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi’s mother (who also co-wrote many of the lyrical parts of Ash). “Richard has a seventh sense of knowing when a song needs a sample\,” Lisa-Kaindé explains. “And he said\, ‘It would be awesome to have a sample of a strong woman you admire\,’ and we said ‘Frida Kahlo!’” the two exclaim together. The two then asked Dagnino to choose a passage she felt connected with\, which resulted in the powerful Spanish mid-section of “Transmission/Michaelion.” Pies para qué los quiero / Si tengo alas pa’volar\,” she reads (“Feet\, what do I need them for / If I have wings to fly?”). \n“Transmission/Michaelion” also delves into a sample of the poet Claudia Rankine’s audiobook Citizen: An American Lyric\, in which she proclaims: “I don’t know what the water wanted.” This idea especially has resonance for Lisa-Kaindé\, who is the daughter of the Yoruban sea goddess Yemaya. “So she’s obsessed with water\,” Naomi says. “I love water. But my god\, I’m the thunder.” Naomi’s seismic presence has always been integral to the Ibeyi DNA\, especially where the duo’s production is concerned. But she has a more vocal presence on Ash; she shares lead vocal parts with her sister\, and on the likes of the lapping “Waves\,” which features just a synth and her raw vocals\, she steps completely into the spotlight. “I said to Lisa\, ‘I want to be more present\,” Naomi says. “I think when you see us\, we’re both doing the project. But for the first album\, you maybe thought Lisa was more in the front and I wanted to sing more on this one.” \nThe potency of Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi’s vocal interplay is especially evident on the barreling grooves of “Away\, Away\,” which Ibeyi released as Ash’s first single. It’s a song that demands to be listened to at top volume\, windows down\, as the two sing the tale of a girl who looks out the window\, sees the world falling down around her\, and doesn’t do anything about it. Until she begins to sing\, that is. “It’s the start of this fire that she feels in her belly and this energy that is going to make her do something\,” Lisa-Kaindé says of the girl in the song. It’s reflective of how a call to arms is a central theme on Ash. For instance “When Will I Learn\,” which features Chilly Gonzales on the piano\, deals with the idea of reversing past mistakes\, particularly concerning making others happy at the expense of your own-well-being. \nWhile Ash is an imprint of the sisters’ lives at this particular moment\, it’s also reflective of a lifetime of reckoning\, particularly with injustices not limited to the systematic oppression of police violence and racism. “Deathless\,” which features the incomparable Kamasi Washington on saxophone\, was written in the wake of an experience that Lisa-Kaindé had when she was sixteen that involved her being wrongly arrested by French police. “They were talking three centimeters away from my head saying\, ‘Are you fucking kidding me?’ and being really loud…he assumed I was obviously a drug addict or a dealer\,” she remembers. So he was really mean and rough\, and then he took my bag.” \nLisa-Kaindé mentioned the story to Russell\, who asked if she wanted to write a song about it. So she went home and wrote the emotive\, “Deathless\,” which describes her experience in unsparing detail\, and extends a hand towards anyone who has ever been made to feel inferior through an anthemic chorus. “I was writing ‘Deathless’ as an anthem for everybody!” Lisa-Kaindé says. “For every minority. For everybody that feels that they are nothing\, they are small\, who cares. And I want them to listen to that song and for three minutes feel large\, powerful\, deathless. I do have a huge amount of respect for people who fought for what I think are my rights today. And I think the fact that I’m saying ‘we are deathless’ is saying that they are living through me and trying to be in a better world.” \n*** \nSudan Archives \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSink\, the anticipated follow up to Sudan Archives’ self-titled debut\, continues to define the experimental R&B artist as a singular new voice. Her unique blend of ethereal R&B vocals\, violin figures and hip-hop beats has already won over the likes of Pitchfork\, the New York Times\, The Guardian\, NPR Music\, and more. “‘Sink’ describes the way I want my music to make you feel\,” she says\, “It’s inspired by my love of fluidity\, movement of jellyfish and water.” \nSudan Archives (Sudan for short) taught herself to play the violin in elementary school\, mostly by ear. After discovering the violin playing style of both Northeast and West African fiddlers and musicians like Asim Gorashi\, Ali Farka Touré and Juldeh Camarah\, her eyes opened to new ways of incorporating this instrument into her sound. “The way they played the violin was different from classical music. I resonated with their style\, and I was like\, maybe I can blend it with electronic music.” \nFusing folk music and electronic production was the turning point for Sudan. “I started mixing my violin into beats\,” she says\, “I’d just sing straight into the iPad.” She’s refined her early DIY style to a setup that centres on a midi violin\, and creates most of her songs\, synths and bass lines from the violin synthesizer. She moved to Los Angeles to study music technology at age 19\, and signed with Stones Throw in 2017. \nNow 24 and just beginning her career\, Sudan Archives is already winning fans around the world. After releasing her debut EP\, she toured the US (both solo and with Tune-Yards) and Europe. Her recent performances at SXSW were described by NPR Music\, Pitchfork\, the Chicago Tribune and more as highlights of the week. \nSudan Archives will make her Coachella debut this April before bringing her electrifying live show to Japan. This summer she’ll also return to Europe to perform at Field Day\, Best Kept Secret\, RUSH Festival\, and more. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ibeyi-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/2019/02/ibeyi-admat-2019.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:20190609T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190609T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190314T165101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190314T165101Z UID:10002038-1560103200-1560117600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pabllo Vittar - Live in Concert! DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6pm \nShow at 8pm \nOver at 10pm URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pabllo-vittar-live-in-concert/ 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/2019/03/pabllo2.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:20190612T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190612T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190301T170046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190401T193937Z UID:10002750-1560369600-1560369600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Feed Me DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 3/1 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nFeed Me \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFitting in within the current world of electronic music might be something most producers have usually figured out after a decade plus on the scene\, but for British born DJ/ producer Jon Gooch\, fitting in has never been much of a priority. Moving through genres as Feed Me\, Spor and Seventh Stitch\, Jon has given himself the freedom to become whatever he wants to be\, and create as he sees fit. \n“I have no idea how I fit into electronic music as a scene\, but I hope I can keep it that way.” he says\, “Shifting identities has let me pursue all these avenues\, create new places to exist. From the day I joined the internet I was an alias in some form or other\, and each time you can start again.” \nJon’s path into production was largely self-taught\, playing with software in a spare room of his family home\, whilst working as an online graphic designer (his passion for art is still present across his various projects\, designing artwork and Feed Me’s infamous green monster). \nAn early fascination of sounds and influences from his parents collection of records (Tubular Bells\, Yes\, Pink Floyd) into Placebo\, Radiohead and Squarepusher\, resonated with him and piqued his interest around the way these sounds were created. “I started hearing more and more music that made me wonder how the sounds were made. It’s that fascination – is it organic or synthetic? When sounds sit in that space I become really interested”. \nTransforming between the electro/ house sounds of Feed Me\, the dark drum and bass of Spor and the more creative leftfield output of Seventh Stitch\, Jon has released multiple projects across labels such as Lifted Music\, his own imprint Sotto Voce and most notably deadmau5’s label mau5trap that launched his exponential rise as Feed Me. \nLeaving behind university when music started to take off\, Jon got a few shows under his belt before pursuing it as a full time career\, “I quit in my fourth year and lied to my family that I was still going.” He admitted\, “It gave me about a year to make something of myself before they noticed!” \nBecoming the first outside act to sign with deadmau5’s label in 2010\, he released ‘Feed Me’s Big Adventure’\, ‘To The Stars’ and ‘Feed Me’s Escape from Electric Mountain’ as part of the mau5trap family. Followed by his debut album ‘Calamari Tuesday’ in 2012\, the project saw Jon’s profile (along with his little green monster) dramatically rise\, with the creation of the Teeth live show launching a sold out 20 date tour of the US. \nA few releases followed on Jon’s Sotto Voce imprint\, 2014’s ‘Feed Me’s Psychedelic Journey’\, ‘A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo’\, and ‘Feed Me’s Family Reunion’\, before returning to mau5trap for ‘Existential Crisis’ along with another 30 date live bus tour across the US and festival appearances at Fuji Rocks Japan\, Creamfields\, EDC\, Reading & Leeds and Exit Festival. \nAfter a run of Feed Me releases\, in 2015 Jon returned to producing music as Spor. His 2015 album ‘Caligo’ became the focal point for the year\, giving Feed Me and the Teeth show a break. Pushing the boundaries of a conventional album campaign\, the project was released via Sotto Voce/ Bit Torrent in a never been done before\, pay what you want scheme\, along with various bundles of artwork and extras. \nIf Feed Me’s initial explosion in popularity had been brilliantly unexpected\, the next stage for Jon is set to be a completely new chapter. He explains\, “My life rearranged itself so drastically when I started touring Feed Me\, the first album was a product of pure momentum in the breaths between. With the second album it was written all across the world\, across a big expanse of time. Finishing it has felt like a catalyst for a lot of positive brain function”. With a new outlook and a more in control approach to the creation of his music\, Jon’s path into the creation of ‘High Street Creeps’ has been a lot more structured. \nNamed after an infamous Hertfordshire pheasant poaching gang of the 1980s\, ‘High Street Creeps’ features 10 tracks which span a variety of styles\, a lot of which differ from what he’s created in the past. Handpicking key vocalists for songs such as Rosie Doonan on ‘Feel Love’ as well tracks like ‘Sleepless’\, which was almost entirely produced from a Eurorack Modulator\, the album has been a long time in the making. He said\, “I’d amassed a lot of material since my last album\, but it took a long time for me to feel like it was the right time to do another.” \nA redesign of the Teeth stage and a host of upcoming shows planned for 2019 as well\, means that eager fans will get to see the producer doing what he does best\, “Building the ‘Teeth’ show is probably my proudest achievement\,” Jon explains. “It was the ultimate way to present what I do and a creative dream\, to combine a big array of memories and chaos into something fully structured. It represents me getting my lifestyle under control and I feel like I can move forward with more speed now\, it’s a total release.” \nNever shy of testing his creative limits\, Jon and his many aliases continues to grow and evolve\, “otherwise why the fuck am I here” he puts so succinctly. With the new album and shows marking a clear\, mature musical evolution for the producer\, Jon can continue to look forward to the future\, as can his fans. \n*** \nBlack Gummy \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBlackGummy began as the brainchild of Los Angeles-based electronic music producer Iman Marouf who discovered the entity called “BlackGummy” in 2013 during a trip to the Middle East and Asia\, and instantly formed a unique and inseparable bond with the alien-like idol. Since their first meeting\, the producer and the entity have virtually conjoined into an indivisible whole\, never leaving one another’s side. BlackGummy has an obsessive fascination for sound design and music production. He views his productions as checkpoints in a tireless quest to improve his mastery of this skill\, routinely spending 15 hours a day honing his craft. In 2015\, mau5trap discovered BlackGummy\, and immediately recognized his unique prowess for production and sound design. Later that year\, the label released BlackGummy’s first original — “Lullaby” — on mau5trap’s We Are Friends Vol. 4 compilation\, which Earmilk called a “can’t miss.”\nIn February 2016\, mau5trap released BlackGummy’s debut EP titled Singularity\, inspired by the concept of “technological singularity” – the idea that artificial intelligence will one day surpass human intelligence. Dancing Astronaut praised as the EP as “an intriguing artistic vision\,” which “moves uninhibited from dark industrial to uplifting progressive\, challenging the notion that producing one style necessitates ignoring the other.” Aside from the philosophical influence that was the basis for the EP’s title\, BlackGummy counts deadmau5\, Eric Prydz\, Feed Me\, Gesaffelstein\, Brodinski\, Knife Party\, and System of the Down among his chief musical influences.\nFollowing up with the unsettlingly cinematic “NeverDeader” on mau5trap’s We Are Friends Vol. 5 compilation\, BlackGummy dropped the 2nd EP of his mau5trap trilogy\, Impactor\, which\, “takes on the KT Extinction. You remember it as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and ultimately three-quarters of the Earth’s living beings. The asteroid caused a lot of death and destruction\, but it also lead to evolution by the species that managed to survive\,” he says. “It wasn’t just the asteroid that killed them\, but also the effect the impact had on the Earths’ atmosphere\, creating a condition in which only specific species could survive.”-Billboard\nIn January of 2017\, he released “Superhuman”\, his long-awaited collaboration with Colleen D’Agostino\, best known for her performance on deadmau5’s platinum record\, “Seeya”. They combined forces with an intense instrumental paired with an uplifting narrative inspired by experiences of the challenges that several of their close friends had to face. July of that year saw the release of Monolith\, the final EP in the mau5trap trilogy which was hailed as a “spiritually nuanced\, deeply perplexing\, challenging and entrancing project\,” and culminated in the Monolith Tour\, which featured US Festival stops at Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas\, Middlelands\, Electric Forrest\, Electric Zoo\, Escape Psycho Circus and more. His debut headline Mesophase Tour\, began in February 2018 supported by mau5trap artists ATTLAS\, Electrocado\, Monstergetdown\, Notaker and Rinzen\, and made 20 stops before ending in April including EDC Mexico and BUKU Music and Arts Festival. Following up on the Mesophase Tour\, BlackGummy’s 2018 summer saw performances at Lollapalooza\, Shambhala Music Festival\, Global Dance Festival\, Euphoria Festival\, as well as repeat performances at EDC Las Vegas and Electric Forrest. \nSince the implicit convergence of the producer’s and idol’s identities into one amalgam\, BlackGummy spends almost all of his time off-the-road locked away with the idol in his in-home studio\, crafting new productions that attempt to lend a voice to the silent idol. He only withdraws from his studio in rare instances: first\, to perform alongside the idol in nightclubs and music venues\, and second\, to search the four-corners of the Earth for more clues as to the idol’s origins. His fascination with the latter arose from a Latin inscription that lay emblazoned beside the idol when he first discovered it.\nThe quote read\, “In perpetuum\, salutem in omnibus locis; In omni loco\, in omni tempore.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/feed-me/ 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/2019/03/feed-me-admat-2019-1.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:20190618T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190618T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190419T140040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T195050Z UID:10002765-1560884400-1560884400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:X Ambassadors DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/26 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nX Ambassadors \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nKIDinaKORNER/Interscope band X Ambassadors’ debut album\, “VHS\,” reflected on the events that shaped the lives of lead vocalist and lyricist Sam Harris and his older brother\, keyboardist Casey Harris\, growing up in Ithaca\, New York. The gold-certified album\, which Rolling Stone called “bombastic rock that’s as stomping as it is diaristic\, leavened by big-tent pop hooks and a hint of hip-hop swagger\,” debuted at No. 7 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart and spawned the platinum-selling “Renegades\,” which spent 12 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Alternative chart\, and the double-platinum “Unsteady.” The success of “VHS” sent X Ambassadors on a nearly two-year touring odyssey that found them winning over fans around the world and performing at the Lollapalooza\, Bonnaroo\, Life Is Beautiful and Shaky Knees festivals\, among others\, and establishing themselves as a world-class rock band. X Ambassadors released the impassioned “Ahead of Myself” last fall followed by “Joyful” and “Don’t Stay” in early 2018 before embarking on their JOYFUL headline tour. The band returned to Ithaca for the second annual Cayuga Sound Festival this past September. X Ambassadors is currently working on their sophomore album. For more information visit www.xambassadors.com \n*** \nYour Smith \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMinneapolis native Your Smith (aka Caroline Smith)\, relocated to Los Angeles after signing to Pulse Recording (DRAM\, Miike Snow\, Gallant\, et. al). Inspired by the history of Laurel Canyon and moving through a city that’s been immortalized in music throughout the ages\, Smith concocted her own sound\, bringing together the funk / R&B “Minneapolis Sound” of her roots and the classic songwriting of the LA folk heroes. \nYour Smith is currently wrapping up her debut EP\, produced by Tommy English (BØRNS)\, Stint (Gallant\, Aluna George\, NAO)\, and Nicky Davey (Internet\, Syd The Kid)\, arriving on Neon Gold Records (HAIM\, Christine & The Queens\, et. al) this fall and will commence a full US headline tour in September. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/x-ambassadors-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/2019/04/X-Ambassadors-BTS-1-@photokohli.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:20190622T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190622T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190408T160023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T151846Z UID:10002761-1561226400-1561226400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:CHON DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/12 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages.  Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice.  All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled.  All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue.  Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nCHON \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nOn their self-titled third album\, CHON find themselves at the confluence of a great push and pull. \nSince forming in 2008 in San Diego\, the trio — guitarists Mario Camarena and\nErick Hansel and drummer Nathan Camarena — have become one of the most buzzed-about acts in the new era of progressive rock\, on the back of more than 40 million Spotify streams and tours with the likes of Coheed and Cambria\, Animals As Leaders and Circa Survive. \nTheir debut full-length\, 2015’s Grow\, established their mathy\, forward-thinking take on the genre\, while 2017’s Homey furthered that sound while incorporating brand-new influences like effect-pedal-heavy elements of electronic music and trip-hop and debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard 200. Now\, with CHON\, set for release on June XX through Sumerian Records\, the trio once again have kicked down their musical guardrails — but in a way that balances their more eccentric impulses with a steadying dose of clarity and restraint. \n“We really wanted to make songs with more simplistic structures\, but also the craziest parts we’ve ever had musically\,” Mario Camarena explains. “I think our music is already so weird that when the structure is also crazy\, it can be hard to follow. I really wanted this album to appeal to people who maybe don’t listen to this style of music.” \nIt’s true that CHON streamlines some of the band’s grandiose\, free-flowing musicality in favor of more traditional sonic structures. But\, most importantly\, simplifying their sound doesn’t mean resorting to being boring. If anything\, CHON is brimming with some of the most forward-thinking\, intricate musings the band have ever attempted\, from the deep progressive propulsion of first single “Peace” to “Spike\,” which spins the band’s youthful tech and metal influences together into a flashy riff-athon. \nAll at once\, CHON respects the trio’s current listeners while inviting a broader swath of new ones in — the rare progressive rock album adroit enough to straddle that line. For the band\, it will be especially rewarding to bring this new musical mindset to crowds at festivals like Coachella\, Shaky Knees and Electric Forest. There will be\, of course\, CHON diehards in the audience\, but large-scale settings like these offer the band the opportunity to cultivate an even wider fanbase around their captivating sound. \nOf course\, they’re coming prepared: While writing and recording the self-produced album in San Diego\, the band put a lot of thought into calibrating their new music to fit the expansive crowds they knew they’d soon be playing in front of. The result is a collection of songs that plays just as well to the front row as the very last. \n“We knew we were going to play these songs at big festivals\, and it was in the back of our minds\,” Mario says\, pointing to the tribal-inspired rhythms on “Gift.” “We were just thinking of Electric Forest when we wrote that song: It’s kind of psychedelic and hippy. It’s going to be really fun to see how big crowds react to these songs.” XX \n*** \nDOMi & JD Beck \nWebsite URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/chon-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/2019/04/chon-admat-2019.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:20190625T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190625T193000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190507T160054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190507T144734Z UID:10002770-1561491000-1561491000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Bad Books DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis show has been upgraded from The Sinclair! All tickets for The Sinclair show will be honored at Royale\, and more tickets are available. \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nBad Books \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhen Bad Books — Andy Hull and Robert McDowell of Manchester Orchestra\, and indie rock spark plug Kevin Devine — made a surprise appearance at this year’s SXSW armed with an entire album’s worth of new songs called III\, the music world took notice. Those who were there bore witness to what Hull calls their new “Simon & Garfunkel in space” style—sparse structures\, simple harmonies\, and gorgeous sonic embellishments. But considering both their inter-personal dynamics and joyful congregation\, perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to the 2019 version of Bad Books as “Simon & Garfunkel as true friends.” Led by Devine’s song “I Love You\, I’m Sorry\, Please Help Me\, Thank You”—a profound meditation on maintaining a sense of self in the heady context of societal challenges like being a parent\, implementing thoughtfulness\, and navigating through excessive cerebral processing—III doesn’t exactly pick up where their previous work left off\, but rather takes a new approach to redefine Bad Books and to re-tally the sum of their parts.\n
\n“Bad Books was always peripheral in our minds because we really like doing it\,” Devine says. “We were waiting for the right time to circle back. It was never completely out of our sight lines\, but more often than not schedules and life would intervene.” When Bad Books originally formed in 2010\, little did anyone figure that in just a couple years any noise from the band would become as special as an eclipse. After releasing two proper Bad Books albums by 2012 and embarking on multiple tours\, following the band’s 2013 performance at Riot Fest in Chicago the signal turned to static\, leaving fans wondering if the band would ever return. Since then\, the three members have stayed incredibly busy focusing on their families and bands: Manchester Orchestra has released two studio albums — most recently 2017’s acclaimed A Black Mile To The Surface — and Hull and McDowell have scored several visual projects including the 2016 feature film Swiss Army Man; Devine has released four solo albums\, a live record\, and a dozen of his “Devinyl” split series releases with songwriters like Craig Finn and David Bazan.\n
\nIn April of 2017\, the stars finally aligned in their schedules and Devine found himself in Atlanta to write with Hull and McDowell for four days. Having made two catchy\, upbeat Bad Books records\, the trio felt the urge to try a new approach. The original plan for the trip was for each singer to write one song\, but once they were both in the same room Hull raised the stakes\, challenging Devine to trade songs one-for-one with him to create a 10-song\, Basement Tapes style record. Over the course of the long weekend they had fleshed out the bones of an album\, with just guitars\, vocals\, and sparse harmonizing. Embracing the freedom of the process in every capacity—from lyrics to attitude and scope—the band felt inspired and recognized that the only way to maintain that sensibility all the way through would be to simply take their time. And so\, they agreed to step away from the songs until they could reconvene in person again somewhere down the line.\n
\n“A cool thing about Bad Books is not overthinking it and doing what instinctually makes sense\,” Hull says. “Manchester is the opposite\, it’s all overthinking all the time. Songwriting is always about evolution and how you can do things differently\, and it was exciting to try to push ourselves and to embrace this space.” \n“It gave us a chance to stretch out and breathe\, and not fixate or obsess on them\,” Devine says. “No one was working in isolation; no one’s hand got too heavy. It felt like 10 individual sticks we tried to wrap up into a bundle and make them feel like they talk to each other.”\n
\nHaving kept their planned distance from the sketches\, they gathered again in February of 2018 to open the sonic time capsule and reexamine their work. At that point the singers began harmonizing on the tracks\, a moment they recognize as important. “When the harmonies start to happen on a Bad Books record\, that’s what locks it in\,” Hull says. “You start to feel the magic and see what else you need to complete the songs’ identities.” Having put on a second layer of paint in the winter\, they got together again in the fall\, pushing the material even further. 
 \nMcDowell\, who was present at each session\, led the charge of injecting the songs with texture and atmosphere. The decision to throw out a traditional rhythm section in favor of an organ and foot pedals as the low-end presented a new set of challenges\, but McDowell saw it as opportunity rather than restriction. “Robert’s a genius and I don’t say that lightly\,” Hull says. “Sonically\, he just has an ability to get the thing that is in your head to come out of the speakers. He’s the glue and always has been.” The stripped-back nature of the work also provided an opportunity to build subtle production onto the songs’ foundations; adding piano\, string arrangements\, and even fuzzed-out electric guitar\, the trio filled the spaces without overpowering any of the songwriting. After a fourth session where McDowell\, Devine\, and Hull maneuvered the tracking into near-completion\, they handed the reins to producer Ethan Gruska (Phoebe Bridgers\, The Belle Brigade) and mixer Catherine Marks for final “magic sprinkling.” The result is a complete cinematic landscape on par with the peaks of Manchester Orchestra’s past work\, but with the sly subtlety of Devine’s output—This is ground control to Majors Paul and Art.\n

\nDevine’s bundle is as inward-looking\, literate\, and acerbic as ever\, with his forthright honesty rubbing up against disbelief\, while Hull’s songs are filled with his trademark\, tragi-comic character-study examinations of the human condition. While Devine tends to be intricate with his song’s structures\, Hull admits his own can be more economical; the opposite can be true for their lyrical delivery. And while Devine’s Northern\, agnostic background lends to secular explorations\, Hull’s Southern\, Christian upbringing tends to create more spiritual material. The intrigue for the writers comes from the collision of the disparate threads\, and the opportunity to employ a trusted ear as a mirror. And while each half of these ten songs was written on a separate island by a separate brain\, it’s clear that Hull and Devine are songwriters who think in the same key\, and draw shared\, big-picture lessons from their distinctive lives to mine a fertile\, universal territory.\n
\n“If someone demanded to know what I write about\, I’d say\, ‘Not understanding myself and so by extension what it means to be a person but trying every day\,’” Devine says. “There’s a lot of that on this record—negotiations with the self\, the interconnectedness of everybody\, and trying to figure out your place and how that shifts.”\n
\n“My songs tend to always reflect on the same things—life\, love\, losing love\, god\, death\,” Hull says. “The last line of ‘Army\,’ ‘There’s nothing wrong with being alive\,’ is for me the overarching theme of this album. It’s all about trying to be better. Hopefully this can be therapeutic for people because ultimately that’s the point in it all\, to help people and bring joy.”\n
\nIf the lesson of III is in that optimistic approach\, the way it came to be clearly echoes such sentiments. Devine\, Hull\, and McDowell have succeeded by implementing a unique set of circumstances\, all with a sense of hope and a trust in the process. And by inserting so much space\, they have grown even closer—as artists\, as bandmates\, and as friends.\n
\n“Kevin and I come from such different places and approaches but we’re so similar in other ways\, and when I hear our records it sounds like us talking\,” Hull says. “Our conversations have always gone to that cosmic level—theology and theory—and it’s cool to hear it come out lyrically\, almost unintentionally. It’s what happens when our brains are on\, together.”\n
\n“The coolest thing about the Bad Books records is that they don’t feel like solo albums and there are discernible personalities\,” Devine says. “The band really is a triangle and every part of the base is strong. It’s better than the sum of its parts.”\n
\nThe stars have finally aligned and the triple-tailed comet has reappeared. Keep your ears to the skies for another momentous encounter with Bad Books III. \n*** \nBrother Bird \nWebsite\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bad-books/ 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/2019/05/Bad-Books-ADMAT-2019-royale.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190629T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190629T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190430T050047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190610T174717Z UID:10002049-1561831200-1561831200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Starting Line DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 5/3 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Starting Line \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nThe Hotelier \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-starting-line/ 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/2019/04/0629-Boston-StartingLine-11x17-2.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:20190904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190904T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190621T212119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190807T144006Z UID:10002072-1567623600-1567623600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pinegrove DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nOn sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages.  Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice.  All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled.  All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue.  Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nPinegrove \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPinegrove are a band from Montclair\, NJ \n*** \nStephen Steinbrink \n*** \nCommon Holly URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pinegrove-3/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1200x1200-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190905T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190905T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190618T160031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T221243Z UID:10002070-1567710000-1567710000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pinegrove DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nLimited number of tickets have been released and will be available at the door! \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages.  Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice.  All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled.  All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue.  Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nPinegrove \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPinegrove are a band from Montclair\, NJ \n*** \nStephen Steinbrink \n*** \nCommon Holly URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pinegrove-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/2019/06/1200x1200-2.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:20190907T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190715T170048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190904T141159Z UID:10002797-1567879200-1567879200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pink Sweat$ DESCRIPTION:Presented by JAM’N 94.5 \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 7/19 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages.  Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice.  All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled.  All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue.  Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nPink Sweat$ \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPink Sweat$ is an artist/songwriter/producer from Philadelphia\, PA. Pink’s music is rooted in R&B and Soul\, stripping back the typical genre-specific production to showcase melodic intricacy and lyrical prowess. He began making music at the age of 19 as a demo vocalist\, and soon after found himself working at the legendary Sigma Sounds Studios where he began his career as a songwriter. After 7 years of working behind the scenes\, Pink Sweat$ launched as a solo artist in July of 2018. The rapid rise of his debut EP Volume 1 has earned him recognition from the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Billboard\, and Fader. \n*** \nPJ \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nRaised in North Carolina and Atlanta\, singer-songwriter PJ moved to Los Angeles in 2014. She started her music career behind the scenes as a songwriter\, penning “Left Right Left” for Charlie Puth\, “I Don’t Know” for Meek Mill\, “True Colors” for Wiz Khalifa –among many more songwriting credits. Signed to Atlantic Records\, she transitioned to the spotlight by way of the 2015 EP Walking Around Pools followed by 2016’s Rare—which boasted collaborations with G-Eazy and Ty Dolla $ign. The project’s single “Tell Me”[feat. Jevon Doe] racked up over 3.5 million Spotify streams and garnered acclaim from Ones to Watch\, HipHopDX\, and many others.\nLife inevitably took a fewturbulent twists and turns\, so PJ a much-needed break. Emerging from these trials and tribulations in late 2018\, she embraced a newfound confidence. As part of this awakening\, she once again tapped into formative influences such as Kanye West\, Kid Cudi\, Stevie Wonder\, and Whitney Houston. She now draws inspiration from the sound and energy of Mary Blige to tell her story. She began bending genres and blending pop\, soul\, and country until the music began “dripping in soul\,” as she likes to say. PJ released her 2019 single “One Missed Call” as a reintroduction to her new artistry.\n“This is about me waking up and breathing for the first time as an adult\,” she leaves off. “I want people to see themselves in my songs. If you need to see what a real person looks like\, look at me. I don’t have shit figured out. I don’t pretend to either. It’s okay though. That’s who I am. That’s my music.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pink-sweat/ 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/2019/07/square.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:20190908T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190416T140035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190819T202648Z UID:10002763-1567969200-1567969200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Avail DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nAvail \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nAngel Du$t \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nTied to a Bear \nWebsite\nFacebook URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/avail/ 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/2019/04/AVAIL-2019-by-Chris-Boarts-Larson-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:20190909T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190404T135038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190710T171457Z UID:10002758-1568059200-1568059200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hot Chip DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/12 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. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nHot Chip \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nOn June 21st 2019\, British group Hot Chip will release their seventh studio album\, A Bath Full of Ecstasy. Their third album for Domino\, A Bath Full of Ecstasy is the group’s definitive release\, crystallising the sound they’ve become celebrated for – bridging euphoria and melancholy with colourful melodies\, idiosyncratic vocalisations and pounding electronic pop rhythms. The album also sees them open up to a more adventurous and collaborative song-writing process\, choosing to work with outside producers for the first time: Philippe Zdar\, the French maestro who’s shaped the magic of Cassius and Phoenix\, and Rodaidh McDonald\, the Scot who’s collaborated with The XX\, David Byrne and Sampha\, among others. \nThe group (Owen Clarke\, Al Doyle Joe Goddard\, Felix Martin and Alexis Taylor) began working on A Bath Full of Ecstasy in the autumn of 2018\, the bulk of it written and recorded in three\, one-week long sessions. At his Motorbass studio in Paris\, Zdar played the role of co-producer\, mixing engineer and gentle eccentric\, and built much of the sonic space that the album occupies: a focus on drums and bass\, with minimal use of guitar and plenty of multi-layered\, arpeggiated keyboard melodies; shaping A Bath Full of Ecstasy with the “French Touch” he’s known for. When recording in London\, the analytical McDonald encouraged the group to make each song leaner\, more direct. “Rodaidh was really good at getting us to think about the song-writing\,” says Goddard\, “especially on ‘Melody of Love.’ He was quite ruthless – ‘is this verse too long? Do we have to write something stronger? We should get to the chorus faster.’ He pushed us to be more ambitious.” \nThe album’s opener\, “Melody of Love” began as a 12-minute instrumental track and features a sample from the gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy. Under the eye of McDonald\, the group turned it into a bombastic explosion of Technicolor pop. A repeating sampled vocal\, cut-up to the point of abstraction\, follows the lyrical chorus and an uplifting synthesizer motif. This musical passage is the melody of love\, the summation of the song’s workings; by working together\, the group may be able to find the perfect gesture for their emotions. “Melody of Love” is about the importance of the transformative\, non-verbal moment – ecstasy as personal happiness\, but also of transcendence\, of being outside oneself. \nThe sound of A Bath Full of Ecstasy has a breeziness to it that comes in large part from Zdar: “You have to put air in it!” he’d exclaim theatrically\, says Doyle\, “it needs more air!” His liberal use of a Grampian spring reverb unit for pleasant distortion made sure of that\, along with the group’s choice of machines. They were particularly drawn to a select few: the wooden polyphonic KORG PS3200 synthesizer (“It sounds like the gates of heaven opening\,” exalts Doyle)\, the Yamaha CS70-M and CS-80\, synonymous with Stevie Wonder\, and the Oberheim OB-Xa\, an analogue synthesizer with a bright\, celestial quality\, beloved by Prince\, Depeche Mode\, and Detroit techno originators. Alongside these classic synthesizers and keyboards\, modular synthesis plays an important role in the sound of A Bath Full of Ecstasy. After building up his own Eurorack system over the years\, Martin made a corner of each studio cosy with wires and outboards\, riffing off the looping melodies and physical gestures of the sessions to create gentle dopamine rushes of electronic ambience\, amplifying the song structures as well as sculpting the lead and background vocals. \nTo better render the emotional honesty that colours much of Hot Chip’s output\, the advice Taylor gives himself is to not “speak or verbalise too much through the creative process. Act instead.” That desire to act is most keenly felt on lead single “Hungry Child.” For 6 glorious minutes\, Hot Chip fuse the uplifting soft pads and melodic keys of classic soulful house and the percussive swing of UK garage\, full of sweet vocalisations and rhythmic snaps\, to make an instant\, club-ready hit. “Hungry Child” moves with a tender power that feels classically Hot Chip\, its driving pace primed for full body–swings on heaving dance floors\, hands raised and singing in unison. \nThroughout Hot Chip’s albums\, a light-touch vocal production process allowed for the nakedness of Taylor’s falsetto to become one of the group’s signatures. A Bath Full of Ecstasy\, though\, proves to be more experimental in this sense – delays and effects\, modular wizardry and a more playful dynamic range in the mixing process take Taylor’s voice in new directions\, blossoming and wilting with the flow of the music. On “Spell\,” this comes to the fore: manipulating voices to be playful and free\, without obfuscating the words; even harking to Prince’s gender-bending infectious lust\, allowing Taylor to becoming less immediately recognisable at times. On “Bath Full of Ecstasy\,” there’s a delicate display of lilting vocalisations\, laid back ’70s pop-rock rhythms and gentle modular synthesis\, all washed through like watercolour. \nIn his lyricism\, too\, Taylor steps out of his comfort zone on A Bath Full of Ecstasy. Though rooted in first person\, autobiographical tales of romance and friendship\, his storytelling here becomes more bodily\, and more open to new ideas. On “Spell\,” Goddard encouraged Taylor to transform his wistful tone into something more erotic and alive. On “Positive\,” he chooses to sing from another person’s perspective altogether. In trying to understand how someone copes with illness and sadness\, with living a lonely life on the streets\, “Positive” tackles a dark subject matter while offering the protagonist a moment of respite through music: a juxtaposition between the frenetic euphoria of the sound and the melancholy of one human being\, just hoping that someone\, somewhere\, cares. \nIt cycles back to what Taylor sees as the epitome of Hot Chip: “To demonstrate musically what is needed to be said; often\, indeed\, what is too difficult to be spoken.” Through the deep bond that the group have cultivated\, expanding on their sonic experimentation and lyrical openness\, A Bath Full of Ecstasy became their most dazzling album yet. \n*** \nHoly Fuck \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hot-chip/ 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/2019/04/hot-chip-admat-2019.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:20190912T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190422T143311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T190901Z UID:10002047-1568318400-1568318400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Polo & Pan - Caravelle World Tour DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/26 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nPolo & Pan – Caravelle World Tour \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nIt’s a thriving end of the year for polo & pan:\nTheir debut album has sold +70k copies\,And they announced a new worldwide tour for 2019.\nTheir “caravelle” has crossed stages all over the world: Usa\, mexico\, canada\, asia\, middle-east and europe.\nAfter setting a tropical fire to great summer festivals\, they put together their new live show for a sold-out olympia in Paris\, another sold-out at oval space London\, and another one in amsterdam at melkweg closing the ade. They then moved to island Airswaves festival and to finish with\, a sold-out north america tour through Ny\, boston\, philly\, seattle\, vancouver and los angeles last december.\nThe duo will start 2019 by announcing its first us audiovideo show at coachella. \n*** \nMindchatter \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nMindchatter is Bryce Connolly\, a producer and songwriter from New York City. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/polo-pan/ 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/2019/04/Polo-Pan-admat-2019-square.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:20190913T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T183000 DTSTAMP:20260404T201838 CREATED:20190611T140056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190806T174642Z UID:10002782-1568399400-1568399400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Grace VanderWaal DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 6/14 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is open to all ages.  Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice.  All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled.  All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue.  Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time.  All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nGrace VanderWaal \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAward-winning singer\, songwriter\, actress\, model\, philanthropist\, high school freshman—Grace VanderWaal contains incredible multitudes. After her star-making turn as the winner of NBC’s America’s Got Talent in 2016\, VanderWaal has released a best-selling EP\, Perfectly Imperfect\, and full-length album\, Just The Beginning\, much to the delight of her millions-strong fanbase and critics alike. Now the New York Times-approved “mature songwriter” and “pop natural” is back with new music for 2019\, beginning with a new original song titled “Stray.” \n“When I write a song\, I don’t really know what they’re about until much later\, when I’m like ‘Oh\, that’s what my subconscious was trying to say\,’” says VanderWaal of her creative process\, which begins with songwriting and extends to musical arrangements and visual treatments. “Stray\,” which comes with a music video dreamt up by VanderWaal and brought to life with help from director Blythe Thomas\, eventually revealed itself to be about “the exhilarating fear and freedom of growing up.” The song features VanderWaal’s soulfully raspy vocals atop a moody\, searching sound that’s a departure from her signature airy ukulele riffs. \nIntrospection and vulnerability have always been hallmarks of VanderWaal’s songwriting\, and as she grows older\, the unique process of balancing stardom and adolescence has made its way into her work. “I’m maturing really fast and working a lot more\, and I feel like when this all first started happening\, I almost started to forget how to be myself\,” she says. “You only get one you. You get one shot when you’re born\, so if you forget\, what do you do?” For the time being\, the Rockland County-raised phenom is handling it all with aplomb. She’s as excited about her upcoming music as she is about her school’s prom\, and plans to work at her local movie theater’s concession stand this summer when she’s not headlining another tour\, following a string of sold-out headline shows last spring and a summer arena tour opening for Imagine Dragons that she did in 2018. \nAll throughout\, VanderWaal shares her day-to-day musings with nearly 10 million fans and counting via social media. In addition to snapshots\, videos\, and shoutouts\, her fan base can also keep tabs on Little Miracles\, the charity she created with the prize money she won on America’s Got Talent. The Little Miracles Foundation’s mission is to put music education back into marginalized school systems by spotlighting talented students\, and providing free musical instruments and audio equipment to local school districts and communities. \nVanderWaal’s ability to impact so many with her art marks an impressive trajectory from just a few years ago\, when the young artist was playing her ukulele and performing original songs at open mic nights where there were “15 to 20 people on a good night.” While America’s Got Talent was the vehicle that launched her into the national spotlight\, VanderWaal says that she only auditioned on a whim. \n“Me and my mom literally thought it would be like a bonding kind of thing\,” she explains. “You always see on TV the crazy lines and stuff\, so we were just going to wait in line\, take pictures\, bring a tent\, and stuff like that—and it just turned into something crazy. It just kept going.” VanderWaal’s astronomical rise has led to accolades (Billboard’s Women in Music 2017 Rising Star Award\, Teen Choice Next Big Thing Award\, and more)\, television performances\, (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon\, The Ellen DeGeneres Show\, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade)\, and incredible partnerships with brands like Kate Spade and Fender\, who launched a Grace VanderWaal Signature ukulele\, making her their youngest ever Signature artist for Fender. \nIn addition to putting the finishing touches on more new music to be released later this year\, VanderWaal recently finished filming her first movie in New Mexico\, which is set to be released in early 2020. An adaptation of Jerry Spinelli’s New York Times best-selling young adult novel\, Stargirl\, VanderWaal will be playing the film’s title role of Stargirl Caraway\, a nonconformist\, homeschooled teen girl who plays the ukulele. “It’s all pretty surreal\,” she says. “It was so fun\, one of the best experiences of my life.” Fans hoping to connect with VanderWaal on the big screen before then can catch Wonder Park\, Paramount’s new animated feature coming out March 15—VanderWaal recorded a song titled “Hideaway” that will make an appearance in the film. \nAdd to this a full high school curriculum and it’s clear that VanderWaal is booked and busy for the foreseeable future\, but the three-time Billboard 21 Under 21 artist and youngest person ever included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list is taking it all in stride. As she puts it: “You can’t think about everything in the future right now. You just think about tomorrow. Being on stage and being at school\, it’s just two different parts of my personality.” \n*** \nPatrick Martin \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nRomance isn’t dead\, and we have Patrick Martin to thank for that. The Los Angeles-via-Wisconsin singer/songwriter’s debut single\, ‘Cinema Love\,’ is a picture-perfect evocation of new love’s impossible pleasures — a skyscraping pop song that doubles as a first taste of Martin’s debut album\, due later this year. Born and raised in Saukville\, WI\, Martin was introduced to music by his mom at an early age\, with classic-rock staples like the Beatles\, Fleetwood Mac\, the Allman Brothers\, and Crosby\, Stills\, Nash and Young on regular rotation. Inspired to learn guitar by an older cousin\, he practiced and played for years and eventually started dabbling in his own songcraft around the age of 16. Later\, while attending Marquette University\, a relationship during his sophomore year sparked a desire to write and play music on a broader scale. A semester studying abroad in London further encouraged him to pursue music full-time\, and soon after\, Martin moved to Los Angeles\, working on his music in between shifts at the Apple Store. Guided by his manager’s experience\, Martin eventually crafted his debut single\, ‘Cinema Love\,’ which was co-produced by longtime collaborator Jesse Mason. ‘Cinema Love’ is an expression of the emotion felt from one of Martin’s own most memorable relationships\, and it encapsulates the belief that real love can be as epic as it feels in the greatest romantic films of all time. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/grace-vanderwaal/ 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/2019/06/Grace-Vanderwaal_USB_Spotif-0y.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