BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180701T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180701T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180223T175434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180223T175434Z UID:10002611-1530469800-1530469800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls - Night 5 DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nTickets on sale NOW! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nFrank Turner & The Sleeping Souls \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFrank Turner has announced details of his forthcoming seventh studio album entitled Be More Kind available on May 4th via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor UK /Interscope Records. The album is available for pre-order and those who pre-order will receive instant downloads of “1933” and the previously released track “There She Is” from the 2017 release Songbook. \nMonths after the release of Songbook\, a career-spanning retrospective which also saw reworked versions of tracks from across the past decade\, Be More Kind represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for the 36-year-old. It’s a record that combines universal anthems with raw emotion and the political and the personal\, with the intricate folk and punk roar trademarks of Turner’s sound imbued with new\, bold experimental shades. Be More Kind is produced by Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block\, formerly of psychedelic-rock Texans White Denim\, and Florence And The Machine and Halsey collaborator Charlie Hugall. “I wanted to try and get out of my comfort zone and do something different\,” says Turner. \nTurner was halfway through writing a very different sort of album\, a concept record about women from the historical record who had been ignored\, when he was reading a collection of Clive James’ poetry and one particular line compelled him to re-think his direction. It was from a poem called Leçons Des Ténèbres: “I should have been more kind. It is my fate. To find this out\, but find it out too late.” “It devastated me the first time I read it\,” he says. \nTurner and his band\, the Sleeping Souls\, were on tour in the USA in 2016 “when the world decided to go collectively nuts” and the songs that make up Be More Kind started to come together. “Somewhere in the record\, there’s a convergence of the ideas of personal and political\, which is a central theme of the album\,” Turner says. One of the driving themes of the album is empathy\, even for your enemy. “You should at least be able to inhabit the mental universe of the people you disagree with. If you can’t do that\, then how do you communicate with people other than through force of arms\, which is something we all agree is a bad idea.” \nTurner’s last two records\, 2013’s Tape Deck Heart and 2015’s Positive Songs For Negative People\, dealt with the fallout from a break-up and saw Turner struggling to cover the cracks in his personal life. Now happily in a relationship and living with his partner and their cat\, he again set his sights to the bigger picture. Positive Songs… was cut in nine\, intense days whereas Be More Kind was made over a period of seven months\, giving Turner the opportunity to turn songs on their head\, try different versions and shake up the dynamics within his band. \nThe first track to be released from Be More Kind is “1933\,” a clattering\, state-of-the-nation anthem. Furious and direct\, it’s inspired by articles Turner saw that suggested the alt-right was punk rock. “That filled me with a mixture of incredulity and anger\,” says Turner. “The idea that Breitbart or Steve Bannon think they have anything to do with punk rock makes me extremely angry.” \nThe Be More Kind World Tour will begin in the UK in April and head to North America on May 31\, with its first leg playing to over 200\,000 people across the UK\, the USA\, Europe\, Canada\, Australia and New Zealand\, taking them through to Christmas. Turner promises that 2019 will include visits to some “slightly more weird and wonderful places.” \n*** \nThe Hotelier \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWe Are All Alone\nIt Never Goes Out\nHome\, Like Noplace Is There\nGoodness \n*** \nWar on Women \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWar On Women is a co-ed feminist hardcore punk band. Formed in Baltimore\, MD in 2011\, W.O.W. use driving riffs and in your face vocals that attack the listener both sonically and lyrically\, penning catchy and confrontational songs that touch on rape culture\, street harassment\, the gender wage gap\, transphobia\, and other vitally pertinent social issues. \nIn 2015\, W.O.W. released their debut self-titled full length (recorded in collaboration with J. Robbins at Magpie Cage) on Bridge Nine Records and have been touring relentlessly ever since\, with dates in the US\, UK\, and Western Europe sharing the stage with such bands as the Refused\, Propagandhi\, Anti-Flag\, Boy Sets Fire\, Jello Biafra\, RVIVR\, Iron Reagan\, Dismemberment Plan\, and Shai Hulud. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/frank-turner-sleeping-souls/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Frank-Turner-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180702T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180702T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180223T184103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180223T184103Z UID:10002612-1530556200-1530556200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls - Night 6 DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nTickets on sale NOW! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nFrank Turner & The Sleeping Souls \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFrank Turner has announced details of his forthcoming seventh studio album entitled Be More Kind available on May 4th via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor UK /Interscope Records. The album is available for pre-order and those who pre-order will receive instant downloads of “1933” and the previously released track “There She Is” from the 2017 release Songbook. \nMonths after the release of Songbook\, a career-spanning retrospective which also saw reworked versions of tracks from across the past decade\, Be More Kind represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for the 36-year-old. It’s a record that combines universal anthems with raw emotion and the political and the personal\, with the intricate folk and punk roar trademarks of Turner’s sound imbued with new\, bold experimental shades. Be More Kind is produced by Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block\, formerly of psychedelic-rock Texans White Denim\, and Florence And The Machine and Halsey collaborator Charlie Hugall. “I wanted to try and get out of my comfort zone and do something different\,” says Turner. \nTurner was halfway through writing a very different sort of album\, a concept record about women from the historical record who had been ignored\, when he was reading a collection of Clive James’ poetry and one particular line compelled him to re-think his direction. It was from a poem called Leçons Des Ténèbres: “I should have been more kind. It is my fate. To find this out\, but find it out too late.” “It devastated me the first time I read it\,” he says. \nTurner and his band\, the Sleeping Souls\, were on tour in the USA in 2016 “when the world decided to go collectively nuts” and the songs that make up Be More Kind started to come together. “Somewhere in the record\, there’s a convergence of the ideas of personal and political\, which is a central theme of the album\,” Turner says. One of the driving themes of the album is empathy\, even for your enemy. “You should at least be able to inhabit the mental universe of the people you disagree with. If you can’t do that\, then how do you communicate with people other than through force of arms\, which is something we all agree is a bad idea.” \nTurner’s last two records\, 2013’s Tape Deck Heart and 2015’s Positive Songs For Negative People\, dealt with the fallout from a break-up and saw Turner struggling to cover the cracks in his personal life. Now happily in a relationship and living with his partner and their cat\, he again set his sights to the bigger picture. Positive Songs… was cut in nine\, intense days whereas Be More Kind was made over a period of seven months\, giving Turner the opportunity to turn songs on their head\, try different versions and shake up the dynamics within his band. \nThe first track to be released from Be More Kind is “1933\,” a clattering\, state-of-the-nation anthem. Furious and direct\, it’s inspired by articles Turner saw that suggested the alt-right was punk rock. “That filled me with a mixture of incredulity and anger\,” says Turner. “The idea that Breitbart or Steve Bannon think they have anything to do with punk rock makes me extremely angry.” \nThe Be More Kind World Tour will begin in the UK in April and head to North America on May 31\, with its first leg playing to over 200\,000 people across the UK\, the USA\, Europe\, Canada\, Australia and New Zealand\, taking them through to Christmas. Turner promises that 2019 will include visits to some “slightly more weird and wonderful places.” \n*** \nKevin Devin & The Goddamn Band \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nKevin Devine is an independent singer/songwriter from Brooklyn\, NY. He plays alone\, with his Goddamn Band\, and as a member of Bad Books. \n***\nTrapper Schoepp \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Rangers & Valentines is Trapper Schoepp’s mini masterpiece.” -Relix \n“Rootsy\, cinematic rock that charms as it soars.” -NPR Music \n“Story songs that explore and explode the conventions of rock and roll.” -PBS \n“A master storyteller.” -Huffington Post​ \nRangers & Valentines: Best of the Week\, 4/1/16 – Billboard Magazine \n“This Wisconsin outfit–lead by one of two brothers—are as capable of kicking roots rock ass as they are delivering introspective Gram Parsons-tinged tunes.” -FUSE TV \n“This Milwaukee troupe plays alt.country like it’s 1997 and they have something to prove.” -The Austin Chronicle \n“Excellent…The band’s sound is all their own.” –Paste Magazine \n“Replacements-meets-Uncle Tupelo influence rings clear…Trapper Schoepp & The Shades can only get better.” (4/5 stars) –Alternative Press \n“Their boisterous tune ‘Tracks’ is probably going to end up on all of my summer playlists.” –CMT.com \n“Schoepp clearly grew up rifling through his parents’ record collection\, paying special attention to the artists who pioneered California’s country-rock sound during the 1970s.” -American Songwriter Magazine URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/frank-turner-sleeping-souls-night-6/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Frank-Turner-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180710T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180710T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180530T195419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180530T195419Z UID:10002644-1531249200-1531249200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Adult Swim Presents: The Pillows Feat. FLCL DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nMOVED FROM THE SINCLAIR TO ROYALE DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND!  \nThis show is SOLD OUT. \nPlease note: this show is all ages. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/adult-swim-presents-the-pillows-feat-flcl/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-Pillows-admat-2018v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180711T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180711T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180501T183555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180501T183555Z UID:10001916-1531339200-1531339200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Dragathon: 10s Across The Board Tour DESCRIPTION: URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dragathon-10s-across-board-tour/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ROYALE_07112018-poster.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:20180725T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180725T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180418T160021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180724T214826Z UID:10001915-1532545200-1532545200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Deafheaven DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nTickets on sale NOW! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nDeafheaven \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nDeafheaven is a California-based act that has garnered acclaim for their signature hybrid sound of black metal\, shoegaze\, and post-rock. On October 2 the band will release their next album New Bermuda on ANTI-. \nGeorge Clarke (vocals)\, Kerry McCoy (guitar)\, Dan Tracy (drums)\, Stephen Lee Clark (bass)\, and Shiv Mehra (guitar) recorded New Bermuda live to tape at 25th Street Recording in Oakland\, CA and Atomic Garden Recording in East Palo Alto\, CA in April 2015. It was produced\, engineered\, mixed\, and mastered by Jack Shirley who has worked with the band on their previous releases. Clarke says that he came up with the idea of “New Bermuda” to describe a new destination in life\, a nebulous point of arrival\, and an unknown future where things get swallowed up and dragged into darkness. The album artwork for New Bermuda is an oil painting\, dense in brush strokes of darker tones and deep blues\, by Allison Schulnik. The layout was designed by art director Nick Steinhardt. \nFormed in 2010 in San Francisco\, California\, the band has released two studio albums on Deathwish; Roads to Judah in 2011 and their lauded Sunbather in 2013. Sunbather received accolades from NPR on their Favorite Albums of 2013 list\, a coveted Best New Music at Pitchfork\, the Best Metal Album of 2013 per Rolling Stone\, a 9/10 star review from Decibel Magazine\, and it was the highest rated album of 2013 according to Metacritic. Deafheaven have spent the last two years touring extensively nationally and around the world with shows in Australia\, Japan\, Asia\, Europe\, Russia\, the UK\, and Canada with festival appearances at Pitchfork\, Bonnaroo\, Primavera\, Roskilde\, Fun Fun Fun\, FYF Fest\, SXSW\, Basilica Sound Scape 14\, Corona Capital\, ATP Iceland\, amongst others. Deafheaven will perform August 8 at Heavy Montreal in Canada. Details on a forthcoming North American tour are soon to be announced. \n*** \nDrab Majesty \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \nDrab Majesty began as a warbled transmission received via 4-track cassette in a dim\, Los Angeles bedroom in 2012. The entity known as Deb Demure\, an interdimensional muse of sorts\, lent an otherworldly vision to a human contact; one to be realized through meticulously composed lo-fi recordings. Focusing on the aesthetics of cult ritual and the devastating power of music\, Deb sought an alternative way to share the cosmic agenda. Culminating in a cassette titled Unarian Dances\, Drab Majesty’s manifesto to humanity was revealed: revel in the power of artistic influences that reside beyond the self.\nThe tape circulated through Los Angeles\, catching the attention of local tastemakers like the heads at Lollipop Records in Echo Park. It quickly found a place on the shelves of LA’s underground musical seekers. After a gauntlet of performances and late night manifestations\, Drab Majesty came on the radar of DAIS Records. \nIn 2015\, Drab Majesty released Careless\, the first LP which was received and recorded soley by Demure on living room floors and in cluttered spaces across the city. After three pressings and an imminent fourth\, Careless remains a fixture in LA’s somber yet sublime nightlife and a noted contribution to the murkier subcultures abroad. \nWielding a left-handed guitar\, Deb employs a unique style of arpeggiated finger picking\, producing vast and organic musical textures reminiscent of Vinny Reilly (Durutti Column) with the anthemic power of Sisters of Mercy and Cocteau Twins. In the past two years Deb has been invited to support bands such as Psychic TV\, Clan of Xymox\, The Frozen Autumn\, Prayers\, and label mates Youth Code and King Dude. \nFrom its incarnation\, Drab Majesty was a solo act; an interplay between guitar and triggered machines. In 2016\, with growing audiences and heightened interest\, Drab expanded into a duo\, employing the keyboard accompaniment of far-out twin\, Mona D – filling out frequencies and upping the spectacle of the live performance. \nJanuary of 2017 saw the release of Deb’s second album entitled The Demonstration\, recorded by Josh Eustis (NIN\, Telefon Tel Aviv). With extensive worldwide touring to follow\, Drab Majesty will spread its message to new and grander audiences around the globe. \n*** \nUniform \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nUniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble\, The Men\, Pygymy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint\, Drunkdriver\, Believer/Law) realized they lived on the same street. Their impulsive collaboration quickly yielded Our Blood / Of Sound Mind and Body single. The six tracks that comprise the equally abrasive but more refined Perfect World have been coming together between tours and work ever since. \nThe music that Greenberg and Berdan conjure up under the Uniform moniker is immediate\, aggressive\, and even primal in form\, but it plumbs untold depths. Berdan’s venomous voice mines deeply personal themes of resentment\, regret\, reflection and addiction over the hum of Greenberg’s almost impossibly disciplined guitar\, bass synth\, and drum machine lines. Greenberg uses the word “templatized” to describe their approach to writing songs for Uniform. \n“There’s this set bunch of gear to create sounds\, and it only creates sound through a certain process\, or within its own limitations\,” Greenberg said. “The goal of songwriting is to see how many different kinds of sounds you can get from the same basic process and machine.” \nOn Perfect World\, that machine is firing on all cylinders. The guitar is run through a cheap ’80s preamp marketed to metal kids. The drum machine is equally no-frills\, an Akai XR20 that Greenberg says “most people wouldn’t want to keep around.” These humble components are combined with noisy synth and Berdan’s profound howling to form something much greater. Post-punk\, synthpunk\, and industrial traditions are borrowed from as needed\, but the constraints placed on the process mean the result is unique to Uniform. Berdan describes his lyrics as the consequence of feeling “so full of pain\, confusion\, deep selfishness\, and general animosity that you make some horrible mistakes and have to learn how to forgive yourself for them.” Perfect World feels like the sum of all that pain and confusion\, but it also feels like the catharsis. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/deafheaven-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Deafheaven-Admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180726T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180726T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180501T171336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180501T171336Z UID:10002634-1532635200-1532635200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Raphael Saadiq DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 5/4 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \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*** \nRaphael Saadiq \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nRaphael Saadiq just announced his first headline tour dates in several years. The Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning musician and producer will head out on a seven-city run including headline shows in NYC\, Boston\, Philadelphia and more\, and a performance at Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival (read ‘The Meaning of Soul Music According to Raphael Saadiq’ via the 2017 Pitchfork here). The dates come as he’s set to finish work on his anticipated fifth solo album and first since 2011’s Stone Rollin’. The upcoming shows follow 2017 performances as a headliner at Afropunk Brooklyn\, a surprise appearance with A Tribe Called Quest at FYF Fest 2017\, and several dates with Maxwell\, among other shows. See all upcoming tour dates below and get tix this Friday\, May 4 at 10am local time. \nIn addition to his own music\, Raphael has been working on many high profile projects with other musicians. In the last year\, he has worked with the likes of Chromeo\, Justin Timberlake\, Rick Ross\, Little Dragon\, and much more. In 2016\, he also served as executive producer on Solange’s critically lauded album A Seat at the Table. \nSaadiq has become a musical go-to in the film & television world over the last several years. He received his first Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for co-writing the song “Mighty River” from Mudbound with co-songwriters Mary J. Blige and Taura Stinson. In addition to his work on Mudbound\, he composes the music for HBO’s hit series Insecure which returns soon for a third season (see him on the show’s ‘Wine Down’ here). Saadiq also scored the Netflix film Step Sisters and the Sundance documentary STEP with Laura Karpman; and he has composed music for the film Black Nativity\, television shows Underground (WGN) and Rebel (BET)\, performed on Luke Cage (Netflix)\, among others. \nRaphael Saadiq’s first foray into the international music scene came as a teenager when he performed as part of Sheila E.’s backing band and toured with Prince. Saadiq has also released critically acclaimed solo albums including his five-time Grammy-nominated debut album Instant Vintage and 2004’s Ray Ray. For the last two decades\, Saadiq has also worked behind the scenes as a celebrated producer and songwriter for major artists including D’Angelo (Grammy-winner for “How Does It Feel”)\, John Legend\, Miguel\, The Roots\, A Tribe Called Quest\, Stevie Wonder\, Mary J. Blige\, Snoop Dogg\, The Isley Brothers\, TLC\, Whitney Houston\, the Bee Gees\, Joss Stone\, and more. He was also a founding member of the multi-platinum selling group Tony! Toni! Toné! \n*** \n Ali Shaheed Muhammad \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nDJ/Producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad is known around the world as one-third of the legendary hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest\, but he began his musical career in his hometown of Brooklyn\, New York. It was there that his uncle\, Michael Jones\, a bass player and DJ himself\, pulled aside 8-year-old Ali and began teaching him music. Ali then spent years DJ-ing parties in his Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and recorded a slew of demos before co-founding Tribe in 1985 with Q-Tip\, Phife Dawg\, and Jarobi. He was just 19 when the group released its first album\, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm\, in 1990\, and four more followed: The Low End Theory (released in 1991); Midnight Marauders (1993); Beats\, Rhymes and Life (1996); and The Love Movement (1998). All went either gold or platinum\, with The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders both widely considered hip-hop classics. The group’s socially conscious lyrics – coupled with their unique production: heavy on jazz\, funk and ’70s rock samples – helped push it to the forefront of rap\, and scores of current artists/producers\, including Kanye West\, Pharrell Williams and Will. I. Am\, cite Tribe as an influence. \nThough Tribe disbanded in 1998\, the group’s place in hip hop’s pantheon has long been secured. It is unclear if the group will record another album\, but Tribe remains relevant\, recently eclipsing their contemporaries as co-headliners on the Rock the Bells 2010 Tour and starring in the 2010 documentary\, Beats\, Rhymes\, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. \nTribe\, however\, is just one representation of Ali’s talent. He formed the production company The Ummah in the ’90s with Jay Dee and Q-Tip\, and he’s worked with a wide range of artists\, including Faith Evans\, Mos Def\, and D’Angelo\, the last of whom he collaborated on the Grammy-nominated single\, Brown Sugar\, in 1995. That song led the way for the “neo-soul” movement\, making possible the rise of such performers as Erykah Badu\, Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott. Ali has also remixed songs for Janet Jackson Maxwell\, Maroon 5and KRS-One. In all\, he has credits as writer\, producer or co-producer on 23 albums\, most recently with the Irish band The Kanyu Tree. The group’s lively\, fresh sound convinced Ali to work in a new genre – alternative music – and the debut album is due out summer 2011. \nAli also has a sharp eye for talent. Seeking to gain insider’s perspective on the record industry\, he took a job in 1996 as an A&R for Quincy Jones’ Qwest Records. While there\, he scouted and tried to sign Corey Glover\, Common\, The Black Eyed Peas and The Neptunes. Qwest passed on all. Feeling that he was unable to satisfy the needs of Qwest\, Ali parted ways with the label. Separately\, he was introduced by his friend\, producer Dahoud Darien\, to Bilal\, and Ali tried to get him signed\, as well\, but Ali could not convince his contacts to make the deal. Though he soon returned to his own artistic ambitions\, it is worth noting that Ali’s instincts were correct: those artists have gone on to sell millions of records. \nIn 1999 he co-founded the star trio Lucy Pearl\, aligning with Dawn Robinson\, formerly of En Vogue\, and Raphael Saadiq\, of Tony! Toni! Toné! Lucy Pearl fused funk\, rock\, R&B and hip-hop to create an organic\, sexy sound that was unprecedented at the time and still unmatched today. The group’s self-titled debut album produced the hits Don’t Mess With My Man\, and Dance Tonight\, the latter nominated for a Grammy in the best vocal performance by a duo or group category. \nAli has also built up a solo career\, beginning with his 2004 debut LP Shaheedulah and Stereotypes\, featuring the dance song All Night. Beyond engineering a unique sound for his first LP\, Ali also performed songs on it\, and he has two more albums scheduled for release in summer 2011. The first is pure hip hop and boasts collaborations with Phife Dawg\, De La Soul and Raphael Saadiq; the second is a dance album\, continuing the vibe he started with All Night. \nWhile the music world awaits those two albums\, Ali keeps busy by performing as a DJ around the globe\, reaching music fans of all types\, each gig adding to the journey he started as an 8-year-old in Brooklyn. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/raphael-saadiq/ 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/2020/01/RaphaelSaadiq-720x720.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180728T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180728T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180212T150604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180212T150604Z UID:10001892-1532800800-1532813400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Sleep DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis show is 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***\nSleep \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nThe words have failed them all. Since by the time you’ve read this far you’ve already read words that are intended to be touchstones but which do nothing but make it easier to not hear what should be all about hearing: their music. \nSo let’s dispense with “stoner” and “doom” and while “metal” is a good catch-all even that does what SLEEP does an injustice. What SLEEP does and has been doing since 1990. Since San Jose. Since vocalist and bassist Al Cisneros hinted darkly at his next act after Asbestosdeath. Make something that was like something you had never heard/felt before even if you had heard/felt it before. Like wind or the yawning subsonic expanse of an earthquake: something undeniably large. \nAnd like ragas\, the songs were not just songs but movements and the movements trended toward the eternal. Almost time-wise too with songs that lasted as long as some entire records\, which is as long as it needs to be to get short-sighted labels to drop you. And beyond time\, the weight was equally significant. Heavy\, sublime and not even a little bit ridiculous and whether or not these were influenced by the sacramental consumption of weed really misses the point. \nWhile there may have been a few like them before them\, there were none like them really and certainly none of after them. And so in 2009 when they were reborn with Cisneros who’d been reframing the world with the band OM\, Matt Pike doing double duty with this and his HIGH ON FIRE\, and the estimable Jason Roeder doing the same with NEUROSIS\, SLEEP did what it had done and what it had left to do. Largely and without pause\, make music in tune with The Ages. \nBest to be enjoyed? Live and living. See\, hear\, feel\, do it. Well\, beyond just music and well into the experiential joy of pure being. SLEEP. Undoubtedly. \n***\nHeavy Blanket \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nIn a Dutch Haze – digital by Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket \nJ Mascis rounds up a couple partners-in-crime from his adolescence with an eye – and ear – towards shredding harder\, wailing louder\, and generally melting faces even more brutally than ever before. Stoner dirtbags cloaked in mystery\, j’s longtime buddies Pete Cougar and Johnny Pancake lay down the heavy rhythm base for j’s massive licks and blistering guitar mastery. Ever wondered what Band of Gypsies would sound like if you mixed it up with Japanese hard psych and smoked it through a giant power bong? Well\, now you know. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. \n***\nDylan Carlson \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nGuitarist and founder/principal member of the rock band Earth\, as well as numerous solo/side projects. These include drcarlsonalbion\, an ongoing exploration reflecting Carlson’s long standing interest in occult folklore and history of the United Kingdom and his abiding love for all things British. Its ancillary project\, Coleman Grey\, dealing with the ffayre folklore of the British Isles. The improvisatory music of the Dylan Carlson/Rogier Smal duo. The Bug vs. Earth collaboration. Composer of the soundtrack for the German feature film ‘Gold’. Husband to Holly Carlson. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sleep/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sleeppress-1-1.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:20180731T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180731T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180403T190007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180724T214023Z UID:10001908-1533061800-1533061800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Quicksand & Glassjaw DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/6 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*** \nQuicksand \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nInteriors is Quicksand’s best album yet. It sounds like nothing else you are going to hear this year. \nIt arrives deliberately unannounced\, two decades after the pioneering post-hardcore quartet’s last album. Made completely on the band’s own terms\, Interiors has a power\, strength and subtlety that will likely stun you. There are no wasted notes\, no flab\, and no excess whatsoever. It is absolutely perfect. \n“This struck a chord\, where we felt this is actually something that could represent us now\,” says bassist Sergio Vega. “It doesn’t sound like a third album a couple of decades later. It’s a piece of work that we really\, really can back.” \nThat may be an understatement: Interiors is breathtaking in its surging\, sculptured sonic attack\, a welcome reminder that the band’s longtime status as musical innovators is not undeserved. \nTo make the record\, the band first had to return to the beginning—to the purity of why Quicksand started making music in the first place. In the process\, they made a great record that speaks to their past—but\, more essentially\, to their present and future. \n“First we went out and made the record we wanted to make\, with the person we wanted to make it with\,” says drummer Alan Cage. “Then we went with a finished product and said ‘OK\, who’s going to put this thing out?’ Of course we want to share it\, have people listen to it\, and create their own relationship with it–but at the core\, it is our thing. “I think we landed in a perfect place to do that with epitaph.” \n“When we first became a band\, that’s what we did with making our EP. We put together $1500 and recorded the songs\, because no one knew or cared about what we were doing\, except for us. We took the same approach with Interiors.” \nAnd of course\, so much has changed since then. \n“I’m thrilled to be listening back to a record that we made with our own money\, on our own schedule and creative terms\,” says Quicksand front man/guitarist Walter Schreifels. “While it was definitely important for us to speak to our longtime fans\, we thought the best way to do that was to embrace who we are now\, to allow our selves to be open to people that have never heard of us. Our tastes and experiences as musicians and as people have grown\, and we decided to run with that. As a result\, I think ‘Interiors’ has a wider spectrum on it than our past records.” \nInteriors makes clear via its searing opening sequence of tracks that Quicksand’s skills as songsmiths and players have never been sharper. \nFrom the pulse-pounding start of the opening track “Illuminant\,” the band immediately draws you in with its unique combination of pounding rhythm and shifting loud/soft dynamics\, heightened by Schreifels’ deliberately restrained—but powerful—vocal. \n“To me\, ‘Illuminant’ was the first song that set the bar for the rest of the album. We had compiled various jams and song inspirations that we’d recorded at sound checks and rehearsals\, but it is a significant step to take song ideas\, riffs etc. and commit to the structure that makes it a ‘song.’ Especially for us. We were searching for the abstract idea of ‘what does a new Quicksand song sound like?’ Once we put ‘Illuminant’ together\, it happened pretty quickly. I felt confident we could make a great album.” \nA similar standout is “Cosmonauts\,” a stylistic leap forward for the band both in terms of its powerfully rhythmic\, slow pacing and Schreifels’ textured and melodic vocal. \n“One of the things about Quicksand back in the day that made it hard for me was that most of the vocals were close to the top of my range\, it had impact but was exhausting to perform live. As a Quicksand song\, ‘Cosmonauts’ has all the elements that our fans dig\, but I gave myself license to sing. Over time I’ve discovered that if you have the right emotional pitch–if you understand what you’re trying to say\, you don’t necessarily have to scream it to make a point.” \nThat point also applies to the album’s title track\, among the finest the band has ever recorded. “Interiors” is majestic\, glacial\, powerful\, throbbing—like no other song you’ve ever heard—pairing a howling\, repetitive guitar figure partnered with Schreifels’ emotional\, almost resigned delivery of the lyrics. It is a mind-blower from top to bottom\, and its final moments feature a stunning instrumental break ranking among Quicksand’s best ever work. \nThere’s an astounding array of sonic diversity displayed on Interiors that will satisfy Quicksand fans both old and new. And that’s been done purposely\, adds Schreifels\, pointing to the significant contributions of producer Will Yip. “I worked with Will on another project some years ago–Title Fight’s Shed album\,” he says. “We had a blast. And with Will’s combination of expertise and taste\, I knew that he would gel with the other Quicksand guys. \nNo small matter was the fact that Yip has produced the records of several young\, critically admired bands that cite Quicksand as an influence\, he adds. \n“It made sense to thread that with where music is now. While working on this record\, Will really joined the band–and every move we made was in service of the song sonically\, structurally and overall energy-wise. We were not afraid to diverge from formula moves\, and we were also down to embrace aspects of our style that our fans have come to expect–as long as there was a twist. \n“For example\, ‘Under The Screw’ I really dig because I wanted something that kind of connected to the Quicksand that people remember\,” he says. “But in the vocals\, I took a more surrealistic approach than I would have in the past–which I think gives license for us to take more unexpected turns as the song progresses.” \nThere is a sense of growth and maturity on Interiors that longtime fans will hear upon first listen. A lot has happened since the early ‘90s\, a lot has happened since those days of Manic Compression and the very first Warped Tour. And a lot has happened in the lives of the four members of Quicksand. \n“This record just sounds like who we are\,” says Schreifels. “Lyrically\, I wasn’t interested in re-creating some ersatz version of the struggles I was having when I was 20 years old\, I lived that already. It took me a minute to find the thread but once I had a few songs done\, the language and themes of Interiors began to write themselves.” \nFrom start to finish\, there is growth\, there is strength\, and there is power in this music. More power than ever before\, and it may surprise you. \nTranslation? Quicksand has made the album of a lifetime. And now the world gets to hear it. \n*** \nGlassjaw \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMaking things since 1993 \n*** \nPrimitive Weapons \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe Future of Death URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/quicksand-glassjaw/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/quicksand-glassjaw-admat-2018-v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180804T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180804T173000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180614T181821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180614T181821Z UID:10002648-1533394800-1533403800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Bitch Sesh Live DESCRIPTION:Second show added due to overwhelming demand! Tickets on sale NOW! \nDoors: 3:00 pm / Show: 4:00 pm \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nBitch Sesh \n \n[Facebook] \nCasey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Danielle Schneider (The Hotwives of Orlando) bring you a live version of their hilarious podcast Bitch Sesh. They’ll deep dive into all things Real Housewives\, unpack pertinent pop culture goings on and continue to process and hopefully come to accept Julia Roberts wig in “Mother’s Day.” One day at a time. Join them for dramatic reenactments\, audience questions\, clips and more. You won’t want to miss this very important\, nay – life altering\, evening. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bitch-sesh-live-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bitch-Sesh-Admat-2018v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180804T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180804T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180201T180001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180201T180001Z UID:10002614-1533409200-1533418200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Bitch Sesh Live DESCRIPTION:This show is now SOLD OUT! \nNOTE: Due to overwhelming demand\, an early show has been added! Tickets for the early show are still available HERE. \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nBitch Sesh \n \n[Facebook] \nCasey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Danielle Schneider (The Hotwives of Orlando) bring you a live version of their hilarious podcast Bitch Sesh. They’ll deep dive into all things Real Housewives\, unpack pertinent pop culture goings on and continue to process and hopefully come to accept Julia Roberts wig in “Mother’s Day.” One day at a time. Join them for dramatic reenactments\, audience questions\, clips and more. You won’t want to miss this very important\, nay – life altering\, evening. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bitch-sesh-live/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bitch-Sesh-Admat-2018v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180814T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180814T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080115 CREATED:20180612T153448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T184032Z UID:10001934-1534273200-1534273200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Jeremih / Teyana Taylor DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/15 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 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*** \nJeremih \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“I can make a great sex song anytime I want\, without even saying a body part\, without saying anything that would be omitted on the radio. Somehow I’ve just been given that ability\,” Jeremih remarks matter-of-factly\, not even the hint of a mischievous grin on his face. The man knows his talent\, and his calling card. And as enviable as that talent is\, no man of Jeremih’s intelligence and versatility would be satisfied in a pigeonhole: “In no way do I feel that ‘Birthday Sex’ defines me as an artist\, or defined my first album. People are quick to make comparisons: ‘he’s the next R. Kelly\, he’s the next Dream.’ That’s flattering talk but we’re all different\, as people and as artists.” \nIndeed\, 23-year-old Jeremih Felton has planted his own flag among the glittering banner acts at Def Jam: “I feel like I’m on the best label I could be on; I’m not intimidated by anyone musically\, and I’m honored and inspired by the artists around me. There were a lot to choose from\, a lot of labels were interested in a short period of time\, but I didn’t get this far by making bad decisions. And to be blessed with L.A. Reid’s thoughts and even his critiques\, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” \nSo the stage is set for Jeremih’s sophomore album\, All About You\, dropping September 28th. The singer/ rapper/producer/multi-instrumentalist has again aligned with producer Mick Schultz to deliver eleven songs long on sophistication\, sex appeal\, and even some old soul. “Mick and I have a great chemistry; we entered the game together\, and we have albums’ worth of music\,” Jeremih imparts. “I want him to get known too; I’m not selfish like this has to be the Jeremih show. This album is a great showcase for his ability as well as my own. Once people hear this album\, others will recognize what I recognized in him and reach out for more of what we create.” \nWhat they create is a sonic palate ranging from subtle savoir-faire to unapologetic\, house-shaking climax. First single “I Like\,” featuring labelmate Ludacris and co-written by Keith James\, is pure babymaking bliss. Jeremih’s uncanny falsetto wends into Ludacris’ irresistible\, irrepressible flow\, bobbing and weaving with Schultz’s bubbly\, scaled-back rhythm. Elsewhere\, the titular track is a languid 4/4 offset by sawing high-octave synth riffs. But Jeremih’s vocals\, smacking of a young Michael\, steal the show. Rare is a falsetto this controlled\, this textured\, this evocative. Listen for it also on “Take Off\,” what Jeremih terms a relationship record told from the lesser-heard male point of view: “Guys have feelings too\, guys get hurt\, and this record expresses that. There’s a point when we feel like we’ve done enough in trying to work this out\, and now it’s best if I take off for the both of us. I can say I been there\, but I also hear this from a lot of peers. Women can relate to it too\, even if it’s not from their perspective.” \n“Down on Me” featuring 50 Cent is a supersmash in the waiting. 50 unleashes an insistent\, machine-gun flow\, while Jeremih contorts himself through some outrageous vocal acrobatics. His voice\, spiced with an island cadence\, bends and stretches about one of the nastiest hooks R&B has seen in quite some time. “Down on Me” is definitely a song to be up on. “I’ve always respected 50 and always wanted to work with him\,” Jeremih notes. “I wanted to reach out to a couple artists who could bring to the table what I know I do.”\nJeremih doesn’t lack for confidence. Nor should he. A native of the unforgiving Southside Chicago ―“a city full of talent”― streets\, Jeremih kept to a positive path\, honing his prodigious musical chops on saxophone\, drums\, and piano. He graduated high school a year early and enrolled at the University of Illinois as a prospective engineering major. Bookworm by day\, beatmaker by night. “I write off beats\,” Jeremih reveals. “I’m a producer myself\, that’s how I thought I’d initially get into the game. After a while\, I just got to writing to the beats. And at the time\, I was rapping\, not singing.” Indeed\, the U of I campus couldn’t hold Jeremih; he transferred to Columbia College\, one of Chicago’s preeminent creative schools. \n“That’s where I met Mick Schultz and started vibing with him\,” he continues\, “And began singing over his beats\, because that’s what a lot of his stuff called for at the time. But singing and rapping both came natural; that stemmed from playing instruments growing up. Playing the piano taught me how to sing\, or at least how to sound out\, reach\, and hold notes.” \nJeremih holds notes\, and court\, on All About You. The album has a depth\, a sense of growth\, an exploratory side. “The Five Senses” is a slow\, sultry firestarter featuring Jeremih’s peerless tone. Then there’s “Broken Down\,” full of ominous piano chords and cadenced like a frozen moment in jazz or soul lore. And “Holding On\,” the subsequent track: “After being broken down\, you gotta keep holding on\,” Jeremih affirms. “It’s about trying to see the future when you’re going through something in the moment that’s getting you down. I played this for my Grandpops and a lot of older listeners and they really responded to it. I’m proud of this song and how far I’ve come as an artist.” \nJeremih has other reasons to be proud. Concurrent with his album release\, he’ll be appearing on the second season of BET’s popular series\, Rising Icons. Icons\, presented by Grey Goose vodka\, pulls back the curtains and chronicles the lives of rising stars\, both at home and on tour. Jeremih will share the spotlight with fast risers such as J. Cole\, Estelle\, Laura Izibor\, and B.O.B. Elsewhere\, he’s been honing his pen game for other ballyhooed newcomers\, including Jenna Andrews\, for whom he and Mick wrote “Tumblin’ Down\,” her debut single on Island Records. “I write what I feel\, and with the pitch of my voice\, I can write for a man or a woman\,” he states. “My voice just has the ability to do a lot of different things.” \nSpeaking of different things\, fans yearning for even more Jeremih can cop the Deluxe version of All About You\, available via iTunes and featuring several tracks not on the physical CD. Expect also a Jeremih mixtape\, on which the young star does as much spitting as singing: “I rapped a little on my last album with ‘Raindrops\,’ and people asked ‘Who was that?’ Now\, I have some new stuff that I went hard on that just didn’t fit with the theme of this album. So I’m looking forward to the mixtape to let people see that side of me. A lot of singers try to do it\, and it can either A) turn all your fans away like ‘You need to stick to singing\, fam’ or B) get you respect as being able to do both. I can put rhyme to a melody and have it accepted.” \nIt’s been a whirlwind couple years for Jeremih\, first setting the Midwest ablaze with his indy anthem “My Ride\,” following that up with the RIAA-certified platinum “Birthday Sex\,” a nomination for an American Music Award\, and now\, an imminent sophomore album. “I’ve almost traveled the world in a year\, and that’s an amazing experience. I now know what to expect this time around. When I do shows\, I perform every song off the last album. People still want to hear those songs live\, and those are from a year ago. So I’m excited to see the response to this material.” Jeremih recognizes that without his dedicated fans\, none of these amazing experiences would be possible. That is why\, on September 28th\, he would like to tell each and every one of them it’s “All About You”. \n*** \nTeyana Taylor \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nDaniLeigh \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhen the end of Summer hits\, the desire to rewind time kicks in\, reliving every magical moment from the season’s past. It’s a vibe that newcomer DaniLeigh has managed to encapsulate in her debut EP Summer With Friends\, coming soon. The 22-year-old singing and dancing phenomenon cut her teeth in the business when she directed a music video for her late mentor\, Prince. She enhanced her buzz with back-to-back jams “Play” (featuring Kap G) and “Lurkin’”\, and is here to continue her mission of making music that both sounds and feels good. \nThe South Florida native had music in her blood\, singing from a young age. As an early teen\, DaniLeigh recorded YouTube covers of songs like Musiq Soulchild’s “So Beautiful\,” though she wasn’t quite ready for the big time. “I was really shy\,” she admits\, “and I didn’t realize the unique sound of my voice until later on.” It wasn’t until a few years later when she moved to Los Angeles at 16 that DaniLeigh began harnessing her craft. In LA she found her footing in the music industry\, starting with dancing. “I was dancing in music videos\, commercials\, you name it\,” she recalls. “From there\, I met a lot of producers onset and just networked.” Singing became the secret weapon\, as DaniLeigh would reveal her chops and be invited to studios for recording sessions. However\, a life-changing encounter with the legendary Prince would be the real catalyst. \nAfter learning of DaniLeigh’s talents as a dancer (through a one-minute video clip)\, the Purple One reached out to have her direct his video for “Breakfast Can Wait” at just 18 years old. The video hit worldwide\, appearing on networks like MTV\, BET\, and REVOLT. Prince ultimately took DaniLeigh under his wing\, mentoring her budding singing career. His untimely death in 2016 left a void in DaniLeigh’s life\, though his presence is still felt as DaniLeigh’s star is only getting brighter. \n“Play” truly kicked things off. The high-energy single is described by DaniLeigh as an empowering anthem for women. “It’s a bold statement\,” she says of the cut\, which carries a message of “making a play” in all areas of life. “I’m a very positive person and this song I feel can help motivate people to put in that work\,” she says. Bringing Kap G (who is of Mexican descent) into the fold as a feature was her way of uniting more Latinos in music\, as DaniLeigh’s Dominican heritage is evident in both her style and sound. The single “Lurkin’” immediately followed\, as a slick nod to social those stalkers who don’t congratulate moves\, yet look on from the social media sidelines. The song even made its way to the HBO hit series Insecure. The stage is now set for DaniLeigh to show the diverse angles of her talent on a grander scale. \nAptly titled Summer With Friends\, the upcoming EP sums up DaniLeigh’s past few months\, which she lightheartedly describes as “just having fun and working.” The relatable nature of the project brings forth the aforementioned singles\, along with feel good songs that channel the young artist’s inspirations including Aaliyah\, Missy Elliott\, and Drake while showing her ability to fuse hip-hop and R&B with poppier electronic-driven vibes. Songs like “Questions” playfully target those relationship interrogation sessions (Where were you? Who were you with?)\, while “Ex” is a self-explanatory track about the now-single artist’s previous romance. “He got one song\,” she jokes. Other cuts like the infectious “On” and “All I Know” show DaniLeigh’s versatility within the pop-urban landscape\, while “All Day” highlights her Dominican roots. “That’s a bachata beat underneath [the production]\,” she proudly points out. “The time right now is in alignment\, showing that things are going the right way.” As DaniLeigh unveils her debut Summer With Friends and the projects that follow\, she maintains her goal of positive music\, though has one wish involving one important angel by her side. “I always say I wish Prince was here to see all of this happening with me right now\,” she says. “It’s okay though. I know he’s watching.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/jeremih/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Jeremih-Teyana-1080x1080.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:20180823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180823T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180529T160045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180529T160045Z UID:10001925-1535050800-1535050800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Belly DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/1 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*** \nBelly \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAfter amicably exiting Throwing Muses and The Breeders\, Tanya Donelly formed Belly in 1991 with brothers Tom and Chris Gorman\, and were joined soon after by Gail Greenwood on bass. Belly released two albums ~ the first being Star\, which earned the band two Grammy nominations and eventually sold two million copies worldwide ~ and the second album being King\, which was produced by the legendary Glyn Johns and released in February 1995. After several extensive world-wide tours (including opening slots for REM\, U2\, and the Velvet Underground\, and tours with Radiohead\, Catherine Wheel\, and the Cranberries)\, Belly unfortunately fell prey to the all-too-common rock-and-roll cliché of industry pressure\, financial issues\, personal conflict and divergent creative ambitions. The band played its last show on Nov. 11\, 1995. Tanya went on to release five albums under her own name. Gail spent three years playing in L7\, then two years with Bif Naked\, and continues to play guitar in Benny Sizzler\, her band with her partner Chil. Chris and Tom opened a commercial and fine-art photography studio in New York City. In 2015\, Chris published his first children’s book\, Indi Surfs. Tom briefly played guitar and keyboards with both Buffalo Tom and Kristin Hersh. \nIn late 2015\, twenty years after last playing together\, the band decided it was ‘now or never’ and announced Belly would reunite for a limited tour in 2016. Falling right back into a laughter-fueled groove as they began rehearsing for the tour\, they decided to write a few new songs together. At the end of that joyful and successful tour\, they decided to expand on the idea and write a full album’s worth of music together and are now in the process of recording the new album with their old friend Paul Q. Kolderie at the board. Belly have partnered with Pledge Music\, and the album (not yet named) can be pre-ordered on vinyl\, CD\, or as a digital download\, or as part of a variety of “bundles” and exclusive limited-edition goodies. All advance orders through Pledge include member-only access to updates\, peeks into the studio\, and a soon to be released digital download of the band’s cover of “Hush-a-Bye Mountain\,” recorded just for fun while in the studio. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/belly-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/2018/05/33847419_2175096669184068_5781368727396155392_o.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:20180907T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180907T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180417T160054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180906T215311Z UID:10001914-1536343200-1536355800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Jesus Lizard DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:45 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 4/20 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nThe Jesus Lizard \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFollowing an instantly sold-out handful of US shows this past winter\, the Jesus Lizard have confirmed eight more dates. Kicking off September 6 at Washington\, DC’s Black Cat the itinerary also takes the legendary band to Boston\, Philadelphia\, Detroit\, Austin\, Atlanta\, Seattle and Portland. Prior to this past December\, the band had not played live together since 2009 and these new shows represent the only new appearances planned. \nTickets for all shows are on-sale Friday\, April 20 at 10am local time. \n2017’s tour reminded all that saw the Jesus Lizard that their live show is unparalleled. Brooklyn Vegan noted\, “…it would be hard to say The Jesus Lizard have mellowed in the 30 years since forming” and reviewing Houston’s Day For Night Festival\, the Houston Press declared\, “it was hard to deny that the Jesus Lizard was the best act on Sunday\, hands down.” Stereogum have called them “one of the greatest live bands ever” and The New York Times has used the words “extravagantly good” while Rolling Stone speaks of the band’s “shattering live performances.” \nThe Jesus Lizard formed in late 80’s Austin\, TX after David Yow (vox) and David Wm. Sims’ (bass) previous band Scratch Acid broke up. They started the Jesus Lizard with Duane Denison (guitar) and a drum machine and recorded their debut EP Pure with Steve Albini in 1989. A move to Chicago prompted the firing of the drum machine in favor of Mac McNeilly (drums) and in 1990 the band recorded their first full-length\, Head\, for Touch and Go. \nWhile the labels “seminal” and “legendary” are often applied too easily\, they both accurately describe the Jesus Lizard. They released five more remarkable LPs before disbanding in 1999\, the last being 1998’s Blue. During that time\, they toured endlessly and issued not only the critically acclaimed studio LPs but also assorted singles\, EPs\, compilations and a live album. Pitchfork has said of them: “the Jesus Lizard raised a bar that few bands have reached since…Rarely does a band have each member adding something essential to such a united\, ferocious whole.” \n*** \nAll Souls \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLife’s paths twist and turn\, but we always eventually end up where we’re meant to be. \nIn that respect\, the story of All Souls feels pre-destined. Way back in 1994\, Tony Tornay [Fatso Jetson\, The Desert Sessions\, Linda Perry] first met Tony Aguilar and Meg Castellanos [Totimoshi\, Alma Sangre] by introduction from Erik Trammel [Black Elk\, Wadsworth]. They kept in touch and always bandied the idea of “writing and jamming” about. \nIt took 21 years\, but a band finally became a reality in 2015 when these four artists sat around a table and discussed officially working together… \n“One of the things that we did in this band that I’ve never done before is have that discussion\,” recalls Aguilar. “Meg and I had always wanted to play with Tony as did Erik. It finally fell into place. Once we figured out what the lineup was going to be\, we sat around and discussed what we wanted to sound like artistically before even jamming. It gave us a really great grasp on the artistic angle. It was almost like forming the painting before it was brought to life.” \n“This is the culmination of thirty years as a professional musician\,” adds Tornay. “It’s everything I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember. When we get together\, it feels like home. This embodies every reason why I do what I do.” \nThroughout 2016\, the quartet—Aguilar [vocals\, guitar]\, Castellanos [bass\, vocals]\, Trammell [guitar]\, and Tornay [drums]—recorded what would become their self-titled full-length debut\, All Souls\, during intermittent sessions at Sound of Sirens Studio in Los Angeles with producer Toshi Kasai [Tool\, The Melvins\, Foo Fighters]. \nFor Aguilar and Castellanos\, the music spoke to a dormant primal need that harked back to their time in the fan favorite underground mainstay Totimoshi. \n“At the time\, we had been doing Alma Sangre\, which was our take on flamenco meshed with Ranchero\,” says Aguilar. “We’re rockers at heart though\, and we had been wanting to be in another rock band. It also reunited us with Toshi who did three of our Totimoshi records. He has his own approach. It’s almost like you enter into a different world with his production. Each song becomes like a journey\, and nobody curtailed that. We were all on the same page.” \nFollowing tours with the likes of Red Fang\, The Sword\, Kvelertak\, and Torche\, the band unleash All Souls in 2018 via Sunyata—the label founded by iconic Screaming Trees and Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin. Earmarked by Spaghetti Western-style expanse and rough-and-tumble riffing\, the music proudly bears the wild wear-and-tear of the nineties Palm Desert scene with a twist of psychedelic voodoo and metallic edge. \nIntroducing the album\, the first single “Never Know” barrels forward at full speed powered by gusty distortion and a psychedelically catchy refrain. \n“Lyrically\, I want to keep it a little mysterious\,” Aguilar reveals. “It’s about people in our society who feel like they own the world\, act accordingly\, and behave in ways that are completely derelict of social responsibility. They’ll never know love or understand that responsibility. They’ll never know anything.” \nElsewhere\, “Party Night” dements a surf rock-style gallop with punchy delivery and overcast production. The melancholy melodies of the seven-minute “Rename The Room” paint a stark picture of bipolar mood swings and abuse inspired by a dark day in Aguilar’s childhood home. Tool drummer Danny Carey kicks off the entrancing “Sadist/Servant” with a spirited cameo on Tabla Drums\, providing a tribal flare. \n“‘Sadist/Servant’ one never gets boring\,” smiles Tornay. “It’s always in your face and never falls back in the pocket. Danny killed it. He’s playing this really aggressive instrument on the quietest part of the song!” \nIn the end\, these four musicians were always meant for this band. That’s why All Souls is so easy to get lost in. \n“When you hear this\, I hope you have that experience where you’re just completely inside the music\,” Aguilar leaves off. “You can just fall into it.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-jesus-lizard/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-jesus-lizard-photo-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180424T140045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T140045Z UID:10002629-1536865200-1536865200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Car Seat Headrest DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nSOLD OUT! \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*** \nCar Seat Headrest \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nToledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt\, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop\, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling\, extraordinary\, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love\, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin\, bruised shins\, and weird sex\, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it. \nEven so\, even awkward and amateurish\, Twin Fantasy is deeply\, truly adored. Legions of reverent listeners carve rituals out of it: sobbing over “Famous Prophets\,” making out to ‘Cute Thing’\, dancing their asses off as ‘Bodys’ climbs higher\, higher. The distortion hardly matters. You can hear him just fine. You can hear everything. And you can feel everything: his hope\, his despair\, his wild overjoy. He’s trusting you – plural you\, thousands of you – with the things he can’t say out loud. ” I pretended I was drunk when I came out to my friends\,” he sings – and then\, caught between truths\, backtracks: ” I never came out to my friends. We were all on Skype\, and I laughed and changed the subject.” \nYou might be imagining an extended diary entry\, an angsty transmission from a bygone LiveJournal set to power chords and cranked to eleven. You would be wrong. Twin Fantasy is not a monologue. Twin Fantasy is a conversation. You know\, he sings\, that I’m mostly singing about you. This is Will’s greatest strength as a songwriter: he spins his own story\, but he’s always telling yours\, too. Between nods to local details – Harper’s Ferry\, The Yellow Wallpaper\, the Monopoly board collecting dust in his back seat – he leaves room for the fragile stuff of your own life\, your own loves. From the very beginning\, alone in his bedroom\, in his last weeks of high school\, he knew he was writing anthems. Someday\, he hoped\, you and I might sing these words back to him. \n“It was never a finished work\,” Toledo says\, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has\, now\, the benefit of a bigger budget\, a full band in fine form\, and endless time to tinker. According to him\, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take\, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound. \nIt’s been hard\, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self\, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again\, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger\, wounded Toledo\, he moves forward. He grows. He revises\, gently\, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments\, in those ” apologies to future me’s and you’s\,” there is more forgiveness than fury. \nThis\, Toledo says\, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy. \nHe’s not alone no more. \n*** \nNaked Giants \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n‘SLUFF’ is a word that means both everything and nothing\, but it definitely sums up the three distinct personalities that make up Naked Giants. Depending which member you ask\, SLUFF is either slang for the black gunk that comes off your shoes when it snows in the winter\, an acronym that stands for South Lake Union Fuck Face (a reference to the tech bros who have infiltrated Seattle in recent years) or what a snake does when it sheds its skin. It’s also the title – and a song on – the band’s debut full-length. \nFormed in 2015\, the Seattle trio – guitarist/vocalist Grant Mullen\, bassist/vocalist Gianni Aiello and drummer Henry LaVallee – put out debut EP R.I.P. the following year and have been steadily building up their reputation as a live act in the meantime\, and having as much fun as possible while doing it. Because as much as the three-piece – who are all in their very early 20s now – have their heads screwed on and are fiercely intelligent people\, they also want to let loose and enjoy being in a band. After all\, that’s kind of what being in a band with your closest friends is all about. \n“I just want to make as much noise and have as much fun and get as sweaty as I can\,” says LaVallee\, “and if that resonates with people\, that’s who I want in my life. That’s who I want to play music for.” \nThat clash of the cerebral and the intelligent – the desire to say something meaningful but also just have some fun – is what underpins the very essence of who Naked Giants is. It’s a band of contradictions. Their music\, which is simultaneously timeless and modern\, new and old\, is loud and brash and raw\, but there’s vulnerability there\, too. In fact\, debut album SLUFF is a melting pot of ideas and sounds that\, on paper\, don’t seem like they would go together\, but which form one phenomenally cohesive whole. \n“These are songs that we’ve played live for a long time\,” explains Mullen. “We wanted to showcase the different kinds of songs we’ve written and put them all onto an album that flows together\, making it tie together into something that means something.” \nThat’s exactly what they do on SLUFF’s twelve weird and wonderful songs. Recorded with producer Steve Fisk (Nirvana/Screaming Trees/Beat Happening/Car Seat Headrest/Low/Minus The Bear) in Seattle at Avast! and Soundhouse Studios over the course of two and a half weeks in October\, the record is a dizzying mélange of influences and ideas. It swirls with hyperactive restlessness as 1960s harmonies share space with 1970s riffs while at the same time battling an undercurrent of punk rock and more modern indie influences. The song “TV”\, for example\, is a kaleidoscope of sound that seems to take in the whole history of rock’n’roll but reframes it in a more contemporary context. \n“From our perspective as millennials where everything is accessible all at once\,” explains Aiello\, “there is no difference to us between punk and classic rock or anything like that because we’re all observing it at the same time through the same lens. And yes\, history exists\, but if you’re just flipping through something on the TV\, it all kind of conflates together – kind of like the song does.” \nNeedless to say\, that song simmers with tension\, and it’s not the only one. “Everybody Thinks They Know (But No One Really Knows)” is a jaunty\, upbeat jangle but with distinctly sinister undertones\, “Slow Dance II” is a sumptuous\, soulful track with a desperate\, raw and bluesy swagger. “Dat Boi” is a rash of brash guitars that’s soon swept by an off-kilter\, psychedelic melody while closer “Shredded Again” is a graceful\, lackadaisical comedown after the rush of energy that precedes it. Raucous and rabid\, but also considered and complex\, Naked Giants’ music is the sum of all their influences and then some. And then some more. \n“What’s really interesting to me\,” ponders Aiello\, “is we have very different influences\, so when we’re jamming it’s like it’s being pulled apart and pushed together in so many different directions. And I think that’s a good thing.” \nThen\, of course\, there’s the quasi-grunge title track\, which chugs along with an ominous yet uplifting attitude as its title is shouted with a fervent zeal – “SLUFF!” – and which carries with it both the weight of the world and the reckless abandon of youth. \nSo while Naked Giants are happy to play the role of the dumb\, hedonistic rock band\, don’t be fooled for a second – they’re one of the brightest\, smartest acts out there at the moment. And this is also just the beginning of what they’re already planning to be a long and rewarding career. Even at this early stage\, they’re taking it as seriously as they are just having a good time. They have a lot to say and they’re not afraid to say it\, but they also relish in what making music has\, even already\, given back to them. \n“Performing on a stage has been very purpose-giving\,” says LaVallee. “Being in a group of people all experiencing music together brings a strong sense of community\, which excites me. Hopefully going forward we’ll be playing to more and more people. I want us to spread respect and fun rock’n’roll music to a whole lot of people. That just seems like a good deal all around.” \n“We’re just here to play music\,” says Mullen\, “so the more it goes well the more we’ll be thinking about our own art and our own voices. And that’s really the progression of it – personal growth and artistic growth. And whatever people think of that on a greater scale when it reaches them is all kind of up to them.” \n“Not everyone gets to go onstage and have a microphone in front of their mouth\,” says Aiello\, “so that’s a certain amount of responsibility. If you’re given the responsibility of having a microphone then you better say something pretty important. The pressure is to learn and listen to as much as we can so we can say the right thing and hopefully impact people.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/car-seat-headrest/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/carseatheadrestpress-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:20180919T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180619T155921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180619T155921Z UID:10002653-1537387200-1537387200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Growlers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/22 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*** \nThe Growlers \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSince the release of their first LP Are You In or Out? In 2009\, The Growlers have forged their own twisted path on the global music scene. They’re the party band that grew into a traveling circus of psychedelia that spawned their own event\, Beach Goth. Lead singer Brooks Nielsen draws a particular devotion among Growlers fans\, as does chief cohort Matt Taylor\, The Growlers’ music director and chief guitarist. Their most recent LP was 2016’s City Club\,produced by Julian Casablancas\, which saw them expand their palette to include West African\, dance\, and electronic influences. The band is currently in the studio with Jonathan Rado (Foxygen) and Shawn Everett (The War On Drugs) and preparing for their Beach Goth World Tour 2018. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-growlers/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-GROWLERS-Admat-yellow-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180530T140033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T153859Z UID:10002640-1537552800-1537565400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Alina Baraz 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 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*** \nAlina Baraz \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nCautious Clay \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Ever since I started playing music\, it was always about the feel\,” says Josh Karpeh\, AKA Cautious Clay. “There are a lot of things in art that you can learn by practicing or studying\, but feel’s not one of them. It’s something you’ve just got to have.” \nIt’s that feel\, that deep emotional intuition that fuels Cautious Clay’s sound. Blending R&B\, hip-hop\, and experimental indie\, his productions are dark and engrossing\, built upon a unique combination of organic instruments\, digital programming\, and soulful vocals. He writes with unflinching honesty\, engaging in deeply personal self-reflection with boldly vulnerable and vividly poetic lyrics. At times recalling contemporaries like James Blake or Sampha\, Cautious is a profoundly modern songwriter and a forward- thinking producer\, but he’s also steeped in the past\, quick to cite Burt Bacharach as an idol and credit Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones as ever-present influences in his artful arrangements. \n“I used to think about songwriting and production as completely separate\,” he explains\, “but when I learned how to merge those two things\, that’s when I was able to start creating music that really connected with people.” \nOriginally from Cleveland\, OH\, Cautious began his artistic journey at the age of seven when he picked up classical flute. His studies led him deep into the worlds of blues and jazz\, and by the time he hit college in Washington\, D.C.\, he’d added a number of other instruments to his repertoire in addition to songwriting and production. Now based in Brooklyn\, Cautious is currently preparing to release his debut EP\, Blood Type\, in February. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/alina-baraz/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Alina-Baraz-AdMat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180611T150901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180611T150901Z UID:10001932-1537639200-1537651800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Butch Walker DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/15 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 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*** \nButch Walker \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nman… Bios kinda suck. I’ve been doing these things for so long now\, that I feel like just when I have written the mother of all things informative and maybe funny\, I go and record a new record. Why does shit always have to evolve and the information change every time another year goes by? Why\, since the last bio (which I felt was an understated masterpiece) did I have to go and do shit to deem it necessary for an update? Just because between the last album\, “I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart” and now\, I have: shot a video for “Pretty Melody” from the album ILIBWYHNH\, wore a tv on my head in it and fought ninjas\, got it featured on YouTube and it got a half million views\, did a sold out headlining tour of the states last year\, supported Train on a sold out tour of the states\, then went and supported Pink on a sold out stadium tour of Europe all summer\, including sold out headlining club shows of our own over there. Hmmm… What else.. Oh! Taylor Swift heard a little version I did of her song\, “I Liked it Better When You Belonged With Me” (or was it “You Belong With Me”? I can’t freaking remember…). She called me and asked if she could play my version of it on the Grammys and would I mind playing along side her and Stevie Nicks for the performance. Then she fell in love with me and ran away to Barcelona to elope\, only to find out that while I was in the bathroom at the airport\, she fell in love with Jake Gylenhall (sp?)\, who stole my fucking seat next to her in the waiting terminal…. Ok… I made that last part up. Fun right? No? Ok.. Like the fans are always telling me\, don’t talk about politics\, religious views or Tay Tay Swift. \nI should mention the band i play in. Just like the last record\, this record was recorded\, written and produced by me and the Black Widows. It consist of my longtime bandmates\, Chris Unck on guitar\, lap and pedal steel. He’s a redneck from the north Georgia mountains who I think wrestled alligators at one time\, and built lighthouses. He also fronted Chris Unck and the Black Roses.. Until I stole him. Fran Capitanelli on lead guitar is also a friend of mine that resided in Atlanta during my tenure there\, and he played guitar and sang lead in a band I loved called The Tom Collins. Until I stole him. He is the Professor of Energy…. Ask him to explain. Jake Sinclair on bass is not only the tallest\, skinniest bassist I know\, but he’s also the best. He’s even better than me\, and I’m fucking awesome. I met Jake while producing a record for his band The Films…. Until I stole him. I bartered with him though. I told him he could also engineer the records I make in my studio with me (he’s also the best engineer I know) and that his singer/songwriter in the Films\, Mike Trent\, would have to join in on the Black Widows writing process. I kinda made out good on this whole deal\, because Mike is one of the most unsung singer/songwriters I know\, and the lyrical collaborations we have done on the last couple of records have been my favorites. Oh yeah\, Mike’s wife (Cary Ann Hearst) is also an amazing singer/songwriter that I produced a record for last year…. She sang backup vocals on the new Widows record. It’s a family affair… \nso this is the part of the bio where I’m supposed to describe the new record by us called “The Spade”. I’m supposed to inject words about the songs like “soaring”\, “pounding”\, “climactic”\, and maybe even a “unrivaled”…… But I just can’t talk like that about my own music. But what I can say is\, just like my bass paying skills….. It’s fucking awesome. we will be on the road this year a lot\, and probably sleeping at many KOA campgrounds this fall. More than likely\, you are reading this because you don’t know shit about me and you are about to interview me for your school paper or local radio station visit (yes\, im in the lobby) and you need to find out a few things about me to talk about. It’s ok. I’m not mad. I’m not very popular and I don’t blame you if you “just aren’t into the music”. You may not have read this far\, or been able to get past the bass playing part\, but if you have\, then I commend you. Let’s talk…. \nend of bio. \n*** \nGreg Holden \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nGreg Holden is an accomplished musician with a myriad of talents\, but his unending perseverance\, selflessness\, and sincerity stand out. \nThe British-raised\, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter has garnered recognition as an independent artist for the past several years and is likely best known for writing American Idol winner Phillip Phillips’ hit debut single\, “Home\,” which sold over five million copies in the U.S. and earned Holden an ASCAP Pop Award. His music has also been featured on notable television shows including Sons of Anarchy\, Private Practice\, and One Tree Hill. In addition to earning praise from industry staples such as Cher\, Tom Hanks\, Josh Groban\, Sara Bareilles\, Michael Bublé\, Zane Lowe\, TIME\, NPR\, and more\, Holden has racked up critical acclaim in the press\, with BuzzFeed hailing his “soaring\, purpose-filled songs that carry real emotional weight\,” Paste lauding his “clear vocals” and “expressive lyrics\,” and Nylon applauding his unique ability to “actually touch the lives of another person with raw\, emotional lyrical poetry.” \nDespite his impressive accolades\, Holden nearly gave up on the music business in the early days of his career. After self-funding his Tony Berg-produced sophomore album\, I Don’t Believe You (2011)\, the label due to release it folded\, thus the promotional efforts for the record. He then went into debt during a sold-out tour of Europe\, so much so that he basically called it quits while on the road. Most artists would have thrown in the towel at this juncture\, but Holden persisted through these setbacks\, leading to the well-deserved\, massive success of “Home.” He then went on to self-fund his third studio album\, the critically acclaimed Chase The Sun (produced by Greg Wells\, 2015)\, later licensing the record through Warner Brothers Records. \nHolden is excited to be back in the ring with his impressive new single\, “On The Run\,” produced by the iconic Butch Walker (Katy Perry\, Panic! At The Disco\, Weezer). The track is an uplifting anthem complete with catchy hooks that perfectly mesh with Holden’s strong\, heartfelt vocals. “ ‘On The Run’ is one of a few songs that was bouncing around in my head when it came to the question of what to lead with after three years on the dark side of the moon\,” says Holden. “Ultimately\, this song felt like the most authentic\, whilst at the same time not being so typically subject heavy that I would scare my listeners away. I’ll save that for the second single…” \n“ ‘On The Run’ is an apology\, obviously. But it’s an apology to a number of people\, for a number of things\,” he adds. “For years I’ve been on the road\, either emotionally or physically absent\, and at times probably a nightmare for partners\, friends\, and family. I wanted to write something that in a way\, said sorry for all that. A way to relinquish some of the guilt perhaps. I recorded it last winter with Butch Walker\, along with some incredibly talented friends. It took a morning\, it was a blast\, and then we were done. It feels right to lead with this one as it came out so naturally.” \nThis summer\, Holden is also set to debut “The Power Shift\,” a political\, call-to-action earworm. Holden produced and wrote the song himself\, and it aligns with his rebellious spirit of pushing back against the status quo. “I was trying to manifest a collective call on the\, for lack of a better word\, bullshit. I think it’s important that when someone is lying to you\, you call them out\,” says Holden. Although there was no singular event or figure who inspired him to write the track\, he notes his frustration with a growing series events around the world. “I was getting tired of screaming into the social media echo chamber and really wanted to put my frustrations into a song that wasn’t so toxic. I’m under no illusion that this is just a song\, but it’s better than a tweet.” \nAdditionally\, Holden has not taken his success in the music industry for granted and at times has worked to prioritize philanthropy and establish his profile as a socially conscious artist. Standout track\, “The Lost Boy\,” (from I Don’t Believe You)\, inspired by a Dave Eggers’ novel about a Sudanese refugee\, was the theme for a Red Cross campaign in The Netherlands that raised over $50\,000 for the organization. His hit single from Chase the Sun\, “Boys In The Street\,” an acceptance anthem that discusses a gay son’s strained relationship with his father\, directly benefited LGBTQ youth by raising money for the Everyone Is Gay organization’s 2014 fundraiser\, The Gayest Compilation Ever Made II. It’s an emotional\, poignant track that Tom Hanks called “The perfect song.” \nNeedless to say\, Greg Holden is an artist to watch in 2018\, with more new music expected later this year. Stay tuned for exciting news to come. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/butch-walker/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Butch-Walker-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180615T163648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180615T163648Z UID:10002649-1537905600-1537905600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Whethan DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/22 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 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*** \nWhethan \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nEighteen-year-old Ethan Snorek\, best known as breakout electronic artist and producer Whethan\, captured critical and public attention after his innovative tracks began streaming in the millions on Soundcloud in 2016. In the intervening year and a half\, Whethan has established himself as a one of the hottest up-and-coming producers and released a collaboration with Dua Lipa\, “High” (on the “Fifty Shades Freed” soundtrack) “love gang” (ft. Charli XCX)\, “Savage” (ft. Flux Pavilion & MAX)\, and “Good Nights” (ft. Mascolo) (namesake of the 2018 42-city “Good Nights” North American headline tour). The Chicago-born\, Los Angeles-based producer has toured arena stages supporting The Chainsmokers and stood out as a solo performer during festival appearances at Lollapalooza\, Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival\, as well as at Coachella’s DoLab & Heineken House. This spring\, Whethan will wrap the European leg of the “Good Nights” tour (this time co-headlining with Louis the Child) to return to the Coachella stage. \n*** \nSweater Beats \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe Philippines and suburban Maryland aren’t exactly R&B or dance music hot beds\, but they didn’t need to be for Antonio Cuna aka Sweater Beats to ingest both genres and spit out an exciting hybrid\, melding the sensuality of contemporary R&B with the immediacy of dance music. Born in the Philippines\, Cuna moved to Maryland\, adapting to his new environment by engaging with music and skate culture. But it wasn’t long before R&B entered the picture\, first as an obsession and later\, while Cuna was at university in New York\, as a creative outlet. Growing up in the 2000s\, it’s no surprise that Cuna’s heroes include R&B producer mavens like Pharrell and Timbaland\, as well as French dance music behemoths Daft Punk\, but it’s how he’s filtered those influences into the ingenious sonic aesthetic\, a sound equally fitting both the festival stage and bedroom play\, that makes Sweater Beats such an unavoidably intriguing project. \nSince bubbling up in the dance world with the premiere of his debut single “Mlln Dllr” on Annie Mac’s Radio1 show\, Sweater Beats has constantly pushed the limits of his own sound. With support from the likes of Diplo\, Omarion\, and JoJo\, plus tours with artists like Chance the Rapper\, Flume and Chet Faker\, the producer has clearly caught the eye some of a wide variety of tastemakers. Featured by the likes of Billboard\, Entertainment Weekly\, Boiler Room and The FADER\, Cuna has also received admiration from music journalists the world over\, drawing almost universal praise from disparate outlets. With countless collaborations\, mixes\, and remixes\, on top of a constant touring schedule\, Cuna has garnered a reputation for his incessant work rate and willingness to push his sound into new and uncharted territory. And that’s part of the reason why Cuna connects with his fan base on such a visceral level\, eschewing traditional industry methods for his own unique\, intimate manner of going about business. \n*** \nAndrew Luce \nWebsite \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nVery few artists have truly been able to adapt to the constantly evolving electronic music landscape. Fewer have been able to organically rack up over 5.5 million plays\, blow the internet away on both original content and remixes\, gather support from some of the biggest players in the industry\, and make an appearance at the legendary Coachella Music Festival. Still\, even fewer have managed to do all of these things before their 18th birthday. Andrew Luce\, a Bay Area native\, has shown the talent of performers twice his age\, making waves with a distinct and well-executed sound design that consistently employs a powerful low end. Whether you’re dancing on the floor or trying to impress that special someone back at home\, Luce has you covered. It’s time you get familiar. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/whethan/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whethan-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180424T140055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T140055Z UID:10002630-1537988400-1537988400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Mt. Joy DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 4/27 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. 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*** \nMt. Joy \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“These dreams are more than paper things\,” sings Matt Quinn on Mt. Joy’s infectious folk-rocker “Astrovan\,” a warm\, yearning bit of road-trip philosophy that posits the existence of a Deadhead Jesus cruising the dusty highways of the countryside\, nursing a roach on his way to only He knows where. It’s an auspicious line from a band predicated on the revival of teenage dreams. \nMt. Joy started off as a rekindling of shared musical ambitions between Philadelphia high school friends Matt Quinn (vocals\, guitar) and Sam Cooper (guitar). Reunited in Los Angeles thanks to the ebbs and flows of adult life\, the pair met multi-instrumentalist Michael Byrnes through a Craigslist ad. They named themselves Mt. Joy as an ode to a mountain in Valley Forge National Park near Sam’s childhood home\, and together\, with Byrnes’ roommate Caleb Nelson producing\, they recorded three songs and sent them out into the world\, hoping for the best. “I knew I still wanted to write songs\, but the realities of life made that dream seem pretty impossible\,” Quinn says. \nMuch to the band’s amazement\, “Astrovan” accomplished the impossible. Without initial promotion or fanfare\, the song took off on Spotify\, racking up 5 million streams to date. “The irony of ‘Astrovan’ was that song was really about being stuck in a life and wanting to have the opportunity to pursue a dream\, and in an instant it gave us that opportunity. ” Quinn says. Mt. Joy quickly transitioned from a part-time calling into a full-fledged band rounded out by Byrnes on bass\, Sotiris Eliopoulos on drums and Jackie Miclau on keyboard. \nCome 2017\, Mt. Joy hit the road\, and hit it hard: They played tour dates alongside the likes of The Shins\, The Head and The Heart\, The Lone Bellow\, and Whitney\, and popped up at some of the summer’s biggest festivals\, including Bonnaroo\, Newport Folk Festival\, Lollapalooza and Made In America. “We were put on some big shows very quickly\,” Quinn says. “The growth for us has been exponential – we’ve really just become a family that’s constantly pushing each other and the live show to be great.” They eventually caught the attention of Dualtone Records and began work on their debut album. \nSteeped in folk-rock tradition and powered by the intuitive creative connection between Quinn and Cooper\, the songs on ‘Mt. Joy’ depict Quinn wrestling with his own conscience\, where the mundane and the fantastic collide as he processes tragedy\, society\, and love. Opener “I’m Your Wreck” describes “monsters in (the) closet\, using up the wi-fi” as it cycles from its desperate\, spiraling verses to its swinging\, stubbornly optimistic coda\, while the loping\, plaintive chords of “Younger Days” meditate on a frayed psyche and the fear of choosing the wrong path. “Sheep\,” with its collapsing\, hoarse-voiced cry of “freedom was paid in blood\,” is a post-Trump salvo on the responsibilities of the fortunate to overcome political and social despondency. And on “Silver Lining\,” perhaps the album’s brightest moment\, Quinn surveys the damage of hard drugs and the vicious cycle of addiction\, as the song’s melancholic sentiment kicks into its fervid\, defiant chorus\, all shout-along vocals and trilling guitars. \nTaken together\, the self titled ‘Mt. Joy’ LP is a startlingly open document\, wracked with the anxieties and fears that come just as life seems to start working out. It’s a natural reaction from a wary band like Mt. Joy – the result of a sort of professional vertigo\, as they’ve gone from virtual unknowns to hot young commodity in little over a year. But there’s a sense of hope underlying everything\, girded by the fact that the Mt. Joy LP is an impressive\, honest portrayal of a young band facing that moment where dreams become reality\, and finding beauty in the exhilarating uncertainty of it all. \n*** \nArlie \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIt all started one ordinary day in the mines. \nThe year was 1816\, and times were tough in small-town Arlia. As The Whistler left for work that morning\, he wasn’t sure how he would afford to feed his standard poodle and his three beautiful\, slimy piglets that night if he didn’t strike gold. Nonetheless\, he turned the key\, started up his mammoth\, and rode off into the rising sun. \nBy late afternoon The Whistler had been chipping away at the subterranean rock walls for 7 sweltering hours\, praying to the rock gods he would hear the resonant “cling” of a shiny new bitcoin\, with each heave of his selfy stick– when all of the sudden\, as if straight from Donald Almighty himself\, a catchy little earworm wriggled its way into The Whistler’s temporal lobe. \nHe began whistling the tune aloud so that he would not forget it. As he went on\, whistling and hacking away\, he found himself smiling\, overcome with a feeling that there was hope for the human race. He knew he must preserve this melody and share it with the world above ground\, so that all might join in this bright hope. \nThose around him in the mineshaft took note of The Whistler’s cheerfulness. It greatly irritated them\, for there was certainly nothing to be cheerful about in 1816. They muttered to one another in disapproval\, and one of the men asked The Whistler to stop whistling. But The Whistler did not notice\, for he was so intently focused on his tune—one distraction and the melody might be lost forever. \nThe other miners\, growing increasingly irritated\, began to grumble and toss insults at The Whistler. Soon\, one pebble-sized insult hit The Whistler on the shoulder. But The Whistler did not even flinch. Aggravated by The Whistler’s continued composure\, the miners gathered around him\, throwing larger and heavier insults\, some leaving bruises and even breaking the skin. Yet The Whistler kept whistling away\, now more determined than ever. \nThe Whistler knew that the others would go on throwing whatever libels and taunts they could find on the filthy cavern floor\, until they ran out or grew tired. The Whistler knew the pain would be over soon. So he doubled down and maintained his focus. He was still faced away from the mob\, whistling and chiseling at the Groovy Rock wall. \nJust then\, up from the back of the horde came the biggest\, strongest\, and meanest of them all\, who was called Fork. Fork was not actually a miner himself\, but he took it upon himself to tell the other miners what to do\, and they all listened to his sharp words with trembling trepidation. \nFork approached The Whistler menacingly\, lifting up a 375-pound Judgment in his massive meathooks. The others wanted to stop him\, but they were afraid of Fork\, for he was bigger and stronger than any three of them combined. Besides\, they thought\, even such a giant as Fork would surely not be able to pitch such a tremendous stone. But Fork stepped closer and closer to The Whistler\, hoisting the great Ad Hominem higher and higher with each stride. When he was only two paces from The Whistler\, he heaved the great Normative Boulder high over his head\, ready to bring it down upon The Whistler by surprise. \nHowever\, there were four brave and noble souls among the miners\, who were known as The Squad. \nThe Squad knew that only as a foursome could they overpower the mighty Fork. And so\, seizing the moment\, The Squad rushed at Fork. Each grabbing a limb\, they tackled the giant to the ground with a heavy THUD! \nAt that very instant\, as if triggered by the impact\, a deep rumbling rose up from beneath the mine\, along with a low-pitched roar emanating from the surrounding walls in all directions. The ominous sound grew louder and louder\, the quaking stronger and stronger\, until… \nBUURRRRRP! A most foul wind with a force stronger than a hurricane swept the whole company off their feet. As they rocketed and spiraled through the cavern\, they discovered they were not in a mineshaft after all\, but inside of a Big\, Fat Esophagus. \nBefore this could all sink in\, they had passed through the Pharynx\, the Larynx\, and had to duck their heads as they whizzed under the Colossal Uvula and into the cavernous opening of a Big\, Fat Mouth. \nThey saw taste bud hills beneath them\, and white-capped\, molar mountains further off on either side. Up ahead\, blinding daylight shone through a wide opening\, which\, upon examination\, appeared to be shrinking by the second. The Projectile Miners appeared to have no chance of escaping before the great gates shut. But at the last second\, as if by a miracle\, these five chosen ones were propelled into the free air just before the upper and lower incisors touched! \nThe Whistler and his newfound Squad were utterly bewildered. As they stared at each other in exuberant disbelief\, they knew their lives would be forever changed. Beneath them was a new and unseen realm\, a vast expanse of possibility. \nThrough the sky they fell\, and they fell\, and they fell. For two hundred years\, they accelerated downward at 9.81 m/s^2. All the while\, The Whistler had not stopped reciting his melody. Soon\, The Squad joined in\, understanding the significance of The Whistler’s mission without a word of explanation needed. \nAs they whistled on\, it dawned upon the Five Falling Miners that they would never again see their old mountain home. So they named themselves “Arlie\,” as a tribute to their homeland. With no distractions\, Arlie had plenty of time to streamline their whistling embouchures for maximum volume output. By the time they’d been practicing only 100 years\, the Whistler’s tune was so greatly amplified that it could be heard as far as the moons of Tatooine. \nAt last\, in 2016 Arlie landed in a little town the locals liked to call “The Athens of the South\,” hitting the ground at a final velocity of 61\,875.6 x106 m/s\, and they disintegrated on impact\, right on 12th Avenue S. between Eldey’s Barbecue and Montrose Ave\, where their remains splattered onto a white brick wall. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/mt-joy/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mtjoypress-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:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180724T160029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T204053Z UID:10002662-1538074800-1538074800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Neal Brennan - Here We Go Tour DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Thu. 7/26 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*** \nNeal Brennan \n \nWebsite\nTwitter \nThree-time Emmy nominated Writer\, director\, producer\, and standup comedian Neal Brennan has become a force in the comedy world. An across-the-board talent\, Neal has found success in almost every creative vein in the comedy community. He has collaborated with the top writers and talent in the business and worked on several popular shows in various capacities. If there is a comedy that audiences are responding to\, Neal is often somewhere to be found. \nNeal is currently a writer\, Creative Consultant\, and on-air correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He served as Executive Producer on Chris Rock’s 2018 standup special Chris Rock: Tamborine and as Director on fellow Daily Show Correspondent Michelle Wolf’s 2017 HBO special Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady. He also co-wrote the 2017 feature film The Female Brain alongside comic Whitney Cummings. \nNeal’s critically acclaimed stand-up special 3 Mics premiered on Netflix in 2017\, with Paste Magazine offering “It will floor you in the best way possible.” In a break from traditional standup comedy\, 3 Mics sees Brennan alternating between three separate microphones; one for traditional stand-up\, one for one-liners\, and one for short confessional monologues covering everything from managing his depression to his difficult relationship with his father. The show enjoyed a successful off-Broadway run in NYC with superstar musician John Legend serving as Producer. \nHis first hour standup special Women and Black Dudes\, which he also directed\, premiered in 2014 on Comedy Central and was named one of the 10 Best Standup Specials of 2014 by Paste Magazine. His half hour standup special premiered in 2012 on the network’s series The Half Hours. In 2013 Neal directed several sketches on Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer\, as well as episodes of FOX’s The Mindy Project and New Girl. He also wrote with Seth Meyers on The ESPY Awards and his White House Correspondents Dinner speech in 2011. Brennan has done stand-up on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\, Late Night with Seth Meyers\, Conan\, Last Call with Carson Daly\, and Lopez Tonight. \nIn 2014\, Neal was the host of The Approval Matrix on SundanceTV\, a panel show inspired by the popular New York Magazine feature. In addition to ipanel discussions\, the series featured Brennan conducting interviews with Jon Stewart\, Amy Poehler and Chris Rock\, with The New York Times calling the show “intellectually risky and appealingly frisky.” \nNeal co-created Comedy Central’s legendary Chappelle’s Show\, for which he received three Emmy nominations; one for directing\, one for writing\, and one for producing. Together\, Brennan and Dave Chappelle wrote and produced virtually every sketch on the show themselves. In the second season\, Brennan also served as director on many episodes\, helming such classic sketches as “Charlie\nMurphy/Rick James\,” “The Racial Draft\,” “Charlie Murphy/Prince\,” and the “John Mayer Sketch.” Also with Chappelle\, Neal co-wrote the stoner cult classic film “Half Baked.” In 2009 Brennan went on to direct the feature film “The Goods” for producers Will Ferrell\, Adam McKay and Paramount. The film starred Jeremy Piven\, Ed Helms\, Ken Jeong\, Ving Rhames\, and Ferrell. In 2010\, Neal appeared as an actor in the feature film “Get Him To The Greek.” \nIn addition to standup\, writing\, directing\, and producing\, Brennan has also directed popular commercials for Sprite\, Netflix\, Best Buy and Nike. He has a huge presence on social media with 375\,000 followers on twitter\, and was named “One of the Funniest People on Twitter” by Time Magazine and Rolling Stone. \nAfter dropping out of the prestigious NYU Film School\, Neal began his career at the age of 20 as a writer on the MTV dating game show\, “Singled Out\,” (you’re welcome) and the Nickelodeon sketch show\, “All That.” Since then\, he has performed standup and lent his hand at writing and directing several TV shows and films\, developing what The New York Times calls his “hip-hop and Frontline aesthetic.” He regularly headlines the good standup venues in the good parts of America. \nHe does see Dave pretty often. Dave is fine. \n*** \nFahim Anwar \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFahim Anwar is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian\, actor and writer. Formerly an aerospace engineer at Boeing\, Fahim traded the cubicle for the stage and has never looked back. His parents however plead with him to look back nearly every day. “Is comedy worth throwing your life away for?” Fahim says\, yes! \nOff the momentum of his one hour special THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS\, The New York Times listed Fahim as a “Most Promising Future Star.” He’s appeared on CONAN\, LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS and performed at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. His recent FILM/TV credits include WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT\, NEIGHBORS\, DRUNK HISTORY\, CARMICHAEL SHOW and SUPERIOR DONUTS to name a few. Currently\, Fahim is serving as head writer and starring on a sketch show for Comedy Central with his comedy group (GOATFACE) which includes Hasan Minhaj from THE DAILY SHOW. It is slated to air sometime in 2018. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/neal-brennan-here-we-go-tour/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Neal-Brennan-Admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180618T154901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180618T154901Z UID:10002650-1538506800-1538506800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Songs From The Hymnal: An Evening With Brian Fallon and special guest Craig Finn DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/22 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 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*** \nBrian Fallon \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSLEEPWALKERS sees Brian Fallon once again pushing timeless rock ‘n’ roll into the modern era\, recasting British Invasion rock\, first generation UK punk and American pop and soul into a near irresistible sound he’s dubbed “Heavy R&B.” Recorded earlier this year at New Orleans’ Parlor Recording Studio with producer Ted Hutt – the man behind the board for The Gaslight Anthem’s breakthrough\, THE ’59 SOUND – the album is perhaps the strongest example yet of Fallon’s always adventurous artistry\, with songs like “Forget Me Not” and the brass-blasting title track fit to burst with spirit and light\, an intangible magic that draws listeners to the dance floor while also striking chords within their hearts. \n“I haven’t had this feeling since THE ’59 SOUND\,” Fallon says. “When I wrote that record\, I was pure. I had no pre-conceived notions. I was following this thing and when it was done I knew it could stand against anyone.” \nKnown far and wide as singer/guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem\, as well as The Horrible Crowes\, Fallon made his long-anticipated solo debut with 2015’s masterful PAINKILLERS. The album – which includes the hit singles\, “A Wonderful Life” and “Painkillers” – drew widespread critical applause upon its release\, with Rolling Stone noting\, “For a guy whose songs have always traded in the pains and pleasures of nostalgia\, the Fallon of PAINKILLERS seems to have arrived at a newfound\, forward-looking clarity.” \nFallon toured the world in support of PAINKILLERS\, during which time the New Jersey-based tunesmith began considering what might come next. Once again\, Fallon had a sound buzzing in his ear\, a modern marriage of rock and soul with the hard edge of punk\, ribboned with the “cool and kind of creepy” tones of the one and only Vox Continental\, the distinctive organ used by some of his favorite artists spanning The Animals and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to The Specials and Elvis Costello and the Attractions. \n“Believe it or not\, I started taking piano lessons\,” he says. “As a professional musician\, you think\, well\, taking lessons seems weird\, but then you remember there’s still a world of things you don’t know. I was okay with the idea that I didn’t know anything about playing piano so I was able to really learn. And that opened up whole new worlds for me.” \nDespite his new skill set\, Fallon was still somewhat stuck\, unable to access the part of himself necessary to truly go deep in his songcraft. \n“It seemed like I had all the music in the world\, but couldn’t find the melody\,” he says. “The brakes were on. The muse had left the building. I was really struggling to get songs because I was still searching for something. I finally had to let go\, I had to stop trying to control it so much and just tell the truth. Once I did that\, once I let go of any preconceived notion of what it should be\, that’s when it all came out.” \nFallon knew he had the musicians needed to back his hard R&B in The Howling Weather – guitarist Ian Perkins\, bassist Nick Salisbury\, and drummer Dave Hidalgo – but the right studio partner was key to truly nailing his sound and vision. He decided to reach out to an old friend in GRAMMY® Award-winner Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show\, Dropkick Murphys)\, with whom he previously collaborated on The Gaslight Anthem’s landmark THE ’59 SOUND and AMERICAN SLANG LPs as well as The Horrible Crowes’ ELSIE. \n“I thought\, who’s going to understand what I’m trying to do\,” says Fallon\, “and not try to correct it. I thought\, there’s nobody who loves what I love\, the British rock\, the R&B and soul music\, there’s nobody who understands this music better than Ted. And no one draws the best out me like Ted. He pushed me hard on these songs\, it was like\, you’ve got to dig for this. He knew what I needed to do and how I needed to get there. It was great to be pushed liked that by someone you know cares for you.” \nFallon began writing about his real life\, his immediate family and closest friends\, baring himself to the bone freely and unguarded. The celebratory sound of songs like the opening “If Your Prayers Don’t Get You To Heaven” belies the heart of darkness that beats within Fallon’s always frank songwriting\, the fist-pumping choruses and body-rocking rhythms casting light against richly complex lyrics born of a recent “conversation with mortality.” \n“I’m not the same kid that wrote THE ’59 SOUND\,” Fallon says. “Things are very different now and I think I sort of lost my place\, like what do I write about now? I don’t want to write songs about taxes. You have to find your center and just write about where you’re at now. I decided to just write about me and my friends and my family\, I’m going to write about the things that I know right now.” \n“Proof of Life” and “See You On The Other Side” provide potent bookends to SLEEPWALKERS\, offering a glimpse of Fallon’s trepidation and desire to confront his own naked truth. “Forget Me Not\,” the album’s first single\, is an impassioned rush of ‘60s pop\, all urgent guitars and giddy handclaps\, though Fallon admits the glorious energy disguises a badly broken heart. \n“I was thinking how every song doesn’t have to be so serious\,” Fallon says. “It can just be fun. It can just be a song that I would want to play live. ‘Forgot Me Not’ came out in just a couple of minutes and actually ended up being pretty serious – it seems my subconscious had other plans.” \nRecording SLEEPWALKERS in New Orleans marked the culmination of a longtime dream of Fallon’s\, getting to spend real time in the Big Easy and truly absorb the culture. Indeed\, the special musical energy of the Crescent City infused the album with an even greater connection to the swinging garage R&B he and the Howling Weather were cooking up in Parlor Recording. “Etta James” is both heartfelt paean to the legendary singer and a universal celebration of pure artistic passion in the face of great personal difficulty while the title track conjures the soulful spirit of Sam Cooke with big brass from the one and only Preservation Hall Jazz Band – remarkably\, the first time Fallon has incorporated a horn section into his polyglot approach. \n“At first I was very against it\,” Fallon says\, “ but I said\, you know what? I’m just going to go for it. Full on. So I had known Ben Jaffe – the Preservation Hall creative director – and the guys a little bit\, we did a song together once in Asbury Park\, and they invited me down to hang out and play some music. They were so cool\, I said\, hey\, we’re recording right down the street\, you’d be great on this one song I’ve got. They came down and they just started going full throttle\, they just went for it. It was done in about a half hour but that half hour was mindblowing. Just this incredible experience of hearing your own music be birthed and come to life. It was insane.” \nAs emotionally powerful as it is musically exultant\, SLEEPWALKERS is Brian Fallon at the very top of his game\, now as ever pushing and kicking the rock ‘n’ soul sounds he grew up on into the future. \n“I think my job\, in one sentence\, is to carry on the tradition\,” says Fallon. “That’s all I’m doing. All I’m trying to do is take what I’ve learned\, give it my own spin\, and keep it living. Keeping the pulse going.” \n*** \nCraig Finn \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nBe Honest. Stay Positive. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/songs-from-the-hymnal-an-evening-with-brian-fallon-and-special-guest-craig-finn/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/brian-fallon-royale-fall-2018-1.jpg GEO:42.349951;-71.0656551 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656551,42.349951 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180710T164558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180920T114017Z UID:10001954-1538589600-1538589600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Joey Graceffa - Eden Tour DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis show has been cancelled. Refunds are available at point of purchase. \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n**EVERY TICKET COMES WITH A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN** \nELITE PACKAGE:\n**INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN**\nExclusive 45 minute PRE-SHOW Behind the Scenes Experience + Q&A with Joey & Daniel\nMeet & Greet + Photo with Joey\nReserved Elite Seating (in front rows)\nExclusive Tour-Only signed poster\nCommemorative VIP Laminate\nEarly Entry into venue + early access to merch shop\n**Parents/Guardians can accompany their child with General Admission Ticket**​ \nVIP PACKAGE:\n**INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN**\nPOST SHOW Meet & Greet + Photo with Joey\nReserved VIP Seating\nExclusive Tour-Only Poster\nCommemorative VIP Laminate\n**Parents/Guardians can accompany their child with General Admission Ticket**​ \nGENERAL ADMISSION:\n**INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF REBELS OF EDEN**\nGeneral Admission Access to Show\n**Parents/Guardians can accompany their child with General Admission Ticket**​ \n*** \nJoey Graceffa \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIn celebration of the release of Rebels of Eden\, the third and final chapter to the Eden series\, Joey Graceffa will be embarking on his FIRST major live tour! The Eden Tour will be the biggest and most unforgettable live production he’s ever created. Whether you haven’t yet read the series\, or have been a supporter since the beginning #TheEdenTour is a must-see event for all of Joey’s adoring supporters and avid readers alike! Joining Joey on tour is Daniel Preda\, his creative counterpart\, making this a tour you won’t want to miss! \nHave you ever imagined what it would be like to step inside the world of Eden? At each tour stop\, Joey will be transforming venues and bringing to life the world of Eden in a fun\, interactive\, and immersive way. On stage\, he’ll be taking part in themed games and challenges\, sharing exclusive content and behind the scenes stories\, answering fan questions\, and so much more. Come prepared to participate because Joey will be calling on his fans to help him throughout the show. \nPrior to the show\, fans will be able to interact with Eden like never before\, with an immersive venue environment\, surprise characters\, photo and behind-the-scenes opportunities\, as well as access to the newly re-launched Crystal Wolf store pop-up shop with tour-only merchandise available. Who knows what other surprises Joey might have for you. \nGet your tickets now before it’s sold out! See you at the show! URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joey-graceffa-eden-tour/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Joey-Graceffa-admat-2018-11x17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180619T170058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180906T202013Z UID:10002655-1538762400-1538775000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Frights DESCRIPTION:Presented by Indie617 \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/22 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Frights \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nA couple of months after graduating from high school\, Mikey Carnevale (vocals/guitar) and Richard Dotson (bass) got together as The Frights to play a one off 30 minute set as sort of a joke. The feeling they got from the crowd in their hometown of San Diego inspired them to become a “real” band almost in spite of themselves. Along the way\, they recruited Marc Finn (drums) and released You Are Going To Hate This (produced by Zac Carper of FIDLAR) in February 2016. Jordan Clark (guitar) added to the band’s musical prowess in the ensuing year of touring around North America. The fearsome foursome has now teamed up with Epitaph Records for the August 24th release of their new album\, Hypochondriac (with Zac Carper again at the helm). 2018 looks to be a year filled with drinks\, laughs\, tears\, miles in the van and on a plane and plenty of hours on the stage for The Frights. \n*** \nHUNNY \n \nWebsite\nTwitter \n*** \nHot Flash Heat Wave \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nSan Francisco indie-rock quartet Hot Flash Heat Wave rose to prominence in the Bay Area music scene in 2015 with the release of their ‘Gutter Girl’ music video\, from their debut album Neapolitan\, which was uploaded to YouTube and eventually made its way to the front page of reddit. Their versatile sound\, at times reminiscent of golden 60s\, power pop\, dream pop\, post-punk and indie rock\, demonstrates a dynamic range of songwriting prowess centered around consistently infectious\, sun-soaked melodies and guitar hooks. HFHW formed in Davis\, California as a noise collaboration between Adam Abildgaard and Nick Duffy in 2010\, expanding to a full band when bassist Ted Davis and guitarist Nathaniel Blum joined the group in the following years. Renouncing the traditional front-manned format of most contemporary bands\, the four instead each contribute songs and share the lead. With the release of their sophomore album\, Soaked\, accompanied by a string of creative self-produced music videos in 2017\, the group embarked on its first nationwide tour. Their first single\, ‘Bye Bye Baby’\, appeared on Canada’s Viral 50 Spotify playlist. In 2017\, HFHW released their sophomore album Soaked with OIM Records\, which charted on college radio in the U.S. The band just finished up a national tour and SXSW visit with No Vacation to promote their new single ‘Glo Ride’ – a song released in collaboration with Broken Ent. Hot Flash Heat Wave will continue to release music and new videos throughout 2018. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-frights/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/The-Frights-Admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181006T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181006T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180427T151058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T160334Z UID:10002633-1538850600-1538850600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] HONNE DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nSOLD OUT! \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. \nOpening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nHONNE \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nIn 2018\, unless an artist has a Drake-like grip on the charts\, it’s tough to directly gauge success. Seven-digit streams don’t always translate to actual fans at shows. One act might draw the attention of every tastemaker going\, while still failingto sell more than a handful of physical records.In the case of London duo HONNE –Andy Clutterbuck and James Hatcher –their time in the spotlight has been disorientating. Success has paved every step\, but tracking where it comes from has proved a tough task. One week they’re selling out a 3\,000 capacity show in their hometown\, the next they’re headliners at a festival in South Korea\, playing to 20\,000 people\, and shortly after they’re jet-setting to LA to collaborate with other artists. In this age when anyone can access music from virtually anywhere\, HONNE’s 2016 debut LP ‘Warm on a Cold Night’ has been embraced by different corners of the globe (the album went triple-platinum in South Korea)\, a swarm of fans all equally obsessed with the pair’s skill in writing relatable\, emotion-fuelled\, romantic pop.For their next move\, instead of getting caught up in different audiences\, vast territories and the demands of a world-spanning fanbase\, they focused on themselves. Placing a microscope to their own lives –the jet-setting highs and lows of being in a band\, the relationships they tried to hold up back home –they emerged with a touching\, personal second album with its own universal appeal.‘Love Me / Love Me Not’-HONNE’s new album coming out on August 24th 2018 -captures the duality of life’s ups and downs\, and the balancing act of navigating between two states at once. Whether it’s the honeymoon period high of a relationship\, the frustration of a long-distance separation\, the fear of losing someoneclose\, Andy’s lyrics dial in at the reality of most people’s lives. The record acknowledges that for every peak\, a challenge is round the corner; and equally\, that whenever life throws everything at once\, better times are ahead.Take ‘Day 1 ◑’ and ‘Sometimes ◐’\, the first two tracks unveiled from the record. The former is a sunny-side-up ode to an everlasting love (“You’ll always be my day one\, day zero when I was no-one”)\, complete with gospel choir and candy-coated synths. ‘Sometimes ◐’\, meanwhile\, sits at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum. It was penned when Andy heard news of a London terror attack and couldn’t get hold of his girlfriend. The news turned out to be false\, but the frontman spent hours dwelling on what might have happened. “It’sthe same with everyone\, but your mind just starts to think the worst in a situation like that\,” he explains. Via a Kanye-like vocoder that conveys despair through digital strain\, he dwells on mistakes he might have made\, wondering out loud if he might ever see his girl again. It’s a touching reminder that we need to keep the ones we love close.Debut ‘Warm on a Cold Night’ found itself under the covers and in a loved-up\, blissed out state. ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ instead looks outwards and considers thebigger picture. It also finds HONNE coming on leaps and bounds\, both as producers and lyricists. Swapping a bedroom production aesthetic for a richer\, more textured style\, they also explore more beat-driven territory\, nodding towards hip-hop royalty like Dr. Dre\, DJ. Dahi\, Pharrell and BadBadNotGood.Andy’s lyrics can be earnest\, funny and self-mocking in the space of the same verse. Not least on ‘306’\, a tribute to James’ knackered Peugeot car\, which he still drives today. The song jokes about the falsemirage of fame (“One record down and I’m riding in this piece of shit”)\, and the days the pair spent as fearless twenty-somethings\, driving round east London while blasting Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Money Trees’ with the windows down. “Every time I listen to it\, I get nostalgic memories of growing up\,” Andy says\, reflecting on the track.Sticking to their London flat-turned-studio\, HONNE worked with some of pop’s most diverse\, exciting talents on ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’. North London drummer/vocalist Georgia stars on the jet-lagged ‘Location Unknown’; Norwegian singer Anna of the North gets caught up in the fidgety dayglow of ‘Feels So Good’; Jazz-pop prodigy Tom Misch and pianist Reuben James also make timely appearances. For some acts\, collaboration is often a box-ticking exercise to cram big names into songs for the sake of it\, but HONNE have a different motive\, where they’ll only work with an artist who can provide something new. They scout out new music\, track the artists down and promptly slide into their DMs. “These people have a lot to offer\, a fresh perspective that maybe you wouldn’t otherwise see\,” states James. “It’s a shame to limit yourself purely for pride\, to limit it to just us two in a room.”In-between records\, the pair would spend hours on flights\, dreaming up their next steps. “We’d spent so long touring and listening to other music\, we just had loads of inspiration bottled up\,” James remembers. They drew up notes on their phones\, recorded voice memos on the go\, and by 2016’s debut release\, they were raring to go on new material. Before hitting record\, they seemed to have a clear idea on what they wanted to achieve: a lusciously-produced follow-up with an\nemotional depth that went beyond their first work. Andy also saw the band’s early ideals coming further into focus. He cites the band’s name (“Honne” meaning your true feelings\, those you keep to yourself) and the name of their early record label (“Tatemae”\, which reflects the other side: what you say and what you display in public). In time\, this dichotomy between an online persona and actual reality has become starker.“Those two sides have been rooted in us from the beginning. Perhaps we didn’t explore it completely on the first album\, but it’s been bubbling away\,” Andy says. “Finally with this next album\, we demonstrated it.” Honne’s early vision is more evident than ever\, and the remarkable songs on this second LP capture themes and feelings their debut only hinted at.Andy journeys back to this idea of duality\, something that’s defined HONNE since the beginning. “I love how one side doesn’t exist without the other. These songs have to be there together.” James agrees: “You can’t have good without the bad\, and we wanted to show that: not everything is always rosy. In your head\, you think everything you aspire to have doesn’t come with its own problems. Relationships\, work\, home life\, family –there’s two sides to it all. Films and TV shows either show the good or bad\, but we wanted to show a balance and the grey space.”‘Love Me / Love MeNot’ achieves exactly that. It’s a journey through grey space\, fears and doubts\, peaks and pitfalls and the in-betweens. These are soul-searching songs that make you look inwards\, to the point where it’s impossible not to relate to each moment of introspection. That\, in itself\, is a remarkable and rare quality in a band –this ability to make you listen closer to your own thoughts. A sign of success if ever there was one \n*** \nHablot Brown \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFormerly known as Linus Hablot\, Hablot Brown is comprised of Linus Lester-Hodges\, Austin Brown\, & John Brown who together form a fresh neo-soul/R&B band with a unique sonic polish. \nBringing an interesting blend of vastly contrasting genres\, the band borrows from musical influences such as Nick Hakim\, Ned Doheny\, & J.Dilla creating their own unique sound that is difficult not to fall in love with. \nIn their first 12 months of releasing music\, Hablot Brown was streamed over 7.7 million times on Spotify\, in addition to being featured on playlists like Global Viral 50\, Fresh Finds\, Sweet Soul Sunday\, Alternative R&B\, & Sin Estres. \nThe band just released their sophomore EP with Soulection and are gearing up to release three music videos along with several singles before the first of 2019. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/honne/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/honne-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181008T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181008T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180515T140039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T140039Z UID:10001922-1539028800-1539028800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Liz Phair DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nSOLD OUT! \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nLiz Phair \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLiz Phair is a Grammy-nominated singer songwriter whose debut album\, Exile In Guyville\, is considered by music critics to be a landmark of indie rock. She has been a recording artist and touring performer for twenty-five years\, paving the way for countless music artists\, particularly women\, who count her among their major influences.  Her deeply clever and often brutally candid songs have been garnering critical praise since she began her career in the early 1990s in Chicago by self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound.  The intense viral response to these early tracks led to Phair signing with the independent record label Matador Records. \nHer 1993 debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to international acclaim; it has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\, by Pitchfork as one of the 100 Greatest albums of the 90’s and is considered one of the most accomplished debut albums for any artist in any genre to date. She was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine\, topped SPIN’s 20 Best Albums of the Year\, and reached No.1 on the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics Poll. Phair joined Lilith Fair in 1998-9\, performing as a main stage headliner along with top female acts of the day like Sarah McLachlan\, Emmylou Harris\, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott. \nIn Spring 2016 Liz toured with The Smashing Pumpkins on their North American “In Plainsong” tour. Liz is currently working on a new record\, and will be touring in June. \n2018 marks the 25th Anniversary of Exile in Guyville. To celebrate\, Matador Records will be re-issuing the record along with a box-set. Phair has sold over five million records worldwide\, with three US gold albums and two Grammy nominations. More than two decades after the release of her debut\, Phair’s influence in contemporary music and particularly over female voices in alternative music can be felt today more than ever. \n*** \nSpeedy Ortiz \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“Necessary brattiness” is the motto for Speedy Ortiz’s dauntless new collection of songs\, Twerp Verse. The follow-up to 2015’s Foil Deer\, the band’s latest indie rock missive is prompted by a tidal wave of voices\, no longer silent on the hurt they’ve endured from society’s margins. But like many of these truth-tellers\, songwriter\, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis scales the careful line between what she calls being “outrageous and practical” in order to be heard at all. \n“You need to employ a self-preservational sense of humor to speak truth in an increasingly baffling world\,” says Dupuis. “I call it a ‘twerp verse’ when a musician guests on a track and says something totally outlandish – like a Lil Wayne verse – but it becomes the most crucial part. This record is our own twerp verse\, for those instances when you desperately need to stand up and show your teeth.” \nTwerp Verse was tracked in Brooklyn DIY space Silent Barn\, mixed by Omaha legend Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes\, Rilo Kiley) and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Emily Lazar (Sia\, Haim\, Beck). The record pulls from the most elastic pop moments in Squeeze’s Argybargy and the seesawing synth-rock of Deerhoof and the Rentals. With Dupuis on guitars\, vocals\, and synths\, supporting guitarist Andy Molholt (of psych pop outfit Laser Background) now joins Speedy veterans Darl Ferm on bass and Mike Falcone on drums – and together they accelerate the band’s idiosyncrasy through the wilderness of Dupuis’ heady reflections on sex\, lies and audiotape. \nDupuis\, who both earned an MFA in poetry and taught at UMass Amherst\, propels the band’s brain-teasing melodies with her serpentine wit. Inspired by the cutting observations of Eve Babitz\, Aline Crumb’s biting memoirs\, and the acute humor of AstroPoet Dorothea Lasky\, Dupuis craftily navigates the danger zone that is building intimacy and political allyship in 2018. Now as public pushback against the old guards reaches a fever pitch – in the White House\, Hollywood and beyond – the band fires shots in disillusioned Gen Y theme “Lucky 88\,” and casts a side-eye towards suitors-turned-monsters in the cold-blooded single “Villain.” Closing track “You Hate The Title” is a slinky traipse through the banality of this current moment in patriarchy – in which survivors are given the mic\, but nitpicked over the timbre of their testimonies. “You hate the title\, but you’re digging the song\,” Dupuis sings wryly\, “You like it in theory\, but it’s rubbing you wrong.” Tuned smartly to the political opacity of the present\, Twerp Verse rings clear as a bell. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/liz-phair/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/liz-phair-admat-2018-royale.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180718T171024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T183046Z UID:10002657-1539198000-1539198000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Joyce Manor DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 7/20 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is open to ALL AGES. \nOpening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joyce-manor-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Joyce-Manor-admat-2018-sq.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180710T165136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T123102Z UID:10001956-1539284400-1539284400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Spafford DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nSpafford \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWe Jam \n*** \nDewpoint \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nDewpoint(formerly Treehouse Live) is an eclectic four-piece instrumental jam band from Boston\, Massachusetts. Formed in early 2014 as house party staples in Boston\, they have quickly secured fans and made a name for themselves in the competitive northeast jam band scene. Pulling inspiration from such diverse acts as Phish\, Steely Dan\, Vulfpeck\, Lotus\, and countless others across the musical spectrum\, they have crafted a sound grounded in improvisational experimentation and soaring melodic lead lines. In the past year\, Dewpoint’s danceable combo of genre-bending jams have soared to new heights\, playing shows at the Middle East Downstairs\, Sonia\, and Brighton Music Hall. Guitarist Hamilton Kibbe\, keyboardist Alex Moran\, bassist Dalton Markrush\, & drummer Ryan Slobin have crafted melodic\, high-energy sets and are ready to take on the Northeast this Fall. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/spafford/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Spafford-admat-fall2018v2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180604T153433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180904T180448Z UID:10002645-1539367200-1539379800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Tyler Childers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nSOLD OUT! \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nTyler Childers \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLike many great Southern storytellers\, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a place. The people\, landmarks and legendary moments from his childhood home of Lawrence County\, Kentucky\, populate the 10 songs in his formidable debut\, Purgatory\, an album that’s simultaneously modern and as ancient as the Appalachian Mountains in which events unfold. \nThe album\, co-produced by Grammy Award winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson\, is a semiautobiographical sketch of Childers’ growth from wayward youth to happily married man\, told in the tradition of a Southern gothic novel with a classic noir antihero who may just be irredeemable. Purgatory is a chiaroscuro painting with darkness framing light in high relief. There’s catharsis and redemption. Sin and temptation. Murder and deceit. Demons and angels. Moonshine and cocaine. So much moonshine and cocaine. All played out on the large\, colorful canvas of Eastern Kentucky. \nChilders had been searching for a certain sound for his debut album for years as he honed his craft\, and was finding it elusive when his friend\, drummer Miles Miller\, introduced him to Simpson\, the Grammy Award-winning musician and fellow Kentuckian. Childers sent Simpson a group of his songs\, then went to visit him in Nashville. \n“And he said\, ‘There’s this sound. I know what you’re trying to get at\, the mountain sound\,'” Childers recalled. “‘So I asked\, ‘What are you doing?'” \nIntrigued\, Simpson enlisted the aid of Ferguson\, the Grammy Award winning sound engineer. They assembled a band that included multi-instrumentalists Stuart Duncan\, Michael J. Henderson and Russ Pahl\, bassist Michael Bub and Miller on drums\, of course\, and helped Childers make a debut album of consequence that announces an authentic new voice. \n“I was writing an album about being in the mountains\,” Childers said. “I wanted it to have that gritty mountain sound. But at the same time\, I wanted a more modern version of it that a younger generation can listen to — the people I grew up with\, something I’d want to listen to.” \n*** \nOna \n \nWebsite\nTwitter \nOna is an indie-rock band comprised of longtime friends Brad Goodall (keys)\, Bradley Jenkins (vocals/guitar)\, Zach Johnston (bass)\, Max Nolte (drums)\, and Zack Owens (guitar). \nThe band formed in late 2013 and are based in Huntington\, WV. Ona’s debut record ‘American Fiction’ reached critical success appearing on NPR best of lists\, SIRIUS Radio airplay\, and a spot on nationally syndicated radio program Mountain Stage. \nFrom New York City to Birmingham\, AL\, the five piece unit has garnered a faithful fan base on the east coast and Midwest regions. The band recently signed with New Frontier Touring based in Nashville\, TN and plans to expand their time on the road in 2018. \nCurrently the band is working with Athens\, GA-based producer/engineer\, Drew Vandenberg (Of Montreal\, Toro y Moi\, Drive By Truckers) at Chase Park Transduction Studio. Their forthcoming album will be released in 2018\, no official release date yet. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tyler-childers/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Tyler-Childers-admat-2018-royale.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180625T141903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180910T165606Z UID:10001939-1539720000-1539720000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Masego DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/29 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nMasego \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nVanJess \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/masego/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Masego-Admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T080116 CREATED:20180515T160058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T160058Z UID:10001923-1539892800-1539892800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Murder By Death DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 5/18 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nMurder By Death \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMurder By Death is a Louisville\, KY quintet with a wry\, ominous name. But behind the geography and moniker is a band of meticulous and literary songwriters matched by a specific brand of brooding\, anthem-riding balladry and orchestral indie rock. \nMurder By Death’s path began in the early 2000s as most Midwestern college-town groups do\, by playing to small crowds at ratty venues and frenzied house parties. While many of their formative-year scene-mates failed to make it much further than campustown’s borders\, Murder By Death translated their anonymous beginnings into a 15+ year career founded on a bedrock of five full-length albums\, tireless D.I.Y. touring and performing ethics\, and\, most importantly\, a dedicated\, cult-like fanbase. \n*** \nWilliam Elliott Whitmore \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nWilliam Elliott Whitmore is a singer-songwriter/banjoist/guitarist/drum-stompin’ solo act from Lee County\, Iowa. He has released six full-length albums that seamlessly meld country\, blues\, folk\, and punk styles – spanning from 2003’s Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern Records) to 2015’s Radium Death (ANTI-). His songs are haunting\, rustic\, powerful\, and real – byproducts of living his entire life on the family farm\, being involved in the hardcore-punk scene in the local community\, and touring hard across the country. His seventh album Kilonova (2018) is different from everything else in his catalog\, a collection of 10 cover songs from artists who have influenced his 15 plus-year career.\nA man armed only with a banjo and a bass drum can be a formidable force\, especially if his name is William Elliott Whitmore. With his powerful voice and honest approach\, Whitmore comes from the land\, growing up on a family farm in Lee County\, Iowa. Still living on the same farm today\, Whitmore has truly taken the time to discover where his center lies\, and from that he will not be moved. \nWhitmore has consistently carved his own path\, honoring the longstanding tradition of folk music throughout his nearly 20-year career\, while always allowing his blues\, soul\, and punk rock influences to shine through. Getting his first break opening for his friend’s hardcore band with just a banjo in hand\, he would discover bands like The Jesus Lizard\, Bad Brains\, Lungfish\, and Minutemen and soon learn to play his own brand of rural\, roots music with that same DIY ethic. \nWilliam Elliott Whitmore has been back and forth across the United States and to cities around the world. He’s toured with such diverse acts as Frank Turner\, Trampled By Turtles\, Clutch\, and Chris Cornell\, to name a few. He’s appeared on some of the biggest stages around the world including Stagecoach Fest\, Byron Bluesfest (Australia) and End of the Road Fest (UK). His willingness to take his show to any playing field has proved invaluable as he turned strangers to diehards with every performance. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/murder-by-death/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/murder-by-death-admat-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR