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SUMMARY:Speed Rack Challenge - Season 5
DESCRIPTION:Serious stirring and shaking is about to happen\, thanks to the return of Speed Rack\, the all-female speed-bartending competition that raises money for breast cancer. Come celebrate the ladies of New England in the epic battle for the title of Miss Speed Rack New England on Sunday\, March 5th as these tough bartenders competing in this roller derby of cocktail competitions. 100% Proceeds go to Breast Cancer Research and Education.
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SUMMARY:Monstercat AFK PAX East Pre-party presented by MCProHosting
DESCRIPTION:Monstercat is coming to Boston during the highly anticipated PAX East Convention with a MASSIVE Pre-Party on Thursday\, March 9th at Royale presented by our friends MCProHosting! \nAs a part of Monstercat’s AFK (Away From Keyboard) event series\, internationally touring artists Drezo\, Unlike Pluto\, Robotaki as well as a very special guest are coming to throw down a high octane show giving fans a chance to get their adrenaline pumping along side some of electronic music’s most sought after names! \n? Monstercat AFK is ready to take PAX East by storm\, so unplug with Monstercat and turn up! #AreYouAFK\n? 15% off General Admission tickets for PAX East Badge holders* with discount code AreYouAFK15 \n? ? MONSTERCAT ARTISTS ? ?\nFor any electronic music fan\, it’s no secret just how jampacked this lineup is. With Robotaki fresh off a North American tour with Madeon & Porter Robinson; Unlike Pluto heralded by critics like Billboard and Dancing Astronaut as a breakout artist to watch for 2017; and Drezo being one of the most recognized and respected names in bass music – this party is top-tier hype from beginning to end. And the big names don’t stop there – a secret guest announcement is coming soon! ? \n—– \n? March 9th 2017\n⏰ 9pm-2am\n? Location: Royale Boston\n? 21+ Event\n? Complimentary Coat Check\n? Limited edition T-shirts for the first 100 Guests\n? Giveaways\n? No Badge required for ticket purchase\n❗️Dress Code: Open\, no weapons (real or fake) \nEarly Bird Tickets: $20\nGeneral Admission: $25
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SUMMARY:Acer Predator Gaming Lounge @ PAX East
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP 617-733-0505
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SUMMARY:Haywyre & The Opiuo Band
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/13 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nHaywyre \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nHaywyre consists of Martin Vogt\, who has been studying piano since the age of six. His interest in the production of various genres of electronic music and piano instrumentals began growing when he lived in Austria; there\, he was exposed to jazz and hip-hop for the first time. Shortly after moving back to the U.S. in 2008\, Haywyre was created. Now\, his mission can be defined by providing his listeners with music that presents variety\, originality\, and ideas stemming from his jazz and classical knowledge base. The most general description to Martin’s sound can be described as memorable melodies and (jazz / classically influenced) chord progressions in the context of progressive electronic music. Synthetic and organic elements combine in works inspired by artists such as Noisia\, Flying Lotus\, KOAN Sound\, Hans Zimmer\, Clint Mansell\, Austin Peralta\, and Abdullah Ibrahim. His main compositional tool is the piano; countless nights are spent drafting harmonic and melodic outlines by improvising. For live performances\, Haywyre also includes his akai mpk 88 to perform the melodies while triggering the stems to the rest of the pieces. His guitar work can also be heard in many tracks (and sometimes other instruments\, such as the Duduk\, as well). So far\, he has mastered every release himself (except the Draw The Line EP). \n*** \nThe Opiuo Band \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nFor New Zealand native Opiuo\, making music has been an undeniable passion that encapsulates his every moment. His incredibly original\, against the grain style is often referred to simply as “funkadelic bass music”\, a term he supports wholeheartedly. The producer who now calls Australia home first gained international recognition in 2010 with his single “Robo Booty” from his debut album “Slurp and Giggle”\, which was a finalist for Best Dance/Electro Release at the Australian Independent Music Awards that year. His music has since reached the #1 position on the iTunes\, Hype Machine\, Beatport & Addictech charts. Racking up 5 million plays on his Soundcloud page\, Opiuo swept the 2013 UK Glitch-Hop Awards with 5 wins. His latest full-length album “Meraki” was a finalist for the Best Electronica Album at the New Zealand Music Awards 2014. \nOpiuo’s unique take on electronic music has captured the attention of music lovers around the entire globe\, with sets at Coachella (USA)\, Glastonbury (UK)\, Shambhala (Canada)\, Lightning In A Bottle (USA)\, Boomtown Fair (UK) as well as headlining tours across Australia\, New Zealand\, N. America\, Europe\, Asia\, Israel and India. He’s shared the stage with some of music’s elite including Bassnectar\, Moby\, Pete Tong\, Bonobo\, & The Glitch Mob to name a few. Whether he’s equipped with his solo setup of various drum machines and synths\, or performing 100% live as The Opiuo Band\, his explosive live shows never disappoint. \nAs a remixer Opiuo’s credits span far & wide\, from Gwen Stefani to Kimbra\, Pretty Lights to Infected Mushroom\, KOAN Sound to Shapeshifter and many more. With such a grand scope its no wonder Opiuo’s musical meanderings are heard the world over. \n*** \nFreddy Todd \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nWords will inevitably fail to properly describe Freddy Todd. Genre-busting could be an understatement. You can’t pin him down with lexicon like lazer-bass and glitch-funk; these phrases fall way short of capturing the expressiveness\, fearlessness\, and space-traveling qualities of his music. Hearing his music is akin to being abducted by an extra-terrestrial cruise liner where everyone is tripping on space acid. And if you are lucky enough to witness him produce\, you’ll see that he fittingly looks just like the captain of said space cruiser\, both hands intently gripping his electronics like the instrument panel on the flight deck. \nLet’s bring this back to earth real quick. His motown\, soul\, blues\, jazz\, funk\, hiphop (and techno for that matter) roots are a given\, being born just outside of Detroit in Southfield\, MI in 1990. Freddy moved out of his parents house immediately upon turning 18 lusting for the world and the creative juices it has to offer\, living briefly in Ferndale\, MI at first\, then to the outskirts of a rougher part of the city of Detroit near 7 mile and Lahser for two years to live with his then-band “Tone Poets”\, producing for Scrummage hip-hop queen “Breezee One”\, and wrapping up his second full length studio LP on Simplify Recordings\, followed by a year in Chicago. After living in the midwest until the age of 22\, his sights were set on the golden west. Moving cross-country and living two years in the Bay Area\, living in both the hood of West Oakland followed by the Oakland Hills while writing and releasing the “Golden Tremendous” album and starting his next EP. After soaking up the Cali vibes\, he returned across country for some more wholesome less-congested living in the blue ridge smokey mountains of Asheville\, NC to be closer to family\, where he currently resides. \nFreddy Todd is truly a master of his craft not only in the studio but on stages across the globe. Without any pre-recorded sets\, Freddy has the skills and the audacity to perform on the fly mixes of 100% original material tailored to his specific audience\, mood\, and venue each night\, be it a theater in northern California\, a club in the back alleys of Detroit\, or an outdoor festival in the bush off the eastern coast of Australia (occasionally on special nights with his live drummer forming the FT Live Band/Duo). His earth shattering\, meticulously programmed beats & rhythms\, his lazer crunk\, funky psychedelic bass & sound design\, and his brain tingling\, intelligently soul-soaked synths\, melodies\, & field-recorded samples are sure to shake your consciousness as they blast through airwaves out of top notch sound systems across the universe while Freddy serenades you with 100% live & improvised get-your-booty-on-the-floor analog Moog synthesizers & keytar\, loop triggering\, and occasional drums & percussive elements. Be careful where you don’t look.
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SUMMARY:Royale Saturday's w/ Breeazy
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP 617-733-0505
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SUMMARY:Devendra Banhart
DESCRIPTION:Show moved from The Sinclair to Royale due to overwhelming demand! \nBowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nDevendra Banhart \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nDevendra Obi Banhart (born May 30\, 1981) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston\, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela\, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998\, but dropped out to perform music in Europe\, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Banhart released his debut album in 2002\, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels\, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations.
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SUMMARY:The Protomen\, MC Frontalot & Bit Brigade
DESCRIPTION:18+ \nLeague Podcast & Rock On! Concerts Presents….
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SUMMARY:House of Pain
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 21 and over. \nTickets on sale Fri. 1/20 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n***\nSt. Patrick’s Day 2017\nHouse of Pain \n \n[Facebook] [Twitter] \nOn the heels of their widely heralded reunion show at KROQ’s ‘Epicenter 2010’\, EVERLAST and DANNY BOY have decided to get the band back together in celebration of their 20th anniversary. That’s right\, HOUSE OF PAIN is back\, more focused than ever and extremely excited to kick-off a worldwide reunion tour in 2011. \nIt’s hard to believe that the rowdy Irish Americans got started way back in 1991\, but for the past 20 years the group has maintained a high profile – topping the Billboard charts as a group and with solo efforts. It was a turn of a new decade when HOUSE OF PAIN changed the face of hip-hop with their self-titled debut album\, going multi-platinum and launching one of the most memorable songs in hip-hop history with “Jump Around”. Now it’s the start of another new decade and HOUSE OF PAIN is ready to do it all over again; the group aims to bring their fiery live show to fans all over the world\, reclaim the throne as hip-hop’s best and celebrate what has allowed their successes over the past 20 years – the fans. \n“It’s been 20 years and we are very excited to go out there and do this again\,” comments Everlast. “The catalyst was definitely the KROQ Epicenter show this past summer. We had already been working together on the La Coka Nostra record and did an event with [UFC President] Dana White but it really came down to seeing the crazy response from the crowd in LA when we went into ‘Jump Around’. After that\, we went home thinking about it and now is the time to act on it. Every show is going to be like an anniversary party. It’s going to be crazy.” \nSince HOUSE OF PAIN disbanded back in 1996\, the members have kept their star power and went on to huge successes. EVERLAST has maintained an incredibly successful solo career that includes a triple platinum album\, multiple Top 10 hits (including the #1 smash hit “What It’s Like”) and a Grammy for the song “Put Your Lights On” which was recorded with Carlos Santana. Danny Boy changed focus from music to art and launched an extremely successful art company\, multiple clothing lines and ultimately brought the reunion about by forming the group LA COKA NOSTRA that featured the original lineup from HOUSE OF PAIN alongside rappers Slaine and Ill Bill. \nAfter experiencing all of the solo success\, it becomes obvious that HOUSE OF PAIN isn’t a group reforming to cash in on current musical trends. HOUSE OF PAIN is reforming because of the passion that they have for their music. They are back to celebrate with their fans across the 20 years that have spawned tremendous success and undying anthems of rebellious teenagers everywhere. They are back to show young fans everywhere just how raucous and dirty hip-hop can be – to prove that it doesn’t matter your age\, race\, religion or whether you’re into hip-hop\, rock or metal. HOUSE OF PAIN has crafted a 20-year legacy that speaks to fans from all walks of life. \nSo get out of your seat and “Jump Around.” \n*** \nSlaine \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] [Twitter] \nIf you believe Life is hard yet one of the best gifts anyone can be granted\, you’ll understand the journey of Slaine. The hard knocks and struggle of this Boston native may sound like good tidbits for a novel\, television or mini-series. Hailing from the Dorchester area with deep connections in South Boston\, Slaine’s life was patterned somewhat of a gypsy moving around often. Despite not having a normal home foundation\, Slaine aspired like other starry eyed kids to become a force in the entertainment industry. Mapping out his plan to obtain his goals\, Slaine packed his bags and moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts. After only seven months\, an unfortunate altercation between Slaine and a school employee resulted in his expulsion at the school. \nThe incident was a major setback for Slaine that suspended his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Although dismayed and discouraged\, Slaine prevailed over his setback and proceeded towards his pursuit into the entertainment industry via another way…music. His love for hip-hop was discovered at the early age of nine. “I started writing rhymes when I was nine years old\, I use to record on my boom box with a pair of headphones plugged into the microphone jack. I felt they were just words on a page because I didn’t have an outlet to perform them.” Determined and focused\, Slaine spent his nights as a club promoter to survive in the hard lonely streets of New York City. At the same time\, he began recording and being managed by hip-hop legend MC Shan. While recording a demo in a studio operated by the Lordz of Brooklyn\, SLAINE was introduced to Danny Boy O’Connor of House of Pain. \nThe introduction lead into him being signed to a production deal with DJ Lethal of House of Pain which led to the mix tape release ‘The White Man is the Devil: Volume 1’ and the formation of Special Teamz with Boston rap legends Edo G and Jaysaun. Special Teamz dropped a self-titled street CD after that\, which garnered critical acclaim and allowed the group to tour in Europe. In a very short time\, SLAINE had gone from living in poverty with a drug habit to traveling the world and working with hip-hop icons such as DJ Premier\, Ill Bill\, House of Pain\, Cypress Hill\, The Alchemist\, and a host of other talented artists. He also became part of the collective LA COKA NOSTRA\, alongside Ill Bill and all three members of House of Pain – Everlast\, DJ Lethal\, and Danny Boy. La Coka Nostra’s debut album\, “A Brand You Can Trust” debuted at #84 on the Billboard Top 200 and #6 on the Rap charts\, sending a message to the masses that the group’s brand of gritty hip-hop was exactly what fans of the genre had been waiting for. \nSlaine’s name continued to grow far past his hometown of Boston due to the exposure he has received in publications such as The Source\, XXL\, The New York Times\, The Boston Herald\, and has performed sold out shows across the globe. SLAINE has been nominated for a Boston Music Award and received 4 trophies at The Mass Industry Committee’s hip-hop awards including one for Best Lyricist. \nAs his music career expanded\, a personal battle with drugs became a focal point that reared its ugly head. After overdoses\, hospital visits and a whirlwind of drugs and violence\, SLAINE finally checked into rehab. Instantly\, he found himself with homeless drug addicts and realized he was no different than any of them. “Everybody had a story to tell. That was where the idea and the hunger for “The White Man is the Devil” was born. “The White Man” is a cocaine reference\, not a declaration of self hate.” \nSince conquering his addiction\, Slaine’s was presented with new and exciting possibilities…Acting. A chance of a lifetime presented itself through an unexpected ally\, hometown hero and Academy Award winner Ben Affleck. SLAINE made his acting debut with his portrayal of Bubba Rogowski in Affleck’s return to screenwriting and directorial debut “Gone Baby Gone”. The film was critically acclaimed and led to Slaine being offered a larger role as a bank robber in the blockbuster “The Town” featuring Ben Affleck\, Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)\, and Jon Hamm (Mad Men). He is also been in films\, “The Crack Down” and “Bad Blood” and in the upcoming movie “Cogan’s Trade” with Brad Pitt\, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini. \nWhile Slaine’s acting career has allowed him to blaze new paths\, his venomous lyrical attack burns hotter than ever on his debut solo album\, “A World With No Skies 2.0”\, which drops on August 16th \, 2011 through Suburban Noize Records. With hard hitting lyrical content\, and vicious delivery\, “A World with No Skies 2.0” instantly takes hip-hop back to its grimy roots on the streets. To execute his dark musical vision\, Slaine enlisted the help of his La Coka Nostra brothers Everlast and ILL BILL\, as well as Cypress Hill’s B-Real and Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks to create a dark hip-hop album that hits squarely in the jaw. “Even though I started my career as a solo artist by hustling my ‘The White Man is the Devil’ mixtapes\, I think people are more familiar with me from Special Teamz and La Coka Nostra\,” commented Slaine. “With this album I set out to create a soundscape that brings you into my world as an individual which is a bad place to be. It is hard\, dark and aggressive from the beats to the lyrics\, and a deeply personal trip through my life and the things that made me who I am today. A ‘World with No Skies’ is a look into my psyche and a vision of my dreams\, nightmares\, and realities.” \nDespite his ups and downs throughout his career\, Slaine’s living his life to the fullest. “I love making music that means something to me\, I am grateful for all the experiences that I have had—good and bad. I am lucky to be alive\, but my past also made me who I am today.”
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SUMMARY:Sofa King Friday's w/ Steve Aoki
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SUMMARY:WCKD Saturday Royale's 7 Year Anniversary w/ Lil Jon
DESCRIPTION:21 + \nTickets Only. \nVIP: 617-733-0505
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nightclub
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SUMMARY:Royale Saturday w/ Liz Ladoux
DESCRIPTION:21+ \n617-733-0505
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SUMMARY:The Knocks: Feel Good Feel Great
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Thu. 11/17 at 1PM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Knocks \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe Knocks are a New York story through and through. They met as 19-year-old college students\, late one night in a studio at the New School. Ben Ruttner\, known as “B-Roc\,” DJed clubs as a PM day job\, and James Patterson\, known as “JPatt\,” played the organ at a church outside the city. \nWorking out of their bedrooms\, The Knocks remixed Jay-Z’s entire American Gangster album in two days\, calling it American G-Funk. With remixes for Katy Perry and Passion Pit soon following\, the Knocks were declared one of the “20 hottest producers in music” by NME and quickly became synonymous with a certain warm\, retro-future\, disco-kissed touch. Future stars like Ellie Goulding and Icona Pop took note of the Knocks\, asking them to produce for their own projects. \nThey put our their first big hit in 2010 with the filter-house party anthem “Dancing With the DJ”\, and toured the UK with Sleigh Bells and DJ Shadow. Opening for Ellie Goulding on her US debut tour in 2011 and playing the main stage at Ultra in 2012\, B-Roc and JPatt were a bridge between the indie dance world and the mainstream market. \nThey recently hit a touchstone with “Classic\,” a seductive track that whips up the sun-drenched sense of endless celebration. Fetty Wap jumped on for a guest verse\, as befits the way the Knocks style synthesizes anything with energy: hip-hop\, soul\, house\, disco and pop. Their new album 55 is a resolutely DIY dance album that pulses with the heart of the city. It opens with none other than Cam’ron\, Wyclef Jean comes out of nowhere\, Carly Rae Jepsen takes a house diva turn\, and Alex Newell aims his high range like a trigger in SPIN’s Best-101-of-2015 pick “Collect My Love”. It’s an album laced with disco magic and hiphop flow; it’s built for a crowd\, but first it has to pass a bar that’s internal. “Would I spin this?” the Knocks still ask each other\, every time they cut a track. They’ll be spinning this one for years. \n*** \nBipolar Sunshine \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nBipolar Sunshine is based on a surreal world where anything is possible\, the stranger the better as long as its done with an artistic approach. A Home for the defeated romantic\, the passionately curious but in the mist of all still can see the bright side to every- thing. \n*** \nGilligan Moss \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nYou could say that Gilligan Moss originally formed in the early 90s in an unassuming pre-school in downtown Chicago. Comprised of Evan and Ben\, the two have used this deep-rooted friendship to form a psychic bond to explore a new vision for what it means for pop music to live in the club. The duo from Chicago\, has a distinct style that fills the cracks between several genres — they are drawn to strange melodies\, polyrhythmic percussion\, and driving\nbasslines. Their goal is to make music that could soundtrack an Ewok dance party as easily as it could a solitary walk home.\nThe project began with Evan\, who anonymously started posting his music to Soundcloud in 2013. His first single “Choreograph” caught a wave of blog buzz\, eventually hitting #1 on the Hype Machine charts. On the success of this single and a remix for Glass Animals’ “Gooey\,” he took to writing a batch of tunes and the resulting Ceremonial EP was released in August 2015 via AMF Records\, an imprint of Virgin EMI.\nWhen asked to go on the road in support of Glass Animals in late 2015\, he asked Ben to join him for the live rig. Once tour came to a close\, they began writing together\, rekindling the spark that formed all those years ago in pre- school. They have done remixes for the likes of Sia\, Banks\, Tegan & Sara and their second EP is expected in mid-2017. For the past few months\, the duo has been camped out in the woods in upstate New York\, perfecting the perfect dance party for the squirrels and birds that surround their studio.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-knocks-feel-good-feel-great/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jessi Live Concert!
DESCRIPTION:Korean R&B/Rapper \n18+ \nVIP: 617-733-0505
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/jessi-live-concert/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events
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SUMMARY:Sofa King Friday's w/ Laidback Luke
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP 617-733-0505
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-fridays-w-laidback-luke/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zveri Concert
DESCRIPTION:Party Time Boston Presents.. \n21+ \n7:00pm Doors\n8:00pm Show
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SUMMARY:WCKD Saturday's w/ Deville
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nLadies free w/ RSVP – Click Buy tickets to RSVP. \nVIP 617-733-0505
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/wckd-saturdays-w-deville/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Minus the Bear
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/13 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nMinus the Bear \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nOver the course of their 15-year career\, Minus the Bear have carved out their own unique musical world. This isn’t to say they’re impervious to outside influence. They’ve borrowed components from a wide swath of genres—the brainy clangor of New York’s proto-punk scene\, the cerebral buzz of IDM\, the poptimist evaluation of hip-hop and R&B\, and the grandiose visions of prog rock—but always managed to defy classification. Throughout the first decade of their existence\, every new album offered a new musical approach\, as seen in the idiosyncratic fretboard gymnastics of Highly Refined Pirates\, the glitchy loops of Menos el Oso\, or the modernized Fripp-inspired wizardry of Planet of Ice. By the time the band entered our current decade\, their knack for reinvention yielded to an emphasis on refinement. Albums like OMNI and Infinity Overhead searched for a middle ground where their myriad of stylistic approaches could all work within the context of a single record. \nOn their sixth album VOIDS\, Minus the Bear started with a blank slate\, and inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process. “There was a lot of change and uncertainty\,” says guitarist David Knudson. “I think the general vibe of emptiness\, replacement\, lacking\, and longing to fill in the gaps was very present in everyones’ minds.” Change was everywhere. Keyboardist/vocalist Alex Rose took on a more prominent role in composition and handled lead vocal duties on songs like “Call the Cops\,” “Tame Beasts\,” and “Robotic Heart\,” drummer Kiefer Matthias joined the fold\, producer Sam Bell lent a fresh set of ears in the studio\, and the band returned to their original label home at Suicide Squeeze Records. Minus the Bear were no longer swept along by the momentum that had driven them for the last fifteen years. Instead\, they reached a point where they could recalibrate and redefine who they were as a musical entity. The resulting album VOIDS retains many of the band’s signature qualities—the hedonistic tales of nighttime escapism and candid vignettes of adulthood\, the savvy up-tempo beats\, the layered and nuanced instrumentation—while simultaneously reminding us of the musical wanderlust that initially put them on the map. \nAlbum opener “Last Kiss” immediately establishes the band’s renewed fervor. An appropriately dizzying guitar line plunges into a propulsive groove before the chorus unfolds into a multi-tiered pop chorus. From there the album flows into “Give & Take”\, a tightly wound exercise in syncopation that recalls the celebratory pulse of early Bear classics like “Fine + 2 Pts” while exploring new textures and timbres. “Invisible” is arguably the catchiest song of the band’s career\, with Jake Snider’s vocal melodies and Knudson’s imaginative guitar work battling for the strongest hooks. “What About the Boat?” reminds us of the “math-rock” tag that followed the band in their early years\, with understated instrumentation disguising an odd-time beat. “Erase\,” recalls the merging of forlorn indie pop and electronica that the band dabbled with on their early EPs\, but demonstrates the Bear’s ongoing melodic sophistication and tonal exploration. By the time the band reaches album closer “Lighthouse\,” they’ve traversed so much sonic territory that the only appropriate tactic left at their disposal is a climactic crescendo\, driven at its peak by Cory Murchy’s thunderous bass. Not since Planet of Ice’s “Lotus” has the Bear achieved such an epic finale. All in all\, it’s an album that reminds us of everything that made us fall in love with Minus the Bear in the first place\, and a big part of that appeal is the sense that the band is heading into uncharted territories. \nSuicide Squeeze Records is proud to release VOIDS to the world on March 3\, 2017 on CD\, LP\, and cassette. Nick Steinhardt designed the artwork and layout for all formats. The first pressing of the album is available on 5\,000 copies of splatter colored vinyl and 5\,000 copies of 180 gram black vinyl. The LP jacket features PMS inks\, a die-cut cover with a printed inner sleeve and contains a download code. The cassette version is limited to 500 copies and includes a download code as well. \n*** \nBeach Slang \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nBeach Slang are a band who have garnered a lot of attention considering that they’ve only released two 7-inches\, 2014’s Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street and its companion Who Would Ever Want Something So Broken? Refreshingly this Philadelphia-based act have built their hype the old-fashioned way\, without any gimmicks or marketing teams\, which makes sense when you consider that frontman and writer James Alex cut his teeth in the Pennsylvania pop-punk act Weston while drummer JP Flexner and bassist Ed McNulty also play in buzzed about projects such as Ex-Friends and Crybaby. However there’s something indefinable about Beach Slang’s music that evokes the spirit of punk and juxtaposes it into something that’s as brutally honest as it is infectiously catchy. \n“When this whole thing started it was like\, ‘Alright\, i’m going to get to hear my sappy little songs played loud and interact with other human beings again\,’ the admittedly shy Alex says looking back on Beach Slang’s existence. “Then one day this really sweet explosion happened and Beach Slang became a thing that mattered to people.” As anyone who has seen Beach Slang live can attest\, it matters to people a lot including the group’s peers like Cursive who hand-selected Beach Slang to open for them on their upcoming headlining tour. “I used to skate with this really sweet girl who would refer to the way I spoke as ‘beach slang’ and I’ve never shaken that off\,” Alex continues. “The really soft parts of your childhood\, I suppose\, have a way of sticking around. I like that.” \nThat feeling of youth and vulnerability also lie at the core of Beach Slang’s music\, which is part punk\, part pop and all catharsis. It references the ghosts of The Replacements but keeps one foot firmly rooted in the present. It’s fun and it’s serious. It’s sad but it isn’t. It’s Beach Slang. Enjoy it and look out for the band’s debut full-length later this year because they’re still just getting started. \n*** \nBayonne \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nRoger Sellers is a lot of things. He’s a minimalist composer with a knack for making hypnotic\, enveloping songs from a few repeated musical phrases. He’s a gifted musician who is mostly self-taught\, having abandoned formal study because it was draining the life from his work. He’s a self-described disciple of Phil Collins. What he is not\, however — despite multiple press reports to the contrary — is a DJ. \n“I started developing a decent following in Austin\,” he says\, “but most of the time when I would play\, the press would say something like ‘Local DJ Roger Sellers\,’ or ‘Roger Sellers is playing a late-night DJ set.’ I think it was maybe because my live set involves a table full of gear\, a drum set and headphones\, but the average person probably knows more about DJing than I do.’” To combat the misunderstanding\, Sellers printed up stickers reading\, “Roger Sellers is Not a DJ\,” and eventually adopted the alias Bayonne\, changing his name without altering his approach. \nAnd it’s a good thing: Primitives\, Sellers’ debut as Bayonne\, is a rich\, complex work\, the kind with no clear rock parallel. In its winding\, maze-like structures are hints of both Steve Reich and Owen Pallett\, each instrument working a single melodic pattern over and over and over\, as Sellers threads his soft\, reedy voice between them. On songs like “Appeals\,” the effect is hypnotic: notes from a piano crash down like spilled marbles from a bucket\, as Sellers’ ringing-bell vocals swing back and forth between them. The end result is spellbinding music\, meticulously-crafted songs where each tiny piece locks into another\, and hundreds of them joined together create a breathtaking whole — like dots in a Seurat\, or tiny bones in a dinosaur skeleton. \nSellers’ journey to Bayonne began when he was two years old\, situated in front of Eric Clapton Unplugged at his home in TK. “I’d just watch it over and over again\,” he laughs. “I would get paint cans and bang on them\, trying to imitate what I saw in the video. My parents got me a drum set when I was 6 years old and I became obsessed. I wanted to be Phil Collins for so many years as a child. He was my hero. I feel like you can hear that a lot in Primitives\, that big drum sound\, because so much of the way I play was learned from Phil Collins.” Though Sellers studied classical piano as a child and music theory in college\, rather than developing his skill\, he found both to be deadening. “It became homework\,” he says. “It made me come home and not want to write. That’s not at all how I’d thought about music — it had always been something fun — almost like a kind of therapy. It was an escape\, not a chore.” \nInstead\, Sellers struck out on his own\, buying a looper and slowly amassing a stockpile of tiny melodies. “I found out that I could make these songs really spontaneously and have this really good idea without having to get into the studio to capture it right away. Most of these songs came out of me just fucking around\, hooking up keyboards and experimenting.” The experiments cohered into music that is beautiful and densely layered. The composition of the individual musical phrases may have been spontaneous\, but assembling them to create Primitives was anything but. Instead\, Sellers constructed the songs from a collection of loops he’d built up over the course of six years. Some of those patterns were created on stage at his shows\, where Sellers threads melodies together in real time\, augmenting them with live drums and vocals. Others were written during downtime\, improvising at home. Once he had the basic melodies\, he had to figure out how they went together\, and how to layer them meticulously to make songs that were rich in deep detail but still immediately engaging. \nYou can hear all of that in “Spectrolite”; taut apostrophes of guitar enter first\, pinpricks of barely-there sound that blink like Christmas lights. Bone-dry snare enters next\, but the guitars keep echoing their same hypnotic phrase; it’s followed by grumbling bass and\, finally\, Sellers’ airy\, high-arcing voice; each piece follows their charted course again and again\, but as the song goes on\, it gets more engrossing — it gives the effect of slipping slowly into warm water. “That one came from an older loop that I had\,” Sellers explains. “It was about a stone that my girlfriend at the time had brought me back from Australia\, a spectrolite stone. We had some things happen between us during that time\, so that stone meant a lot to me. I had it with me the entire time I made the record. It’s a song about forgiveness\, and keeping those people who matter most to you close around you\, and caring for those that you love.” In “Waves\,” surging piano replicates the sound of the ocean\, lapping slowly forward and back. Giant tribal drums enter\, filling the blank space\, giving the song a soft\, calming\, see-sawing rhythm. “That’s a song I basically wrote by performing it live\,” Sellers says. “That’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve written because of the simplicity of it\,” he explains. “You feel like you’re in the ocean or something.” But as the song goes on\, it skews darker. “I know that there’s something else\, something else\, something else\,” Sellers sings\, “And I know that you’d be there for me.” As the song goes on\, the object of his affection drifts away\, like a boat toward the skyline. Like all of Sellers’s songs\, it centers carefully constructed music around the soft\, glowing core of the human heart. \n“That’s all of it — emotion\,” Sellers says. “I want the music to carry people in some way\, and I want them to feel what I’m feeling. I want my music to be an emotive expression.” On Primitives\, Sellers creates music that’s nuanced\, layered\, complicated and soothing — easy to get lost in\, impossible to ignore.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/minus-the-bear/
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SUMMARY:Bebe Rexha
DESCRIPTION:SHOW MOVED FROM THE SINCLAIR TO ROYALE DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND! \nBowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale NOW! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nBebe Rexha \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nEvery dream requires a hustle. Long before she became an inescapable pop presence and one of the industry’s most in-demand songwriters\, Bebe Rexha began quietly hustling hard towards a career in music during her childhood in Brooklyn\, NY.\n“I never wanted to take the easy way\, and I was always willing to hustle\,” she declares. “I started grinding and writing songs back in high school. I was the girl that didn’t go to prom or my graduation\, because I was too busy working with producers and making music. I’d feel at home singing over hip-hop beats and rolling with the boys. It’s where I still have the most fun\, and it’s where my personality comes through.”\nFollowing years of dedication and diligence\, that grind paid off big time in 2013 after she penned “The Monster” in a Harlem studio. The single eventually became a worldwide hit for Eminem and Rihanna—going RIAA quadruple-platinum stateside. Bebe would write and feature on Cash Cash’s “Take Me Home\,” an idea she envisioned back in her bedroom in New York. Relocating to Los Angeles\, she’d go on to co-write and sing on Pitbull’s “This Is Not A Drill” in addition to writing Tinashe’s “All Hands On Deck.” Her 2015 debut EP\, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up [Warner Bros. Records] \, boasted the singles “I Can’t Stop Drinking About You” and “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy\,” which racked up over 52 million Spotify streams in only six months. That same year\, she co-wrote and carried instantly recognizable hooks for the double-platinum “Hey Mama” by David Guetta\, Nicki Minaj\, and Afrojack as well as G-Eazy’s 2016 Billboard Hot 100 platinum smash “Me\, Myself\, & I.”\nTo date\, she’s accumulated over 10 million overall single sales\, 800 million Spotify streams\, 1 billion combined YouTube/VEVO views\, and reached a radio audience of 7 billion in addition to earning praise from the likes of USA Today\, Billboard\, MTV and more. On the road\, she has toured supporting Nick Jonas and scorched the stage of the 2015 Vans Warped Tour\, emerging as one of its biggest breakout acts.\nHowever\, everything set the stage for her 2016 single “No Broken Hearts” [featuring Nicki Minaj]. The unshakable and undeniable anthem introduces her forthcoming full-length album with a bang. Produced by Grammy Award®-nominated production team The Invisible Men\, the track sees her robust\, raw\, and real voice take the spotlight. Over a slick\, smooth\, and sultry bounce\, Bebe delivers a massive refrain freestyled in the vocal booth and punctuated by a fiery verse from Minaj.\n“I had been heartbroken three times that week\,” she admits. “I went to the studio\, and I was crying my eyes out. As soon as I walked to the mic\, it came to me. We captured the first take right when I heard the song. There’s nothing mathematical to my writing. It’s feeling. I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down. Everybody goes through some sort of pain. It’s good for people to hear that. Nicki was perfect\, because she’s a New York chick who identifies with this. Life’s too short\, so let’s enjoy it.”\nThat spirit courses through her inimitable and irresistible sound. Merging booming production\, cinematic storytelling\, and a powerhouse voice\, she nods to influences as diverse as Michael Jackson\, Lauryn Hill\, Tracy Chapman\, The Cranberries\, and Kanye West. Drawing on her Albanian heritage and youth in New York City\, she stirs up a musical melting pot of her own.\n“I feel like I’m just starting to show who I am\,” she continues. “I’m going even further though. I’m embracing my roots and the artists I love. At the same time\, I want to tell stories. The new music is more about empowerment. You work on yourself\, and you focus on your happiness. That’s the message. I’m saying what I want to say. Life isn’t easy. We’re all going through something. I hope people know they’re not alone when they hear my songs.” \n*** \nDaniel Skye \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nI am a 16 year old singer/songwriter. \n*** \nSpencer Ludwig \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n> \nA trumpeter\, singer\, producer\, and dancer who rocks alligator shoes with smoking style and panache\, Spencer Ludwig brings any party to life. Chances are\, you’ve heard his lyrical lead trumpet soaring through the music of multiplatinum-selling indie pop act Capital Cities. Not only did the Los Angeles-born\, half-Filipino vocalist-instrumentalist perform on their full-length debut In a Tidal Wave of Mystery\, but he also crisscrossed the globe with the band\, opening Katy Perry’s Prismatic World Tour and tearing up the stage at Coachella\, Bonnaroo\, and more. Following a whirlwind two years in the group\, he returned to Los Angeles in December 2014 and commenced writing solo material that showcased both his trumpet talents and dynamic\, diverse vocals. On his 2016 solo debut for Warner Bros. Records\, he merges jazz virtuosity and pop style for a sound that simmers and swaggers with soul.
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SUMMARY:Sofa King Friday's w/ atb
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - The Menzingers
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nThis show is SOLD OUT. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Menzingers \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe Menzingers will release their eagerly awaited fifth full-length After the Party on February 3\, 2017. The album arrives as the follow-up to the Philadelphia-based band’s widely acclaimed Rented World. Pre-orders for After The Party are available here. \nProduced by Will Yip (Title Fight\, Balance & Composure\, Pianos Become the Teeth)\, After the Party taps into the Menzingers’ everyman romanticism to reflect on getting older but not quite growing up. Throughout the album\, singer/guitarists Greg Barnett and Tom May\, bassist Eric Keen\, and drummer Joe Godino offset that deeply nuanced songwriting with anthemic harmonies\, furious power chords\, and larger-than-life melodies. \n“We spent our 20s living in a rowdy kind of way\, and now we’re at a point where it seems like everyone in our lives is moving in different directions\,” says May of the inspiration behind After the Party. Adds Barnett: “We’re turning 30 now\, and there’s this idea that that’s when real life comes on. In a way this album is us saying\, ‘We don’t have to grow up or get boring—we can keep on having a good time doing what we love.’” “Bad Catholics” follows the release of After the Party’s lead single “Lookers\,” which premiered on Noisey in August. \nThe Menzingers formed as teenagers in their hometown of Scranton in 2006\, then later relocated to Philadelphia. The band made their Epitaph debut with 2012’s On The Impossible Past\, which was voted Album of the Year by Absolute Punk and Punk News. Released in 2014\, Rented World was praised as “packed with clever songwriting” by The New York Times and “a colossal fist-pumper” by Stereogum. \n*** \nJeff Rosenstock \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIt’s almost midnight on a Saturday in the summer\, and I live in New York City. I’m still in my 30s and I don’t have to get up early tomorrow. By anyone’s standards\, I should be heading out for the night; dancing\, drinking\, meeting up with old friends\, making new friends\, making mistakes\, and feeling young in a city that allows you to remain young despite your age growing higher. I should be out there living. \nInstead\, I just put a load of laundry in the machine in my building’s basement. I’m wearing a pair of green shorts and I feel like an asshole in them. I have knobby knees and shorts don’t look good on me. I am wearing a light green t­shirt and the whole outfit makes me vaguely feel like a middle­aged man dressed up for his first day of kindergarten. I am going nowhere tonight\, and I suspect this may apply in the long term as well. \nThis seems like the perfect time to write about Jeff Rosenstock. \nBecause no one I’ve ever met creates art that encapsulates this state of mind more than Jeff. It’s music that’s catchier than any other music\, music you can scream along to in a joyous frenzy. But simultaneously\, if you really listen to the lyrics you’re shouting\, they can speak to a loneliness and desperation so profound it’s soul crushing. I’ve lost myself in joy to Jeff’s songs and I’ve sat alone depressed to Jeff’s songs\, and I’ve felt both those things to the same song\, sometimes on back to back listens. \nNobody can take the exhilaration and possibilities of life and balance them with the depression of a laundry room on a Saturday night like Jeff Rosenstock. His music can be like a funeral taking place inside a bouncy house\, or like a kids’ birthday party taking place inside a morgue. I say that with the utmost sincerity and the intent to offer only the highest of praise. \nIf you’re reading this\, you probably know the legend of Jeff Rosenstock by now. The Arrogant Sons of Bitches had Long Island’s attention\, and then mutated into Bomb the Music Industry\, a collection of musicians that were among the first to just give their music away\, that spray painted t­shirts for fans\, that did everything in a way that was financially ill­advised and built a cult unlike any other in the process. Sometimes their shows had a dozen musicians on stage\, sometimes it was Jeff and an ipod. No matter what\, there was always one thing that remained the same – this band had as much integrity as Fugazi with none of the pretension but with all the emotion but with a lot more fun and also I have to reiterate none of the pretension. To me it seems like Bomb was like Fugazi if the members of Fugazi had been willing to let down their guards and laugh at fart jokes. Again\, this is meant as high praise. I really like Fugazi and am not trying to talk shit\, it’s just an apt metaphor. \nWhen Bomb ended\, Jeff was left standing in a lonely spotlight and we all wondered if he’d be ok. Instead of even giving us time to find out\, he put out We Cool? and showed us all what growing up looks like. Growing up fucking sucks\, but it’s not for melodramatic reasons. It sucks because your joints start hurting and you know you probably aren’t gonna get some of the things done that you’ve always promised yourself you’re gonna get done and you still have a lot of guilt about dumb shit you pulled when you were like 19. We Cool? showed us that Jeff Rosenstock’s version of growing up wasn’t going to betray Bomb or its fans or the things people loved about them\, it was going to put a magnifying glass on his own impulses and insecurities as an individual in a way that was both shockingly frank and impossibly catchy. \nJeff’s music\, if you ask me\, is for people who really and truly feel like they could change the world\, if only they could muster up the strength to leave the fucking house. It’s for people who get into group situations and have every instinct inside their heads scream that the world is a fucked up and terrifying place and they should crumble up into a corner and wait to die\, but who instead dance like idiots because what the fuck else is there to do? It’s music that makes me feel like maybe\, just maybe\, if I do things the right way I can help make the world a better place\, while co­existing with the knowledge that I don’t fucking matter and there’s no reason not to give up\, except maybe I shouldn’t because what if deep down people are actually beautiful\, giving\, and kind? \nIt’s music that makes me lose myself like I used to when I was 13 and first discovered the joy of punk rock\, but it’s also music that makes me think way too fucking hard about why the world is how it is and if I might be someone with enough heart to throw a few punches in the effort to make shit just a tiny bit better for others for one fucking second of one fucking day. \nIt’s simple punk rock. It’s also complicated and beautiful and working class and perfect. \nIs the above a little cheesy? Sure. But I think it’s true and I think it’s all worth saying. Because having become friends with Jeff over the past few years\, I can say the following with great certainty – he actually is what he says he is. And because of that\, all the above applies. His integrity is untouchable. We all need to take a second and appreciate how much time this guy has wasted finding all ages venues. How much money he has passed on to retain his credibility as an artist. If other artists – myself chief among them – conducted themselves with an ounce of the integrity Jeff approaches all areas of art and life with\, the world would be a better place. \nI know this might sound silly to people who don’t get it – they might say “It’s just punk rock\, calm down.” – but fuck those people\, we all know Jeff is a musical genius. If he wanted to go ghost write songs for Taylor Mars and Bruno Swift\, I bet he could make millions of dollars doing so. Music is easy for him. He could write empty songs and hand them off to hollow artists and we all know he’d kill it and he wouldn’t have to deal with shaking down shady promoters for a few hundred bucks or driving overnight to get to the next venue or stressing about paying bills or any of it. He continues to not do any of that easy shit and that’s because he’s not bullshitting about doing things not just the right way\, but in a way that’s more idealistic than reality actually allows for. He does that for us. \nThe guy is a genius poet while simultaneously being the definition of a fucking goon from Long Island. There is nothing not to love. The album you are about to listen to\, WORRY.\, only furthers and exceeds the myth of Jeff Rosenstock\, he who is mythical for being the most normal dude from a boring place any of us have ever met; mythical for sticking to his guns when all logic points in the other direction; mythical for writing melodies that stick in our brains and lyrics that rip our guts out; mythical most of all for being not mythical at all. He’s just Jeff. It’s not that complicated. But in a world where everything is driven by branding and image and hidden agendas\, being not that complicated makes him perhaps the most complicated artist I know. \nEnjoy this album. Enjoy it as a whole. The second half is going to blow your mind with its ambitiousness – in my opinion the second half of this album will be viewed over time as a triumph and high water mark of a cool ass career. And the singles – “Wave Goodnight to Me” is untouchable. “Blast Damage Days” will make you feel ok about the fact that the world seems to be built on a foundation of quicksand. \nAnd when you’re done listening\, don’t forget – you probably can’t change the world\, but you’re kind of a dick if you don’t at least try. Jeff’s been falling on the sword for the rest of us for years and it’s on all of us to at least go down swinging. \nSincerely\, \nChris Gethard \nPS – John DeDomenici ain’t bad either. \n*** \nRozwell Kid \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nRozwell Kid is the rock and roll brainchild of frontman Jordan Hudkins. Born and raised in West Virginia\, Hudkins’ landlocked upbringing imbues the band and their tunes with a restless energy. He manages to avoid the sun-tanned decadence of some of his noise pop counterparts while keeping the tunes charged with the insouciant attitude of his LA post-grunge inspirations. The band draws from a variety of musical influences ranging from 90s punk to Weezer to the Broadway musicals that Hudkins listened to as a kid. Good Graphics\, the Kid’s fourth release\, continues their stumble into adulthood. The album explores everything from the struggles of growing up (”Baby‘s First Sideburns”) to the simplicity of everyday pleasures (”Hummus Vacuum”)\, celebrating the absurdity of life rather than being weighed down by it. Welcome to the darker side of fun.
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SUMMARY:#WCKDsaturdays w/ Mark Anthony
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nSOLD OUT \n*** \n*** \nKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n“Nonagon infinity opens the door\,” sings Stu Mackenzie\, frontman of Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. It turns out\, though\, that once the door’s open\, it never closes. That’s because the Melbourne septet has ingeniously crafted what may be the world’s first infinitely looping LP. Each of the nine\, complex\, blistering tracks on ‘Nonagon Infinity’ seamlessly flows into the next\, with the final song linking straight back into the top of the opener like a sonic mobius strip. It’s exactly the kind of ambitious vision that prompted Rolling Stone to dub the band “one of the most compelling collectives of art-rock experimentalists in recent years.” But far from a simple conceptual experiment\, the album is both an exhilarating shot of adrenaline and a remarkable feat of craftsmanship\, the result of painstaking planning and an eye for detail years in the making. \nThe roots of ‘Nonagon Infinity’ stretch back to 2014\, when King Gizzard recorded their critically acclaimed album “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz\,” which was hailed by Pitchfork as “dense\, intricately crafted\, and most importantly\, powerful.” \n“We actually wanted to do this with ‘Mind Fuzz\,’ but it just didn’t work\,” explains Mackenzie. “We ended up writing songs that needed to be on that record but didn’t connect to the others\, so we had to abandon the idea\, but the seeds were sown.” \nTo an outsider\, it may have seemed like the band had completely given up on the concept\, as the ever-prolific group quickly followed ‘Mind Fuzz’ with two more records in 2015\, ‘Quarters’—described by The Guardian as “the neon intersection of DIY psych and 1960s beach pop”—and the stripped-down ‘Paper Mache Dream Balloon\,’ which earned praise from NPR to Stereogum. The truth\, though\, was that King Gizzard was honing in on the ‘Nonagon Infinity’ material the whole time\, test-driving various tracks in their explosive live shows to prep for the monumental task of stitching them all together into one searing\, multi-movement epic. \n“We really wanted to focus on things that felt good live\,” says Mackenzie. “We’d grab a little riff here or a little groove there\, and we’d jam on them and form songs out of them\, which was the opposite of ‘Paper Mache\,’ where we were making songs in an acoustic\, classic-songwriting kind of way. I wanted to have an album where all these riffs and grooves just kept coming in and out the whole time\, so a song wasn’t just a song\, it was part of a loop\, part of this whole experience where it feels like it doesn’t end and doesn’t need to end.” \nRecorded at Daptone Studios in Brooklyn\, the final result is an intricate and immersive listening experience. Lyrical refrains and musical motifs establish themselves and then submerge beneath the chaos\, only to resurface unexpectedly later like familiar companions on a labyrinthine journey. Motorhead-grade riffs give way to King Crimson and Yes-levels of prog complexity\, as songs churn through unusual time signatures and shifting rhythms with blunt force\, laying waste to everything in their path. \n“I wanted it to feel like a horror or sci-fi movie\,” explains Mackenzie of the album’s dark overtones. “The lyrics came as a stream of consciousness\, all of these elements just falling out of my head as it was happening.” \n“Big Fig Wasp” references a particularly macabre insect that must kill itself in order to perpetuate the species\, while “Gamma Knife\,” with its 11/8-time drum solo\, is named for a surgical tool that burns cuts into the skin\, and “People-Vultures” plays like a sinister film soundtrack. Album opener “Robot Stop” pulls more directly from the band’s recent experiences\, inspired in part by their relentless work ethic and tour schedule\, which has included festival performances at Bonnaroo\, Glastonbury\, Montreux Jazz & Roskilde as well as countless sold out dates in rooms across the USA\, UK\, Europe and Australia. \n“That song’s about feeling overworked\, like a bit of a robot that’s just going to crash and die or something\,” he says with a laugh. “But you get yourself up and do it again and you robot on and you’re alright. It was one of the early ones we wrote for the record\, and I think when that song came together\, everybody started to feel like were going to actually be able to pull off this never-ending album idea.” \nTo say they pulled it off would be an understatement. The record is a force to be reckoned with on par with the road trains Mackenzie references in the album’s final track. \n“In the Australian desert\, in the outback\, there are what’s called road trains\, which are these massive trucks pulling heaps of carriages that can end up being 50 meters long\,” he explains. “They drive on the road really\, really fast\, and they’re deadly\, with these bars in the front to kill kangaroos and anything else in their path.” \n‘Nonagon Infinity’ has opened the door for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard\, and they’re barreling ahead with more momentum than ever before now. Much like those road trains\, with a band this good\, the safest place to be is onboard. \nKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are: \nStu Mackenzie – Guitar\, lead vocals \nJoe Walker – Guitar\, vocals \nEric Moore – Drums \nAmbrose Kenny-Smith – Harmonica\, vocals \nLucas Skinner – Bass \nCook Craig – Guitar \nMichael Cavanagh – Drums \n*** \nORB \n \n[Website] [Facebook] \nBirth by ORB \nPlaying dark\, sonically massive guitar-based rock that’s heavy without sounding excessively metallic\, ORB (not to be confused with the influential electronic group the Orb) hail from Geelong\, Victoria\, Australia. The group was founded by guitarist and lead singer Zak Olsen\, guitarist and bassist Daff Gravolin\, and drummer Jamie Harmer. The three musicians lived not far from one another\, and with some extra time on their hands\, they began jamming regularly. Inspired by their youthful enthusiasm for hard rock and early metal bands ORB started as an exercise in fuzz and alternate tunings with a drive to challenge the style they were used to playing in other projects. \nTheir first full-length album\, Birth\, was released in July 2016 by Flightless & Anti-Fade in Australia and by Castle Face in the United States and Canada. \n*** \nStonefield \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIt all started in a shed. \nMore specifically\, it started in a shed on a family hobby farm in a tiny rural township in Victoria\, Australia. \nThe four Findlay sisters\, who’d go on to become the earthen psych-rock opal that is Stonefield\, had been granted their wish of a drum kit by their parents\, whose Zappa\, Hendrix and Zeppelin records had long been the shared soundtrack of the household. Amy – the oldest Findlay\, though at that time just 15 – took a particular shine to the kit and soon began lessons\, her practice sessions echoing out across the family’s acreage. It wasn’t long\, however\, before her sisters were drawn back into the shelter as\, one by one\, they found their own instruments to wrangle with. Hannah\, then 13\, started on guitar. Sarah\, 12\, took on the keyboard. Holly\, just seven years old\, listened in on her sisters practising and\, perhaps hearing that something was missing\, asked her father for a bass. \nNow the question is: listen to Stonefield and try to figure out what else the Findlays could possibly be doing. \nStonefield’s first song ‘Foreign Lover’ was recorded for a project Amy was working on as part of her tertiary studies. When they arrived home from the studio that day\, the siblings’ mother suggested they enter the track in triple j’s Australia-wide unsigned band competition\, Unearthed High. The deadline for entries was that night. They weren’t convinced they had a chance\, but decided to give it a shot. \nSoon enough\, ‘Foreign Lover’ was all over triple j\, followed shortly by infectious rock stomper ‘Through The Clover\,’ the song they were given the opportunity to record as part of the competition’s first prize. Stonefield was invited to showcase at the inaugural One Movement music and arts conference in Perth\, which resulted in [renowned band booker] Martin Elbourne\, inviting the band to play the 2011 Glastonbury Festival on the spot. \nOver the next two years\, the girls wrote and released their second EP Bad Reality. They released their debut self-titled album in October 2013. It entered the AIR charts at #6 and the ARIA charts at #21. The three singles released from the album\, including Put Your Curse On Me\, received immense support from triple j\, and the Southern Cross Network\, including MMM. \nThe album was well received by both the industry and general public. Such was the demand that Stonefield embarked on a national tour\, spanning 22 dates and 5 states. The second single Love You Deserve\, took up a life entirely of its own\, and the band set out on yet another tour. \nBy this time\, the international market had caught wind of the incendiary band from rock journo heaven\, and the girls headed to the UK during May to play showcases\, as well as Dot to Dot festivals across the UK. In November 2013\, Stonefield won the inaugural Age Music Victoria Award for Best Regional Act. \nAfter a huge amount of touring the country last year\, 2015 kicked off with the band being awarded ‘APRA Rock Work Of the Year’ for their song ‘Love you Deserve’. Stonefield have secured the support slot for one of their idol bands Fleetwood Mac’ later this year. Finally at home the girls have spent this year working on their second album; produced by Australian music legend ‘Kram’ from Spiderbait. The first taste ‘Golden Dream’ is an exciting glimpse of the new music to come.
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SUMMARY:Sofa King Friday's w/ Dash Berlin
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SUMMARY:#WCKDsaturdays w/ Havana Brown
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP ? 617-733-0505\nLadies free before 11:30pm w/ RSVP
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Tinariwen
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston and World Music/CRASHarts present \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:45 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTHIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT! \n*** \n \n*** \n Tinariwen  \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe new album by Tinariwen could well have been called Exile on Main Street. But other people have already thought of that. It also could have been called A la recherché du pays perdu (‘Remembrance of a lost country’). Except that would have been a tad Proustian for musicians who grew up pretty much between a rock and a sand dune\, in the midst of their goat herds and camel caravans. But the idea is apt. As is the painful paradox\, if you consider that while Tinariwen were busy criss-crossing the globe on their recent triumphant tours (160 concerts played in the past three years)\, expanding their audience on all five continents\, becoming one of the latest musical phenomena of truly universal calibre\, the frontiers that encircle their desert home were closing down and double-locking\, forcing them into exile to record this their 8th album. \nOver the past five years\, their beloved homeland in the Adrar des Ifoghas\, a Saharan mountain range that straddles the border between north-eastern Mali and southern Algeria has\, in effect\, been transformed into a conflict zone\, a place where nobody can venture without putting themselves in danger and where war lords devoted either to jihad or trafficking (sometimes both at the same time)\, have put any activity that contradicts their beliefs or escapes their control in jeopardy. Even though the 12 songs on this new record evoke those cherished deserts of home\, they were recorded a long way away from them. And\, as a result of this separation\, at a time when the political\, military and humanitarian situation in the region has never been so critical\, the feelings and the emotions that the band managed to capture on record have never been so vivid. \nIn October 2014\, making use of a few days off in the middle of a long American tour\, the band stopped off at Rancho de la Luna studios in California’s Joshua Tree National Park. The place has become the favoured refuge of the stoner rock tribe. Josh Homme and his Queens of the Stone Age were the first to make it their hive\, and since then\, whether in use by P J Harvey or the Foo Fighters\, Iggy Pop or the Arctic Monkeys\, neither the mixing console nor the kitchen ovens have had a moment to cool down. For Tinariwen\, the geographical location of the studios – lost in the middle of that horizontal desert\, that mineral immensity\, where Man is reminded of his own insignificance in ways that can only\, in the end\, either kill him or sublimate him – proved to be particularly propitious in terms of creativity. \nAnd the human climate was just as favourable. As session followed session\, musicians who know the place well dropped by to add their own touch to that pre-industrial boogie which comes from a world where only the essential and metaphysical passions of space and time have any meaning. Such was the case of Matt Sweeny\, guitarist of fine pedigree (Johnny Cash\, Bonnie Prince Billy and Cat Power) and an avowed fan of the band. Kurt Vile\, ex-member of the duo War On Drugs\, now spearheading a noisy indi-folk combo\, also took part in the debate. As did Alan Johannes\, multi-instrumentalist\, sound engineer and producer of the first few albums by Queens of the Stone Age\, a band with whom Mark Lanegan\, the other guest on the album\, has also been a singer. From their angle\, one might have expected all these contributions to result in something pretty heavy\, with those American guitars coming into to reinforce the ishumar (name of the musical style of which Tinariwen precursors) guitars of Ibrahim\, Abdallah Hassan and Elaga. In effect\, lovers of those sensual yet abrasive riffs that are the band’s signature won’t be disappointed. But neither will those who love the funky\, danceable side of Tinariwen\, which comes through loud and clear courtesy of bassist Eyadou and percussionist Sarid\, a veritable rhythm machine in the mould of Sly and Robbie. All that potential has been wonderfully honed by the album’s mixing engineer Andrew Schepps\, who has previously worked with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers\, Johny Cash\, and Jay Z. \nThat happy encounter between Tamasheks and rockers was already in evidence back in 2011\, with the involvement of Wilco and TV On The Radio on the album Tassili\, which was recorded in the depths of the Sahara. It was as if those musicians\, coming from their world of high tech\, leisure and entertainment\, sought to reinvigorate the way they do things by working with artists who have been forced by necessity to reduce everything to its essence\, and who bear a different destiny. In that sense\, Ibrahim and his tribe restore meaning to an activity which has been partially drained all existential significance. In a cultural environment that has been overtaken by the petty and the superficial\, the members of Tinariwen fascinate because they incarnate a salutary break and come across as the ultimate heroes in the midst of an army of fleshless puppets. \nHaving said that\, in M’Hamid El Ghizlane they’re heroes for real\, so much so that the youth of the area know how to sing their songs in the same way that people in other parts of the world know how to sing the Stones or Led Zep . It was there\, in that oasis in southern Morocco\, close by the Algerian frontier\, that the band set up their tents for three weeks in March 2016 to record this 8th album\, accompanied now and then by the local musical youth in question\, or by a local Ganga outfit (a group of Berber ‘gnawa’ trance musicians). The album is called Elwan (‘The Elephants’)\, not Exile On Main Street\, though it fits nicely into that ‘road record’ category nonetheless. \nThere are road records just like there are road movies. In American cinema\, a road movie always unfolds the same way. Characters travel from one place to another in search of some truth\, of a future might offer them some kind of revelation. But they always end up reconnecting with their own past\, their origins. Of course\, it’s an impossible return\, because that past\, those founding origins have been irrevocably erased. It’s the same for this record\, so musically powerful and yet poignant in human terms: every song evokes a land that can no longer be found\, a lost world\, with all that this implies in terms of emotional range\, from nostalgia for a joyous past to the tragic recent loss of a territory\, and of the dream that it nourished. The emotional ‘bite’ of that loss imbues some of the songs by Ibrahim\, such as Imidiwan n-akal-in (Friends from my country)\, Hayati (My life) or Ténéré Takhal (What’s Happened to the Desert). It’s in that last song that the famous elephants of the album title make their appearance\, an animal metaphor to describe those ‘beasts’\, whether militias or multinational consortiums\, who have trampled everything in their path: kindness\, respect\, solidarity\, ancestral traditions and the values essential to life in the desert\, where both the human and ecological equilibriums are extremely fragile. \nBut the songs written by Abdallah\, such as Sastanaqqam (I Question You)\, or those penned by Hassan\, the deeply disturbing Ittus (Our Goal)\, also evoke a similar sense of helplessness and disempowerment. The same goes for Nannuflay (Fulfilled)\, written by Eyadou\, one of the ‘kids’ in the band; it’s a song echoes that sense of absolute crisis. Having said that\, between the weariness of the old fighters of the Touareg rebellion of the 1990s (Ibrahim\, Hassan\, Abdallah) and the dynamism of a youth that’s still emerging (Eyadou\, Elaga\, Sarid\, Sadam)\, you get a wonderfully symbiotic mix. The meeting of two such disparate generations in one band is relatively rare in today’s musical world. In Tinariwen\, it’s a meeting that celebrates\, even more powerfully might otherwise be the case\, the capacity of music to make experiences as intense and cruel as exile beautiful and\, in some ways\, even attractive\, experiences that would surely end up destroying those who lived them\, if this form of aesthetic relief didn’t exist. \nFrancis Dordor\nTranslated by Andy Morgan \n*** \nDengue Fever \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n“Before it was partly Cambodian and partly indie rock\,” explains Williams of the band’s evolution. “Now it’s 100 percent both.” \nPlunging headlong into their second decade as a band\, DENGUE FEVER’s new album\, The Deepest Lake\, their fifth full-length of all-new material\, comes at a critical juncture in the band’s career. In 2013\, after forming their own label Tuk Tuk Records\, the band crossed over into a brave new world as both artist and record label owner’s. Today they find themselves able to wear two hats – as creative musicians with no boundaries as well as label owners who make their own decisions on where\, when and how to fabricate their career. \nThe net result is the aforementioned\, The Deepest Lake\, a record with more musical diversions than the Mekong River itself. Released in January 27\, 2015 – US/Canada & February 2\, 2015 in the rest of the world\, the ten tracks on The Deepest Lake will satiate longtime fans as well as newcomers looking for something altogether different. Widely recognized for their trademark blend of 60’s Cambodian pop and psychedelic rock\, Dengue Fever’s latest release expands their musical palette to include Khmer rap\, Latin grooves\, Afro percussion\, layered Stax-like horns and more. \nFrom the keyboard and percussion heavy opening track\, “Tokay”\, lead singer Chhom Nimol’s unmistakable bird-like Khmer vocals lead the band on a evolutionary musical journey on The Deepest Lake. Be it the John Doe & Exene boy/girl vocals on “Rom Say Sok” that gets your indie grooves on or the six plus minute psychedelic jam on “Cardboard Castles”\, it’s pretty evident that this is a band looking to take chances and not play it safe. By following their instincts on this record and letting many of the final tracks come out of extended jams when demo’ing the album\, the band played to their musical strengths. No longer was there a need to ‘find’ a song\, the songs on The Deepest Lake came to them. \nThe band’s newly established independence as both label owner and artist marks yet another chapter in the continual evolution of a group unlike many other bands in the Los Angeles music scene. It all began in 2002 when Dengue Fever formed and released their eponymous debut (2003). Packed chock full of ‘lost’ Khmer covers\, the band paid homage to Khmer rock\, a hybrid of Vietnam War era surf\, psych and classic rock performed by Cambodian giants like Ros Sereysothea\, Pan Ron and Sinn Sisamouth. \nThe band’s critically acclaimed sophomore follow-up\, Escape from Dragon House (2005) found them writing and performing original material in earnest. Amazon.com named Dragon House the #1 international release for 2005\, and Mojo magazine named it in their Top 10 World Music releases of 2006. \nIn 2008\, their third release Venus on Earth became the band’s best selling album. It garnered praise from both critics and fans the world over. In fact\, Venus on Earth found support from iconic musicians such as Peter Gabriel\, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Ray Davies who each made mention of the band in the press. \nDENGUE FEVER’s fourth release\, Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group)\, was released in April 2011 and found the band expanding beyond their usual comfort zone and experimenting with new vocal harmonies and sounds. \nThe roots of the band began in the late 1990’s with a 6-month trek through Southeast Asia by Keyboardist Ethan Holtzman. Returning to Los Angeles with a suitcase crammed full of Cambodian cassette tapes\, Holtzman and his brother Zac – who had discovered the same music through a friend working at a record store in San Francisco – reunited. The brothers soon bonded over their love of vintage Cambodian rock and in 2002 founded the band with saxophonist\, David Ralicke (Beck/Brazzaville); drummer\, Paul Dreux Smith; and bassist\, Senon Williams (Radar Brothers). Shortly thereafter the members were on hot pursuit for the ideal Cambodian chanteuse to complete their outfit. After a short period of musical courtship that began at a Cambodian nightclub in Long Beach\, CA.\, Nimol joined the band when she realized the band shared a genuine passion for the music and culture of her homeland. \nIt’s that cross pollination of Khmer rock\, garage rock\, psychedelic rock and the British Invasion sound that has pushed the band to heights they could only dream of in 2002. DENGUE FEVER has performed in front of thousands of fans at such noted music festivals as WOMAD (UK\, AUS\, NZ)\, WOMEX (Spain)\, Melbourne Festival (AUS)\, Glastonbury (UK)\, Bumerbshoot\, (USA)\, Transmusicales (France)\, Roskilde (Denmark)\, Electric Picnic (Ireland)\, Peace and Love (Sweden)\, Treasure Island (USA) among many others. Their songs have appeared in films such as City of Ghosts\, Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers\, The Hangover 2\, the Showtime series Weeds\, the HBO’s hit series True Blood (who named an entire episode after one of their songs) and featured the band’s music\, CBS’ series CSI: Las Vegas and numerous independent documentaries. \nWith band profiles in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Mojo\, Uncut\, Magnet\, Wired\, NPR’s “Fresh Air”\, Radio Australia\, KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” and “World Café Live”\, the time is truly ripe for at least another decade of breaking down more musical barriers. The Deepest Lake is the first\, glorious musical step in that new direction.
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sofa King Friday's w/ KSHMR
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP 617.733.0505
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SUMMARY:Betty Who
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is ALL AGES.\nTickets on sale Fri. 2/3 at 10AM! \nRoyale is general admission standing room only. Tickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office (Cambridge\, MA) Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n***
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:#WCKDsaturdays w/ Tone Terra
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nLadies free w/ RSVP before 11:30pm \nFor VIP Inquiries please call 617-733-0505
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patriot's Day Sunday w/ DJ Paulo
DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP: 617-733-0505
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/patriots-day-sunday-w-dj-paulo/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. X/XX at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 888-929-7849. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nMe First and the Gimme Gimmes \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAre We Not Men? We Are Diva! by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes \nIn that mythical era known as the 90’s\, five brave young men emerged from the legendary halls of some of the mightiest bands on Fat Wreck Chords with a single mission: make all the rest of these dildo punk bands covering popular songs obsolete. They crowned themselves Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and the world rejoiced. Now\, seven records\, scores of singles and nearly a thousand years later\, having tackled every genre under the sun\, the bold young knaves known colloquially as the Gimmes have ridden their success hard\, and decayed into desiccated\, old divas. Yet\, the diva\, she is immortal. And thus\, imbued with the old-world\, Mystic Pizza-esque swagger of Cher\, the modern pop-art sensibility of Lady Gaga and the enthusiasm-for-drug-consumption of Whitney Houston\, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have returned from their beauty rest\, busting out of their sequined gowns\, and throwing vases at their assistants in order to present you with their latest opus\, entitled Are We Not Men? We Are Diva!\, slated to be released on May 13\, 2014 on none other than Fat Wreck Chords. And you’d best believe\, whether because of their tantrums or their virtuosity\, once you hear these fat ladies sing\, there’s not gonna be a dry eye in the house.\nFor the uninitiated\, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes consist of Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape on the guitar\, Shiflett brother (and Foo Fighter) Chris Shiflett on the other guitar\, Lagwagon drummer and Fat Wreck utility superhero Dave Raun on the skins\, and are rounded out by Fat Wreck-head-honcho/NOFX main-dude Fat Mike\, and incomparable crooner Spike Slawson. Together\, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes—an outfit that has always operated more like a beer-hall Pussycat Dolls than a regular mortal band—contain so much hot air\, so much pomp\, so much attitude\, that it’s a wonder that these guys can still manage to pull their five individual tour buses into the same parking lot\, put their differences aside and belt out the ballads without clawing each other’s eyes out. But they do\, for the love of the fans\, the music\, and of course\, the applause.\nIn the past\, The Gimmes have tackled such disparate genres as Motown\, country\, show tunes and even Japanese pop (sung in real live Japanese!) but none of that enabled them to truly soar as high above the eagles as they desired\, feeling the wind of other\, lesser bands beneath their wings. So this time\, the Fat (Wreck) Five decided to take on the un-take-on-able and hit us with cuts from the likes of Celine (gasp!) Christina (Sigh!) and Paula Abdul (oh no you di’int!) among others. And as Spike’s baritone somehow manages to make Whitney Houston’s (Dolly Parton-penned) Theme Song To The Bodyguard EVEN MORE EPIC\, you will be moved to tears. You will find joy. You will shake in your very skin as the music of these divas gently takes you by the hand and shows you how to love again. AND! You’ll buy tickets to see ‘em on tour.\nBecause that’s right folks! Nothing says ‘diva’ like coming to your town to bask in the torrential\, gushing blasts of your love\, and the Gimmes will be hitting the entire world in support of Are We Not Men? We Are Diva!\, except maybe Mike\, who’s such a diva that he’s got substitutes on hand! So grab those flowers off of your grandma’s grave and head out now\, to check out Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on wax and in your town\, before these five outrageous harpies either kill each other or wind up as a Vegas destination act\, bloated\, high on pills and… uh\, nevermind that last part. Just go see em\, eh? It’s a helluva time. \n*** \nMasked Intruder \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe best pop-punk band you hope never gets out of prison. \nPears \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nGreen Star by PEARS \nThe story of PEARS is not exactly an incredibly long one: The hardcore punk band came together just over a year ago\, in early 2014\, after its members had kicked around the New Orleans punk scene for long enough before finally wising up and realizing they were meant for each other. However\, it is a story that is remarkably fast-paced: The band’s first demo\, …In Diapers\, was released days after their first practice. The band’s 10-song debut album\, the absolutely electrifying Go To Prison\, was written over the course of 14 hours and recorded a mere five weeks after the band formed. Really\, there’s no way PEARS should be as good as they are—something frontman Zach Quinn fully realizes. “The big secret is that me and a couple of the guys were in a band called the Lollies for a few years\,” Quinn says. “That band broke up\, we took some time away from each other and then just tried to do it right this time. I guess we really kind of lucked out. We didn’t make the same mistakes—the same mistakes being really too fuckin’ drunk to do anything.”\nOf course\, coming out of the NOLA scene\, it’s tough to be anything but debaucherous. “The city is so decadent\, it’s a great place to be a piece of shit\,” Quinn says. “There’s plenty of punk rock. Not a lot of it is very good\, but everybody’s having fun.” It’s that anything-goes attitude that informs Go To Prison\, an album that straddles the line between in-your-face hardcore and sugar-sweet traditional pop-punk that’s surprisingly lighthearted. It’s evident in their logo (some might call it an homage to Fear; “I haven’t heard from Lee Ving’s lawyers yet\,” chuckles Quinn)\, all the musical easter eggs scattered throughout the record (including references to Descendents and Suicidal Tendencies)\, plus an absolutely ripping cover of the Ramones’ “Judy Is A Punk” that is one whole second shorter than the original (a feat we didn’t even think possible). But just because the album comes off as humorous at times doesn’t mean PEARS don’t take themselves seriously. “I definitely take what we do very seriously\, but it doesn’t mean it ain’t funny\,” Quinn explains. “Humor is an aspect of everything. People without a sense of humor are either dead or lying. There’s humor in everything if you know where to look.” Take\, for example\, the band name. “The name ‘PEARS’ came from this really terrible mushroom trip I had\,” he admits. “I ate way too many mushrooms and things just got really bizarre. Pears and bananas became archetypes for everything that is good and pure and everything that is terrible and shitty—pears are the terrible and shitty things. After that bad trip\, pears became slang between me and my friends for bullshit: ‘That shit’s pears.’ I suggested the band name\, and everybody thought that was dumb\, but I talked ‘em into it.” The band were lucky enough to befriend Off With Their Heads frontman Ryan Young\, who loved the band so much he put out Go To Prison on vinyl on his own label\, Anxious And Angry\, last year. Since then\, PEARS have been on the road nonstop\, supporting the likes of the Dwarves\, the Queers\, Teenage Bottlerocket and Strung Out\, all leading to the re-release of Go To Prison on Fat Wreck Chords on July 24th. That’s no excuse to stop working\, though: While their first album might finally be hitting a record store near you this July\, the band will be back in the studio recording its follow-up with none other than Fat Mike in the producer’s chair. (“I never thought anything like that would ever happen\,” Quinn says of Mike’s interest in his band. “I remember buying The Decline when I was 12—it’s really weird that I have anydegree of separation from that.”) While 2015 might be the busiest year of PEARS’ short existence thus far\, it’s clear 2016 has potential to be even bigger.\n“Honestly\, what we have done up to now\, I hadn’t even dreamed of\,” Quinn admits. “I’m not gonna stop climbing. I wanna see how insane this can get. We’ve always said the last thing we’ll do as a band is play North Korea. Then we’ll be done. That’s the ultimate goal—even if we sneak in and play to nobody. I don’t care. I can’t wait to see what I get to do.”
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