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SUMMARY:Royale Saturdays: Space Jam
DESCRIPTION:Call or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+ \nCalling all space cadets…Cosmic is back! On Saturday\, September 14\, join us for SPACE JAM; a party that is extraterrestrial at Royale! Expect some otherworldly surprises and don’t forget to download your free before 11 RSVP!
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] The Band Camino
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is 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*** \nThe Band Camino \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nValley \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nVALLEY is a band comprised of the four kids you used to know back in grade school. They were the ones talking excitedly about that classic band and some new artist in the same breath. They were the ones feverishly writing songs and rushing home to record them so you could finally understand what they were trying to say. \nMade up of Rob Laska (vocals)\, Michael Brandolino (guitar)\, Alex Dimauro (bass) and Karah James (drums) is forged from two bands who were accidentally double-booked for studio time. The born-and-raised Canadians seized the opportunity in disguise and began developing what would ultimately become one of the most refreshing and engaging new bands of the decade. \nVALLEY wrote and self-produced the acclaimed 2016 EP This Room Is White\, amassing over 10 million streams\, as well as garnering radio and TV placements for indie pop hit “Swim”. Now VALLEY have returned with two new singles. “Closer To The Picture” written and produced by the band in collaboration with Andy Seltzer (Maggie Rogers\, Tor Miller\, Penguin Prison)\, deals with the cycle of anxiety and self-reflection inherent in the deafening digital noise of 21st century living. The second single\, “Push For Yellow (Shelter)”\, rings as a declaration\, inviting listeners to embrace feelings of uncertainty\, knowing they’re not alone in their search for security. So far\, the new music has caught the attention of the indie music world with features on The 405\, Idobi Radio\, Indie88 and many more. \nBoth tracks are featured on their upcoming EP\, MAYBE – Side A\, the first installment of a full length project that VALLEY have been working on for the past two years and will be released in three parts over the next few months. \nThe timeless\, anthemic songcraft for which VALLEY has become known has been refined in their home studio in Toronto’s outer suburban rim\, the bright sunshine of Los Angeles\, and the gritty real of New York City. The group found a lot of inspiration for new music in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and found a sound that is utterly contemporary and sophisticated\, but also\, in all the right ways\, a little bit throwback. VALLEY are the Toronto band with an undeniable New York sound that are about to be at the top of your radar.
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SUMMARY:Frankie Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 6/21 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*** \nFrankie Cosmos \nFrankie Cosmos \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nClose It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known. It’s like giving yourself a haircut or rearranging your room. You know your hair. You know your room. Here’s the same hair\, the same room\, seen again as something new. Close It Quietly takes the trademark Frankie Cosmos micro-universe and upends it\, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that’s a marked departure from earlier releases\, imagining and reimagining motifs and sounds throughout the album. FC’s fourth studio release is a manifestation of the band’s collaborative spirit: Greta Kline and longtime bandmates Lauren Martin (synth)\, Luke Pyenson (drums)\, and Alex Bailey (bass) luxuriated in studio time with Gabe Wax\, who engineered and co-produced the record with the band. \nRecording close to home— at Brooklyn’s Figure 8 Studios— grounded the band\, and their process was enriched by working closely with Wax\, whose intuition and attention to detail made the familiar unfamiliar and allowed the band to reshape their own contexts. On opener “Moonsea\,” an unaccompanied Greta begins\, “The world is crumbling and I don’t have much to say.” Take that as a wink and a metonym for the whole album\, as her signature vocals are joined by Alex’s ascending bassline and Lauren’s eddying synths\, invoking a loungey take on Broadcast or Stereolab’s space-disco experimental pop. There’s much more than “not much” to say here\, and it’s augmented and expanded by experimentation with synth patches\, textures\, and other recording nuances courtesy of Wax. \nAs the lineup has solidified into the most permanent expression of full-band Frankie Cosmos\, the bandmates have felt more comfortable deviating from their default instruments and contributing bigger-picture ideas to continue pushing the sound forward. The synergy of its creation is clear upon listening: the multiple hands dipping and re-dipping into each song form a multifaceted whole. The band’s closeness and aesthetic consistency freed its members to take more musically-formal risks\, notes Luke: “Everything will sound like Frankie Cosmos because Greta has such a distinct voice (literally and figuratively). We have so much latitude to experiment with the instrumental music\, and this time around we really took advantage of that.”  \nThe album forms its own vortex of reinvention that’s embodied through both the tracks themselves and the recording and arranging processes. “A Joke” curls in on itself\, in word and in deed\, a series of undercuts defining negative space: “It’s just a joke I wasn’t trying to tell;” “It wasn’t really a game;” “I do not know what I am for/I wasn’t really keeping score.” Inverting technology’s human mimicry\, Luke impersonates a drum machine until the song’s end. “A Joke’s” tricks scratch at something bigger\, a small song embodying the laughability of attempting to neatly organize or adhere to any particular role. \n“Rings of a Tree” frees itself from its original context: released earlier this year on Greta’s solo piano album Haunted Items\, she didn’t initially anticipate a major deviation; then\, Luke says\, “Lauren and I had the same arrangement idea without talking about it. Like\, ‘let’s make this song funky. Let’s channel Orange Juice.’ We texted Greta and Alex before practice and Alex came in with a new guitar part that perfectly captured what Lauren and I heard in our heads.”  \n“I’m just fucking glad for my bubble/despite how often it is penetrated by evil” Greta sings on “Last Season’s Textures\,” taking to task the accusation that young people cloister themselves in complacency: she’s quick to point to\, thank\, and feel suspicious of that sphere all at once. The song explores the feeling of safety in her realm; reasonable despair re: reality (“the news is excruciating”); and a quick admission that darkness isn’t something a liberal-minded social network can block out. Kline notes how the song is “partly about misogyny and internalized misogyny–moments where I’ve felt betrayed by what is meant to be a safe space.”  \nWithout losing any intimacy of prior albums\, Close it Quietly is different\, is outer. The album functions as a benign doppelganger\, a shadow self of past releases; where other Frankie Cosmos records shine brightest looking inward\, Close it Quietly refracts the self into the world\, and vice versa\, miraculously echoing Thoreau’s assertion that “when I reflect\, I find that there is other than me.”  \nReflection–and refraction–isn’t tidy. “Flowers don’t grow/in an organized way/why should I?” Greta sings on “A Joke.” Growth isn’t linear. Change happens in circles. While recording the album\, Alex says\, “I closed my eyes a lot.” Stand in the sun\, listen to Close it Quietly\, and do the same. \n*** \nLina Tullgren \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nLina Tullgren is from Southern Maine just over the border of the northernmost seacoast of New Hampshire. It’s an unexpected location for artistic incubation\, but if you grow up anywhere surrounded by family and friends and weirdos interacting at all times with their own interpretations of creative output\, osmosis is bound to occur. Shifting in trainings and traditions\, the 23 year old eventually found themselves a voice with the electric guitar\, uniquely flavored and shaped from the many years of fiddle lessons and classical technique. The shifts in genre and in instrumentation are stark\, but important. Lina’s morphing interaction with music has mirrored a growing determination to harness their ability to melodically and lyrically express complex emotions. \nWith 2016’s Wishlist EP – recorded to tape at the apartment of band mate Ty Ueda – Lina proved an ability to craft simple\, introspective and succinct songs\, each one a pulsing glow leaving you both hollow and whole\, alone but never lonely. It is on Lina’s debut album Won that we reap the full rewards of this newfound confidence in expression and rejection of internal hesitation. “The writing doesn’t necessarily get easier\, but I feel more comfortable tapping into emotions and going to those places that need to be written about. Won\, as it turned out\, is the product that I have been hearing and picturing in my head as I write and listen to music.” It is the product of what happens when you push past the fear of what it means to think out loud – to become accountable for your internal struggles by way of manifesting your ideas into songs that are then free to grow apart from you\, to exist on their own while always remaining specifically implicative of you. Now backed by a full band\, each track manages to remain piercingly intimate\, sometimes brief\, and always honest\, while gaining a wholly new sense of gestation both sonically and lyrically. \n“I am all the wiser now that I accept my fate” \n*** \nLocate S\,1 \nWebsite\nFacebook
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SUMMARY:grandson
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 6/14 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 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*** \ngrandson \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nnothing\,nowhere. \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nZero 9:36 \nFacebook\nTwitter
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SUMMARY:Tinariwen
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston and Global Arts Live \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/5 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \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*** \nTinariwen \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \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*** \nLonnie Holley \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLonnie Holley was born on February 10\, 1950 in Birmingham\, Alabama. From the age of five\, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre\, washing dishes\, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house\, on the state fairgrounds\, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. \nSince 1979\, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music\, born out of struggle\, hardship\, but perhaps more importantly\, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity\, has manifested itself in drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, photography\, performance\, and sound. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects\, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor\, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places\, people\, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the country\, on permanent display in the United Nations\, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden. In January of 2014\, Holley completed a one-month artist-in-residence with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island\, Florida\, site of the acclaimed artist’s studio. \nHolley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event\, concert\, and recording. In Holley’s original art environment\, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works\, repurposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holley’s music\, likewise\, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation. \nHolley’s music caught the attention of Matt Arnett\, whose father has been collecting Holley’s art since the 1980s. In 2006\, Matt organized the first professional recordings of Holley’s music. In 2010\, Arnett set up a performance by Holley at his home. One of the people in attendance was Lance Ledbetter\, founder and owner of the record label Dust-to-Digital. Deeply moved by Holley’s keyboard playing and singing\, Ledbetter signed Holley to his record label. Soon after\, Holley found himself in the studio again\, and in 2010 and 2011\, more studio sessions ensued. The result was the album Just Before Music. More recordings continue to be made to celebrate and to document one of America’s most compelling musicians. In early 2014\, Holley recorded again with Richard Swift\, acclaimed musician and producer at his studio\, National Freedom\, in Cottage Grove\, Oregon. \nIn addition to the studio sessions\, Holley began touring as a musician. In August and September of 2013\, Holley toured the West Coast with Deerhunter. That tour was followed by a tour of the East Coast with Bill Callahan\, and in November and December of 2013\, Holley had his first tour through Western Europe (Spain\, Portugal\, Germany\, Denmark\, Belgium\, The Netherlands\, England\, and France). Holley has been joined on stage or in the studio by a variety of musicians\, including members of Deerhunter\, Black Lips\, The War on Drugs\, Animal Collective\, Dirty Projectors\, Bon Iver\, Julia Holter\, Megafaun\, as well as Ben Sollee\, Steve Gunn\, Jenny Hval\, Marshall Ruffin\, Daniel Lanois\, Laraaji\, Brian Blade\, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip)\, Bill Callahan\, Dave Eggar\, Laraaji\, Kelly Pratt (Beirut/Arcade Fire/The Antlers)\, Sam Amidon\, Aaron Embry (Elliot Smith/Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) and others. In 2013\, Holley’s first records were named to a number of Top Records of the Year lists\, including The Washington Post (#4) and The Chicago Sun Times (#2).  \nIn 2014\, Holley continued to tour\, completing another tour of Europe (Belgium\, Norway\, England\, Denmark\, the Netherlands\, and France) and a USA/Canada tour with Daniel Lanois. Also in 2014\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that they had acquired three sculptures by the acclaimed artist and musician\, through the generosity of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. \nHolley played a number of shows in 2015\, touring Europe again to audiences in England\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Belgium\, France\, and the Netherlands. That tour kicked off with a show at Queen Elizabeth Hall\, as part of David Byrne’s Meltdown Festival. In addition to his European tour\, Holley played shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, The Hammer Museum in LA\, The American Folk Art Museum\, St. James Hall in Vancouver\, The Charleston Music Hall\, among many others\, but the majority of the year was not spent performing live. In 2015\, Holley recorded music for the film Five Nights in Maine\, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and saw theatrical release in the summer of 2016. An exhibition of his visual art opened in the summer of 2015\, titled Something To Take My Place: The Art of Lonnie Holley\, at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art\, accompanied by a monograph of the same name. In the winter of 2015/16\, Supported By the Power: Lonnie Holley\, an exhibition of Holley’s sculptures opened at Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center. \nLonnie Holley continues to make art\, record music\, and tour occasionally\, either alone or with collaborators. The songs and the shows are never the same\, as Holley never performs the same song twice. In the summer of 2016\, he embarked on a tour throughout the Southeastern United States\, this time with a full band of frequent collaborators that included Ben Sollee\, Stevie Nistor\, Kelly Pratt\, and Marshall Ruffin. On the tour\, the band visited artists\, art sites\, and museums\, and held workshops for adults and children along the way. \nIn late September\, 2016\, Holley’s music was sampled on the acclaimed third album (22\, A Million) from Bon Iver. That same month\, Holley was a featured visual artist at AfroPunk/Atlanta\, where his found object sculptures were on display. \nIn November of 2016\, Holley embarked on his fourth European tour\, playing a number of festivals and music venues\, culminating in a sold-out\, two-night residency at the acclaimed Café Oto in London. He returned to the States in time for the premiere of the short documentary about Holley\, The Man is the Music\, at Doc NYC in New York. \nHolley closed out 2016 with his final show of the year at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn\, sharing the stage with Bon Iver. \n2017 was also a busy year for the artist. In January\, an exhibition of his art\, Lonnie Holley: I Snuck Off the Slave Ship\, opened at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. In May\, an exhibition entitled Thumbs Up for the Mothership (a two-artist show with Dawn DeDeaux) premiered at MASS MoCA\, coinciding with the opening of the new Building 6. His work was also featured in two exhibitions at the de Young Museum (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) and had two solo exhibitions at James Fuentes Gallery\, his New York gallery. \nAdditionally\, he made wood block prints with Paulson Fontaine Press\, collaborated on three etchings and a zine with artist Chris Johanson\, played a number of concerts\, spent a lot of time in the recording studio preparing for the release of his third album\, due out in the spring of 2018.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tinariwen-2/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:Gareth Emery
DESCRIPTION:Call or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Da “GAI” Ru Ci World Tour in Boston
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jinquan and VISM Entertainment\nSponsored by Sunnity  \nThis is a 18+ event\, VIP tables are 21+ only.  \nTickets $89/$199\nTicket link: https://event.vism.ca/events/gai19boston\nVIP Tables please contact:\nWechat: vismevent\nPhone: 1-7789855267\nE-mail: admin@vism.ca \nZhou Yan\, known as “GAI”\, is a Chinese rapper\, singer\, and songwriter.\nHis stage name GAI is a childhood nickname meaning “lid” that he was given because of his bowl cut. \nIn early days as an underground rapper\, GAI was leading his music label GO$H!\, a local label in Chongqing\, China. He is one of the few Chinese rappers actively producing trap and Gangsta rap and helped create a type of Trap music called “C-Trap”. His famous songs includes “Gangsta”\, “Empty Fort Strategy”\, “Hot Pot Soup”. \nIn 2017\, GAI’s music career began to boom after attending Hip-Hop reality show The Rap of China\, and winning the contest.
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SUMMARY:Royale Saturdays: Fall Fest
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nightclub
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SUMMARY:Nikos Oikonomopoulos
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 8pm\nValid US government issued ID or international passport required for entry.\n21+
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T190000
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SUMMARY:Cat Power
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 5/10 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*** \nCat Power \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThere are few voices more deeply embedded in the iconography and mythology of American indie rock than that of Chan Marshall. Under the musical nom de plume of Cat Power\, Marshall has released music for nearly 25 years now and her prowess as a songwriter\, a producer\, and most notably—as a voice—has only grown more influential with time. On her 10th studio album\, Wanderer\, Marshall resets her dials\, offering a collection of songs that function as pristine examples of her still-evolving creative practice. Held aloft primarily by Marshall’s own guitar and piano\, Wanderer is a collection of winding\, wondering narratives all perfectly imbued with the kind of yearning and warmth that have made her one of the most distinctive and beloved artists of her generation.  \nProduced by Marshall and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith\, Beck)\, the album includes appearances by longtime friends and compatriots\, as well as guest vocals courtesy of friend and recent tourmate Lana Del Rey. Wanderer is\, in many ways\, a kind of quintessential Cat Power record\, with Marshall’s clarion voice front and center in a set of songs that are remarkably stark and straightforward. Tracks like “Black” and “Me Voy” have the kind of haunted quality that recall the most emotionally harrowing moments of Moon Pix or You Are Free\, while the elegant lilt of “In Your Face” and the minimalist blues of “You Get” (“You Know there’s nothing like time\, to teach you where you have been” Marshall sings on the latter) have the same kind of playful\, soulful timbre of The Greatest. Meanwhile\, the album also showcases Marshall’s uncanny abilities as one of the great interpreters of songs\, with a stunning version of Rihanna’s “Stay”. “I love the tradition of interpreting songs”\, she says. “I think it’s one of the highest compliments you can pay another artist. It’s one of the great traditions in American music and one of the great pleasures.”  \nWhile Wanderer represents a hard-won stability for Marshall\, it’s also evidence that stability —emotional\, physical\, financial —is often fleeting. It’s a thing that must be cared for\, protected\, and can easily evaporate. Songs like “Robbin Hood” and “Nothing Really Matters” confront duplicity and  hopelessness in equal measure\, examining what it means to be taken advantage of (“Who Robbing\, who robbing who?”) and the nihilism of trying to do the right thing in a world where it often feels as if it truly makes no difference. In stark contrast\, the album’s first single\, “Woman\,” (featuring backing vocals from Lana Del Rey) is a full-throated push back against doubters and critics\, as well as a righteous claiming of space. “The doctor said I was not my past\, he said I was finally free\,” sings Marshall\, “I’m a woman of my word\, or haven’t you heard? My word’s the only thing I’ve ever needed.” Defiant\, unbowed\, and fantastically steadfast\, the song ends with the perfect\, beautiful coda: “I’m a woman.”  \nIf old Cat Power records might have easily been viewed as repositories for pain\, Wanderer is\, at its heart\, a testament to the transformative nature of songs\, an album-length imagining of alternate paths\, redemptions\, connections\, and open-ended possibility. This is most evident on “Horizon”\, the album’s emotional centerpiece\, in which Marshall sings about the complicated\, emotionally elastic bonds between family members. For someone whose entire life has been predicated on movement —years of comings and goings with little time to pause and connect — the song offers a bittersweet reconciliation: “You’re on the horizon / I’m on my way / You’re on the horizon / I’m headed the other way.”  \n“This album is about my journey up to this point. Wanderer\, the album\, represents the course my life has taken in this journey – going from town to town\, with my guitar\, telling my tale; with reverence to the people who did this generations before me. Folk singers\, blues singers\, and everything in between. 
They were all wanderers\, and I am lucky to be among them.” – Chan Marshall\, 2018  \n*** \nArsun \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \nBuilding a studio in New York City\, Arsun is working with his band to select equipment best suited to creating his musical dream; creating the sound of the 1960s with the versatility of modern recording. \nWith a sound beyond his 19 years\, Arsun has developed a style worthy of timeless exultation
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cat-power/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:K.Flay
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 5/3 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nK.Flay \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhen facing the daily maelstrom of concerns\, complaints\, and calamities in the news\, in conversation\, and in social media posts\, a smile signals real rebellion. Eschewing self-centered woe and melancholy-for-the-sake-of-melancholy\, happiness becomes the brashest\, boldest\, and ballsiest move—and the sought-after answer. Recognizing this truth\, two-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer\, multi-instrumentalist\, songwriter\, and producer K.Flay sticks to a powerful\, passionate\, and positive mission statement on her third full-length album\, SOLUTIONS [Night Street/Interscope Records].\nCatalyzed by a three-year whirlwind of world touring and prolific output\, she translates the simple pleasures into ten genre-blurring bangers… \n “When I got home from tour\, I was in a dark place\,” she admits. “Eventually\, I made a decision to focus on the things that actually make me happy: walking around my neighborhood\, drawing in notebooks with markers\, talking to my mom on the phone. I thought\, ‘What did I do as a kid to be happy?’ As a child\, you don’t have access to alcohol\, drugs\, sex\, caffeine. I looked back\, when I had fun just by making music. I remembered the first time I wrote a song\, burned a CD\, and played it in my car. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to a religious experience. I reconnected with that spirit and stopped taking shit so seriously.” \nShe certainly earned the right to do so…\nAs the culmination of a diligent decade-long grind marked by a series of independent EPs and shows\, the songstress carved up her own lane in the mainstream with major label debut Every Where Is Some Where. It garnered two nods at the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards in the categories of “Best Engineered Album\, Non-Classical” and “Best Rock Song” for “Blood in the Cut.” The latter generated 30 million-plus Spotify streams as “High Enough” surpassed the 20-million mark and “Giver” clocked 12 million and counting. In addition to praise from Billboard\, Nylon\, The Fader\, and more\, she landed syncs and soundtrack placements for Tomb Raider\, xXx: Return of Xander Cage\, NBA 2K\, Fifa\, This is the End\, and more. Not to mention\, everyone from legendary Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello and Linkin Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda to FIDLAR sought her out for collaborations. She also canvased the globe supporting Imagine Dragons. \nIn the Summer of 2018\, she re-teamed with frequent collaborators Tommy English [Ariana Grande\, Kacey Musgraves\, Thirty Seconds to Mars] and JT Daly [Mutemath]\, as well as Joel Little and CJ Baran. Recording in Los Angeles and Nashville\, she widened the scope of her signature style\, incorporating a variety of analog synths along with live bass and guitar\, bobbing and weaving between pop\, rock\, hip-hop\, and electronic moods. \n“The title SOLUTIONS came to me really early in the process\,” she goes on. “The solution to almost every problem is usually really simple. For me\, it’s so basic: staying connected to the people I love\, taking care of myself the way I’d want my friends to take care of themselves\, and doing things I know are going to make me happy – not what social media or strangers or society tells me. So many of my past records were about problems. Right now I’m in a place where I’m looking for some light. Balance is important. Life doesn’t have to be chaotic in order to be meaningful.” \nProduced by English\, the first single “Bad Vibes” slips clever quips—“You’re the sequel that sucks”—between a siren swell of synths\, thick percussion\, and an unshakable and undeniable chant\, “You give me bad vibes…” \n“My best friend recently had a kid\, and I was like\, ‘I don’t want this baby to grow up around sad people’\,” she recalls. “I saw this stupid prison-style tattoo that said\, ‘Born dead’. I thought\, ‘Fuck you\, man. I hate this tattoo’. With everything going on in the world right now\, I wanted to  make some positive music. The goal isn’t to be happy every minute; it’s just to move away from negative energy. Sonically\, it’s the perfect introduction to the record. Fuck being sad all the time!”\nPropelled by resounding piano and nimble rhymes\, “Good News” leaps over glitchy beats and into a reminder that we can be “our own best friend.” Something of a spiritual successor to “Blood in the Cut\,” the frosty and fiery anthem “Ice Cream” serves up “a breakup song that isn’t too heavy.” On the other end of the spectrum\, the uber-personal “Sister” delivers a heartfelt message of sisterhood as she claims\, “I wanna be your sister till the end.” \n“My sister and brother aren’t biologically related to me\, and I always wanted them to be my ‘real siblings’\,” she goes on. “It was important for me to dedicate this song to them. On a larger level\, I believe sisterhood should be available to everybody\, regardless of gender. Sisterhood is about creating your own family.” \nIn the end\, K.Flay makes happiness cool again…\n“When you listen to this\, I hope you walk away feeling like it’s okay to temper a little positivity in your life\,” she leaves off. “There’s so much out there we can’t control. As I mature\, I’ve been able to realize that. Do what makes you happy. Right now\, music makes me really happy.”  \n*** \nHouses \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nYour Smith \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nMinneapolis native Your Smith (aka Caroline Smith)\, relocated to Los Angeles after signing to Pulse Recording (DRAM\, Miike Snow\, Gallant\, et. al). Inspired by the history of Laurel Canyon and moving through a city that’s been immortalized in music throughout the ages\, Smith concocted her own sound\, bringing together the funk / R&B “Minneapolis Sound” of her roots and the classic songwriting of the LA folk heroes. \nYour Smith is currently wrapping up her debut EP\, produced by Tommy English (BØRNS)\, Stint (Gallant\, Aluna George\, NAO)\, and Nicky Davey (Internet\, Syd The Kid)\, arriving on Neon Gold Records (HAIM\, Christine & The Queens\, et. al) this fall and will commence a full US headline tour in September.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/k-flay-2/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:12th Planet
DESCRIPTION:Call or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Emeli Sandé
DESCRIPTION:This show has been cancelled. Refunds are available at point of purchase. A note from Emeli Sandé here: \nDear All\, \nI am really sorry to have to announce that due to scheduling changes I need to move this years September / October tour in the States. When we booked this tour my album\, Real Life\, was due to be released in June. Since the date changed to September I have been trying my best to keep the US tour in place . I’m really disappointed that no matter how many different options we explored\, we were unable to make it work . I have been so excited to come over and sing for you for years. I’m working really hard to get new dates confirmed for early 2020 and will be in touch as soon as I have them.\nI’m so sorry to be writing this. Thank you all for your continued support\, it means so much. \nLove Emeli  \n*** \n \n*** \nEmeli Sandé \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFollowing Our Version of Events\, Emeli Sandé MBE’s first album that sold over 5.4 million copies to date\, as well as scoring the biggest selling album in the UK of 2012 and 2013\, Emeli Sandé had arrived. But her new album marks a brand-new chapter\, and with it\, a new sound. This sound is one that is bold\, confident and fearless\, it’s extraordinary. But she’s had to go on a life-changing journey of self-discovery to get there. \nHaving initially made her mark as a songwriter in the UK urban scene via acts such as Wiley\, Wretch 32 and Chipmunk\, Sandé’s solo success saw her became a highly sought-after writer for an array of international acts. Sandé wrote and co-wrote tracks for everyone from Alicia Keys to Rihanna (alongside friend Naughty Boy)\, Katy Perry and Tinie Tempah. She performed on Jools Holland and the X Factor\, supported Coldplay and played at both the opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics and at the White House for Barack Obama. With over 340 million video views\, 19 million singles sold including 3 x UK No.1 singles\, 6 million albums including Our Version of Events being certified platinum 7 times in the UK and Ireland you’d think that she had it all together. But\, while she dominated the music industry and captured the hearts of the nation\, there was a disconnect with the way she was feeling. Sandé already has some of the most impressive stats in music to her name under her belt\, though despite the success of the second album\, Long Live the Angels\,  four  BRIT awards (including Best female twice) and receiving an MBE for Services to Music in 2018\, Sandé’s foundations were shaky\, “I feel like with the second album there was kind of a mix of all that was happening. Dealing with a divorce that was going on and discovering who I was as a black female.” She says\, “I wasn’t grounded\, you know.” \nSandé had to step away and regroup\, to allow herself to come back stronger. The last five years have been a time to build the self-esteem and the confidence she didn’t realise hadn’t been there\, despite her previous two albums and her EP garnering the sort of critical acclaim that money couldn’t buy.  \n“I thought I was going to get married\, settle down and my life was going to be perfect\, no further questions. When really there was such a poverty of confidence. If you get famous so young\, that becomes who you are and what you believe is your worth\, and then you kind of forget that these songs are coming from you. And it’s such an incredible feeling to share them but that can’t be how you validate yourself.” She sighs. \n This regrouping was necessary for Sandé as a black woman\, as well as an artist. “I needed to learn I am beautiful’ she says\, “Only now I’m beginning to accept the feminine energy.  \nIt was taking the time to reach back into her heritage to find the foundations for the future that gave her the headspace to draw on her sound. Having grown up one of two mixed-race children in Alford\, a tiny town outside of Aberdeen\, her identity was split\, “Growing up mixed race meant I identified with the side of the family I spent most time with\, my mum’s side. But I knew I was different\, and this became more apparent when we travelled with people staring.” Because of the identity split\, she can truly understand those people who don’t have confidence because of who they’ve been told they are. She saw this through her father especially\, “My dad’s frustrations\, him as a black man\, what he really had to go through and the kind of injustices he experienced… I always saw that it was difficult to be black.”  \nGoing to Zambia and connecting with her father’s family was when she didn’t feel that question of identity.  It was a revelatory experience. ‘The strength of the women!” she laughs\, ‘They were running the village\, plus my grandma\, she was a matriarch; the kids all came to her\, it was really beautiful. It just made sense of who I was myself.” \nAnd with this renewed sense of self\, Sandé was able to create a long overdue message that people need to hear. Tapping into the tone of the disenfranchised state of the world\, the main purpose of this album is to give people confidence\, “Especially people who have been marginalised\, or forgotten or kicked down by this invisible oppression that’s always there.” She says\, “I just want to give people just this incredible superpower every time they play the album. Like a battery pack.” She smiles brightly. ‘They just plug it in and they know that however they’re feeling\, by the end of the album\, they’re going to feel better.” \nLaunching this new album is Sparrow\, the perfect introduction to this record and the empowerment that this new\, vibrant sound brings. ‘That one felt like a channeling song” she nods. “I want people to feel like there will be a struggle but there will be a release at the end\, and that’s when you can breathe finally\, when you’ve got through it.” Sandé believes that allowing love in is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do\, “Well love is kind of mocked now. If you love\, or if you’re kind to someone\, it’s weakness.” At a time where the world seems to pivot on being ‘the best’ or where everything is so sexualised\, especially for women\, Sandé knows that our worth and our voices need to be heard now more than ever.  ‘Human’\, a seventies sounding R&B tune\, is a song Sandé wasn’t planning on writing\, but one that spilled out when she heard the opening string chords of the track. It’s a song that\, in the midst of knife crime across the capital\, is a sobering and welcoming reminder of the humanity of us all. “It’s such a dark time” she says\, “I think it’s dangerously dark for young adults at the moment. We talk about crime rates\, but they’re having these conversations about it that aren’t getting to the depth of what’s going on. So much comes from self-esteem and what young people are shown they deserve and where they belong in society that dictates how little value their lives have now.” \nSandé found her community in music in the same London that has seen knife crime reach record numbers; it was through choirs that she found her sisterhood and met the black women that have allowed her to tap further into her identity. She sang with the London Community gospel choir before Christmas and understood the reality and strength and a sternness to it all\, but also felt a ‘very palpable love\, “It’s very real and it’s not going to be said all the time\, but not growing up here\, I feel privileged to be accepted into the community via music.”  ‘You Are Not Alone’\, an anchoring gospel anthem that speaks to the loneliness of life\, with Sandé’s stunning voice backed by a powerful gospel choir with rousing church beat running through it\, acts as a reminder that whatever you’ve been told\, ‘my friend\, you are not alone.’ Words we all need to hear. \nIt was collaborating with producer Troy Miller that allowed for a unique recording experience. Already feeling like she had complete freedom over what she was writing\, it was working with Miller at the back of his house that gave her the right vibe to create the best album she could\, “Every day I’m walking through his family home and feeling the energy of love\, you could really feel it. We were making this album and we wanted a pure message to be delivered to people.” \nWhen asked how she felt writing and recording this album\, the album that will remind people of the value of life and of love Sandé says\, “I feel grounded. I know exactly what I wanted to say and do. I’ve came out the other side more confident\, happier with more self-love.” Emeli’s new album is the sound of power; power of freedom\, power of growth\, and of authenticity. It was borne from the power of understanding who you are\, and of finally being able to give to others what you’ve learned for yourself. Emeli Sandé is an artist who can finally say that she’s the best version of herself she’s ever been.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/emeli-sande/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:Royale Saturdays: Hot Girl Fall
DESCRIPTION:Call or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+ \nForget summer – it’s now HOT GIRL FALL! We may not have pumpkin spice lattes but the party will be popping on Saturday\, Sept. 28 at Royale!
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/royale-saturdays-hot-girl-fall/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Nightclub
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Stereolab
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nStereolab \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nBitchin Bajas \n \nWebsite
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/stereolab/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Caravan Palace
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston and  Global Arts Live \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \nCaravan Palace \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nCaravan Palace will release\, their third studio album\, on October 30th\, 2015. Created in their Parisian studios\, where the electro-pioneers fuse hedonistic house and old school jazz to glorious effect\, evokes the spirit of a modernistic Quintette du Hot Club de France. \nThe musical sound bed for the vocally explosive\, burlesque- blazoning Zoe Colotis is created by the band’s three founder members Hughes Paven (violin)\, Charles Delaporte (upright bass) and Arnaud Vial (guitar)\, plus Camille Chapelière (clarinet) & Antoine Toustou (trombone and electronics) over the beats provided by Paul-Marie Barbier (vibraphone\, washboard\, piano). The result is a decadent\, potent cocktail of jazz manouche\, hip-hop\, jive\, house and beats that defies simple categorization. \nThe band’s appeal has grown off-radar\, appreciated for both their musical virtuosity and their sheer ability to deliver a ballistic good time. \nHaving originally formed in 2005 the band’s eponymous debut album in 2008 set the tone – a rip-roaring party\, bursting with fun and good humor. This album went on to define a new sound called Electro Swing\, while charting in their native France where it quickly attained a platinum sales award.\nThe second album\, 2012’s ‘Panic’\, featuring the massive tunes ‘Clash’ and ‘Rock It For Me’ remains a treat to listen to\, whether in a burlesque bar or at home. Since its release the band’s live profile has risen unrelentingly\, their concert tickets flying out with minimum promotion and zero-hype across the USA\, a true word-of-mouth sensation that earned them a spot at Coachella last year.
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Whitney
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 3/8 at 11am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nWhitney \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nRestlessness is at the heart of Whitney’s resonant and stunning sophomore album Forever Turned Around. As Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek realized over the past three years\, life can change drastically. Priorities shift\, relationships evolve\, home can become far away\, and even when luck momentarily works out\, there’s still that underlying search for something better.  \nWhile the success of their 2016 debut Light Upon The Lake uprooted them away from Chicago to seemingly endless tours across the world\, Ehrlich’s and Kakacek’s partnership only strengthened. “Our friendship has kept us going even though so much has happened in the years since we started the band\,” says Ehrlich. Their bond has been the one constant as they’ve weathered the transitional period of their mid-twenties\, supporting each other through bouts of heartache\, loss\, and uncertainty. But lately\, as they’ve found home through themselves\, their romantic relationships\, and their friends\, there’s an uneasiness that comes from stability. When Ehrlich sings on “Valleys (My Love)\,” “There’s fire burning in the trees / Maybe life is the way it seems” it’s a mission statement of the existential questions raised throughout. \nThis is what Forever Turned Around grapples with: the anxiety and acceptance that time is limited. Across 10 songs\, Ehrlich and Kakacek skeptically yet masterfully navigate questions of mortality\, doubt\, love\, and friendship in a grander scope than they’ve attempted before. It’s an album about partnership — romantic\, familial and communal\, but most importantly a love in friendship: the bonds between two best friends and creative partners and the joy and stress that comes with it. As Ehrlich sings on “Used To Be Lonely:” ‘Well it made no sense at all / Until you came along.” It tackles the blissful confusion that comes from seeing the way things unexpectedly change over time.  \nForever Turned Around came together over several sessions across the country with its earliest material written during tour dates in Lisbon\, Portugal. Though Ehrlich is Whitney’s lead singing drummer while Kakacek is the lead guitarist\, when writing\, both transcend their roles to piece together each offering lyrically and compositionally. “The way it ends up working is one of us comes up with a basic idea for a song and the other person serves as the foil to complicate that idea. We ask\, ‘What can we change to make it more interesting?’” says Kakacek. Challenging each other is the core of their songwriting partnership. “A big thing for us is our ability to take criticism. We’re always open to new ideas. We approach it where we try to stretch a new idea as far as it can go\,” adds Kakacek. \nAfter a session with producers Bradley Cook (Bon Iver\, Hand Habits) and Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood\, Father John Misty) helped color in the arrangements\, the album truly revealed itself when they reunited with original rhythm guitarist Ziyad Asrar in his basement Chicago studio—the same place where they hashed out much of Light Upon The Lake. “Getting down there was so important because we’ve always used that basement for music. The comfort and familiarity mattered but having Ziyad be a buffer between us was so helpful\,” says Ehrlich. With Asrar’s help\, songs like “Song For Ty” and “Forever Turned Around” effortlessly came together.  There\, the band enlisted Chicago musicians Lia Kohl and OHMME’s Macie Stewart to provide strings throughout the record and their lush swells colorfully accent the arrangements.  \nRisks and experiments make Forever Turned Around a triumph like opener “Giving Up.” The track started from a stream-of-conscious revelation when Ehrlich improvised the chorus while Kakacek played Wurlitzer. What began as a nod to Neil Young’s Live at Massey Hall 1971 in an afternoon turned into a heart-rending and relatable song about the ups and downs of long-term relationships. Over twinkling piano\, Ehrlich sings\, “Though we started losing touch / I’ve been hanging on because / You’re the only one I love.” He explains\, “In a relationship\, you don’t stay at the same level at all times. You go through periods where you’re closed off.”  \nWhitney has long been a full-fledged band with keyboardist Malcolm Brown\, guitarist Print Choteau\, bassist Josiah Marshall\, and trumpeter Will Miller backing them live\, along with Asrar who’s returning to the fold on their upcoming tour. On the album\, the wider and more maximalist songs match the tight-knit chemistry of their electric performances thanks to Tucker Martine’s immaculate mixes. “We’ve become such a well toured band and developed this groove that you can hear it all over the LP\,” says Ehrlich. Though the stoner instrumental freakout “Rhododendron” is the most obvious example of this vibe\, with its slinking guitar leads and Miller’s flailing trumpet lines\, other songs like “Before I Know It” evoke the breezy melancholy of Labi Siffre. \nForever Turned Around is an album about relationships. It deals with how they evolve or flounder and how loneliness can creep in unexpectedly. Penultimate track “Friend of Mine” captures this sentiment beautifully. The emotional centerpiece of the album\, it builds to a crescendo during the chorus with Ehrlich singing of an old acquaintance\,”While you’re drifting away / Like a cloud hanging over the pines.” Happiness can be fleeting but this album proves that even when it feels like time is turning on its head and there’s either a moment of clarity or crippling doubt\, there’s still beauty in figuring it all out. \n—–\nJosh Terry\nMay 15\, 2019\nChicago\, IL  \n*** \nhand Habits \n \nWebsite\nFacebook \nMeg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York and they cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The Hand Habits project emerged after Meg moved to Los Angeles; it started as a private songwriting outlet but soon evolved into a fully-fledged band with Meg at the helm. Hand Habits’ debut album\, Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void)\, was released by Woodsist Records in 2017. The LP was entirely self-produced and recorded in Meg’s home during spare moments when they weren’t touring. Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) is a lush\, homespun collection of folk songs that found Meg in an exploratory state as an artist moving out on their own for the first time.Two years later\, Hand Habits has returned with their sophomorealbum\, placeholder\, due out March 1st on Saddle Creek. To make this album\,Meg chose to work in a studio and bring in collaborators\, entrusting them with what had previously been a very personal creative process. Over the course of 12 tracks\, Meg emerges with new confidence as both a bandleader and singer. This albumis as tender and immediate as anything Meg’s ever written\, but it’s also intensely focused and refined\, the work of a meticulous musician ready to share their singular vision with the world. The name placeholder stems from Meg’s fascination with the undefinable. Their songs serve as openings —carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning. As a lyricist\, Meg is drawn to the in-between\, and the songs on this new album primarily confront the ways in which certain experiences can serve as a stepping stone on the road to self-discovery. “A big aspect of my songwriting and the way I move through the world depends on my relationships with people. The songs on placeholder are about accountability and forgiveness\,” Meg says. “These are all real stories. I don’t fictionalize much.” placeholder opens with the title track which on its surface is about a break-up. “Oh but I was just a placeholder/ A lesson to be learned\,” a scorned Meg sings over a lush bed of twangy guitars. The blame quickly shifts\, though\, as Meg begins to take on partial responsibility for the partnership’s collapse: “Oh but now you are just a placeholder/ Blinded by desire/ Oh now you’re just a placeholder for someone wasting time.” Nothing in Meg’s world is as simple as black and white\, right or wrong. An openness to nuance drives revelation in these songs. “I value the closeness I share with my chosen family and I’m interested in queering relationships in my music. The relationships in my life expand my capacity to love because the lines between romance and friendship are often blurred\,” Meg explains. The bonds Meg addresses on placeholder extend beyond the bounds of romance. On “can’t calm down\,” Meg contemplates inherited trauma and questions whether it’s possible for someone to upend patterns of familial suffering. Relatedly\, the closing track\, “book on how to change part II\,” refers back to Meg’s mother\, who died when they were young. It’s a simultaneously aching and reassuring song\, buoyed in part by a saxophone and Meg’s pointed harmonies that bring levity to painful subject matter.Wildfires raged in Southern California when Meg wrote the bulk of placeholder\, and the anxiety that came with living in L.A. during that time exposes itself throughout these songs. “Fire is such a powerful symbol. It’s destructive\, but it’s also generative\,” Meg says. References to that particular mindset abound on placeholder\, most notably on the stand-out track “wildfire\,” but it creeps into other songs\, too. Separating side A from side B is a MIDI interlude titled “heat\,” which finds Meg repeating\, “Heat beyond the lines of passion\,” a line borrowed from Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Passion.
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/whitney/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:Ladytron
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/12 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n\n*** \nLadytron \n06698_041 \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLou Rebecca\nFacebook
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ladytron/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T180000
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SUMMARY:Bombay Bicycle Club
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 5/10 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*** \nBombay Bicycle Club \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nThe Greeting Committee \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bombay-bicycle-club/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:Andrew Bayer
DESCRIPTION:ON SALE JULY 19th @ 10AM EST\nCall or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/andrew-bayer/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nightclub
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T220000
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SUMMARY:Royale Saturdays: October Festival
DESCRIPTION:Call or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+ \nFriends don’t let friends go thirsty…On October 5th\, join us as we crack a cold one at Royale for October Festival: a massive Saturday night rager with top notch beats by DJ Rico Suave!
URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/royale-saturdays-october-festival/
LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nightclub
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SUMMARY:Mt. Joy
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 4/12 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \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*** \nMorningbird \nFacebook
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Lewis Capaldi
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: This show is 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*** \nLewis Capaldi \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter  \n*** \nSaint PHNX \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter  \nThere’s nothing quite like the bond between siblings and this bond is at the heart of Saint PHNX – the Glaswegian born duo comprised of brothers Stevie and Alan Jukes. Shades of Imagine Dragons\, Bastille and X Ambassadors weave their way through Saint PHNX’s immense sound. A big helping of attitude\, a willingness to experiment and a knack for writing rousing choruses ensures they can rival any arena act and cut through to the top.
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SUMMARY:Lost Frequencies (LIVE)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 3/22 at 7am! \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*** \nLost Frequencies \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nFelix De Laet\, better known by his moniker Lost Frequencies\, has soared to success in the international music industry on many levels. Releasing his global smash hit ‘Are You With Me’ back in 2014 and quickly cementing himself as a name to watch\, the track rapidly ascended by hitting multi-platinum status and taking the #1 spot in 18 countries and becoming the first Belgian artist to hit #1 in the UK. Proving that he is no one-trick pony in the studio\, ‘Reality’ evidenced as another major smash hit from the young prodigy that flew to platinum status in no less than 7 territories\, blossoming further to become one of the most Shazamed anthems of the year.  \nAs well as this\, a zig zag of global dates at the world’s most important festivals including Coachella\, Tomorrowland\, Lollapalooza\, closing down EDC Vegas in spectacular solo style\, and a hugely impressive arena run with fellow chart-dominators The Chainsmokers; another year sparkled bright for the superstar. And it didn’t end there… Solidifying himself further as a trailblazer in the scene\, in 2018 Lost Frequencies amassed over 1 billion streams and ripped up the rule book on his tropical-infused official remixes on Major Lazer\, Justin Bieber & MØ’s ‘Cold Water’\, Miley Cyrus’s ‘Malibu’ and LSD Labrinth / Diplo / Sia’s ‘Thunderclouds’\, showing that his unique electronic style can lend itself to multi-dimensional pop and still deliver an inimitable sound as the hits just kept on coming.   \nLost Frequencies also firmly established himself as one of the strongest\, fastest rising talents with his debut entry into the 2017 DJ Mag poll at #26\, the highest new entry of any artist that year\, when in 2018 he then surpassed this previous achievement by climbing up to #17. As the accolades multiplied including emerging victorious in the ‘Dance International’ and ‘Hit of The Year’ categories at the ECHO award ceremony (comparable with the U.S. Grammy’s)\, beating the likes of Adele on the latter to two.  \nAfter the successes of his Lost Frequencies and friends-curated parties globally\, he took the party to Tomorrowland for the third year\, which in 2017\, was the only stage to be closed down during the event as an unprecedented number of fans descended on the stage to view the fun\, showcasing the huge appeal held by Lost Frequencies not only in his home of Belgium\, but amongst the world-class\, diverse Tomorrowland crowd. \nBranching out with the launch of his label Found Frequencies\, featuring his own productions as well as a collaboration with James Blunt to name but one link-up on the imprint\, from show-stopping live appearances\, to career-making studio hits\, he’s soaring to a meteoric rise at his own accord. \n*** \nThrottle \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nLost Frequencies \nWebsite
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SUMMARY:Shovels & Rope
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nTickets on sale Fri 7/19 at 10am! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 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*** \nShovels & Rope \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nAs the Brontл sister wrote\, “The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine.” Shovels & Rope\, the musical duo of Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst\, embody that bond. Married for a decade\, their covenant extends to blood and beyond: as parents\, bandmates\, and creative collaborators who can now add the pursuits of festival curators\, film subjects\, and children’s book authors to that mighty list. Having released four studio albums and two collaborative projects (Busted Jukebox\, Vol. 1 & 2) since 2008\, Trent and Hearst have built their reputation on skill\, sweat\, and\, yes\, blood. Now\, with the tough and elegant new record By Blood\, as well as their High Water Festival in their hometown of Charleston\, South Carolina\, “Shovels & Rope: The Movie”\, and the picture book “C’mon Utah!”\, Shovels & Rope are primed for their biggest year yet. \nAccomplished musicians in their own right prior to dedicating themselves full time to Shovels & Rope in 2011\, Trent and Hearst have made a career together by seizing opportunities and never resting on their laurels or being complacent in doing something just because. Carving out a niche in the music world with strong\, roots/indie/folk/rock-inspired efforts like 2012’s O’ Be Joyful\, 2014’s Swimmin’ Time\, and 2016’s inward-looking Little Seeds\, as well as their powerful live show\, far-reaching tours\, and myriad TV and festival appearances\, Shovels & Rope have earned the right to follow their own muse. And so\, in an effort to satisfy their numerous creative interests and adapt to a changing industry\, Trent and Hearst have firmly planted their flag in realms beyond recording and releasing albums. \nThe third annual High Water Festival curated by the band will be held over a weekend in April and will bring 10\,000 fans to a park in North Charleston to witness a lineup of artists comparable to some of the best in the country—including Leon Bridges\, The Head & The Heart\, Lord Huron\, Jenny Lewis\, Mitski\, and Shovels & Rope themselves. High Water benefits select organizations and water conservation charities in Charleston and aims to avoid the feeling of corporate inundation and discomfort that plagues many big-name music events. Trent and Hearst work with production companies and agencies to book acts\, then serve as on-site hosts in addition to performing throughout the weekend. \n“Shovels & Rope: The Movie” is a performance film that has been expanded into feature-length with an external narrative weaving through and connecting the live performances. Directed by their frequent visual collaborator\, Curtis Millard\, the ‘live show’ portion of the filming took place over two nights at The Orange Peel in Asheville\, North Carolina\, during the tour for Little Seeds. The rest of the film was shot in various locations in and around the Southeast. The result can be described as a David Lynch meets John Hughes (a fun\, silly\, and tongue-in-cheek film for fans to enjoy that also represents the band at the peak of their live power.) \nThe children’s book\, “C’mon Utah!”\, sets the lyrics from the new song of the same name to illustrations by the artist Julio Cotto. It is an inspirational story\, set in the future aftermath of the building and subsequent destruction of the southern border wall. The separated and displaced families are figuring out how to start to put the pieces back together. Communities form to organize and support each other. The parents in these communities tell stories to lift the children spirits and maintain hope through sadness and despair. One such story is about a magic horse named Utah who has the power to help to reunite them with their families on the other side of the devastation. The book is intended as a conversation starter for parents and children to discuss immigration and diversity. \nTrent and Hearst have learned to juggle their busy schedules by relying on each other as well as their team\, and by seizing every chance for efficiency. They realized one such opportunity by building a modest studio at home\, which is where they began to record By Blood in May of 2018. The new space in their back yard provides a sanctuary where their gear can remain at the ready\, a luxury conducive to their creative process—especially when sharing a home with kids. \nBy Blood’s ten songs are vignettes that focus on vulnerable\, human characters laid bare\, while the textures are gritty\, sweeping\, and profound. These are tales of inherently good yet incomplete people whose faults are on the table in plain sight\, a trait that endears the subjects to the listener and that the songwriters recognize in themselves. \nThe first single “The Wire” is about accepting your own faults and learning to say you’re sorry. Its stylishly minimal verses and wall of sound chorus recall some raw\, girl-group era drama as well as timeless rock and roll. As the gorgeous\, dark lullaby of the title track brings the album to its end\, the beautiful\, cinematic journey of By Blood has left its mark.\nAnd so\, bound by blood\, by sweat\, and by love—of creativity\, craft\, and family—Shovels & Rope are coming out swinging. From the bind in their band name itself to the shared life they have built from scratch\, it’s clear that Trent and Hearst are in constant pursuit of their best selves—together. \n*** \nCedric Burnside \nWebsite\nFacebook \n“My school was a juke joint/From a kid till I was grown/And blues is really/All I ever known”\n“Ain’t Gonna Take No Mess” \nTake one glance at the iconic tintype photograph which serves as the cover to his new album\, Benton County Relic\, and you know immediately that Cedric Burnside is the real deal. “When I first saw it\, I thought I looked like an outlaw\,” he laughs. \nThe 39-year-old still lives on several acres not far from the Holly Springs\, Mississippi\, home where he was raised by “Big Daddy\,” his grandfather\, the late singer/songwriter/guitarist R.L. Burnside whom Cedric famously played with\, just as his own father\, drummer Calvin Jackson\, did.  Cedric was literally born to the blues\, more specifically\, the “rhythmically unorthodox” Hill country variant which emerged from Mississippi\, where he grew up surrounded (and influenced) by Junior Kimbrough\, Jessie May Hemphill and Otha Turner\, as well as delta musicians T-Model Ford and Paul “Wine” Jones. \nGrammy-nominated in 2015 for Best Blues Album for the Cedric Burnside Project’s Descendants of Hill Country\, as well as the recipient of the Blues Music Awards honor as Drummer of the Year for four consecutive years\, Cedric’s latest album offers a showcase for his electric and acoustic guitar\, recording 26 tracks in just two days with drummer/slide guitarist Brian Jay in the latter’s Brooklyn home studio in a rush of creativity. It’s his first release for Single Lock Records\, the Florence\, Alabama label headquartered across the Tennessee River from the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and responsible for critically acclaimed records by John Paul White\, Nicole Atkins\, Dylan LeBlanc and St. Paul & the Broken Bones. \nAnd while Cedric humbly refers to himself in the album’s title\, the music within is anything but ancient\, the rich tradition of Hill country blues dragged kicking and screaming into the modern-day with crackling electricity amid its nod to life’s essentials. If the blues has traditionally been about getting through hard times\, Benton County Relic offers the kind of deep baring of the soul that enables us to transcend oppression\, whether in the 19th century or in the precarious present. \nThere’s blood on these 12 tracks\, from the matter-of-fact recitation of his poverty-stricken childhood without running water\, radio or TV in “We Made It” (“I come from nothin’/I done been lower than low/I keep my head straight/No matter how low I go”) and the description of a “Typical Day” (“I wake up in the mornin’/Sun shinin’ on my face/I drink a cup of coffee/I might roll me a J”) to the loss of family endured in “Hard to Stay Cool” and the unrequited passion of “There is So Much.” \n“I write my music according to how I live my life\, the things I’m going through at the time\,” insists Burnside\, who lost both his parents\, an uncle and his younger brother Cody over the last few years. “I love music so much. It’s really something I can turn to when I’m feeling down and out\, and in pain.  Whether it’s the heartache of breaking up with a girlfriend\, or frustration at a dispute with a family member.” \nBurnside has brought a music that started as an expression of grief and a will to survive into a modern-day art form that is both timely and timeless\, a glimpse of myth and insight into the human condition. “Back in the day\, it wasn’t heard as music\, but more like ‘somebody help me\, I want to get out of this situation\,’” says Cedric. “These days\, anybody can have the blues. Some people deal with loss by going out and getting drunk or even killing themselves. The blues is about surviving through those hard times\, telling the world what you’ve been through\, and how you came out of it.” \nCedric’s blues cover a wide range of different emotions. “Give It to You” is an expression of pure sexual desire\, a traditional blues trope.  Burnside explains\, “That kind of stuff still goes on in the world today\,” he says. “It has happened to me\, and I’m sure it has happened to a lot more people. Whether it’s politically correct or not\, it’s the truth.  And that’s how I write my music. It might seem harsh or messed-up\, but it’s real.” \n“Call on Me” is a song penned for his three daughters\, ages 13 to 17\, about being there emotionally\, if not always in person\, given his hectic touring schedule. “I just want them to know\, what I do is not just for the fans\, but for them\, too.” \nThe traditional “Death Bell Blues” is a tribute to his own “Big Daddy\,” R.L. Burnside\, who used to perform the song\, once covered by Muddy Waters and countless others. “I did it the same way ‘Big Daddy’ did it\,” he says. “I want to let the people know where my music comes from.” \nOn “Ain’t Gonna Take No Mess\,” Cedric insists he’s performing the music he wants\, regardless of what anybody else says. “I’ve been playing almost 30 years now\,” he exclaims. “It’s who I am\, what I am.  I am Hill country blues. This is my whole life\, and I’m not going to listen to anyone who tells me what I can and can’t do. I just thank God that Single Lock Records let me be with my music.” \nCedric has both played and recorded with the North Mississippi Allstars (Luther Dickinson gave him his first electric guitar)\, Widespread Panic\, Jimmy Buffett\, Bobby Rush\, Hubert Sumlin\, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. He was also featured playing drums alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Craig Brewer’s 2006 feature film\, Black Snake Moan\, which was in part a tribute to his grandfather R.L. and other iconic bluesmen. \nNow planning to tour with collaborator Brian Jay to promote the new album\, Cedric eschews politics in favor of the personal.  “I know there’s a lot going on in the world\,” he says. “But I try to give it all to God and let Him handle it.  Politics divides people. The blues brings them together. A bluesman has to find a way to make it through.” \nCedric Burnside isn’t content with just making it through. On Benton County Relic\, he brings the blues alive for a new generation of fans weaned on the likes of White Stripes and the Black Keys. And why not? That’s all he’s ever known.
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SUMMARY:YehMe2
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SUMMARY:SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque
DESCRIPTION:SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque is the sexiest\, smartest\, geekiest\, and most fun definitive pop culture burlesque show! Featuring none other than SuicideGirls themselves\, the show has been performed hundreds of times\, delighted millions of fans in over six countries\, and has been touring since 2003! Don’t miss your chance to see it live during the 2019 US Tour! SuicideGirls has been redefining beauty since 2001 with its network of over 3\,000 SuicideGirls and almost 9 million pinup style photographs on the premier\, members – only social network SuicideGirls.com. Check out blackheartburlesque.com for more information about the tour and to see where the girls are headed next! \n18+
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SUMMARY:Royale Saturdays: Cosmic
DESCRIPTION:Call or text 617.733.0505 for VIP table reservations.\n21+ \n3\,2\,1 BLAST OFF… On Saturday\, October 12\, join us for COSMIC; a party that is extraterrestrial at Royale! Expect some space-themed surprises and don’t forget to download your free before 11 RSVP below!
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LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] IDLES
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \nPlease note: this show is 18+ with valid ID. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent. Opening acts and set times are subject to change without notice. All sales are final unless a show is postponed or canceled. All bags larger than 12 inches x 12 inches\, backpacks\, professional cameras\, video equipment\, large bags\, luggage and like articles are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please make sure necessary arrangements are made ahead of time. All patrons subject to search upon venue entry. \n*** \n \n*** \nIDLES \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n*** \nPreoccupations \n \nFacebook\nTwitter \nPreoccupations’ songs have always worked through themes of creation\, destruction\, and futility\, and they’ve always done it with singular post-punk grit. The textures are evocative and razor-sharp. The wire is always a live one. But while that darker side may have been well-explored\, that’s not quite the same as it being fully\, intensely lived. This time it was\, and the result is ’New Material’\, a collection that broadens and deepens Preoccupations to a true mastery of their sound. In it lies the difference between witnessing a car crash and crashing your own\, between jumping into an ocean and starting to swallow the water.   \n“It’s an ode to depression\,’ singer Matt Flegel says plainly. “To depression and self-sabotage\, and looking inward at yourself with extreme hatred.”   Typically resilient\, the months leading up to recording ‘New Material’ brought a new order of magnitude to feelings that had been creeping up on Flegel for some time. He’d written bits and pieces of lyrics through the course of it\, small snippets he hadn’t assigned to any one thought or feeling but were emblematic of a deeper issue\, something germinating that was dense and numb and fully unshakeable.  As the band began writing music\, that process gave shape to the sheer tonnage of what he’d been carrying.  With virtually nothing written or demoed before the band sat down together\, the process was more collaborative than before.  It was almost architectural\, building some things up\, tearing others down to the beams\, sitting down and writing songs not knowing what they were about. But for Flegel\, it led to a reckoning.  “Finishing ‘Espionage’ was when I realized\,” says Flegel. “I looked at the rest of the lyrics and realized the magnitude of what was wrong.”  \n‘New Material’ builds a world for that feeling\, playing through its layers and complexities while hiding almost nothing. That inscrutable side is part of the magic\, here\, and a necessary counterweight to the straight-jab clarity of Flegel’s lyrics. You can deep-dive the lyrics or zone into a riff; you can face it or you can get lost in it.  “My ultimate goal would be to make a record where nobody knows what instrument is playing ever\,” says multi-instrumentalist Scott Munro\, “and I think we’ve come closer than ever\, here. It shouldn’t sound robotic — it should sound human\, like people playing instruments. It’s just maybe no one knows what they are.”   \nOpener “Espionage” lives up to Munro’s goals\, kicking off with a clattering\, rhythmic echo that gives way to sprinting percussion and a melody in the orbit of Manchester’s classics. “Manipulation” explores the futility of going through the motions\, balancing a droney\, minimal march with a thunder roll that brings it to the brink\, and to the doomed romantic declaration\, “please don’t remember me like I’ll always remember you.” “Disarray” bursts up like a blackened confetti cannon\, the song’s undeniably bright melody dancing over a refrain of “disarray\, disarray\, disarray” and literally nothing else.  “A lot of this is about futility\,” he says\, “trying to find something where there’s nothing to be found.” That hunt turns into a search-and-destroy mission on “Decompose”\, a tense\, speedy\, “blow yourself up and start again” type of song\, the very picture of creation and destruction\, as Flegel writes “for better or worse\, we are cursed in the ways that we tend to be.”  And while calling an album ’New Material’ might seem like a smartass move\, the truth is it’s as matter-of-fact a title as Espionage\, Disarray\, or anything else on the record.  Why fight that?  \nIf the through-line unifying Preoccupations’ work is a furious\, almost punishing cyclical quality\, ‘New Material’ does offer some relief.  “This is somehow the most uptempo thing we’ve ever done\,” observes Flegel. That propulsive\, itchy quality rescues ‘New Material’ from the proverbial bottom of the pit. To write these songs is to force oneself to reignite\, to play them is to stand up and reengage. Closer “Compliance” may not seem revelatory on first listen\, but it is deeply elemental\, a crucial finale and the band’s first standalone instrumental. Original versions were built to death\, reexamined and re-destroyed until they landed on just two chords — something simple\, fundamental — and resolved to make meaning out of that\, to show instead of tell. Flegel acknowledges it is more affecting to him than any other song on the record. It’s not redemption\, more like a forced reprieve.
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SUMMARY:Foil Arms and Hog: Live
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bowery Boston \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nTickets on sale Thu 5/2 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \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*** \nFoil Arms and Hog \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter
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